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• SOPA/PIPA protest disappointments
  As you probably know by now if you live under a rock and get all your news through the Net, several popular sites are protesting current US proposed Net censorship laws. I
• First thoughts on Google Plus
  M. "Doc" Skala tries things so you won't have to! Overall, and so far, I'm not too impressed. User interface: Facebook was bad for overriding standard UI behaviour, but Go
• Tarot spread generator
  Here's a simple online Tarot page I wrote a few years back. Very simple: choose a spread, you see the cards face-down, click on each card in turn to flip it face-up. You'r
• Updates
  Here are a few notes on the current state of my life. As I'd hoped, my work productivity has improved a lot now that I'm out of the back-and-forth between Waterloo and Tor
• So much for Twitter
  I have a Twitter account under the name mattskala , but I no longer endorse Twitter because their newly-mandatory "OAuth" system treats open-source client software as seco
• A note on similarity search
  Hi! I'm a scientific researcher. I have a PhD in computer science. My doctoral dissertation is mostly about the mathematical background of "similarity search." That means
• Wisdom of Tvtropes
  I spotted this buried deeply in an otherwise-boring discussion on tvtropes.org, and it has much wider application and deserves much wider distribution. I made a mental not
• Bus plunge kills 16
  Yesterday a bus plunge in Turkey killed 16 Russian tourists and injured 25 more. Thanks, dagbrown, for bringing the phenomenon of bus plunge stories to my attention. Oh, a
• What's wrong with Facebook? (part 2)
  In my previous posting I discussed human issues, which might be specific to me: they are reasons that neither Facebook nor anything else with a similar purpose to Facebook
• What's wrong with Facebook? (part 1)
  I thought it would be sufficient to just announce I was leaving Facebook, and all my friends who would care about such things would already have a pretty good idea of what
• The Terrible Secret of Livejournal, part 3: what to do?
  Link to Part 1. It should not be thought that Six Apart have completely clean hands here. I'm not by any means a big fan of Six Apart.  It's partly because I'm not a fan o
• The Terrible Secret of Livejournal, part 2: avoiding notice
  Link to Part 1. In the previous section I mentioned that fandom itself is considered a perversion. I don't think most people in fandom are willing to admit that they know
• The Terrible Secret of Livejournal, part 1: the Secret
  I'm hearing another round of rumours about Six Apart, the company that runs Livejournal, and its deletion of Livejournal users.  It sounds like they've changed their code
• The UFP and the Filthy Humans
  Re-posting of an article first posted in September 2008. You are an officer, say a commodore , in the military-diplomatic-exploration organization of an interplanetary nat

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