Category Archives: software
links for 2010-03-24: vintage Marvin Minsky
Why People Think Computers Can't Marvin Minsky's 1982 article. In txt format! Read it like it's 1982! (tags: ai programming philosophy technology Marvin-Minsky)
we have transparency (up to a point)
A welcome development with — I assume — the new iTunes 9, not mentioned in any of the gee-whizzery that’s attended the upgrade, as far as I’ve noticed. iTunes coverflow now supports PNG transparency, which means we can has round … more…
Tab Mix Plus
Further to my recent tweet, it turns out that Firefox never actually had an “open in foreground tab” contextual menu item to call its own. I’d forgotten (if I ever knew) that the feature was owed to the Tab Mix … more…
links for 2008-01-06: google skillz
Lifehacker Top 10: Obscure Google Search Tricks What it says on the tin – which phrase garners about 767.000 results, btw. Six of these ten were new to me. (tags: Google search lifehacker tips)
links for 2008-01-04: contra facebook
If all your friends jumped off of a bridge… Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar, comes to bury Facebook, not to praise it. (I emptied my Facebook page of everything but the Scrabble app within a few days of joining. Few things … more…
webcollage
WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thought (by Jamie Zawinski) Random web-scrapings assembled into an ever-changing collage of images. Some nsfw. I had thought I’d posted about webcollage years ago, but it seems I never did. Was only reminded of it because … more…
Gravatars, OpenID
Prompted by Automattic’s absorption of Gravatar, and consequently Matt’s implementation of Gravatars on his blog, I’ve incorporated the code to display gravatars on this blog here. You will find the relevant code to do similarly (if you’re running WordPress) here. … more…
links for 2007-09-27: graphical recursion
Ironic Sans: Idea: The Histogram as the Image Is it possible to create an image that depicts its own histogram? (tags: visualization histogram photoshop)
upgraded
Okay then: we’re now running on WordPress 2.3. It wasn’t quite the painless procedure that upgrading has been in the past, but as far as I can make out, everything is working, and the tag cloud is back — albeit … more…
links for 2007-08-25: photo trickery, quantum mechanics
Content-Aware Image Sizing interesting image resizing algorithm demo. not sure what I’d ever use it for, though… (tags: photography youtube graphics resizing) Newsflash: Time May Not Exist fun with theoretical physcs, from Discover magazine (via dangerousmeta) (tags: philosophy physics theory … more…