Applications of Recursion (1)
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As I'm sure you've heard, BOSS is our fantastic search webservices platform that gives you a flexible and powerful interface through which you can Build your Own Search Service, hence the name. BuildaSearch is a new application that allows you to build your own search service, built on top of BOSS, which...er, as we've stated...is designed to do exactly that. It's like a WYSIWYG editor for BOSS, I suppose? Frankly, I just hope that there's ...
Movie Game on Twitter (1)
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A long time ago I worked as a bar bouncer in the Bronx and Manhattan. Except for the nights where I was the only one working, we usually had between 4 and 6 guys standing at the door until it got crowded (which in NYC, where bars don’t close until 4am is usually around 10-11pm). This means we had between 2-3 hours a night to make fun of the customers, confiscate fake IDs, discuss politics, ...
BE OK (1)
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Mainstream Isn't So Bad...Is It? (2)
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Fans of Ingrid Michaelson listen up. The singer will be releasing a brand new album on October 14th titled BE OK. But, it's not just any old album, it's a benefit for Stand Up To Cancer, and will include previously unreleased songs, covers, and live recordings from Ingrid’s set list over the past year. Ingrid will be using her talents to support this worthy cause by not only releasing this album, but also appearing in ...
http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/08/29/the-thousand-best-popular-science-books/ (17)
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Over at Cocktail Party Physics, Jennifer has cast a baleful eye on the various lists of the world’s greatest books, and decided that we really need is a list of the world’s greatest popular-science books. I think the goal is to find the top 100, but many nominations are pouring in from around the internets, and I suspect that a cool thousand will be rounded up without much problem. We played this game once ourselves, ...
We Shall Always March Ahead (5)
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You may have heard that history was made tonight. After an up-and-down convention, Obama hit his speech out of the park. And it was an awfully big park. It was a tightly constructed, pitch-perfect speech. Obama came out feisty, challenging McCain directly and by name. Then he ...
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hronir said:
Tomorrow we can be all analytic and careful. Tonight, I’m just enjoying this.
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HacKnight said:
Great speech, and this article has a great picture to go with it.
Seeing the Sky with Different Eyes (2)
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I just got back from the Cosmo-08 conference in Madison, which was great fun (and I’m sorry I had to miss the last couple of days). But just because I’m traveling, doesn’t mean that science stops happening. It just means I might be late in blogging about it, if I were moved to do so, which in this case I am. The big news is that the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, a satellite observatory ...
The Dark Knight Bombs in Japan (1)
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Just when you thought that public opinion on Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight was all but unanimously positive, here comes the wacky Japanese market to put their own spin on things. After its second week in theatres, the movie is struggling at the box office in Japan, earning just $8.7 million thus far — almost [...]
Missional (1)
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A friend sent me this today…I’m not sure where it came from but I love it. I think it really comes close to defining the vision of Knoxville Life Church…… Being a missional church is a shift in thinking. This is not a trendy tag for us, nor is it another phase or program. A missional church is not a dispenser of religious goods and services or a place where people come for their weekly ...
Show off your Followers (41)
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(Important Note: The Following feature will be rolled out to all over the next few weeks, so if you don’t see it right away, don’t worry. It’s coming soon.) Would you like to know who enjoys reading your blog? Or stay updated with your favorite blogs right from your Blogger dashboard? You can do those things and more with Blogger’s new Following feature. By following your blog, your readers tell you and the world that ...
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MiramarMike said:
"Connecting the bits", I think that's Google's main thrust this year
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Google is edging closer and closer to becoming a massive social network.
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nikan said:
Pretty important addition with lots of implications. Got to blog about it.
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快来follow我吧～
First person…photoshoot… (1)
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This is just plain silly (and awesome) -- Jacob Seidelin created a Flickr photo browser modeled after a level of Wolfenstein 3D. That's the magic of having an open and easily consumable API: motivated and creative users will do all of the hard work for you. Sure, you may have never realized that you needed a way to merge your love of classic video games with your desire to look at pictures of puppies, but ...
