Wikipedia is a multilingual project created to complete an accurate open content encyclopedia. It was started in January 2001 so far contains 149958 articles in it’s English version. The Spanish …
The Google calculator
Mark Pilgrim has posted a link to a new feature by Google, their Calculator which can quickly answer mathematical queries through the Google search text field. Surprisingly the calculator can …
Statistics by the Advertising Standards Bureau
Here are some interesting advertising facts and figures by the Advertising Standards Bureau of Australia.
Installing PHP Wiki in OS X
Giles Turnbull from O’Reilly Mac Dev Center has written up a really useful and interesting article on how to install PHP Wiki on a iBook running OS X. The article …
An overview of Semiotics
There is a great article by Challis Hodge in boxes and arrows titled, Semiotics: A Primer for Designers. It is a great introduction on semiotics which comments on its origins …
Interact 2003 in Melbourne on September
The Asia Pacific Multimedia Festival, Interact 2003 is happening in Melbourne from September 1-18. Interact is a three week long series of events, worskshops, forums and seminars on information and …
MIT’s OpenCourseWare lectures notes in Cognitive Science
MIT OpenCourseWare lectures/courses on Brain and Cognitive Sciences
E-Business Strategies – case studies
E-Business Strategies have a selection of interesting Best Practice and Case Studies available to read online for free on various areas of strategic management and e-business.
A microbe breaks heat living record
A microbe that lives in Water and near hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean is the only living thing on Earth to survive up to temperatures above 121 …
WireTap lets you record any audio in OS X
Ambrosia, the company who developed Snapz Pro X, a screen capture tool for the mac, have developed a nifty cool new utility called WireTap, that let’s you capture any bit …
Spanish IA blogs
Blogs en espanol: 1. IA blog – Jarango IA 2. IA, Usabilitad blog – Isopixel 3. Visualizacion de Informacion – Inf@Vis! 4. AIfia – AIfia en espanol En Espanol: Este …
Screen reader and low vision simulation
WebAim, a useful resource website on accessibility issues and topics for the Web, have a useful tool that simulates a screen reader, a device used by the blind to read/access …
IA Sydney meet last night
Many thanks to Eric Scheid for organising the IA Sydney meet last night, I unfortunately could only make it near the end, but was a pleasure to meet both Eric …
W3C Day at Evolve 2003
The Australian W3C Office are having a seminar titled W3C Day this coming Monday for the Evolve Conference next week in Sydney. The day will provide overviews and information on …
Neil Gershenfeld on Personal Fabrication
MIT’s Director for the Center for Bits and Atoms and lecturer of a class called, How To Make (almost) Anything, speaks to Edge.org about Personal Fabrication. The Edge interview which …