Category Archives: neep-neep

use the protocol, Luke!

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 01 by Anton

Star Wars IV by telnet

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how Google does it

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 01 by Anton

PigeonRank™

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packers and mappers

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 31 by Anton

Reciprocality: some interesting stuff about the psychology of creativity.

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short and stout

Posted on Saturday, 2002 March 30 by Anton

Steve Baker tells the tale of the Utah Teapot. (Found through another Steve’s links.) Links in turn to the Stanford Bunny. And what collection of digital models would be complete without Lena Sjööblom? I first saw her in Foley & … Continue reading →

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Schelling points

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 25 by Anton

New Scientist: Neural network ‘in-jokes’ could pass secrets This reminds me of a discussion, years ago on Extropians, of “Schelling points”: for under-constrained problems there may be a cultural preference for particular solutions. For example, if I ask you to … Continue reading →

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legibility is in the eye of the reader!

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 21 by Anton

Here is a paragraph from HTML: The Definitive Guide, by Musciano & Kennedy, second edition published by O’Reilly in 1997: Yield to the browser. Let it format your document in whatever way it deems best. Recognize that the browser’s job … Continue reading →

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keep on bloggin’

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 March 20 by Anton

Machine translation is not quite here yet. I started to read “BLOG ALWAYS, YOU INTEREST Me” (linked from this article on Googlebombing) but quickly decided to try my luck with the French instead. I’ve written my own translation.

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