From computers with love (resurrected)
2009.04.11 10:16
Now this is so cool. Too cool :p German media-artist-slash-computer-researcher David Link has made an emulator of the Manchester Mark 1 computer, virtually resurrecting it, to run Christopher Strachey‘s “Love-Letters” program –a program churning out randomly different love letters. Here is a link to the emulator. Just refresh your browser to get a different string [...]
Open learning sites
2009.04.10 16:12
Here are some open learning sites that might be of interest. Just browse around each site to learn more about them. They also have links referring to other similar projects… The first is UNESCO’s Open Training Platform website… UNESCO Open Training Platform This one is the Global Text Project hosted by the University of Georgia… [...]
Books on (digital) freedom
2009.04.09 22:03
Those already familiar with the following books (and their topic) can probably skip reading this post and move along. I just posted them here as the books recently came up again in a mailing list I’m subscribed to. But for the uninitiated, I’d recommend a read through them. Freedom of information. Freedom of ideas. Freedom [...]
Nasi (kuning), tahu-tempe… & sambel terasi!
2009.04.08 01:04
If there’s anything that can explain what makes a people, it may well be their food. (Most) Indonesians will say the day’s not complete if one hasn’t eaten rice yet (belum makan namanya kalo belum makan nasi). More so for the Javanese, if one hasn’t eaten rice… and tempe… and spicy hot sambel terasi…! The [...]
Si Rubah pindah rumah…
2009.04.07 20:35
Oiya… Buat yang barangkali aja belum tau… si Rubah udah pindah rumah… Situs mengerti bahasa inggris | understanding english sekarang adanya di: http://musangsx.org/english/ http://english.musangsx.org Pranala (link) yang ada di menu samping situs ini juga udah diperbarui kok. Mohon memperbarui penanda pranala (bookmark) masing-masing. Tapi santai aja kalo masih nyasar ke rumah si Rubah yang lama, [...]
Soviet propaganda posters
2009.04.07 02:04
Any kind of propaganda should of course be taken with a grain of salt. Here are some Cold-War-era propaganda posters by the Soviet Union against the U.S., which have been archived at EnglishRussia.com (the exact links with the complete collection of posters can be found here and here). Despite their propaganda nature, some of the [...]
Some interesting sites…
2009.04.04 20:06
Here are some sites that I recently came across and found interesting… The first is a satire on all the things (recent fads?) that “white people” like… No racist intention, so the site’s authors say, as we could all be satirically “white”… http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com To go directly to the full list: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-people-like/ Among my favorites are: [...]
April Fool’s Day round-up
2009.04.01 20:44
As always each year, browsing the Web on April 1st requires extra caution, lest we fall for any online pranks laid out that day… Here are some that I came across this year: Google Mail’s Auto-Reply YouTube upside down Pirate Bay gets acquired by Warner Bros The Guardian goes fully Twitter-mode And here’s a full [...]
