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[The Web Informant] Search Engine that finds friends in photos, Information Factories - the Petabyte Age & more
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

The Web Informant
Web Tech & Interesting Information, distilled and filtered for quick consumption for my friends and family


Web Site Allows Searching for Friends in Photos

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 20:50:06 GMT

Polar Rose is a new search engine now being tested that will allow you to find anyone in any photo on any site.


Three new "Get A Mac Ads"

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 21:10:05 GMT

Apple continues their 'get a mac' ad campaign with three new ads today. Self Pity, Counselor, and Better Results...check 'em out!


The Virtually Free Office - 10 Pros and Cons

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 21:10:06 GMT

"In setting up our business we pushed our office online by using a couple of the free tools and services to get started. During our initial months we have used Writely, Google's hosted mail solution, Google Spreadsheet, Google Calendar and Thumbstack presentations in running our company. Here are the experiences we have had"


The Doom of Operating Systems without Internet

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 21:40:02 GMT

Opinion: The set of software that I use on my computer has changed quite a bit over the years. When I first started computing, I remember loading up on any and every application that I could find. Download sites were my obsession, and I could spend hours scouring these file repositories with the ultimate goal of finding great new software.


The Information Factories

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 21:50:02 GMT

The desktop is dead. Welcome to the Internet cloud, where massive facilities across the globe will store all the data you'll ever use. Wired Magazines George Gilder on the dawning of the petabyte age.



13 Must Have Firefox Extensions for Web Professionals

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 21:50:02 GMT

The title says it all. If you are a web professional then these plugins are for you..


Google Quiet: New Google Tool Also Handy for Mischief

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:30:07 GMT

Developers' tool can identify vulnerable source code.


Digital Sun

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 23:00:03 GMT

Olle Essvik's Sunclock is a lamp that tracks the sun's movement in the sky and follows it. When the sun rises in the morning the light bulb starts to omit light, intensifying every second, shining brightest in middle of the day.


Cigarette based display system

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 23:30:03 GMT

Artist David Moises created a display made from 35 cigarettes that "burns" simple letters and symbols - Be sure to check more of his work, including the "healed home exercise bike", house on a swing and a hovercraft powered by a leaf blower!


Condoms get high-tech: make love to the sound of cellphone music

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 23:40:02 GMT

A Ukrainian scientist has invented a condom that plays music during sex. A miniature loudspeaker and motion sensor implanted in the condom's upper cuff provides a range of musical tones during sex. Music volume depends on intensity of love-making and tone varies based on the sexual position.


A masked Apple employee begins to blog

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:40:08 GMT

The Masked Blogger is an Apple employee who has decided to "join the conversation," while trying not to have the conversation turn to the inevitable topic of his employment being terminated by Apple.


The Future of Social Networks - Communication

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:10:02 GMT

"There is another critical aspect of social networking, however, that I have not yet addressed… and it's one that will serve as the anchor component for social networks as they begin to enter their next stage of evolutionary development. The component I'm referring to is the communications layer embedded within social networks."


Turning Portrait Into Stone Statue with Photoshop

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:30:03 GMT

This is a simple tutorial on how you can make a statue from a portrait with Photoshop. It is highly recommended if you're using a close up portrait of a woman/man.


Applications of Recursively Defined Data Structures

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:40:02 GMT

"A circular program contains a data structure whose definition is self-referential or recursive. The use of such a definition allows efficient functional programs to be written and can avoid repeated evaluations and the creation of intermediate data structures that would have to be garbage collected."


Free Music Videos in Google Video

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:08:00 -0500

Google signed agreements with Sony BMG and Warner Music Group and will include a large collection of music videos in Google Video.


