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| Dec 12, 2005 |
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Talking to aliens, Part IV: And what a fine structure constant it is |
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Earlier this year, I wrote three parts of a four-part series on how to talk to aliens. Here comes the final part. My...
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| Dec 2, 2005 |
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The revolution will be live (and in HD) |
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The lyrics to The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedSo what excuse do I have this week for the sparse blogging? It just so...
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| Oct 13, 2005 |
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The end of TV as we know it |
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My new apartment will not contain a television. My TV viewing habits have dwindled to nearly nothing over the past few years as...
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| Aug 17, 2005 |
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Abortion in Sweden and the US |
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In the middle of a long thread on abortion currently raging on MemeFirst, Jame asked: I would be curious if there have been...
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| Jul 25, 2005 |
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The post about two bizarre phenomena |
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While doing some research for an article I am writing, I came across a phenomenon I had never heard about before, despite a...
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| Jul 8, 2005 |
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Go ogle Earth |
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At the moment it's all content and no formI would have loved to make things spiffier, but what with the travels there is...
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| Jul 2, 2005 |
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Google Earth |
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Google Earth is going to fundamentally redefine how we use the internet. That's obvious to me after a few days of slack-jawed intensive...
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| Jun 2, 2005 |
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Roger Johansson is some kind of genius |
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When redesigning the site last JanuaryAnd no, I'm still not done., I wanted to make sure that the marginalia to the left of...
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| May 8, 2005 |
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Polish barn: On overcoming the limits of Spotlight |
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I've spent some time exploring how best to take advantage of OS X 10.4's metadata goodness, familiarizing myself with the new ways in...
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| May 6, 2005 |
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Blogging, what's the point? |
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Because it's the run-up to Bloggforum 2.0, I once again feel at liberty to indulge in shameless metablogging. Consider this some early personal...
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| May 6, 2005 |
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I'm joining the podcaste |
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Well, the podcasting bug has finally bitten, late but hard. I'm currently addicted to the BBCs In Our Time and CBCs Quirks and...
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| May 1, 2005 |
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The Dashboard lovefest begins... now |
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Oh this is precious. John Hobbs over at Cinema Volta has concocted a Dashboard widget that gives you the GPS-derived ETA, in minutes,...
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| Apr 30, 2005 |
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Interim report |
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So this is what happens when post lengths keep on getting longer while blogging opportunities hit a period of work-induced scarcity: Not much....
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| Apr 16, 2005 |
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Talking to aliens, part III: Khinchin's constant source of wonder |
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The first part of this series surveyed previous attempts at contacting aliens. The second part proposed a base-neutral notation system for encoding messages...
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| Apr 11, 2005 |
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Things I learned today |
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The Fahrenheit scale only preceded the Celsius scale by a few decades, and both were invented in the early 1700s. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit,...
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| Mar 29, 2005 |
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Talking to aliens, Part II: No base for you |
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If you want to, you can read Part I: Prelude first.Mathematical bases sure are a convenient shorthand when adding, multiplying and subtracting, and...
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| Mar 17, 2005 |
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Talking to aliens, Part I: Prelude |
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Before talking to aliens, it would be helpful if we had some insight into what it is like to be one. Since we...
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| Feb 28, 2005 |
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Multipod moments |
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I happened to me this morning, during the commute, on the 52 bus: the first verified multipod moment on Stockholm public transport. By...
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| Feb 22, 2005 |
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iKapsel Hasa |
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The iPod Shuffle arrived en masse in Stockholm yesterday, and I stood in line to acquire mine — they were selling like semlor...
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| Feb 14, 2005 |
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Apple's soft Cell |
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Since everyone (OK, well, someone) is engaging in a bout of rank guessing about which companies are the rumoured suitors for the licensing...
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| Jan 21, 2005 |
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NoFollow bug |
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Really geeky Movable Type post. No apologies.I noticed several hours ago that for some reason the trackback section of my index page was...
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| Jan 18, 2005 |
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Are Apple's European prices reasonable? |
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CNET reports on an online petition lamenting the price differential between the US and Europe for Apple products, just as I had made...
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| Jan 12, 2005 |
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For mo' better blogging |
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Follow-up to For better blogging..., which explains a simple yet effective way to stop comment spam for Movable Type installations.A week ago (I'm...
