2007 Nov 9, 4:29Another website's profile to keep track of. Associated Live ID: sequelguy@hotmail.com
proldfile microsoft popfly mashup web internet webservices 2007 Nov 7, 5:19My Many Eyes account page. Adding this to delicious so that I don't lose track of it. Associated IBMID: dave@deletethis.net
proldfile many-eyes statistics visualization me 2007 Nov 7, 1:53Link roundup and summary article on censorship in Pakistan since Pervez Musharraf suspended the constitution on November 3rd.
internet web censorship politics legal pakistan blog article 2007 Nov 7, 1:40Interview with BBC's News Director Richard Sambrook mostly on the topic of news medias role on the Internet.
david-weinberger blog bbc interview news media richard-sambrook wired audio 2007 Nov 7, 9:44Paper on how to apply honeybee protocol to managing Internet hosting.
bee internet web research paper 2007 Nov 7, 9:41Algorithm to tell you which blogs to read to be the most up to date. Graphs which blogs aggregate from other blogs.
information graph network news blog 2007 Nov 6, 9:02Dan Dennett's TED talk on memes.
dan-dennett ted memes video 2007 Nov 6, 2:46Video of TED lectures. TED is (from Wikipedia) "... an annual conference held in Monterey, California and recently, semi-annually in other cities around the world. TED describes itself as a "group of
remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas of inc
analysis blog video visualization internet social technology ted business news ideas conference 2007 Oct 24, 10:12Without realizing it this was the page I was looking for three weeks ago.
via:kris.kowal web chart graph ajax .net flash programming visualization statistics reference 2007 Oct 22, 2:36How to create good headlines and subjects for webpages and email.
blog article design email howto usability tutorial language internet writing web 2007 Oct 22, 4:47
I purchased the
Orange Box off of Steam a bit ago and like
others before me who have
discussed elsewhere, I already owned two of the five games that come from the Orange Box. However, the combined price of
HL2E2 and Portal, the two games I actually wanted was supposedly equivalent to the price of the Orange Box bundle. Incidentally, if anyone would like HL2 or HL2E1 I can
gift them to you.
HL2E2 was excellent of course but the big surprise for me was Portal. (Mild spoilers follow) It has a sort of zen simplicity: there are a few simple game-play mechanics, a handful of textures and
objects, and a deceptively simple story all used well and tied together to produce an entertaining and polished game. It seems a bit short but its probably better to end with the gamer demanding
more. The humor and the sort of
play within a play aspect of the game is what really sold me though. It has the funniest
ending theme I've heard (also
blogged by the creator). The voices of the automated turrets are so adorable I would feel compelled to hug them if they weren't
always trying to kill me. Additionally the
weighted companion cube seems like an experiment in understanding gamers'
attachment to NPCs. In this case the NPC is a box and yet I still felt awful incinerating it. The whole time I was vaguely reminded of
Solitary the reality show
that sticks contestants alone in small rooms forcing them to endure various tests all the while being watched by a humorous computer with a female voice. Someone should sue...
RPS has articles on Portal including
a Portal review, a page
suggesting Portal is a tale of
lesbianism, and
others.
hl2e2 game hl2 solitary valve portal nontechnical 2007 Oct 20, 3:07Bill Hill's blog on reading and the Internet
bill-hill reading blog microsoft internet 2007 Oct 17, 10:49Chumby is a hackable little wifi computer. Its like an expensive alarm clock that also shows you stuff off the Internet. I kind of want one.
purchase shopping wifi wireless opensource flash design hardware chumby 2007 Oct 17, 5:55Diego Doval expresses my thoughts on this topic very well and also likely well before I even had thoughts on this topic.
blog article history robustness-principle jon-postel internet tcp 2007 Oct 17, 5:17History of the various versions of Postel's Law or the Robustness Principle which paraphrased says: "In general, an implementation should be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its
receiving behavior. That is, it should be careful to send
blog article history robustness-principle jon-postel internet tcp 2007 Oct 17, 4:48ICANN's wiki on their new IDN TLDs.
idn wiki icann dns domain i18n internet tld 2007 Oct 14, 3:12I've updated my homepage by moving stuff about me onto a separate
About page. Creating the About page was the perfect opportunity
to get
FoaF, a machine readable way of describing yourself and your friends, off my to do list. I have a
base FoaF file to which I add friends, projects, and accounts
from delicious
using an XSLT. This produces the
FoaF XML resource on which I use another
XSLT to convert into HTML and produce the About page.
I should also mention a few FoaF pages I found useful in doing this:
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FOAF Vocabulary Specification - The standard on which I based my XSLT to add in info from delicious.
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FoaF Explorer - Turns any RDF XML FOAF resource into a webpage with links to the other people, projects, etc mentioned in the FOAF file.
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FoaF-a-Matic - I used this to produce my base FoaF file.
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RDF Validator - This is the closest thing I could find for validation. It does RDF in general but unfortunately not FoaF specifically. I found two
links to sites that are down or dead that claimed to do what I actually wanted.
technical xml foaf personal xslt xsl homepage 2007 Oct 11, 12:55The list of URI schemes supported by the command line based web browser Lynx.
lynx uri scheme internet web browser reference 2007 Oct 11, 12:11ICANN plans to support non-US-ASCII top level domain names. I wonder how broken web browser's security measures are about to become.
idn dns domain internet uri icann news tld 2007 Oct 9, 4:49List of website usability issues.
usability article blog ui webdesign internet howto reference
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