Country Codes of the World
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Neat map.
Archive for October, 2007
Beautiful Code Sales
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007From TitleZ, which I found via Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools blog:
Real-Time Graphical Log Tailing
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007http://www.fudgie.org/ is neat: the movie shows real-time raindrop-style visualization of HTTP traffic. I want one... ;-)
A Useful Quotation
Friday, October 12th, 2007"If ease of use was the only valid criterion, people would stick to tricycles and never try bicycles." -- Doug Englebart
Gini Coefficients as a Measure of Team Effort
Friday, October 12th, 2007The Gini coefficient is a widely-used measure of inequality in which 0 corresponds to perfect equality (e.g., everyone is equally wealthy), while 1 corresponds to perfect inequality (e.g., one person owns everything, nobody else has anything). I calculated the Gini coefficient for each team in my CSC301 class based ...
Off and Away
Friday, October 12th, 2007I just finished the final [sic] round of edits on A Bottle of Light, my next children's book, and sent them to the publisher. I've been over this manuscript a dozen times or more, but I still keep catching silly typos and inconsistencies---I wonder if my code is this flaky, ...
“Securing” RSS in DrProject
Thursday, October 11th, 2007David Wolever and Andrew Louis have come up with an interesting way to provide secure(ish) RSS feeds from DrProject. (See previous posts, e.g. this one, for background on the problem, or read David's article.) I'd be interested in reactions to their idea.
Identity, Privacy, and Security Lectures at U of T
Thursday, October 11th, 2007IPSI Public Lecture Series Fall 2007 The Identity, Privacy, and Security Initiative (http://www.ipsi.utoronto.ca) at the University of Toronto is launching public seminar series this fall. Location: Galbraith Building, Room 120 (35 St. George) Times: Mondays, noon-1PM. Oct 1: Kostas Plataniotis (Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UofT) Biometrics & Authentication Technologies Oct 15: Svetlana Yanushkevich (Dept ...
Citizen Lab Guide to Bypassing Censorship
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007From Ron Deibert at the Citizen Lab: Citizen Lab's recently completed Internet censorship circumvention guide intended for non-technical users, called Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide. There is a companion guide yet to come on how to publish information online targeted for censorship, and we are presently working ...