Greasemonky: messing with web pages

Thanks to Matt Patey who pointed me to Greasemonkey which offers a Firefox extension that allows you control aspects of page’s design using DHTML.

There is a story on Wired News: Firefox Users Monkey With the Web about this.

If this catches on it will return some control over the interface back to the browser in the never ending see-saw between designer and user control over the interface.

TADA talk

Here is a blog entry on a short talk I gave about text analysis and collaboration. StÈfan Sinclair had the neat idea of having students enter notes about the conference into a blog on the Text Analysis Developers Alliance as the conference went along.

My talk began by offering a model for how computing practices change interpretation and the role of text analysis. I then went on to talk about different types of interpretation – between developers, between developers and researchers and between researchers.

Gospel Spectrum

jesusviz.jpg Gospel Spectrum Beta is a New Testament visualization tool that allows you to see the events of Jesus’ life described in the gospels and whether the gospels are in harmony. The vertical lines are verses on an event. The colours are the different gospel writers. Zooming in eventually allows you to see the full text. Quite a nice custom visualization. Thanks to Drew Paulin for this.