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Last Updated: October 30, 2004
[February 29, 2004]
Gerry McGovern: "Metadata: seven tips for writing better keywords"
Tessellations - Escher and how to make your own: "The word 'tessera' in latin means a small stone cube. They were used to make up 'tessellata' - the mosaic pictures forming floors and tilings in Roman buildings. Here, the term has become more specialised and is used to refer to pictures or tiles, mostly in the form of animals and other life forms, which cover the surface of a plane in a symmetrical way without overlapping or leaving gaps."
Forestry Images: "The overall objective of ForestryImages.org is: to provide an accessible and easily used archive of high quality images related to forest health and silviculture, with particular emphasis on educational applications."
Albert Einstein - "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
[February 28, 2004]
Mike Epstein: "Brooklyn-based photolog with an emphasis on urban decay, strange signage, and general weirdness."
silicon.com: "A local council in Germany may have found the secret to overcoming user reluctance to Linux handing out stuffed penguins and showing users that even a woman can find her way around open source software."
CSS Viewer
Joe Ancis - "The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
[February 25, 2004]
Kuro5hin.org: "Chess Computers On Track to Overtake Humans in 2004"
The Remediator Security Digest: "Imagine a time without viruses, back before 1988: when 'security' wasn't muttered in the same breath as 'computers;' when security was more of a problem for mainframes at high security organizations. Since that time, much has changed."
Wired: The Complete Guide to Googlemania! - "They named their new search engine Google, for the biggest number they could imagine. But it wasn't big enough. Today Google's a library, an almanac, a settler of bets. It's a parlor game, a dating service, a shopping mall. It's a Microsoft rival. It's a verb."
TASI: Searching the Internet for Images
[February 24, 2004]
The Register: "Computer users who value their privacy should stay clear of 'social networking' websites, and should warn their friends away too, according to a distinguished Australian security professional. And for good-measure, the rash of new websites - with names apparently inspired by artificial food preservatives such as Ryze, Plaxo and Orkut - make a mockery of existing data protection legislation."
Nature Science Update: "Identifying networks of mutual friends helps filter out spam."
[February 23, 2004]
Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere': "In this article, we will describe the pedagogy behind blogs. We will address the reasons why blogs should be used as one of many teaching and learning tools, as well as describe the potential benefits of blogs for educators."
BBC News: "The US Army is building a second version of Earth on computer to help it prepare for conflicts around the world."
Paul Rand - "To Design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse." (via Chad Thornton)
The Virtual Corkscrew Museum
[February 22, 2004]
Lars Holst: Well-Designed Weblogs
Matthew Mullenweg: Well Designed Weblogs? - "For the list to be a useful Lars should put a blurb about why a site was chosen so if there is some nugget of inspiration there that I'm missing, I can be enlightened. It would also shed some light on the subjective process he's going through, which would be interesting."
[February 21, 2004]
BBC News: The really simple future of the web - "The most compelling use of RSS is that it lets users read dozens of websites, all on the same page. The sites can be scanned in seconds rather than having to be laboriously loaded individually."
New Scientist: "Taking a coffee break at work may actually sabotage employees' ability to do their jobs and undermine teamwork instead of boosting it, suggests new research."
[February 20, 2004]
Wired News: Warning: Microsoft 'Monoculture' - "In biology, species with little genetic variation -- or 'monocultures' -- are the most vulnerable to catastrophic epidemics. Species that share a single fatal flaw could be wiped out by a virus that can exploit that flaw. Genetic diversity increases the chances that at least some of the species will survive every attack."
SearchSecurity.com: "Calling the costs of patching 'astronomical,' a new Yankee Group survey has found the price of patching soared to as much as $40 million for many enterprises last year."
Some Analog Computer History
The Science of Vision and the Emergence of Art
Lord Kelvin, 1897 - "The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay."
[February 19, 2004]
Spring S. Hull (Software Usability Research Laboratory): Influence of Training and Exposure on the Usage of Breadcrumb Navigation - "Recent studies have shown that while the use of breadcrumb trails to navigate a website can be helpful, few users choose to utilize this method of navigation. This study investigates the effects of 'mere exposure' and training on breadcrumb usage. Findings indicate that brief training on the benefits of breadcrumb usage resulted in more efficient search behavior."