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| Jan 11, 2005 |
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Explaining the design |
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Quickly now, as it is late (again.) Here are some of the objectives I wanted to achieve with the redesign: I wanted a...
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| Dec 27, 2004 |
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Further reading I |
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Notes on Chapter 1, The Road to Reality, by Roger Penrose.(Introduction)Thales of Miletus: Many sites on the web attribute all kinds of achievements...
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| Nov 27, 2004 |
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Road less traveled |
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The public lecture by Roger Penrose I attended this summer in Ireland was also an informal launch of The Road to RealityUS launch...
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| Nov 16, 2004 |
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Bloggforum postmortem |
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Update 2004-11-16: My dad just asked if Bloggforum was "dead". Er, no. In English, you can use the term "postmortem" for any analysis...
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| Nov 15, 2004 |
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The pros and cons of prose and comments |
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My last bout of metablogging for a while, I promise.When blogging in the realm of political ideas, the temptation is to not allow...
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| Nov 12, 2004 |
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Fler listor |
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What's going on? Read Francis Strand's entertaining blow-by-blow account of Sweden's first blogwar (not counting l'Affaire Azzman), just in time for Bloggforum next...
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| Nov 5, 2004 |
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Metablogg |
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Uppdatering kl.17.42: FˆrlÂt, ordet "blogg" var inte helt nytt p Nationalencyklopedin, utan reportage. Erik bloggade "blogg" (hur meta kan man blir?) h‰r. FÂr...
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| Oct 28, 2004 |
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Political blogs are from Mars, community blogs are from Venus |
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Annica Tiger has written two interesting posts (with good comment streams) on women bloggers in Sweden, asking in particular why so few are...
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| Oct 26, 2004 |
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Blogging eye for the Swedish political guy |
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Politiskt.nu should be the center of political debate in the Swedish blogosphere. It is not. The site is all dolled up with fancy...
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| Oct 25, 2004 |
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Bloggforum Stockholm 2004 |
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Finally a good excuse for guilt-free metablogging during the next three weeks: Bloggforum Stockholm 2004, on November 15. More here soon, but...
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| Oct 17, 2004 |
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I also do requests |
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Commenting on my earlier post on Stockholm door code sequences, a reader writes (well, OK, it's Geoff): Can you do the same thing...
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| Oct 8, 2004 |
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The de Bruijn Code |
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Instead of doormen, Stockholm apartment buildings have a little keypad at the front door, into which you key a 4-digit code to gain...
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| Sep 27, 2004 |
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NetNewsWire 2 vs. Shrook 2 |
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For the last few days I've been playing with the public beta of NetNewsWire 2, the successor to the first popular newsfeed reader...
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| Sep 24, 2004 |
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Skype |
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As a consequence of the need to tend to several work-related projects, the presence of a looming urge to redesign this blog, a...
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| Jul 24, 2004 |
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Perfect Day 2 (July 23, 2004) |
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Perfect Day 1 was May 5, 2002.If somebody were to ask me to describe a perfect summer vacation day, it might go something...
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| Jul 22, 2004 |
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Hawking in Dublin: Link dump |
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Stephen Hawking gave his talk yesterday, the media came and went, and now the interpretations are beginning to trickle onto the web. The...
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| Jul 17, 2004 |
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Conference event horizon |
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Dublin (where I happen to be on vacation) promises to be the scene of some pretty revolutionary physics next week, because Stephen Hawking...
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| Jun 30, 2004 |
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State of the blogosvea |
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Amazing how not writing for a week tongue-ties my three typing fingers. You can take the preceding sentence as evidence of that. At...
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| Jun 8, 2004 |
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Venuspassagen 2004 |
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Stockholm is perfectly positioned to see the transit of venus across the face of the sun, currently underway, but a stubborn cloud cover...
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| Jun 3, 2004 |
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Finns cafÈer med trÂdlˆs bredband i Stockholm? |
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I slutet av min tid i New York brukade jag kˆpa ett kaffe att ta med frÂn CafÈ Pick-me-up, s‰tta mig med min...
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| May 22, 2004 |
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Commodifying Denton, Cont. |
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One thing I glossed over in my previous post on business models for blogs, now that I think about it, is that Nick...
