[FRIAM] Which side of the road do they drive on?

2006-12-31 Thread Owen Densmore
Well, a bit frivolous, but we were having a new years conversation on which side of the road various folks drive. Here is the answer we found .. quite interesting. http://www.brianlucas.ca/roadside/ Sweden and a few other countries have actually switched from left to right. What a mess

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-31 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
> > Well, from our side of the world, obviously a killer simulation environment. I recently watched an interview on the Research Channel with Anders Hejisberg, inventor of Turbo Pascal and C#. A former project manager of his at Borland was talking about their abandoned visual programming projec

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-31 Thread Owen Densmore
> 1 - If you/we were to start an open source project, what would it be? Well, from our side of the world, obviously a killer simulation environment. This would include a "pipe" or "port" interoperability amongst many useful components including the agent modeler, landscape/gis agent environ

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-31 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Owen Densmore wrote: > Just a poll of sorts: > > 1 - If you/we were to start an open source project, what would it be? > 2 - What open source project would you like to see happen? > I'd like to see an interactive functional language like Haskell improved to quickly compile and distribute code a

[FRIAM] Calendar design: Just strange enough to appeal to FRIAM

2006-12-31 Thread J T Johnson
Here's something for non-football lovers on New Year's Day: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2006/12/creative_calendar_design.html --tj -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c)

Re: [FRIAM] Snowmen design ideas

2006-12-31 Thread Pamela McCorduck
Hilarious! thanks. I'm beginning to get cabin fever. Maybe I should build a snowman. P. On Dec 31, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote: If anyone is thinking of making snowmen today, here's some inspiration: http://www.chase3000.com/userpages/calvinhobbes/

[FRIAM] Snowmen design ideas

2006-12-31 Thread Stephen Guerin
If anyone is thinking of making snowmen today, here's some inspiration: http://www.chase3000.com/userpages/calvinhobbes/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, un