"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of Temperance. It is a species
of intemperance within itself, for it attempts to control a man's appetite by
legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition
law strikes at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
-- Abraham Lincoln 1809 - 1865
"Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that
this is a coincidence."
Anonymous quote from The UNIX-HATERS Handbook.

Computer Apps and Interesting Stuff

  • General Applications:
  • gimp and other graphics stuff
  • Other stuff
    • Welcome to Zope.org

      Zope is a leading open source application server, specializing in content management, portals, and custom applications. Zope enables teams to collaborate in the creation and management of dynamic web-based business applications such as intranets and portals.

  • Very interesting idea's
    • Software:
      • ZOË

        The goal here is to do for email (starting with your personal mailbox) what Google did for the web...

      • Scopeware Vision
      • Translucent Databases

        This new book, Translucent Databases, describes a different attitude toward protecting the information. Most databases provide elaborate control mechanisms for letting the right people in to see the right records. These tools are well-designed and thoroughly tested, but they can only provide so much support. If someone breaks into the operating system itself, all of the data on the hard disk is unveiled. If a clerk, a supervisor, or a system administrator decides to turn traitor, there's nothing anyone can do.

    • Articles for idea's
    • Site's I haven't Checked out yet:
      • The Third Culture
      • Jef Raskin - About The Humane Enviroment
      • Visage Home Page

        Visage is a program you can use to rapidly organise and visualise information. You can use it to organise your thoughts, or any sort of information that needs to be thoroughly "cross referenced".

        Compared to other similar programs, it is based on two main principles:

        • That information does not necessarily fit into a single hierarchy, as some other information organisation programs attempt to do. Programs such as word processors also attempt to do this. But information might not fit into any hierarchy, or might fit into several alternate hierarchies. Whether you use a hierarchy and which you choose (if so) is merely a way to view the data, and not a part of the data itself.
        • That data is fundamentally typed, and if one wishes one should be able to define constraints on data that are enforced either rigourously or loosely.
      • LSI - Related Publications (Papers and Books)

        New type of search engine.

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"Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men... The people of Baghdad shall flourish under institutions which are in consonance with their sacred laws."
-- General F.S. Maude, commander of British forces in Iraq, 1917