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| May 20, 2004 |
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Commodifying Nick Denton |
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Greg Lindsay's article in Business 2.0 on Nick Denton — an unauthorized mini-biography of sorts of blogging's greatest living impresario — irked the...
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| May 15, 2004 |
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Apocalypse Nˆw, II |
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Yes I am recycling titles. You can read Apocalypse Nˆw I, about surstrˆmming, here.Gˆran Svensson looks over his shoulder as he pilots his...
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| May 10, 2004 |
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Swedish Research News |
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Here's what I was up to over the weekend: Readying Swedish Research News, a new site that syndicates news about discoveries and...
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| May 4, 2004 |
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For better blogging... |
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Yesterday, the amount of comment spam here and on MemeFirst quite simply got ridiculous. Barely 9 months after getting (and blogging) a first...
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| Apr 18, 2004 |
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Stockholm: Random observations |
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Today was the first perfect spring day, as bright as a day can get, and Stockholmers walked about their city as if they...
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| Apr 8, 2004 |
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Battlefield Baroque |
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I've been using the latest version of Microsoft Office for Windows a few weeks now at work. Save your money and stick to...
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| Apr 8, 2004 |
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Nuclear known unknowns |
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Some things I learned this week: Almost half of Sweden's electricity is produced by its 11 nuclear power plants. Polls show Swedes to...
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| Mar 8, 2004 |
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Really Silly Salmon |
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Felix Salmon has a post up lamenting the fact that of those websites which do provide RSS content syndication, only a few provide...
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| Mar 6, 2004 |
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FˆrsprÂng genom teknik (v 3.0) |
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It's a post about Firefox, that great new extensible browser, and how one extension lets you do one-click (sort of) instant translations of...
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| Feb 9, 2004 |
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Time is discrete |
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Delayed access to such manna as The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and Scientific American means that by the time...
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| Jan 26, 2004 |
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Bloggosf‰rens evolution i Sverige |
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On the right, I try to express in Swedish how surprised I am at the speed with which the Swedish blogosphere has evolved...
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| Jan 18, 2004 |
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Of Macs and Mars |
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There's been some groping for superlatives in the Mac community of late. Seasoned Apple evangelist Bob LeVitus reviews Apple's new iLife app GarageBand...
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| Nov 21, 2003 |
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Bye bye, Dreamweaver |
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Companies tend to lose the plot whenever their greed outpaces my need. I've used Macromedia Dreamweaver for WYSIWYG site design since version 2;...
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| Nov 14, 2003 |
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Best Swedish Weblog |
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Sweden's Internetworld has presided over what is becoming a recognized coming-of-age ritual in national blogging communities: In our case, it's the first ever...
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| Nov 3, 2003 |
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Why iTunes will win the music wars |
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My apartment building complex is wired like a university dorm; every single one of the 100 odd apartments is on a 10 Mbit...
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| Oct 2, 2003 |
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Cookie, Monster? |
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A comment left on this site a few days ago led me to the contributor's blog, where I discovered an odd disclaimer: "In...
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| Sep 24, 2003 |
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Feed me |
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Aftonbladet has now also noticed that an English-language AFP newsfeed about Swedish news published on Sweden.se contained a story which names the [now...
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| Sep 2, 2003 |
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Extreme physics |
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I'm a sucker for popular literature on mathematics and evolutionary biology, and were it not for RyanAir's grossly unfair 15kg luggage allowance I...
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| Aug 30, 2003 |
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Summer dulldrums |
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Is August a bad month for blogging? Even James Lileks felt compelled to apologise today ("nothing Iíve written here in the last gasp...
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| Aug 6, 2003 |
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Irish Broadband |
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Warning: The following is another of those horrid posts about the mechanics of the internet. Not interesting at all, but in the same...
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| Jul 26, 2003 |
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2003: eServer Odyssey |
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What would an advertisement for the HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey look like? Perhaps the copy would read something...
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| Jul 25, 2003 |
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Blogspam |
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...And the innocent days of blogging are over. Over the past few months I've deleted exactly two nutcase comments off my blog, both...
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| Jun 26, 2003 |
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Apple of my iSight |
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Much as I try to get people to blog, I try to avoid blogging about blogging. It's a bit too meta for me....
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| May 15, 2003 |
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Sourze vs Weblogs.se |
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It sounds like a dotcom business plan from the summer of 1997: "Let's make a vanity publishing website, where people pay us to...
