links for 2006-08-31
- Crossword software thrashes human challengers “WebCrow uses four techniques in parallel to find possible answers to a clue. Two involve looking for the clue or a near match in a database of solved crosswords or using a dictionary. Another uses rules known to work on a kind of Italian clue with two le (tags: ai)
- Google Book Search “Search the full text of books and discover new ones.” (tags: public-domain books search)
- Pimm’s – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Pimm’s No1 is the essential ingredient in the Pimm’s Cup (normally known simply as a Pimm’s cocktail, according to the company’s website), which mixes one part Pimm’s No1 with three parts lemonade or lemon soda (sometimes ginger ale or Indian tonic water (tags: pimms alcohol)
- Anyone for Pimm’s? “For a special occasion – a wedding, or when you’ve had a bit of luck on the gee gees, try PIMM’S® topped up with champagne, in a small champagne flute and garnished with a slice of strawberry. “ (tags: pimms alcohol)
- OnTheCommons.org | Varieties of Peer Production “Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation has prepared an excellent wiki page that sets forth a rough taxonomy of different forms of “non-coercive methods of governance” in peer production.” (tags: commons theory)
- Antony Clayton “AC in ‘decadent’ mode London December 2005 – glass of absinthe just out of shot” (tags: pataphysics decadence london alternative)
- Index of /~stueber Scans of old illustrated biology textbooks. Wonderful classic etchings. (tags: visiref biology illustration retro)
- Inside track on the future of free content licenses | Creative Commons “If you want an inside track on the future of free content licenses you could hardly do better than watch or listen to recordings of two Wikimania sessions — Lawrence Lessig on The Ethics of the Free Culture Movement (particularly the last twenty minutes (tags: audio lecture lessig moglen fdl free-culture creative-commons)