chris @ December 29, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Slips of the Tongue - by Marissa Brostoff > Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life
Good article about an interesting sociolinguistic investigation: What terms and pronunciations do American Jewish people use for various religious and non-religious items and concepts, and how does it correlate with their place on the religious spectrum, age, and […]
chris @ December 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Parselets.com > Home
The idea: a language & clearinghouse for free, shareable APIs allowing data extraction from sites that don't offer a native API.
(tags: web API web2.0 programming)
Slammer - Designer's Geometry Box
Interesting, inexpensive design tool for Mac OS X - grids, rulers, measurements, magnifier.
(tags: design mac software tools webdesign)
chris @ December 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
RegExr: Online Regular Expression Testing Tool
This RegEx Buddy-like tool looks like it's well thought out and could be quite useful.
(tags: web programming regex tool)
chris @ December 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
OECD Broadband Portal
"Access to a range of broadband-related statistics gathered by the OECD" including penetration, price, botnets, coverage, service offer. Useful
(tags: oecd internet broadband economics)
chris @ December 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The hidden story of the 3D engine - by the people who write them | Keith Stuart | guardian.co.uk
Software engineering in the mainstream news - a remarkable & good thing.
(tags: programming games technology software guardian development)
chris @ December 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
NOAA Fisheries | Local fish names
Commonly used local fish names for the US,
(tags: reference fish biology USA)
MIT Press Journals - Computational Linguistics
MIT Press Journal of Computational Linguistics in open access. Awesome.
(tags: linguistics nlp research computing language openaccess)
Gernot Katzer's Gewürzseiten
A wonderful lexicon of spices. Names are multilingual, many pages available in English in addition to German. […]
chris @ December 11, 2009 # No Comment Yet
DNS pre-resolution | Dalke Scientific
DNS pre-resolution in Google Chrome and elsewhere. Interesting, though I wonder if this is one of the reasons the Chrome UI seems to freeze sometimes, with mouse-over not leading to rollover effects.
(tags: dns chromium google)
chris @ December 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics | John Baez's Stuff
Now this is something to read with a fresh mind. Beautiful visulaisations, though the question is "of what?"
(tags: science physics mathematics)
lolSQL | Aaron Bassett
First we had LOLcode. Now we have…
HAI!
I'M IN UR `table`
(tags: sql humour LOL)
chris @ December 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Zero Geography: Mapping the Geographies of Wikipedia Content
More fine-grained maps by population density would be interesting.
(tags: wikipedia geography mapping geotagging)
Wishing on a typeface | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog
The name of the Neue Helvetica Arabic typeface is evocative of several different cultures. Here are notes of its designer, Nadine Chahine.
(tags: typography arabic […]
chris @ December 2, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Perch - A really little content management system (CMS)
Perch appears to be a small commercial but low-cost CMS in PHP/MySQL.
(tags: cms php software webdesign mysql)
IBM Developerworks | UNIX turns 40
Short write-up of the history of Unix, culminating in the history of AIX (well, it's an IBM article). Reference link section at the end.
(tags: unix history […]