Archive for the 'Secrets' Category

Digg Recommends Mococoa from the Upper Slopes of Mount Nicaragua

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Social networking site Digg has a beta going for their Recommendation Engine, which suggests links that users with similar interests have dugg:

Every time you Digg a story, the Engine matches you with other Diggers who Dugg the same story, and keeps track of all your Diggs in common with them. When it’s [...]

Catch-22: NDA vs. GPL

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

In August 2006, Apple sent WWDC attendees home with prerelease copies of Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. As with all major updates, the initial seeds of Leopard broke a lot of programs, in some cases requiring hefty code changes to fix. Attendees received prereleases of the operating system in order to get their programs working [...]

ClearPlay

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I just saw a commercial for ClearPlay, a DVD player that will automatically skip over “sex, violence, and profanity” in pre-existing DVDs.

The evidence is overwhelming that content in entertainment—particularly violence—can have a damaging impact on children. It is easy enough for the studios to suggest kids not see any of these movies. Unfortunately, [...]

Candy Code

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

The Consumerist has a neat tip for figuring out how old a candy bar is:

For M&Ms and Mars candy, there’s usually a 10 digit code of numbers and letters, but you only need to worry about the first three. The first number is the last number in the year (8 means 2008, 7 [...]