rozzin's bookmarks

openBmap: Wireless Collaborative Map

• mapping
• wifi
• wireless

How Much Data is Created Every Minute?

I get how they came up with the figures for most of the things in this chart..., but how in the world did they get the `571 new websites created every minute' measure?

• wtf

The Evolution of the Computer Science Degree

• certification
• compsci
• education

Getting Things Done, for hackers

"If you have trouble dealing with your e-mail inbox, or feel you're drowning under a flood of inputs and information, or just don't seem to have time to do everything you think you should be doing…, then GTD may be a good thing for you to consider. This book explains how I, a computer geek, have implemented it in my own life."

• gtd

Evaluating the harm from closed source

Summary of `types of harm': “reliability harm”, “unhackability harm”, “agency harm”, “lock-in harm”, “amnesia harm”.

• consideredharmful
• foss
• software

EmacsWiki: Smart Tabs

"Tabs and spaces are often misunderstood. There is a semantic way of using tab characters in source code: tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment. This ensures that the code is displayed correctly everywhere, regardless of the viewer’s tab size."

• emacs
• indentation
• programming
• tabsvspaces

The Tricorder project

"The Tricorder aims to provide intuitive ways of visualizing data—so you might see magnetic fields, temperature, or polarization as naturally as you see colour. Imagine if you were unable to see colour, all of the things you'd miss…"

• color
• science
• tricorder

Recursive Drawing

"Recursive Drawing is an exploration of user interface ideas towards the development of a spatially-oriented programming environment." (basically, it's an L-system editor on the web..., which is actually pretty awesome)

• art
• fractal
• generative

On The Media - Word Watch: Hacker

Possibly the best mainstream-media treatment of `hackers' I've seen (or heard, since it's radio). It's still sort-of... terrible, though.

• hack
• hackers
• words

Fun With Words: Collective Nouns

Nice collection of collectives. I'm pretty sure I disagree with the entry for "possum", though....

• words

June 12, 1996 EFF/ACLU v. Reno CDA Challenge Decision

"Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation… As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion."

• censorship
• internet