When the Kinect launched, Adafruit Industries ran a contest for the first person who released open-source code to extract video and depth from the Kinect. Adafruit also ended up donating to the EFF after the contest was over. When I was in grad school, I would have loved to have a device like the Kinect. [...]
I just wanted to give a quick update on one thing I mentioned in my search engine spam post. My post mentioned that “we’re evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content.” That [...]
(Just as a reminder: while I am a Google employee, the following post is my personal opinion.) Recently I read a fascinating essay that I wanted to comment on. I found it via Ars Technica and it discusses “search neutrality” (PDF link, but I promise it’s worth it). It’s written by James Grimmelmann, an associate [...]
A lot of parents hear different things about the MMR vaccine (that’s measles, mumps, and rubella) or the flu or chicken pox or pertussis vaccine and wonder “How safe are vaccines?” It’s not a stupid question, given the conflicting information you might hear from different sources. I’ve been doing research about vaccines and vaccine safety [...]
Everybody is throwing out predictions for 2011, so I thought I’d do something different. Here are some of my predictions for 2009. Wha wha wha?? That’s right: 2009. As 2008 drew to a close, I jotted down some predictions, but I never hit the “publish” button. Some of them weren’t fully-formed (or even complete sentences!), [...]
Want to get a fresh start on the new year? Here’s a few quick tips: - Start the year off with an empty inbox in Gmail. It’s pretty simple to do: you assign a label for everything in your inbox right now, then archive everything so your inbox is empty. You can still dig into [...]
For the record, here’s the words I ended up learning this month: ana: the collection of memorable sayings, writings, or other information of an interesting person. brumous: misty, foggy capax: legally competent daggle: to soil by dragging in the mud deosculate: to kiss affectionately dorty: bad-tempered ensky: to make immortal eoan: related to the dawn [...]
Each year I like to ask what charities people are donating to. There’s still a couple days left in 2010, so I wanted to ask readers about their charity or non-profit giving. I’ll mention the main organizations on my giving list this year: charity: water brings clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. [...]
Last month during National Novel Writing Month I decided to write a 50,000 word novel. My novel started like this: My name is Russ. I’m a journalism student, and I didn’t expect to be in jail. They took me to a squat police station and parked my ass in an interrogation room. They took my [...]
This month’s 30 day challenge is to learn a word a day. Frankly, this month is sort of a “take it easy” month as I recover from last month’s challenge to write a novel and catch up on a bunch of different things. I’m using Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words as [...]
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