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Firefoxy

By alex | Published: 11/19/2004
I know many of my more far-flung readers have, like me, been using Firefox for a very long time. When I saw the features list, I almost didn’t make the move to version 1.0, because everything was working so well. I’m glad I did. Maybe it’s my imagination, but it seems even faster. It still […]
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Where is my OLIVER?

By alex | Published: 11/3/2004
I was recently rereading Licklidder’s “The computer as a communications device” (1968; available as a pdf) and was struck by this image of a personal network agent. It seems as though people do a lot of talking about this, but I want to know where mine is. Is the Bayesian spam filter the best we […]
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New Scientist on palmistry

By alex | Published: 10/27/2004
I once knew a rocket scientist (really) who read palms. He could tell a lot from your hand. It is easy to dismiss palm readers as flim-flam artists (which most are), but it also blinds you to the possibility that there is anything resembling a scientific basis for palmistry. The New Scientist is reporting that […]
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Snooty small worlds

By alex | Published: 10/19/2004
Time is running a piece on invitation-only online clubs. A lifetime ago, in internet years, I envisioned starting just such a club. A filter for a very exclusive group of opinion leaders. Then I decided that would be dumb. They profile one such system, called aSmallWorld. The trick is (didn’t they get the memo), that […]
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