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Technology Review: Google’s Answer to Wikipedia
Google recently announced Knol, a new experimental website that puts information online in a way that encourages authorial attribution. Unlike articles for the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which anyone is free to revise, Knol articles will have individual authors, whose pictures and credentials will be prominently displayed alongside their work. Currently, participation in the project is by invitation only, but Google will eventually open up Knol to the public.

I can totally picture it: Google to Jimbo: “Oh yeah? You wanna walk all over our turf with Wikia? Well take that!” ;p

From “Wikipedia: ISO 3103“:

ISO 3103 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (commonly referred to as ISO), specifying a standardized method for brewing tea. It was originally laid down in 1980 as BS 6008:1980[1]. It was produced by ISO Technical Committee 34 (Food products), Sub-Committee 8 (Tea).

Funny! I’m sure Mr. Rose is a fervent adept.

Via Viper007Bond.

I watched Lakai Footwear’s Fully Flared last night (thanks Stevey). Saying it’s the best sk8 video I have seen in years wouldn’t quite do it justice. It’s absolutely insane and I cannot recommend it enough.

My two favourite thrashers in the movie as far as style and technique, if I had to choose: Marc Johnson (by far) and Anthony Pappalardo.

I’m not going to say much more since I don’t want to spoil it for you, but do yourself a favour and go buy (or rent) it. You won’t regret it.

Oh, did I mention Spike Jonze was on the directors crew? Nuf’ said! :)

Update: I had to change the embedded video to a trailer, because it turns out the intro I had linked to got taken off YouTube. Oops. Just check out Lakai’s video archive for more clips.

From “Things public preview released“:

Things provides a unique and flexible way to handle tasks that can be refreshing for those who didn’t quite get the whole GTD thing the first time around. Of course, you can adhere to strict GTD principles with it, but you can also forge a system that works for you using its tagging system and flexible project management tools.

For those not familiar with the concept, what distinguishes GTD from other time- or action-management systems is the idea of grouping tasks by the context (defined as a place or set of available resources) in which they are to be performed.

Update: Marc-André pointed me to Thinking Rock as a FOSS and cross-platform alternative. It’s not looking half bad. Gotta try it out too.

From: “Spammer Alan Ralsky Indicted“:

Several users have written to tell us that notorious spammer Alan Ralsky has been indicted along with ten others on 41 counts of spam-related illegal activity.

Good: 11 down.
Unfortunate: still 3,245,098 to go.

Linking to Slashdot for their extra reference links.