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Wednesday, February 04, 2004 |
Number "6" makes your foot change direction. Teresa Nielsen Hayden brings us this interesting mind-hack:
While sitting in your chair, lift your right foot slightly off the
ground and move it in clockwise circles. Now draw the numeral "6" in
the air with your right hand. Your foot will involuntarily reverse
direction.
Link [Boing Boing Blog] 
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Content-aware search.
At InfoWorld's 2002 CTO Forum, Google co-founder Sergey Brin threw cold
water on the idea of instrumenting content for intelligent search. "I'd
rather make progress by having computers understand what humans write,"
he said, "than by forcing humans to write in ways that computers can
understand." Brin's pragmatic stance sharply opposes the idealistic
view of the Web's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, who continues to
evangelize his vision of a Semantic Web full of carefully encoded
content that we can precisely search and fluidly recombine. My own
humble contribution to this debate is a prototype search engine, now
running on my Weblog, that tries to steer a middle course between the
Scylla of simple fulltext search and the Charybdis of unwieldy tagging
schemes and brittle ontologies. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]
I keep trying out phrases to capture what I'm aiming for. One is
'dynamic categories,' another is 'interoperable content.' Probably
neither will stick, because these only describe how to do something,
not why. The why, of course, is productivity. ... [Jon's Radio]
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William Carlos Williams's "This is Just to Say".
I followed a link to William Carlos Williams's poem "This is Just to
Say" this morning, and it froze me in my tracks. So much in just 12
lines. I want a plum.
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Link
(via Making Light) [Boing Boing Blog]
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Very cool. My son made $35 today selling virtual items for the game Diablo. Another $50 is on the way tomorrow (teens have lots
of money to spend). He figures he can generate $300-$500 a month doing
this in his spare time (more if he did commission sales for those
players that don't understand eBay and paypal). Very nice. He isn't
even in HS yet and is already an entrepreneur in virtual weapons sales.
[John Robb's Weblog]
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Question: Is the US at risk of being "contained" by
revisionist forces; with an eventual victory being that the US spends
itself into the ground (ala the USSR)? [John Robb's Weblog]
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Low-tech multidimensional maps. The Dynamap is a low-tech way of superimposing differnt logical and geographical networks over one another. As Gizmodo puts it:
...using interlaced images, manages to put three different maps of
Manhattan -- a street map, a subway map, and one showing landmarks and
neighborhoods -- all onto the same surface. Tilt it to one side and you
see the street map, tilt it another way and you see the subway map,
etc.
Link
(Thanks, Kevin!) [Boing Boing Blog]
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© Copyright 2004 William J. Maya.
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