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“House of Flying Daggers” (Shi Mian Mai Fu) is not to be missed! The original Chinese title is Shi Mian Mai Fu, meaning “ambush from ten direction”. The film is written as a thriller under the cover of a love Continue reading House of Flying Daggers & Anita Mui
Via adot’s notblog*: get acrobat reader 7. Adot’s right : acrobat reader loads pdf’s from the web very very fast, which is good ’cause it used to take forever just loading to the browser, regardless of the size of the Continue reading Acrobat Reader 7, sucks less slowly
IFTF’s Future Now makes a point about one problem with “folksonomies”, bottom-up taxonomies that people create on there own : None of the current implementations have synonym control (e.g. “selfportrait” and “me” are distinct Flickr tags, as are “mac” and Continue reading Tag’s, folksonomies, and Google Suggest
Jerry Orbach, Lennie Briscoe of Law and Order, has died at the age of 69. The Gothamist has a great obituary, and Joey links to a collection of some Lennie Briscoe snappy remarks.
Via John Battelle’s Searchblog , A New Idea for Publishing in Technology Review magazine.
Via Roland comes DURL, a Search Tool for del.icio.us, not far from my own sugestions for extensions of Del.Icio.us and Technorati, and new searching and learning techniques