↑Mike’s Amazing World of Comics features an amazing tool for historians of popular culture: ↑The Newsstand. It allows you to choose any month, beginning in 1934, and then the system will give you the covers of all comic books which … Continue reading →
There is a new browser around—the beta version of ↑Google Chrome was released yesterday. It is damn fast, I have to say. And there is a ↑comic book about it.
Continue reading →The ↑VLC media player by the ↑VideoLAN group, stemming from the École Central Paris, France, is by far the most versatile and platform independent media player available—it plays just everything, including DVDs and much more. It is available for free … Continue reading →
The basic text-editor which comes with Windows sports a, maybe little known, feature which can be put to good use. My daily routine of doing thick participation online involves the creation of a flat text-file for every day’s fieldnotes and … Continue reading →
The day before yesterday an ↑entry called GABEK was posted to ↑ethno::log announcing a new qualitative research method, additionally a link was placed to ‘the method’s website’ gabek.com. It was stated that the method could well be of use … Continue reading →
The aficionados of course ↑can not accept cyberpunk to be a “long-since dead relic of the 80s,” but “consider it to be alive and well.” Not surprisingly I completely second that. Although ↑Bruce Sterling himself ↑sees it to belong … Continue reading →
Graphical visualization of data is definitely ↵something I am fond of. For aesthetical reasons, but for pragmatic ones, too—sometimes. Anyway, ↑visualcomplexity is a great resource: VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization … Continue reading →
↑ClustrMaps provides the HTML that gives a thumbnail map—when it loads, it increments a counter and shows the locations of all the visitors to your page, cumulatively (even for huge numbers). Clicking on it zooms in to a big … Continue reading →
Rex thankfully has pointed us at a piece of software written by his friend John Burton: […] The program knows more about demographics than I do (the intricacies of birth spacing, for instance) and, most critically for me, the program … Continue reading →
↑World Wind (see ↵world wind works) was released by NASA as Open Source Software, and quite naturally a ↑world wind community emerged, generating add-ons. See ↑The unofficial unofficial add-ons list, which includes download-links. There is much which can be put … Continue reading →