Links for 2005-09-08

Posted September 8, 2005 1:17 AM.

• exbiblio - a company doing interesting things with paper I met these guys at FooCamp and wait to see what they're up to with great curiosity
• "Germans hail Berners-Lee 'second-greatest' scientist" - not because of the science, interestingly, but because of the open product / platform / concept he developed... "Arguably even more importantly, he made the protocols freely available to the world shortly after his invention, and his solution became the world wide web."
• Challenge-response authentication (from Wikipedia) I'm really interested - particularly after the recent delicious visualisations tool revealed some of the problems of passwords in the open - in ways of 'pairing' IDs on parallel sites without transferring sensitive information... More later...
• The Vatican's (frankly positive) official view of evolution is that it's real and true and compatible with the Bible Just to remind people - this whole thing is not a debate between religious people and scientists, as there are many many religious people who accept the legitimacy of evolution, including religious scientists and most major world churches...
• Finding Billie Piper: (Part One) - Possibly the most terrifying and yet most awesomely creative use of the internet to stalk someone I've yet seen... Only problem - there are lots of pubs in Belsize Park although I think I agree that England's Lane is a good bet for the butchers and hardware store...
• "Quality of Life in Olfactory Dysfunction" Interesting article about what effects not having a sense of smell has on your state of mind. I get the impression that it's mostly the people who lose their sense of smell who complain about it most. Wimps.
• Philips produce a prototype of a 'smart-paper'-based appliance 'earlier than expected' No idea what the particular value of this one is yet, be fascinating to see what particular affordances this kind of display has...
• The first pictures I've seen of the iPod Nano Fucking hell. Thinner than a pencil. It'll be on the Apple store before this delicious post gets anywhere near my site, of course...
• Dear God, the iPod nano looks extraordinarily beautiful Must. Not. Buy. One. Have. To. Save. Up. For. Other. Apple. Products. Like. New. Powerbook. Cos. Current. One. Not. Fast. Enough. Nngh.