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Lying links
Recently, a post about Hacking the <a> tag in 100 characters made its rounds on the internet. A short summary of this post is that it’s possible to change the link target (the href attribute) just after it’s clicked, but … Continue reading
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Tagged a href, click jacking, click redirection, html, javascript, link, link redirection, linkception, phishin, phishing link
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TED: Ian Ritchie – The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee
Short talk by Ian Ritchie who in a retrospective wouldn’t have turned TimBL down, i guess. Instant classic due to his closing words: “But is he happy?”
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Tagged funny, history, html, hypertext, ted, ted talk, tim berners-lee, video, www
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TED: Hans Rosling – Religions and Babies
Heh, Hans Rosling did it again… fascinating stats and explaining world’s population growth (the big fill-up) with some leftover boxes. http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.html
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Tagged open data, population growth, presentation, religion, statistics, talk, ted talk, video, visualization
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My name
Thanks to Paul for telling me about my name day: “Jörn (Der eberstarke, mutige, gute Freund)” (Jörn, the boar-strong, brave, good friend). Actually it’s fun to read the Plattdüütsch version which says as much as that it comes from Jürgen, … Continue reading
Duolingo: Learn a language and translate the web
Another one of Luis von Ahn‘s ingenious projects: http://duolingo.com learn a language for free and translate the web in the background. There is a pretty recent TED talk by him, and below you can find their introductory video on youtube:
Interesting talk about “Filter Bubbles”
A few days ago I stumbled over an interesting TED talk by Eli Pariser about the ever increasing personalization of the web, its search results, your facebook news feed, … Do you think that you still see the whole picture … Continue reading
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Tagged facebook, filter bubbles, google, information filtering, personalization, presentation, talk, ted talk, video
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Mac OS X Harddisk high Load Cycle Counts
Mac OS X’s default power management settings might wear your hard drive down unnecessarily. This post provides a lot of background information and how to change these settings. Continue reading
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Tagged 193, apm, clicking, hard disk, hard drive, hd, hdd, hdparm, hitachi, load cycle count, mac, mac book pro, mac os x, mbp, setup, smart, wear down
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Live mapping of tweets, facebook msgs, emails, sms…
Reading the Wikimedia blog I stumbled over this interesting post. They mention a framework called Ushahidi (Swahili word for “testimony’) with its subproject SwitfRiver which can be used to track and verify the reliability of news concerning current trending topics, … Continue reading
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Tagged analyzing, disaster, facebook, framework, live, management, mapping, maps, mashup, news, trends, tweets, twitter, visualization
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LaTeX Thesis Skeleton
As it might be useful for other students (especially for computer science students at the University of Kaiserslautern), I decided to invest some time and create a skeleton for a thesis. The project can be found on github: http://github.com/joernhees/thesis-skeleton. I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged bachelor, latex, master, skeleton, template, thesis, uni-kl
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Interesting analysis of a post’s life cycle
Corte.si did it again. This time a very interesting analysis of what happens when he posts on his blog and twitters about it. Most interesting: the number of bots that access his page just seconds after he published it, where … Continue reading