I’ve told you about The Secret Knots before, but the latest story of love as a man in the woods really blew me away. Go look at it now, thank me later..
February was evenly split between nonfiction and fiction. I like that, and I think I should keep it that way. The Scoreless Thai – Lawrence Block The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Nassim Nicholas Taleb Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon – Garrison Keillor How Doctors Think – Jerome Groopman DMZ: [...]
Well now I have to use this.If you are building an image sharing service or a social network mashup, it’s likely that you will want to incorporate face-tagging in your images. Maybe you’d like to go a step further and automatically detect faces in an image, similar to Apple’s iPhoto. A Romanian developer has developed an API to help detect faces in images an […]
So cool!I'm proud to announce that we now have a simple interface for editing and translating lessons on wikiotics.org! This is some great work by Jim that lets us get on with the fun part, making and playing with lessons. If you have a minute, take a look at our example lesson (in English) and play around. The "edit" button at the top will le […]
SEE the leaks are valuable. Now we know not to drink crappy beer oh wait. Buried in Wikileaks' Afghanistan documents is a largely ignored 2007 warning that Pakistani spies were planning to poison booze intended for American soldiers using sulfuric acid. It sounds a little far-fetched. Until you hear the story of James Yeager, an American geologist who c […]
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