chris @ August 31, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Multi-booting over the internet - News - The H Open Source: News and Features
Open Source OS booting over the a web service. Interesting. (Nice logo, too.)
(tags: opensource webservice os)
chris @ August 29, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Artificial Code: 10 Ways To Let People Know You're A Bad Python Programmer
Nice points.
(tags: python programming funny)
NEVERFEAR | Simpletons guide to git
Excellent. Exactly what's needed to get started, be it on Mac, Windows or Linux.
(tags: versioncontrol git tutorial programming)
Facebook ruling | Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Main repository of the Privacy commissioner of Canada. Aug 2009 decision […]
chris @ August 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Information Architects » Blog Archive » The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard
Good advice on website typography: use large fonts, use whitespace. It's not a printed page: it's a backlit screen that's way farther away from your eyes than a book or magazine would be.
(tags: typography webdesign usability design fonts)
chris @ August 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
SQL pie chart | code.openark.org
OK, this is just silly. But an interesting SQL walkthrough. Maybe.
(tags: sql mysql visualization coding funny)
Video: IPv6 and Why It Matters « Data Center Knowledge
A bunch of IPv6 videos on Data Center Knowledge. This is the first one. See the chronologically following posts.
(tags: IPv6 networking internet)
chris @ August 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
All Sorts - a linguistic experiment
An experiment using the Twitter API and a hashtag of somewhat limited scope. But beautifully executed.
(tags: language Twitter linguistics experiment english api)
White weddings and forced marriages | Rahila Gupta | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
An uncomfortable but welcome look at UK spousal immigration law.
(tags: feminism uk immigration xenophobia race)
Unicode table […]
chris @ August 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
George Lakoff: The PolicySpeak Disaster for Health Care
Lakoff on framing the 2009 US healthcare debate.
(tags: linguistics lakoff framing healthcare)
Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
Front-end design of web sites and web-based applications, some applicable to UI design in general. A lot of good thought went into this. Patterns are categorized - social, navigation, rich interaction…
(tags: design patterns webdesign […]
chris @ August 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Only the Developed World Lacks Women in Computing | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM
"Vivian Lagesen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology presented her study of Malaysia, where the 52% of all CS undergraduate majors are female. Vivian interviewed students, department chairs (mostly female), and a Dean (female). She found that […]
chris @ August 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Fry's English Delight: So Wrong It's Right
Eggcorns at min 11.
(tags: english stephenfry eggcorns)
chris @ August 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
"Natural Language Processing with Python" | Book (Natural Language Toolkit)
Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper's O'Reilly book is freely available online, and is at the same time an intro to Python (using 2.6) and to the wonderful Natural Language Toolkit.
(tags: Python nlp programming book linguistics reference)
What’s New in Python 2.6 — Python v2.6.2 […]
chris @ August 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Python Package Index : topia.termextract 1.1.0
Term extraction and simple POS tagging. For English. In Python.
(tags: Python nlp termextraction english linguistics library)