- ARCHIVE / Just Blogging
- Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware
Google mysteriously breaks and you can’t surf the web anymore; seems like a remote scenario that you’d never take that seriously. And yes, today it did happen [techcrunch reports on this]. What an weird feeling – all of a sudden it was like being cut off from some sort of life-feed, or left without electricity […]
- How to make a (Mac) screen saver that shows your uptime
Found an interesting blog post that shows how to use QuartzComposer and a few patches to create a screensaver for your man… all the instructions can be found here
- Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
Are we gonna say goodbye to the keyboard too?
- Python’s phenotype
Phenotype: any observable characteristic or trait of an organism: such as its morphology, development, biochemical or physiological properties, or behavior. .. IDLE 1.2 >>> type(‘aaa’) <type ‘str’> >>> type(‘aaa’) <type ‘str’> >>> type(‘aaa’) == type(‘a’) True >>> type(type(‘aaa’) == type(‘a’)) <type ‘bool’> >>> type(type(type(‘aaa’) == type(‘a’))) <type ‘type’> >>> type(type(type(type(‘aaa’) == type(‘a’)))) <type ‘type’> >>> […]
- Quotation from Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. In the 1940s he helped extend systems theory/cybernetics to the social/behavioral sciences, and spent the last decade of his life developing a “meta-science” of epistemology to […]
- Comparing programming languages
Imagine you’ve got to set to lowercase a string…is it shorter to write it in php or in perl? Rosetta Code can give you an interesting perspective on this… check out how the various languages deal with it. Tx god i’m not using C.. but does is really have to be that long?
- The British Wittgenstein Society gets started
The British Wittgenstein Society (BWS) is opening its doors (well online at least): it’ll add up to the aready existing Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (ALWS), International German Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (ILWG) and North American Wittgenstein Society (NAWS). I am trying to get PhiloSURFical noticed and possibly tested by them – let’s see how it goes […]
- Social Innovation Camp in London
The Social Innovation Camp aims at bringing together some of the best of the UK and Europe’s web developers and designers with people at the sharp end of social problems. Unfortunately the deadline for sending your ‘ideas’ is over – but the idea of a camp like that is awesome! “What happens when you get […]
- New PhiloSURFical version!
A new version is now online – I reckon it will be one of the latest ones! Yuhuuu! Major changes: the site now works at 1024×830 (it should be enough for supporting the majority of screens) the pathways section now works primarily by using a hypertext interface – the java applet I was using for […]
- Humanities Computing and web2.0
Last week I spent two interesting days in London, at the Epistemic Networks and GRID Web 2.0 for Arts and Humanities workshop. I went there representing PhiloSURFical and Cohere, but unfortunately due to technical reasons the fliers I’ve prepared to let this community know about our work were not handed out on time. The printers […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
