New York Times: In Searching We Trust. “With an estimated 200 million searches logged daily, Google, the most popular Internet search engine, ‘has a near-religious quality in the minds of many users,’ said Joseph Janes, an associate professor at the University of Washington in Seattle who taught a graduate seminar on Google this semester. ‘A few years ago, you would have talked to a trusted friend about arthritis or where to send your kids to college or where to go on vacation. Now we turn to Google.'”
Saako omassa autossa katsoa pornoa?
CNN.com: XXX-DVDs a new hazard for drivers. “Andrea Carlton hadn’t planned on telling her daughter about the birds and bees until she was 8 or 9. But that changed the night 4-year-old Catherine spotted a porno movie flickering on a screen in a minivan nearby.” [via Boing Boing]
Tee-se-itse-karttoja PHP:llä
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Mika Tuupola: Creating GIS Maps With PHP. “Generating maps on demand can be a hard job as most often you don’t have the maps you need in digital form. But you can generate your own maps based on raw, digital data files which are available for free on the net.”
Kaikkien aikojen huonoimmat muuttujan nimet
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Andy Lester: The world’s two worst variable names. “Variable naming conventions can often turn into a religious war, but I’m entirely confident when I declare The World’s Worst Variable Name to be: $data. Of course it’s data! That’s what variables contain! That’s all they ever can contain. It’s like you’re packing up your belongings to move to a new house, and on the side of the box you write, in big black marker, ‘matter.'”
Nettipäiväkirjailija Panu Rajala Verkkoyhteydessä
YLEn Verkkoyhteys-ohjelman tulevassa jaksossa on vieraana “Panu Rajala – Suomen tunnetuin nettipäiväkirjan pitäjä”. Ohjelma esitetään tänään klo 19.30 YLE Teemalla ja huomenna klo 18.40 TV1:ssä.