An online notebook
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
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
Allez les Bleus! (tags: football zidane) Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Emergent bureaucracy (tags: wiki wikipedia)
The poet of dialectics Francis Wheen on ‘Das Capital’. First read his views on the book in his autobiography of Marx. (tags: wheen marx) Buying PR9 Links on W3.org (tags: pagerank w3c)
So, England’s World Cup campaign has come to an end, through the usual medium, the penalty shoot out. A few things came out of the tournament for me: England were nowhere near as bad as their critics have made out England have to play with two strikers. I don’t think they necessarily have to stick … Keep reading