2008 Feb 15, 4:29FTA: "The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth."
via:swannman neal-stephenson 2008 Feb 11, 7:49Thanks Itrasbiel! FTA: "The site must be marked. Aside from the legal requirement, the site will be indelibly imprinted by the human activity associated with waste disposal. We must complete the
process by explaining what has been done and why. "
via:Itrasbiel future science time art nuclear government nuclear-waste 2008 Feb 11, 7:39FTA: "This is an experiment for the White Glove Tracking project, made with Java and processing. Source: Engine.java, DataFrame.java all: giantglove.zip."
video java humor white-glove-tracking micheal-jackson via:kris.kowal 2008 Feb 11, 7:07Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.
via:kris.kowal humor evolution candy m&m 2008 Feb 11, 3:05Why major carmakers won't want to participate in the Automotive X Prize, a contest to develop a 100mpg car.
xprize contest blog post analysis car x-prize 2008 Feb 10, 3:21Museum of Glass in Tacoma Washington including live glass blowing demonstrations.
todo glass mog museum-of-glass tacoma washington 2008 Feb 9, 12:57The Calais API documentation. Looks like its geared towards discovering companies, people associated with companies, mergers between companies, etc etc
api reference calais reuters web semantic 2008 Feb 8, 3:26Google's Social Graph API's normalization method. This is no way to treat a URI...
uri google api normalize social social-graph graph reference 2008 Feb 8, 3:24FTA: "...Using a mix of natural language processing, AI techniques, and a massive databases, Reuters' solution extracts important bits of information from raw HTML pages. People, Companies, Places,
and Events are really at the heart of many business artic
via:sambrook api reuters news tagging semantic semantic-web web 2008 Feb 8, 11:21FTA: "I was quite troubled to realize today that I couldn't list ten major differences between Sweden and Norway. All my best Livejournal pals lent a hand and we came up with this
not-entirely-comprehensive list."
map humor via:boingboing norway sweden europe geography information visualization 2008 Feb 7, 2:36To summ up the last Q&A, the one I was interested in: "Is there any way to escape the characters " and ' in an XPath expression...". And their answer is no. Lame. I thought XPath folk would have
defined this.
microsoft msdn xpath xml article 2008 Feb 3, 11:01FTA: "Like Klein, EFF senior staff attorney Kevin Bankston had spent much of the previous December reading press accounts of the administration's secret surveillance program. "It was all I thought
about over the holiday," he remembers. In fact, at his bos
via:boingboing eff article law privacy government history 2008 Feb 2, 5:52NPR audio on: "The nuclear power industry wants a $50 billion safety net for new plants, but the old question of dealing with nuclear waste remains a problem. "
npr audio nuclear-waste radioactive-waste article 2008 Feb 2, 5:51FTA: "The purpose of the warning sign is to deter intentional or inadvertent human intrusion or interference at the site and to effectively communicate over the course of the next 10,000 years (the
projected duration of the volatility of the waste) that t
art sign warning radioactive-waste nuclear-waste 2008 Feb 2, 5:49A story of a program to bury nuclear waste that remains dangerous for 24k years and the associated challenges.
future science time art nuclear government nuclear-waste 2008 Feb 1, 9:47Those warning signs for the future (from the past). I'm actually looking for the article about creating a nuclear warning sign that can survive our society collapsing
future sign signs warning-sign warning image humor geek nano internet scifi science singularity technology flickr 2008 Jan 31, 11:29A lovely infographic style map of underwater cabling. Actually its a poster. And it costs $250. Argh!
via:newscientist graph visualization map network technology underwater cable internet purchase product 2008 Jan 31, 11:27Tools to stop yourself from wasting time on the Internet.
article blog browser software extension 2008 Jan 31, 11:19Dang, my Vista must be broken!
humor howto box windows microsoft via:swannman help 2008 Jan 31, 10:47
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I use my recently added
books feed from LibraryThing, a site I've mentioned before where you track, review, recommend, and share your books, and I put the recently added
books on my page. I thought it might be nice to include the book covers so I suggested adding book covers to RSS feeds in
LibraryThings 'Recommend Site Improvements' group. The next day I had a response from the founder and lead developer Tim Spalding who
had started implementing the feature. I noticed a few bugs, reported them on the same thread, and he fixed them soon after. Fantastic! It makes me want to upgrade to a paying account.
Incidentally, if you notice the Ghost in the Shell book appear multiple times in my RSS feed its due to the previously mentioned iterative bug fixes. The same item appeared multiple times slightly
differently with each bug fix and your RSS aggregator may have picked them up as distinct items.
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