Thoughts and wanderings around the internet, e-government and geekdom.
XPath search of Jon’s Radio sees Jon Udell making the most of structured markup. As he says, there is no easy way to create any of this in normal blog publishing tools. It’s a shame because it rocks! I can probably hack some of this stuff in Macro Express, but it won’t be pretty. The source article is here.
“Not Culture but Perhaps a Cult”, Op Ed on NASA and the Shuttle by Homer Hickam argues that the current Shuttle design is pretty dumb in placing the spaceplane right in the middle of the launch stack. I must say, it seems pretty telling to me.
Hi-tech tome takes on paperbacks looks at HPs new eBook prototype. I like the touch strip navigation concept, but the screen still looks too computer-like. And 1cm thick seems too much to me, despite many books being much thicker.
Eigenradio – The top 20 singular values all day, every day!. Students with too much time on their hands?
Ad blocking for Firebird. Install it in ~/.mozilla/[userid]/[random]/chrome/ or your windows alternative.
PRISMA WHITE PAPERS is the output of an EU e-government project. Lots of reading there.
Startups – Full list allows you to check what all those random things are that are starting up on your PC.
Auntie’s digital revelation. The article makes an interesting point – the BBC could reduce costs if people share their files!
Scary picture of an easyJet plane that flew into a thunderstorm. And promptly turned back!