links for 2006-07-21
No more death by PowerPoint (tags: powerpoint)
Month: July 2006
Depressing
The current situation in the Middle East is unbelievably depressing. Stuff like this from Melanie Phillips hardly makes one more sympathetic to the Israelis.
Wikipedia CD
Hadn’t come across this before, but the children’s charity SOS Children’s Villages UK has produced a downloadable .zip of Wikipedia entries they think would be useful to children in terms of subject and quality, that people can distribute via CD. SOS Children have released a free encyclopaedia (with 8000 images and 4000 pages worth of … Keep reading
Yahoo, Microsoft tie message knot
From the BBC: Users of the Yahoo and Microsoft instant messaging programs can now contact each other directly. The two firms have released software that ties the two networks into a huge community of 350 million users. The trial software allows people to swap text messages but will eventually let people talk to each other … Keep reading
links for 2006-07-10
Allez les Bleus! (tags: football zidane) Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Emergent bureaucracy (tags: wiki wikipedia)