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Category Archives: The more you know…
MotorOOGLE!
I have to thank Kai Gray for giving me some inspiration to actually sit down and write about this.
Twitter was abuzz the other day about the recent acquisition of Motorola by Google, evoking various reactions from Sector 930 faithful, but I think the best response/reaction was summed up by Edwin: “Google just bought Motorola?”
To me, this was a line-item. I saw it on Twitter and said to myself, “well, that’s interesting,” but didn’t really think too much of it because I have an iPhone. As it turns out, Apple (and Microsoft) have more to do with Google’s deal than meets the eye.
Adios, Amigos.
I caught some flak this past weekend on telling some Mary Washingtonians that I erased (read: not “deactivated”) my Facebook account, and thought I’d write a blog post (outside of my usual style) on why I left. My reasons, I would say, go beyond the obvious, but I’d encourage anyone to follow suit for any reason.
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In which Google writes a book to teach about the Internet
We live in a world where it’s pretty difficult to do anything without interacting with the internet. The only problem with this is that the vast majority of people either don’t know how it works or are mistaken about the knowledge they do have. Google, as the vast purveyor of knowledge they are, has decided to fix this by releasing a book entitled 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web. Running 61 pages and featuring illustrations by Christoph Niemann, the book covers topics including TCP/IP, HTML, CSS, javascript, browser cookies, malware, IP addresses and DNS.
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Tagged browser, css, education, google, html 5, internet, javascript
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10 Centuries in 5 minutes
Today, I ran across a pretty neat video that shows 10 centuries of European history in a little over 5 minutes. The map is missing a legend so it’s hard to tell what exactly the colors mean, but the sheer number of political boundary changes is astounding. So much changes during the course of the video that it would take several viewings in order to see everything that happens.
Posted in 930posts, Fun Stuff, NaNoWriMo, The more you know...
Tagged geography, history, visualization
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To the Max
I’m pretty sure the other members of the Sector are tired of all my posts having to do with math, but I just can’t help it. Math is just freaking awesome and no matter how much you think you know, there’s always something new to discover or amaze yourself with. I’m also amazed that despite the vast breadth of potential topics, mathematicians will choose to concentrate on the most minute nuances of a problem. Take for example, the Maximum Flow problem.
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Tagged algorithms, graph theory, math, maximum flow
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