Totally amazing simulation of the NASA Spirit Mars mission: “Animation by Dan Maas/Maas Digital LLC… This work was performed for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, sponsored by the United States Government…”
“As the saying goes, if you want to know how to get to Carnegie Hall, the answer is to practice. And by this I mean go out there and try to do something, anything, and keep coming back to do it again. Often I find what separates a veteran from a new enthusiast is simply experience, and the sooner you get the experience of falling on your face a thousand times the sooner you figure out what works for you.”
“Thereís something going on in the web-GUI world. Itís not exactly new, but XML-based UI description schemes have suddenly become a lot more visible… The idea here is this: Many application user interfaces are (or should be) essentially modular groups of widgets or components and containers for grouping components. Given that strict structure, a UI designer can write an XML document that refers to a library of predefined interaction components, style it with a CSS-like stylesheet, and describe its behavior with some code written in a scripting language (like Javascript or Actionscript).”
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“It’s about a year now since A Plan for Spam. So far, filters are winning. This article analyzes the tricks spammers have tried to beat them, and offers some suggestions for the future. Bayesian filters are now common enough that we’re starting to see spams designed specifically to get past them. So far these tricks aren’t working. My filtering rate is still over 99.7%, and Brian Burton reports an astonishing 99.9% with his multi-word Bayesian SpamProbe.”
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“This is a collection of scripts that I’ve created and/or modified. All the scripts are released under a Creative Commons License. Do whatever you want with them — use them as is or modify them to suit your purposes. Both personal and commercial usage is ok by me. Unless otherwise noted, all scripts degrade gracefully in older browsers that don’t support the functionality the script provides (ie. no error messages are triggered) and, with the obvious exception of the Browser Detect script, all use object detection instead of browser detection (which ensures a broad range of browsers will run these scripts including future browsers).”
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LA Weekly’s rundown of the best of 2003 includes “Talking Sausages, Forlorn Rodents, Sibling Gods and a Wartime Fixer.”
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