Monthly Archives: January 2008

The Real Reason for no Increased productivity behind Scripting Languages, reveled.

By Ian | January 31, 2008

In a lazyweb “fools seldom differ” moment, my post The Real Reason for Increased productivity behind Scripting Languages (commenting on a XKCD comic) has been riffed on by Bart of “Moves on Rails” : The new programmers excuse for slacking of:
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(no, I’m not doings a “Zed”, now please excuse us while we hide from the [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 30th

By Ian | January 30, 2008

This is what is Weird Wonderful Web for January 29th through January 30th:

Beyond Vertical Search to Business Networks – ReadWriteWeb – going beyond “the search space that Google has not yet grabbed and that does not require a major technology breakthrough such as natural language search”
- google advertising
Dear Google: 2000 Called, It Wants Its Ad [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 28th

By Ian | January 28, 2008

The Third Bit > The Wheel Turns >> a mechanism for “just in time assembly” of Ajax pages – Greg links to a paper that describes an automatic mechanism for splitting and stubbing JavaScript, sort of an “on-demand loading of dynamic libraries started to matter for desktop performance about fifteen years ago .” The [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 27th

By Ian | January 27, 2008

This is what is Weird Wonderful Web for January 26th through January 27th:

Still, or even more, relevant today: The Heavenly Jukebox from The Atlantic Monthly article on digital music from 2000. (no longer locked behind the paywall)
- business economics internet MusicBiz music mp3
In E-mail and the Problem (blackrimglasses.com Ethan Kaplan), Ethan makes a [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 24th

By Ian | January 24, 2008

How to stop comment spam [bjorkoy.com] – some unusual and interesting techniques to stop spam comment bots. (Thanks Drew!!)
- blogging HOWTO

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 23rd

By Ian | January 23, 2008

British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards shortlists announced | Futurismic – Looks like I have a few new books to add to my “2 read” list and some short story goodness to track down,
- SciFi
101 CSS Techniques Of All Time- Part2 – more handy css techniques that you can incorporate into your web designs : [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 22nd

By Ian | January 22, 2008

Stephen Chow’s CJ7 – the excellent Twitch has the English trailer for Stephen Chow’s (known in NA for Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle) new scifi comedy CJ7 (out in March). looks very ET-ish and lots of fun.
- Movies HongKong SciFi
Go2Web20.net – The complete Web 2.0 directory – which is, itself, very web [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 21st

By Ian | January 21, 2008

Dilbert.com >> I’m Incubating my brain out…

- and it hurts
- Startup Humour
CSS Floats Without Text Wrap – Understanding floats is extremely important when creating CSS layouts. One of the trickiest issues when dealing with floats is stopping text from wrapping underneath a floated element.
- css webdesign
The best free web development add-ons for IE 6 [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 20th

By Ian | January 20, 2008

Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing – If you want to read books that tackle profound philosophical questions, then the best – and perhaps only – place to turn these days is sci-fi. Science fiction is the last great literature of ideas.  (see also my own Utopian ideas hidden [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 18th :The Junction Gathers, nerd word, Astro High & Ajax geeking in TO

By Ian | January 18, 2008

The Junction: Home to The Gathering Space – the funki-fing Funkifying of my Dundas West and Keele neighborhood continues, with the Gathering Space.
- Toronto Culture Art
75 Words Every Sci-Fan Should Know – yes, there will be a quiz. If you fall, you have to give your pointy ears back.
- SciFi words
High School students Discover [...]

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