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The Phonepedia concept is simple: take Wikipedia’s rich content and add voice recognition. It’s as easy as calling a number and asking your question, the answer will be returned via SMS and email. Go ahead and try it for yourself.
The voice recognition is powered by Jott, and thanks are due to Heidi for writing so [...]
Like Mr. Ranganathong said: “The intellect cannot be tied down with a decimal thong.” (via)
This thread says you can get booze and ice cream in the same joint! Places to know in NYC: Otto, The Chocolate Room (beer & wine only?), ChikaLicious, Clinton Street Baking Company, BLT Burger, Homer’s, and Liquor & Ice Cream.
Shirow Masamune himself couldn’t draw Manga Eyes like hers.
Following news that Yahoo! is joining the OpenID fray, it appears Google is dipping a toe in too. While those two giants work out their implementations, others are raising the temperature of the debate on IDM solutions. Stefan Brands is among the OpenID naysayers (David Recordon’s response), while Scott Gillbertson sees a bright future. [...]
Pre-Code films were apparently something of a spectacle. Harvard Film Archive this weekend is exploring their depths in a series titled Vice vs. Virtue.
just in case anybody else wonders why a WordPress 404 initiates extra MySQL activity http://tinyurl.com/2nkplo
In a piece that will have some people eagerly looking for some Afro Celt Sound System, others singing Where Do They Make Balloons, and some people just shaking their heads, this fellow, apparently standing in his bathroom, introduces us to another guy and his balloon organ. Really. Check this for more homemade organ fun.
Eccentric, perhaps persecuted, Bobby Fischer is dead. News story.
After reporting weirdness last week I finally sat down with a completely clean and virgin install of WordPress 2.3.2 and traced what happens when you make a permalink request for a non-existent URL.
Here are two sets of URLs to use as examples and context:
These are valid URLs:
http://site.org/archives/101
http://site.org/page-name
These are _not_ valid URLs:
http://site.org/archivezorz/101
http://site.org/favicon.ico
Valid URLs get parsed, the [...]
Ars notes that Yahoo! supports OpenID. Yeah, that OpenID.
Derek Powazek likes it, but is it worth flying SouthWest for?
@jblyberg: I had to look it up a while ago too http://tinyurl.com/z87sg
sifting results of
error_log( $_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’] ."\n". $_SERVER[’REMOTE_ADDR’] ."\n". print_r( debug_backtrace(), TRUE ) );
trying to figure out why WP hits DB for all posts query _after_ it determines the URL is a 404
