Evening countdown to pi day 2015
[tminus t=”14-03-2015 21:26:53″/] Today is 3/14/15 and at 9:26:53 the date/time corresponds with the first 10 digits of the famous
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Author: Sorin Adam Matei
Fridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack – CNET
You probably knew that the Internet is inherently unsecure. And you probably knew that 80% of email is spam. But
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The value of theoretical knowledge or the usefulness of useless knowledge
“It’s theoretical” or “it’s soooo theoretical” or “this is just theory”… Theory and knowledge sought for their own sake are often
Read MoreA pean to the disrupted – The end of coherent thought is neigh
If New York City never lacked for something, those are the immensely talented, greatly gifted writers, whose words flow from
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French Police Kill Brothers Kouachi, Charlie Hebdo Attackers, Ending Hostage Situation
View image | gettyimages.com At approximately 17:15, January 9, the police assaulted the Dammartin-en-Goële printing shop where the two brothers
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Where is Dammartin en Goelle, where the Charlie Hebdo attackers, Said and Sherif Kouachi hold one hostage in a printing press (Google Street and Photo)
The two brothers allegedly responsible for the killing of 12 people in a deadly attack against the editorial team of
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Roles, trust, and reputation in social media knowledge markets (book)
The first major publication of the KredibleNet project is out. The volume Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge
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View The Great Pyramids of Giza in 3D through Google Maps
Google Maps just got the right to publish its “street view” of the roads surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza,
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If All Dialects Are Rule Bound, Are They All Equal?
Agree or disagree? The Value of Admitting What We Don’t Know – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Educationhttp://chronicle.com/article/The-Value-of-Admitting-What-We/147983/All dialects
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Reliability of Peer Review in Psychology Publications: About 10%
Articles published in the same journals, resubmitted for review. Almost 1 in 10 articles rejected by 9 out of 10
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Technology use in America, a Pew Internet Survey (summer 2014)
Most important highlights of the latest Pew Internet Study – 18-24 year olds compared to 30 year olds are almost twice
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Find out how Facebook ranks your friends
There is much talk nowadays about the “wise crowds” that automagically emerge on social media to democratically decide what is
Read MoreThe Iphone livecast was a failure
I tried to watch the Apple launch with my Purdue Polytech students to show them how to introduce a product
Read MoreThe future connected car: Smartphones as the new dashboard…. The Economist
The next revolution in the digital world will not be on a desktop or in your pocket. It will be
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Test for wannabe data scientists: do thieves prefer stealing American Cars in Indiana?
This article claims that car thieves prefer American cars in Indiana. Absent a very important piece of information, this is
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Movies Manipulate Your Brain with Neuroscientific Strategies to Keep you Watching (via Wired)
Great art relies on the technique of the missing element, which your mind completes or puts into motion. The knife
Read More10 coolest videos on how the latest digital and hardwired objects are made
An awesome collection of “technology demystified” videos from the digital living magazine, Wired… Emphasis on special effects…
Read MoreDorothea Lange’s Country Store on Dirt Road Photo Building Still Standing at 75 Wheelers Church Road, Cedar Grove, NC
Dorothea Lange is a wonderful classic photographer just as talented as Ansel Adams. She criss crossed the United States during the 1930s
Read MoreAmazon.com URL shortcut when you only have the ASIN
Do you only have the ASIN of your product. Enter the ID (ASIN) of the product and hit GO… A
Read MoreA round up of latest new media / social media research
An update from the Nieman Journalism Lab While high-level speculation continues on the future of news and information, research studies
Read MoreWhy do chinese prefer numbers over letters in their URLs? Not only to avoid translation
The preference of some Chinese sites to use numbers over letters in their domain names has something to do, as you
Read MoreWill paper books still be read in the future? Paper still has some advantages over e-ink
In the enthusiasm for digital publishing and e-ink devices, such as the Kindle, the relative advantages of using old fashioned
Read MoreFacebook’s greatest challenge: mission creep
Zuckerberg’s silly slogan “stay focused and keep shipping” was never more childishly immitative of the digital “big boys” (whoever those
Read MoreSocial Physics: Measuring and Explaining Social Interactions as Complex Reflexive Systems
If the latest trendy phrase in cybersphere, Social Physics, should refer to anything, that should be an emergent social scientific
Read MoreThe limits of big data analysis
Big data is seen by many as a panacea, while many
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How to succeed at everything you do
Failure is a gift from the gods, who want us to earn the privilege of success. Yet, those that fail
Read MoreIf The Media Reported The Events Of “Game Of Thrones”
Lethally funny mock-ups of newspaper front pages inspired by the Game of Throne series. Humor and parody at
Read MoreStructural hole definition of social capital via network closure by Ronald Burt
