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The imminent implossion of Digg » Thinking Outloud
It looks like my article on Digg’s broken commenting system helped contribute a little to this new idea that the site is doomed and on its way out. I certainly didn’t intend for that reaction, nor do I agree that […]

After my post “Why is Digg Filled with So Many Assholes?” spent some time on the Digg front page I got a ton of traffic, which is to be expected.
What I didn’t expect was that I would be referenced on Wikipedia, oh the power of the web.
On Wikipedia’s entry for “Digg.com” the statement “It has […]

Well, I just went through the Digg effect and was very pleased by how well my hosting provider, Dreamhost, was able to handle the traffic.
I was a little worried about how quickly pages would be served because sometimes I’ll get long load times when going to my pages, but during the period of heaviest traffic […]

For long time readers of the news site Slashdot the heavy volume of useless comments has become more or less a way of life. For every story there are the troll, the flame wars, and the crapfloods, but Slashdot’s moderation system seems to do a pretty good job of filtering out the useless, even if […]

I just got a chance to try out the alpha version of firefox, GranParadiso, and I have to say that it looks awesome so far.
But I was really surprised that it failed the Acid2 test. I know that the layout engine is still being developed, but you’d think that a group that extolls the virtues […]

When I moved to Tampa I showed up with one car load full of stuff, a couple bucks in my pocket, and no job. I was left looking around for a bartending position, but it seems that in Tampa you have to be a bar back first, unless you have breasts. After a few weeks […]

In an effort to further clarify the ideas initially expressed in the post “Thoughts on the Nature of the Mind”, I have been pondering a physical analogy for the self modifying programming of the brain.
What I envision is a collection of single cylinder engines that are all independent one another except that they all have […]

A patient lies sick in his hospital bed while an unknown disease slowly kills off all of his brain cells, the man is left with nothing; no money, no family, no friends. As his brain slowly dies he begins having trouble recalling more and more information, he begins to have mild spasms. A research scientist […]

Who Did What in China’s Past? Look It Up, or Maybe Not - New York Times
After reading the New York Times article entitled “Who Did What in China’s Past? Look It Up, or Maybe Not” detailing some of the differences between wikipedia in the US and China I’m left wondering how much we can actually […]

I recently had the pleasure of trying out Fenêtres Volantes 1.0, an OS X screen saver made by Bruno Roudot, Boris Cargo, and Vincent Zorzi.
This screen saver basically zooms out from your desktop and then makes your windows fly around the screen until you move the mouse or press a key at which point they […]