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Google Ad Planner Launched, Beta 2008-06-24 10:27:35 As I wrote previously at the launch of Google
Health, Google likes to take over life one step at a time in small, indiscernible sequences. Now, hail the arrival of Google Ad Planner, which is likely to draw the ire of commercial alternatives which provide the means to track audiences and tailor advertising accordingly. I’m [...] Read more:Launched
Top-level domain use to be relaxed? 2008-06-23 09:40:51 The net could see its biggest transformation in decades if plans to open up the address system are passed.
The net’s regulators will vote on Thursday to decide if the strict rules on so-called top leveldomain
names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed.
If approved, it could allow companies to turn their brands into [...]
Linguistics at OSU 2008-07-12 12:15:40 I’m writing from the auditorium at Ohio State University where I’m attending the Linguistics
Society of America (LSA) Summer Meeting 2008 conference. I got in yesterday morning and have attended multiple talks already all throughout the day, and it’s been an interesting experience as an outsider (at least I’m not presenting a paper [...]
The Meaning of Wealth (or Why My Right Hand Still Hurts) 2008-07-07 10:09:53 I learned a lot this past week, and sadly it had little to do with the research I currently am doing at Drexel University.
It all started last weekend when I decided to make a bit of income and get rid of some websites that I had created but done basically nothing to. I figured, [...] Read more:Meaning
, Wealth
, Right
Redesigning War News Radio 2008-07-31 18:28:03 I’m proud to present the redesign of Swarthmore College’s War News Radio
website.
The new site provides a three-column layout for easier reading and cuts down on the amount of scrolling necessary to access new content. The sidebar has been replaced by three functions that are central to a website dedicated to a specialized, news-podcast/broadcast show: [...]
The Design of Everyday Things 2008-07-28 22:00:56 I’ve been mulling over Donald Norman’s book “The Design of Everyday Things” and though the book touts fairly obvious paradigms about proper design, it’s put it in such a simple and straightforward manner that I can’t help but think about how the many things we take for granted in every day items have been [...]
Assessing Efficiency 2008-07-24 21:38:02 If there is anything that is the epitome of efficiency, it has to be the airport - larger hubs like Chicago’s O’Hare, from which I flew out in my trip to see my girlfriend in Albuquerque, serve several million passengers a day, and the need to handle incoming and outgoing flights requires an exquisitely efficient [...] Read more:Efficiency
It’s all about the order 2008-08-20 08:42:23 In the perennial question of
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?,
no one asks
Which came first, the egg or the chicken?
Unfortunately, from a linguistic standpoint you can’t argue that because of the order of words, the chicken comes first, because that would only be valid if we were to ask “which comes first”, which [...]
The True Olympians 2008-08-17 20:50:23 Update: The Danes won the gold!
Here’s a story to remember:
Qingdao, China - The 49er skiff is a dinghy boat race that has officially been recognized as an Olympic sport since the 2000 Sydney Olympics. On Sunday, the weather was particularly horrendous - high winds and torrential rain made the seas very choppy, but despite it [...]
25 free fonts all in one 2008-08-15 08:43:53 Remeber Vitaly Friedman’s list of the 25 best license-free fonts? I’ve aggregated most of the fonts that are still license-free and made them into one handy zip file. See the list below for which ones are included.
Download (3.07 MB)
078MKSD Medium Condensed
ATFAntique
Audimat
Blue Highway
Cardo
ClassizismAntiqua
Day Roman
Delicious
Fontin
Gentium
HopeRound
Just Old Fashion
Lacuna
Lido
Wordle Fascination 2008-08-13 08:41:10 The above was aggregated from the word content in my blog feed. Click on thumbnail for larger version.
Perseid Meteor Shower 2008-08-12 06:23:36 source
As I sat there upon the bleachers
Alone against the unforgiving night
I rested my arms against the cold cold steel
To block the city’s light
Like apartment windows far above
The stars began to glow
I let my gaze wander east and west
I searched high and low
And then suddenly without warn
It streaked across the sky
Like someone who, with a sun-shined [...] Read more:Meteor
, Shower
Accessing Ubuntu files after reformatting Windows 2008-08-11 12:58:52 The issue I faced was that I had lost GRUB (the boot loader) when I reformatted my C drive (Windows
XP). Since Ubuntu
was installed on a separate NTFS partition, I could tell that it was still available, but no Windows-based tool could access the files
, since most of them rely on having ext2 or [...]
