My firm sponsors an open source javascript toolkit called Dojo—http://dojotoolkit.org. Some guys involved with it are interested in creating a collaborative localization framework. I’m encouraging Alex (dojo project lead) to expand the scope of thinking about the nascent project beyond just collaborative localization of software, to collaborative “localization” of all sorts of works. That then bleeds over into the idea of a social-networking site to support learning languages…
http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=534
Jan 22, 2006, 05:18PM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments
...we’ll see if they let me in. They say they have entry requirements (?)
Jan 22, 2006, 05:02PM PST | 1 comment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeru_Kobayashi
It’s a little bit gross but kind of inspiring - a scrawny Japanese guy who, by dint of superior training and discipline, is practically an order of magnitude better than his closest rivals in stuffing inhuman quantities of food down his gullet. This superior performance is made sweeter somehow to me by the fact that many of his competitors are big honking dudes who tower over him, but he eats rings around them with apparent ease. The ease is only apparent though - he trains hard…
It’s another ridiculous underdog story that makes me proud to be part Japanese. :) I love how weird and intense Japanese can be, and often are.
Jan 22, 2006, 04:34PM PST | 0 comments
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