Tilt is a fun new Firefox extension focused on creating a 3D visualization of a webpage, drawn using WebGL. Since the DOM is essentially a tree-like representation of a document, this tool layers each node based on the nesting in the tree, creating stacks of elements, each having a corresponding depth and being textured according to the webpage rendering.
From its Preamble:
Today, social media has reached a decisive crossroads. The direction we choose to take will affect the course of human events and shape our destiny. Facebook has established a social media cyber-monopoly that tramples on our rights and limits our freedoms. The history of Facebook is a history of arrogance and repeated exploitation of the people. Its dictatorship must end. Social media must turn in a new direction. The time has come for the people to rise up and declare their emancipation.
Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back.
During the scanning process it is recommended not to open your eyes.
[Free computer science classes online]Stanford Engineering professors are offering three of the school’s most popular computer science courses for free online this fall, and at the same time launching an experiment that could transform the way online education is delivered...
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