Monthly Archives: December 2007
Notcot
The Notcot group of sites, like NOTCOT.ORG, display information in an interesting way. Very compelling and well done. Not new, but new to me.
Airport Security Follies
The Airport Security Follies. “And rather than rethink our policies, the best we’ve come up with is a way to skirt them — for a fee, naturally — via schemes like Registered Traveler.”
Kindle Easter Eggs
Kindle Easter Eggs: We have GPS. (Sort of.) I’ve been using my Kindle heavily for a few weeks now and have a mini-review forthcoming.
Feeds in Search Results
WordPress produces a bajillion different feeds for every post, category, search, basically anything you can imagine. For a long time now some of these have shown up in search results next to regular pages, which I imagine was very confusing for people clicking from a search result to a bunch of XML. No longer! From the Webmaster blog: Taking feeds out of our web search results.
Infinitely Extensible
WordPress is Infinitely Extensible. “And that’s coming from a guy who’s usually happy to start his projects from scratch.”
Google Enigma
The Google Enigma by Nick Carr.