IBM research papers on communities, learning and more. Trying to find a paper on-line gives you a lot of other interesting things. So, I came accross public papers of IBM Watson Research Center. Nifty collection, hope people find them useful.

Terry Jones: I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush. Terry Jones writes in the Observer that he's “going to give the whole street two weeks – no, 10 days – to come out in the open and hand over all aliens and interplanetary hijackers, galactic outlaws and interstellar terrorist masterminds, and if they don't […]

Market Competition, Microsoft Style. Microsoft's home page tells the computers of people using the Opera browser and only the computers of people using the Opera browser to move the left margin of the page 30 pixels off the left end of the screen. The natural inference is that Microsoft is doing this in the hope […]

An Open Music Encyclopedia. MusicBrainz calls itself a “network of web sites that form an open music encyclopedia. Like a normal encyclopedia the MusicBrainz… [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] knowledge about music is always cool

Bibliography on social networks. One more from paper hunting search: Social Network References (Academic Bibliography) [Mathemagenic] this could be useful for several people

Fantasy Economics. Mark Dionne points us to an article in Slate about the economic models emerging at EverQuest, a massively multiplayer online game. The article's conclusion: If EverQuest is any guide, the liberal dream of genuine equality would usher in the conservative vision of truly limited government…. [Joho the Blog] maybe or a fascist government […]

Moving Work Offshore Not Just For Blue-Collar Workers Anymore. Plastic::Work::Work: Remember Ross Perot's “giant sucking sound”? Looks like IT's starting to hear it, too. [Plastic: Most Recent] this should have happened about a year ago. but now people are noticing…

Future perfect. In answer to aquestion posed by Mark Pilgrim, “Does your boss read your weblog?” I can say I don't know…. [Blog de Halavais] seems like another discipline is quickly heading the way toward very real irrelevance, as has been the recent claims made against empirical political science, sociology, and economics in the face […]

BTW, totally by coincidence, my old friend Adam Green, the dBASE guru, and CTO at Andover, retired rich from the software industry, is now taking classes at Harvard to learn how be scholarly about the history of science. His aim is to be the first software historian. Adam is uniquely qualified to do that. He […]

What Are the Chances?. A rapidly evolving set of computing tools allow mathematicians, engineers and insurance executives to understand the odds of catastrophe. By Seth Schiesel. [New York Times: Technology] but really, will it matter?