How to teach a service the connections I have in my mind
I’ve been a big proponent of teaching machines by doing. I don’t mean that the machine is ‘watching’ my move and guessing what is going ...
Author: charlie
links for 2008-02-18
Shorpy :: History in HD | High-Resolution Historical Photos (tags: art camera culture history photos photography photo people interesting world retro inspiratio...
Are Kosovars Albanians or Serbians?
I grew up thinking that nations should be the scale at which people are governed. I could not understand why Israel didn’t just make all the Palestinians ...
links for 2008-02-17
Elusive graffiti tagger ‘Spek’ is finally tagged, police say – The Boston Globe “This month, Brandt was arrested in Salem and charged wi...
links for 2008-02-16
The Blogging Czar of Moscow [The guy who bought LiveJournal] “How American Andrew Paulson is building a growing Internet empire in Russia” (tags: ru...
Cool digitized handwriting from LIFT 08 – Fontself
There were these guys at LIFT 08 who were digitizing everyone’s writing so that we could post and comment in our own handwriting. It’s just awesome....
links for 2008-02-15
US to try to shoot down spy satellite – Boston.com “Taking a page from Hollywood science fiction, the Pentagon said Thursday it will try to shoot do...
Something about the Clock of the Long Now chimes
The Clock of the Long Now will have chimes that play 10 tones, in unique combination, every day over the course of 10,000 years. I tend to listen to a bunch of ...
Nice little video of Socialthing
Yup. These social network aggregation services are popping up all over. Check out this video Socialthing made of what they are offering (link below, too). Prett...
Yahoo! Design closed down?
I just can’t believe that Yahoo! Design closed down (link to rumour below). I think the department might have closed and that there are designers elsewher...