I’m more or less endlessly fascinated by the concept of Creative Commons licenses. They are the initial real world examples of law as computer code (ala Charles Stross’s Accellerando). As off the shelf licenses you can stamp onto your creations to allow for certain types of use down the road, so say you want to let photos of your vacation [...]
I predict that the awesome Hackety Hack is going to become the Harry Potter of programming language tutorials. It’s a very slick combination of conversational dog programming hero, easy to conceptualize Ruby code and a no-brainer install environment to get “kids” interested in programming. However, given the massive interest in Ruby lately I imagine there will be as many adults [...]
Lee Le Fever’s posted a great, very straightforward and entertaining video on the benefits of using a blog/newsreader. If you’re not reading these words in one, you need to take a minute to watch this: Click To Play There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who [...]
Comment spam is the bane of anyone who runs a blog, automated services like Akismet can help (no-follow can’t), but the newest method of checking to see if a commenter is a human who can ostensibly add to the conversation is a CAPTCHA. It’s a long boring acronymn that is better not remembered so I’m not going to spell it [...]
I’m seeing more and more people criticizing SecondLife as being “overhyped” in the media. Often, it’s pointed out that SecondLife has far fewer users than a world-beating Massive Multiplayer game like World of Warcraft (WoW), the contention being that since WoW is 10x the size of SecondLife that they should have a similarly large amount of coverage. This point misses [...]
Future Perfect has some cool pictures of customized taxi cabs throughout the world. While less exotic (to me anyway), I once rode in a Dallas cab that the owner had decked out with model grass and had created an entire matchbox size Nascar race. She said she would even adjust the matchbox cars to reflect their current standings throughout the [...]
If you’re one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you (checkout the video): glumbert.com – Shift Happens technorati tags:China, Education, Statistics, Video
