Julian Dibbell : After Babelfish
"Suppose that the unhinged flights of Babelfish at its nuttiest are in some sense very much what Shakespeare is about -- or at least what translations of Shakespeare ought to be about. Suppose, that is, that Walter Benjamin in fact had something very much like Babelfish in mind when he wrote that translation has but one true task: to catch a fleeting glimpse for us of that "higher and purer" language of which all languages, after Babel, are mere fragments."
Laurent Burgbacher : Progect Manager
"is a project management tool [ for the PalmOS ]. Why a "g" in Progect? Because in french, "g" has the same pronounciation as "j", and it's a GPL application." Those wacky Open Source kids, always thinking.
Edd Dumbill : Putting RDF to Work
"So began my dream of integrating all my metadata. Somewhere there would be a large database into which my e-mail, web browser, file system, and so on would enter metadata. I'd then be able to, with relative ease, query the database to make connections between data items on my computer. On top of that database, graphical clients could be written to maintain and annotate it, and hooks written back into the browser, file manager, and e-mail client to allow the use of this extra information."
Lincoln Stein : IO::Interface.pm
"adds methods to IO::Socket objects that allows them to be used to retrieve and change information about the network interfaces on your system. In addition to the object-oriented access methods, you can use a function-oriented style." ifconfig -a, be gone!
I had no idea
that you could actually get a job as a professional
Web Surfer. Apparently, "little creativity is required."