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Posts from February 2010

Links For Thursday 25th February 2010

Serendipity
Massive collection of random-thing generators, handy set of tools.
(tags: writing inspiration rpg generators)

ESPN The Magazine – Rick Reilly: How about a little recognition for bowling champ Kelly Kulick? – ESPN
This is kinda saddening. Women beats all the men in the male dominated sport, press indifferent. OK, so it's bowling, and that's hardly a [...]


Links For Tuesday 23rd February 2010

Rivet – Stream your music, movies, and photos to your Xbox and PS3
I've got a system prefs thing set up to do this, but it's unrelaible, and I wonder if this would work better…
(tags: osx xbox360 media apps)


Links For Thursday 18th February 2010

Integrating translation into Google Goggles – Google Translate Blog
Trying to think if there's anything I can say other than "wow". Give it a handful of years, and this will be available in real time, too.
(tags: awesome language technology translation)


Links For Wednesday 17th February 2010

Music Journalism is the New Piracy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The IFPI have sent a bunch of copyright infringement notices, and Google have killed a bunch of music blogs. Here's the thing: at least some of the blogs that have been taken down are not infringing. Even absent arguments like fair use, they actually had permission [...]


Links For Friday 12th February 2010

Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » Chip and PIN is broken
The tech details will be lost on most of you, but in brief: if an attacker can get your card cloned, then they can also pretend to know your PIN – fraudulent transactions they make will be reported to the bank as "Verified by [...]


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