XahLee.org What's New

2016-09-13 this page is pretty much outdated since 2008.

Note: only MAJOR change or additions will be shown here. If you are new to XahLee.org, please check out the Xah Lee Table of Contents page. My online diary is at: Periodic Dosage.

2007-04

Many things have been added over the past half a year.

A Photographic Tour of Life in Second Life. This is a Second Life gallery, with 250 screenshots (89 html pages) giving a gamut of Second Life. Aside from the aspect of a glimps of a computer game, i give the ethonology perspective. Namely, given a virtual world, what can we learn about human animal behavior by observing or reading the statistics of what people do in it. Also, it serves as a survey from the computing technology aspect. Namely, by looking at these screenshots, you get a glimpse of the state of the art of virtual world, and can think about its impinging impact in society. Included there is a 3D-construction tutorial and LSL scripting tutorial. (this project started in Jan 2007)

Another major undertaking, is: Introduction to 3D Graphics Programing. This project is started in 2006 December, and currently has 15 HTML pages.

Primarily, it is a tutorial on using POV-Ray.

A major essay: Geometry: Requirements for a Visualization System for 2020

2006-10

Lots of updates. My home page, Xah Lee Web 李杀网 now has a lot new sections which i've been working on in the past couple of years. The new sections are: Literature Classics, Visual Arts, Architectural Beauties.

Each of these section contains tens or hundreds of pages.

Also, a complete new section which i've been working on a lot this year is the Emacs and Elisp Tutorial which now has about some 25 pages, plus a 850+ pages mirror of the Elisp Manual.

2006-08

There is new RSS feed of my blog Periodic Dosage: pd.xml.

2006-07

• To Catch a Cold

• States of Instant Messanging and IM on the Mac

2006-06

• Python, Lambda, Guido: is Language Design Just Solving Puzzles?

• essay: On “I” versus “i” (capitalization of first person pronoun)

• On Criticism (essay)

• Modernization of Emacs

2006-05

Created a index to my essays.

2006-03

Essay: Elegance and Respectability of Juggling

Several essays of Lyrics analysis with a focus on ethology and ethology:

Essay: American Heritage Dictionary vs New Oxford American Dictionary (Review)

Essay: The Concepts and Confusions of Algebraic and Fully Functional Notations

Essay: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-02

• The entirety of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass is now online, with illustrations by John Tenniel and Arthur Rackham, and a collection of over a hundred Alice artworks by others.

2006-01

I haven't updated this page for 4 months! Ok, i can't remember exactly what major things have been added to my website, but here's some selective notables:

• Batgirl Drawing Craze. About 60 artworks of batgirl for your viewing pleasure. Since i started this compilation, i learned quite a lot about the art world and community. There are really a lot artists around, that if you are not in the art community you don't notice. Many of these really quality works are by art students just graduated or almost graduated, and a quite a few are by professionals. You don't need to judge their professionalism by what degree or credential they have, just look at their work!

• Also, quite a few new entries has made into the Visual Arts Appreciation page.

• Tutorial: What is New in Cascading Style Sheets 2 as well as many new pages in the Dynamic HTML Tutorial pages.

• There's now a Emacs and Emacs Lisp tutorial

• The Bug Reporting Attitude (essay; computing industry sociology)

• The Heart of Wikipedia: Why is Wikipedia Successful? (essay; internet sociology)

• 2005 XahLee.org web traffic report.

2005-09

• Women and Human Animals

• The story of Little Red Riding Hood (original), 1697, By Charles Perrault

• Several new essays on the Python documentation problems at the Python Tutorial page. (near bottom).

• started a JavaScript tutorial/examples project.

• Added several essays about trees (computer science): Tree Functions in Perl, Python, Java

• Several minor essays… Here's some selection: 〈The Star Spangled Banner〉 [ http://xahmusic.org/music/the_star_spangled_banner.html ] ; 〈Perception of Difficulty Levels in Human Feats〉 [ http://xaharts.org/jj/juggling.html ]

2005-07

• Annotated: George Orwell's essay: Politics and the English Language

• Completely annotated: Industrial Society and its Future by Theodore Kaczynski. (aka: unabomber manifesto)

• Literature Classics, about 20 classic and semi-classic world literature. Most of which annotated by me.

• Appreciation of the Visual Arts. About 20 pages of visual arts collection.

• some 50 War photos of Iraq

2005-06

• Expanded the article What are Object Oriented Programing Jargons and Complexities (OOP Model as Functional Programing). Now at 3600 words.

• Complete Time Machine by H G Wells, annotated. http://xahle.org/p/time_machine/tm.html

• Chapter 1 of Gullivers Travels has been annotated. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

• Annotated: Titus Andronicus: Act 1 (page 1)

2005-05

• Expanded the article: What are Object Oriented Programing Jargons and Complexities (OOP Model as Functional Programing). Now at 2700 words.

2005-04

Complete rewrite of Python's RE module documentation: Python Regex Reference

2005-03-28: Bertrand Russell's essay annotated: What Desires Are Politically Important

2005-03-26: Mirrored and annotated: Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence, (1996) by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson

• A list of non-trivial simplified Chinese characters: 简体繁體字表 List of Simplified/Traditional Chinese Characters

• About 20 Chinese song lyrics poem translated into English: Songs of Human Animals.

