“Data mining” of all that information and communication is at the heart of the furor over the recent disclosure of government snooping
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Using a simple 6-line shell script and the popular wget command line tool, I configured two computers on two different DSL connections to begin downloading all 260,000 wishlists in increments of 25,000. Each group of 25,000 wishlists took about four hours to download, for a total download time of less than one day.
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Using a pair of 5-year-old computers, two home DSL connections, 42 hours of computer time, and 5 man hours, I now had documents describing the reading preferences of 260,000 U.S. citizens.
Impressive, but I don't see how the Amazon reading habits of every geek in America would be of much use to anyone. Unless they're buying copies of 'Communism for Dummies'…
Source [AppleFritter]
Lightbox is a Javascript image handler which overlays a full size image onto the current page, while keeping the content underneath visible and semi-transparent. It even works in IE. Sounds pretty boring, but the effect it creates looks pretty cool. If only I had more photos…
Lightbox
This All in One SIM Card enables you to put all your mobile numbers on one sim card. Eliminating the need for those unreliable dual sim card holders and meaning you'll never have to remove your battery again. It lets you have 12 providers and phone numbers on one card, and also lets you change number without turning the phone off.
Total cost is $42 for the reader/writer and $27 for a blank sim card, which is about £40. tI have no idea how this works, but they're available from http://mobile.brando.com.hk/
Dynasig is a dynamic PHP script which lets you set a mood using the control panel, and adds a picture for it, aswell as a random quote to an image which you can use as a sig on forums. Version 1 is just a preview really, and I'm hoping to add support for winamp, mirc and loads more features in the future. You can make sigs like the one below with version 1.0.
Download Dynasig 1.0
Control Panel Screenshot
Two sites which use just JavaScript really had me thinking for a while. If I didn't have a right mouse button they'd probably fool me…
JS/UIX Unix Emulator
20-goto-10.com
It need iPod Linux to run, and I’m not sure how the colours would work on the older models, but iDoom has to be one of the greatest pieces of software ever made for the iPod.
iDoom Video
iDoom Homepage
Online marketplace Amazon has quietly opened a Sex Store selling over 40,000 products. The store is located in the category ‘Sex & Sensuality’.
Now you can order anything and make it look like a book…
I managed to get a copy of GoogleX. The new layout, which was online for only a few hours last week, resembles Mac OSX's dock. The mirror will be staying up for a while. I also have a zipped version.
IN FRONT OF THE MONITOR– No one is looking forward to the release of Doom III more than Greg Tanner. Greg, a 27-year-old computer gamer, intends to quit his job, sell his car, and break-up with his girlfriend when id Software's new first-person action game is released.
Doom III is anticipated to test the strength of many relationships.Greg's reasoning is sound. He doesn't want to be burdened with real-life issues, which would only distract him from his computer-gaming goals.
“I worked hard to earn enough money to pay for the computer hardware I'll need to play [Doom III] effectively,” said Greg. “I've already started severing contact with casual friends, I've disconnected my phone, and I've purchased enough sustenance (frozen burritos, cheez puffs, and no-name cola) to last me six months. If the game is more popular than anticipated, or an add-on pack is released, I've scheduled some downtime to make a Costco run if necessary.”
Read more – The Toque
Been looking around on the net, found a cool site, Googlism. Here's what it said for Thanatos
Googlism for Thanatos:
Thanatos is undoubtedly fitting in the cosmic scheme of things
Thanatos is a website of mine
Thanatos is also a character in euripides' play alcestis
Thanatos is now running freebsd
Thanatos is a dark knight
Thanatos is trying to get out of this place
Thanatos is in the high school class of 2004
Thanatos is not on crack
Thanatos is in fact a demon
Thanatos is so great that the planet's orbit is egg
Thanatos is dus de strafvonnis
Thanatos is trying to get into dylucks body
