“A controlled vocabulary is a way to insert an interpretive layer of semantics between the term entered by the user and the underlying database to better represent the original intention of the terms of the user”

nice colour picker

to make a long story short: Shorl makes long URLs short

a really nice plaintext-to-html converter in Perl

[…] ‘has fewer features than many other discussion boards, but is also faster and it outputs radically smaller pages, it doesn’t output huge, non-valid HTML pages’

‘Purely as an experiment in XUL+JS, I’ve created the PNH Developer Toolbar for Mozilla/Netscape browsers with tons of fun things for web developers’

The medium is the message

‘breakthrough grid networking’

‘The next generation of Web search engines will do more than give you a longer list of search results. They will disrupt the information economy’

article revealing the ridiculousness of the Bay Area geek scene

Simple, Semantically Correct CSS Boxen with Clean Code

“Abstract: Common Logic Controlled English (CLCE) is a formal language with an English-like syntax. Anyone who can read ordinary English can read sentences in CLCE with little or no training.”

“Here’s how I see news travel, I think it’s a pretty self-explanatory graphic, plus I’m too lazy to do a proper write up”

Today’s enterprise employees have more information at their fingertips than at any point in history. While this information can certainly help companies, how is an individual or even a large group able to keep up with the volume?

A high level, high Performance Python Web Framework

Open Source Friendster? okaaay…

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