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Wired News: Ricochet Wireless Rides Again |
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| Topic: Tech Industry |
10:15 am EST, Feb 18, 2003 |
] The resurrection of a bankrupt wireless Internet company
] isn't just a boon for editors dying to write "Ricochet
] bounces back" in a headline. It's also a nod to the
] vulnerability of Wi-Fi, which doesn't offer continuous
] coverage between so-called hot spots. Wired News: Ricochet Wireless Rides Again |
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02/16/03: UI Changes/Social Network Mapping |
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| Topic: MemeStreams |
9:39 am EST, Feb 18, 2003 |
You've probably noticed that the look of the site is dramatically different. My goal with this is to make the site a little easier on the eyes. The biggest change in this release is the Social Network Maping. If you click on the Social Network links around the site you'll be able to see who is linking who. The maps are interactive; you can move through the network from link to link by clicking on people's names. This data is all based on Recommendations (not clickthroughs). It provides an excellent way to get feedback about the links you are providing. As the community is small, most people are connected to a small group of frequent posters. However, as the site grows, this feature should provide an interesting way to surf through the social network on the site in search of interesting people. Rattle deserves all of the credit for this feature. The MemeBox has been updated. The frames version was a little cramped. This should be more comfortable to use. New users will not show up in the recent posters list until they've recommend an article. I also fixed a bug with selecting multiple paragraphs of text with the bookmarklet. |
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Yahoo! News - Study: False Memories Easily Implanted |
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11:10 pm EST, Feb 17, 2003 |
] Remember that wonderful day when Bugs Bunny hugged you at
] Disneyland? A new study shows just how easy it can be to
] induce false memories in the minds of some people. I've read about these studies before. The human memory is extremely unreliable, and this has significant implications in court cases. We use statute limitations for this, but there may be more to it then time... Yahoo! News - Study: False Memories Easily Implanted |
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The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality |
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9:53 pm EST, Feb 17, 2003 |
] Make way for the ultimate high-rise project: the space
] elevator. Long viewed as science fiction "imagineering",
] researchers are gathering momentum in their pursuit to
] propel this uplifting concept into actuality. Cyan blogged a recent article about this. I thought it was interesting and dug this up. Its a little more detailed. The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality |
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9:33 pm EST, Feb 17, 2003 |
This people browser groups the CHIplace members by the CHI roles specified in their user profiles. It uses the number of roles in common as a similarity measure. After grouping the members into similar clusters, a spring model places the clusters in two dimensions. People Browser |
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Geeks Without Borders, by Steven Johnson |
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9:30 pm EST, Feb 17, 2003 |
L3 takes place in virtual space, while the Go Game unfolds on actual city streets. But they share a common denominator: the widening of the game environment. Most forms of entertainment are defined by their edges: the outline of the Monopoly board or the dimensions of a movie screen. To enter the world of the game or the story, you enter a confined space, set off from the real world. Play-space doesn't overlap with ordinary space. But Go and L3 don't play by those rules. Go colonizes an entire city for its playing field; L3 colonizes the entire Web. These are games without frontiers. ... The next time you see a strange street sign in your neighborhood, it might just be a prop in someone else's entertainment, and the next Google search results page you pull down might contain a link to a node in the L3 universe. That's the thing about games without frontiers. You never really know when you're playing. Geeks Without Borders, by Steven Johnson |
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Iraq Daily Newspaper: Inspectors Affirm Iraq Void of Banned Weapons |
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5:50 pm EST, Feb 17, 2003 |
] In presence of ten foreign ministers from nations with UN
] Security Council seats and many other diplomatic
] missions, UN weapons inspectors declared that they have
] found nothing valuable in Iraq.
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] The two men told along with about thirty minutes that
] Iraqs cooperation was constructive in al fields. The view from the gulf is interesting. Iraq is complying. There are no weapons. The world opposes the US... Iraq Daily Newspaper: Inspectors Affirm Iraq Void of Banned Weapons |
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Peking Duct Tape, and Web Logs as Weapons |
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4:57 pm EST, Feb 17, 2003 |
There has always been a World of Disorder, but what makes it more dangerous today is that in a networked universe, with widely diffused technologies, open borders and a highly integrated global financial and Internet system, very small groups of people can amass huge amounts of power to disrupt the World of Order. Individuals can become super-empowered. Maybe Google was thinking, "Let's buy now -- we may soon find web logs added to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) list!" Peking Duct Tape, and Web Logs as Weapons |
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Science Journals to Join Fight Against Terrorists (washingtonpost.com) |
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10:39 am EST, Feb 16, 2003 |
] -- Editors of the world's leading scientific journals
] announced today that they would delete details from
] published studies that might help terrorists make
] biological weapons. Science Journals to Join Fight Against Terrorists (washingtonpost.com) |
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