There is also a great article by Irene Pepperberg on the cognitive and communicative abilities of animals. The article makes reference to a MIT project called, Rover@Home which was a …
Stuart Kaufman on Autonomous Agents
There is an really interesting article by Stuart Kaufman in Edge.org which looks at autonomous agents as being able to both reproduce itself and do at least one extra work …
Mark Pesce, co-inventor of VRML at Siggraph Sydney
Mark Pesce: visionary, programmer, poet and co-inventor of VRML will be making a special appearance at the next Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH December 2003 meeting. The meeting will be held at …
A relationship Map of SPAM
An interesting map which shows some of the relationships of Spam mailers. The map was created by a body called the Clueless Mailer Spamdemic Research Centre, who aims is to …
Screen captures using Apple Safari 1.1
Daniel Vine has set up a really neat tool that shows you a screen capture of any web URL as seen via the Apple Safari 1.1 browser. The Browser screenshots …
Icograda have a great resource of links
Icograda have a great resource section on Graphic Design Organizations, Collections, Libraries and Exhibitions, Design Magazines, Publishers, Schools, Tools, Techniques and Typography.
Superfuture City and Supertalk
Superfuture City is a growing collection of honest reviews of selected shops and establishments located around the world including Tokyo, New York and Sydney. The website has been designed to …
Card sorting tool by IBM – EZSort (beta)
IBM have a Beta Card-Sorting tool that helps interface designers organize information based on users’ expectations. The software comes with 2 packages – USort and EZCalc, and can be used …
Usability Myths discussion in CHI-WEB
There is currently a great discussion underway in the ACM CHI-WEB list on Usability Myths.
Deprecate www.
A website No-WWW.org has been set up to encourage not to use the www. in domain names, naming them as a deprecative feature which server administrators should make redundant in …
OZCHI 2003 Conference, QLD
The OZCHI conference is to be held on 26-28 November at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. OZCHI is the annual conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) …
IA reference site by the University of Minnesota Duluth
The University of Minnesota Duluth have posted a useful reference site on Information Architecture, with great links to processes and methods including affinity diagrams, prototyping, wireframes and various other resources.
A new Ethnography Wiki
Peter J. Bogaards has posted a great link to a new Ethnography Wiki. Ethnography is a branch of Anthropology that deals with scientific description and study of human cultures and …
Garry Kasparov Vs. X3D Fritz results in tie
The 4th Chess match, where Garry Kasparov takes on the world’s best chess-playing 3D computer program – ChessBase’s Fritz, in a 3D battle has resulted in a 2-all draw.
PNG2 becomes a W3C recommendation
PNG Second Edition has now become a W3C Recommendation. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have released the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (2nd Edition) as a W3C Recommendation and …