Wubi – Ubuntu Installer for Windows, now that Ubuntu 8.04 is out.
(tags: Linux ubuntu windows)
Explaining the Semantic Web. 2 things are missing for the “wrb 3.0″ to happen : 1) more micro formating, either top down (i.e. “this looks like a date or a place”) or bottum up : better tools (wizards?) to add [...]
This is what is Weird Wonderful
Six Principles for Making New Things – find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
- Startup web work paulgraham paul.graham
Wikileaks – Wikileaks (the [...]
I’m off for a week of skiing in Utah. Until then, take care of the net for me.
Where and when to use Ajax in your applications – Get rid of the refresh; doesn’t need to be real-time;Small changes can be big;Big changes can bring big difficulties; Unleash information; Ajax can save/ruin your site; Finding [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How to stop comment spam [bjorkoy.com] – some unusual and interesting techniques to stop spam comment bots. (Thanks Drew!!)
- blogging HOWTO
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 : [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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