Monthly Archives: February 2004

Sitepoint Tinderbox review

Nathan Matias has reviewed Tinderbox and gives it an almost perfect score.
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Pentagon: climate change will destroy us

Guardian Unlimited: “You’ve got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac river you’ve got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars.” And: Key findings of the Pentagon. Reading the key findings I feel the Pentagon has hired some freaks that want to draw a scenario that would keep the defence [...]
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Interactive Fiction for the 21st Century

… and what text adventures from the past have in common with todays games. [via Hinterding] Found a link to “Interactive Fiction Archive” in that article as well.
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EdMedia Proposal accepted

As Sebastian Fiedler has announced, our joined proposal has been accepted for EdMedia 2004.
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Constructivism, Education, Science, and Technology

Moses A. Boudourides: “The purpose of this paper is to present a brief review of the various streams of constructivism in studies of education, society, science and technology. It is intended to present a number of answers to the question (what really is constructivism?) in the context of various disciplines from the humanities and the [...]
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Simplicity

One of the seminars I had in mind for quite some time is starting this semester: »Simplicity«. Conceptually it is a sequel to the “Density” seminar that went very well and was insightful for students and me as well. Like “Density” the new seminar is dealing with a particular but general design strategy that seems [...]
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Firefox!

Firefox 0.8 (alias Firebird) is the best Mozilla browser I’ve used so far. The new MacOS X skin is very Safari like and lean. The application loads and renders the pages very quick. It also uses a little bit less RAM than Safari something that pulled me away from Mozilla before.
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Ecto 1.0 released

ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX (we also have a Windows version in the works), supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as TypePad, MovableType, Nucleus, Blogger, and more. ecto is the successor of the wildly popular Kung-Log, which has been in use by thousands of Mac users and which earned [...]
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Personal something management

“I tried to connect together bits and pieces from my reading and thinking about knowledge work for the paper I’m writing. Comments are welcome.See also: earlier thinking about this model in Knowledge worker spaces and other posts on knowledge networker.” [Lilia Efimova (mathemagenic)]
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Why Bush must go to war

Almost a year ago I posted a link to an interview with Eugen Drewermann about the psychology of Bush. Somebody pointed me to an inofficial english translation of some passages. Still worth a read.
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