Ronald Burt, a pioneer in the field of network analysis and inventor of the “structural hole” concept, published in 2005
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Presumed location of Malaysia Airlines MH370 Flight in Southern Indian Ocean (Map, KMZ)
The location of flight MH370 sinking is under dispute, but in the last few days of March 2014 the search
Read MoreCold Winter Makes Ice Cap Thicker
The extent of the ice cap in 2014 was not much larger than the mean for the last 30 years,
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As lost flight MH370 remains are again “found” in the South Indian ocean by Australian search and rescue authority some ask if its target was Diego Garcia
Australian rescue authorities boosted worldwide hopes that MH370 will be eventually found announcing that some debris was identified on FOUR
Read MoreMalaysia Airlines MH370 Plane Sighting in Maldives Might Support the Theory of a Fire that Disabled the Crew but Did Not Disable the Automatic Pilot
A credible sighting verified from several sources in Maldive Islands of a large jumbo jet
Read MoreSmall debris field in Malacca Strait near island Pulau Perak purportedly associated with MH370 discussed on TomNod, Twitter, and Reddit
A sea debris field at 5°39’08.0″N 98°50’38.0″E north of the tiny granite outcropping Pulau Perak is being examined on the
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The origin of human skin color
The origin of dark color in human skin is strongly connected to our African roots. However, it is puzzling how
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Lost flight MH370 last known locations and identified debris around the possible crash sites (maps, KMZ)
The map below and the KMZ file of Lost Flight MH370 , summarize in real time the story of the search
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Possible Disappearance Location of Flight MH370 50 miles south of Tho Chu Island is Right on the Flight Plan Yet Questionable
The disappearance of flight MH370 two hours into its journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 continues to
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MH370 Plane from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing Lost Seconds After Reaching Cruise Altitude. Map and Flight Path Data.
LATEST UPDATES ON MH370 DISAPPEARANCE KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – MARCH 09: Malaysian Air Force Chief Tan Ssri Rozali briefs
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VOA claims Venezuela’s Worsening Conditions Threaten Chavez Legacy. Worsening conditions ARE the Chavez Legacy.
It should be no secret to anyone that Chavez’s populist campaigns ruined the economy by spending money it did not
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Crimean Parliament votes joining Russian federation, referendum in 10 days might significantly escalate crisis
While the news flow focuses on what the US or EU leaders did or did not do to prevent the
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Over 90% of Great Lakes frozen, ice sheet at some points over 1 foot thick
The great lakes are about the beat the 1973 record of winter time ice coverage. Currently over 91% of lake
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Hemingway Style Writing Aid
This writing aid is AWESOME… Finally, a writing coach with a brain…. AI at its best (and simplest)… This writing
Read MoreWired: Killing Net Neutrality Helps Underdogs Succeed?
A balanced view on net neutrality… To make sure consumers benefit, we need to solve the network capacity problem. Yes,
Read MoreSnow forecast for Midwest and Northeast states for February 04-08 2014. Probability of more than 1 inch of snow
The brunt of the big winter storm of February 04-08 2014 will fall on upstate New York, Maine, Vermont, New
Read MoreHow much can you make from your YouTube channel subscriptions? About 10 dollars a head, a year…
New York Times reports that a successful YouTube broadcaster with 1,000,000 subscribers to multiple channels, who posts at least 20
Read MoreMap of amount of snow needed to cancel school in the United States
A redditor atrubetskoy cobbled together this map of amount of snow needed to trigger school cancellations. Green – Any amount
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Practice Capital Concept Applied through Social Network Analysis to the C-Span Video Archive
A new concept, practice capital, which extends the concept of social capital to collaborative projects is proposed in my chapter
Read MoreA Rape in Cyberspace – A classic of cyberliterature
Who am I, when I am online? Why to I do the things I do? Who suffers? Who
Read MoreFacebook data used to identify cities that attract migrants in a systematic way
Systematic migration is defined in the study as “coordinated” migration in these terms: We formally define a coordinated migration as
Read MoreA Programmer Explains Why Android Apps Are Ugly | MIT Technology Review
Why I will not buy another Android phone anytime soon… The opinion of this programmer is worth his weight in
Read MoreXbox games responsible for drop in crime rates?
Do you buy into this explanation? Xbox effect: Dinner bells that summoned children from the great outdoors have long
Read MoreRicardo Bofill, Taller de Arquitectura – La fábrica – Map
One of the most daring attempts to restore the industrial era as a heaven for post-modern architecture. A cement factory
Read MoreThe perfect Christmas gift for your elderly parents: An great, simple LCD TV at great price (Samsung UN32EH4003 32-inch 720p 60Hz LED HDTV)
This is the modest, “it just works” Samsung TV the your mom always wanted in her bedroom. Crisp image, great
Read MoreMost beautiful picture of the year: NASA’s blue marble “breathing earth”
A gorgeous visualization of the seasonal changes in land cover throughout the northern hemisphere via John Nelson (hat tip, io9.com)
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