veosearch: it’s a wrapper around your usual search engine (Google, Yahoo, Exolead, AskJeeves).
But with an extra: you get to sponsor humanitarian projects of your choice. There’s a banner with advertisement above your search result. The fact you are subjected to that advertisement generates cash for the projects in question.
Mixed feelings about this one, but then again, we’re forced to look at advertisement all the time, this time it would be for a good cause.
IgnoreAll for facebook. Good idea. In fact, i’m considering blocking everything from facebook and refraining to visit the site ever again, because the crap-content proportion is a tad too high (via Robin Wauters).
MISD vs MIMD: point of view about the evolution of processing accross multiple cores. Wonder if we’re really going to exponential on the processor count … a lot of smart people seem to think so.
