I’ve added a wordpress plugin for Technorati tags. Technorati organizes and keeps track of what’s being said around the web. By clicking a Technorati tag, you’ll see a page full of related content.
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via digg:
At humankind’s current rate of growth, it is estimated that by the year 2050, the planet will be host to three billion more people than it is today. Yet at present, over 80% of the planet’s arable land is already in use, which leaves one to wonder how such a large number of people […]
Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and beginning at sundown today, a Happy Hanukkah!
The RIAA explains why CDs cost so much. For a more realistic explenation, read Courtney Love’s speech to the Digital Hollywood Online Entertainment Conference from 2000. Downhill Battle is a non-profit organization “working to support participatory culture and build a fairer music industry”. Steve Albini has an article “The Problem Music” showing […]
If you have a gmail account, you should definitely check out Google Trends. Google has been watching what you’re doing. Of course, you can simply logout before searching. If you remain logged in, Google tracks what searches you perform, and what links you click after you’ve performed your searches. […]
According to a post on digg:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is working on a 5 terabyte 3.5 inch hard drive aimed at the PC market.
The new drive is slated for 2010 (just 5 years away). With hard drive capacities increasing so much, I anticipate some form of split in the way they’re utilized. Unless […]
This is must-have software!
Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking application with an open security architecture and NAT-to-NAT traversal capabilities.
What does this mean? Hamachi allows you to establish secure direct connections to computers that are not accessible otherwise due to the restrictions of firewalls and NAT routers. You essentially create your own […]
I just found a great piece of software called AmoK Playlist CoPy. It allows you to open any playlist (.m3u, .wpl, .xml). From there, you can export all the songs in that playlist to a directory of your choosing, or convert the playlist to .m3u or .wpl file.
This works great for me since […]
With all the recent hoopla about Wikipedia, this artical is very interesting.via digg:
The scientific magazine “Nature” has compared 42 articles in both the encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Experts in their field were given the task to check for factual errors. To the surprise of nature, both encyclopedias were containing similar amounts of errors.
According […]
via techdirt:
Michigan’s state board of education is thinking about requiring high-school students to take at least one course online to graduate. The thinking behind the proposal is that it will help ensure kids are up to speed on computers before entering the workforce or going to college, but it’s hard to see one online course […]