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In the last two years, visits to Wikipedia have grown over 600%. Hitwise tracks 3,098 educational reference sites, and Wikipedia accounted for over 30% of visits to all sites in the category. Even more intriguing is the interdependence between Wikipedia and Google. Wikipedia is the second most visited site...
If Wales can grow his volunteer base of previously idle computers as he has grown the editorial manpower of Wikipedia, perhaps a feasible search index is within grasp. Indexing the Internet, however, is the least of Jimbo's problems. Search engines rely on their algorithms, or complex formulas, to determine...
Even the most stable brain operates just a millimeter from madness. In such a finely tuned cognitive engine, only a small part must start to sputter before the whole machine comes crashing down. When that happens, reason and function come undone, rarely as dramatically as in the neurochemical storm that...
Recently, fellow Firehouse dweller and local-access television celebrity Jayne Freeman asked me if I would be opposed to throwing a punk rock concert in the old engine garage. Blessed with such an ideal living situation and cursed with an inner early teen that refuses to embrace the onset of...
Like any other spacecraft, Dawn will have to be muscled off its launchpad by a conventional rocket burning conventional propellant. Once it climbs to near Earth space, however, everything will change. Of all the things that add weight to a spacecraft, fuel presents the most problems. The farther you're...