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I just noticed that David Best, whom I know from university in Berlin, and who currently studies in Eindhoven, has a blog. Subscribed!

A good thing: the Washington Post’s Congress Vote Database. It’s a database of all votes cast in the U.S. parliament. You can see who voted for and against which laws and even get RSS feeds for the votes of individual politicians. Transparency is good, and this seems to be a good way to keep tabs on the [...]

This experience reinforced my belief that my MBA gave me a better understanding of markets than my verbal sparring partners got from doing bongs and thinking as hard as they could. —Scott Adams

Tim Bray: Adium is the Future It’s true. Adium, the premier open source instant messenger for OS X, is a phantastic little application.

Valentin Zacharias writes how his vision of the Semantic Web changed: I always tend to think of the Semantic Web as a web of personal homepages where everyone annotates his stuff. […] But actually I wasn’t seeing the forest for the trees (not seeing the Semantic Web for the data?): Why [...]

Semantic Desktop Workshop. Today was the food and beer kickoff. Discussion quickly drifted to highly philosophical spheres. Why have folks so different visions of the semantic web? Should artifical agents make decisions, or should they help us to make better decisions? What’s a concept? Tomorrow we’ll build some stuff. Flickr: Photos tagged with semdeskhack2005

A thought … How did man move from the agrarian age to the industrial age? By replacing muscle with technology. Machines are better at providing power and energy. How did man move from the industrial age to the information age? By replacing repetition with technology. Robots and computers are better at performing repetitive tasks. How will man move [...]