Charles Stross (author of the excellent Jennifer Morgue and Accellerando) has just written a blog post with some very down to earth travel tips for surviving in our current state of surreal security efforts. He touches on the subject of terrorism, stating: I have this to say: your chances of being involved in a real incident — as opposed to [...]

Something OpenSource apps are reguarly criticized for are their user interfaces. Now, representing both a leap forward in collaborative User Interface design, user feedback mechanisms and blog tools is the GIMP UI Brainstorm site. got ideas? This is a visual brainstorm, the channel for everybody to contribute to the GIMP UI redesign process. It is moderated by the GIMP UI [...]

Erik Sink was running a promotion where he’d send you a T-Shirt and then in turn you’d agree to blog about it, for several reasons (listed below) the above screenshot is probably a better payback. To promote Fabjectory, we recently attended the Second Life Community Convention and put some of Eric’s advice about tradeshows into practice. If you missed it [...]