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| Mar 26, 2003 |
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The demise of the blog |
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Another day glued to CNN, with a pinch of Fox TV and Al jazeera. Furloughs in the blogosphere have been most disappointing, however;...
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| Mar 13, 2003 |
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A blog on both your houses |
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WWII was brought home via the radio. Vietnam via TV. Gulf War I via live TV. Gulf War II will be blogged. We've...
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| Mar 12, 2003 |
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In search of the European blog |
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I was all ready with my thesis as to why there are no blogs in Europe, why nobody here even knows what a...
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| Mar 10, 2003 |
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Obligatory meta-content post... |
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No posts for over a month because in my mind, BLOG@STEFANGEENS.COM had aquired lame-duck status qua design. This involves a non-trivial amount of...
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| Nov 28, 2002 |
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The universe as Greek salad |
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A Greek physicist decided to use some of her mother's cuisine tactics and may now have discovered the theory of everything. Fotini Markopoulou...
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| Sep 19, 2002 |
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The importance of being Ernst |
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I've just finished Boo Hoo, the story of the rise and fall of boo.com, written by its CEO, the Swede Ernst Malmsten. I...
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| Sep 3, 2002 |
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Die-ts |
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Bad eating habits and no exercise are worse for your health than smoking, according to a study. The Israelis seem to know this...
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| Aug 13, 2002 |
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Coincidence, or...? |
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New York TImes Magazine's article on coincidence this past Sunday is a great exposition of why people believe in conspiracy theories. Or buy...
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| Aug 5, 2002 |
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Searching for meaning II |
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I've always maintained that a belief in God is the result of a failure of the imagination: But in Simon Blackburn's review of...
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| Jul 19, 2002 |
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Apple's (jail)bait and switch campaign |
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Oh how the fates conspire sometimes. One of Apple's new Switch ads has the blogosphere abuzz. Ellen Feiss, a student, explains why she...
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| Jul 18, 2002 |
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The store as modern design museum |
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Apple is opening its flagship store here in Soho today, and the New York Times treats it as a major industrial design event....
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| Jul 16, 2002 |
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Andrew Sullivan watch |
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Andrew Sullivan wrote in the Times of London, regarding the AIDS epidemic devastating the Third World: Why not simply rip off the formulae...
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| Jul 11, 2002 |
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Bias watch |
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Vindication is a wonderful thing. The only thing I want to know is, shouldn't environmental groups have wondered why they were being so...
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| Jun 18, 2002 |
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Dept. of the Bleeding Obvious |
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From the department of the bleeding obvious comes news that eating too much makes you fat, according to this gem of a report....
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| Jun 14, 2002 |
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Wolfram review |
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New York Times article on Wolfram's new book....
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| Jun 13, 2002 |
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Look! A new improved rule 30 |
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Look! A new improved rule 30. Press play when you're ready. The red line is a continuous thread that emanates from the first...
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| Jun 10, 2002 |
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Stephen Wolfram's New Kind of Science, Cont. |
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What's Stephen Wolfram been up to over the past 20 years? Dealing with the implications of his discovery of rule 30. In this...
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| May 21, 2002 |
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Steven Jay Gould has died |
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Steven Jay Gould has died of cancer. You'd think evolution has finally managed to kill him off. But it looks more like he's...
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| May 15, 2002 |
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Wolfram's New Kind of Science |
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I've just received my copy of A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram's just-published bid at becoming the next Einstein. It's a 1200-page...
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| Jan 14, 2002 |
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iMac: British Eccentric |
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On this page, I've tried to focus on quality over quantity when it comes to posts, but it seems that if I don't...
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| Dec 18, 2001 |
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The handicap principle |
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This well-written article on the handicap principle adds a personal touch to the latest advances in the theory of evolution, and also goes...
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| Nov 18, 2001 |
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Leonid meteor shower |
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It's 3:45 AM and clear in New York City and I've just come down from my roof, where I was checking up on...
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| Jun 19, 2001 |
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From Kyoto to missile defense |
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In the Week in Review section of last Sunday's New York Times an article quoted a lovely question by a flummoxed European reporter...
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| Jun 16, 2001 |
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"Progress" |
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Progress is free internet access at LaGuardia while my flight to San Francisco is delayed by 12 hours....
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