smart computer use?

Just recently, Darwin has experienced the powers of the Internet and has found his papers published upon it.

The first draft of Charles Darwin’s “On The Origin Of Species” is among a wealth of papers belonging to the intensely private man who changed science being published on the Internet on Thursday for the first time.

Comprising some 20,000 items and 90,000 images, the release on http://darwin-online.org.uk is the largest in history, according to the organizers from Cambridge University Library which holds all the Darwin papers.

The rest of the article, titled “Darwin’s private papers get Internet launch“, can be read at newsdaily.com.

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Imagine that. A striptease, a trojan, and code cracking. Not as kinky as it sounds. I guess this whole thing is just an example of the dark underbelly of the internet.

A nifty little program that Trend Micro detects as TROJ_CAPTCHAR.A disguises itself as a strip-tease game, wherein a scantily clad “Melissa” agrees to take off a little bit of her clothing. However, for her to strut her stuff, users must identify the letters hidden within a CAPTCHA.

Read the rest here.

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This is some good stuff, www.ff0000.com, the web site of Red Interactive. It’s fun for a business to business web site.

Take on the roll of a strange, drawn looking character and run around the screen interacting with other site users.

Yet another way to kill some time while sitting in front of a computer. You’ll have a good amount of fun flying up to the cloud line and typing communications to other site users, if anybody else is visiting the site at the same time.

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Seth Godin makes a great a great point in his post about Data vs Software, claiming that we’re finally on the cusp of seeing web-aware software and applications that live on the web.

I’d love to see that. It’s gonna happen sooner or later. Now is as good of a time as ever. I would love to have applications that reference the vast amounts of data available on the web to make use of the application much easier.

Just think of all the times you’ve been using an application and you’ve had to hop onto the web to download and manually retrieve information or add-ons to the app. Most apps could benefit from a little bit of data retrieval from the web, making use of the app easier. ThinkGeneology.com has a great related article about the convergence of web software and desktop software, touching on the topic of Rich Internet Applications. Good stuff.

Back to Seth’s post, if you’re looking for a good source for seeing what’s available for Firefox add-ons, he’s got a great link in that post as well. Check it out.

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