Trevor F. Smith: Exterior

links for 2007-07-20

• Conversations With and About My Electric Toothbrush
  An episode from the Escape Pod series of podcasts in which sci-fi authors read their short stories. In this episode an AI based in an electric toothbrush yearns for frothier skies.
  (tags: ai podcast)

links for 2007-07-11

• Universal Artificial Intelligence
  An exploration of "Sequential Decisions based on Algorithmic Probability", which makes me feel like I did when I first read about the aesthetics of UNIX, with a sense of messy refinement and raw utility.
  (tags: ai)

links for 2007-07-09

• Getting Real: The Book by 37signals
  Every person in a startup should read this book and take a long look at their new company.

Ogoglio Demo Server 0.2

I just posted a new demo snapshot of the Ogoglio 3D space hosting platform. It starts with a simple example space and an improved UI for creating more spaces and templates. If you tried the 0.1 snapshot you'll be pleased to note that the Pure Ugly interface is now just a bad memory.

Check the Ogoglio sourceforge project for downloads.

Happy 4th!

minikon

Cruxy brought minikon to my attention, and for that I am thankful.

If that's not early morning, pre-coffee, get up and go music, I don't know what.

iEmbed

I borrowed an iPhone and hit a few of my sites to see how they looked. Pretty damn good, actually.

The iPhone's user agent string is a mouthful: "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3"

In 2015 when the iEmbed series of bio computers finally gets released (after people wait in line for two days outside of the Palo Alto Apple Surgery) I'm sure the user agent string will be several paragraphs long and include references to at least 10 other browsers, some of which no longer exist.

The iPhone is all they say and a bag of chips, but I'll wait until revision 2. I didn't wait for rev 2 of my MacBook Pro and now my lap is permanently scarred because their assembly line hadn't learned to properly spread CPU paste. Lesson learned.