Links for 04-06-2008
Medieval social networks; cause’n'effect and the science of addiction; Vinge on the Singularity; the Great Vowel Shift; eBay was a fad (allegedly); 1337 WordPress hax OMG …
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“The mathematicians and computer scientists looked through thousands of records of land transactions dating back as far as 1260 in a Southwest part of France. The result of their study shows ‘how medieval peasants and lords were connected.’”
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“Real word of mouth marketing is about building a great product, and then letting your customers pass on the news however they see fit. If there’s anything to do on the “marketing” side, it’s merely to enable the tools for your biggest fans to spread the
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“So for now, we simply don’t know for sure whether cannabis is genuinely changing brain architecture. And the same dilemmas apply to study of all addictions.” Cause and effect, folks.
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“The Great Vowel Shift was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in the south of England between 1200 and 1600.” Linguistic archaeology FTW!
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“Even if the singularity does not happen, we are going to have to put up with singularity enthusiasms for a long time. Get used to it.”
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6 – Was eBay a fad?“… we’re beginning to find out that eBay’s seemingly revolutionary core – the online auction – may have been a fad all along.” Or is it just that prices have settled to mutually reasonable points?
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“… gives every widget an extra control field called “Widget logic” that lets you control when the widget appears. The text field lets you use WP’s Conditional Tags, or any general PHP code.” Get in!
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“It was all to no effect,” he said. “Only when those excluded from the banquet of the rich went into the streets to express their anger and desperation were responses made.” Business as usual, then.
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“If you have widgets in your sidebar, you can intersperse them into the code provided, or keep them separate, to arrange things any way you wish.” Hmm. Good hack.
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“… an elaborate outdoor energy installation that fuses art with environmentally friendly gadget power [...] energy from the sun hits one of the plant’s eight PV panel ‘leaves’, which is then used to recharge up to 48 AA batteries …”
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11 – Watford ValvesGlassware for musos, innit? Valve-powered rock action FTW!
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12 – Becoming immortal“… the first human to live to 1,000 may have already been born. Which raises the question: does death give meaning to our lives? Where do we go from here?”
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Interesting, in a kind of CSI-Internet kinda way.
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June 4th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
You have some good links here… wish it were categorized.
Ajith