“Amazon announced their Hosted Public Data Sets service today, and I expect it to be a game changer. Finding and using datasets on the web just got a lot easier. Similar to how developers can share Amazon Machine Images on source...
Marriage and Object Databases (response to the similarly-named article from earlier today) by hackernews
“As I read through the article, I remembered that I wanted to write an article about object databases, since we now have a really good one for Perl called KiokuDB. I have used Kioku instead of a relational database for source...
“The Shroud of Turin is a centuries old linen cloth that bears the image of a crucified man. A man that millions believe to be Jesus of Nazareth. Is it really the cloth that wrapped his crucified body, or is source...
“ If you have ever sought to see your website in the number one spot at Google - your quest is over. Google has introduced SearchWiki. What exactly is SearchWiki and what does it do? Who among us has not source...
“Neal Stephenson: It comes out of conversations I've been having with Danny Hillis, Stewart Brand, Alexander Rose, and others at the Long Now Foundation going all the way back to the mid-1990s on the subject of the Millennium Clock, a.k.a. source...
“ A team of French astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered an object located very close to the star Beta Pictoris, and which apparently lies inside its disc. With a projected distance from the star of only 8 source...
“When it launched the new Macbooks, Apple announced that they would sport a new digital video output connector, known as Mini DisplayPort. What Apple failed to mention, however, is that those connectors allow movies studios to force the computer to source...
“ As many of you already know on November 2nd, MakeUseOf.com’s domain was stolen from us. It took us about 36 hours to get the domain back. As we have pointed out earlier the hacker somehow managed to get access source...
“Throughout the company's cash crisis, General Motors (GM) CEO Rick Wagoner has insisted that the company has "no contingency plan" should Congress decide not to bail it out. We'll assume that Rick is, in fact, an intelligent life form and source...
“"The mind has an amazing ability to integrate ambiguous information across the senses, and it can effortlessly create the categories of time, space, object, and interrelationship from the sensory data," says Dharmendra Modha, the IBM scientist who is heading the source...
“After installing Windows Vista on the girlfriend’s 2 year old computer Jackson was trying to get some of her older programs to work with the new operating system. “He couldn’t get anything to work like it was supposed to”, said source...
A = B, a free book on identities, computer discovery and proof, by Petkovsek, Wilf and Zeilberger by reddit
“This book is still very much in print at the reasonable price of $39.00, and it can be ordered href="http://www.akpeters.com/">from the publisher or from your favorite bookseller. If you like the downloaded book, you'll probably like the print edition even source...
“And Linux for that matter. It’s been almost three months since Google launched their very own browser, Google Chrome. Competing with Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera, Google Chrome launched for Windows XP and Vista only and promised that source...

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