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.
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Why the web is not an OS (I'm not sure why we're having this debate (and by "we're" I mean "they're"), so I'm not sure why I'm linking to this. I feel compelled. )
Happy Loving Day. The words of Iggy Pop seem relevant here.
"now a language that sounds new
comes a-driftin' next to you
and the music that you hear ls changin' too
cuz they 're mixin' the colors
baby the colors"
A Momus video:
My Life in a Cube. Depressing comics about work.
15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages. While I'm not always a fan of lists (see The Ten Commandments), this one has a number of useful tools and a few I wasn't familiar with.
The Nine Laws of God, from Kevin Kelly's Out of Control.
A.I. on the web (links galore).
A note on the format: I've noticed that I post short points, based on links, which suggests a tumbleog as opposed to an online diary or news site, so, inspired by Anarchaia, Christian Neukirchen's tumbleog, I'm shifting modes.
Bob Dylan in Denmark: "But what interests me more is the idea of a collection based on historically romantic figures. Napoleon and Josephine, Dante and Beatrice, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, Brad and Angelina..."
CSS Typography Examples
A day late: A sketch of The Analytical Engine, with the notes of Ada Lovelace.
Coding the Mars Lander robot
Issue 12 of The Quarterly Conversation. Includes essays on Borges and Barthelme.
Computer Programming for Everybody
I've started using Searchme as my primary search engine, and I'm impressed.
Here's a sample search to give you an idea of the site's capabilities.
Update: I sent an email regarding some functionality issues, and they responded, personally (providing information on how to fix the problem within my browser settings), within 12 hours.
Here's a sample search to give you an idea of the site's capabilities.
Update: I sent an email regarding some functionality issues, and they responded, personally (providing information on how to fix the problem within my browser settings), within 12 hours.
Why hasn't Adobe (or anyone else) done for web design what Polyvore (click on the Try It button) does for clothing layout? I mean, drag and drop websites, with uploads from Flickr, text from Twitter and your blog, all to create something that represents you?
