IMDb redesigned

Besides a few minor changes over the years, IMDb hadn't been significantly revamped for the better part of a decade. Until today that is. There's one thing I'm not exactly getting here: why didn't they redesign the whole site? What's the point of incremental updates?

Blender 2.43 is out.

BlenderThe latest version of the premier open source 3d modelling application is here. Read the release notes, watch the feature videos and get it from blender.org! This version adds several interesting new features, such as Mesh Sculpting and Retopo tools. It also has numerous improvements in the renderer, particle system, animation system and compositing. Finally it seems so much faster on my PowerPC G5 hardware.

Peer Reviewed School Textbooks.

Here's an idea. Ignore the part where Jobs rants on teacher job security and how this drives the quality of applicants down; What's truly interesting is the opinion also expressed by others in the past: the replacement of textbooks by electronic, online, peer-reviewed information sources, offering up-to-date, widely accepted material to students. Something like Wikipedia (perhaps limited in scope and moderated) replacing what are obsolete and often partial textbooks.

The 'Hackintosh' experience.

These past few years have been part of a period in which the computing industry, for the first time after many years, has been in flux. The importance of web applications is growing everyday. Alternatives to well-established platforms and application software, often powered by open source software, are challenging the status quo and there was […]

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Το An Inconvenient Truth είναι ένα ντοκυμαντέρ παραγωγής 2006 αφιερωμένο στην υπερθέρμανση του πλανήτη και βασισμένο εν πολλοίς σε μια, εκ των πολλών, διάλεξεων του Αl Gore, ενός πολιτικού που έχει αφιερώσει τα τελευταία χρόνια της ζωής του στην διάδοση και ενημέρωση του κόσμου σε αυτό το ιδιαίτερα σημαντικό και άκρως ενδιαφέρον θέμα. Ο Gore […]