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- Annie of Going Underground is right. Pantomime celebrity spotting on the tube is indeed an order of magnitude sadder than... |
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- Nice little item about Edward Tufte's anti-PowerPoint paper, "The cognitive style of PowerPoint". I haven't yet read the original pamphlet, but I imagine much of the sentiment was covered in Tufte's Wired piece, "PowerPoint is evil". The latter is worth a read if only for the wonderful standfirst, "Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely". Anyway, in the NYT Clive Thompson observes that, following the Shuttle Columbia tragedy, NASA found itself to be too reliant on PowerPoint slideware presentations to get complex information across -- including risk assessments of possible Shuttle wing damage. |
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- I think it's a great idea that CD-WOW are showcasing new talent in the !!unsigned...AS YET! section of their website. I've just been listening to a few audio clips, and some of them sound really good. |
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- Continuing on with the Assertion Processor idea, I think Danny's contribution may have cracked it for me with his introduction of the W6 vocabulary. To recap: Britt wants a system to aggregate assertions about political figures, in order to create... |
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- Three European cyclists seized in Iran earlier this month have been released, the Interior Ministry said. |
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- Four children are among the five confirmed dead in a mudslide that struck a rugged canyon in southern California on Christmas Day. |
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- the RSPCA have called for Princess Anne's English bull terrier to be put down after it savaged one of the Queen's corgis. |
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- Manchester United extended their lead at the top of the Premiership with a hard-fought 1-0 win against Middlesbrough at the Riverside. |
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- Today is Monday, Dec. 29, the 363rd day of 2003. There are two days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. |
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