Archive for October, 2008
http://www.noupe.com/photoshop/1000-free-high-resolution-photoshop-brush-sets.html
So I’ve just downloaded Flock, a browser from the Mozilla group that emphasises web 2.0. Currently using it’s inbuilt blogging feature to post this nice little find that Digg dugg: Holy Grail: 1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets Some good stuff here, in a nice list. Blogged with the Flock Browser
8.2.0 update
I’m currently updating my XOs to the new release (after battling it out with my home network). I’m interested to see the GUI updates and am quite happy they’ve introduced an “Extreme Power Save” mode so the wifi can now be turned off easily. Absolutely essential! I’ll have more to say when I’m up and running.
breaking news: OLPC XOs come to Canberra
I’m pleased to announce… ===== For Immediate Release 14 October, 2008 One Laptop Per Child Open Day Computing Assistance Support & Education (CASE) will be hosting Canberra’s first One Laptop Per Child Open Day Monday 27 October 2008 3.00pm at Volunteering ACT 55 Chandler Street (corner of Chandler and Cameron Streets) Belconnen. Pia Waugh, open source software [...]
OLPC Video Chat
Video Chat for the XO is now (re)available at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Video_Chat. At the moment it supports one-to-one video chat between XOs and in future releases will feature increased whiteboard functionality and, hopefully, multi-conferencing. Check out Pia’s announcement on one of the hottest XO apps out to date! And then download a copy yourself.
microscope images
Who doesn’t love ‘em? The Daily Mail UK mail is running a series at the moment. Click on: to get closer…
Putin gets tiger cub for his birthday
The AP is reporting that Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin received a rare tiger cub for his birthday. The tiger – one of only a few hundred still in existence sleeps in a basket, i assume, at the foot of his bed. Irresponsible? Probably.
Update from Ethiopia
Daniel Drake, OLPC Inc. intern, has been in Ethiopia for the past half a month working on that country’s first OLPC XO deployment. He now has a great series of posts covering his (continuing) time there, full of impressions, insights and photos. Some interesting things that I think are of note: The children are using [...]
Inugami
The foreign-film-fest continues at Elroy Online with a look at Masato Harada’s Inugami. A not-quite-Jhorror title that calls to Japans rich mythological history to add a little depth to the story, apparently! My only experience with any Jhorror was The Ring 3 (I think?) but I enjoyed that, and as Elroy gives Inugami the thumbs up, I’m [...]
OLPC PNG?
CORRECTION: This article incorrectly detailed a deployment in Fiji. It was supposed to read “Papua New Guinea”. According to The Cook Islands Herald, The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea has announced this week that his country will begin an OLPC XO trial of some description with the ultimate goal of a multi-year, multi-million dollar rollout. If [...]
Referrer Karma
In order to get a clearer picture from the tealeaves that are webstats, on Elroy’s recommendation I’ve installed something called Referrer Karma. It’s a script that filters out referral spam by making sure the incoming link is actually from where it says it is. It’s also got handy blacklist/whitelist functions. I understand it’s pretty popular and that [...]
Galaxy Zoo
This is a good one. While watching the BBC the other night I caught a short astronomers segment called “The Sky At Night”. One of the main stories was about Galaxy Zoo, a massive public effort to categories galaxies from a mass of hundreds of millions of images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The SDSS is an [...]
The Emerging Netbook Market
I’ve put together a short brief to bring anyone out of the loop into the loop in regards to netbook computing. A static link to this article can be found in the articles section. What is a “Netbook”? The term “netbook” refers to a low-cost, small-sized, energy-efficient laptop computer. The term has only begun to [...]
on a lighter note…
Actually the video makes a very serious point…
new art @ wingsablaze
Teatime on a lonely cliff, the latest from Frez at Deviantart:
politics threaten OLPC project in Cook Islands
The Pacific Magazine is currently running a story on the conflict between The Cook Islands Education Ministry and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community and how that could delay or even halt an OLPC XO trial in the country. “Cook Islands Secretary for Education John Herrmann said he put the project on hold since his [...]
