Top 10 must-see Bollywood marvels
Salon.com's Lisa Tsering presents Top 10 must-see Bollywood marvels.
January 2003
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January 30, 2003
January 24, 2003
I Wish, You Wish
I Wish, You Wish was a dreamed up by Shelli when she thought how cool it would be to have a centralized location for all of the blogosphere's wishlists. She asked Kymberlie what she thought and the idea took off from there with things like birthdays and possible submission forms being added. While all of these ideas are obviously not in place, the basic idea is now here.
Skeptic's Annotated Bible
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible contains the entire text of the King James Version of the Bible presented from a skeptic's point of view. Verses are highlighted using a color coding system with attached notes.
GeoURL
The blogosphere is abuzz with the opening of this new Web site that lets you associate your physical coordinates with just about anything online. GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. It allows you to find URLs by physical proximity to a given location. Bloggers have taken to GeoURL in a big way during the few weeks that it's been active, advertising their physical locations with wild abandon. The idea is that you can find other bloggers - or any other resource with a URL for that matter - in your physical vicinity. The benefits of GeoURL are obvious but few if any people are writing about potential privacy issues.
The Pedal-Powered Net
Lee Felsenstein has teamed up with a former Vietnam-era bombloader to produce a bicycle-powered computer designed to access the Net. In February, a villager in northern Laos should be pedaling his way from a life without electricity directly into the 21st century. Felsenstein has some inventing background - he designed the first portable computer, the Osbiorne 1, introduced in 1981. The pedal-powered computer is a low-maintenance system, incorporating wireless antennas nailed to trees. Designed to survive monsoons, the low-power Linux system has the potential to allow remote villagers to view weather forecasts, learn market prices, and perhaps communicate with family members abroad. This is a cool setup, and this San Francisco Chronicle article is worth checking out. Who knows? You may have odds and ends sitting in your garage that could help others.
January 23, 2003
Posters for Peace
Posters for Peace, in PDF format and ready to print.
Posters for Peace
Posters for Peace, in PDF format and ready to print.
January 22, 2003
The Reality of Race
The Reality of Race: There's hardly any difference in the DNA of human races. That doesn't mean, argues sociologist Troy Duster, that genomics research can ignore the concept.
The Year The Music Dies
Charles C. Mann, The Year The Music Dies: "Not long before his sudden death from a heart attack, I saw Timothy White at a party in Boston, standing by the bar in his usual bow tie and white bucks. When he waved me over, I was delighted: Timothy was not only the editor of Billboard but a respected music critic and biographer. Even the executives he often took to task conceded, with a wince, that he understood the secretive, confusing business better than almost anyone. 'How much you want to bet that the entire music industry collapses?' he asked me. 'And I mean soon - like five, ten years. Kaboom!'"
Disused Stations on the London Underground
London has the largest and most definitely the oldest subway system in the world. It has evolved since the 1860s, and during the course of that evolution some stations were abandoned - or as the British say, disused. To abandon an underground station, all the authorities need do is to close the surface entries and turn out the lights as they leave the station for the last time. Hywel Williams's Disused Stations on the London Underground site is a work of love by a disused station expert. Williams has been to most, if not all, of these stations and he provides full histories and fascinating photos. Be sure to check the introductions to the deep and cut-and-cover sections. They're excellent history.
January 19, 2003
XHTML 2.0
The recent release of the XHTML 2.0 proposed standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has unleashed a bit of a backlash among hardcore Web designers. The issues are nicely summarized in Jeffrey Zeldman's blog. It seems that XHTML 2.0 is a complete break with earlier standards like XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.x, something many Web designers do not appreciate. Zeldman puts it in perspective, noting that it's not worth getting your panties in a knot over this issue. He argues that browsers will not support this standard for years and that it really should be given another name since it solves different problems than do the current page design standards. Arcane Web design arguments? Perhaps, but this kind of storm is what leads to Net consensus about what should and should not be a standard. Worth a read if you're in the Web design biz.
January 17, 2003
The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World
The Voynich Manuscript is considered to be 'The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World.' To this day this medieval artifact resists all efforts at translation.
It is either an ingenious hoax or an unbreakable cipher.
the unhappiest shit blog ever
From What a Cute! "It is possible to find the unhappiest shit blog ever, and being this I wanted to share it. It is, my pals, called the Tree Dragon, and concerned this weblog is with David MCcusker. As we all do he has aged into a crisis. But what high god above makes it so he thinks that it is a necessity that everyone read concerning what it is? Don't you think?"
Darci Wood
January 13, 2003
The Disruptive Web
The Disruptive Web: Jon Udell has an article in InfoWorld about the "disruptive" power of weblogs. The author conducted an experiment, combining the aggregated reading habits of the blog community collected by All Consuming with bookmarklets and an RSS feed, and searched for the availability of blog-popular books at local libraries. "By the end of the day, the technique was verified to work with many libraries in the United States. What's more, it had mutated. Reports came in from around the world about adaptations that worked with library systems from other vendors." Link via post atomic.
