Sun employee #5 Millionaire John Gilmore stays close to home while making a point about privacy. He’s unable to travel because he refuses to present a government-approved ID.

From Daniel Stewart’s paper:
…Markets are constrained by processes of status differentiation which Merton (1968) called the “Matthew Effect”. According to this principle, high status actors obtain greater recognition for performing a given task then do low status actors….

The term is derived from the New Testament Book of Matthew (25:29), which states, “For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will taken from Him.”

An abstract from here:

A reverse engineer (Nils Schneider) wanted to study the firmware of the Apple iPod in order to figure out how to write software that runs on iPods.

His ingenious solution was to use someone else’s technique for making the iPod squawk and squeak in order to write a program that output the firmware as a series of sounds (which could then be recorded using a microphone, and analyzed using software on a PC in order to convert them back into a digital representation of the firmware).

Schneider’s ingenious approach shows several important virtues: …

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“The only people who value your specialist knowledge are the ones who already have it.”- William Tozier, On trivia and details and miscellanea

(Through Sebs’ open research, nahh that’s not my other me :-))

Just see the post. It is great, how CNN can make two nuclear plants in two countries from one picture 🙂

A BBC puff-piece on London’s latest IKEA store contains this marvellous factoid:

It has even been estimated that one in 10 Europeans are conceived in an Ikea bed.

Google has a new map/direction finder: http://maps.google.com. Looks not bad, but is US only. If you zoom away from the US, there is only water all around. I wonder if that is the picture the US has of the world 😛

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