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The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
smallcase is a website that is so easy to maintain, your Aunt Sadie could run it. Built with CityDesk, a content management solution from Fog Creek Software that runs on Windows and is presently in beta. Check it out!
Big Brother Needs Your Help: The FBI is asking the American public to "study these assessments (of an anthrax-mailer) and reflect on whether someone of their acquaintance might fit the profile."
Like maybe that neighbor who doesn't cleanup after his dog...
Neat, free, sweet: Sweetcode reports innovative free software. "Free software" means "as in speech". Innovative as in: "Software reported on sweetcode should surprise you in some interesting way. "I didn't know you could do that" or "I never thought about that problem that way" or "What a strange way to do things".
As example: Unison is a file synchronizer. "It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other." It works on Unix and Windows and between Unix and Windows, over a local area network or over the internet!
We've come a long way in a short time...
Steve's Primer of Practical Persuasion and Influence: a series of lectures presented in a communications course (back in 1996!) that serves to distill the essence of its subject in clean, crisp and surprisingly memorable text. It's an early example of the use of hypertext and probably thought to be just too good to mess with.
Two years later and the Hypertext Gardens asks, "How can the craft of hypertext invite readers to stay, to explore, and to reflect?", examining persuasion from a different perspective.
Understanding the Web as Media brings us right into the millenium, comparing the Web with other popular modes of communication. At Adaptive Path they've been exploring design for the User Experience and the foundations of Information Architecture.
The Human Firewall Manifesto
It's where computer security starts: at the keyboard.
Toll on Freedom of Expression: the price of freedom is growing by leaps and bounds. Eventually we may get it into the range of nothing left to lose.
Memes: a Cultural Creative | a Collateral Asset | Too Stupid.
Mahesh Shantaram blogs the workaday world of a technology journalist in Mumbai, the islands city of Bombay, India. I am struck more by the unexpected similarities and less by the understated differences. If I were to visit it wouldn't be to such a foreign place at all.
We know he's not going to be at Landover Baptist today, so where do you think Jesus surfs? (Type a url into the form for a modern christian machine's recommendation.)
The MathWorld online mathematics encyclopedia has been offline for a year. The author's account of the lawsuit responsible for its absence is liable to incense the unsophisticated. The rest of us have come to expect the tawdry activities of greedy publishers and their legal departments. Let's just heed Eric's plea and, "continue together to spread the wonder and beauty that is mathematics!"
TypingWeb is an online typing tutor that ought to win, "Best of Breed," hands down (wrists up). If you feel the need for a little more speed at the keyboard, run through one of the advanced practice sessions. Registration is required but all they want is an email address and if you don't have a spam can account to feed the clueless, maybe you should run off and create one now. Just don't give away an email address you expect to use regularly.
This day has held a personal significance for me for many years. It's the Marine Corps Birthday. I've reason to buy another round: Ken Kesey's dead.
Now is a good time to re-evaluate your favorite search engines: The American Library Association presents the third annual, "Best Free Reference Web Sites."
XMethods: A directory of publicly-available web services from sending SMS text messages to renting a car. This is the edge of the internet: look over to see the future.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value
