Month January 2007

Just Look at the Paws

Now talking about serious luck 😉 From Michele comes this absolutely amazing story, one which I am sure is just making its way to all the major news outlets, but so visually stunning. Apparently a rabbit farmer in Germany has…

links for 2007-01-13

Vanishing Point (tags: games microsoft game puzzle online puzzles viral) 13Styles.com – css menu styles, high quality css menus, website navigation menus (tags: CSS Webdesign Menus Design navigation tools webdev) web2.0 Jelly Logo (tags: photoshop tutorials tutorial jelly design) Aspect…

Assembly Lines are Fascinating

There are a fascinating series of pictures detailing the flextronics XBOX assembly line in Hungary posted at xbox-linux. Flextronics seems to have product assembly to the ultimate art these days with factories around the world for a huge variety of…

Braudel

“An incredible number of dice, always rolling, dominate and determine each individual existence: uncertainty, then, in the realm of individual history; but in that of collective history . . . simplicity and consistency. History is indeed ‘a poor little conjectural…

Random links added to del.icio.us on 9 January 2007

How to Stop Comment Spam without Lifting a Finger | Tubetorial (tags: wordpress spam productivity blogs business) A Companion to Digital Humanities (tags: digital humanities humanities_computing siemens) ProfCast – ProfCast (tags: podcasting software mac podcast Education presentations tools) Campus Technology…

Random Links Added to del.icio.us on 8 January 2007

Attach icons to anything with CSS. (tags: css icons webdesign html web tutorial webdev) University of St.Gallen – research platform: Remo Burkhard (tags: clean webpage visualization information) Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication, Engineering and Business (tags:…

Transient Paper

From those ingenious folks at PARC comes a new way to save trees. They have developed an erasable type of paper that holds a low resolution toner-based image that lasts for about 16 hours after which the paper can be…

The Middle East Redrawn

Everybody talks about the great artificiality of the existing borders in the Middle East…remnants of early 20thC colonialism. Now I am not sure that I would expect anything tremendously thoughtful from the US Armed Forces Journal, but there is some…