March 31, 2005
Categories: Design & Development, Society, Politics & The Media, Software & Applications, The Web
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- Prefetching links in an interesting idea. I wonder if you could create a dynamic prefetching system that would fetch the most clicked on links on each page.
- TurnItIn.com - teachers and parents are submitting student papers on this site to check for plagiarism. It gives an aggregate score for the % of original content and annotates the parts as to where the text was from. Here's a sample image if report results (gif). I wonder if Google scanned books will be incorporated at some point?
- Armed volunteers to patrol U.S. Mexico border. - This has bad idea written all over it.
- Fox Blocker blocks the Fox News Channel before it even gets to the TV.
- Death sentence overturned because jury consults Bible. - The court said the Bible passages, including the verse that commands "eye for eye, tooth for tooth," could influence a typical juror to vote for death instead of life imprisonment. Ironic that they used the old testament to make their decision, 'cause Jesus didn't know shit!
