December 2011
15 posts
I’m not sure why, but I feel like this could potentially be huge. Law school/lawyer friends, what are the implications of this? Are there any?
November 2011
7 posts
First, watch this great video on how computer algorithms shape our world:
Then, read about the Stuxnet computer worm/supercyberweapon; and finally about the how the US drone fleet was hit by a virus but it was no big deal.
I, for one, welcome our new computer hacker overlords.
October 2011
5 posts
… Google handed over one user’s private data to the U.S. government, who requested it without a search warrant.
So much for “Don’t be evil…”
September 2011
10 posts
I guess California’s still good for some things. Sorry, Massachusetts…
See What I See through Total Transparency
A browser extension that sends every website I’m currently viewing to imhereandthere.com. It refreshes as soon as I visit a new website. It works a bit like a mirror to my browser and life – you can now see what I see.
by Jonas Lund
Enter Robottke. Over the last few weeks, Chris Wilson has been building a machine that aims to automatically generate links you might find on Kottke.org. Robottke isn’t meant to replace flesh-and-blood Kottke; we just want to come up with a list of items that Jason Kottke might link to each day.
You can check out Robbotke here. How does it work? We began by crawling all the sources that Jason Kottke is likely to look at every day—we look at all the sites he links to, and all the stuff that people he follows on Twitter are sharing. The hard part is choosing the best, most Kottke-like links from Robottke’s collection. It’s helpful that the human Kottke meticulously tags all of his posts with keywords. When Robottke finds a link, it searches for topics that it knows Kottke likes—the more it finds, the higher the article ranks.
Sound recordings from three glaciers in Iceland, pressed into three records, cast, and frozen with the meltwater from each of these glaciers, and played on three turntables until they completely melt. The records were played once and now exist as three digital films.
August 2011
9 posts
Haven’t made it through the whole thing, but seems like it could be a good read. (via Ian)
New favorite artist?
July 2011
4 posts
part of the “talk to me” show.
June 2011
7 posts
The Library of Babel, by Jorge Luis Borges
At least some of my distractions on the internet are related to the paper I’m trying to write…
The internet is increasingly becoming an echo chamber in which websites tailor information according to the preferences they detect in each viewer. When some users search the word “Egypt,” they may get the latest news about the revolution, others might only see search results about Egyptian vacations.
