“I propose adding Emotion XML tags to blogs, news stories, photos, and RSS so that search engines and news aggregators can use that information to further filter what users want to see, and help users understand what they are seeing”
In this 2003 post, Dylan Greene proposed what would basically be an emotion microformat. I’m not [...]

“The Moscow police have prevented an attempt of an unauthorized action in front of the City Hall, police deputy spokesman Yevgeny Gildeyev told Itar-Tass on Sunday … ‘We prevented the breach of law and order and ensured the security of city residents in strict compliance with the rules,’ Gildeyev said.”
Russian newspaper ITAR-TASS reports on the [...]

“People who believe there are two kinds of people in this world have another thing coming … A study by the National Institute for Human Behaviour presented a study today that determines there are actually at least four kinds of people in this world and possibly as many as ten.”
From Tom Merritt’s satirical SuBBrilliant News, [...]

Between Borders has an interesting 2002 article on paper sizes. The differences between US Letter and A4 may not immediately appeal to everyone as exciting reading, but Brian Forte’s article on aspect ratios (A4 is always 1:√2, while Letter alternates between two ratios), starting sizes (A0 is almost exactly 1m² in size, while letter is [...]

The terrible consequences of breaking the universal rules of men’s toilets. From YouTube, here.

“Facebook users love our photos application, it’s one of the most popular areas on the site. The cool front-end features—like upload, tagging, and editing—are great, but I’d like to take a moment and talk about our photo infrastructure.”
Doug Beaver talks about the incredible infrastructure required to run Facebook’s photos feature, the biggest photo-sharing application on [...]

“…value engineering is only a means of implementing a very basic concept of economic welfare: that you improve welfare when what you do costs less than the value someone derives from it.”
Evan Davis looks at how companies decide what is and is not of value to customers, from having shampoo in hotel bathrooms to putting [...]

Over the last few weeks when I’ve supposedly been on an Internet ban, I’ve nonetheless managed to bookmark quite a few interesting things. Yes, my ethernet cable did migrate back into my room. Anyway, I’m going to post anything that’s still relevant over the next couple of days so prepare for a deluge of [...]

Don’t expect any posts for the next fortnight or so. My finals are about to start and I have no willpower, so my ethernet cable will be living in a friend’s room until she deems I can have it back. I will, however, have limited e-mail access via the Gmail Java app on my phone.
Am [...]

“The dog is standing at the window, wagging her tail excitedly. I look outside, and the back yard is empty. ‘What are you looking at?’ I ask … ‘Bunnies made of cheese!,’ she says. I look again, and the yard is still empty.”
The start of a great physics sketch (I never thought I’d find use [...]