Deface
A browser extension that encrypts and decrypts posts on Facebook—if two users have the extension installed, they can communicate without Facebook being able read their messages.
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Design process for the messy in-between » cog & sprocket
Designing your design process:
- Know your strengths and focus resources on your weaknesses.
- Learn to identify the immovable objects.
- What has to be perfect now and what can be fixed later?
Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) - The New York Times
Steven Johnson dives deep into the METI project, starting with the Arecibo message and covering Lincos, the Drake equation, and the Fermi paradox.
He also wrote about what he left out of the article and mentions that he’s writing a book on long-term decision making.
In a sense, the METI debate runs parallel to other existential decisions that we will be confronting in the coming decades, as our technological and scientific powers increase. Should we create superintelligent machines that exceed our own intellectual capabilities by such a wide margin that we cease to understand how their intelligence works? Should we ‘‘cure’’ death, as many technologists are proposing? Like METI, these are potentially among the most momentous decisions human beings will ever make, and yet the number of people actively participating in those decisions — or even aware such decisions are being made — is minuscule.
Passive-Aggressive Art Gallery — Justin Cousson
I should do this in the Clearleft kitchen.
How a Couple of Guys Built the Most Ambitious Alien Outreach Project Ever | Science | Smithsonian
One might think sending messages to other stars would be a massive, expensive job. No. It isn’t. The Cosmic Call was essentially a crowdfunded hobby project.
Barnaby Walters • #TIL there’s a crater on Mercury named after Turlough O’Carolan
The 17th century blind Irish harpist has been immortalised as a crater on Mercury.
Futures of text by Jonathan Libov
This would be better titled “Futures of texting” but it’s an interesting grab-bag of observations. I’ve always felt that SMS has been overlooked as an input mechanism.
(Conversely, I’ve always felt that voice is really over-rated as input mechanism, but under-rated for output.)
Somebody
We are on our way to a bright Maneki Neko future.
Here is to ones who see things differently
An interesting observation on the changes in Apple’s advertising campaigns: it’s no longer about “here’s how great you (the user) can be”, instead it’s increasingly about “here’s how great we (the company) can be.”
Damn Interesting • This Place is Not a Place of Honor
Trying to design a warning message for future generations, without relying on language, writing or current semiotics.
We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us.
Linux.com :: OpenID gets the third degree at OSCON
A good overview of the OpenID panel at OSCON: "Is OpenID a panacea, a placebo, or something in between? Opposing viewpoints took turns on center stage Wednesday afternoon at OSCON 2008. The session entitled "A Critical View of OpenID" started off …
The Existential DiSo Interview on Vimeo
Chris interviews himself about portable social networks and distributed identity.
Humanized Messages for jQuery at Binary Bonsai
A nice little extension to jQuery from Michael Heilemann for displaying unobtrusive feedback messages.
Twitter / Dori: Ann from conf: AOL ships br...
A browser-based IM client from AOL. You heard it here first folks.
Message in a Bottle Server: Brighton UK
Type a message into a textarea. It will be printed, placed in a bottle and thrown off Brighton Pier. You can even choose the bottle.
Google Talk: Google Talk Help
How to set up iChat to use your Gmail address for a Jabber account (useful for Twitter). I set this up a while back but recently a few people have been asking about this.
This is Availabot (Schulze & Webb)
I think we should get Availabots for Clearleft. I want little toys of Richard and Andy connected to my home machine. Dance, Andy! Dance, Richard!
Eric's Archived Thoughts: Adium: Chatting With Style
You can skin Adium using just XHTML and CSS. Who knew?
Google Talk
Google gets into instant messaging.