25aug2013
- A Personalized Companion for Older People
- Very cool prototype from a European consortium working on multiple
approaches to embedding sensors and actuators into the home
environment of the elderly.
- Kivo: Making Powerpoint Collaboration Painless
- Uses git for the back end. I’m going to kill myself trying to
collaborate with marketing using Sharepoint. Brilliant to start with
slides since the granularity of edits is so much coarser than
spreadsheets and documents.
- Butterick’s Practical Typography
- Full of practical advice on how to get decent-looking documents out
of standard word processors. Think of it as a practical version of
the Elements of Typographic
Style.
Note: LaTeX gets most of this correct out of the box.
- Tech Industry Slips into Surprising Slump
- People aren’t buying the crap the tech industry is making. Big
surprise.
- A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto
- Seems like a good time to revisit this. The cypherpunks failed, and
we’re all paying for it now. There should be another try at this
with more focus on practical operational security needs.
- FTL: Faster Than Light
- A rouge-like space simulation game. Lots of fun and very much like
Rogue in the core game mechanics. Downside is that it lacks the
charm and humor that has made Nethack endure for 20+ years. (Well,
20+ years for me.)
- Tahoe Tweezer
- With only Dick’s left in Phish’s 2013 summer tour, this Tweezer
has emerged as the best jam of the year, and some are saying it’s
the best in Phish’s history. Clocks in at 36 minutes but worth
listening to every minute of it.
