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Megaupload Bust Jolts File-Share Sites

The federal shutdown of Megaupload has other file sharing sites scrambling to cut back on sharing content that could get them into legal trouble. Torrentfreak.com, a blog that tracks various file sharing sites, has reported that at least nine different websites have made significant changes to the types of...

You’re the Boss Blog: Drilling Down: Ways to Use QR Codes

When Gary Shouldis moved last year, he typed up a list of items that were packed in each box and created a QR code on a sticker for each one.

Vintage 3D 'wiggle GIFs' respun with library's cool tool

In its push to reinvent itself in the Web era, the New York Public Library releases the Stereogranimator, a tool that lets users create flickering 3D GIFs from its archive of "stereographs."

Meteorologist Exposed as Scientific Fraud (And a really cool graphic) [Greg Laden's Blog]

Brad Johnson at Think Progress has written a piece on Meteorologist Mark Johnson, of ABC's WEWS-TV in Cleveland Ohio. Johnson has apparently purposefully misrepresented data that was previously pre-misrepresented by the Daily Mail to make the statement that the earth has been cooling since 1998. The earth has actually been warming since the 1990s, and the first decade of the present century is ...

Wolfram Alpha Upgrades, Becomes a Viable Google Replacement

This afternoon Wolfram Alpha will release an updated "pro" version of its search engine, just in time for us to give up our Google habit. Rather than switching to Bing, which offers a familiar Google-esque experience, Wolfram's data-driven engine works on a completely different premise. "Wolfram Alpha doesn't just return information, it analyzes and does computation on your inputs and on its own ...