When a site gets slashdotted, it can really spoil your groove. MirrorDot keeps the party going! When Slashdot posts a new story, MirrorDot automagically parses the story and mirrors any linked pages. Do not let the Slashdot effect kill your buzz. Yeah baby!
http://www.mirrordot.org/
http://www.mirrordot.org/
http://www.mirrordot.org/
(Via Wired)
Un joven nervioso no dijo nada y decidió comunicarse mediante un repentino golpe por todo lo alto, en dirección a la nariz de Mace. Éste inclinó la cabeza con gravedad, cortés, como realizando una reverencia, y el puño del joven se rompió contra el hueso frontal del craneo afeitado de Mace. Por un momento consideró la posibilidad de transmitir al nervioso joven algún consejo amistoso sobre las virtudes de la paciencia, la no violencia y la conducta civilizada, o al menos una crítica comedida sobre lo torpe del puñetazo; pero el sufrimiento que se pintó en su rostro cuando se arrodilló, acunando los nudillos rotos, le recordó una de las máximas de Yoda: “Las mejores lecciones sin palabras se enseñan”. Así que Mace se limitó a encogerse, a modo de disculpa, y continuó andando.
Bad Ass.
Public Health: Jillian Clarke of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and then Howard University, for investigating the scientific validity of the Five-Second Rule about whether it’s safe to eat food that’s been dropped on the floor.
http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2004
http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2004
http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2004
It is a world transformed, where things aren’t what they seem. It’s a world of Heroic Autobots and Evil Decepticons. It is the world of PAPERFORMERS!
http://www.protoformproject.com/Paperformers/index.html
http://www.protoformproject.com/Paperformers/index.html
http://www.protoformproject.com/Paperformers/index.html
http://spamusement.com/
http://spamusement.com/
http://spamusement.com/
(Thanks, Maciej! :))
Surrealist games and procedures are intended to free words and images from the constraints of rational and discursive order, substituting chance and indeterminancy for premeditation and deliberation… In one particular and important respect Surrealist play is more like a kind of provocative magic. This is in its irrepresible propensity to the transformation of objects, behaviours and ideas. In this aspect of its proceedings Surrealism makes manifest its underlying political programme, its revolutionary intent.
http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org/surrealist_games/index.php
http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org/surrealist_games/index.php
http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org/surrealist_games/index.php
My life is rated R.
(Via Technology Review)
Creating the world wide web didn’t make Tim Berners-Lee instantly rich or famous. In part, that’s because the Web sprang from relatively humble technologies. Berners-Lee’s invention was based on an information retrieval program called Enquire (named after a Victorian book, Enquire Within upon Everything), which he wrote in 1980 as a contract programmer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. In part, it’s because Berners-Lee did the unthinkable when, more than a decade later, he finished writing the tools that defined the Web’s basic structure: he gave them away, with CERN’s blessing, no strings attached. While others made millions off his invention, the soft-spoken programmer went on to found the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT, which he still directs, to promote global Web standards and development.
Berners-Lee is finally getting his reward: in July he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and the previous month he received Finland’s million-euro Millennium Technology Prize, awarded “for outstanding technological achievements that directly promote people’s quality of life, are based on humane values, and encourage sustainable economic development.”
Continue reading “Sir Tim Berners-Lee about The Semantic Web”
My so called life* 