Scholarships for chess players??? How cool is that! And I thought that American Universities were judged by the size of their football stadiums! (Sorry, I’m joking here). By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Even at elite campuses, some students and faculty fret over anti-intellectualism Cheerleaders for a collegiate chess team? […]
Does this mean that the robots could possible have a dose of the crabs? “THE foraging fiddler crab may have a small brain and a relatively simple life, but the creature could help in the development of smarter, more functional robots. Techniques used by the crabs to see, move and make decisions could be applied […]
GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor’s blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. http://geourl.org/
This is just a little bit scary, especially when I look back at the hard drives that I have swapped as an upgrade…. “Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate students have uncovered a treasure trove of personal and corporate information on used disk drives. Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat, students at MIT?s Laboratory of Computer […]
Joy, bliss, the new Harry Potter novel due out June 21. read article here
What a handy device. A GLOVE that operates on wireless technology to allow communication across the globe between deaf-blind people has been invented by an Australian design engineer. read article here
WAITING for broadband has been as frustrating as waiting for Beckett’s Godot for many people unable to get cable or DSL, but a new wireless technology is expected to quickly change the scenario. full story here
Who really poses the greatest danger to world peace? Iraq and North Korea are certainly high on President Bush’s list though Iraq is still working hard to deny him a reason to attack. A 12,000-page report on its nuclear, chemical and biological programs has been given to the United Nations but Bush and his dependable […]
Blogmints shows you the highest commented posts on blogs currently appearing on weblogs.com. http://www.blogmints.com/
THE internet’s date of birth is a subject of considerable dispute, but a posting this week puts it precisely at January 1, 1983. Bob Braden, who helped design the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) posted his claim on a mailing list of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). January 1, […]
For the third year the Mayfly Project (2002) is running. All that it asks of you is to describe the year 2002 in twenty (20) words and submit them to the list. This is a very reflective process individually, and it is also an appealing experience to read other people’s lists. A word of warning […]
Welcome to Auction Divas! We are a group of ladies who absolutely love online auctions. This is a place for us to share our experiences, ideas, and maybe even learn a little something from each other. Well ladies - I’ve wanted to know about e-bay for a while now, so maybe this is the way […]
Currently reading “Linked” by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and I am intrigued to discover that as early as 1736, the Swiss born mathematician Leonhard Euler began an immense branch of mathematics known as ‘Graph Theory’. It is this graph theory that is today the basis of our thinking about networks. My intrigue does not lie with the […]
A very interesting thread of discussion is taking place at BlogBoard, the forum for Bloggers. “How and when did you start blogging?” It is a discussion that is worthy pursuing so why not join the forum and contribute? forum
Popdex is described as “the Website popularity index” and has been developed by Shanti Braford, a programmer who graduated from Washington University in St Louis. Shanti is keen to develop Popdex still further to find out if a sites popularity can shoot to the top of the list if little known sites are linked to […]
The BlogBoard is a discussion forum about blogging that has been set up for all bloggers to join. I have registered and at time of posting there is a total of 61 members. The BlogBoard
A Weblog on online content and everything that entails. Published by contenu.nu, a putative content consultancy in Toronto http://www.contenu.nu/nublog.html
Brad DeLong’s Thoughts of the Moment on Economics, and on Other Topics as Well. “Macroeconomics without tears, in clean, clear prose, plus first-rate political and bureaucratic analysis from someone who?s been there.” http://econ.blog.us/movable_type/index.html
