Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

"a fusion of sorts between learned, direct language and rapid, practical digital missives takes place with Leetspeak and macros. Both relay a great deal of information in a small burst of code. Each depends on the receiver of the information having working knowledge of the culture and its references. In a sense, these serve as argots, and help identify both sides of the information transfer as belonging to the subculture where they appear. The in-joke is part of the communication. The separation of ingroup and outgroup helps drive the rapid evolution of both leetspeak and macros."

Identity fraud: 1 hour lecture by Prof. dr. mr. Jan Grijpink
Information and Computing Science, UU en Raadadviseur, Ministerie van Justitie

js-based widgets for visualizing and interacting with time-based data

Surprisingly light Firefox-addon for one-click screencasting. Either full screen or browser window.
Only produces .avi however – and only for Windows.
Could be useful for screencasts to be uploaded to video hosting sites.

"Since 2004, our annual study has unearthed and analyzed the trends and themes of blogging, but for the 2008 study, we resolved to go beyond the numbers of the Technorati Index to deliver even deeper insights into the blogging mind. For the first time, we surveyed bloggers directly about the role of blogging in their lives, the tools, time, and resources used to produce their blogs, and how blogging has impacted them personally, professionally, and financially."

"multilingual dictionary search page where you can not only look for word meaning but also hear the audio pronunciation of a word or translate it into different languages."
(wondering if I can package this into bookmarklets to make it more handy than the "define" operator)