WikiTrust is an open-source, on-line reputation system for Wikipedia authors and content. WikiTrust is hosted by the Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management at the School of Engineering of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

To use WikiTrust, you need to install a Firefox add-on, and then visit one of the Wikipedias on which it is active (currently, the the English, French, German, or Polish Wikipedias). You will see a WikiTrust tab. If you click on it, you will see the text of the Wikipedia, colored according to the degree with which it has been revised by high-reputation authors:

High reputation text, revised by many high-reputation colors, will appear over a white background.
Low-reputation text, which has not benefitted yet from revision by multiple, high-reputation users, is displayed over an orange background: the more intense the orange, the lower the reputation of text.

In this way, WikiTrust will help you spot recent, unrevised changes to Wikipedia pages. Furthermore, if you ALT-click on a word, you will be taken to the diff where that word (in that context) was first introduced in the article: this enables you to trace the text back to its authors.

Wenn nun also Cameron unter dem Schlagwort “Null Toleranz” anfangen sollte, klassisch sozialdemokratische Politik zu machen, wenn nun also die CDU unter dem Schlagwort “Kirchhoff” anfangen sollte, klassisch sozialdemokratische Positionen einzunehmen, dann hielte ich das im Prinzip für richtig. Allerdings sollte man trotzdem darauf hinweisen, dass sie zwar möglicherweise in der Krise so etwas wie Vernunft gefunden haben, aber man darf sie hin und wieder daran erinnern, dass es andere gab, die tatsächlich schon lange recht hatten.

Brief summary: Google is dropping an automatic-translation tool, because overuse by spam-bloggers is flooding the internet with sloppily translated text, which in turn is making computerized translation even sloppier.

One reason for this has to do with a cognitive quality known as fluency, a measure of how easy a piece of information is to process. The brain automatically associates perceptual fluency, or ease of storage, with retrieval fluency, ease of recall.

I think calendaring software is probably the most difficult distributed systems software known to man. There are a lot of distributed systems problems out there, and many of them have fairly well-worked-out solutions that yield correct results. Academia and industry have gotten pretty good at farming out large computing tasks to multiple processors, recovering from stochastic node failures, peer-to-peer distributed storage and retrieval, and solving that problem where all the soldiers have to fire at the same time. But we've been working on calendaring for maybe 20 years now, and Outlook/Exchange still sucks.

We propose a novel user interface metaphor for code understanding and maintanence based on collections of lightweight, editable fragments called bubbles, which form concurrently visible working sets.

For your project to be accessible to somebody with a different mental model, you need to attract and retain a documentation contributor with that mental model so they can write the docs that make sense to them.

Or, the shorter but less polite version:

An idiot is the only person who can tell you what your docs need to make them comprehensible to other idiots.

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.

Minesweeper is the killer application for Microsoft Windows, but it's also a huge time-sink. Around the world, millions of hours are lost each day as people play minesweeper, when they could be doing more productive things, like playing solitaire.

If you want all the benefits of minesweeper, but without all the hard work of playing it yourself, then SweeperBot is for you!

Describes ideas for a better representation of the semantic web than the graph.