- Download PFI Alexa toolbar
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Monthly Archive for February, 2006
- TCP/IP Ports
Extensive list of ports used by various services / network reference internet - NASA - ‘Borg’ Computer Collective Designs NASA Space Antenna
Each satellite will be equipped with a strange-looking, computer-designed space antenna. Although they resemble bent paperclips, the antennas are highly efficient, according to scientists. / space science - Pluck: RSS for Consumers
Concise yet detailed RSS intro. / feeds rss - PhilRice Central Experiment Station
GPS base station / pfi geocoding mapping maps
Remember Johnny Mnemonic, and how Reeves mangled it? Brace yourself, because he’s doing Philip K. Dick’s cyberpunk book, A Scanner Darkly (screenplay and direction by Richard Linklater (Dazed and confused, Before Sunrise)).
Here’s a preview trailer:
Reminds me of a recent thread on PLUG-Misc. I haven’t read the book, but I do hope they do cyberpunk right this time. Film renditions of PKD’s work have been okay so far: Blade Runner, Minority Report and Paycheck were cool flicks. Wished they’d do more SF movies. The sneak peek looks promising, though — it has that gritty, drug-induced feel to it.
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her to the flies.
- Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451
- X-rated flora - a photoset on Flickr
Racy… / photography flickr - Fitts’ Law
It seems intuitive that movement time would be affected by the distance moved and the precision demanded by the size of the target to which one is moving. Fitts discovered that movement time was a logarithmic function of distance when target size was held / usability design - infoDev: Site Content: Open Source Software - Perspectives For Development
Prepared by The Dravis Group for the World Bank’s infoDev Symposium. Some points: (a) interest in open source is likely to grow; (b) OSS offers a more democratic alternative to monolithic (monopolistic?) single-vendor efforts; (c) OSS issues transcend tec / ict4d opensource
