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More Signal, Less Noiseen-usCopyright 2005, Netsurfer Communications, Inc.2005-11-13T15:00+08:00Netsurfer Communications, Inc.Netsurfer DigestNetsurfer Digest 11.39weekly4The Debut of Google Print
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When Google announced plans to scan the full texts of books at
several major libraries, reaction ranged from delight among
...BREAKING SURFForbes on Communicating
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This Forbes special is rich with content impossible to ignore. Among
the topics in communication that caught our eye are: how to talk to
...BREAKING SURFMouse Songs
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Scientists have discovered that male mice sing in the presence of
female mice, or at least in the presence of their scent. PLoS Biology
...BREAKING SURFScience of Sleep
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Everybody's an expert on sleep, at least on their own lack of it.
This special issue of Nature Insight is devoted to understanding
...BREAKING SURFSuicides and the Golden Gate Bridge
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An average of 19 people each year commit suicide by jumping from San
Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Jumpers hit the water at roughly 75
...BREAKING SURFHidden Photos of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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Robert Pledge, the curator of the Li Zhensheng exhibition, writes:
"The Cultural Revolution unleashed the frustration and anger of a new
...BREAKING SURFSearch Process Automatically Generates Knowledge
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Suppose you have a list only of names of historic British
politicians. With a modest knowledge of history, a person can imply a
...BREAKING SURFThe Amazon Mechanical Turk
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Before computers entered the picture, people who needed work done got
other people to do it for them, if they had either the resources to
...BREAKING SURFStanford on iTunes
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Apple has aggressively targeted the education market ever since it
was selling the popular Apple II. A visit to most campus book stores
...BREAKING SURFWindows Live Beta
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Microsoft last week launched its new Windows Live service, a
collection of experimental services designed as a testbed for moving
...BREAKING SURFThe Tax Report
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Every year, Americans spend 3.5 billion hours struggling with a tax
code so festooned with exemptions, special deductions, and loopholes
...BREAKING SURFThe Scooter Libby Papers
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Last week, a grand jury indicted the US Vice-President's chief of
staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on perjury charges related to a
...BREAKING SURFHistory's Worst Software Bugs
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You know you have a serious bug in your software if it kills people
accidentally. It has happened - software embedded in medical devices
...BREAKING SURFRenaissance of Online Ads and Media
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Online Journalism Review (OJR) asks whether or not online media is
back to bubbling. Venture capitalists and other deep pockets are
...BREAKING SURFColbert Nation
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The popularity of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" made a spin-off
almost inevitable. One, "The Colbert Report", recently made its
...BREAKING SURFA Netflix for Porn
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WantedList.com sounds like a sure thing, sounds like an instant money
machine, but Wired makes clear that it is not such a slam dunk.
...BREAKING SURFGreatest Internet Moments
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The author of Greatest Internet Moments, a broad survey of Internet
milestones, claims that it was inspired by the tenth-anniversary
...ONLINE CULTURENetsurfer Recommendations
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...ONLINE CULTUREThe Great Patriotic War
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The largest, bloodiest armed conflict in human history, World War II,
featured an Eastern Front that so exceeded other theaters in scale
...SURFING SITESFlying Choppers in Iraq
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Gordo Cimoli is a US Army helicopter pilot who spent 2003 in Iraq
flying Blackhawk helicopters on search-and-rescue missions. He kept a
...SURFING SITESTochy's Amazing 3-D Models
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Masaru "Tochy" Tochibayashi, is a cartoonist, but he's also built the
best 3-D computer models we've ever seen. He uses LightWave3D to
...SURFING SITESLife in a Supermax
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About two decades ago, American authorities began to build and use
supermax prisons, facilities designed to stuff hardcore criminals
...SURFING SITESCelebrity Blackboards
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Blackboards or chalkboards are by their very nature designed to be
used and wiped clean. If you want permanent notes, we advise you to
...SURFING SITESNostalgia Central
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When Simone Signoret remarked that "Nostalgia isn't what it used to
be," we're pretty sure she hadn't yet seen Nostalgia Central, a vast
...SURFING SITESSearch for Degrees of Knowledge Separation
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Remember the party game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"? Omnipelagos
would win every round. It uses a path-finding algorithm to plot the
...SURFING SITESDo-It-Yourself Comic Strips
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StripGenerator is a kind of virtual Colorform tool that lets you
build your own comic strips. The Flash application features nearly
...SURFING SITESBizarre Little Animations
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Han Hoogerbrugge is creating a unique body of art. Most of it is in
his own image, and he makes his image do some unnatural things in a
...SURFING SITESSuicidal Bunnies
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The average person thinks of bunnies as cute little critters. The
wiggly noses, lengthy ears, and fluffy tails plus a range of cartoon
...SURFING SITESGuns from Office Materials
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When you let Norwegian developers of weapons software loose in an
average office, you get OfficeGuns, a primer on building projectile
...SURFING SITESSurveillance Camera Art Installation
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Is this site really what it claims to be? Laura is allegedly a
security guard in Vancouver who has patched her surveillance camera
...SURFING SITESTime's All-Time 100 Books
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Time Magazine critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo think these are
the 100 best English-language novels since 1923. Before you ask, 1923
...FLOTSAM & JETSAMA Few Thousand Science Fiction Covers
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This clever Flash application allows you to view the covers of
several thousand science-fiction magazines. As you move your mouse
...FLOTSAM & JETSAMFlying Spaghetti Monster Grilled Cheese
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What were the odds that the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) would
manifest itself on a grilled cheese sandwich? On the other hand, it
...FLOTSAM & JETSAMGoogle Maps Risk
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No, Google Maps isn't at risk, but Risk the game can be played on
Google Maps. You know, where you push armies around the map trying to
...FLOTSAM & JETSAMPanexa, the Wonder Drug
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This is a parody of one of those extremely wordy medical drug
advertisements you might see in, say, TV Guide. Complete with
...FLOTSAM & JETSAMIf World War II Were a MMORPG
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If you've ever played any massively multiplayer first-person
shooters, you'll blow yourself up laughing at this astonishing
...FLOTSAM & JETSAMResponsible Spam
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What if spam messages were sober, responsible, sensible messages
which gave good advice and really thought through the consequences of
...FLOTSAM & JETSAMHow the Death Star Works
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HowStuffWorks looks at the Death Star inside and out, disclosing what
really happens when you blow up a planet.
...FLOTSAM & JETSAMQuake IV in Virtual Reality
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These QuickTime VR panoramas from the world of Quake IV are a cheap
way to see what the interior of the game looks like without having to
...FLOTSAM & JETSAMWant To...
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Want to share files? Edit photos online? Send large files to friends?
Set up a to-do list? This eclectic collection of useful online tools,
...FLOTSAM & JETSAMKnitted Digestive System
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It's all there, from the tongue all the way down to the extremely
lower colon - in realistic color, too. Hmmm... a replacement for the
...FLOTSAM & JETSAM