LibraryThing (where I’ve catalogued my pitiful bookcase) has added RSS feeds for a bunch of stuff: recently added books by user and tag, reviews, &c. &c. It’s probably not useful, per se, but definitely fun — and it does give a time-based view of a collection, which up until now has been missing.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Well, not me per se, but my AI and computational linguistics training seems to have been overtaken by the march of progress. I refer to Androidal Systems, Inc., whose breakthrough processor “understands the meaning of language.” Yup, the meaning of language — these folk aren’t into understatement. Universal translation, that’s what they’ve cracked. And they [...]
Sunday, November 20, 2005
I promised geek revelry, and that’s what you’re getting. I came across this idea at Daan’s birthday party, and it deserves spreading to the other hemisphere. It’s very simple: put a strobe light in the WC, and turn off the ordinary light.
Why would you want to do such a thing? Blokes, try it and you’ll [...]
Sunday, November 20, 2005
At the instigation of Robin, I just joined eMusic. Grabbed an old Tom Waits album (Mule Variations), which I’m enjoying very much. I imagine this technology could be addictive… So if anyone is looking at eMusic, drop me a line for a referral link. I also signed up with Last.fm, if you’re using it drop [...]
Friday, September 23, 2005
The social bookmarking engine del.icio.us has added a cute new feature: tagging for other people. If you tag your bookmark for:tikitu, it will magically appear in a private part of my del.icio.us account, which I’m sucking up as an RSS feed. Anyone else doing this? (Robin, Robert, I’m looking at you guys in particular.) Seems [...]
Saturday, September 17, 2005
This is just too damn cool. LibraryThing is an online cataloguing system that lets you publish the contents of your library. And it comes just in time: my books here only fill four pineapple boxes (those low-sided ones — no volume but easy on the back for moving), but now that I’m here for another [...]
Sunday, September 11, 2005
The short version: to use the WC at Amersfoort Station, you call an 0900 number that charges you and opens the door. Confused? So was I.
I promise not to go grammar-Nazi here, although I expect in the coming months I’ll be posting more often on language (it’s the topic of my upcoming PhD study, after all). But I’ve just seen yet another articulate, carefully written and obviously proofread article talk about “loosing” (in this case, “loosing who we are”). And [...]
A robotic talent show! What could be cooler! Some of this stuff looks really fun… Headsup from Erik.
I’m not sure quite where I’m going with this yet, so bear with me; the tale will I hope grow in the telling.
I’ve been struck over the last couple of days by a scam phenomenon that’s at least new to me, and that seems likely to me to get more and more prevalent. (It’s quite [...]