netomat is an interactive tool which looks at two-way personal multimedia communication. In the summer of 1999 netomat was conceived as a network-based art project created by Maciej Wisniewski. It …
View any page in a mobile screen size in Opera 7
If you are developing for mobile or PDA and need to see how a page will look like on a tiny screen… well, try the new version of Opera (7.02) …
Improving search results relevance in Google
37 Signal post an interesting comment on search results from Google, by making comparisons to results for “african coffee trade”. They have created a visual-mockup of how Google might render …
Preloading hover images using CSS rollovers
Jeffrey Zeldman post a useful article on preloading hover images using CSS rollovers www.zeldman.com/daily/0203c.shtml#csspreload
Intel TROPFEST’s 2003 Best of the Rest at Popcorntaxi
Popcorn Taxi are screening the INTEL TROPFEST’s ‘Best of the Rest’ Program 1 on Wednesday March 26th – 7:30 pm in Sydney at the Valhalla, 166 Glebe Point Rd. Glebe, …
The life of Sir David Attenborough
I watched an excellent documentary on the life of Sir David Attenborough last night on ABC. Presented by Michael Palin the TV special celebrated David Attenborough’s 50 years at the …
PBS Frontline – The Long Road to War
Here is an interesting PBS documentary series on the last 12 years of Saddam Hussein. The special two-hour FRONTLINE report, “The Long Road to War”, relates the history of America’s …
The Alchemy of Experience
Mark Hurst comments on the “Alchemy of Experience”, a look at how great creativity can sometimes come from great constraint, by transforming small amounts of raw material into rich results. …
Dying planet is consumed by its sun
ABC Science news comments on a planet orbiting close to its Sun-like star which is shrinking as its mass is violently boiled off by the pressure. The gas giant is …
Hael Kobayashi talk on the future of computer graphics in filmmaking
Viveka Wiley, Chair of Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH forwarded me an email of an upcoming talk by Hael Kobayashi on the future of computer graphics in filmmaking and career paths within …
Tim Wu's Network Neutrality & Broadband Discrimination
While reading Lawrence Lessig’s blog, I came across an interesting paper by Tim Wu (Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School) titled “Network Neutrality & Broadband …
2 ActionScript BBEdit tools worth having
Todd Dominey and Brendan Hall comment on 2 ActionScript tools available for BBEdit. One is a Flash MX Glossary for BBEdit created by Chris Jenkins and the other an ActionScript …
Weapons of Mass Transit
Technology Review comment on Saddam’s biggest secret – his weapon of mass transit. www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_muller031403.asp
What is XHTML Basic?
XHTML Basic is a W3C Recommendation and a basic version of XHTML created specifically for mobile devices. The document type includes the minimal set of modules required to be an …
Optimizing & developing for a mobile device
Mark Pilgrim (now an author for webstandards.org) has recapped on some of the reasons for providing a mobile feed of his website. The post comments on the HTML tags understood …