Category: Remainder

Remain­dered links are stuff that I thought was inter­est­ing, but not post-wor­thy. Yes I stole it from Kot­tke, just like every­one else.

StupidFilter Needs Some Education

Gru­ber had post­ed this after­noon about a great-sound­ing, open-source project titled Stu­pid­Fil­ter meant to help fil­ter out stu­pid com­ments on the web. From the Stu­pid­Fil­ter site: The solu­tion we’re cre­at­ing is sim­ple: an open-source fil­ter soft­ware that can detect ram­pant stu­pid­i­ty in writ­ten Eng­lish. This will be accom­plished with weight­ed Bayesian or sim­i­lar analy­sis and some… Con­tin­ue read­ing Stu­pid­Fil­ter Needs Some Education

War on Photographers

Bruce Schneier on the cur­rent War on Pho­tog­ra­phers: …it’s non­sense. The 9/11 ter­ror­ists did­n’t pho­to­graph any­thing. Nor did the Lon­don trans­port bombers, the Madrid sub­way bombers, or the liq­uid bombers arrest­ed in 2006. Tim­o­thy McVeigh did­n’t pho­to­graph the Okla­homa City Fed­er­al Build­ing. The Unabomber did­n’t pho­to­graph any­thing; nei­ther did shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Pho­tographs aren’t being… Con­tin­ue read­ing War on Photographers

Right In the Thick of the Carbon

Sci­Am on a (depress­ing) report rank­ing the top 100 U.S. met­ro­pol­i­tan areas in terms of amount of car­bon emis­sions. The part that real­ly star­tled me (empha­sis added): The res­i­dents of Lex­ing­ton, Ky., Indi­anapo­lis and Cincin­nati emit the most green­house gases—nearly 2.5 times as much car­bon on a per capi­ta basis as their peers at the top… Con­tin­ue read­ing Right In the Thick of the Carbon

Web Two Point Wha?

I think Wired’s epi­cen­ter blog needs to clar­i­fy one of today’s posts a bit: Big Pay­day for Web 2.0The biggest web deal announced today was CBS’ plan to buy CNET, one of the last inde­pen­dent online con­tent com­pa­nies, for $1.8 bil­lion, or $11.50 per share. The val­u­a­tion rep­re­sents a healthy 45 per­cent pre­mi­um over yes­ter­day’s clos­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing Web Two Point Wha?

Convert Text to iTunes Audiobook

Since I’ve been all about lis­ten­ing to audio­books late­ly (actu­al­ly, for the past year — just more recent­ly of the fan­ta­sy genre), this link was pret­ty time­ly. Using some of the inte­grat­ed Apple ser­vices and some script­ing, macOSX­hints user miketyson put togeth­er a Ser­vice in OS X to sim­ply con­vert high­light­ed text to an Audio­book… Con­tin­ue read­ing Con­vert Text to iTunes Audiobook

NBC: We’ve Pretty Much Given Up

The Pea­cock Net­work was once a bas­tion for dra­ma and com­e­dy. Those days are long gone, with only a few bright spots in an oth­er­wise abysmal line-up (Scrubs, My Name is Earl, and The Office being most of those high­lights). Recent­ly, they announced that Uni­ver­sal (NBC and USA Net­works par­ent com­pa­ny) were mov­ing Monk and… Con­tin­ue read­ing NBC: We’ve Pret­ty Much Giv­en Up

Legend of Zelda Movie

I’m pret­ty sure that this trail­er for a Leg­end of Zel­da movie is just an (elab­o­rate) hoax. How­ev­er, like some oth­er April Fool’s Day pranks, I find myself hop­ing that it is the real thing.

Twitter Updates for 2008-03-27

I think Pho­to­shop Express would more accu­rate­ly be called Light­room Express. # Pow­ered by Twit­ter Tools.

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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-26

@robknight: Good god, that’s one huge cat belleh. Is that where the mouse hid? In the folds of cat? # Becom­ing more painful­ly obvi­ous to me that the “stan­dards move­ment” con­sists of design­ers, and not sci­en­tists, engi­neers, or (tech) writ­ers. # Pow­ered by Twit­ter Tools.

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