Sears.com has entered the over the top realm of corporate spying... on their customers.
Whatever you do, do NOT join their "online community"... seems it is really a front for installing spyware that dumps a LOT of personal info about you and your web habits to an ad agency. What astounds me is not that corporate America would cross this line, but ( Read more... )

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Last night Ogre made an interesting request. It started because he had lost some bookmarks and lost the url to this journal. With us being together over the summer, that had not really mattered ( come to think of it, I blog a lot more when he is not here-not having someone to dump things to in person-maybe being separated is better for my writing-- ( Read more... )

I have not blogged too much about Mahalo, yet. It is an interesting next step in search.. with human powered Search Results Pages that include a summary of relevant links, blogs and feeds and limit the spam and adds. It is a bit like having someone do a super relevance filtered search on google for you. One of the things I like about it is that it ( Read more... )

just watch it..
then lust for this functionality in your favorite graphics tool...

Content Aware Image Resizing

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the research papers that go with this are here. Not for the math shy.

Wow-- tired of having your entry on Wikipedia rejected because you are not important or famous enough?? OK, that is only partially serious.. some of ya'll actually DO have valid Wikipedia entries...
For the rest of the world... there is WikiYou. here is their blurb:

Hi,
Thanks for claiming your profile on WikiYou! Now that your ( Read more... )

1) How to get great deals, even when time constrained: I have taken a new tactic with finding great deals on Amie Street during those weeks when I do not have time to breathe. I often do not have time to sit , listen and evaluate new releases..but if I wait until I have time to listen to them all then they have gone up in price and cost much more ( Read more... )

For all the geeks and/Or HP fans out there, this article in Network World was a serious chuckle. Nice to see a professional journal have a sense of humor...

Hogwart's IT Director Quits ...

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