"Brooke Greenberg is the size of an infant, with the mental capacity of a toddler. She turned 16 in January."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
This is all speculation but, suppose the doctors do succeed in isolating the gene, or the family of genes, that make this child-woman never develop properly. What then… gene "therapy" for the wealthy octogenarians that can afford it, so they'll be able to arrest aging and in effect live forever?
- ianf ⌘
"Participants in the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference walked away considering fundamental questions about what is and isn't semantic technology. The relevance of this post's title will hopefully become clear by the end to those of you mischievous readers who may have stumbled upon it with other ideas. The conference was a great and well-organized affair in San Jose, California. One of the highlights was the Semantic Search Keynote panel, with all of the major players on stage (Ask, Bing, Google, Hakia, TrueKnowledge, and Yahoo!), as seen in the picture below."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
Jim Clash, the author, is a friend of mine that has been going on amazing adventures for Forbes magazine for quite some time. I enjoy living vicariously through his adventures at high speeds and exotic places and I strongly suggest you do so, as well.
- Seth Greenblatt
"In this blog post, we cover 15 web2.0 applications for entrepreneurs who are looking for simple, cheap, and effective solutions to solve some of the tasks facing their small business or startup. All these have resulted in some way or the other while the making of sukip.."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
"Disco is a polished, inexpensive (USD 29.95, currently 10 dollars off as of 13 May 2009) alternative to Toast Titanium. I've had mixed results with Toast, and did not want to pay the upgrade fee, so I started looking for alternatives. I've done a few burns in Disco so far, and it seems to work quite well. No problems or "coasters" yet, at this time."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
"Equipped with an easy file manager and a photo application, icloud lets Marcus organize photos and share slideshows with his friends and relatives. His favorite icloud application is Photos for organizing and sharing photos with his family and friends."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
but "please use Internet Explorer 7 for the best icloud experience" -- I thought that was a joke at first. Absence of support for Chrome was almost a deal breaker, but I signed up anyway.
- Jim:Rockin the Helvetica
"i.Mage is a small and fast graphics editor slanted towards quite and easy pixel editing, ala DPaint from the DOS/Amiga days. Instead of being a bloated behemoth with a zillion plugins it starts in under a second and it does a lot of the mundane jobs of image editing quickly and without fuss. The right tool for simple jobs."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
"We all have those pictures that didn’t turn out perfectly or might like to change something about one or more of them. Depending on your specific needs, there are plenty of free programs out there that might do the trick whether you are using a PC or a Mac."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
"Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photo-sharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
"With Cloudo, every computer, in school, at work, at your friends’ or even in the library becomes your own, free of charge computer. And with Cloudo Mobile your online computer is accessible from your mobile phone as well."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
"This site provides a universal way to interact with the information, which is so flexible that you can use it for many different purposes. Below are listed just just a few examples of what our site can be for you. A social database (free public "condensed" encyclopedia). The idea is similar to those of Wikipedia. However, the information is given in a systematic, classified way. This allows you to browse the data in an advanced way. The content of the public database is defined by the contributions and voting of users. A place for a messages exchange system. This environment allows you to have a personal blog, a personal mail box, a guest book. The messages can be browsed by the subject, authors and so on. A free online classified advertisement site where the advertisements are not restricted by a particular subject. We provide a powerful and simple browsing options which allows you to easily find exactly what you need. Check what people wanted and what they offered. A social bookmarking site where you ca"
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
"Never mind depressed real estate values—the old mantra "location, location, location" may be just as important to your mental health, a new U.S. government report suggests."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
"In engineering terms, it is easy to see qualitative similarities between the human brain and the internet's complex network of nodes, as they both hold, process, recall and transmit information. "The internet behaves a fair bit like a mind," says Ben Goertzel, chair of the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute, an organisation inevitably based in cyberspace. "It might already have a degree of consciousness"."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
The internet is already self-aware and continuously heuristic in that it learns like a chess game based on your actions and inputs, its very amazing that this has already been done.
- TrafficBug
Doesn't. It looks like any main + subordinate data column display ought to be arranged - FOR WESTERN left-to-rightscanning EYES: the main, wider, content column abutting the left margin, and [here] administrivial/ secondary multi-indices column to the right.
- ianf ⌘
"There's been great anticipation around Stephen Wolfram's ambitious project to create a comprehensive "computational knowledge engine." The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University will host a sneak preview of the Wolfram|Alpha system, and a discussion of its underlying technology and implications. Participants will include Wolfram|Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram and Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
"NewsTrendz is a news site where news is populated by hot trends. Hot trends are generated by chatter on the Internet, by searching through Google or chatting through Twitter."
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet