Archive: August 02, 2004

Monday, August 2, 2004

1. EmoteMail "EmoteMail is an email client that is augmented to convey aspects of the writing context to the recipient. The client captures facial expressions and typing speed and introduces them as design elements. These contextual cues provide extra information that can help the recipient decode the tone of the mail. Moreover, the contextual information is gathered and automatically embedded as the sender composes the email, allowing an additional channel of expression."

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2. SVK "svk is a decentralized version control system written in Perl. It uses the subversion filesystem but provides some other powerful features."

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3. Boing Boing: Hyote captured alive!. They caught the hyote! It's a fox?

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4. The Proggy fonts page has moved to its own domain: ProggyFonts.com. I use Proggy Tiny for my programming.

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5. Awful Plastic Surgery. It's a blog that chronicles bad celebrity plastic surgery. Fascinating.

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6. Ian Bicking: Dealing with Context. I left a comment. I'm interested to see how he resolves this design problem.

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7. lgf: Kerry's Arafat Yes-Man. Being a Jew, and being around fellow Jews, it always astounds me that they're often so anti-Bush and pro-Kerry. Bush has been such a great friend to Israel, while it seems clear to me that Kerry won't be, and AFAIK Heinz-Kerry has been a contributor to many Palestinian organizations.

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8. Browser History timeline: Overview, via Matt.

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9. Donald Sensing has more on the Proliferation Security Initiative, mentioned earlier.

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10. XIST seems to bear similarities to Nevow's Stan

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11. Roger L. Simon: The Big Tent Perplex. "Big Tent indeed - how about humungous and eventually meaningless? This is politics as a quasi religious sport at its purist. ... Maybe it's time for some kind of evaluation of our two party system as we know it." - I've been a fan of Condorcet voting, where you pick your first, second, and third choices when you vote.

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12. USS Clueless - Terrorism (to read)

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13. Editor in 'Shove It' Incident Shoves Back "As for the "shove it" remark: "I have been told worse things by more important people," he said." Haha. Update: More here. Update: One more.

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14. Three interesting discussions | Lambda the Ultimate. Gotta look back on these.

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15. Category Theory for Dummies - slides available | Lambda the Ultimate. This presentation has gotten me closer to understanding category theory than other things I've read (which are usually immediately couched in confusing terminology). However, I've gotten the feeling from the outset that I like a category-theoretic way of looking at things much more than I like a set-theoretic way of looking at things... I wonder if there's an analog to Russell's paradox for category theory?

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16. Alan Kay: The Early History of Smalltalk | Lambda the Ultimate

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17. Photo Matt » On Comment Feeds. Should I support comment feeds? It'd be very easy to do. Just gotta pick a URL format.

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Russia's Flat Tax Miracle

Russia's Flat Tax Miracle:

Remember the saying: “To the victors go the spoils”? It must not be true. We won the Cold War, but Russia gets a flat tax while America is stuck with a Byzantine tax system based on class-warfare ideology... Ironically, the former communists in Moscow now understand supply-side economics, yet liberals in Congress are still relying on the politics of hate-and-envy.

Via the comments on this post.

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