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Tweets
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 1 day ago
- Filming a congressional hearing? Be ready to be arrested for it. http://t.co/C7fuwy9k #fb 1 day ago
- Campus is changing to require password updates 2x a year. Their recommendation for a "tough" password: @Qu2012! Yeah. #fb 2 days ago
- Maybe the AAA (http://t.co/2S4falTt) should listen to @cshirky ToTN (http://t.co/EAs81JRv). 3 days ago
- I believe it is presently colder in my office than it is outside. But they have screwed shut my window, so I can't check. 4 days ago
- Chatting with Ron & Jon about "interactive media" on Hangout live. (Still getting a handle on the process.) http://t.co/0V7qKRIF 6 days ago
- Seems that an old blog post of mine, "Does Mitt Romney Hate Noodles" is suddenly getting new traffic: http://t.co/ELSrWuHG 6 days ago
- More updates...
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Indicating trust with color on Wikipedia
The “wikilab” at UC Santa Cruz (Go Banana Slugs!) has a demo up for a proposed Wiki reputation system. The system looks at a users edits, and the length of time they survive, and decides that those with long-lasting edits are likely to be more trustworthy. It then allows you to visualize the elements of [...]
Remaindered Links: Amusingly Creepy Edition
Remaindered links, the amusingly creepy edition: * Rats like to be tickled, and laugh when they are. * Considering a career change? Have a contagious smile? Looks like an old friend is recruiting. I can’t be there, but I think my brother might be in town… I doubt this guy is. * America’s Army, already [...]
Real or No Real
The announcement from Second Life yesterday was that they have officially banned gambling. The image to the right is of a popular casino, pictured in its recent incarnation here, now gone to seed. As that article from Valleywag suggests, as well as one from Business Week, this move is hardly a surprise. The FBI has [...]
The web is filled with big trucks
Ted Stevens has gotten just a little flack about his “series of tubes” comments, in which he argued the “the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes.” Duh. We all know that the internet is not a big truck. The web is a [...]
A small thing
When I was growing up, I dreamed of visiting “red” China, the USSR, or the DDR. I’ve always paid attention to defending against the worst case. During the 1980s, like lots of kids in America, I worried about the potential for global nuclear war, and our seeming lack of preparation for it. I worried about [...]
Man v. Shark