A couple of interesting articles about measuring the speed of gravity. 20% margin for error seems high to me, and there seems to be some disagreement on what the experiment actually measured.
Speed of Gravity Measured for First Time
Speed of Gravity Results ‘Incorrect,’ Physicist Says
Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
That, and many more phobias can be found here
Sluggy Freelance is nifty. Worship the comic: [Link]
Today’s strip made me laugh – and its probably still funny even if you aren’t following the full story arc.
I’m not quite sure how I got to this site — one of the disadvantages with how I use tabbed browsing: I tend to open a bunch of links in new tabs while reading something, then move on to my next tab and open a bunch more links in new tabs, and reapeat as I move from left to right across my tab bar, but I digress…
Anyway, there are a bunch of interesting essays available. everything from education system reform to DVD UI Design to Toilet Paper (Bog Roll) selection algorithms
I’m definately bookmarking that site for when I have more time.
(BTW Gossip, I like the new formatting tools quick link behavior – I think)
[Edit: I just wanted to add a couple more essay links..]
Gratuitous Graphics and Human-Centered Website Design
Emotion & Design: Attractive Things Work Better
I’m doing some planning for a redesign of a few sections of my company’s web site. These two articles have given me a few things to think about, since one of my goals is to make it easier for visitors to find information they are looking for. The first article also gives a voice to some of the things that have been buging me about a recent site lauch we did, which definately puts design abovecontent.
Edited on Jan 22nd 2003, 01:47 by Hooloovoo
http://www.wiredvideo.com/public/video/techtv-blooper.wmv
I was just sent the above link in an email message. It’s a pretty funny blooper, I almost think it was set up.
Now, if I can only figure out why WinAmp is taking over all my WindowsMedia. (WinAmp is for MUSIC – I don’t want it playing my video, damnit.)
Not that it really bothers me too much as a user, (since my primary browser has proper PNG support) but as a designer, my life would be made that much easier if MSIE supported the PNG image format correctly. So, without further adieu, I present to you the Proper PNG Support in Internet Explorer for Windows online petition.
I’m not sure if anyone remembers, but a while ago, I posted this image in an entry:
That is an example of why PNG alpha transparency is cool, and why no one really uses them yet. If your browser supports the format properly, you will see a penny sitting on the background color of the page (no matter which theme you happen to be using) without the anti-aliased “fringe” so common to transparent GIF images. If your browser doesn’t (*cough* IE) you see the penny sitting in a light-grey box.
There are work-arounds for getting PNG images to display properly in IE, but the methods I’ve seen thus far seem kludgy to me.
Have Fun!
CNET News.com –
[Quote] Patent creates IM wrinkle: “America Online quietly secures a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.” [Quote]
If AOL ever does decide to go after other IM networks, well – that would not be a good thing.
Would a Unix chat system, or (IRC even?) count as prior art?
Wil Wheaton and I have something in common: we’re both blue-haired freaks
What a copy-cat. 😛
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The images may not be there for long – looks like they’re sucking his bandwidth…
I just read the FAQ for the current Phoenix release
Specifically – check out item 1:
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1. What can I do to help?We need all the distribution we can get. Tell your family. Tell your friends. Tell your coworkers. If you’re a student, get it distributed at your college. Submit a story to Slashdot and other news sites about the release. Make some noise on your blog. Spread the word!
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This entry takes care of that. What made me laugh were items 14 and 15:
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14. I kept hearing that you were changing the name from Phoenix to something else. What happened?That was just a giant publicity stunt. We’ve observed that in the past, the open-source community has instinctively favored David when big corporations complain of trademark infringement. We wanted to cash in on this sympathy by asking the community to send us money to fight the legal battle (obviously we’d really spend it on cool stuff), but with all the taxing issues and whatnot we decided to can the idea.
15. Uhhhh…really?
No, not really. This isn’t like an action flick where the evil madman reveals the intricacies of his plans to hostages and then leaves them alone with a bomb set to detonate in like 10 hours. When we’re ripping you off, we won’t explain how in the FAQ. The truth is that we’d already had this 0.5 released planned for awhile, so it was okay to release under the Phoenix name. But under no circumstances will any future release be called Phoenix.
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