ImageMagick - Convert, Edit, and Compose Images
ImageMagickTM 5.5.5 is a robust collection of tools and libraries offered under a usage license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 87 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image or image sequence and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, as well as through C, C , Perl, or Java programming interfaces.
Nodeballs are modules to extend a database development framework called eCore.
All my nodeballs are under the Artistic License.
The Everything Development Company
Everything is an information management system, using a combination MySQL and Perl to create a flexible system of entering, linking, and retrieving information.
pMachine - Publish Your Universe!
pMachine enables you to publish virtually any kind of web content - from a basic weblog, to a full-blown interactive magazine. pMachine gives you complete control over the presentation, behavior, and interactivity of your site.
Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development
This book is all about making dynamic PHP web sites with Dreamweaver MX. It covers PHP, enough to get the reader up to speed with the technology, and how to use Dreamweaver MX to produce PHP code quickly and efficiently.
It also covers site design, database and SQL. It uses an example project, a Hotel Reservation System, that is built up through the chapters to demonstrate the concepts explained.
The Case Against the War
by Jonathan Schell
"All of us have heard this term 'preventive war' since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time...I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing."
--President Dwight Eisenhower, 1953,
upon being presented with plans to wage
preventive war to disarm Stalin's Soviet Union
"Our position is that whatever grievances a nation may have, however objectionable it finds the status quo, aggressive warfare is an illegal means for settling those grievances or for altering those conditions."
--Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson,
the American prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials,
in his opening statement to the tribunal
The Chronicle: 2/14/2003: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Connected Age
...by helping us to understand better the relationship between cause and effect that pertains to complex, connected systems, the science of networks teaches us a third lesson: that such systems, from power grids to businesses, and even entire economies, are both more vulnerable and more robust than populations of isolated entities. Networks share resources and distribute loads, but they also spread disease and transmit failure -- they are both good and bad. But unless we can understand exactly how connected systems are connected, we cannot predict how they will behave. And unless we know what kind of behavior we are trying to understand, we don't even know what it is about the network that is supposed to matter. In this manner, the science of networks may not only provide deep theoretical insight, but also yield practical solutions to currently intractable problems.
Duncan J. Watts is an assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. This essay is adapted from Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, to be published this month by W.W. Norton & Co.
Marcel betrisey homepage: Foucault pendulums, radiometric clocks, rolling balls clock etc
Nifty site with fantasmagORical clocks and devices.
Line with two syllables as in Lie On
This is about a cat of a lady from Oklahoma and has a slight accent. She has cats and when she lived in the south she would take them to the groomers and have what is called a Line Cut. To her a line cut is when all of the fur hanging down below the cat's tummy is taken off (because it gets matted or snarled).
Free World Dialup - by pulver.com
Free World Dialup (FWD) "works" by connecting FWD members who both have Broadband internet access with each other. When you register for FWD, you are assigned a FWD number. Once you register your FWD phone with the FWD Network, you are able to contact all of the other registered FWD members if they are on-line when you are.
FWD is a community network of worldwide broadband consumers who call each other using SIP phones. SIP phones come in many shapes and sizes. Some SIP phones are hardware based and others are software based, "Softphones" which run on your PC. One supported hardware device, the Cisco ATA-186 connects to both your broadband internet access and either a regular telephone or a cordless telephone. Another supported hardware phone which has recently become a very popular prop in Hollywood movies and TV shows is the Cisco 7960. With FWD, you get a chance to put the Cisco 7960 to work!
BBC NEWS | Talking Point | Taken a good picture lately?
Are you going to the march against military action in ? Are you affected by the congestion charges about to be brought in, in London? Your part in the news is important to us.
BBC News Online wants to report the world from your perspective.
We've had more than 200 pictures sent in already.
WAVE 3.0 - Web accessibility validator
WAVE is sponsored by Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology (PIAT), at The Institute on Disabilities, Temple University under grant H224A20006-99 from the Department of Education
Bobby was created to help web page authors identify and repair barriers to access by individuals with disabilities.
UsableNet - Website Testing Systems
UsableNet offers industry-leading information and expertise in the form of simple, easy-to-use software tools and services that automate website usability and accessibility testing and repair.
Unifon means "one sound" and implies one sound per symbol. To achieve this with English the traditional alphabet can be augmented. Unifon adds 17 new letters to create an alphabet with 40 characters. Five of the new letters are for the long vowels. The sounds that correspond to AEIOU are assigned to the capital letters on the keyboard. Variants of K, N, S, Z, T, and D are also assigned to capital letters. Six letter-sound pairs must be learned. cC qQ xY
Imagine a world where a 3 dimensional web overlays our physical living and working space. That's the idea behind Global Tags.
Imagine being able to place virtual notes and reminders wherever you go. Some only you can see and others you can share with friends, family or colleagues. Attached to those notes can be any number of additional messages, files or other digital assets.