Sunday, August 18, 2002

Kartoo is a relational search engine interface. Instead of displaying a list of links, in ranked order, it displays the results of a given search in a graphical, networked format. Nodes are linked to each other by common terms, which you can add and remove to further restrict the search graphically. The links between the nodes are color coded, allowing you to, with minimal effort, see how terms relate different sites, and nodes are displayed by size, according to relevance to the search term. to Internet by imploded 7:29:28 PM    comment []

posted by machaus August 18 2:42 PM | 11 comments. Cigarette vending machines put to a good use. The Artomat project makes local art available in cigarette box size packages for a mere $5 a pop. Find out the location of a machine near you. [MetaFilter] 7:26:37 PM    comment []

posted by vacapinta August 18 3:47 PM | 3 comments. Harry Stephen Keeler has been called one of the strangest writers who ever lived. He has also been called the Ed Wood of Mystery Writers. His plots are labyrinthine, convoluted, insane, built on coincidences. There's a Harry Stephen Keeler Society. His works are now being re-printed. And, if you're feeling brave, you can read many of his works on-line. Keeler created, and was seemingly the sole practitioner of, a genre he called the "webwork novel." This is a story in which diverse characters and events are connected by a strings of wholly implausible coincidences [MetaFilter] 7:24:21 PM    comment []

Found a couple of good articles on caffeine, one from a more medical standpoint and another  from a more lay person's point of view.  I know I need to cut way back.  I've also always heard that the phosphorous in pop is really bad for your teeth and other bones, it leaches the calcium out.  2:41:10 PM    comment []

From the Baltimore Chronicle: "Go get your ten-billionth burger, America. Fatten your already fat asses with bacteria-and-hormone-ridden meat and do nothing as you sit stupefied before your mind-numbing television sets awaiting the next episode of sad families being humiliated on "Cops." This article was published over a week ago, but I hadn't heard of, or seen it yet. If only 10% of it is true, then we should be very afraid. Deep in my gut, I feel W.R. McDougall has hit it all squarely on the nose. Time for action America! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 8:59:56 AM    comment []

posted by baylink August 17 12:28 PM | 30 comments. The link between geekiness and Aspergers Syndrome (a mild form of autism) is fairly well known, if not scientifically proven. But now, a study reported in tbe BBC says that there's a wildly high incidence of childhood autism where geeks are mostly mating with other geeks... [MetaFilter] 8:25:04 AM    comment []

posted by specialk420 August 17 3:10 PM | 21 comments. while we're on the topic of iraq anyone suprised about these revelations/allegations? username: metafilter46 password: metafilter [MetaFilter] 8:19:00 AM    comment []