Links for 22-02-2008
Justifying Anonymous; uber-1337 CSS skillz0rz; deadline psychology; personalised search; animal-vegetable hybridity…
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1 - Are illegal tactics against Scientology justified?
“By stooping down to the level of the Scientologists and engaging in illegal activities, Anonymous puts itself at considerable risk.” Hmmm. Cuts two ways.
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2 - Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding
“In this post we present 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. You definitely know some of them, but definitely not all of them.”
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3 - Making Fake Deadlines Real: Completing Projects with Self-Assigned Deadlines
“There is a reason that I call such deadlines fakes, though: there doesn’t really seem to be any sort of consequence for not completing the project on time, or even ever.”
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4 - Wearable Robotics Aid Construction Workers
“Applied scientists and engineers at Nagayo University in Japan introduced a prototype wearable half-robotic device designed for carpentry workers.” Ugly but functional …
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5 - There is good reason to be worried about declining rates of reading
“Reading is at risk, but so are the minds of the young; we need a more critical view of their digital environment and its omnipresent allure.” O NOES teh int4rw3bz am bad 4 kids OMG. State-sponsored technophobia FTW.
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6 - I See Men as Trees Walking
“Somewhere in Kansas, a crop of rice is growing whose DNA includes a couple of genes borrowed from the human genome. These genes make the rice plants produce a protein found in human breast milk.”
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7 - Personalised search is still the holy grail
“… it knows more about us than all the intelligence agencies and private detective agencies in the world. The more it acts like a monopoly, the more it could lose that trust. Google’s biggest rival is still itself.”
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8 - Album review: Minus - The Great Northern Whalekill
“… the wide-eyed incantations of vocalist Krummi hint at what Dave Wyndorf might have sounded like if he’d been raised within sight of the Northern Lights on a diet of magic mushrooms and heavy metal.”
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