Swhack Weblog

sbp: In (drool) Python
sbp: Converts SVG into Flash, apparently. Why? Who knows?
sbp: By Rob:
AaronSw: How cute!

sbp: """As you know, I think that developing Web browsers in the medium term without RDF parsers is a mistake [...]"""

AaronSw: By Jorn Barger
AaronSw: """It's been over forty years since the term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined in 1956. During that time, A.I. has pretty successfully maintained an aura of arcane impenetrability, funneling off billions of dollars in research grants... while delivering almost nothing that can really be called 'intelligent'!""" - Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Wisdom
AaronSw: Wow, sixdegrees alert. Jorn worked at NWU's ILS dept. which, in adittion to being rather near to my house, was led by Roger Schank, a school reform advocate and friend of Jim Hendler.
AaronSw: """Schank's PR-image for ILS has been that they are "trying to fix the schools" by building educational software that better fits the natural ways students learn.""" - Memoirs of an AI hacker
AaronSw: "even the Macintosh 'File' menu tells a chronological Open-Close-Quit story (by this principle, it ought to be arranged Open-Save-Print-Close-Quit)." - ibid.

AaronSw: Finnegans Web
AaronSw: Jorn Barger's The online shorter Finnegans Wake (FW I.1 thru I.4, ch1-4)

AaronSw: Maps traceroute hops onto a globe.