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.
Stephenson on Hardware: The Spaceheater
Slashdot | Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor is a long interview with Neal Stephenson. I love what he has to say about
My thoughts are more in line with those of Jaron Lanier, who points out that while hardware might be getting faster all the time, software is shit (I am paraphrasing his argument). And without software to do something useful with all that hardware, the hardware’s nothing more than a really complicated space heater.
Now, one could construct an argument against Raymond Kurzweil to the effect that hardware may be getting faster, but the software is just getting hairy (as in hair ball). The inevitability that Kurzweil and others see in the improvements in hardware are a false evolution – a bit like thinking that humans will be superseded because cars gets faster.
This link is courtesy of Matt K.
Closing Comments
I am getting 100 spam comments every couple of days so, I am afraid, it is time to start closing down comments. From Matt K’s site I found Cammy’s Software: MT-Close2 and I will use it to shift to a model where recent posts are open and older ones closed. Sorry. Go to my site to figure out my e-mail and send me a note if you want.
The alternative is to upgrade or switch blog engine, but I want to write not fiddle.