Grant Watson

Bookmarks

• Liberalisation of the Internet - Special Report
  In 2010, the geography of the Internet is set to expand significantly, as ICANN will liberalise the market for domain name extensions. A report to see how consumers and businesses view this change.
  
• NYC: Hackday around tangible interfaces June 6 - Boing Boing
  An open hackday for coders and makers, we expand the notion of digital software interfaces into the three-dimensional physical world. Using tangible objects and webcam tracking, we’ll work with the open-source Trackmate project
  
• When the Engineer Gardens - Boing Boing
  Square-foot gardening is all about eliminating problems. Instead of tilling the dirt and pumping in fertilizer, you build a big box, put a liner on the bottom, and fill it with a mixture of peat moss, vermiculite and compost. Great soil. And no weed seeds to sprout up.
  
• 13 “Twits” Who Will Change Your Perspective on Reality
  Is there profundity to be found on Twitter? Indeed there is. The service plays host to some real gems; seemingly off-the wall users who get inside your head and challenge you to think differently.
  
• How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
  To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one's coworkers and customers. Writing computer programs is important and takes great intelligence and skill. But it is really child's play compared to everything else that a good programmer must do to make a software system that succeeds...