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Yesterday, Google launched Knol, an expert site similar to Wikipedia. One of the differences is that with Knol, authors are not anonymous. Users can comment on articles, rate and even review them. Wired has an in-depth article and has spoken …
So, back from a nice holiday to Egypt. What a nice country, and what a lot of great things to see and do. Absolutely recommended! (You just have to see the traffic in Cairo!) Trapped in a ray of light …
The finalists and winners of the visual illusion of the year are published. Some pretty cool illusions! (via kottke.org)
Some very nicely done logo mashups.
Some colleagues of mine are currently attending the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. This year the theme is JAVA+YOU. You can read about a few sessions, and some interesting new technologies on the Blogging About Java site.
Creating a custom template for your own site can be fun, but to get the positioning of various parts of the page exactly right can sometimes result in a trial and error process. Without a doubt, positioning, or the layout, …
Just got a link to this very cool movie of a robot called Big Dog, created by Boston Dynamics. Especially the reaction of the robot when it gets kicked in the side and seeing it struggling on a slippery surface …
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It’s been a while since Google introduced it’s ‘game’ Image labeler, to determine the relevance of search terms for particular images. Google scientists now published a paper describing the next generation of image search. This eliminates the need of humans …
… but currently out of stock. Probably more expensive than your PC, but oh so nice.