Sharon Housley of FeedForAll hits the nail on the head in her article The Future of RSS is Not in Blogs. RSS feeds give readers a tremendously powerful tool to find and read the stuff which interests them. Blogs give writers soapboxes from which to spread their witticism. Most people are readers and “should” care […]
Alternatives to Passwords
The CNN article Bank to require more than passwords describes Bank of America’s plan to query web site users for personal information after they enter their passwords. The idea is to more firmly establish their identity. It makes me wonder, though. Why bother with the password at all? How well would an authentication system work […]
You Cannot Fail
In this article, Reuters describes a group of British teachers which wants to replace “fail” in classrooms with “deferred success.” I’ll have to remember that one. Sorry, officer. I didn’t fail to observed the speed limit. I have simply had deferred success with the speed limit. Yeah. That’s the ticket…. 😛
Good news for dark chocolate-lovers?
Reuters reports, in Good news for dark chocolate-lovers? on a study published by the American Heart Association showing that eating flavonoid-laden dark chocolate can lower blood pressure by amounts that are both statistically and clinically significant. This is not only a statistically significant effect, but it’s also a clinically meaningful decline,” Blumberg said. “This is […]
Interview with the Search Engine
Reminiscent of the old Eliza artificial intelligence program, and a lot more “relevant,” SatireWire has interviewed Jeeves of AskJeeves.com in their article, Interview with the Search Engine 🙂 You can try talking with Eliza here and read about Eliza in Wikipedia. My thanks to Jeremy Zawodny for finding this and brightening my day!
particletree · API Roundup
Chris Campbell did a very nice job of collecting a bunch of key web APIs onto one page in his API Roundup. Now all I need to find is the time to play with all of them. Thanks, Chris!
Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger
Scoble rants about RSS feeds that aren’t full text. Rather than being “bad,” I think that the style of RSS feed simply tells you something about the author’s motivation. Does he want the reader to have the information? Or is it more important to get the reader to visit the actual web site and view […]
The iPod Flea
Watch the iPod Flea ad spoof. I know what I’m going to get for my teenage son for his next birthday! 😛
Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web
Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband, where few people have even heard of IPOs. That was reality just a decade ago. The company that changed it—bringing us into the Internet age—was a brilliant flash in the pan called Netscape. For the tenth anniversary of its IPO, FORTUNE recruited dozens of […]
Girls Rock!
Related to my article on the ManKind Project, this article appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch covering the Girls Rock, a mentoring program for teenage girls. From the Girls Rock web site: Our Society can be a pretty tough place The media sends a crazy mix of messages. School is full of pressures..Friends pull in […]
Encountering Hyperion (Movie)
This is way too cool. A “movie” of Hyperion, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, shot by Cassini between June 9 and 11, 2005. The image here is only the low resolution version. Check out Encountering Hyperion (Movie) at ciclops.org for the hi-res movie. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Global Economy in My Mailbox
The notion of a global economy does not usually protrude on my life above the level of background noise. Today, however, I received a postcard that made me notice just how small our world has become. A Korean company (Temco, if you are curious) actually sent a postcard from Korea to my PO box in […]
Email forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange
I have two reactions to Email forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange from NewScientist.com Doh! I knew that! How do I get paid to do “research” like this? Isn’t that interesting? I’ll bet there are a lot of people who never thought of that. I am a bit fascinated that people actually study this stuff. […]
Gene hunters flock to Amish country
Gene hunters flock to Amish country, in the Globe and Mail, is a wonderful article about progress being made in genetic research. From the article: “We discover a new gene almost weekly,” he said…. Morton estimates that he’s uncovered about 150 genes implicated in various diseases, most of them found in the last few years. […]
Google Toolbar
Google just released a Firefox version of their Google Toolbar. This is a wonderful and free tool that can make your web browsing much easier. Installation is a snap and, if you don’t like it, you can simply uninstall. The platypus of the Internet, from the Google Blog, has some details about the development. Or […]
Hair
Ever wonder what makes a “bad hair day” or whether the shampoo and conditioner commercials are true or full of bunk? The Exploratorium has answers for you in Exploratorium Magazine: Hair
Wife Carrying
Wife Carry Contest? Yup… read this: Wife Carrying 🙂
Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand
Thanks to Slashdot for this story, Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand, about a 646 pound catfish that has been caught in Thailand. Here is the original story, at National Geographic. I wonder if the fisherman was noodling for it. 😛
PHP Filters
OWASP has a collection of PHP Filters (a/k/a functions) to sanitize user inputs. I have not used them but they sure look useful!
MIT Weblog Survey
If you use IM or email or blogs, take a few minutes and take the survey. This is a general social survey of the greater weblog community being conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our goal is to help understand the way that weblogs are affecting the way we communicate with each other. Specifically […]
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