Yet another groundbreaking Google project was announced a month ago. I didn't blog about it at the time but I recently rediscovered it via the Vancouver Law Librarian blog which made me realise the full scope of this project already. So I thought I better pass it along. So Google's announcement that it will be […]
Deletionpedia attempts to capture the tens of thousands of pages that have been deleted from Wikipedia for one reason or another. It sometimes misses the odd one but hey, look, the page I started on Lukas Rossi is still going strong! If you didn't read it the first time I posted it, you should also […]
…Be Found in Social Q&A Sites? I think so. Ask.MetaFilter.com is one of my first stops whenever I'm seeking information – whether it's technology, parenting or pretty much anything else. Jessamyn may not be going quite as far as me on this but she did have a recent post on the topic. “[It] really comes […]
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Besides that cutting edge sense of fashion of course? Both are mainstream artists who have chosen to release their latest works online. Moore's new movie, “Slacker Uprising” will be available for download on September 23. It sounds more like a home movie/travelogue than one of his more full-formed commercial works but this is still pretty […]
“Privacy is dead – get over it [part 2] is a talk by private investigator Steve Rambam. It's a talk he has been giving for a number of years where he shows how privacy is being taken away, not by sinister plots but because people are giving it away. With people putting up everything and […]
Holy shit. This is pretty exciting, the more I read about it (and a headline like “Meet Chrome, Google's Windows Killer” doesn't hurt either!)Although I have to admit that my first reaction was, “Why would I ever switch from Firefox? I love Firefox.” Time will tell. I used to love Mozilla. And I used to […]
29 Web Apps For Students and White Collar Workers – lots of cool sites here, many of which I'd never seen before.In other news, I had a surreal moment today: I was at a branch near my house today and got talking to a clerk. When I mentioned my new position with RPL, she said […]
Last night, various Reddit users posted links to stories from ABC and other news outlets reporting that the Secret Service had been dispatched to the home of Senator Joe Biden. That wasn't a 100% slam dunk but a pretty good indication of the pending announcement, which Obama's campaign had otherwise managed to keep in great […]
In undergrad, I went to a speed reading seminar put on by the Psych Students Association. Basically, the instructor said that if you just kept training yourself to read more and more “parts” at a time – words then phrases then sentences then paragraphs then pages, you'd be able to speed read books and other […]
