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links for 2008-07-06

camen design · A List Of People Who Need To Stop Writing Software
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Back to Basics: Capture Your Ideas - Stepcase Lifehack
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Spinning Lady Optical illusion

A few months ago, I came across the optical illusion below  on Mighty Optical Illusion. It is possible to see the lady spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise:

 Then last week an Australian newspaper posted an article that states this optical illusion can be used as a Right brain VS Left Brain test:

THE Right Brain vs Left Brain […]

Wink hands on tutorial

Wink is an amazing tool to make tutorial. There are 2 tutorials provided with the software. They are useful to start using the software. So initially, you must spend about 1h to figure out how to use the tool properly. The purpose of this tutorial is not to replace those delivered with the product, but […]

How to reproduce a Van Gogh

The animation here show how to reproduce “Starry night over the Rhone”, a famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh. The animation end with the outcome below:
 
The original is shown below:

Found via http://haha.nu/

 Sang Shin from Sun Microsystems offers a 10-week online course on AJAX programming. The course started on august 4th but you may still register here. The material provided is of great quality. The course description says:
What is it  like to take this course online? 

Online attendees of this course are expected to do the course work as […]

A nice flash web site has been created to promote Rob Bryanton’s book “Imagining the tenth dimension”. The introduction states:
“In string theory, physicists tell us that the subatomic particles that make up our universe are created within ten spatial dimensions (plus an eleventh dimension of “time”) by the vibrations of exquisitely small “superstrings”. The average […]

When writting my previous post I found some interesting documents about TOR, Bittorrent and more generally peer to peer anonymity. All this reading helped my to understand that using Bittorrent with TOR for anonymous peer to peer doesn’t make sense. In my previous post I suggested to use TOR to route trafic between trackers and […]

A few weeks ago Chris Brunner post an article called “Why You Shouldn’t Run BitTorrent Over Tor?”. I found this point of view too restrictive. This point of view makes the assumption that people are stupid. So as using TOR with bittorrent is not so easy, we should prevent people to use them. I will list below […]

A guy called Tarun Upadhyay has created a software that allows to add Labels in Outlook (like Gmail) using categories. I didn’t tried it but it looks interesting. The software is free and may be found here.

I just discovered that it is possible to tag mails with categories in microsoft outlook 2003. Once you have done that, it’s easy to display mail in a folder by categories. It is a more flexible way to organize mail than folder, because you can attach a mail to several categories whereas it can only […]