Cyveillance released a report yesterday claiming that its study of the Internet suggests there are currently a little more than 2 billion public web pages, and that the number of web pages is currently growing at a rate of 2 billion pages per year (i.e., the size of the web will double this year). Those…
August, 2000
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Somehow I got on a mailing list for supporters of John Hagelin, the kook fighting certifiable nut case Pat Buchanan for the Reform Party nomination (not that it matters, since Reform Party is quickly becoming even more irrelevant than the Libertarian Party — who thought that was even possible?) Anyway, I’m somehow getting these updates…
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It is hardly the first such look, but WebReview has a nice piece on the web logging phenomenon, The Blogging Revolution. To my mind, web logging (blogging for short) is here to stay and makes the Internet far more interesting. Much of the media coverage of blogging treats it as a new phenomenon, but in…
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As far as I’m concerned the greatest thing about MP3 is that I’ve got all of Weird Al Yankovics albums on my hard drive and can pretty much work for 5 or 6 hours straight without hearing the same Weird Al song twice. Who could ask for more? It’s so nice to be able to…
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If you are as disorganized as I am, a site like GetOrganizedNow.Com might be a godsend. I own about a dozen books about getting organized, but I still read things on this site that I had not thought of, or read in other books. I have already started using suggestions from this site to help…
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In a New York Post story on how Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman are going to reconcile their differences on school vouchers (Al Won’t Be Voucher Grouch), there is a quote which perfectly sums up both Gore and many of the liberals (and conservatives) in Washington, DC: If I was the parent of a child…
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Los Angeles taxpayers are going to be paying the price for years to come for their city’s tolerance of corrupt cops. After initially suggesting that only a few thousand cases would need to be reviewed, the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office recently admitted that it would have to re-examine upwards of 30,000 cases that…
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If you are a robot afficianado, Cognitoy makes an excellent computer simulation of robotics called MindRover. MindRover is a game of robots that battle each other or race to cross a finish line or retrieve some reward, but unlike most computer games where you control the onscreen action, in MindRover you configure your robot with…
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When I was in high school many years, as a class project we built a robot from a kit. The robot kits you can buy for under a $100 today put the expensive robot kit we used to shame: ArsRobotica – portal-style web site for all things robotic. Update — this domain expired and was…
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In a column on CNet today, Brian Livingstone reports that the World Intellectual Property Organization is accepting comments on a proposal to disallow domain names based on geographical areas, personal names, or tradenames. Of course this is completely illegal, but the WIPO is a United Nations subsidiary — they did not want to stop genocide…