- ARCHIVE / Just Blogging
- Philosophy On the Air
It’s nice to see the ancient philosophy keeping up with the new technologies – shows how the soul of philosophy is immortal, and linked to men instead of publication mechanisms. There’s a new podcast available, Philosophy Bites, created by Nigel Warburton (who teaches at the OU) and David Edmonds. The podcast makes available interviews on […]
- Go get the Milk
It’s the best-looking online game i’ve ever seen – stunning graphics which resemble a “normal” game: it’s GET THE GLASS!
- Impromptu : scheme-based music and video
In one word? SUPER COOL!!! Impromptu is an OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ’s and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a Scheme language environment, a member of the Lisp family of languages. Time plays a major role in the Impromptu environment allowing accurate real-time scheduling of […]
- New macs too new for me
I just got a new double processor do-it-all mac from the generous kmi, but surprise…… LISP DOESNT WORK ON IT! The link is from one year ago… i know i’m among the last ones arriving here…and especially MCL (which i keep saying is ultra-cool) is a total mystery on intel-based macs. A digitool policy?
- What Lisp to choose, really?
During the last days, I almost switched from Lispworks (too many tabs, too many things in general) back to MCL (essential, fast, with a powerful meta-dot command). But I run into many problems, the most important of them is getting ASDF to run, so to be able to run the server (Hunchentoot) from there. I […]
- Carnap on “syntax”
I’m afraid this is just in italian, for now. It comes from the wonderful Abbagnano dictionary: SINTASSI: La scienza che studia le forme grammaticali o logiche del linguaggio: intendendosi per forme le loro possibilita di combinazione. Piu in particolare la S. logica di un linguaggio e’ stata definita da Carnap come “la teoria formale delle […]
- HyperNietzsche
I guess there are not many philosophy-related hypertexts out there: one of them, trying to change the way we usually engage with the philosophical work, is for sure HyperNietzsche. Its most interesting feature seems to be the “principle of contextualization“: This principle is one of the most original aspects of HyperNietzsche. While the user navigates […]
- Digital Document Quarterly
It’s an interesting web-journal written by Henry Gladney, which deals with various subjects from document digitalization, encoding, semantics and in general the revolution linked to the digital world. Extract from the first number’s manifesto: This first DDQ number suggests why taxpayers should pay attention. Why is digital preservation suddenly urgent? The U.S. Government recently granted […]
- Lyx on the mac
I’m probably one of the last ones getting there, but I decided to do my best not to use Microsoft Word for editing my phd thesis. Oh yes – since I managed to arrive till this painful state, shall I give myself ever more troubles by using word? Not at all… So I found out […]
- Navigating the Eternal Egypt
A really nice application to browse conceptually related egyptian artifacts, with many features: visual navigation, possibility of creating personal “libraries” of artifacts, typed entities. The Eternal Egypt. Even if the links to the semantic web could be many, I have not found anything mentioning a possible openness of the data….what a shame! IBM and CultNat […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
