Thanks to Christophe-Marie, who sent me a link of a very interesting video of a UI concept where the mouse is no longer relevant. Instead, multi-finger touch is used, with quite natural gestures.
Here’s the 10/GUI video by C. Miller.
Why do I like it?
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To help keep the Andromeda strain swine flu away, you should take a swine flu shot.
Ingredients:
Enjoy!
Zenburn v2.13 is released!
Thanks to Zac Thompson and Christophe-Marie Duquesne, there is now:
Grab it from vim.sf.net or from the official Zenburn page.
Enjoy!
Another Sunday to play with big numbers.
Anyone who has been to London must have noticed the numerous cameras observing you, like some strange proto-Orwellian social experiment.
Why have they built such a system? The theory goes: to reduce crime, and create safety, etc. But practice tends to disagree.
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BBC reports on the self-taught hardware hacker William Kamkwamba, who recycles junk to build electricity-generating windmills in Malawi.
Meanwhile, he installed a solar-powered mechanical pump, donated by well-wishers, above a borehole, adding water storage tanks and bringing the first potable water source to the entire region around his village.
When he ran into bugs, he had to debug and refactor the original design a little:
He upgraded his original windmill to 48-volts and anchored it in concrete after its wooden base was chewed away by termites.
It’s ingenious stuff, check it out.
The Christian conservatives of USA recently had one of their echo chambers of retarded thinking taking place in Washington.
BBC reports of a great fear – the direction where Mr. Obama is leading the country:
From the podium, Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor stoked the audience’s fears with a joke about a man who goes to sleep in America and wakes up, after a year of Obama, to find himself living in Sweden.
To many foreign ears, the thought of waking up in Sweden might seem rather appealing, but to this fiercely patriotic crowd it would not have made much difference if Mr Cantor had substituted Sweden for North Korea.
According to this article, executives travelling to China are advised to buy a separate mobile phone to be used only in China. This is to avoid spying and to work around corporate espionage.
The timing of the article is to create media noise for the upcoming (?) US-China trade war. Howeeeeeever, that’s not the most interesting part of that article. This is:
Mark Bregman, chief technology officer at security firm Symantec said he left his MacBook Pro behind in the US and took his MacBook Air whenever he flew to China. Bregman said he only ever used the Air in China and re-imaged the machine every time he returned home.
Interesting? Very much so: the CTO of one of the biggest providers of anti-virus/security products for Windows doesn’t even use Windows himself! He uses an Apple MacBook. That tells you something, doesn’t it?
The barber of Sevilla, as reformulated by Russell, as reformulated by Wikipedia:
Suppose there is a town with just one male barber; and that every man in the town keeps himself clean-shaven: some by shaving themselves, some by attending the barber. It seems reasonable to imagine that the barber obeys the following rule: He shaves all and only those men in town who do not shave themselves.
Under this scenario, we can ask the following question: Does the barber shave himself?
Zenburn v2.5 is released!
Changes: support for coloring Ignore-groups (thanks to John Gabriele). The Ignore-group coloring is toggleable, see the file for details.
Grab it from vim.sf.net or from the official Zenburn page.
In practice, the Vim help files will change from this (click pictures to show them bigger):
to this:
Suppose that a huge space rock is detected, and it’s heading for collision with Earth! Humankind is given a warning 19 hours in advance.
After that, bang. Massive destruction. Everyone dies. End of the world, Game Over.
The question is: what would you do? Is there anything to do?
Would you panic? Would you just kick back and watch the fireworks? Something completely different?
To answer, reply with a comment.
