really cool hubble space telscope photos. the latest one of the crescent nebula is great.
Category: Legacy
information filtering, point and counterpoint. incidental fun quote:
“Most Internet entrepreneurs treat the users’ attention as a Third World country to be strip-mined,” said Jakob Nielsen…
man, intel really shot themselves in the foot w/ their rambus dealings.
a useful list of free ssh programs. (free as in beer)
grr… more spyware
cam is right. living.com’s dhtml furniture viewer is darn spiffy.
While more than 70% of the people the NSF surveyed knew that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, and that humans and dinosaurs did not coexist, only 16% could define the Internet and only 13% could accurately describe a molecule. At least those numbers are going up, the report’s authors noted diplomatically–five years ago, only 11% could define the Internet and only 9% could describe a molecule. Well-Informed Citizens Increasingly Rare in Information Age“>whoa.
jorn makes some interesting proposal for content-centered web design. this would integrate well w/ semi-structured db entries (for adding metadata, content-tagging, and appending comments / elaborating on relations as time went on). also, the dead links problem is actually addressed by many available crawlers (with automatic link deactivation or demotion when linkrot sets in) – also, if it’s all db backed, you get all kinds of neat options like reordering data based on activity of the page (store last updates based on crawls), popularity (store clickthroughs), or if you want to get ambitious, integrating such things into your community and collaborative filtering systems. ooh, sounds like a project.