Comments for the future is yesterday

Comment on Using Wikipedia as a translator by Maria Grineva

Maria Grineva — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:07:41 +0000

Yes, its interesting. To implement your ideas you need a way to *query* Wikipedia. Take a look at this demo:

http://wikixmldb.dyndns.org/

Wikipedia is loaded into native XML database Sedna and can be queried using XQuery.

Maria

Comment on Kidwriter Nostalgia by William Winterton

William Winterton — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:19:11 +0000

My sister and I wrote probably 500 stories with Kidwriter when we were young! This site brought back LOTS of memories- especially the mp3! Thanks so much!

Comment on Cool Mini Cooper feature of the day by ghassan kharbat

ghassan kharbat — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:16:46 +0000

Mini cooper and bmw service can read the vin number and the mileage and more info throw the key also, how neat is this.

Comment on More details on Internet Archive’s Scribe Book Scanner Project by A Glimpse into the Internet Archive’s Scanning and Print-on-Demand Operations (Disruptive Library Technology Jester)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:55:53 +0000

[...] books into the Internet Archive’s custom-built Scribe Station is a manual process. Although automated page-turning machines exist, Internet Archive has chosen to [...]

Comment on Atiz announces new BookDrive DIY book digitizier by Tom

Tom — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:14:18 +0000

>It isn’t clear to me how the
>“transparent plane” is raised to
>allow page turning.

I was also confused. It turns out you slide the glass upward then you reach in to turn the page.

Comment on Night time frisbee by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:00:48 +0000

I have the multicolored one. It’s great! Nice weight, strong light, perfect for night play. Just be cautious not to run into something at night :p

Comment on Flickr Interestingness RSS Feed by Fabíola

Fabíola — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:25:07 +0000

Thanks!!

Comment on PPP with PeoplePC for Linux, Mac OS X (or Windows) by Dave

Dave — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:26:20 +0000

Awesome, that’s what I needed to know. Just add the @peoplepc.com to the login name!

Comment on One step closer to pulling a Cosmo Kramer by art

art — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:12:12 +0000

I got it to it was weird I was hoping that I had something to claim. Then reality kicked in and I googled to this page. I did call and got the same message. My numbers not on a call list is it?

Comment on Creative Commons Photo on Flickr hits 50 million by Rob McDougall

Rob McDougall — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:28:00 +0000

I’m proud to say that the overwhelming majority of my photos are CC licensed

Comment on Internet connection on the commuter train by Dave

Dave — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:41:10 +0000

Some phones (not sure on this one, wife owns it) have an autoanswer feature. Sometimes it only works with the headset plugged in, but that could be “fixed” by using a headset and just laying it aside (turn the volume to the lowest/off setting).

Comment on One step closer to pulling a Cosmo Kramer by cristine

cristine — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:12:49 +0000

I got the same letter too and my first page was missing too!

Comment on Creative Commons Photo Growth on Flickr by Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:46:31 +0000

I love this graph. Do let me know if you get around to updating it - some stunning stats there. And to think a third of those people dont properly back up all their images… Melissa

Comment on PPP with PeoplePC for Linux, Mac OS X (or Windows) by Rob McDougall

Rob McDougall — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:58:26 +0000

Seems like a lot of hassle!!

Comment on Street Musicians Compilation Album by steve

steve — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:29:13 +0000

i’ve actually been thinking along very similar lines for some time now. the notion of sampling live sounds - street musicians, sounds from local environments - and organizing them somehow is very intriguing. are you still actively pursuing this project?