GeoffreyRockwell.com, my personal site (along with its mirror at McMaster) has been updated with a design by Alex Stevens. I have added a “publications” page with preprint PDFs of many of the papers I have written and published. Enjoy …
Game Sleuths
From StÈfan S.;Guardian Unlimited | Online | The net’s sleuths is a story about the fan community helping track down the hackers who stole the beta of Half-Life 2. It isn’t clear what the fan community did other than pass tips.
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Friendster Mistake
Well … getting an account on Friendster was a mistake. It just looks like a fancy dating service. Remind me not to return.
Masters of Game Design
Grand Text Auto ª Gettin’ Schooled in Games drew my attention to a new Master of Science in Engineering in Computer Graphics and Game Technology at the University of Pennsylvania. The program is open to students without a CS degree.
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Moulthrop: Reagan Library
Reagan Library by Stuart Moulthrop is a hypertext which uses QuickTime VR panoramas (created in Bryce 3D) with text that is assembled and therefore changes on different visits. A very simple and clean paradigm.
I found this on Grand Text Auto ª Reading at Risk from Library – um, I mean Internet.
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Perlingata: Latin Perl
From join-the-dots: Perlingata, a Perl module for writing in Latin. For a paper on it, see Lingua::Romana::Perligata — Perl for the XXIimum Century.
Could languages and linguistics contribute to computer language design?
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Fotolog.net: Photography Blogs
Fotolog.net allows people to create one-picture-a-day blogs. Simple interface that works for diary-like image. Amazing international crowd of fotologgers (largest group from Brazil) – most are just posting pictures of themselves and friends, on which other comment, but some are beautiful. Much more interesting than lulu.com.
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Brazilian Internet
Brazil Internet Craze Angers English Speakers is a Reuters.com article about the flood of Brazilians writing in Portuguese on www.orkut.com. Orkut is a social-networking site supported by Google to which you have to be invited. Apparently Brazilians are now upsetting the English speakers as they dominate the site. Good for them, its the beginning of the internationalization of the net.
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Higher Learning Online Magazine
Higher Learning; Technology Serving Education is an online magazine launched in 2001 aimed at the higher ed market. It comes out about once every two months as a PDF and is a spin-off of TEACH Magazine. It is interesting that they provide the PDF versions for free of both HL and TEACH. What is dissappointing is that they are similar to Educause, emphasizing commercial technologies and “success” stories. Probably a good place to keep up on the hype, but I’m not sure they will invest in critical inquiry.
What Happened to NewMIC?
NewMIC Home is the last archived version of the New Media Innovation Centre in the Internet Archive, dated July 15, 2003. In a previous post on RFID: Radio Frequency Indentification I mentioned NewMICs vanishing. The archived site gives no hints as to why this high-profile iniative was closed down – do you know why? Leave me a comment if you do.
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