Go, Nads!. Interesting list of college athletic teams' nicknames. [More inside.] [MetaFilter] But there are no other Hokies, the Virginia Tech Mascot.

Microsoft and Social Cyberspaces. As this press release reveals, Microsoft is active in researching the nature of trust and identity in virtual community. It's research sociologist Marc Smith “leads the Community Technologies group, which is developing tools that can help people make more informed decisions on which community members they can trust, instead of acting […]

XML, metaphorically speaking. Bear with me on this post, everyone. It's on a technical subject, but I think the non-techies will be interested too. Give it a read, anyway, and I promise not to get techie again for a day or two. A… [Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precendent] This is an interesting position, programming or literary […]

Hacker hit parade goes live. A list of the top security problems on the internet which is updated regularly has been published. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] is your server, computer, network secure?

I'm joining the 10% club: according to its Web site “RIAA members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States.” So, quick, get me a list of the 10% and I will spend every dime of the $2000 I once spent on RIAA and MPAA […]

Trackback in Radio. Finally. Trackback in Radio. One more brick to get better connections. [Mathemagenic] well i turned on trackback, lets see how well it works….

engineer vs. scientist. I was speaking with a friend tonite about the structure of communities. During this conversation, he told me that i… [zephoria] this is what is usually called a false dichotomization. the real structure is that there is not only a spectrum between engineer and scientist, but that it operates on many levels […]

Finally!. Introvertster is an online anti-social non-networking community that prevents people from ever bothering you while you're online … Create your own barrier to protect yourself against interaction with people. It's easy and fun! Can I use Introvertster for dating? That's a really stupid question. Introvertster is not for you. Go away. (via plasticbag) [Purse […]

Tinderbox 2.0. The major new Tinderbox release is out at last. Tinderbox 2 is even faster than before, has lots of new features for better export and smarter agents, and talks to lots of weblog tools. [Mark Bernstein] tinderbox works great for me, i just wish more of my osx services worked with it. it […]

Invade Mali now. I wasn’t going to post this fill-in-the-country geography test for North Africa & the Middle East, for fear of insulting… [Blog de Halavais] Well, i played this at around 7:30am and didn't do as well as I thought I would. I don't even think that I own a map that identifies West […]