links for 2007-10-30
chris @ October 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
YouTube - Evolution IS a Blind Watchmaker
Someone actually went so far as to write a computer simulation to evolve … a watch. This is a nicely done speculative video that could be used to great effect explaining how evolution works.
(tags: video evolution science)
IBM Developerworks: Globalize your embedded apps
Localization with J2ME. Collected for reference — l10n […]
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Eggcorn Database, Diacritiques down!
chris @ October 15, 2007 # One Comment
For the last hour there have been some major technical problems here at lascribe.net — first it was permalinks to articles not working (404 File Not Found), and when I indicated this to my hoster, apparently some major configuration work on the web server was launched.
The current situation is that permalinks here on the top […]
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Surfing while blind.
chris @ October 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Jeremy Keith links to some stunningly ill-advised comments on the Sitepoint forums and Techcrunch.
Reasonable people can disagree whether and to what degree accessibility on sites that provide services to the public should be a legal requirement. Reasonable people cannot disagree whether blind folks use e-commerce websites without the help of a sighted friend, are able […]
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links for 2007-10-15
chris @ October 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Microsoft.com | The ten worst presentation moments
Several of these presentation snafus hinge on badly taking intercultural aspects into account.
(tags: microsoft presentations tips funny)
Scientific American: The Semantic Web. By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila
“The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined […]
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links for 2007-10-03
chris @ October 3, 2007 # No Comment Yet
[Google Video] While We Wait for BabelFish: Languages on theInternet
Stephanie Booth on the multilingual social Web. There is so much to say about what Steph does right now … I hardly know where to start.
(tags: l10n language localization internet video stephaniebooth i18n)
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