Category: Personal

A quick recap of some of the tabs open in my Firefox right now:-

Hit the snooze button on your “verbose” Twitter friends and we all have a few of them :-).

Create an RSS feed from any page on the net (enables you to detect changes without going to the site).

Employ people by the hour or by the job, a UK based service ideal if you want to work from home.

Fantastic talk by Clay Shirky to give your friends who say.
Where You Find the Time to Spend Online

A clip on Brain gym from the Bad science website.

BBC Newsnight mine the Brain Gym comedy mountain

Here is a pretty neat example of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in action.

You can upload one picture a day to Facestat they then give it to their, paid, mechanical turk folks to analyse the picture for your social standing. I used the picture that Sally really loves.

In my case they were pretty well correct having me down as aged between 60-69, average weight, liberal politics (how do you do that from a picture?), married (well they can’t always be right!), trustworthy, well off, bright but not attractive 🙁 so won’t be going on hot or not! and apparently I’m not funny.

I wonder how much they pay the guys to do this!