October 17, 2008
Is Google making us smarter?
Over the summer,
technology writer Nicholas Carr wrote an article for
The Atlantic that asked, "Is Google Making Us
Stupid?" Now one such study suggests that searching
the Internet may help improve brain function.
Article Link
October 17, 2008
TSA Communication may get your bag
searched
Evan Roth’s T.S.A. Communication
project is described as art, and is funny at times.
It may also be a problem. In short, TSA
Communication is something like what happens when a
fourth-grader shoots a spitwad at the teacher every
time her back is turned.
Find out more.
September
16, 2008
Will
the World Be Destroyed by the LHC?
What is
the LHC? What's a Collider? What's a Quark? Those
wacky scientists in Switzerland who are testing the
big bang theory in Geneva use hip-hop rhymes to
explain their work at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Read the story here.
Don't
have time to read the article? Go right to the
Large Hadron Rap
Finally, if you want to check whether the LHC has
destroyed the Earth,
check out this website
September
16, 2008
Why Is
the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow?
Plus, two
horrible things your Internet service provider wants
to do to make it speedier.
http://www.slate.com/id/2199368/pagenum/all/#page_start
September 3, 2008
Using
A Wiki In Your Enterprise
A wiki,
short for Wikipedia can be described as a "grow your
own" encyclopedia. Why would your company want a
Wiki? As Peter Hagopian of Information Week writes,
"because wikis are flexible enough to meet the
knowledge management needs of an organization in
many different ways." Check out his article for a
short overview and some good links.
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