Recently spotted… May 28, 2007
I found out today that delicious has a limit on its ‘notes’ field - which is rather disappointing - especially as i’ve been increasingly use it to store longer thoughts and discussion on the articles / sites i’ve been bookmarking. I’m going to try out ma.gnolia, and see if that’s any better for more indepth bookmarking. Lord knows how i’ll migrate my delicious bookmarks across though. No doubt someone’s done it already.
Update: dur! there’s a big ass ‘import bookmarks from delicious’ link. i’m liking ma.gnolia already.
A Cost Effective Device For Translating American Sign Language Into Text and Speech - a grant awarded to a team looking into developing a glove which allows the wearer to sign in ASL, and it be translated into english text and speech. i’m interested to know what my ex thinks about this, being a sign language interpreter. there’s no substitute for an interpreter - there are too many nuances in the language, and (i’m coming from a BSL perspective, ASL maybe different), signs are often reused and their meaning depends on the context. Also, BSL is a OSV language (Object Subject Verb), where as English is a Subject Verb Object language. That being said, its a great step towards helping the deaf community communicate with non-signers, which can only be a good thing.
Infinite Loop - we’re all the same really
We were at Matt and Emma’s playing Wii last night. Its started me wanting one (it was actually the first time i’ve played on a Wii, although give me a day or so, and the excitement will probably subside, I can’t see Gears of War or Halo3 on a Wii). However, if a few of these games were released, it might change my mind.
