Monday, November 29, 2004

Review: Ten Extensions Enhance Firefox [Edubloggers Links Feed] 7:23:37 PM      Google It!.

Brain Scan Shows Differences in Truth, Lying. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brain scans show that the brains of people who are lying look very different from those of people who are telling the truth, U.S. researchers said on Monday. [Reuters: Science] 7:21:08 PM      Google It!.

Top Ten Persistent Design Flaws [Slashdot:] 7:20:06 PM      Google It!.

Does Open Source Need Quality Standards? [Slashdot:] 7:18:17 PM      Google It!.

Canada, the Closer Country for Outsourcing Work. Canada's stability, proximity and cultural similarity to the U.S. tend to attract higher-value, more sophisticated outsourcing work than countries like India. By By IAN AUSTEN. [NYT > Technology] 7:06:44 PM      Google It!.

Paralysed Woman Walks Again [Slashdot:] stem cells used to treat nerve damage 10:25:45 AM      Google It!.

Dumbing Down a Smartwatch. Researchers are developing an RFID-enabled watch system to help the memory-challenged find their stuff. But making sure it doesn't track too much is a big privacy concern. By Michael Bradbury. [Wired News] 9:11:50 AM      Google It!.

Wikipedia Creators Move Into News. The folks behind the open-source reference site that's challenging the encyclopedia industry decide to give journalism a go. Through the experimental Wikinews site, anyone can take a stab at being a reporter. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News] 9:10:31 AM      Google It!.

E-learning can open doors for people with disabilities - Online Recruitment. Unless developers, suppliers and buyers of e-learning take greater action to ensure their products are accessible to learners with disabilities, a great deal of money will be wasted on e-learning that doesn’t meet the needs of the vast majority of user [Online Learning Update] 9:08:56 AM      Google It!.

Another Internet2 Speed Record Broken [Slashdot:] 9:05:33 AM      Google It!.

Video Games Teach More Than Hand-Eye Coordination. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Video games, often maligned as having little or no redeeming value, are becoming a way for firefighters, soldiers, currency traders and college administrators to hone their skills. [Reuters: Technology] 8:58:58 AM      Google It!.

Attention Frontier kernel developers in Seattle. We're having a meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) night at the Crossroads in Bellevue, to make face-to-face contact, and discuss various projects including the Python-in-Frontier work that David Brown is doing. So far it's Dave Luebbert, Dave Brown and myself. You're welcome even if your first name isn't Dave. Newbies are welcome too, but please C programmers only. We're going to start pretty early, either 6PM or 7PM and go for a couple of hours. Waiting to hear back from both Daves on the time. [Scripting News] 8:54:33 AM      Google It!.