Monthly Shaarli
April, 2007
Imagine a world in which Socrates not only originated the dialogue form of inquiry but also filed a patent claiming "intellectual property" rights for his invention and then vigorously enforced his patent against the Sophists to ensure the "purity" of his
do web developers just complicate the process of getting an online presence? excellent food for thought.
creating eye candy for xfce desktops
The web is such a big and wonderful place, packed with tools and resources which you all too often don’t know about. So to help all you freelancers out there we have compiled a gigantic list of resources, categorized up for your benefit.
Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners.
Having no www. is wrong. Why?
a peer-reviewed journal on the internet
a book by Bruce Damer (full version in HTML)
Design for Community is a book by Derek M. Powazek about how to design and build community features on the web. The book is the result of six years of experience in the web biz and ten months of full-time writing and editing.
unicode in the unix environment
Silkscreening is such a great happy medium — nestled comfortably half-way between hand-drawn and mass production, more colourful than photocopying and with an aesthetic all its own.
i love you mutt
good pov on the kathy sierra case and o'reilly's code of conduct
language + infographic analysis on the Billboard #1 single's lyrics
Gungirl Sequencer is an easy to use Audiosequencer. It includes a simple Filemanager and uses Drag & Drop to arrange Audiosamples.
The aim of this books is to teach you simple analogue and digital electronics at a practical level.
FileHamster provides real-time backup and archiving of your files while you work. It enables you to monitor specific files on your hard drive and automatically create incremental backups whenever those files are modified.
Linden
Labs has not licensed the fonts [FF Meta] which should be distributed to some 4 million computers by now. So: Delete them immediately!
All kinds of insight about pie menus
cats + captions = joygasm :D
Bitmap fonts for terms
"The right to be myself, as long as I live! As if I were a sound."
PyMedia is a Python library for accessing and manipulating media files. It makes audio and video playback/creation a snap for even a newcomer to programming.
The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into “Human-Computer Interaction.” In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on “interaction” may be misguided.
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use. pyxfce are xfce bindings for python.
iourbanterror + gpl q3engine = free multiplayer fun
HEVEA is a quite complete and fast LATEX to HTML translator.
portuguese Debian usergroup
on critical pedagogy
Neither copyright nor patent law prohibit copying fashion designs. No law prohibits a knock-off Chanel suit, peasant skirt or narrow lapel. And yet fashion is highly innovative, with new styles several times a year, despite low IP protection.
i love you vim
Once upon a time, computers were controlled by commands. The interaction paradigm was based upon a control language. Then graphical user interfaces (GUI) appeared.
excellent introduction to design patterns
dvd to ogg theora ripper
Mixxx allows DJs to mix music digitally with a clean, simple interface. Futhermore, Mixxx has a number of key features to help DJs live in the mix: Beat estimation, parallel visual displays, and support for various DJ hardware controllers.
libre audio/video
Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux [Fruityloops-like]. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
An animated animal alphabet - made with Bembo
by danah boyd
Making the World a Better Place, One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net.
If you can't open it, you don't own it
The Fairlight CVI premiered in 1984/85, for around $6,500 USD, and came in beige or black. It's a hybrid Analog Digital video processor, designed by Australian engineers Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie.
People playing videogames (and a lovely site layout)
Typography, free software and legal issues
Flash-based ASCII-art converter
internet access in remote locations through UUCP = wowies
your infobase for PDF magazines made all over the world.
Chris Coyne created a small language for design grammars. These grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules to produce images. The images are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars.
An Addventure is an adventure you can add to. A more technical definition would be that an addventure is a type of hyperfiction which is created by the community.
Internet cookies might not be as reliable an indicator of distinct Web site visitors as previously thought, according to a Monday report from Internet research company comScore.
The gif2png program converts files from the obsolescent Graphic Interchange Format to Portable Network Graphics. The conversion preserves all graphic information, including transparency, perfectly. The gif2png program can even recover data from corrupted
calligraphy simulator
Os «Cadernos de Tipografia» incidem sobre temas relacionados com a Tipografia, o typeface design, o design gráfico, a análise social e cultural dos fenómenos relacionados com a edição, publicação e reprodução de textos e imagens.
portuguese freeBSD usergroup
Automation - the distribution of digitized course material online, without the participation of professors who develop such material - is often justified as an inevitable part of the new "knowledge-based" society.
Amidst this startling growth it is the producers of these worlds who are confronting in practical terms unprecedented challenges of governing what are in many cases fundamentally open–ended, yet architected, environments.
The advances in data-processing that revolutionised office work from the mid-1960s on – and later invaded everyday life – created special challenges for type designers.
This is a quick beginners guide for anybody adopting the mutt mailer.
i love you screen
project group chat + file sharing
Are iTunes' Premium Downloads Worth It?
The essence of the Overton window is that only a portion of [the total] policy spectrum is within the realm of the politically possible at any time. Regardless of how vigorously a think tank or other group may campaign, only policy initiatives within this
There are various functions available to approximate a curve, but in this article we will focus on a variety of spline known as the Catmull-Rom spline.
I've started a large handful but no one knows about most of them because they were (in no particular order): dumb ideas, unsuccessful, too hard for me to complete.
beats and bleeps
Eyebeam is now accepting applications for the next round of R&D Fellows in the R&D OpenLab.
Serving Hacker Jargon to the Internet since Jan 1995.