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Full Interview: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on forgetting in a digital age | Spark | CBC Radio
That means that Google has more informational power over us, and that’s a concern. A related concern is the fact that we must understand and realize whatever we say today will or might be held against us in the future.
October 2009
Carsonified » How Colour Communicates Meaning
Dell PowerEdge T310 Server Overview
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September 2009
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Dell PowerEdge T710 Tower Server Overview
PRESETS AND ADOBE CAMERA RAW (ACR) – A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN | x=blog stay informed
Land Art Generator Initiative
According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 7.15 exajoules) by 2030 – a 44% increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today).
The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog
Today, we are open sourcing the non-blocking web server and the tools that power FriendFeed under the name Tornado Web Server.
Tornado Web Server
Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure.
Open-source camera could revolutionize photography
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Searchable: Annotation-Driven Indexing and Searching with Lucene :: Drive-by Digressions
Searchable is a toolkit for Lucene that harnesses the power of annotations to specify what properties to index and how to treat them.
PhotoMaker
interesting how Placemaker reacts differently to a text with "Rouen" and "at Rouen"This small mashup uses YQL to combine the power of Flickr and Yahoo! Placemaker. Copy and paste some text into the textbox below and click the button — application will first geo-locate all places in the text, and then will try to find photographs, published under Creative Commons license, which were geotagged at or near found places.
