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Explaining the Credit Crisis
2009-03-11 19:09:00
I’m not always keen on a) showing videos or b) blatantly copy and pasting someone else’s work, but I think a more knowledgeable crowd is better, particularly in light of the current financial crisis, so here goes an excellent video by Jonathan Jarvis explaining it all.
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Rethinking Rebranding
2009-03-09 06:03:00
I have to admit, I’m not one of the many people who think Pepsi’s new rebranding of their logo and drink is a bad idea. If anything, it represents the audacity of providing a fresh face to such a famous and iconic brand, and I think they’ve done a pretty good job. Brands are becoming ...

Another Dimension of Time
2009-03-08 16:24:00
University of Southern California physics professor Itzhak Bars has suggested (in somewhat dated news) what the Telegraph called a “heretical idea”: the possibility that there is an additional dimension to time. According to Bars, the world we see around us is merely a “shadow” of a six-dimensional world. Think of a 3D object like your hand ...
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Data, Overwritten
2009-03-03 03:23:00
The ironic part about stories like how the original Journalspace collapsed because of a failed backup (in the form of an overwrite that could not be recovered) is that people laugh and point fingers and claim it will never happen to them, and yet it shows its ugly face in moments least expected. I heard from ...
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Recovering Data from a Solid State Drive
2009-02-18 19:55:00
One of the things I’ve been working on the past week is recovering data from a broken ASUS EEE PC which was showing a “Disk Read Error” upon startup. It has been attributed to a bad sector issue (which can be recovered, apparently, by using an XP CD and Recovery Console and doing a chkdisk ...
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Fixing Wordpress MU
2009-01-29 03:04:00
In trying to install the latest version of Wordpress MU (multiple user) for a client, I came across the following problem: No WPMU site defined on this host. If you are the owner of this site, please check Debugging WPMU for further assistance. The remedy lies in editing wp-blog-header.php to the following: <?php include( “index-install.php” ); // install ...
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Interesting Defunct United States Airlines
2008-11-15 23:06:00
Air California (AirCal) Operated: 1967 - 1987 Cause and result of demise: Ceased operations. Acquired piecemeal by American Airlines . Interesting fact: One marketing program used by Air California in the early to mid 1970s was to offer school field trips to Sacramento at $25 a head, where school children would be taken on a tour of the California ...
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First Pictures of Shuttle Launch
2008-11-15 02:11:00
Besides seven astronauts, the space shuttle Endeavor’s cargo includes two new sleeping chambers, a second toilet, and a water-purification system, all of which will let NASA double the occupancy of the International Space Station to six. It also carries with it an odd assortment of live spiders, butterflies, and new technology to turn urine into ...
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3 Absolutely Free Places to Backup Your Data Online
2008-11-12 16:15:00
Storage capacity: 2GB (free upgrade to 10GB using the promotion code “linkup” Security: 2048 byte RSA and 256 bit AES. Works on: Windows, Mac, Linux Unique point: The interface is pretty snazzy and you just can’t beat the amount of space you get, and they have very robust security features. I’ve yet to notice the speed improvements that ...
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Tech Review Time Machine
2008-11-09 00:12:00
Download the article “Tim Berners-Lee: The Architect of the World Wide Web” from the July 1996 edition of the Tech nology Review . Download the article “Life on the Net: Chaos and Community On-Line” from the July 1994 edition of the Technology Review. Some highlights from the 1994 edition: “Mosaic is similar to Gopher but has a fancy graphical hypertext ...
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Red vs Blue, 2000 - 2008
2008-11-07 16:41:00
Graphic provided in part by Daily Kos.
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A Beautiful Phrase
2008-11-06 15:54:00
From the cafes of Beirut to the villages of Kenya, much of the world viewed Barack Obama’s triumph as an event that could repair the battered reputation of the United States, lift the aspirations of minorities everywhere, and renew the chances for diplomacy rather than war. From World reaction to President-elect Barack Obama’s win, Wire Reports. Above ...
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Prediction Markets on the 2008 Presidential Election
2008-11-05 03:20:00
It’s election night and everyone is glued to their TV or PC screens, visiting live-feed and live-update sites (or hitting refresh). But I’m more interested about what people predict, and prediction markets are an excellent resource to find out. Basically prediction markets are where people wager real or fake money on the outcome of certain events, ...
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Movie Review: The Fall (2006)
2008-06-06 06:07:00
I had the fortune of going to see Tarsem Singh’s newest movie, “The Fall ”, which emerged in theaters on the 30th of June. The part-fantasy, part-reality movie takes place in Los Angeles in the 1920s and revolves around bedridden movie stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace), who, after being injured on a set, considers suicide but ...
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Google Updates Favicon
2008-05-31 15:13:00
It appears as though Google has updated its favicon to a newer, softer version, choosing the lowercase ‘g’ in the Google title over the uppercase: This is an update on the previous version, shown below: This change has slowly propagated in the past few days across all of Google’s services. I wonder what they might be up ...
