Julie Lerman's "Persisting Ink on the Web" article is a must-read

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Animated icons in Visual Studio / WinForms using GIFs

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New music

I'm not surprised that I like Neil Young's Prairie Wind and Beck's Guero.

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Things I've Been Noticing About Spam

Looks like either they've broken the CAPTCHA methods used by das Blog, or people are hand-posting comment spam.

I think that email spam may be using keywords derived from my blog as part of their randomly generated subject lines. That's a clever way to get around any Bayesian filter.

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Tablet to Flash: A "Chalk Talk" Application for Diagramming Plays

My latest article for DevX was a fun one, a Tablet application that records pen strokes of a sports play and plays them back in synchrony, to illustrate a sports play.

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Sun and Google misfire

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casey calls BS on 'go code something' as a way to employment

::: {.Section1} [casey chesnut, whose propensity for lower-casing his name ticks off Word auto-correction, says that it is a myth that the best way to be hired as a programmer is to code something cool. casey's right. He’s proved by his Web postings that he can write: neural nets to …

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Query refinement generation via neural nets

::: {.Section1} [Scoble laments that when asked “new york hotels” search engines do not know the difference between “hotels named new york ” and “hotels in new york ” (or, to some extent, “new hotels in york ”). Scoble wants the initial search-engine return to include questions intended to refine the search. Danny Sullivan …

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:Ong Bak / Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell reviews

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[ “Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior” has a lot of buzz about introducing the “next Jackie Chan.” Tony Jaa has amazingly spring-y legs and the movie has a couple of sequences that show …

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Digital physics vs. Pi

::: {.Section1} [Nova Spivack posted this praise of digital physics and Julie Lerman reports that Stephen Wolfram is coming to her neck of the woods. Digital physics, of which Wolfram’s book A Kind of Science hopes to be the Principia, posits the idea that the universe is computational in nature …

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