Some TED Talks I find interesting

A brief digression:

I'm not at all certain what his point is but he is entertaining.




Why we don’t understand as much as we think we do:


Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind:



Jeff Han: Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design:

Just finished half life 2 episode one

Playing through episode 1 was very enjoyable. The battles were intense and multifacited. Swarms of baddies advance, Gordy and Alyx skillfully engage! What a team.

I'm looking forward to the next installment.

Someone like me might find this useful

gotapi.com for html, javascript, css, perl, php, mysql, etc etc.

Google, Firefox, more useful every day. No really!

Alright.

Google: Search, email, maps, calendar, news, groups, blogs, pics (picasa), video, dating (I only fell for their joke for a few minutes....). I'd say i'm hooked on free, non-annoying add supported software. The wave of the future? or an idea that will sputter out?

Firefox: tabs are handy, I've got 6 open right now, the find on page feature is GREAT. And what's sealed the deal for my is this, I just learned how to set focus to the location edit box via keyboard shortcut: ALT-D. I like IE's F4 better, because i've gotten used to it, but alt-d won't take long to get used to.

Also switching between tabs: CTRL-TAB or CTRL-[1-9] might be nice if they numbered the tabs for you...

How to use Google Earth without an internet connection

This post from gearthblog.com explains how to setup google earth to be used without an internet connection.

I haven't tried this out yet, but would be very useful when traveling.

Visual Complexity

I've been thinking about this topic for a few years... Making some very minor progress toward realizing my vision of visualizing software. I found this site which lists several visualization projects (via stumbleupon.com):

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

Curveball

I came across this very fun and addictive flash game via stumbleupon.com.

http://allthingsflash.com/files/games/curveball.swf

I wish there were a two player version, epic battles would certainly ensue, but by level 5 the computer opponent is pretty challenging.