Design Police

The desing police have launched a set of stickers that made me laugh.

TuttiWiki

The last week has seen me up to my ears in wikis… Now I know more about MediaWiki, Socialtext, Confluence, DekiWiki and Near Time than is strictly healthy.

Should I stay or should I go…

Gapminder.org

Wonderful presentation from Hans Rosling of Gapminder.org

Seeing the invisible

Why didn’t anyone tell me about Blind Atlas ?

Which reminds me I must spend some time on Batan City - move it onto a proper server – running it on my 10 year old £20 Dell PowerEdge server (thanks eBay) isn’t doing it any justice.

Then we should send ambassadors to other virtual cities -maybe start the virtual equivalent to “twin cities” .

Not above the law

Uncivil Servants helps ordinary citizens highlight the abuse of parking permits in New York.

Yell shares plunge as US phone book earnings drop

Software wars

More fun from Wikiality (via Wikia). (copyright & kudos to: Steven Hilton)

Identity 1.0

Who needs biometrics?

Perl Poetry

EGOogling Batan City I stumbled upon Sebastian Mary’s friends at the Future of the Book where just above a nice blog post about Batan City and other literary experiments I found the winner of the The Perl Poetry Contest 2000 by Angie Winterbottom:

if ((light eq dark) && (dark eq light)
&& ($blaze_of_night{moon} == black_hole)
&& ($ravens_wing{bright} == $tin{bright})){
my $love = $you = $sin{darkness} + 1;
};

It’s derived from a verse from the Pandora’s Box album ‘Original Sin’:

If light were dark and dark were light
The moon a black hole in the blaze of night
A raven’s wing as bright as tin
Then you, my love, would be darker than sin.

It made me want to learn Perl. Got a book about it somewhere… also must go back and read more about Future of the Book.

Sebasian Mary Harrington always seems to know such interesting people and do such interesting things.