Since I removed the comments here because of spam crap, i was wondering about how to solve this problem. I choose this new option that consists in a link to technorati that goes foraging on weblogs that points on the post. This is the new link below "Other blogs commenting on this post". Nothing re...
(Prospective) A9: the search engine from Amazon
A9 is the new search engine made by Amazon. A critic by John Battelle's Searchblog: After all, A9 uses Google' search results and displays at least two paid AdWord listings per result (I've requested comment from Google, you can imagine I'm not the only one...). But I have to wonder: What business...
[Weird] Technical train names like d456gh
In the same spirit as text on things I am always impressed by strange named (like in scifi movie, you got BH345 or fg-54-hjgk). Here are french train names that I find interesting: Z5300 MI79 - Z8200 Z5600 Z20900 Z6100 TGV Duplex Z6300 TGV PSE Z7100 Z3400 Z23001 Z7300 (Z2) MF67 RATP MF77 RATP Z107 ...
[TheWorld] French controversy still
... read here (Droits et nouvelles technologies: La loi Toubon est-elle applicable aux NTIC ? Larticle 2 de la loi du 4 août 1994, dite « loi Toubon » impose lusage obligatoire de la langue française « dans la désignation, loffre, la présentation, la description de létendue et des conditions de...
[Space and Place] Skyscrapers are cool but what about underground buildings?
subsurfacebuildings.com is a webiste that deals with underground buildings. SubsurfaceBuildings.com explores underground buildings, examines their impact on architecture and the environment, and addresses such questions as: - Why would anyone want to bury a building? - Are underground buildings saf...
(Weird) Atomic Research Center and Banana Juice
Fundamental research could provide interesting side effects: The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has developed a new technology to manufacture juice from bananas. It has also applied for a domestic patent for this new process. The banana juice-making technique is actually a spin-off technology deve...
[TheWorld] New acronym! MoSoSo
MoSoSO = Mobile Social Software according to wonderland (Via boingboing) like in Bruce Sterling's novel, now you use it in marvelous conversation like:"Yes Steve I can ensure you the pokkecon is a MoSoSo" ...
[Research] GOFAI
According to wikipedia, Haugeland coined the term GOFAI, which stands for Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence, describing, loosely, the Artificial Intelligence research techniques of the 1970s and before and in the perceptions of mind. Semantic networks are considered old fashioned in the fi...
[Prospective] USA/EU: Why George W. Bush takes orders from Pascal Lamy
Interesting paper by Nicholas Kulish in the Washington Monthly about EU/USA relationships. The authors explains the recent fact that the US are ore and more dependent on Brussels' decision (for instance GE's did not merge with Honeywell because of this). The authors explains why (EU building, Maast...
[Space and Place] New trend: mapping biodata and location stuff
Read in the geowanking mailing list: I am trying to connect some of my own bio data - electrical skin resistance (GSR) with GPS data. My homemade bio sensor sends numbers via serial to my laptop at 10 second intervals and I can certainly download some waypoint data from the Garmin GPS. But how can ...