South Ossetia and Abkhazia Recognized (1)
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Sean's Russia Blog (0)
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As we all well know, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev did the deed and recognized the independence South Ossetia and Abkhazia. A chorus of condemnation, disappointment, and warning immediately followed. US Secretary Rice: “I want to be very clear, since the United States is a permanent member of the [UN] Security Council, this simply will be dead on arrival.” US President Bush: “This decision is inconsistent with numerous United Nations Security Council resolutions that Russia has ...
Foos the Boss? (1)
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After my own disappointing finish in a Guitar Hero competition, it's nice to read about a couple of other Yahoos managing to take home some hardware. Foosball is a cultural phenomenon at Yahoo!, and I'm sure our Yahoo! Search team was salivating when they heard that the Search Engine Strategies conference would be hosting a foosball tournament, pitting all of the big names in search against each other in the only competition that matters (pfft, ...
Official Depth Chart Released (1)
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Michigan Sports Center (0)
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Michigan's depth chart going into the Utah game has been made official. We now have an idea of who most of the starters will be, but the depth chart really didn't clear up any of the confusion regarding the backfield. That is because the word "or" graces the depth chart in a few places, meaning two or more players are competing for a spot and a decision about who will start has yet to have ...
Enforcing single instance with argument passing (1)
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There are several implementations out there already for doing this, but for one reason or another they all did something I didn't like. Some use the registry, some can't pass parameters, some use P/Invoke, some use remoting and others use the VB libraries. Not quite high treason but even so, an all C# and very light implementation has got to be worth the effort. The class that does all the work is, imaginatively, called SingleInstance. ...
Getting the icon for a given file extension (1)
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Background In writing a pretty boring LOB app for my day job, I had the need to associate and store arbitrary files with records. I didn't want to just store the file in the actual database, so given that the application already sends audio and image data to an Ftp server on the network I figured I would store the files there also and just hold the file name in the database. 'm not storing ...
Obama/Biden (5)
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Cell phones around the country greeted their owners this morning with text messages proclaiming that Barack Obama had chosen Joe Biden as his Vice-Presidential nominee. An interesting pick; I would have been more excited by Kathleen Sebelius or Wesley Clark, but I can live with it. The things you need to know about Joe Biden are: (1) He has been a Senator forever (half of his life). (2) He is a smart guy, not a ...
Friday Tunes: The Bad Plus (2)
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The addition of The Bad Plus to our blogroll got a positive review. Here they are, recorded by some guy in the back of the room with a hand-held camera, playing Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” (Here is the original, and here is Paul Anka.) Usually I like my jazz a little less adulterated — and the Bad Plus have stirred up considerable controversy by mixing in frequent pop covers along with their straight-ahead tunes. ...
The First Quantum Cosmologist (7)
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Many of you scoffed last week when I mentioned that Lucretius had been a pioneer in statistical mechanics. (Not out loud, but inwardly, there was scoffing.) But it’s true. Check out this passage from De Rerum Natura, in which Lucretius proposes that the universe arises as a quantum fluctuation: For surely the atoms did not hold council, assigning order to each, flexing their keen minds with questions of place and motion and who goes where. ...
How to compensate for your deficiencies as a startup outside of the Bay (1)
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The topic of why relocate to the Bay Area if you’re doing a tech startup has been beaten to death by people like Michael Arrington and Paul Graham. In some situations it’s simply not possible. The answer we found to compensate for all the things we lack in terms of networking and visibility for our startup was simple: Parachute into the scene in Silicon Valley and hit every possible local event to make connections that ...
Visual Complexity (1)
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For a long time I’ve been interested in visual presentations of information as it provides a true combination of form and function. Not only are all of these designs beautiful, but they provide interesting and unique perspectives for understanding various types of information. Anyway, with the type of work I’ve been doing lately my interest in this type of design is becoming reignited. I’ve started to gather a nice selection of examples (new and old) ...
