Gone with the wind

It seems that we are getting popular in a sense we DON’T LIKE -
This week we stopped for the first time more than 1000 spam messages in less than a few hours. The ones which are the most annoying are the 2 page long links messages to whatever nonsense you could not imagine. If [...]

Duvet-Dayz: Last week’s most popular posts (week 10-December-2006)

(27-10-2006) Top 10 time waster games
(10-12-2006) Winter: Best Extreme Skiing Videos on YouTube
(15-12-2006) Fun: Moving Dog USB Drive
(07-12-2006) Search Engines: Pageranks and the Incredible Lightness Of Being
(01-12-2006) World AIDS Day: Speeches, Speeches, Speeches
(23-11-2006) Best News Picture Galleries on the Web
(28-11-2006) Video: Modern Day Robin Hood
(06-11-2006) Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?
(08-12-2006) World Economic Forum announces Technology Pioneers 2007
(26-10-2006) Life: Bandages with a kick (2)

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Search Engines: Pageranks and the Incredible Lightness Of Being

Yahoo has just released its “Top searches of 2006″ list, leaving us with the impression that people are using it only to find information on Brittney, Shakira or Paris Hilton…
…Recently the “American Mathematical Society” has featured an article with an in-depth explanation of the type of mathematical operations behind Google’s search engine pagerank. The story with the title…
…Encourage by the article we had a look how our so far most popular story (Top 10 time waster games) is ranked with Google. It turned out that Duvet-Dayz.com has a pagerank of 3 (out of more then 1 million pages)…

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Duvet-Dayz: Last week’s most popular posts (week 12-November-2006)

Most popular posts (week 12-November - 19-November-2006):(27-10-2006) Top 10 time waster games
(16-11-2006) UCLA: Get Tasered for using the Computer Lab
(15-11-2006) Dance of the Flight Attendant
(15-11-2006) The BEST Interactive Image Interfaces on the Web
(06-11-2006) Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?
(09-11-2006) Video: FedEx Ant Hill
(08-11-2006) Update: Gaming Digg or is anybody actually [...]

Duvet-Dayz: Last week’s most popular posts (week 05-November-2006)

Most popular posts (week 05-November - 12-November-2006):
(27-10-2006) Top 10 time waster games(09-11-2006) Travel: Very Light Jets are getting ready for delivery(09-11-2006) China: How to advertise for health(04-11-2006) Life: Sushi that melts in your mouth(02-11-2006) Gadget: Silk screened CDRs and DVDs (06-11-2006) Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts? (24-10-2006) Firefox 2: Microsoft [...]

Duvet-Dayz: Last week’s most popular posts (week 29-October-2006)

Most popular posts (week 29-October - 05-November-2006):
(27-10-2006) Top 10 time waster games(17-10-2006) The Economist: On issues with US voting machines(03-11-2006) Put your message into orbit! Buy ad space on MIT satellite(04-11-2006) Life: Sushi that melts in your mouth(02-11-2006) Gadget: Silk screened CDRs and DVDs (18-10-2006) Interactive Map: World’s Most Polluted Places(24-10-2006) Firefox 2: Microsoft sends [...]

Life: The Art of Complex Problem Solving

US consulting and graphic design company Ideagram has created an outstanding set of diagrams to explain problem solving processes. These are some of the best diagrams we have seen to visualize complex systems thinking, knowledge and ideas.
Marshall Clemens, a graphics designer and engineer is behind Ideagram.

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Duvet-Dayz: Last week’s most popular posts (week 22-October-2006)

Most popular (week 22 to 29-October-2006):
(27-10-2006) Top 10 time waster games(29-10-2006) Design: Great animations online (1)(28-10-2006) UK: Road signs hacked(17-10-2006) The Economist: On issues with US voting machines(24-10-2006) Firefox 2: Microsoft sends a cake to congratulate(22-10-2006) Motionposter: Best advertising idea since years(18-10-2006) Interactive Map: World’s Most Polluted Places(28-10-2006) Christmas shopping for the ultra-rich (1)(17-10-2006) Packard [...]

Neuros OSD: ThinkGeek starts delivery

The long awaited Neuros OSD media center that was previously only available to a limited group of developers is now available for sale and in stock with ThinkGeek.
The OSD (”open source device”) is a replacement of Neuros’s DVR set-top box loaded with masses of new features. It can record MPEG-4 video from analog sources such [...]

Duvet-Dayz: Last week’s most popular posts (week 15-October-2006)

Most popular (week 15 to 22-October-2006):
(22-10-2006) Sudan: UN envoy ordered to leave country for blogging(22-10-2006) Motionposter: Best advertising idea since years(21-10-2006) Game on: Huge interactive computer game exhibition in London(20-10-2006) Russia: Activities of more then 90 NGOs suspended(18-10-2006) Japan: Mobile Phone checks for drink-driving(18-10-2006) Street life: Cardboard house paintings from Japan(18-10-2006) Apple: Video iPod ships [...]