Archive for February, 2008

08-02-29

Tags:Computing Timegrid - SIMILE is not yet released but is accessible. It looks (or sounds) very promising.

  Timegrid is a completely client-side Javascript framework that takes event data in some format (iCal, XML, etc.) and […]

">Timegrid from MIT SMILE project

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08-02-25

Tags:Linguistics Paperville Research Babel’s Dawn: Chomsky’s Theory of Language Origins

 The founder of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky, was famous for decades for his dismissal of interest in the evolution of language. In recent years he has moderated his position and in a lecture recently made available on line (here, registration required) he outlines his scenario […]

">Babel’s Dawn: Chomsky’s Theory of Language Origins

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08-02-25

Tags:Computing firefox Watch List Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Prism is workable. Honestly all it does is to install another — modified — Firefox on your computer and to launch whatever URL in a separate window. But it’s great if you have to keep track of multiple gmail accounts. No need to log […]

">Mozilla Labs » Prism
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08-02-15

Tags:Psy97 psychology Teaching
BJS: Basic Causality & Animacy Demo
For our review article, we also created an analogue of the infamous ‘perceptual animacy’ demonstration of Heider and Simmel (1944). This is provided here both with symmetric ‘blocks’ as shapes, and also with oriented ‘darts’ as shapes. Though Heider & Simmel did not study these […]

">Basic Causality & Animacy Demos
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08-02-05

Tags:Computing google Watch List Listen, Google, buy The Milk! This is somehting that is LOOONG missing in gmail. The thoroughness of this plug-in is beyond my expectation. I have installed it and will restart FireFox after posting this. Will report how it goes.  
Remember The Milk - Services / Remember The Milk for Gmail

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">Remember The Milk for Gmail

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08-02-03

Tags:Linguistics Paperville Research To what extent is the HTTP protocol shaped by individual computers at each node? BBS upcoming article, abstract below.
Let’s set aside the evolution vs design debate here; it is self evident that the communications protocol is logically constrained by what individual nodes can and cannot do. But the actual solution — […]

">Language as Shaped by the Brain
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08-02-01

Tags:Computing Linguistics Research
If you are looking for a completely novel and arbitrary (unless you speak ASL) font for English, here’s a great one …  Evertype’s  Sutton SignWriting fonts
 

Sutton True Type Fonts How To Install and Type Documents
 
And while there, check out   The Alphabets of Europe 

">Evertype’s Finger Spelling Font

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