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links for 2007-01-12

  • Pause: Entrepreneurial Sin #3: Thinking too much
    “But this option becomes ineffective when it becomes chronic: witness the ever-changing, continually reborn, constantly metamorphosing people in your life.”
    (tags: anecdotes advice wisdom comments)
  • Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter
    “Using Wikipedia, Technion researchers have developed a way to give computers knowledge of the world to help them “think smarter,” making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does.”
    (tags: computers computing research science semantics technology Wikipedia webservices artificialintelligence AI)
  • apophenia: PEW data on social network site use
    Really interesting insight from danah on the recent PEW report.
    (tags: analysis socialsoftware statistics identity internet networking news research youth culture socialnetworking)
  • Britons to be scanned for FBI database | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
    “Britons already have their credit card details and email accounts inspected by the American authorities following a deal between the EU and the Department of Homeland Security.”
    Crap, I didn’t even realise this — never mind the 10 fingerprint thing…
    (tags: politics privacy USA travel tourism business)
  • Web Expose » Internet Explorer 7 on Linux
    Every IE version … on Linux! How cool is that??
    (tags: design development hacking howto linux testing tips ubuntu webdesign webdevelopment)
  • BBC NEWS | Health | Cartoons to aid autistic children
    This is a really clever idea. Interested to see whether learned behaviour can help, in a similar way to giving remedial reading lessons to kids who suffer from dyslexia.
    (tags: autism health research cartoons)
  • RSS Will Not Make the Mainstream » Wisdump
    “As we try to push forward with the web we need to let go of the idea that every person on the web will grasp the idea of what a feed is. Instead, find ways to use feeds that don’t break the user’s experience.”
    (tags: adoption rss webdesign web webstandards mainstream)
  • apophenia: the cost of lying
    “It’s a double-edged sword, isn’t it? The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.”
    (tags: quotes dana danahboyd identity internet online privacy psychology youth social community)
  • Sharecroppers [dive into mark]
    “He means you can’t load just any software on them. Translation: I made this beautiful thing, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let you unbeautiful people fuck it up.”
    (tags: quotes funny apple mac security iphone humour)
Posted by delicious @ 9:19 PM on January 12, 2007
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  1. GoBloggit Says:
    January 13th, 2007 at 2:56 AM

    links for 2007-01-12…

    Yeah, why? Your typical Mac comes with all the Unix goodies and goodness you could ever need. But there are a bunch of Linux PPC distributions that you can, if you feel the urge, install on your Apple hardware.
    If you’ve been alive the last coup…

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