Stream of Consciousness #2
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Various collected and random thoughts.
From an Open Letter on Intelligent Design:
“Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.”
While you can never be save, you can be almost safe. This is the maximum real estate you can use in a browser.
Myst 5 - End of Ages
It seems Myst 4 - Revelations was not the final one. This time it’s realtime, and a damn fine looking one at that. Try the demo as well!
Google Talk presents IM and IP telephony from our favourite humongous company. Google Talk uses the open source Jabber protocol.

A walkthrough of my design process for web photo app: ZenPhoto.
Broken Kode: Saida
Khaled’s beautiful redesign sports a cleverly unusual sidebar, a surprisingly un-blog-like layout, and pretty details. Lovely!
GUIdebook - UI design on several platforms
GUIdebook is a must visit for any UI or usability designer. There’s a myriad of interfaces on different operating systems, analyzed, categorized and described.
Crocodile’s Immune System Kills HIV
Additionally, their immune system seems able to fight off certain types of penicillin resistant bacteria. Maybe this is a huge breakthrough. Let’s hope so.
Warming Up Mars
Introducing “Super Green-house Gasses” may create an atmosphere on Mars. Some 50 years after I’m dead. Damn!
Internet Explorer 7 get’s a new name and logo
No longer is it MS Internet Explorer 7, now it’s Windows Internet Explorer 7.
Flash 8 Examples
Looks like the new bitmap caching system does speed things up quite a bit. Check out some of the blur and bitmap examples as well, it seems we can look forward to all those java applet water effects again. To see the examples make sure you have the beta Flash Player 8 installed. It’s pretty stable, so don’t worry about it.
The Blogebrity Hoax
“The website purported to be a sneak preview of a magazine that would be launching in the fall of 2005 which would focus upon the lifestyles of bloggers.” I jumped on the bandwagon of course.
Bush want’s schoolbooks to teach alternative to evolution
The alternative being “intelligent design”, the idea that an “unseen force” created mankind. This is stupidity on a previously unseen level. Frankly, I’m astonished. Barry Lynn said it best: [student's hearing two viewpoints] “doesn’t understand that one is a religious viewpoint and one is a scientific viewpoint.”