Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine
a very interesting article about google’s search methodology at wired:
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine.
LEGO iMac G4 with working LCD – Boing Boing Gadgets
Ok, everyone knows I’m a total mac cultist and hackintosher (although i do windows and linux too), and I LOOOOOVE LEGO. One of my buzz quotes is that APIs and online content are like LEGO, you provide the pieces and your instructions, but you also allow creative people to make their own things as far [...]
Microsoft debuts new Xbox experience – I have to pay more to get Netflix
So, I’m a netflix customer, and I maybe watch like one movie a month because I am busy. When I heard that I was going to be able to watch streaming videos from netflix over my xbox, I was pretty psyched. It would fit my life better than planning for the mail and waiting.
Well, after [...]
Citizen Media Event
Yesterday, Dan Glilmor hosted the Citizen Media Unconference at Harvard. Check out Doc Searl’s notes and podcasts. as well as the list of attendees here.
you know you are a sysadmin when…
found this hilarious piece linked from a drupal help thread i was reading.
Ralph Baer
So insanely cool, is this amazing blog entry by Sun’s Chief Gaming Officer on his day spent with Ralph Baer. If you didn’t know, Baer is pretty much the father of all video and electronic games, having invented the original concepts for tv games back in 1966.
firey loins
a recent study shows that males using laptops on their laps face fertility issues. the laptops generate heat and elevate the temperature of the scrotum, lowering sperm counts.