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Two women in New York
2008-05-24 20:01:00
Crash collision, mid-pavement Between a Jabba and a Cruella More like a brush and a bump “I’m sor-”, “You!” and the pointing begins With expletives bouncing off The gray cement like marbles Ugly, monotonic, gray, marbles, Loud and all over the place One focuses on size (and girth), The other on the intellect (or lack thereof) And the marbles bounce around Unnoticed. 3rd Avenue and 77nd, 11:51am
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Google University
2008-05-23 05:42:00
I spotted something interesting while watching the video that Google put up on their blog announcing the availability of Google Sites to the general public. The URL The email The domain Google University is apparently an opportunity for Google employees to enhance their knowledge with specific courses. googleuniversity.org is registered by Domains By Proxy, while googleuniversity.com clearly has no ...

Putting that $15 surcharge into perspective
2008-05-23 04:06:00
Back in the old days, check-in baggage was free (and they actually gave you something to eat, too, even on domestic flights). American Airlines decided to charge passengers $15 for their first check-in bag, a path which other airliners will undoubtedly follow given high fuel prices. But where exactly does $15 bring you? While it seems ...
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The Google Takeover
2008-05-20 06:50:00
I don’t particularly welcome to advent of Google Health, mainly because Google controls so much of my life already as it is. Google has become so integral in our daily lives that if Google’s servers were to suffer from some form of failure even for an hour, its impact will be so devastating it just ...
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The Commuter?s Lament
2008-05-20 00:16:00
On the subway pathway from the 42nd street A, C, E stop leading to the 7, 1, 2 and 3 train platform, I spotted these placards upon the beams - everyone else seemed to be in too much of a hurry to appreciate them. It turns out that this is a piece of work from ...
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Where the Chinatown Fails ? to Succeed
2008-05-19 00:18:00
As a frequent commuter from New York to Philadelphia and back, I have had the privilege of traveling cheap thanks to the Chinatown buses, which run between most of the major cities along the East Coast, including Boston, New York, Philadelphia and DC, all the way down to Atlanta. The two main companies available are ...
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Giving Away
2008-05-18 15:41:00
So, I have this Erector “Design Excavator” set that I found on campus on the “I’m giving this away for free” table and I figured I’d like to give this to a child who might have some fun with it. Can you find me that child? Convince me why he or she would love to ...
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Python code for extracting email addresses
2008-05-13 22:52:00
There have been times where I’ve wanted to mass email a bunch of people sharing the same domain name: for example, I’d like to send a notice to everyone I know who attends my school and thus has a @swarthmore.edu email address. Exporting my contacts from Gmail into CSV, I coded the following in Python ...
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How to download mp3 from esnips
2008-05-09 04:48:00
So, you’ve found a good song on esnips and you’d like to make it your own. As of this writing, only one method exists. Say you’d like to download Ballade Pour Adeline by Rimini Club DJs Unlimited, an obscure but fantastic song. The URL on esnips is at http://www.esnips.com/doc/4f496449-99d8-4 a4a-a5f2-b8f46c9e0860/03.-Ballade-Pour-Ad eline—Rimini-Club-Djs-United Here’s the method: Replace the /doc/ part with /nsdoc/ Remove ...
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Endangered-Languages.com
2008-05-06 06:17:00
I hereby present to you a collaborative final project for my Endangered Languages course here at Swarthmore: endangered-languages.com
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IHT Delivers Same Story in Different Flavors
2008-04-25 03:26:00
It seems that the International Herald Tribune can be accused of writing up different forms of the same article with choice words replaced. It lends itself to a surprisingly conflicting interpretation. The reason they differ? The regions in which they are expected to be read, specifically Africa versus the Middle East (check out their links) ...
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Japan, Newspaper Country
2008-04-20 16:50:00
Consider these figures of the top newspapers of the world: Newspaper Readership, Feb. 2008   Yomiuri, morning edition 10,015,054   Asahi Shimbun, morning edition 8,016,119   Mainichi, morning edition 3,879,114   Yomiuri, evening edition 3,826,298   Asahi Shimbun, evening edition 3,511,086   The Sun 3,077,060   The Daily Mail 2,294,880   USA Today 2,293,137   Wall Street Journal 2,011,882   Mainichi, evening edition 1,349,652   New York Times 1,037,828 (Figures from Japan Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), as released in ...
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Dear advertisers of the world
2008-04-19 15:37:00
Dear advertisers of the world I hope you realize that you waste pretty much every penny trying to get my attention. You can argue all you want about subliminal messages, you can tell me that I chose Colgate over Aquafresh because of an ad I saw four years ago, or that I am more likely to ...
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Tutorial: How to create favicons
2008-04-18 03:40:00
Favicons are those small icons you see in your browser right next to the URL in the address bar or whenever you bookmark a page, as shown below. It’s a great way to brand your site and it adds a subtle touch to your users’ online experience. They’re easy to make, but it doesn’t quite ...
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Sometimes
2008-04-16 14:53:00
Written for none other than K.B. Sometimes I like to dig my feet into the heels of my loafers, eating something cheap from the nearby convenience store, and walk to nowhere in particular. The transformation from loafer to sandal ensures that I can only walk at a slower pace than usual so that they don’t fall ...
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