my del.icio.us tagroll

the del.icio.us tagroll shows your del.icio.us tags as a weighted 'cloud' that can be displayed in any webpage - the more links contained within any tag, the larger it appears in the cloud. checkout del.icio.us help for tagrolls to get the code for your tagroll
For those that dont know, del.icio.us is an online bookmarking service that allows you to sort your sites by tags.

UPDATE: i moved the actual del.icio.us tagroll to the sidebar on the right as a permanent fixture

a follow-up on the glen and raj saga..

the class worrier blog has a follow-up post of last weeks march here.
mentioned there, is another article worth checking out:

Democracy took a beating in Foreman Road,
Richard Pithouse, November 22, 2005, The Mercury

Class worrier: Fucker stole my camera and shot my mates

extract from Raj Patel's excellent blog..

" It was an ordinary mugging. The bastard had a gun, a swagger, a gang and didn’t seem to want to me to take his photo when he was roughing someone up. So he came up to me and told me to hand over the camera. Timid as I am, and not wanting much further trouble, I handed it over. There were witnesses.

“What’s your name?”

“Nayager”, he said, pointing to his badge.

Superintendent Glen Nayager, it turns out...

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read on

Google Site Search Bookmarklet

finally got tired of having Firefox's google toolbar just sitting there doing nothing... so i dumped it, and scratched up this bookmarklet for the only thing i really do use the toolbar for anyways - quick searching a site with google

javascript:void(site1=document.location.host); void(srchstr=prompt('enter Search String :','',' Google Site Search'));{if(srchstr!=null) {location='http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A' +site1+ ' + '+srchstr}};

to use this bookmarklet on firefox :
- just right click the bookmark toolbar and select 'New Bookmark...'.
- then, in the dialog that appears, enter something like 'Google Site Search' for the Name and copy the short piece of script above into the Location field.

Now from any site, clicking the Google Site Search button wll prompt you for a Search String and find it on that site using google.

Chavez at the UN General Assembly, September 15, 2005

cool speech - check it out here

contributing common sense to an Open Mind

MIT's Open Mind Common Sense Project is working to gather common sense knowledge that can be used to improve AI technology.

The Open Mind Commonsense project is an attempt to make computers smarter by making it easy and fun for people all over the world to work together to give computers the millions of pieces of ordinary knowledge that constitute "common-sense", all those aspects of the world that we all understand so well we take them for granted. This repository of knowledge will enable us to create more intelligent and sociable software and better understand the structure our own minds.

if you've got any common sense to spare, you can join the project and share. theres another article on this project here
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then, if you're interested, the resulting knowledgebase is available for download from the ConceptNet project
ConceptNet v2.1 is written in the Python programming language. It is distributed as a Python API and a standalone XML-RPC Server.

belarga? .. bothered? .. me?

belarga
Originally uploaded by jaysen.

so, i finally put some pictures from the holiday in belarga .. over here at flickr.com.

an invitation to Stumble

checkout StumbleUpon - a social bookmarking tool, and a good way to share sites.

"StumbleUpon is a community-oriented and personalized approach to web surfing - a browser add-on which automates "word of mouth" recommendations of quality web sites. The people-driven technology combines human recommendations with machine learning of personal preferences and interests to filter through the vast amount of information on the web and direct users to relevant web sites."

my stumbles can be found ..here

The ZoomQuilt .. expressing scale

a brilliant piece of flash animation art at Flash The ZoomQuilt

wikidpad goes opensource

WikidPad has been opensource for a few months now. the group has settled on using Trac/Subversion along with two google groups (dev and user).