2005-03

• Much improved lojban+Chinese a-word-a-day

• The “Banners, Damsels, Mores” project is coming of age, now feauting over 200 photos: Banners, Damsels, and Mores

• Notable essay: “What is OOP's Jargons and Complexities”. Whether you are a rookie or seasoned programer, this will be the best essay explaning OOP you'll ever read: What are Object Oriented Programing Jargons and Complexities (OOP Model as Functional Programing)

• Some 8 chapters of Burton's Arabian Night's has been annotated. See this Introduction and Synopsis by me (with links to the annotated texts): The Arabian Nights, Introduction by Xah Lee

• Started a Perl-Python a-day mailing list and website, with daily tips. Python Tutorial

• Started a-Java-a-day mailing list and website, with daily tips. Xah's Java Tutorial

• I've been living as a homeless vagrant in my 2000 Honda sedan since 2004. If you enjoyed my site, please donate money, or, buy a CD of my Special Plane Curves website. To donate money, go to paypal.com and pay to xah@xahlee.org.

2005-01

Update my personal page, including many photos. Personal Info about Xah Lee

2004-11

Brand new page on projective geometry:The Real Projective Plane.

I'm actively working on my Special Plane Curves site again. Go there to check out what's new. In particular, i decided to make all animations available free. Please donate if you can.

Somenoe has sent me X-Ray photos of seashells. Fantastic.

2004-10

Now you can download my Plane Tiling Mathematica add-on package.

2004-09

Several things are new from the past 5 months:

A seashell section: a photographic exhibition of beautiful seashells. (~30 seashells, 110+ photos.) Annotation is to come later.

major update on the Las Vegas travelog, with addition of 50+ photos and 7 pages of mega-resorts.

A new budding project: Tilings and Patterns. Right now as notes from reading Tiling and Patterns, 1986, by Branko Grunbaum and G C Shaphard. In the coming months, it will expand into a self-contained mathematical exposition of the subject, complete with illustrations.

The Math Surface Gallery has been majorly updated. Now it has some 70 surfaces, and each surface has a text describing what they are.

a new project: Banners, Damsels, and Mores. This annotated photo exhibition gives you a revealing walk-thru of cultures thru how they regard their flags as exhibited as everyday artifacts, in particular as a piece of swimwear, and in particular the Anglo-Saxons. It currently includes 250 annotated photos.

and as usual, my Periodic Dosage page is updated at least weekly. Few noteworthy articles that appeared in the past include (just to name a few):

2004-04

A new surface gallery with about 60 surfaces.

2004-03

2004-03-09: There is a lojban A Word A Day page, with Chinese and voice recordings.

2004-03-09: The English A Word A Day Page is now updated daily, true to form.

On the Periodic Dosage side, the latest is: What is Wrong with American.

2004-01

2004-01-22: Search box is added to my main page at Xah Lee Web 李杀网

2004-01-21: A new article on math: Algorithmic Mathematical Art

2004-01-21: Four new word lists has been added to the English Vocabulary . They are:

* word list from Dickens's novel _a Tale of Two Cities_ (532 words)
* 1249 words word list of Romance trash novel Too Much Too Soon (1985) by Jacqueline Briskin
* a word list from some other short fictions: olimpia_reader.html (279 words)
* words_old.html (2259 words) compiled around 1990 mostly from novels.

2004-01-21: The Links To My Site page has been updated. It used to contain some 1500 links to my site in year 2000 as garnered from my weblog. Most of the URL gone.

2004-01-16: The online periodic keeps being updated on a weekly basis. Now starting to contain math ruminations, possibly as seeds of some opus.

2004-01-16: Now the my English Vocabulary page has a page listing new words. Updated about, mmm, maybe biweekly. You will have to look up what dictionary says about biweekly, and check also fortnightly. Similar words are monthly, period.

2003-11

My online periodic now sports a Encompassing Report on Las Vegas, with over one hundred photos and still coming.

2003-10

Added 20 something photos to the Altamount Pass windfarm page.

Official commencement of a Online Periodic. Here's the intro:

Once upon a time there was Diary, and similar were logs, journals, travelog and such forth. In our info age, it is called blogs by inept computing geeks. (blogs = web logs). To keep in sync with humanity of fashionable business and nomenclature novelty, mine is called Periodic Dosage. This periodic, is bent on to inform the informed, and educate the educated, of all things and social things and anthropological things you could not care less. Could you?

Note: it may be offensive to many readers.

Massive update of my Great Math Programs page. This page has been dorminant since about 1998. Before that, i have surveyed all math programs on the Mac as much as one can. But then i joined the dot com and got busy with headaches and sleeplessness and money. Now i'm temporary out of dot com and had a opportunity to check out the math programs out there again, including those for Windows. Some 10 or 10 programs has been added, with some 10 or so inline screenshots. This massive update will continue in the next weeks.

2003-09

my Great Math Programs page has been updated. Adding about 4 wonderful programs, and re-modeled the page with lots of new screenshots.

2003-06

Added a Netiquette Anthropology -- collected essays on the phenomenon of netiquette and trolls, and some essays on Microsoft Hatred.

Updated several pages on my curve site. See Special Plane Curves What's New page for detail.

Added the Whirl Wheels page. It's a photographical exposition on propellers and turbines. The page will be continuously improved in the near future.

I took a trip to Asia from 2003 Jan to 2003 April. Joined the Conference for Visual Geometery at Tokyo. (website is under construction), and taught graduate math students Mathematica programing in Taiwan. See Taiwan's National Center for Theoretical Science site http://math.cts.nthu.edu.tw/~xlee/index.html and Martin Guest's mirror at http://tmugs.math.metro-u.ac.jp/g-cts/index.html.

I created the Unix Pestilence site sometimes late 2002. Update it much in 2003-05

2002-05

Much has been added to my
 Curves
page. See what's new there.

i've also changed the name from Special Plane Curves to Famous Plane
Curves. In modern mathematics, these curves and their properties only
have a historical and recreational value.

… this what's new page is often not up to date.
I only fill it when i thought about it.


2002-01-25

there's much new, but this page is that much update.

the
Special Plane Curves
page has been much updated. See what's new on that site.

to do: