Category — General

Technorati getinfo.

Sifry has just added a new API call to Technorati called getinfo. It lets you get information that a blogger has made available about themselves on their blog like a link to their FOAF file, LOAF file or their GeoURL. The great thing about this is if you've claimed your blog, this is a verifiable way to link your Technorati ID with your blog. LOTS of amazing things this could enable… (There will be a quiz at the end.)

[Joi Ito's Web]

there are some photos over on chaosmint of the new G5 cluster here at Virginia Tech

and more

http://www.macminute.com/2003/09/20/g5cluster

http://computing.vt.edu/research_computing/terascale/images/

these guys make great spice mixes, cheap, fresh, and tasty indian spice mixes, better than you can get most places in the u.s.

Banned books week begins today.. Banned books week begins today. This is the week where the ALA comes out fighting, by raising awareness, against the constant attempts at censorship from ideologues, religious groups, anti-free speech types, etc. Top 100 challenged books here. [MetaFilter]

The U.S. Cultural Policy and the Arts National Dat …. The U.S. Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) contains interactive, machine-readable data sets on the arts and cultural policy. (Thanks to the Scout Report.) [Open Access News]

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I can imagine 30 or so dissertation topics in this data repository just waiting to be written.

Cory brings attention to an important issue at the intersection of technology architecture and society.  If you're an IEEE member like me, now would be a good time to weigh in. [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]

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i downloaded the membership roster, it reads like a corporate based team with some academic advisors

teoma now has this blog, as an expert link on blogs, and we all know that its bloody unlikely that i'm an expert on such things now don't we, well sort of, but anyway, i find it interesting that it is this site and not others.

Compass.

A new Labour (but definitely not New Labour) ginger group has been launched, by the name of Compass. It looks interesting and some good people are involved.

[Crooked Timber]

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now this sounds somewhat progressive, maybe we need it in the U.S.

why yes, today is talk like a pirate day, how did you know?

I know they'll tell about the night I died. Slim Dusty – Australian country music icon – passes on. You know him – “There's nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear, than to stand in the bar of the pub with no beer.” [MetaFilter]