Posts on November 1st, 2008

1 November 2008

R.I.P. Studs Terkel

R.I.P. Studs TerkelThe great Studs Terkel, author, oral historian, radio personality, social activist, and unashamed Liberal, passed away yesterday at 96.
I wish I’d had the opportunity to get to know…

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Multicolr Search Lab

Multicolr Search LabFrom the site: “We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by…

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brute force

If I disappear for a few weeks, don’t worry: I am participating in National Novel-Writing Month, a/k/a NaNoWriMo. Why am I torturing myself with this 50k-word exercise again this year? For the simple fact that I desperately need to get back into the habit of writing every single day, and this is the brute-force method [...]

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