photo: coaster
A List Apart, has been revamped and they’re proud of it. They should be, it’s beautiful and functional. It’s one of the few early web development resources that’s still with us, and there’s a reason.
tags: a list apart, ala, redesign, web development, web development resources
Back when I was looking things up for my Digital Preservation and Copyright story I found a bunch of info the University of Texas System had gathered on issues related to copyright, libraries, and education. In among the pages on copying copyrighted works, A/V reserves, and electronic reserves I found a document titled: Educational Fair [...]
Via Jon Gordon’s Future Tense: Re-shelving George Orwell.
Smart people everywhere are taking it upon themselves to re-shelve George Orwell’s 1984 from fiction to more appropriate sections in non-fiction, like “Current Events”, “Politics”, “History”, “True Crime”, or “New Non-Fiction.”
Instructions and photos on Flickr.
tags: current events, fiction, georgeorwell, george orwell, non fiction, nonfiction, orwell, politics, re shelving, [...]
With all the talk about Google scanning or not scanning copyrighted books, I was happy to see Laura Quilter talking about Google as a library.
The Internet Archive is certainly a library. [...] Libraries may be private, semi-private, public; for- or not-for-profit; paper or digital. Why is Google not a library?
More interestingly, she casts a critical [...]
I want Wikipedia to have an API, but it doesn’t. Some web searching turned up Gina Trapani’s WikipedizeText, but that still wasn’t exactly what I wanted. A note in the source code, however, put me back on the trail to the Wikipedia database downloads, and while that’s not what I want, I did learn that [...]
…people with Parkinson’s disease temporarily became compulsive gamblers after taking [...] drugs designed to control movement problems caused by the illness…
That’s the lead in this Forbes story on the matter, and that’s not all. A variety of ‘interesting’ side effects popped up among a relatively small number of study participants:
pathological gambling
compulsive eating
increased alcohol consumption
obsession with [...]
Remember those guys who rode a Segway cross-country last year? Well, they’ve got a movie coming out. Yup, there’s even a trailer. Possibly more interesting: the photo gallery (from which the photo above came).
Thanks to Engadget for the link.
10 mph, 10mph, cross country, easy rider, movie, movie trailer, on the road again, photo gallery, segway, [...]
In remembering James Henry Smith, a zealous Pittsburgh Steelers fan who died of prostate cancer in early July, his family asked the Samuel E. Coston Funeral Home to do things “as he would have wanted them to be.” For the viewing, the funeral home arranged a living room ensemble with the TV and recliner just [...]
Shiira Project, an Apple WebKit-based browser with some interesting features.
Sadly, it also brings page transitions to the Mac. Let’s hope these don’t become the new <blink> .
tags: alternate browser, blink, browser, browser development, mac, webkit
Al asked how low I will go to chase traffic. Truth is, I can’t answer. Maisonbisson has had moments of popularity, but it’s hard to know why.
Alexa tells us there are 18 million unique sites on the Web, but…
if you take Alexa’s Top 100,000 sites you’ll find that almost 3 out every 4 clicks are [...]
Boing Boing has an exclusive profile of neutron bomb inventor Samuel T. Cohen by Charles Platt. All the reports so far are that it’s a 10,000 word “must read.”
The article, Profits of Fear, is available in PDF, plain text, and Palm doc versions at Boing Boing.
Thanks to David Rothman for the heads up. Extra: [...]
Right up front in the prologue of Ruth Wajnryb’s Expletive Deleted she quotes the following from Richard Dooling on the difficulty in researching “bad language”:
The Library of Congress classification system does not provide a selection of books … on swearing or dirty words. A researcher … must travel to the BF of psychoanalysis, the PE [...]
Some time ago I pointed to John Robb’s discussion of the potential for the network to amplify the threat of violence from otherwise un-connected and un-organized individuals. Now Noah Shachtman at DefenseTech is writing about “open source insurgents.”
It used to be that a small group of ideological-driven guerilla leaders would spread information, tactics, training, and [...]
David Edelstein’s review of Werner Herzog’s documentary, Grizzly Man, describes Timothy Treadwell as
…a manic but lovable whack-job who doggedly filmed and obsessively idealized the bears that would ultimately eat him…
The film is made up largely of the bits of the hundreds of hours of video that Treadwell himself shot during his 14 years with the [...]
Somebody asked for some links to get started with PHP. Of course I lead them to the PHP.net official site, where the documentation is some of the best I’ve seen for any product.
I also suggested PHPDeveloper.org and PHPFreaks.com, though the truth is I usually Google any questions I have that the official docs don’t answer. [...]
