I was thinking about how amusing OOG THE CAVEMAN was on /., but he seems have been obliterated from the records. There are references to him, but no posts show up in searches. OOG THE (Open Source) CAVEMAN was frickin hilarious. Ah well, life goes on.
U.S. Considers Military Action to Remove Skating Judges
Hey, forget the ice skating judges, we all know that the the Olympics is pretty much a sham nowadays. It has had anything to do with the human spirit or athletics or anything like that for quite some time now.
DENIM and SILK look like very interesting tools (Informal Tools For Early Stage Web Site and UI Design
). Should follow up.
Plant hackers have root access!
Speaking of funny, trust it to Microsoft to ‘innovate.’ One of their many firsts: Microsoft Instant Messanger Virus Sweeps Net – well, only if you’re dumb enough to be running MIM.
Ha, I just logged in back in to mefi and was greeted by this: There have been 1823 links and 41401 comments posted since your last visit.
Village Voice Pazz & Jop 2001 out, predictable whining ensues. Related article on the Guardian, related whining on mefi. Is there a trend here? 😉
OK, back to work, heheh.
Rafe is right, this is the quote of the day:
Colin Powell: With respect to Iran and with respect to North Korea, there is no plan to start a war with these nations.
Other items from rc3: the Simulcam and Stromotion technology from Dartfish. A quick search shows that Intel is an investor and that the Indy 500 and X-Games, among others have also been using it. It seems like very cool stuff. Also, here’s a post on software Rafe’s installed on his new work PC. He mentions a few neat development tools. (related to my 0 to productivity on Windows post)
Peter writes on the Flamenco presentation. Cool. A must read for ia dweebs.
ID thought: sometimes I forget how well designed Blogger is. That’s really say a lot considering how badly designed most of the stuff out there on the web. Even 2+ years later, it still impresses. [find links on interaction mapping with frames]
RDFWeb: semantic web vapourware for the masses