time to pull the plug(s)
Month: December 2007
Faux Indian government
A fake government office has been discovered in northern India that collected taxes, provided civic services and even handed out birth and death certificates
NYPD entrapment
Despite anyone finding a lost wallet having 10 days by law to return it, NYPD is using entrapment techniques to immediately arrest anyone who picks up planted wallets and bags which are now seeded with credit cards to make it a felony (instead of just cash which was a misdomeaner). 50% of the people arrested had no previous criminal record whatsoever.
NYPD continues to be stupid.
Open Social coming to ASF
open social is coming to the ASF, looks like. myspace, ning and hi5 all have committers, too
Stale Cache Handling
The other issue we had was when services go down. In many cases, it’s preferable not to show users a “hard” error, but instead to use slightly stale content, if it’s available. Stale-if-error allows you to do this — again, in a way that’s controllable by you.
i like the stale-if-error in particular
100x faster human evolution?
On top you can see human population growth over time on a log scale, so the increase really is much sharper than what you see. Below is a chart which displays the number of selected variants which began to rise in frequency particular time in the past for 2 populations. There seems to be a concomitant rise in adaptive mutations which began to be selected along with increased population size.
has evolution sped up 100x for humanity? Up to 10% of the human genome appears to be evolving at the maximum rate, more quickly than ever before in human history.
Good URL Bad URL
My mission here is to give businesses some guidance when choosing and promoting their URLs so they don’t waste the money they’ve already spent on this here Internet fad.
even though he is totally wrong about capitalized urls. eww.
Replacing Business Travel
Widespread teleconferencing could bring 10% of all flights to a halt
eh? try 50-70%. all those useless sales drones flying around add up.
The Neighborhood Project
creating a map of city neighborhoods based on the collective opinions of internet users.
MindBroker
MindBroker ist ein virtuelles GlaesernesUnternehmen in der digitalen Republik NooPolis. Es erforscht, erfindet, baut und lebt neue Konzepte für VirtuelleOekonomie’n und SocialNetworks der nächsten und übernächsten Generation.
something feels wrong about using german for something so net-centric. building the global brain requires a shared language, and why not go with english? at least until lojban is ready 🙂
Gregor J. Rothfuss 