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The internets are awesome today
Too much good stuff on the internets today.
XKCD on Pluto
New British Comedy “No Heroics”
Why I like Joe Biden
Silly? Awesome? Silly andawesome?
Google brings the 21st century
Wordle
Apple’s Burning Ring of Fire
An amazing thing happened to me today. I was sitting at my laptop working when, all of a sudden, the connector for the power cord that plugs into the laptop caught on fire. I yanked the cord immediately. The thing gave off a few thin tendrils of smoke and then died a quiet, peaceful death.
SXSW Panel: Beyond Folksonomies – Knitting Tag Clouds for Grandma
This panel defined folksonomy and the current state of tagging. During the course of the conversation there were a few suggestions on ways to improve upon the current state of affairs, which is what the panel was really about. I wanted to expand on that part of the conversation.
Countdown: One Day to SXSW
SXSW Interactive is just over a day away. It’s my favorite time of the year. Even better than Christmas.
Great article up on Salon right now called I, Nanobot. Definitely worth a read.
I just saw a great Twilight Zone. One of the old black and white ones. Man, I didn’t realize how [...]
A study recently published by Science Daily states that moderate drinkers, those who average around a drink per day, are 54% less likely to be obese. They go on to state that that is counter-intuitive. Bah.
So much of what I see around me can be explained by common sense without the need for [...]
Bush didn’t make Katrina, but he deserves blame
Bush does not bear responsibility for Katrina. It is possible that society as a whole does for the last 150 years. The gulf has, I believe, warmed by about two degrees and that does add fuel to the hurricane’s fire.
The Whitehouse Robots File
A lot of sites have a file called “robots.txt” to tell search engines which directories and files to go into and which ones to leave alone. Typically, you don’t want search engines going through your sensitive data. A lot of sites no longer use the file because, well, it tells everyone where your sensitive data is. For those sites that do still use them, the #1 thing they tell the search engines not to read is the “robots.txt” file. Not the Whitehouse!
The Conservative Penguin
Why is it amusing that conservative groups are adopting a movie about penguins for their causes? Because penguins are one of the species that proves homosexuality is not a choice. Penguins do mate for life, some of them with the same sex. I’m willing to bet that in the neoconservative echo chamber, most of them aren’t aware of that fact.
21st Century Sea Level
Let’s not even discuss whether global warming contributed to hurricane Katrina’s fury by creating warmer waters in the Gulf or higher sea levels. Let’s instead focus on the fact that sea levels are rising and more and more areas are going to be at or below sea level in the future. What do [...]