Distributed Proofreaders. As the name suggests, it’s a distributed web-based tool for proof-reading books for Project Gutenberg. References from Slashdot and kuro5hin have spiked the number of pages proofread. But even that apart, they’re targetting over 1,000 pages a day. That’s over a book a day! via kuro5hin
Photoblogs and the Visual Thesaurus via Kribs
Quantum information science: a convergence of complexity theory and quantum mechanics. via missing matter
An update on the IIT-K prime factorisation algorithm. via Matthai Markose
Oh, so Sam Palmisano made CEO of IBM. Guess that was expected. He wants to focus on on-demand computing (his word for corporatising distributed computing projects). Shortly, there will be companies creating this [distributed computing] market – focusing on aggregating the retail computing power, and using them across several projects. (Google is already trying to do that through its toolbar, and so is Intel.) – S Anand, 29 Sep 2002 And now, IBM. I was prophetic :-)
After Googlebombing, now we have Google glossary bombing. via Metafilter
I’m going to try and not update until Monday (11th Nov, not 4th). Don’t even bother visiting. Happy Diwali!
A taxonomy of bloggers by psychological profile.
Sorry. You have to buy Windows 2000 or XP to use Office 11. Microsoft’s next strategy to sell their operating systems. via Google News
Pride and Prejudice, from the director of Bend It Like Beckham. This doesn’t sound like a light entertainer the way Bend It Like Beckham was… via RobotWisdom
The Newspaper Today is dead. Yet another blow to the pay-model. via Netahoy
You can hear people over the Internet. You can see people over the Internet. Now you can touch people over the Internet. When can we smell and taste them? Or are these senses too mundane to worry about? I, for one, would be very happy to be able to taste recipes online. via Ravikiran
Blogspamming: the new phenomenon. It works only if you have a referral log, and look at it. Unfortunately for me, thanks to my crazy domain hosting service, I am blogspam-immune. via kuro5hin
I didn’t know that Richard Harris was Dumbledore. Pity. He’s no more. “He did threaten to kill me if I recast (Professor Dumbledore). I cannot even repeat what he said. He still has got that fight inside of him,” Columbus said. Now, does that mean that he’s already finished his role in the sequel?
Eric Myer’s stereotypes. Photographs where you can combine the top and bottom halves of 20 faces. It’s incredible how realistic the final combinations look. via Blogdex
Really stupid security policies. On three sites (two Indian) that don’t take security seriously. via Ravikiran
I’ve been syndic8ed.
Where Net luminaries turn for news. Strange that blogs are not on top. Google, CNN and NY Times are. via Blogdex
The thin line between spam and virus. In the form of a “Friend Greeting”. via Metafilter
Tetris is NP-Hard. Let me explain, in English, what that means. The toughness of problems is how much time it takes to solve them. Adding two 3-digit number takes less time than adding two 30-digit numbers, and hence is easier. Similarly, figuring out if a 3-digit number is prime or not is easier than a 30-digit number. Some problems grow tough very quickly. Adding two 30-digit numbers is 10-times slower than adding two 3-digit numbers. But checking if a 30-digit number is prime is several trillions of times slower than checking a 3-digit number. That is because, to check if a number is prime, you need to repeatedly divide it by numbers smaller than it. For a 3-digit number, you need to divide by around 1,000 numbers. For a 30 digit number, it’s several trillions. ...