Jerry Springer plans to run for Senate in Ohio. Why he has taken bought airtime for 30 minute infomercials in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, San Antonio and New York I have no idea. Seems like a publicity stunt that will not amount to anything….
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Work at Google Blogs
Google has a job posting up for a Blogger Programs Coordinator….
UK Hulk is anatomically enhanced
Spanish toymaker Play By Play is supposedly shipping a 12-inch tall Hulk doll with a 2-inch penis according to this article in the Sun….
Self-healing minefield
DARPA has a cool new demo of a self-healing minefield online. The machines will rise……
Windows Server 2003 vs. WebSphere
Microsoft paid for a study comparing Windows Server 2003 running .Net Framework 1.1 against IBM Websphere (J2EE) on Red Hat and what I am guessing is Solaris….
Free soda in aggregate
Ed Kaim of Microsoft built a pyramid out of all of his discarded Diet Coke cans….
Jimmy Conrad
Lengthy profile of Jimmy Conrad in today’s Kansas City Star….
Geeks to Gold
Fortune magazine has an article in this month’s issue about how researchers at IBM’s Almaden Research Center have come up with new data heuristics models such as the Web Graph Structure to analyze thought trends in text. Researchers are put before clients to drum up revenue and learn about big problems with big revenue potentials. Sounds like a good place to work, with some really interesting projects….
Computer Science’s lost allure
The New York Times has an interesting article on decreased Computer Science undergrads while the demand for graduate CS programs continue to rise….
Philip Greenspun on engineering prowess
Philip Greenspun had a pretty insightful article last week regarding the focus of our technology efforts….