November 2007
[from juanf.jaramillo] DebianEnAmd64 - Slec... →
[from resist] SACKS10: INTERVIEW WITH MADBALL... →
[from edwardgeorge] A Visit to the Creation... →
[from incude] Unison File Synchronizer →
[from incude] BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk →
[from edwardgeorge] Your Creation Museum Report →
“Yes, finally, ladies and gentlemen, I present you with your Creation Museum report! Thank you for your patience. Our report today has two parts: The first part is a photographic tour, with all the snarktasticness you’ve been no doubt hoping for…”
[from incude] SBackupWikka: Welcome to SBackup... →
[from mvh] JISC funded Enhanced Tagging and... →
Project will demonstrate and evaluate the combination of use of controlled vocabularies and social tagging in the context of repositories and digital collections, attempting to get the best of both worlds.
[from preoccupations] BBC NEWS | UK | Suffolk bird... →
[from mvh] Power of Information Report - Matt... →
It took a hard look at government information over the web and made a number of pretty forward thinking recommendations - a number of which could be important to the HE space online.
[from mvh] The Power Of Information Report Also... →
ON Matt Jukes report Brian writes “as well as encouraging reuse of government data, the report also recommends: * Working with existing user-generated sites rather than creating anything new ones.” etc
[from resist] TeachingType →
[from billchristian] Moving your iTunes Library to... →
[from edwardgeorge] John Resig - JavaScript Method... →
“In a side project that I’ve been working on I built a quick-and-dirty function for doing simple method overloading.”
[from lancew] credativ ltd. | →
[from russelldavies] booktwo.org - herds of... →
[from edwardgeorge] Google Sets →
“Enter a few items from a set of things. Next, press Large Set or Small Set and we’ll try to predict other items in the set.”
[from edwardgeorge] M/C Journal: "Artificial... →
“In other words, lawmakers found themselves looking into a fun house mirror that distorted what should have been familiar artefacts of American popular culture because it was precisely what they wanted to see.”
[from michela] alex davies - || | |||| →
[from russelldavies] the penguin blog: thanks for... →
“Authentic subcultures required backwaters, and time, and there are no more backwaters. They went the way of geography in general” Jeremy quoting Gibson to good effect
[from ekarisor] dotfiles.org | community for... →
[from ekarisor] Coding Horror: I'd Consider That... →
[from ekarisor] Geek To Live: Make the Most of... →
[from edwardgeorge] Schneier on Security: Cyberwar →
[from ekarisor] Coding Horror: Not All LCD Panels... →
[from ekarisor] Coding Horror: Who Wrote This... →
[from edwardgeorge] Schneier on Security:... →
“Cyberwar is certainly not a myth. But you haven’t seen it yet, despite the attacks on Estonia. Cyberwar is warfare in cyberspace. And warfare involves massive death and destruction. When you see it, you’ll know it.”
[from conque] icon →
[from thatstandardsguy] Better Web Forms:... →
Designing interactive forms is one of the most challenging aspects of web design. Done with the user’s experience in mind, and some finesse, it can be one of the most rewarding, too, resulting in increased visitor satisfaction and conversion.
[from dragoni] Legal Issues for Mashups →
What about terms and conditions for mashups? Trademarks and other protection for your creations Who owns a mashup when it is fully hosted on a provider’s platform? What about slander and defamation?
[from thatstandardsguy] Stop using poor... →
Since CSS support in [IE] has been lagging quite substantially, clever web developers have started using CSS expressions to mimic CSS functionality. However, few realize how this affects performance.
[from thatstandardsguy] Blueprint CSS Cheat Sheet... →
[A] cheat sheet for Blueprint… a reference page with all the important class names that you can print out and keep on your desk.
[from halili] Linux.com :: LDAP browsing with Luma →
[from halili] Tux Love: Hidden Linux : OCR Secrets →
[from delineator] Global Incident Map Displaying... →
flashing icons makes things look worse than they are
[from jwbecher] Free DVD MP3 Ripper - Freeware... →
[from delineator] Sunlight & mySociety →
[from delineator] mySociety away weekend 2007 →
[from jwbecher] Taskix →
[from delineator] Social Change Online →
“web services company for government, unions and community organisations”
[from billyg] Chinese sub pops up in the middle of... →
An undetected Chinese submarine popped up in the heart of a recent Pacific exercise. The Americans had no idea China’s fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication, or that China posed such a threat. - Here comes the call for $$
[from yesh] B.A.T.M.A.N. — open-mesh →
[from yesh] ROBIN mesh network →
[from psychemedia] Game literacy in theory and... →
This article addresses the notion of teaching about games as a cultural medium in their own right. This includes critical analyses of existing texts but also involves enabling students to create th…
[from psychemedia] Gaming literacies: a game... →
Educators and education advocates have recently acknowledged that the ability to think systemically is one of the necessary skills for success in the 21st century. Game-making is especially well-su…
[from psychemedia] 50 Game Innovations →
[from webmink] November 13 is Java Liberation Day →
Nice article by Rich Sands shows just how much has been achieved in the year. Still more to do, though.
[from psychemedia] PLEs and the institution →
[from lancew] Ooyala →
[from mitrepauld] Mozilla Firefox →
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