Documen Information Design: Factors Impacting Performance - "Information design is about performance improvement. Before one can make an intelligent decision about whether a performance problem can be addressed through training, documentation, or any other information communications effort, it's necessary to analyze all the factors that affect performance."
Andy Budd: The Business Case for Web Accessibility - "When most people talk about web accessibility, they usually start talking about people with physical disabilities. However web accessibility is a much wider issue and at a fundamental level affects all of us."
[February 18, 2004]
Search Engine Watch: "Yahoo is rolling out a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results."
Mark Nottingham: Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
Userfocus.co.uk: "ISO is developing a new standard for web usability. The new standard will be of interest to anyone who designs, evaluates or commissions web sites and it is likely to have a significant impact in improving the overall usability of the web."
Bruce Schneier: "Security is a process, not a product."
Basecamp: "Web-based project management and client extranet tool for creative services firms."
Mark Newman: Gallery of network images
University at Albany (SUNY): How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory (via Ned)
Michel de Saint Ouen: "What is termed 'art of imagination' portrays the dramas which are the human conditions, exploring and expressing mysteries so as to make them comprehensible."
[February 07, 2004]
the Exploration of Computation: "Levitated.net contains visual poetry and science fun narrated in an object oriented graphic environment. The sketches and applications generated as a byproduct of research are provided online as open source Flash modules. These pages are attempting to fasten a usable structure around a continually evolving computational ecology, so that it may be observed and enjoyed by participants of the network."
Simon Willison: The dangers of PageRank
M. C. Escher - "We adore chaos because we love to produce order."
True Desktop Project: "Collection of images from computer users, who are interested in providing the cyber-world with a glimpse into their very own true desktop workspace."
[February 05, 2004]
NY Times (free registration required): "The tension over the MyDoom virus underscores a growing friction between technophiles and what they see as a breed of technophobes who want to enjoy the benefits of digital technology without making the effort to use it responsibly."
CNET News.com: "Web surfers battling 'spyware' face a new problem: so-called spyware-killing programs that install the same kind of unwanted advertising software they promise to erase."
James Robertson: Definition of information management terms
Johanna Rothman: Four Dimensions of Technical Skill
[February 03, 2004]
Electronic Musician: "Next time you go to a show, chances are you'll see a laptop onstage, functioning as a performer. In interactive composition and performance, control of a piece includes a computer that has been programmed to sense significant musical features from a human performer and produce its own music in response. [...] In this column, I'll take a brief look at the evolution of interactive music systems and give an overview of some performance approaches that are commonly used."
Microsoft Patches Dangerous IE Flaw
The Register: "In the past couples going through a rocky patch would use the television to avoid talking to each other: now they can spend time apart by going online."
Hidden Google Tools (via inter-alia.net)
Stuart Robertson (A List Apart): CSS Design: Custom Underlines - "[...] additional visual cues to the differences between the types of links contained in a document."
[February 02, 2004]
csmonitor.com: Tracking kids 24/7 - "Using high-tech products, parents can instantly find out where a child is or what he's doing on the computer. But what does this do to the parent-child relationship?"
Gerry McGovern: "What makes a great website is focus and clarity of purpose. A great website is unpretentious. It doesn't pretend to be what it is not. It never wastes your time because it always gets to the point. A great website helps you to act."
Digital Photography Review: 50 million digital cameras sold in 2003
Notes on blogging: "Blogging puts professionals and amateurs on an even footing. That's why so many professional writers dislike and distrust it."
[February 01, 2004]
The Head Lemur: Digital Photography - "The problem of authorship, copyright, authenticity, provenance and verification of images is becoming increasingly important from not only a personal perspective, but as a critical method of verifying origination in professional photographers, news organizations and as evidence in court cases as well as proof of copyright and veracity of being unretouched. This is important as anybody with a simple image editing program and a computer can create images that have very little basis in reality."
InfoVis.net: "Multimodal interfaces try to solve the problem of adapting the computer to the user instead of the contrary."
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