Archive 17. March 2008

Panda3d full featured open source python 3d engine - hmm. Unfortunately only installers for Linux and Windows. Will this work with OS X? Maybe even embeddable in Nodebox?

This is The End My Friend: Negroponte Says XP on XO in 60 Days - "With the Sugar User Interface, OLPC can claim to have a Constructionist learning methodology, it can claim to be promoting exploration and learning, it can even hope to activate the view source key. But once you put on XP, no matter how much it may be customized to leverage the XO hardware, children will not be taught to "learn learning" as Negroponte promised. They will be taught "ICT skills", a phrase Negroponte himself railed against."

Ur-Scheme: A GPL self-hosting compiler from a subset of R5RS Scheme to fast Linux x86 asm - I like such projects, no matter how pointless they may be.