Posted on May 25, 2009 by ed
“Wolfram|Alphas long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2009 by ed
Yeah, you read the title right, the fusion of Korean BBQ Tacos (a fusion of its own) is big business when fused with twitter. What do the two have to do with each other? Well for the Kogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck in L.A. using Twitter to announce their next stop means that when they [...]
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Posted on April 10, 2009 by ed
[Quick background, MLB At Bat is a program in its second year for the iPhone that now exists as a free 'Lite' version and a pay $9.99 full version. The full version that I have allows detailed stats and scores for all games in real time (or close to) and additionally live audio for the [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2009 by ed
Being into all things new I installed the beta of Safari 4 on my Mac, I had know of some of the changes, including massive improvements with Safari’s Java performance, among other under the improvements. The UI also had some tweaks, probably most notably is the addition of Top Sites, a thumbnail view of your most visited [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2009 by ed
While there are plenty of fixible flaws with the iPhone’s software (copy & paste, mms, sideways keyboard in everything… oh we could go on) one is support for Flash, which love it or hate it is a reality of the web and when they claim that the whole internet is available in your pocket, missing [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2008 by ed
Buckling under the weight of the Internet radio royalty hike that SoundExchange pushed through last July, Pandora may pull its own plug soon. Despite being one of the most popular Internet radio services, the company still isn’t making money, and its founder, Tim Westergren, says it can’t last beyond its first payment of the higher [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2008 by ed
What’s different about this post? Not sure if you will notice any difference between this post and any of my earlier ones. To keep you from guessing I’ll give you the answer… I am blogging from my iPhone (yeah it’s the now antiquated 1st gen). Anyway wordpress the website that runs my blog [...]
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Posted on January 12, 2008 by ed
The new and final season of The Wire (its fifth) is in full swing already (one episode down, nine to go – although you can watch a week early on HBO inDemand so I am two weeks in). Much has been written on the new season (for those who follow the show that is) [...]
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Posted on December 21, 2007 by ed
Live Blogging is something I am not really too familiar with, but the NCAA is apparently familiar enough with it to come up w/ some crazy new limits on reporters blog posting (they have apparently thrown a reporter out of a game for too many posts already). Anyway, the concept of live blogging is giving [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2007 by ed
Obviously in so many ways our health care has advanced, probably faster then ever over recent years. Yet in so many ways our health care has not, specifically all the paperwork and administrative back ends that support the massive health systems we rely on. In fact estimates of medical expenses can put the admin costs [...]
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