Archive for September, 2005
Thursday, September 29th, 2005
I'm not sure this is available to the general public, but Don Norman has an intriguing article Human-centered design considered harmful.
Human-centered design has become such a dominant theme in design that it is now accepted by interface and application designers automatically, without thought, let alone criticism. That's a dangerous ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
Slashdot | Google And NASA [Ames] To Collaborate On Technology Hmm. Up to a million square feet of Google R&D space at Moffett Field. Could be interesting. Probably related to the recent layoffs.
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
The original in French. In English (translated automatically).
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
RPS - 25 (via exploding aardvark).
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
600 barrels of loot found on Crusoe island
This most recent announcement, however, deserves greater credence because of the equipment used by the treasure hunters: a mini robot that can scan 50 metres deep into the earth. The robot, dubbed "Arturito", was invented by Chileans and over the past year has ...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
A caveat about books that discuss words in other languages without straight equivalents in English: Tingo and other lingo. Still, Rheingold's They Have a Word for It" (which is, after all, called a 'lighthearted lexicon' in its subtitle) is a favorite of mine.
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
Etext of Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers.
We both have got a body in a bath,
We both have got a body in a bath—
For in spite of all temptations
To go in for cheap sensations
We insist upon a body in a bath—
Sayers was a major source of rampant anglophilia back in ...
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
We had great fun at the Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale; Bess even bought two baby quilts at auction. I like the Necker Cubist quality of this one she bought.
I especially enjoyed hearing and singing "Dedication Anthem," by Lowell Mason, often called "606" by Mennonites because that was ...
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Great picture of John Wiseman aka lemondor by Adam Rifkin (shown me by Joyce).
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
We're heading down for the 2005 Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale tomorrow (and maybe tonight). This Quicktime video does a pretty good job at capturing what one usually sees. Bess loves the quilt auction; up until this year, I've usually ridden round and round with one or both kids on the ...
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
From the /. article: Mini-ITX Computing For Everyone
No details are emitted so if you are new to Mini-ITX and do not have a clue what you need or where to start then this would certainly be a good place to start.
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Just discovered this weblog, directly relevant to my work: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) (via lemonodor).
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Two NASA pages with good Rita images: NASA Johnson Space Center Closes as NASA Watches Rita amd Hurricane Season 2005 - Rita. ISS control has passed on to the Russian Mission Control Center.
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
Of interest only to Sacred Harp geeks: Time Signature use in the Sacred Harp 1991 Denson revision, thanks to Berkley Moore.
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
Things that are addicting as crack:
hate
blowing glass
federal funding
The Facebook
Sony PSP
Sims Online (also as much fun as dental surgery)
the one-click ordering process
Girl scout cookies
a Japanese restaurant
the Harry Potter books
NFL primetime
playing with knives
America's fatty foods, including Krispy Kreme donuts and Long John Silver's batter-covered greasy food
Everquest (naturally)
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
By the way, for only $5, you can get a copy of The Western Wind's wonderful setting of i thank You God. (You also get Spiderman, which you might or might not consider a good thing).
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
I've got to believe that something like the new-style USB drive will become increasingly important, with monitors and cpus staying behind on desktops. I already have a 1 Gb USB drive, which is almost enough to carry my work to California and back; I also have a 120 Gb firewire ...
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Monday, September 19th, 2005
Today was a good, happy day:
Driving to church today, Jane (our daughter) had us laughing out loud with her jokes and wordplay.
I led worship at church today, and people affirmed that leadership, even though a lot of it has been leading singing a cappella. It ...
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Saturday, September 17th, 2005
Bill McKibben, lucid as usual: The Christian Paradox.
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Saturday, September 17th, 2005
From Jorn at Robot Wisdom auxiliary: Napster for URLs, or p2p del.icio.us:
Could bloggers declare, say, the 13th of each month to be "I'm-an-idiot day"and try to post that day about some topic that they secretly feel everyone understands better than they do?
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