Awesome write-up on the history of the Wikipedia logo by the author of the very very first version.
Interesting model. I think I like how they're doing this. That said, I'm still not quite sure what they are doing.
President of the US for one day.
October 16th! Should be fun!
An appeal by Andy Oram on behalf of CC that also covers a bit of the discussion of CC's past at HLS upon Lessig's decision to come visit.
Thomas Midgley, Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944), was an American mechanical engineer turned chemist. He developed both the tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and held over a hundred patents. While lauded at the time for his discoveries, today his legacy is seen as far more mixed considering the serious negative environmental impacts of these innovations. One historian remarked that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."
A nice history of chat.meatspac.es.
Add this to the list of great looking talks I didn't know about until too late. In general, I think the combination of mapping, history, and crowdsourcing is an unlikely but potentially very rich combination.
Reminds me of kuru and laughing sickness.
Reminds me of kuru and laughing sickness.
Interesting argument that the use of NUL-terminated strings in C was shortsighted and wrong. And it probably was. My recent blog post on coal computing anyone?
The first 10k edits at Wiki have been resurrected. Cool!
So I hate lolcats (a lot) so the fact that I'm bookmarking this is slightly significant.
