take a sip from the firehose...

If you don't mind listening to Dutch, this collection of youtube flicks is a pretty good demonstration of what one can do if he has access to software. After seeing only one flick, I thought this is for real, but I more...

Google launched translation bots for a lot of language pairs, even more than the ones available at Google Translate. To use them in Google Talk or in any other IM client that supports Jabber, you need to add one of more...

A 2008 map of internet trends.

...the cost of U.S. patent litigation to alleged infringers ($12 billion in legal and business costs in 1999) is greater than the global profits that companies earn from patents (less than $4 billion in 1999). Since the 1980s, patent litigation more...

Quite a useful reference as I'm figuring out Mac OS after migrating from Windows.

This search engine developed by my old colleagues at IJS shows how ontologies developed by librarians (the Yahoo librarians included) can help efficiently navigate in the space of documents and topics. In many ways these designed ontologies are preferable to more...

My friend Wili (with whom I worked on computer games back in the mid-90's) has been refining his HDR photography techniques.

A description of Thomas Jefferson's inventions.

A good list of stuff. It doesn't contain everything, but applications like QuickSilver and Witch make my Mac experience a lot better.