When the Computer First Sang 2008-09-03 22:55:41 Some may recognize the following lyrics from 2001: A Space Odyssey, when the HAL 9000 computer is dismantled by astronaut David Bowman.
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I’m half crazy all for the love of you
It won’t be a stylish marriage
I can’t afford a carriage
But you’ll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for [...] Read more:Computer
, First
Olympic Medal Bias 2008-08-26 13:50:21 It turns out there are many ways to represent the same data (surprise, surprise), as you can see below. The official record is that China led the Olympic
s with the most gold medals. But US media decided to display it differently, instead by medal count, making it almost appear as though the US outdid the [...] Read more:Medal
The Day He Stole the Gold 2008-08-24 14:39:25 Beijing, August 23, 2008 - In the 10-meter platform finals held Saturday at the ‘Water Cube’ in the Olympics, it seemed all too clear that the Chinese would win another medal - after all, every one of the previous seven events had been swept by the Chinese. But the 20-year old Matthew Mitcham of Australia [...] Read more:Stole
A New Look at Things 2008-09-29 19:51:18 So it’s been a while since I had written, and I realized that my blog had changed much from the early years, and I relish those moments when I used to write about everything and nothing at the same time. I changed focus on my blog in hopes of getting a wider readership (who wants [...]
Palin Schmalin 2008-09-13 15:32:01 The only reason Sarah Palin will get anywhere in this campaign (or quite possibly become the next VP) is because the people who will likely vote for her don’t care a single ounce about the blunders she’s made.
Spicen up your Gchat Status 2008-10-07 13:18:31 Who knew? You can copy and paste the following cool Unicode characters into your Gchat (Gmail Gtalk) status bar to spice things there! Also, if you type in
a word surrounded by an underscore, like _Really_ busy, the status will italicize the first word to make it look like Really busy.
a word surrounded by an [...] Read more:Status
Parsing the Presidential Debates 2008-10-02 23:46:37 I’ve written a simple Python script that enables you to parse the words from each of the Presidential
and Vice Presidential debates.
Download the transcript for the Biden - Palin debate
Download the transcript for the Obama - McCain debate
Here’s the code. Some features:
You can ignore short words or particular words, like determiners.
The code automatically removes the [...]
Tech Review Time Machine 2008-11-08 17:12:03 Download the article “Tim Berners-Lee: The Architect of the World Wide Web” from the July 1996 edition of the Technology Review.
Download the article “Life on the Net: Chaos and Community On-Line” from the July 1996 edition of the Technology Review.
Some highlights from the 1994 edition:
“Mosaic is similar to Gopher but has a fancy graphical hypertext [...] Read more:Machine
A Beautiful Phrase 2008-11-06 08:54:25 From the cafes of Beirut to the villages of Kenya, much of the world viewed Barack Obama’s triumph as an event that could repair the battered reputation of the United States, lift the aspirations of minorities everywhere, and renew the chances for diplomacy rather than war.
From World reaction to President-elect Barack Obama’s win, Wire Reports.
Above [...] Read more:Beautiful
, Phrase
Prediction Markets on the 2008 Presidential Election 2008-11-04 20:20:14 It’s election night and everyone is glued to their TV or PC screens, visiting live-feed and live-update sites (or hitting refresh). But I’m more interested about what people predict, and prediction markets are an excellent resource to find out.
Basically prediction markets are where people wager real or fake money on the outcome of certain events, [...] Read more:Prediction
, Markets
, Presidential
, Election
, Presidential Election
What I learned from the Boston Career Forum 2008-11-03 10:22:42 The claim is that the BostonCareerForum
is the world’s largest Japanese-English bilingual job fair, and I took a day off from school to head to Boston and see myself what it involved. I figured it would be a sizable event where I would be able to tout my language knowledge and head home [...]
Facebook Profile Box Showing No Content to Display 2008-10-29 13:29:35 To all those who may have suffered in the same way I have with regards to the new Facebook
format:
Issue: When you set the FBML content for displaying content to the profile (specifically the Wall Tab), you get the following error:
Cause: The Facebook developer wiki suggests using the following format to accommodate the wide and [...] Read more:Content
, Display
Never Say “People Should Upgrade Their Browsers” 2008-10-22 10:29:28 In the design of the new layout for the Swarthmore Daily Gazette, there have been a fair number of good things, like a more condensed layout and a overall “news-y” feel to it. But I’m not here to applaud, because design would not progress were it not for the harsh criticisms that force change.
Above, how [...]
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