October 2010
33 posts
World Audiovisual Heritage Day →
Neat there is a day for this…
“‘I think Mozilla has a lot more to offer as a kind of roaming software...”
– …wonders Stuart Turton. He suggests it could turn its community of developers to better use than battling it out for browser market share.
Slashdot Technology Story | Why Mozilla Needs To Pick a New Fight
WatchPhoenix vs Daft Punk - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (by David Lublin)
Space! →
WatchThe LightLine of Gotham (by seeper)
Zimbra offers Open Source email server software... →
Zimbra Collaboration Suite Is a Server for Organizations
Our core product is Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS). It’s an email and calendar server plus much more; think about it like a next-generation Microsoft Exchange server. In addition to email and calendar, it provides document storage and editing, instant messaging, and simplified administrative controls all in an award winning webmail user...
Time lost by driving fast in the United States.... →
Time lost by driving fast in the United States.
Redelmeier DA, Bayoumi AM.
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Health Policy, Management, & Evaluation University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. dar@ices.on.ca
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Motor vehicle drivers make decisions about speed while traveling and thereby trade off a potential saving...
The Data-Driven Life - NYTimes.com →
Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can’t even answer the simplest questions. Where was I last week at this time? How long have I had this pain in my knee? How much money do I typically spend in a day? These weaknesses put us at a disadvantage. We make decisions with...
“If they can update it, we will be able to as well.”
– [Thinktank] ROOTING G2 Vision T-mobile - Page 42 - xda-developers
Yeah, what he said.
“To me, that is a plan that starts by asking: what is America’s core competency...”
– A City’s Challenge: Invest for the Future or Fill Potholes–or Both | A Smarter Planet Blog
Also, the quote at the beginning is from an article in Thomas Friedman’s NYT’s column.
“So how do you get them to pay attention to long-term strategic...”
– A City’s Challenge: Invest for the Future or Fill Potholes–or Both | A Smarter Planet Blog
IBM - Smarter Planet - United States →
Neat website. Granted, it’s a big information intensive, but the graphics are super, and it’s actually kinda well organized for all this info.
JPEGs with Alpha Channels?!? | jackadamblog →
And it’s all thanks to Plastics. And centuries of rotating very large germans. But seriously, this is good stuff.
I wanted a reasonably sized photographic image with a 24-bit alpha channel. So I used a JPEG for what JPEGs are good for and a PNG for what PNGs are good for…
I combined them using an HTML5 canvas element and then inserted into the DOM. The results look the same as using...
