http://www.therockblog.com Prof's corner Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:02:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here are some entertaining sites that also require some strategizing. Planarity - untangle nodes from a Web of confusion Peekaboom - for the benefit of science; work on image recognition in collaboration with a randomly picked other person (it’s much more fun than I’m making it sound here) Gravity - use your physics ... http://www.therockblog.com/2005/11/14/brain-flexing/ Here are links to some material that we have looked at in class in the past couple of weeks. Videos JibJab on This Land George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People by: The Legendary K.O. Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog on these two Free software HTTrack for downloading entire Web sites GIMP - check this previous post for specific links Inkscape Related ... http://www.therockblog.com/2005/11/14/links-from-lectures/ In the spirit of Halloween, I thought I’d post a link to this little mystery game starring the ghost “Jinx”, not to be confused with our own Jinx. (If you are seeing this right before doing your assignment for Monday’s class, I recommend clicking on the link AFTER you’ve ... http://www.therockblog.com/2005/10/27/halloween-fun/ This article is relevant to the discussion we had in class today regarding different prices offered to people depending on their profiles. http://www.therockblog.com/2005/10/24/different-prices-for-different-profiles/ We’ve discussed feeds before and J. asked today about RSS use. (Granted, his question may have had to do with the browser link in particular, but oh well.) Here is a list of ten ways in which you can use feeds. It’s just a list to get ... http://www.therockblog.com/2005/10/19/uses-for-feeds/ Here is the list of extensions we discussed in class, plus some additional ones. UPDATE: Fixed a bad link (thanks, Andrea!). Feel free to leave links to your favorite extensions in the comments to this post. http://www.therockblog.com/2005/10/19/firefox-extensions/ In preparation for Wednesday’s class about Firefox and its advantages, you may want to read this summary of why Firefox is worth giving a try. Also, if you haven’t yet, you can download it here. For detailed instructions on how to install it (Windows), check this site. You can ... http://www.therockblog.com/2005/10/17/firefox-prep/ Social bookmarking lets you keep track of sites of interest while sharing your finds with others. Moreover, a social bookmarking system lets you browse others’ bookmarks as well. One popular such service is del.icio.us. Yahoo! also has its own version at My Web 2.0. Now a new ... http://www.therockblog.com/2005/10/17/more-on-social-bookmarking/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Board notes in class, originally uploaded by eszter. In case you wanted to have a permanent copy of today’s board notes, here’s a little pic. http://www.therockblog.com/2005/10/17/board-notes/ Splogs are spam blogs, blogs that exist solely for fooling search engines about the popularity and relevance of certain sites. Now there is a search engines geared toward searching just splogs: Splogspot. I am not sure when you would want to use it except perhaps when trying to show someone ... http://www.therockblog.com/2005/10/17/splogs/