Party at the Center of the Universe: Accelerometers have all the fun

As perhaps you've read, Powerbooks and iBooks have built-in accelerometers that they use to detect sudden motion, i.e. when you drop your laptop. The Party at the Center of the Universe is a fun attempt to do something useful—well, not entirely useful—with that data. If you install the Party client on your Powerbook or iBook, it'll plot the data from your accelerometer alongside data from people around the world in a pretty, if not especially intuitive, way on the Party at the Center of the Universe web site. Even if you aren't a member of the accelerometer club, it's still pretty funny to watch.

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