"Demonstration against OOXML, originally uploaded by Martin Bekkelund..." -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinbekkelund/2401095139/

Rob Weir has documented an incredibly simple, telling and fascinatingly descriptive demonstration of exactly why OOXML is such utter crap and should never become a standard in its current format. He shows how a simple formatting rule looks when saved using OOXML or ODF* based applications.

As the representative for Norway in the recent OOXML ratification process, Steve Pepper has become an outspoken critic of the IEC/ISO process. Pepper is also a passionate advocate of XML, open standards and Topic Maps.

"...The current plans regarding the collection of information about citizens’ communication, movements and use of media constitute the greatest threat yet to our right to an independent and private life..."

Akregator is a KDE application for reading online news feeds... [and] ...Festival is a general multi-lingual speech syntheses system and it offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques.

"If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this video demonstration of Operator is worth just shy of 1.5 million..."

SceneCON is an annual meeting of underground computer artists who are members of the famous demo scene. With SceneCON, the organizers aim to follow the two decade old tradition of demo scene parties in Hungary. Yet, with a bit of a twist. This years party was held from the 16th until the 17th of June, 2007.

Here’s a screencast of us showing off the stability, graphic effects, and programs of Ubuntu Linux. This ENTIRE thing was done on a 2 YEAR OLD Dell XPS 400, with a Pentium D and 2 GB of RAM…

Have you been frustrated with speech recognition software in the past? I've used the top proprietary products, such as IBM's ViaVoice and Nuance's Dragon Naturally Speaking in the past. I've found limited good uses for them, but they're not entirely accurate, and they're reasonably expensive.