BurningbirdThe legendary Washoe died this week: Washoe, a female chimpanzee believed to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. I met Washoe when I was studying at Central Washington University and was lucky enough to take a linguistics course with Dr. Roger Fouts. […]
According to O’Reilly GIMP 2.4 has been released. The new version of GIMP is a cut above previous releases and deserves a closer look. People expect it to look and act like Photoshop, and that’s a mistake, because GIMP is based on its own unique UI. If you accept the uniqueness, you have access to a powerful and […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The world is happily building away their new vision of a utopia based on social networking and an open OpenSocial API, which is going to link just everything together. Perhaps the world will read the terms of use of the API, and realize this is not an open API; this is a free […]