I just discovered this Mother of All Demos. It’s a very early (1968) IT presentation from Stanford, with the goal of augmenting human office work by giving them a desktop computer.
What’s amazing is that Doug Englebart presents mice, hierarchical information organisation, hyperlinks, diagrams and charts, and email. Conceptually, it’s really not that far [...]
Canonical have now released Launchpad as open source. This is really good news, considering Shuttleworth’s previous stance, which I found quite wrong-headed. Just having Launchpad alone as an Open Source project is great, as it’s a very powerful tool. It’ll be interesting to see if they follow suit with the rest of Ubuntu’s [...]
I don’t know if this has been publicized yet, but a quick google doesn’t show much up about it. I was checking out Amazon’s Mechanical Turk the other day, and it give a Django error page due to an unhandled URL. Interesting.
Update: I stand corrected. Seems Amazon MT just embeds other sites’ [...]
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Wherein I create a python program to evolve beasties that can say hello.
