Archive for December, 2008

URLs for December 7, 2008

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/health/05happy-web.html
Strangers May Cheer You Up, Study Says

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/05/googling-security-bo.html
Googling Security: book that opens your eyes to how much you disclose to Google

http://www.imchess.com/2008/12/week-1-december-2008-live-chess-ratings.html
latest ELO ratings

http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=83347_0_24_0_C
New towers in China

http://gizmodo.com/5101308/amazon-iphone-app-lets-you-buy-anything-you-take-a-picture-of
Cool app

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/12/05/atheists.christmas/index.html
Atheist sign stolen

http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=367
Wanted: Better Wikipedia coverage of theoretical computer science

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/28/1515216&from=rss
Cyberchondria

http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/
The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (by James Boyle)

http://tantek.com/log/2008/02.html#d19t2359
http://tantek.pbwiki.com/CommunicationProtocols
http://lifehacker.com/343665/get-things-done-over-the-phone-with-jott
Email use protocols, etc.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-education/2008/11/24/obama-girls-opt-for-a-posh-private-school.html
Obama girls opt for a posh private school

http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/worlds-best-colleges/2008/11/20/worlds-best-colleges-and-universities-top-200.html
New US News & WR rankings – world universities

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30privacy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/22/stopping_google/
Google-related stuff

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html
The netflix challenge

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xRrvc8CZPQ8/article.pl
Google SearchWiki

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23novelties.html?emc=eta1
SearchTogether

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bulgarianscienceproblems/message/3408
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/322/5905/1183.pdf
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/322/5905/1184.pdf
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bulgarianscienceproblems/message/3417
Science in Romania

http://www.chessdom.com/kamsky-topalov-sofia
The Kamsky-Topalov match

http://www.dresden2008.de/
The Chess olympiad

http://www.europeana.eu/
European digital library (planned?)

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=946910
Entitled students expect better grades for effort: study

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081117/full/news.2008.1235.html
The multi-million dollar 1000 Genomes project is set to be finished in a year

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D94GNJTO0.htm
College payday: presidents’ salaries up last year

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/13/worldmapper/index.html
Mapping out a new world order

URLs for November 15, 2008

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16digi.html
What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/technology/internet/14voice.html
Google Is Taking Questions (Spoken, via iPhone)

http://www.maa.org/maa%20reviews/9301.html
New series of Martin Gardner’s books

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167582?tid=relatedcl
How He Did It

http://www.newsweek.com/id/165189/page/1
Advice from seven Nobel laureates on fixing the economy

http://www.mediapool.bg/show/?storyid=145615&srcpos=5
Vreme Razdelno…

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/health/research/06cancer.html
New cancer findings

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/books/06crichton.html
RIP: Michael Crichton

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/nyregion/new-jersey/02streetnj.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Summit, NJ

http://www.usb-bg.org/Bg/Natzio_Strategia_za_razvitie_na_NI_proekt.pdf
Eto novata strategiya na MON (Ot Preslav)

http://www.monitor.bg/opinions/article?sid=&aid=175673&cid=50&eid=1513
reakciya

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/28/detroit.mayor.sentenced/index.html
Detroit’s mayor to go to jail

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/27/europe/union.php
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/29/opinion/edlet.php
Bulgaria risks becoming EU cautionary tale

http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/10/innumeracy_on_parade.php
Innumeracy on parade

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7215/full/455884a.html
Philosophy of science: Theories of almost everything
P.-M. Binder

URLs for October 26, 2008

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

http://capital.bg/show.php?storyid=568692
Starbucks in BG

http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2008/10/23/mass_transit_america/index.html
Mass transit rebirth?

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf
Applying to Grad. school in CS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUPsfYJONrU
Disney copyright law

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25666/25666.txt
The Boy Tar by Mayne Reid
Morskoto vqlche na Mayn Rid

http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge262.html
Edge 262 October 22, 2008
including TWO BIG THINGS HAPPENING IN PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
(A Talk By Daniel Kahneman)

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/airport-security
Airport security?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/08/lessons-from-abroad/
About BG – good stuff

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/world/europe/16bulgaria.html
About BG – bad stuff

http://capital.bg/show.php?storyid=562839
Do Chicago i nazad v nova versiya

http://www.google.com/search2001.html
Google Search as of 2001

http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/13/news/economy/nobel_prize.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008101309
Krugman wins Nobel economics prize

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/nyregion/13fairs.html
Street fairs

http://www.dr1.com/forums/general-stuff/37598-need-baby-names-girl.html
Where Dominican names come from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mad%27s_movie_spoofs
List of “Mad Magazine” movie spoofs

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/14/france
Guillaume Depardieu (son of Gérard) dies at 37

URLs for October 11, 2008

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article4910798.ece
The top 100 universities in the world

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081008/full/455715a.html
http://spore.swmed.edu/dejavu/
http://spore.swmed.edu/dejavu/duplicate/?update_type__exact=0&other_type__exact=0&duplication_type__id__exact=2&comment_type__exact=0&o=7&MedLabel__exact=0&MedIssue__exact=0&ot=desc&share_author__exact=0
Deja Vu: a Database of Highly Similar and Duplicate Citations*

http://feeds.feedburner.com/FrenchForBeginners
French for Beginners

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/family/10/07/kids.cough.meds.ap/index.html
Drug makers: No cough or cold meds for kids under 4

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/02/space.elevator/index.html
Space elevator

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/01/citizenship.test/index.html
The new US citizenship test

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/music/29wana.html
Amid Shoes and Jewels, a Mighty, Mighty Sound

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20205803,00.html
Paul Newman’s most memorable roles

http://www.economist.com/vote2008/
The global perspective on the election

http://gizmodo.com/5055160/24-hour-air-traffic-around-the-world-blows-minds-eyeballs?autoplay=true
24 Hour Air Traffic Around the World Blows Minds, Eyeballs

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/09/24/google.project/index.html
Got an idea to help the world? Here’s $10 million

http://www.theoremoftheday.org/Theorems.html
Theorem of the day

http://www.deviceguru.com/2008/09/17/stanford-frees-cs-robotics-courses/
Free courses in CS from Stanford

http://www.otzvuk.com
Otzvuk

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/15/obit.wright.ap/index.html
Pink Floyd keyboardist Wright dies

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/09/08/21300/
The CEO of Linguistics

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/interviews/2008-09-07/200809071220812476296.html
Interview with Grigor Dimitrov

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/09/07/bolduan.fixing.dc.schools.cnn
88% of D.C.’s 8th graders can’t read

http://www.newsweek.com/id/157514
Land Of Big Science

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/F0s-S2056ng/article.pl
The Electronic Bastille

http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1838944,00.html
LPGA policy under justified criticism

http://cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html
A graduate school survival guide

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ucaV66N9eRk/article.pl
Every Satellite Tracked In Realtime Via Google Earth

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/08/almost-everyone.html#posts
Forgot your password? may be weakest link

http://wordle.net/create
Wordle

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The 2009 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

The 2009 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad has been announced. It will be on February 4, 2009 and March 11, 2009. Check http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu for details.