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Google releases data visualization challenge

March 7th, 2011 No comments

From Infosthetics:
The latest contestant in this search for the best visualization
designer (or should I say, the next employee?) is Google, who,
together with Eyebeam, just announced their profound interest in both
federal tax numbers as well as interactive bubble graphs

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/02/google_releases_data_viz_challenge.html

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Test your Rock-Paper-Scissors strategy against the machine

March 7th, 2011 No comments
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Bring me back to NES

December 18th, 2010 No comments

Enjoy some old school gaming on the Nintendo emulator. NESBOX.com has all of your old favorites.

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Watch more TV online?

February 6th, 2010 No comments

I’m sure everyone has heard of hulu.com by now, I use it frequently and even stream it to my PS3 using Playon. But I found another site – TV Gorge – that has even more shows, although I can’t figure out how it’s legit.



Source: Lifehacker

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The Singularity of Ray Kurzweil

December 23rd, 2009 No comments

Pretty interesting thoughts on artificial intelligence and the growth of computing.

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Very cool data visualization sites

October 28th, 2009 No comments

One from IBM at Alphaworks.

Another one that is the period table of visualization – pretty slick.

Some data mashups:

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Treemap visualization of Google News

October 28th, 2009 No comments

A new site that creates a treemap off of Google News data. Pretty Slick. One of several cool projects from Marcos Weskamp.

NewsMap

NewsMap

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Free wifi at Starbucks?

May 11th, 2008 No comments

AT&T just started offering free wifi at their hotspots to iPhone users. That’s great if you have an iPhone, but if you don’t there might be a way to get it anyway. Lifehacker had a good post (via Gizmodo) on how to trick the wifi into thinking you were using an iPhone. It doesn’t seem too complicated, but I haven’t tried it yet.

Source: Lifehacker

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Hack your wireless signal

September 10th, 2007 No comments

Lifehacker had a post from freeantennas.com on how to boost your wireless signal using household products.  Some reported gains of 100%, but others found gains of only 5%.  But of more interest is a link to another post that shows you how to change your router from a $60 to a $600 one by hacking the firmware.  Might be worth a try (at your own risk).

Source: Lifehacker 

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30+ Firefox Plug-ins for Downloading

August 1st, 2007 No comments

Straight from Mashable (they are on a roll with great posts).  They have a list of plug-ins to Firefox that will enable you to easily download movies, pictures, and other files.  Lots of good ones here.

Source: Mashable 

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