While browsing Gentoo Portage for some Bluetooth ebuilds, I came across an ebuild for quat, a “3D quaternionic fractal generator”. I had never heard of 3D fractals, let alone quaternionic fractals, so I checked out the website, and it looks pretty interesting. Here and here are some nice examples of what 3D fractals look like. If you’re interested in computer graphics, these are worth checking out.
I recently came across XWiki, a relatively new, Java-based Wiki. For anybody looking to deploy a new Wiki, this looks like a great option. It has an extensive feature list and seems to combine the best features of other Wiki engines as well as add a few unique Features of its own, for example scripting using Groovy or Velocity, PDF export, and others. It has a plugin API and supports RSS....
Here is a nice article on Freeware suggestions under Windows. A lot of good stuff in there, as well as in the comments.
I came across a very nice page on RSS Readers. This looks like a very complete listing of RSS Readers, including client-side applications for various operating systems as well as web-based aggregators. Before I got into blogging (writing but even more importantly reading blogs), I never quite understood the big deal about RSS. Sure, there were some decent news sites out there (both commercial and fee-based as well as free) that offered RSS feeds, but it appeared to be over-hyped....
Is it just me, or is there really no good way of sharing bookmarks between Mozilla (or Firefox) and IE? While I used to browse using IE up until recently, I find myself using Firefox most of the time these days, mostly due to its excellent support for tabbed browsing (does anybody else find it surprising that IE still does not support this feature?). However, I still use IE sometimes, and I would really like to see a good way of sharing bookmarks between these two browsers....