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December 2009
Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor | World news | The Observer
Gangs are now believed to make most of their profits from the drugs trade and are estimated to be worth £352bn, the UN says. They have traditionally kept proceeds in cash or moved it offshore to hide it from the authorities. It is understood that evidence that drug money has flowed into banks came from officials in Britain, Switzerland, Italy and the US.
VideoClix to Power Clickable Interactive Video for Dailymotion | InteractiveTV Today
VideoClix, a Vancouver-based provider of technologies for clickable interactive video (which it calls "hypervideo"), said last week that it has signed a deal with Dailymotion, a Paris-based company which claims that its flagship broadband video portal is the world's second-largest. According to VideoClix, its technology will provide Dailymotion users with an "active and engaging" experience while providing advertisers with a non-intrusive way to reach their target audience. "This partnership brings clickable video to the masses on a global scale," VideoClix CEO, Babak Maghfourian, said in a prepared statement. "It's a win, win, win for audiences, publishers and advertisers alike."
Wired Is Getting Ready for Apple Tablet
The rumors about publishers who already have big plans for the device, however, are galore. The latest on the list? Condé Nast, which – according to All Things Digital – claims it’s preparing a digital version of Wired magazine for the Apple Tablet by the middle of next year, followed by its other 18 titles.
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October 2009
Yokaboo is a simple way to create your own independent store in seconds. Yokaboo provides a free online shop platform for artists, designers and traders.
Woman Sues Toyota Over 'Terrifying' Prank
September 2009
Amazon - Constrained Search vs. Random Results
Book Review: 'The Year That Changed the World' by Michael Meyer - washingtonpost.com
August 2009
Character encoding detection for external scripts
This is (EF BB BF) C3 B6 3D 22 21 22 loaded into browsers under various labels. That happens to be properly formed ECMAScript code for all the encodings used. The bogus results for Opera9 can easily be reproduced in context of the testing script, but probably not individually from a clean cache; what's going on there is unknown. I also noted in running these tests that Opera claims "Opera supports the entire ECMA-262 2nd and 3rd standards with no exceptions" while in fact their implementation does not, the parser rejects code that follows the IdentifierStart :: UnicodeEscapeSequence production of ECMA-262 section 7.6. Instead it implements Opera-only extensions, like comma-free arrays ala [ 1 2 3 ]. Other fun facts include: IE does not implement onload for iframes and cannot modify the innerHTML or tr elements; Firefox ignores "tags" when setting the innerHTML of dynamically created tr elements with no ownerElement... Oh and Opera again needs /th "tags" so it won't nest adjacent th elements when setting innerHTML.
Exploding iPhone: Apple investigating
Oshima: A World of Their Own (Chasing Shadows, Take Four of Four)
Diary of a Shinjuko Thief, which equates artists with thieves (each appropriators) tells us that filmmaking, in its ways, undermines a tyrannical order of reality: the filmmaker claims reality for himself, a private reconfiguration and perversion, distortion of it, and shows it from a single perspective as good as any other.
Revisionist History: Bartz Claims Yahoo Was Never A Search Engine
June 2009
architects construction management claims atlanta
Free Music Archive
May 2009
The Great Flickr Tools Collection
March 2009
People's Music Store: Build Your Own Record Shop
just hear it | playable music search
Home Income Plan
February 2009
The Spiritual Brain: Interview with Denyse O'Leary
December 2008
Language Log » Swearing and social networks
Un ensemble de données pour tester des programmes autour du mail :) intéressant. Analyse statistiques, géographiques, UI, etc.The Enron email dataset provides a nice chance to test out these claims. It is large (about 250,000 distinct messages, sent and received by over 11,000 distinct email addresses), and it contains a moderate amount of bad language.
Sham vs. Wham: The Health Insider: British Researchers Dispute Coffee/Tea Dehydration Claims
This research was published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and it dispels the long-term belief that tea dehydrates the body of fluids.
November 2008
Greenwash | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Fred Pearce exposes the exaggeration, absurd claims or downright lies that big business makes about its green credentials
Media Matters
October 2008
No REST in CMIS » Untangled
I am getting tired of big companies making idiotic claims about REST and their so-called RESTful architectures. The only similarity between CMIS and REST is that they both have four-letter acronyms.
