September 30, 2008 by alikat.

"There has been a rumor that Bill Gates gave a "Rules to Live-By" speech to high school kids with 11 great wisdoms about what should children expect as they enter the "real world". The fact is that the author of these rules is Charles Sykes, the author of Dumbing Down Our Kids. " read the rules

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September 30, 2008 by alikat.

"Thinking Machine 4 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you.

The artwork is an artificial intelligence program, ready to play chess with the viewer. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer’s thought process is sketched on screen as it plays. A map is created from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the program tries to decide its best move. Those traces become a key to the invisible lines of force in the game as well as a window into the spirit of a thinking machine. "

Play the game

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September 30, 2008 by alikat.

An interesting graphical history of the Internet growth on the National Science Foundation’s web site.

link

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September 26, 2008 by alikat.

fantasyfootball.timesonline.co.uk

“If all goes to plan, ‘The Wall’ stadium in Doha, Qatar’s capital city, will claim two firsts: The world’s first underground stadium and the world’s first open-air, air-conditioned stadium.” read the article

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September 22, 2008 by alikat.

pbs.org

As you travel through life, how engaged are you with political and social issues? In what ways do you get involved? How do you feel when someone mentions the word "politics"? Are you excited? Indifferent? Uncertain?

Take the “Let’s get political” quiz:

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September 22, 2008 by alikat.

npr.org

“Chris Sharma is hailed as the world’s best rock climber, a pioneer who has mastered some of the most spectacular and difficult routes in the history of the sport.” read

Chris Sharma climbing La Rambla  - watch the video

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September 12, 2008 by alikat.

labs.mozilla.com

An experiment into connecting the Web with language. read the article

Watch the video:

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September 10, 2008 by alikat.

washingtonpost.com

“In an interview with The Washington Post on Monday, Google senior privacy counsel Jane Horvath was asked about a reported “warning” issued by the German government’s Federal Office for Information Security.

According to Germany’s top privacy official, Peter Schaar, the information security office had warned the public not to use Google’s new Web browser Chrome because it was not fully vetted and had security holes.

“There was no warning issued,” Horvath insisted.

She was right.” read the article

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September 2, 2008 by alikat.

from Google’s official blog:

“A fresh take on the browser
9/01/2008 02:10:00 PM
At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.” read more

Update:

from blogs.pcworld.com

Official Google Chrome Screenshots

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