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Would you like to pretend you have a girlfriend? There are over 60 women on eBay right now willing to be your imaginary girlfriend: write letters, talk on the phone, instant message, and even send underwear to the highest bidder. Most offer 4-8 week terms and include a break-up letter detailing how sad she is to see you go. Sounds like a great job for writers looking for work. Just create a fantasy and take in the money. Thank you Jason Kottke for the link….
Torrentz.com lists files available for distribution using BitTorrent. You can pull down entire Simpsons seasons!…
Jürg Lehni and Uli Franke of the Czech Republic created Hektor, a robot that spray paints an Illustrator image onto a flat vertical surface….
Joel's latest article is about what he is going through sorting through hundreds of applications for two internship positions open this summer at his company, Fog Creek Software. Joel offers some good advice on what not to do. I was hoping he would go into more detail about what does catch his eye in the résumé process. Fog Creek Software reads through résumés by hand, other companies parse and rank. One of the reasons I moved my weblog over to my domain is that I wanted to associate all of my work in one location. If someone sees an e-mail…
Opportunity landed last night and communicated back to Earth. It is on its side, 15 miles off the center of its target in Meridiani Planum. Arnold Schwarzenegger was at JPL to cheer everyone on. Total Recall takes place in 2084. If we do get to Mars in person by 2030, it would not be unheard of for someone like Coohagen to have the planet organized as a business 50 years later….
If you ever commented on a post at my old blog, I now moved the post to be a part of my new blog and its entries. The submit dates are off, but the main goal is to participate in a conversation. If you would rather have the comment removed just let me know….
AtomEnabled is the new site for everything about Atom. There is a special area for developers with detailed information. Last night Blogger announced support for Atom. I have an Atom feed. I tweaked my RSS feed a few times, and now that Atom information is more easily obtainable I might start tweaking Atom a bit as well. After tweaking my feed makes its way through the FeedValidator to make sure everything is well formatted. My Atom feed gets less hits (6% of aggregator traffic) than my unpublished (Meta reference only) RSS 1.0 feed. (11%) RSS 2.0 accounts for 83% of…
Presidential Market 2004 is a simulated futures market allowing you to buy and sell shares of the major 2004 presidential candidates. The highest valued portfolio on election day wins a trip to the inauguration in Washington, D.C….
Apple now has its music store offerings available as a customizable RSS feed. Interested in the top rock songs? How about rock, alternative, and pop?…
President Bush has just concluded his 2004 State of the Union address. The White House published the transcript online….
MusicPlasma is a search engine to help you visualize your musical taste. Enter a band's name and you will see that band's near neighbor relation. The "more the artist is famous or representative of a specific style of music the more the halo (circle) around the artist will be large." For some reason Norah Jones eclipses Bob Dylan. Overall a very cool tool. Flash required….
Technorati is now faster than ever before! Try out the new beta. Nice work Dave and Kevin!…
Yahoo! established Yahoo! Research Labs yesterday. They have an implementation of Nutch and hot searches of the day. Some good research papers on clustering as well. I would like to see a university partnership, similar to what Google has going on with Stanford….
NY Times covers the move to create software to block pop-up advertisements on the Web. Microsoft claims that Windows XP Service Pack 2 will not block pop-ups unless users enable the feature. DoubleClick is developing technology that will work around Microsoft and other software vendors' attempted blocks. "In December 2001, 1.4 percent of the Web ads measured by Nielsen/NetRatings were pop-ups or pop-under ads, which appear behind the main browser window. That rose to 8.7 percent in July 2003. But it has declined since, to 6.2 percent in December." Microsoft already has anti-spam technology in client software such as Outlook…
Bill Gates has built a privacy buffer around his Medina estate according to an article by Warren Cornwall in The Seattle Times. The city will not let gates use the properties solely to house his cars, but some Microsoft employees occupy the houses to keep the codes alive. He now has a corridor to the main road, which makes sense to me….
Lego has an 858 piece set for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers. $90. CalTech receives a portion of the profits….
Which Family Guy character are you? Take the quiz!…
An IBM 5160 and its Intel 8088 processor (from 1983) is still in use today by PHI Data in the Netherlands. HP and Intel gave the company some new Pentium 4 computers with LCD screens, but they will continue to use the IBM 5160 to test matrix printers. Note to Scoble: Microsoft should have a press release and a party in the Netherlands when PHI Data purchases their first copy of Windows….
Microsoft has set up Xbox Live connections at U.S.O. centers around the United States as well as overseas bases. Not only does this allow for good rest and relaxation time, but Microsoft gains loyal users. Using the same product every day in the helps sell products back home when those troops are on leave. It has helped Jeep and Coke, and should help the Xbox as well….
Economist.com reports on an article in the January 15 edition of Nature. "The robot scientist developed by Ross King of the University of Wales at Aberystwyth, and his colleagues, does everything a flesh-and-blood scientist does?or, rather, it does what philosophers of science say that scientists ought to do. That is, it formulates hypotheses from observations, conducts experiments to test them, and then formulates new hypotheses from the results. And worse, from the point of view of the human researcher, it does so as effectively as a person."…
Today is Personal Firewall Day. Visit Microsoft's Protect site to make sure you are doing everything you can on your PC. I use Norton AntiVirus 2004 on my computers. If you plan on using tax software this season there are often deals combining tax preparation software and antivirus solutions. Resolve to keep your computer and others free up-to-date and clean!…
Intel announced the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG network connection, a 802.11g compatible part for their Centrino bundle. It supports WiFi Protected Access (WPA) and can be updated via firmware to handle future standards such as 802.11i….
Paul Falstad has some sweet math and physics Java applets. Demonstrate the kinetic theory of gases, a 3-D quantum harmonic oscillator, and lots more!…
Eric Rudder, Senior VP of Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft, will be speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California on Thursday, February 5 at 6:00 P.M. $10 for members, $18 for non-members….
Hiawatha Bray of The Boston Globe writes about the underworld of The Sims Online, complete with mafia justice and underage brothels….