theinfo.org is a community “for people with large data sets,” founded by Aaron Swartz. It’s essentially a wiki and a few Google Groups centered around three topics:
Get: acquiring data through scraping, crawling, or otherwise
Process: conversions, queries, algorithms and the like
View: visualization in any number of forms
I’m excited by the definition of this community, but a [...]
I figure that I should document useful features of Facebook as I encounter them. It turns out that if you have Facebook Mobile installed, you can see a list of all of your friends phone numbers. Très useful if you happen to misplace your phone.
This is the dumbest, most myopic blog title I have seen in a long while: “Apple Stock Tanks During Stevenote.” I don’t mean to be snarky, but is it possible that someone could be so enthralled with the cult of Mac to completely miss the fact that Citigroup posted a $10B loss today? Of course [...]
From Overcoming Bias, a proof that 2 is, in fact, equal to one. First let x = y = 1.
x = y
x2 = xy
x2 – y2 = xy – y2
(x + y)(x – y) = y(x – y)
x + y = y
2 = 1
There is a simple [...]
For Christmas I received an amazing sculpture from my fiancée who apparently is some sort of gift-memory genius. We saw a few of Gordon Bennett’s robot sculptures at the Wired pop-up store in Soho and she did some pretty amazing detective work to get one. This robot is named Foster and comes from the Bennett [...]
Even though the writers aren’t writing, you can still see the Flight of the Conchords perform live at CES. You see, if you’re a band as well as a television show, you can still write new material for your live shows[1]:
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I was pleased when Chad directed me to the New Yorker piece on commuting last year which garnered much attention. I myself have spent quite a bit of time on the highways of 101, 280 and 237, not to mention countless trips down the peninsula on the Caltrain. What Chad directed me to, though, was [...]
Brita Filters and Nalgene are teaming up in an effort called “Filter for Good,” in which consumers can buy two individual products to decrease the production of those nasty plastic water bottles (read: the greening of America = $$). In addition to ridding the world of plastic water bottles[1], you’ll also be helping produce animal [...]
Some of you might remember a discouraging post I wrote a little over a year ago when Watts Music closed shop. It appears that another of the largest record distributors, Syntax Music, has decided to call it quits.
With Syntax and Watts gone, there are few left to bring your favorite labels from Europe. Time to [...]
So you forget the sequence of events? You are an idiot and want to skip the first 4 seasons? Just want to reminisce? The Wire, 4 seasons in 4 minutes:
Warning: nothing BUT spoilers! (via Nelson)