Archive for March, 2009
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
"Since I’ve violated the Golden Rule of Helping Friends with their PC Problems and attempted to help a friend with his PC problem, expectedly wiping out his hard drive in vain, I had many opportunities to explain the Programmer Paradox: how can a programmer fail to make a computer do ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
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I launched a new site site this morning: AgainButSlower.com.
I saw this xkcd comic recently, and it made me want to be able to see Wikipedia articles side-by-side with their "simple" counterparts.
"Simple English Wikipedia is a version of the Wikipedia ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
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This impressive augmented reality demo from GE inserts computer-generated 3D objects into live video. First, watch the short video. Then, try it yourself.
Israeli musician "Kutiman" took a big pile of seemingly random YouTube video clips and used them as instruments ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Microsoft showed this "view of the future" in a presentation at a recent business technology conference:
Video: Future Vision Montage
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C'mon, people; hurry up and build these awesome user interfaces! A keyboard and mouse can only do so much.
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