March 2008
17 posts
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Mundane science fiction →
Wiki-stumbling:
Geoff Ryman has contrasted mundane science fiction with regular science fiction through the desire of teenagers to leave their parents’ homes. Ryman sees too much of regular science fiction being based on an “adolescent desire to run away from our world.” However, Ryman notes that humans are not truly considered grown-up until they “create a new home of...
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“There are some theories that when Hillary was talking about being under sniper...”
– My law professor
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Knox'd: Where Knoxville finds information →
Nifty local Web aggregator from Patrick Beeson.
Knox’d has one goal: to aggregate the latest news and information (including jobs, real estate and classified listings), in one location. It seeks to fill the technology gap between the folks that use RSS (me), and the folks that don’t. The latter accounts for the vast majority of Internet users, according to a Pew Internet report.
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Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Locked Up: Why Your... →
Thought provoking article on ownership from Gizmodo. This is especially interesting to me because I’ve been reading so many free Tor eBooks lately.
If you buy a regular old book, CD or DVD, you can turn around and loan it to a friend, or sell it again. The right to pass it along is called the “first sale” doctrine. Digital books, music and movies are a different story though....
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The Official CAPTCHA Site →
I’m working on a project that needs a CAPTCHA so I went to look at reCAPTCHA. Problem is, they seem to be a little confused about a CAPTCHA’s purpose:
CAPTCHA tests are based on open problems in artificial intelligence (AI): decoding images of distorted text, for instance, is well beyond the capabilities of modern computers. Therefore, CAPTCHAs also offer well-defined challenges...
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Novelists Strike Fails To Affect Nation Whatsoever →
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Why We're Powerless To Resist Grazing On Endless... →
This article is fascinating, particularly because spending an hour or two surfing aimlessly is an unfortunate weakness of mine.
What is it about a Web site that might make it literally irresistible? Clues are offered by research conducted by Irving Biederman, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, who is interested in the evolutionary and biological basis of the human need...
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“But I also noticed this line: “Unlike traditional, mainstream media, blogs...”
– Orcinus
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Journalism blog aggregator →
Who needs RSS? This site sticks a headlines from a whooooole bunch of journalism blogs onto one page. It’s a smorgasbord of links!
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The Coming Death of Paper as an Information... →
Whatever can be digitized will be digitized. Hardware can not compete with software in elegance, simplicity, and cost. From the iPhone to online banking, digital things are superior to physical. Soon the clerk in the bank is not going to be retyping the wire transfer from a piece of paper. Soon we will be electing the president of the United States via electronic voting.
The author thinks...
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100 Things to do with Google Maps →
Online journalism is as much about giving users tools as giving them information.
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Get Published! →
Slacktivist vs. crowd-sourcing.
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1,000 True Fans →
The Internet enables a new way for artists to succeed in the digital age?
A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.
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“In fact, the physical act of moving your possessions from Manhattan to Brooklyn...”
– I Write in Brooklyn, Get Over it. (via vaivoda)