Archive for May 7th, 2008

Comment on Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Reaches “Unprecedented

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

#196: not for now. Chilean volcano erupted just a few days ago, while Antarctic sea ice extension is well above normal since 5-6 months. Anyway, that volcano has still to “really erupt”: it means that any effects, both on local

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Comment on 6 Excellent Firefox Extensions Made To Save You Time by SD

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

If you click with your mousewheel on the links they will open in new tabs, I only use that mouse button now. But pretty boring article, not really timesavers, maybe if you are a paid blogger, but for the common people, pretty useless.

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Comment on A national/natural history of memory and forgetting by

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

There’sa fair bit of evidence that national identity was much stronger in England much earlier on than on the Continent. As I understand it nationalism (in its original sense) rose in France and England as a result of the Hundred Years

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Comment on #98 The Ivy League by Just Another Lesbian…

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Well, because as we all know, women’s colleges are full of lesbians. That’s why they were invented actually. It has nothing to do with the empowerment of women, and women who go aren’t interested in the fact that over half of all women

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Comment on #98 The Ivy League by Mr. T

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Ivy league schools look good on a resume, that’s about it. A good education is just that. I would not trade one moment of the torture I went through attending night school, working full time and attaining my education.

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Comment on Griffith Review goes “Forward from the Summit” by Adrien

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Sorry Kim I don’t have anything positive to say. But here’sa little constructive criticism, Eric Hobsbawm that right-wing fascist once wrote that left-wing cricles have a tendency to become endless debating societies.

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Comment on Commenting on the news by Barry Kelly

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

FriendFeed is focused on streams of info from social network links. That’s not what I’m reading blogs for. I’m reading blogs because I have subscribed to a number of prominent folks in my field (software) and I want to read what they

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Comment on Spot Runner Raises $51 Million To Expand To New Markets

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I doubt these guys have big revenues. I’d love to hear from a former employee what’s really going on with this company and these giant capital raises. Ad companies don’t need to raise hundreds of millions of dollars unless their model

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Comment on #98 The Ivy League by hrhkat

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I think we should just elect brangilina as our king and queen, i mean come on, its not like they could do worse, plus they are both hot, and we know she has the kids, so we wont have a lack of fun royalty offsprings.

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Comment on Riya’s Like.com Is First True Visual Image Search by

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

are other services that try to help people find products that celebrities use. Like.com is a visual search engine that lets people find related products based on visual patters. And SeenOn shows clothing and other […]

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