Rage on OmnipotentMeanderings around the internet.Duncan Wilcox: PageRank 2.0- March 4, 2003 Where Google goes next. Very rational analysis of how Google can upgrade the web without resorting to semantics, RDF, etc. And a great quote from Sergey Brin: Look, putting angle brackets around things is not a technology, by itself. I'd rather make progress by having computers understand what humans write, than by forcing humans to write in ways computers can understand.http://duncan.focuseek.com/2003/03/pagerank2.0/ British Girl Baffles Teacher with SMS Essay- March 4, 2003 Cracking teenage SMS-speak essay. Read the article for a translation. "My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 : kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc."http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=582&e=1&cid=582&u=/nm/200... A Breakthrough in the War on Terror I'll Believe it When We See Some Evidence- March 4, 2003 Robert Fisk isn't convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the mastermind of 911. In the theatre of the absurd into which America's hunt for al-Qa'ida so often descends, the "arrest" - the quotation marks are all too necessary &150; of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is nearer the Gilbert and Sullivan end of the repertory.http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0303-05.htm Warren Buffett on derivatives- March 4, 2003 Warren Buffet really disklikes derivatives. I have to agree with him. Anywhere the market has a natural skew (to better figures for traders and CEOs), there's an opportunity for (potentially honest) mistake and fraud.http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,427751,00.html The world's oldest eye- March 4, 2003 First corneal graft patient still going strong at 50, which makes her eyes 130 years old.http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6060782%5E2862,00.html Dali picture sprung from jail- March 4, 2003 Cracking story from the US: somehow a Dali original hanging in Rikers Island prison has been stolen, despite a 24-hour guard at the door.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2812683.stm The real shopping basket revolution- March 4, 2003 Here's my answer to people who say that we haven't gained anything from technology and societal change: it used to take three days for a family to earn enough wealth to buy a bag of flour. (Which costs us around 50p).http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/view.html?pg=5 20 questions against the computer- March 1, 2003 20 Questions against the computer. It's bloody good, taking 19 questions to get satellite dish.http://y.20q.net:8095/btest (Untitled)- March 1, 2003 Profusely illustrated course on info-design Robot Wisdomhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100334/2003/03/01.html#a2968 (Untitled)- March 1, 2003 Illustrated history of the graph Robot Wisdomhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100334/2003/03/01.html#a2966 |