As if the sheer magnetism aspect of magnets wasn’t magical enough, weblog Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories points out 17 very cool tricks that put your magnets to great use. For starters, a strong magnet can be the perfect tool to remove batteries from the grips of a stuborn spring. We’ve all got things that take […]
Recipe search engine Recipe Puppy finds meals by a list of ingredients or keywords, searching through more than 500,000 recipes across dozens of web sites. Once you’ve searched using the list of ingredients you want to use, Recipe Puppy will suggest other similar ingredients that you might want to add to your search, a very […]
Pirate Bay defendants found guilty | Digital Media – CNET News: ” A Swedish court on Friday found the four defendants in the high-profile Pirate Bay case guilty, sentencing them to a year in jail. The defendants were also ordered to pay $3,6 million in damages to copyright holders, among them several American media giants. […]
In an underground bunker 100 feet beneath Stockholm lies a unique facility operated by the Swedish ISP Bahnhof. It’s become known as the ‘James Bond Villain Data Center’ after it was featured on the Pingdom web site last year. Dean Nelson of Data Center Pulse recently got a tour of the data center from Bahnhof […]
I have been monitoring for a bit DannyChoo.com. He has been a Product Manager at Microsoft, and most recently the Website manager at Amazon (Japan). Take a look at his site, and you’ll see a lot of irrelevant material, but an equal amount of small tidbits about Japanese life and culture… Go ahead, what do […]
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A recent wave of admiration for new 3D-flavoured CAPTCHAs got me thinking about CAPTCHAs. The whole model just doesn’t hold up to technological or economic scrutiny. CAPTCHAs are doomed, because of three important “CAPTCHA gotchas”. The CAPTCHA idea sounds simple: prevent bots from massively abusing a website (e.g. to get many email or social network […]
What is your indicators for a technology being mainstream? Here’s Webomatica’s view of it…What’s Mainstream Technology? Ask Joe Average, The Spouse, Grandma, and Dave Letterman » Webomatica – Technology and Entertainment Digest Interesting thought floating around whether these social aggregators like FriendFeed will ever go ‘mainstream.’ Of course, that begs the question – what is […]