Tuesday Tabs
I’m beginning to believe it’s just me that browsers hate. Now that I use Safari more, I find that it simply crashes after a little while. As opposed to Firefox which grinds to a halt. What the hell?
· Leaked memo: Time Warner Cable to trial hard bandwidth caps - ars technica
I don’t think they’ve got the stones to roll this out nationwide.
· Their House to Yours, via the Trash - nytimes
A really interesting tale of how books make it from the garbage to the Strand or those sidewalk book vendors.
· Analysis: Metcalfe’s Law + Real ID = more crime, less safety - ars technica
A debunking of our wonderful gov’t’s position that “Privacy and security are a zero-sum game” (covered last week).
· Perl 6 on Parrot is now known as Rakudo Perl - Perl Buzz
Now Perl 6 is a specification and there’s several implementations. Rakudo’s the big’un.
· Has AT&T Lost Its Mind? A baffling proposal to filter the Internet. - Slate
Oh, AT&T.
· “The fat tail will be human, the medium tail social, the long tail algorithmic” - The Long Tail
I remain skeptical that these social search engines have anything to offer more than Wikipedia, I’d love to be proven wrong.
· Humans Interupting Algorithms: Wales v. Calacanis on Human Powered Search - ReadWriteWeb
Here’s a transcript of the panel in question. Good times roll when Google starts talking.
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Maybe you wanna chill out on the tabs man. =)
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I got a brand new iMac with 4GB of ram just so that I could do whatever the hell I please. Dammit.
Man, 4GB! I remember at the NYTimes when they got a server with 1GB ram and I was like. Oh. My. God. That’s like strapping on a harddrive to the ram socket. 4GB should be enough to let me run a few dozen tabs!