Archive for December, 2007
w00t!
I’m taking an ill-advised break from paper writing (17-25 pages in the next 6 days?!) to blog because, and pay attention now:
Merriam Webster’s Word of the Year has zeros in it.
Yes, Merriam Webster, esteemed dictionary organization, just announced that its 2007 Word of the Year is “w00t.” With two zeros.
Granted, Merriam Webster’s contest is user-voted [...]
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Tags: Internet, w00t, words
Visualization Porn
Soulja Boy has never looked so…analyzed.
You know you’re all grown up when kids ask you what games you have on your computer and the first thing that pops into your mind is some web-app for generating sweet visualizations of your own (and other people’s!) data sets. Maybe “all grown up” isn’t it…maybe the phrase I [...]
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Tags: many eyes, visualization, data, aggregation, tagging, information
Re: Citizenship Test
In Boston, there is a big building called the Prudential Center. The biggest, in fact, which is why the top floor of the “Pru” is a pay-to-enter observation deck called the Skywalk. Now, because I’ve never really felt like shelling out $15 just to go look at the other side of the precipitation, I had [...]
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Tags: Boston, Funny, immigration, prudential center, rap, video
Idea: Recall 2.0
I think the recall system in libraries would be so much more effective if there was a way for you, the desperate researcher who needs a book like NOW, to directly contact the person who has the book out, the guy who may or may not be using that book and was just too lazy [...]
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Tags: idea, library, web 2.0
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