http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091123083704.htm
Had this link saved from before, need to look at it again.
December 18, 2009
12/18
December 15, 2009
12/15
“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.” – H.L. Mencken
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/diy-book-scanner/
DIY book scanner, as stated.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/open_source_hardware_2009_-_the_def.html
http://www.taskcoach.org/
Interesting for desktop software.
http://www.redmine.org/
Also interesting for project management, and possibly even change management depending upon ease and flexibility of workflow configuration.
12/15
“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”
– H.L. Mencken
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/diy-book-scanner/
DIY book scanner, as stated.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/open_source_hardware_2009_-_the_def.html
http://www.taskcoach.org/
Interesting for desktop software.
http://www.redmine.org/
Also interesting for project management, and possibly even change management depending upon ease and flexibility of workflow configuration.
December 9, 2009
12/9
“When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don’t repeat it.”
— Paul “Bear” Bryant
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com.nyud.net/blog/mfreed Inaccurate Copyright Enforcement: Questionable “best” practices and BitTorrent specification flaws
“So let us reach for the world that ought to be–that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls.”
— President Obama, from his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Now watch as Obama uses his ignoble prize as a divining rod for -his- interpretation of “the world that ought to be”, which is almost without question unreachable from my vision of same.
December 8, 2009
12/8
‘We will not be releasing a sanitized or cut down version for territories where adults are not considered by their governments to be able to make their own entertainment choices.’
–Rebellion (game company) on Australia Ratings Board decision not to rate their new Aliens vs Predator game. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Film_and_Literature_Classification_(Australia)
December 4, 2009
From e-mail
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. –Thomas Jefferson
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/2322205/Royal-Society-Releases-Historic-Science-Papers
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thesimpledollar/~3/-bGSmUnSyM0/ Making Buyers – attachment of desire based on enjoyment of situation (i.e., TV show, movie, etc.)
From e-mail
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” — Warren Buffett
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AnH-FvnlIuc/Best-PC-DVR-Software-For-Any-Platform DVR box discussion thread
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/geREaE-hgT8/Musical-Tesla-Coils-Perform-Zelda Might be an amusing read.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1VbHGuIJY6U/The-Voynich-Manuscript-May-Have-Been-Decoded Voynich manuscript cracked?