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Monthly Archives: December 2002
Momento Mori – Death and Photography in Nineteenth Century America
Memento mori photography exhibition: »A memento mori is a form of image that urged a European person of the late Middle Ages to “remember thy death.” To do this, a memento mori might represent death as a human skeleton — perhaps as the Grim Reaper gathering his harvest — or it might depict human bodies [...]
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Bridgeville?
I really wonder who bought this town in California for 1,7 million dollar at eBay.
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freshmeat.net adds Mac OS X section
This is very good! Versiontracker and MacUpdate were the sources of choice when a Mac user wanted to get updates on new software.
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Changed to news items
I decided to change this site to a news items site for a while. I’m going to test NetNewsWire Pro to add comments. I use NetNewsWire to track news and the new version includes a weblog editor that allows me to directly post without using the browser or Radio Userland.
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EspressoBlog
EspressoBlog is an application for Mac OS X 10.2 »Jaguar« (there is no Windows version, and will not be one) written in Cocoa (Screen Shots). It allows a user to post to a Movable Type-powered weblog from the comfort and convenience of their Mac. Theoretically, it would also work for those who use Blogger, but [...]
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New Amazon Patents on Content Personalization
Slashdot: “Defending its decision to concoct recommendations to steer customers to buy items at Amazon’s new Apparel Store, a spokeswoman said Amazon “felt it would be evident to people that since the store was so new, we wouldn’t have the transaction history to create database similarities.” But in this just-published patent applicaton, Amazon earlier told [...]
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Bochs PC-Emulator
Version 2.0 now available: “Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU, related AT hardware, and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, *BSD, Minix, and other OS’s, all on your workstation.” [...] “Macintosh users will be happy to find binaries for MacOSX and MacOS9. Also we now support [...]
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The Value of Reputation on eBay: A Controlled Experiment
This study examines the effect of reputation on profits on eBay.
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Very Escher-like Flash Animation
People do funny things with Flash.
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Blogging goes Mainstream
Cynthia L. Webb (Washington Post): “Blogs, or online Web logs of news and views, were the hot story of 2002, the year when blogging caught the eye of the mainstream press in a big way and pundits began to recognize blogs as useful tools for everything from venting about politics to raving about a favorite [...]
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Spam Conference
“Interested in spam filters? Come join us in Cambridge in January at the first conference on spam filtering. Speakers at the conference will include many of the leading spam filter developers.”
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GUI Scripting
I wonder what fancy things people will do with the GUI scripting in AppleScript.
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G4 noise