zool: the depressing little it seems we can do about impending, DCMA-stylee changes to EU law
zool: The Directive has been agreed, is in force, and cannot be changed at this time.
zool: there is no explanation of why, which i would find helpful
hex: the time to buy that island in Micronesia is approaching rapidly
zool: see the handy eurorights critique for an executive deconstruction
zool: oh god this stuff is sick it hurts my eyes
hex: FORMAT YOUR DOCUMENTS YOU BASTARDS
hex: hee
hex: unfortunately, no symbol indicating prevalency of black helicopters
acme: NTK says: "when oh when will the bloggers tire of putting a new word in front of "chalking"?"
hex: I predict in about 6 months
steve: then they'll go back to putting new words after "war"
steve: hex gets story onto warchalking.org
steve: the new, shiny warchalking.org, no less
hex: well, slightly shiny
old infobot list thread babbling about bot factoid passing networks
zool: > I have too many ideas and not enough implementation. // You and me both. says it all
Scalability and Storage: Survey of Free Software / Open Source RDF storage systems
mattb: by Dave Beckett
mattb: has a great FAQ section including questions like "I want to build an RDF application for [some app]. What features should I look for in an RDF store?"
hitherto: Let's Hire Johnny Ball to talk to us
hitherto:
hitherto: Apparently, let's not hire Johnny Ball to talk to us. He's a bit obsessed with industrialising the third world :(
hex: Johnny Ball Industrialises All!
Kuro5hin discussion of Iain M Banks' Culture
hitherto: Talks particularly about the entrenched technology and the role of the Minds in the culture
hitherto:
blech: This seems to get why it works
Long-promised mozilla pie menus reach first release
hitherto: There's been a lot of talk of pie menus in IA circles
hitherto: Perhaps not bot related per se, but nevertheless, interesting in terms of more efficient interaction with our machines
hitherto: In related news, Leeds is the UK's leading town in terms of pie consumption. Finally, a solid answer to the question "who ate all the pies?"
Dasher - Inference-based text entry system
hitherto: There's a version designed especially for typing with eyeball-tracking devices (helloooo wearables)
hitherto: Claims that an experienced user can get 25 wpm with the eye tracker, and up to 39 wpm with a mouse
hooch:
blech: the download page mentions versions for Windows desktops and Pocket PCs and promises Linux code for 'September 2002'
i just read a precis of the work of Marx and am now rather fascinated by what it claims he propounds in 'Capital'
zool: In Capital ,Marx sees instability increasing until finally the system comes tumbling down. His reasoning involves two further, very important prognoses for the system. The first is that the size of business firms will steadily increase as the consequence of the recurrent crises that rock the economy.
zool: "The centralisation of the means of production and the socialisation of labour reach a point at which they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder."
zool: cause and effect in a climate of distrust, i wonder
zool: here is the marx and engels internet archive
danbri on 'rdf for self-describing images'
zool: from dajobe's old bookmarks
blech: nothing to do with bots, sorry
blech: but it's so purdy
blech: via cityofsound
hex: I talked to a Muji shop assistant once about one of these, he confided in me that they look nice but they break very easily
