From Matt Patey, How It Works…The Computer is a site with the 1971 and 1979 Ladybird books on ‘How it works’; The Computer. The pages are scanned so you can see images of the illustrations used.
Euclid’s Window: Geometry to Hyperspace
Euclids Window : The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
Book suggested by Guy
del.icio.us
del.icio.us is an interesting pre alpha project on social bookmarks where the path is the interface. I am not sure I get it, but my intuition is that this could be a much better way to handle links if the work of entering them isn’t too cumbersome.
For an article on it at the O’Reilly XML.com site see, XML.com: Introducing del.icio.us. I love the domain name! This is courtesy of Matt P.
FireFox is Here
FireFox, Mozilla’s multiplatform browser has been released in version 1.0. It is time for us all to switch – if only because Microsoft is getting sloppy. For a review see, Mozilla Firefox Browser Review, by About.com
10X10
10×10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris is another cool visualization text experiment by the developer of WORDCOUNT. It analyzes the news and puts up 10 by 10 images that represent the keywords. It is done with a Flash interface.
Applied Arts in Toronto
Applied Arts has a nice list of the Greater Toronto Area education programs in applied arts and computer graphics.
University of Toronto: KMDI
KMDI is a neat interdisciplinary institute at the University of Toronto on Knowledge Media Design. They have a graduate study/collaborative program that spans Architecture, Computer Science, Information Studies, Medical Science, Mechanical Engineering and Sociology. I wonder if it works?
OQO: Mini PC
The OQO is a cute miniature full PC which may blow PDAs out. The oqo: video shows it off, but also has a neat little visual history of the computer from the ENIAC to the Mac. I’m ready to buy one.
This is thanks to Laue, just a text ª OH-cue-oh.
WorldWideWeb browser
Tim Berners-Lee: WorldWideWeb, the first Web client is a page on the first web browser called “WordWideWeb” (without spaces.) I came across this reference in a thorough blog entry by Andrea Laue just a text ª Internet or internet which deals with the capitalization of Internet/internet and Web/web. (See my earlier post, Wired Styles.)
Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Game Theory
Ross Scaife of The Stoa drew my attention to the e-version of the Dictionary of the History of Ideas which is now available for free at the University of Virginia E-Text Center. See, for example, the entry on Game Theory. This is a great resource to have.