Recently I was introduced to Flarf, a concept which is difficult to define since it’s originators refuse definition. I think anyone who likes to dork around on the web, as I do, has probably gone there though.  I once used a song title search interface to find all possible permutations of the words ants, pants, [...]

Further adventures in the global community… I came across an essay by Ethan Zuckerman of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard called The Polyglot Internet in which he discusses the problems of machine translation (see previous post) and the danger of linguistic isolation on the internet. Despite the massive globalization of user [...]

So I was stumbling around the web today like usual and came across Netvibes, an RSS/widget aggregator that lets you create a homepage of personalized favorites.  As someone who got really RSS happy for a while I thought it was kind of cool to be able to see all my favorite feeds displayed at once [...]