{"id":2330,"date":"2004-10-07T00:19:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T07:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/10\/07\/2330.html"},"modified":"2004-10-07T00:19:21","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T07:19:21","slug":"items-technology-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/10\/07\/items-technology-and-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: technology and art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few items before I go to sleep:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.speculativeliterature.org\/Forums\/index.php?showtopic=46&st=0&#entry207\">Speculative Literature Foundation announces Technology Exchange program<\/a>.  You can donate your spare equipment, and the Exchange will find an sf writer who needs it.  The SLF is just matching up donors with recipients; it doesn't take possession of the equipment, and it doesn't supply tech support.  But if you make such a donation in the US, you can write off the donation as a tax deduction.  See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speculativeliterature.org\/Awards\/TechnologyExchange.php\">exchange program page<\/a> for more info.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/razghul.ice.org\/misc\/zoom\/zoom.htm\">Zoom Quilt<\/a> is an astonishing Shockwave piece that lets you do an infinite zoom-in on a particular image; it's a series of gradual transitions that reminds me somewhat of Escher's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgallery.com\/enlarge\/015-20774\/\">Metamorphosis<\/a>, only you're moving <em>into<\/em> the image instead of across it.  You could think of it as traveling around and around the inside of a torus with fantastic murals painted on the walls, I guess, but that wouldn't do justice to it.  Go take a look.  (Unfortunately, probably requires the Shockwave Player plug-in.)<\/li>\n<li>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safalra.com\/website\/browsermarket\/\">web browser market share<\/a> information; at that site, Internet Explorer accounts for only 73% of traffic, as opposed to the 95% that some sites are still seeing.  I imagine some small part of the difference can be accounted for by the recent upsurge in popularity of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> as an alternative to IE.  When the Firefox public preview release first went up, they had a goal of reaching a million downloads in ten days; it actually took only about five days.  Now, less than a month after the preview release went up, they've had over 3.5 million downloads.  See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/\">Spread Firefox<\/a> for more info.  Stop by, download the browser (available for Windows, Linux, and Mac), give it a try, see if you like it.  And remember that the next version of IE won't be out for a long time yet.  (I should note that this is still a pre-release version of Firefox; the final 1.0 release will come later this fall.  But by most accounts, the preview release is quite usable in its current form.)<\/li>\n<li>Okay, while I'm pointing to applications, a couple for OS X: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redlers.com\/\">Mellel<\/a>, a new word processor for OS X \"designed especially for scholars, creative and technical writers, and anyone seeking an agile, small-footprint yet feature-rich program,\" created by a small Israeli company.  I haven't done much with it yet, and I have no idea whether it'll be adequate for my needs; it imports and exports Word files, but I don't know how good a job it does with them yet.  It costs only $40 for a single-user license, or $60 for a five-pack for one family or site, or $30 at the educational discount rate.  I've been lamenting the lack of word processors for OS X (other than MS Word), so I plan to give it a try.  I also plan to give <a href=\"http:\/\/macromates.com\/\">TextMate<\/a> a try; it's an OS X text editor with a lot of interesting-looking features, for only $40.  I'm quite satisfied with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barebones.com\/products\/bbedit\/\">BBEdit<\/a> (just upgraded to version 8.0, in fact), but I use only a fraction of BBEdit's power; seems worth looking at other options.  Though BBEdit is so fast for most things that I don't have much need for a lighter-weight text editor.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, for anyone who needs to calculate the destructive potential of a given quantity of antimatter, Edward Muller has just the thing: an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardmuller.com\/right17.htm\">antimatter calculator<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few items before I go to sleep: Speculative Literature Foundation announces Technology Exchange program. 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