Incredible Mouth Band

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:03:50 -0500

David Pescovitz: Mouthband Animator David Firth's Incredible Mouth Band video depicts a group of musicians who instead of playing their instruments create a song by saying the names of the instruments.
Link


Switching on selfishness

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:42:37 -0500

David Pescovitz: A new study suggests that a small part of the brain called the dorsolateral prefontal cortex (DLPFC) is key to suppressing selfishness. Neuroscientists from the University of Zurich and Harvard Medical School used electricity to temporarily disable that portion in volunteers. Those subjects were happy to screw other people out of money in a behavioral science game called the Ultimatum Game. The researchers published their results in the current issue of the journal Science. From HealthDay:

Link


Art and video from upcoming game, Limbo

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:57:55 -0500

Mark Frauenfelder: 200610091056The video trailer and concept art for this upcoming game called Limbo looks cool. Link









Handcarved pop culture totems

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:01:39 -0500

Mark Frauenfelder: 200610091101 The artist Ojimbo carved and painted these incredible pop culture totems for the "Monster Mayhem and Day of the Dead Delights" show at Roq la Rue this Friday the 13th. Note the cute cyclops kitty angel in the center totem pole. Link














Residents enjoy living a circle-shaped community

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:44:42 -0500

Mark Frauenfelder: Picture 4-11 The Stu says: "I found this community over in the middle east which appears to be based on a large circle. The entire town has taken the shape of a circle, and even the farmland extends like spokes out to each side!" Link


John K's cel-painting kits from the mid-90s

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:49:36 -0500

Mark Frauenfelder: 200610091347 200610091349 I had all of John K's wonderful cel-painting and paint-by-number kits. One of them came with a box of cereal that had a prize inside. Here's a "salute to Spumco" with lots of scans and photos of the great merchandise John created. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3







Boody Rogers' weird and wonderful Babe comic book

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:19:53 -0500

Mark Frauenfelder: Boody Rogers was a golden age comic book artist whose work was as bizarre as any underground comic that followed decades later. I'm reading his out-of-print autobiography now, Homeless Bound, which is mainly a series of anecdotes about growing up in West Texas. In one chapter, he describes a number of the interesting characters he got to know. Excerpt:
Cimg0141-1"Short Arm" Baxter was yet another strange case. The poor guy was born with short arms, and they didn't grow with his body. You've all heard of the guy who never reached for the check. They say he had short arms and deep pockets -- could never get his money out. Well, "Short Arm" Baxter couldn't reach his pants pockets. He always wore a shirt with a pocket to keep his folding money in. He wore his house key around his neck on a long chain. When he changed a dollar, he'd put the change in his mouth so it wouldn't spill out of his shirt pocket.

One day he was window shopping and a friend walked up behind him and greeted him with a slap on the back. "Short Arm" almost went into convulsions. His friend thought he was choking to death. At last, "Short Arm" got his breath -- and just in time. He was turning purple. "Goddamn it, Burt -- you just made me swallow 98c!"

Pics Babe01-Big Pics Babe18-BigThe kind folks at the Hollywood Animation Archive have scanned a complete Boody Rogers comic for you to enjoy. It's from Vol. 7 of Babe, a L'il Abner Parody / knockoff. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | More Boing Boing coverage of Boody Rogers








Top 10 Web 2.0 Attack Vectors

2006-10-09T19:45:00+00:00

Fred writes, "HNS is running a story about Web 2.0 and the new attack vectors it opens up. Worms of the Yamanner, Samy, and Spaceflash types are exploiting client-side AJAX frameworks, providing new avenues of attack and compromising confidential information. On the server side, XML-based Web services are providing distributed application access through Web services interfaces and opening up new vulnerabilities in the process." The article is spread over 6 short pages and there is no printer-friendly URL.



An engineer, an economist and a marketer...

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:35:21 -0400

Eirik has a neat riff: When will a new technology break through?.


Really awesome and amazing staircase (might even be the best ever/evar)

2006-10-09T15:39:31.646878-05:00

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(video) The Meissner Effect: A Superconducting Magnet Produces Internal Currents to Cancel an Externally Imposed Magnetic Field. Watch the awesome result...

2006-10-09T21:35:21.589926-05:00

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Largest Underground Nuclear Blast Ever (video)

2006-10-09T14:29:26.357395-05:00

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Britain becomes 'never, never land' as personal debt runs out of control

2006-10-09T13:07:31.935395-05:00

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Mars Rover and tracks (!) seen from orbit

2006-10-09T10:26:35.385977-05:00

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