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This is pretty funny.

<http://www.brainhat.com/mp3/alisha1.mp3>

It’s amazing and horrible at the same time.

David Huynh has put together a beautiful web interface to the Freebase dataset. Very nicely done.

(check out the Wikipedia if my title was confusing)

I’d never heard of it until today but this blog looks like an interesting resource for those of us who keep pining for multiple-core-everything. One odd thing is that I’d never even heard of Clik and here it’s gone and won an award and everything. Guess I need to read more!

Two quick software updates:

• ASDF-Binary-Locations sees some love from Marko Kocic with improved support for ECL.

• ASDF-Install gets a teeny-tiny tap on the documentation front. Whenever I look over the tutorial, I wish I could make myself make time to update it. I’ll have to keep living in hope.

I’ve got updates for Tinaa, Log5 and other bits and pieces in the pipeline (though the pipeline remains clogged (no pun intended) so no promises).

share peace,

Hurry, hurry, hurry. Grab it before some evil fundamentalist does (sorry, but from where I sit, all fundamentalism is fundamentally evil).

It’s fun looking for information about the semantic web. Turtle and N3 both formats for RDF. I was looking for information about the details of the syntax; here’s what I found:

Mexico Turtles Totugas n3

You gotta love the web.

It’s summertime and someone said that the living is supposed to be easy. That, however, isn’t my experience. Work is spinning fast, I’ve been house sitting (which involves taking care of three fish tanks, two geckos, 15 chickens and a very cute little dog) and trying to resort my life while separating from my partner of the last 18-years. Wow. No wonder I feel overwhelmed and as if my short term memory has shrunk to two bits and a haircut (baa ba-ba bap bap, bap bap).

I keep having lots of ideas for software and Lisp but have no time to do more than write them down and more on.

Go, go, go, “said the bird,” mankind cannot bear too much reality.

The web3.0 will radically change the rules. As all content will be geotagged, content will have to be classified using a new metric: the GeoRank. GeoRank will not be an absolute value. It will always be related to the observer.

This sounds reasonable but ignores (I think) the computational issues. There are already better metrics than Pagerank for many things (I’ve always been a huge fan of Kleinberg’s Hubs and Authorities (PDF)) but they are a bear to compute.

Exxon Mobil today broke its own record for the highest-ever profit by a U.S. company, with net income this quarter rising to $11.68 billion. While Exxon officials regularly tout the company’s investment in alternative energy, ABC reported today that Exxon spends only 1 percent of profits on alternative energy sources.

• trivial-http - Thanks to Brian Mastenbook for letting me rename simple-http to trivial-http.

• metatilities-base - tweaks

• ASDF-install - tweaks

• dynamic-classes - Corrected a typo in the test system definition. Thanks to Vyacheslav Akhmechet for letting me know.