2002-12-11»
let google news do your background research»
Another (slightly trickier) URL hack. Bookmark this google news bookmark in Moz, and give it a shortcut (as in the last entry) – say “gn”. Now, if you’re at a news article, and you want to see what other news sources have to say about it, just replace the “http://” bit of the URL with “gn “, hit return, and Google News will spew out the cluster of news stories that are similiar to your news article. So, if you were at “http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2568223.stm”, a news story about Yemen, change the URL to “gn news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2568223.stm” would take you to http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=cluster:news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2568223.stm which is the index page for all the news stories Google knows about this topic.
This could probably do with turning into a platform-independent bookmarklet. Any volunteers?
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secrets of the idiot overlords»
Bookmark this link in Mozilla or Phoenix, and then go to “Bookmarks/ Manage Bookmarks”, select the new bookmark, choose “Edit/Properties…” then give the damn thing the keyword “ntk”. Then, whenever you type in “ntk foobar” into the location bar, you’ll search NTK for foobar. Here’s another one for Oblomovka.
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software patents update»
NTK plugged a Brussels European Parliament meeting on the EU’s moves to adopt software patents last month. Here’s a summary of what happened there. For those who want the juicy bit (any juicy bit), here’s EuroLinux’s list of cases where software patents are currently blocking development and availability of free software.
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yet another reason to buy bbedit»
They’re giving the EFF ten dollars for every copy sold until the end of December. (From Doc’s weblog).
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