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  1. Rainbow Federation: The 5 Most Diverse Crews in Space

    Discover Magazine Computers &bull Yesterday

    Once or twice before I've made a case for diversity as a hallmark of good science fiction. Regardless of one's present political affiliations, we like our sci-fi casts to be a plurality of uncanny and unfamiliar characters. The future of our species is, in part, dependent upon how well we get along with other forms of sentient life. So which stellar explorers would earn the stamp of approval from the Rainbow Coalition of the 24th Century? After weeding out (most) all-human crews (sorry BSG!) and some of the less well-known teams (sorry Bucky O'Hare!), I've come up with a top… Full Story »


  2. Police and Thieves: Thoughts on ITV's The Bill

    News Jiffy &bull Sep 1, 2010

    Richard Brennan's blog. Posts on human rights, Web 2.0, financial, national and international news. Follow me by Twitter, e-mail or in a reader! I am currently living in Walthamstow, North East London. Rather a break from writing and commenting on the news, but I wanted to mark the final episode of The Bill, a programme that was part of my childhood. The Bill ran from 1984 to 2010, and focused on… Full Story »

  3. Skip-ipedia, pt. 2

    Lost Remote &bull Sep 1, 2010

    Below is a list of about 50 articles that have been cataloged as having been deleted without cause from Wikipedia. It also includes some articles that still remain but have been significantly stripped of information. The vast majority of items… Full Story »


  4. Health Speaks: Google's Pilots in Arabic, Hindi and Swahili

    D'Technology Weblog &bull Sep 1, 2010

    In most parts of the world, quality information to help improve people health isn't available online in local languages. Google introduces "Health Speaks," an initiative to help communities overcome this obstacle by translating high-quality health information into their languages -… Full Story »


  5. Ken Levine of Irrational Games, Interviewed by Chad Dukes

    Technorati Technology &bull Aug 31, 2010

    Bioshock Infinite was announced on the 12th of August, with a trailer (see below) and a gameplay demonstration that was only allowed to be viewed by the gaming press, with no electronic devices in tow. Not quite a prequel, the… Full Story »

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  6. Putting Rap on the Map. Literally.

    Programmable Web &bull Aug 31, 2010

    Rap enthusiasm site, Rap Genius has gone through the impressive tasks of combing rap and Google Maps. Rap Genius' Rap Map is a Google Map-based visual almanac of all things rap. You can scan an area and view rap landmarks… Full Story »

  7. Musopen Project Aims to Truly Liberate Already Free Music

    Ostatic &bull Aug 31, 2010

    Beethoven has been dead 183 years but thanks to DRM restrictions you can't legally share his copyright-free music from a CD you purchase at the local music store. An ambitious project by the team at Musopen wants to build an… Full Story »


  8. Skip-ipedia

    Lost Remote &bull Aug 30, 2010

    Arguably the most profound result of the growth of the internet, and by extension, that of on-line journalism, is our ability to immediately connect to any "whats" or "whos" that we seek. And more and more often, the availability all of this information… Full Story »


  9. The Endocrine Rosary

    Darren Barefoot &bull Aug 28, 2010

    With no objective blood test or scan, most experts consider breast budding and testicular growth the hallmarks of puberty's beginning. Unfortunately, those measures are very subjective-particularly for male children. Pediatricians guess the size of a boy's testicles by touch and… Full Story »

  10. Mark Hurd and Steve Mills

    Ajax World Magazine &bull Aug 27, 2010

    Personal issues aside Mark Hurd was a brilliant CEO for HP and he will be remembered as one of the greatest CEOs HP ever had. Like the rest of the world, we were curious and watched him from the beginning. I knew he was off to a brilliant start when - within days of getting the job - he put together an internal group of PhD economists specialized in game theory who developed… Full Story »

  11. Where Should You Start Your Groupon Clone?

    Silicon Alley Insider &bull Aug 26, 2010

    New York, Chicago, LA, SF, and Boston are heading the Group Buying charge for good reason - there's variety in cuisine, services, and attractions in order to sustain a different, premium daily deal. I wanted to see which cities are the hottest based on sales and predict where we'll see the biggest growth. Until recently, it would have been impossible to have an apples to apples comparison of deals in each city - some pizzerias are just better than others, e.g. Grimaldi's versus Famous Rays, so we can't compare intra-city, and who… Full Story »


  12. YouTube Learns Four More Languages

    Jatin Mahindra &bull Aug 26, 2010

    It seems quite safe to say that YouTube doesn't like language barriers. This week, the site introduced support for the Croation, Filipino, Serbian, and Slovak languages, and also detailed some impressive progress it's made over the past few years. Let's… Full Story »


  13. Trophy Husband

    Technorati Technology &bull Aug 26, 2010

    The descriptor, "trophy husband", is a popular spinoff of the term "trophy wife," and seems to be popping up more and more often as more men are staying home. Per Wikipedia, trophy wife is a pejorative term used to describe… Full Story »


  14. Wikinvest Launches On The iPhone

    TechCrunch 2008 Web 2.0 Companies &bull Aug 26, 2010

    Wikinvest, a Wikipedia for investing, launches its mobile initiative with its iPhone app going live in the Apple store tomorrow at 9 a.m. As brokerages and the finance industry in general are notoriously late to the mobile and Internet game,… Full Story »

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  15. Why Large Hadron Collider Scientists are Using CouchDB

    Read Write Web &bull Aug 25, 2010

    This post is part of our ReadWriteEnterprise channel, which is a resource and guide for IT managers and technologists in the Enterprise. The channel is sponsored by Intel. The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS) at CERN (The European Organization for… Full Story »

  16. Amazon Puts Out Another BS Press Release On The Kindle (AMZN)

    Silicon Alley Insider &bull Aug 25, 2010

    Amazon put out another press release on Kindle sales today. The Kindle is selling really well, the company wants you to know . It's the best selling product on Amazon.com, the company wants you to know. Amazon would NOT like… Full Story »

  17. Study: META Descriptions Very Important Search Results Click Through Rates

    Jatin Mahindra &bull Aug 25, 2010

    Here is the break down of the study, but before you look at it, let me define a "fixation" in terms of eye tracking studies. As per Wikipedia, a Fixation online eye tracking refers to the test subject fixing on… Full Story »


  18. Seton Hill University to Give Students iPads, Art

    Read Write Web &bull Aug 24, 2010

    Seton Hill, a liberal arts university in Pennsylvania, is giving its full-time undergrads and faculty iPads and more under its Griffin Technology Advantage Program. The tablets are all being outfitted with Art Authority, an app that brings centuries of great… Full Story »

  19. Pandora Adds Genre-Based Stations

    Read Write Web &bull Aug 24, 2010

    Just the other day, I introduced my mother to music recommendation service Pandora . We'd been discussing how my grandfather used to love listening to barbershop music and she said she missed it and would love to find a way… Full Story »

  20. India's Deep North | Gene Expression

    Discover Magazine Computers &bull Aug 21, 2010

    In my post Pakistan ~10 years on I alluded to the fact that despite India's robust economic growth of the past ~15 years or so in the aggregate there is a wide range of state-by-state variation. It is conventional in the media to point out the massive caste/class divisions in India, but because of the lack of familiarity with the geography… Full Story »

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