Nimster proves to me that PHP is Israeli by pointing me at the PHP manual entry for ::. Notice the name of the page.
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Month: July 2002
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Screenplay software
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James Bond Art (and my blather)
I found The Art of James Bond through S. Anand’s weblog, and I reached him through the citations on the New Scientist story I just got from daypop. He points to a bunch of cool stuff, including the Guardian’s weblog guide (which mentioned Renee‘s blog.
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Second law of thermodynamics “broken”
New Scientist: Second law of thermodynamics “broken”.
“One of the most fundamental rules of physics, the second law of thermodynamics, has for the first time been shown not to hold for microscopic systems.
The demonstration, by chemical physicists in Australia, could place a fundamental limit on miniaturisation, because it suggests that the micro-scale devices envisaged by nanotechnologists will not behave like simple scaled-down versions of their larger counterparts – they could sometimes run backwards. ”
[via daypop top 40]
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Amazon Light
Amazon Light is an interface to Amazon.com’s search engine with a Googlish-UI (in fact, the original UI was so Google-like, the designer got a letter from Google’s lawyers…)
It’s all done with Amazon’s web services API, and shows why that’s a cool thing – in fact, I guess it’s a better demonstration than the Google API of why web service APIs are useful – Google was so spartan that people argued you could just as well use CGI and screen-scraping (parsing what you want out of the HTML Google returned).