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…

links for 2007-01-08

Digital History Reader (tags: history Teaching digital humanities_computing) Photo Essays – Picturing Canadian culture – Images Canada (tags: images pictures canada history)

Random Links Added to Del.icio.us on 6 January 2007

How to Change the World: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn (tags: LinkedIn career business tips social howto networking) Kirov Class – Project 1144 system. The floating dock PD-50, where the Admiral Kuznetsov had been repaired, was prepared for the flagship…

Military Remnants

Not to suck dry an interesting blog, but EnglishRussia had another fascinating post this morning. Its a wonderful collection of tagged Google Earth shots from Russian military sites. I was particularly interested to see that the ‘Kirov’ is still floating.…

Imagine the Patience

Always a wonderful site for the offbeat images of Russian society, English Russia has a great photo spread of a Ukrainian man who built a wonderfully detailed model of the Eiffel tower out of matches. What’s more it has a…

When Do We Blog?

I added a neat little plug-in to the blog site today. blogTimes. It is a small, but powerful, script that generates a timeline plotting the time of day at which blog entries are made. I added this to the archives…

Journal versus Diary

Allan Bishop and I engaged in a rather interesting short discussion this morning on blogs, public discourse and what it means to share your thoughts in the internet era. He raised the story of the chap that went online and…