Using a set of algorithms, the gender of the author of a body of text can be determined via the Gender Genie. Just paste something that you’ve written in here, and see how it goes. I know, I know, it stereotypes people linguistically, but it seems to have a high success rate. I conducted an …
Month: August 2003
This afternoon during lunch, a visually handicapped man carrying a fistful of ballpoint pens came up to our table. There was an uneasy silence, the shy glances around to see if anybody would do anything or turn the man away. He claimed he was supporting his parents and he looked pretty sincere about it. All …
Eric Meyer reports of a new contest to redesign Jakob Nielsen’s useit.com website. These are the requirements (visit the contest page for more information): The design must use valid tableless XHTML 1.0, CSS, and it must meet WAI Accessibility level 1. JavaScript, GIF, JPG and PNG images may be used. Server scripts, databases, and plug-in …
First we had blogs. Then, blog directories. Then, blog popularity indexes. And then, a blog stock exchange. Now, we have blog sweepstakes. Blogstakes, to be precise. Soon we’ll be taking out blog insurance, and collecting blog miles. Somebody, stop me. How can I win a Blogstakes? If you have a blog (i.e., a Weblog or …
The same folks who brought you We Love The Iraqi Information Minister, now have a new target. Introducing We Love Arnold. This has gotta be good.
Avid surfers: Suffering from information overload? Wired’s top news story on news aggregators got me checking out a few alternatives to Feed Reader, which I currently use as a free, standalone program to read my favourite weblogs and other syndicated news. In the end, I settled for Newsmonster, which integrates with your web browser. This …
According to this British blogger, the Guardian has launched a new weblog outside its guardian.co.uk domain, with the sole purpose of eliminating agricultural subsidies. Check it out, because it kicks ass. I mean, AAS. The Guardian also has an Online Blog, powered by Blogger Pro. Why didn’t I discover this sooner?
Disturbing politics. Today I touched on material that was certainly not relaxing. I continued reading Guardian journalist Greg Palast‘s book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy [rated 4.6 out of 5 stars with 74 votes so far], and was both disturbed and enlightened – probably because I didn’t expect crooked politicians to be even more …
We’ve moved the computers to the new apartment, so naturally I have moved myself with them 🙂 Before I decided to do that, I spent Saturday evening and most of today without a computer. I started to think, hey, I have to check the news online. Then I realised that I couldn’t. Later on, I …
What do you do when there’s a blackout? Whip out your mobile phone, and moblog! The New York Power Authority has yet to update its website on this unprecedented power outage. Its last press release is dated August 14 concerning the anticipation of higher power usage due to the hot weather. Funnily enough, their motto …