It's Bloomsday. My only Bloomsday in Dublin was World Cup 2002. I watched Mick McCarthy's Irish (sans Roy Keane) lose to Spain.
"We're all ops people now"
Premiere League fixtures are announced.
Tim Berners-Lee's "Principles of Design"
Dancho Danchev visualizes malicious doorways.
"Utopia on the sidewalk": Fritz Haber, atomic bombs, science fiction, Bloomsbury, and poison gas.
"A 30-picowatt processor for sensors" - I link to the ZDNet article because there's all kinds of good links.
Recently in politics Category
From Maud Newton's book blog:
"Press Secretary McClellan's Iraq War policy announcements seemed like steaming piles of horseshit because they were."
Anyone who cares about free software, open source, education, educational technology, or access issues should read Ivan Krstić's damning summary of the OLPC project. He's got it all there, hitting every nail square. It's all there, it's all ugly, and it's well-done. I've been there and seen it, as I type this on a Mac Mini sitting beside a CentOS machine. It's what I've been thinking for a while now, put into words.
The NYTimes has a blog post on Optima, the typeface McCain is using for his promotional materials. Not surprisingly, the same typeface is used on the Vietnam Memorial.
I've been reluctant to talk politics, since I don't like politicians, but I've finally found someone to vote for.
