links for 2007-10-30
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Teinds, by Sonya Taaffe
You hold me so tightly as you sleep, as though I might melt with midnight into cold air on the pillow, a crease in the sheets that smells like the hair of someone you used to love. Your arms around my waist, your hips cupped to mine, your mouth [...]
links for 2007-10-29
Posted on October 30, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
User:JLS/tileloader.py - OpenStreetMap
This a script to download tiles in advance when planning to go somewhere and use BSGPSPDA or some other tool that needs tiles to be downloaded. The script really has no sanity checks so be careful on what values you pass to it.
(tags: bsgps gps openstreetmap tools geo)
links for 2007-10-24
Posted on October 25, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Getting Out of Hand
Heh
(tags: wikipedia, humour, xkcd)
links for 2007-10-23
Posted on October 24, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: One Paper Airplane Graffito Love Note, by Will McIntosh
A paper airplane drifted high in the sky above the field. I nearly crashed my bicycle, straining to follow its path as it circled above the treetops at the far edge. It held the wind beautifully, effortlessly. Pausing, it hovered over the field just [...]
links for 2007-10-22
Posted on October 23, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
GPS Photo Correlation (Linux)
A variety of programs exist around the place to match GPS data with digital camera photos, but most of them are Windows or MacOS only. Which doesn’t really suit me that much. Also, each one takes the GPS data in a different format.
So I wrote my own. A l
(tags: gps exif photography [...]
links for 2007-10-15
Posted on October 16, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Making Payments, by Jason Stoddard
“What if you use a hotcard to buy a minijesus?” the barista said. “I mean, would they cancel out, or something?”
“Or a realkrishna,” a bewhiskered man said.
“I heard minijesuses aren’t real clones,” another said, her inch-long holographic fingernails cl
(tags: fiction sf free * *toconvert)
Interspeech and AVSP 2007
Posted on October 12, 2007 - Filed Under biometrics, conference, research, speech | Leave a Comment
I recently attended two speech related conference over in Europe. It seems I like my international conferences in twos. The first conference was the Interspeech 2007 conference in Antwerp, Belgium, and the second was the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) 2007 near Hilvarenbeek in the Netherlands. Both were good experiences and will be [...]
Read More..>>links for 2007-10-09
Posted on October 10, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: The Master, by Lavie Tidhar
That morning Shaul found it hard to wake up; his mind kept grasping at the remains of a fading dream, so that his waking was unusually prolonged. When he did finally surface it was mid-morning, and the sun was streaming through the open windows, making hi
(tags: fiction sf [...]
links for 2007-10-07
Posted on October 8, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering
Blambot’s FREE FONTS are designed with the beginning comic creator in mind. These fonts are just what you need to adequately letter your projects…and they’re free for independent comic creators!
(tags: fonts typography free design cool)
links for 2007-10-02
Posted on October 3, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Miro - Internet TV Blog » Blog Archive » The Free Beauty Squadron
What if there was a mini-organization that would hire a great interface designer to work with different open-source projects for 2 months at a time developing improved interfaces and user experiences?
(tags: gui opensource design)
eqe: Linux LaTeX equation editor
Eqe is a simple clone of [...]