Archive for July, 2008

URLs

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

http://www.cccblog.org/2008/07/11/computer-science-enrollments-the-real-news/
Computer Science Enrollments

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6643
Bluffing Could Be Common in Prediction Markets, Study Shows

http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/11/newfac
Confidence Gap for New Profs

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/opinion/10thu3.html?ref=opinion
The Government and Your Laptop

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/science/08comp.html
Herculean Device for Molecular Mysteries

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11614183
The crowd within

http://www3.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/
Old Norse

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/index.html
Early Indo-European online

http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCAN0129249520080701
Microsoft buys Powerset

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1026
The F-1 visa process, explained :)

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/30/doomsdaycollider.ap/index.html
The supercollider

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19092/53/
Russians more likely to say Yo Yandex than Go Google

http://mags.acm.org/communications/200807/
The new CACM

http://presidentialwatch08.com/index.php/map/
The political blogs, 2008

http://mihd.net
http://www.mediafire.com
http://www.sharebigfile.com
Services to share files

http://hulu.com
http://veox.com
Services to watch movies

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/08/06/citysense.html
Where the Wild Things Are: Computer Science Professors Breakthrough Maps the Cool Quest

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory
(controversial)
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
Comments:
http://earningmyturns.blogspot.com/2008/06/end-of-theory-data-deluge-makes.html
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DataMining/~3/322319201/theory—meta-post.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29Birth-t.html
No Babies?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
Idiocracy

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/technology/29digi.html
Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA
Abba

URLs

Friday, July 11th, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4smlQlWhHM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3u3fTG70Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKlxyoPNaFI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbdPUiih020&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRb8KKyenSY&feature=related
Ennio Morricone clips

http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/05/university_of_michigan_to_hire_1.html?goback=%2Ehom
University of Michigan to hire 25 junior faculty

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/16/270/print.html
How will Barack Obama get to 270?

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/05/14/mooney/index.html
Have we fallen behind our parents?

http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube.htm
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1454243&from=rss
4-d Rubik cube

http://www.mefferts.com/
Puzzle store

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-translate-adds-10-new-languages.html
http://translate.google.bg/translate_t
Google Translate Adds 10 new languages

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DataMining/~3/288445391/powerset-launch.html
Powerset launches

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=401645&c=1
ISI to start indexing conference proceeedings?

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/291629842/article.pl
Bletchley Park Facing Financial Ruin

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/14/fahrenheit.sequel.ap/index.html
Moore plans ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ sequel

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/health/research/06dise.html
Redefining Disease, Genes and All

http://www.hulu.com
http://www.joost.com
Online access to TV shows

http://videolectures.net
(link from Vlado)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen
Buesingen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campione_d%27Italia
Campione d’Italia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20080512_friend_connect.html
Google Friend Finder

http://apps.facebook.com/manyeyes
ManyEyes from IBM Research

http://nexus.ludios.net
Nexus

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks
Wikileaks

http://www.slate.com/id/2190284/entry/0/
So You Want To Be a Scientologist