Google secrets revealed

It appears that the secret behind the success of Google has been revealed …

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

Perhaps the downtime they experienced recently was due to a virus spreading out corn …

This post by: Paul_A

An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning

http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/bayes.html

I haven’t read this myself yet, but it sounds like something I would heartily endorse… heck, something I should have done myself.

This post by: Martin_P

Documentaries to watch now you’ve seen Fahrenheit 9/11

“Unprecedented” is a documentary about how the Republicans stole the 2000 election. The illegal barring of thousands of black voters - something touched on briefly in F9/11 - is explained in detail. This 2002 film will be given a re-release in the USA in September.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0346091/

“We interrupt this Empire” is made by a group of activists in San Francisco. Mainly it follows the anti-war protests and the biased way they were reported by the media, but sections of the film also deal with many aspects of the war on terror and how it has affected America.

http://cultureshop.org/details.php?code=WITEMP

I haven’t seen “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism” but it’s from the MoveOn organisation that have also brought out some very original anti-Bush TV ads.

http://www.outfoxed.org/

http://www.moveon.org/front/

This post by: Martin_P

Interesting optical illusion

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~moraes/illusion.html

Found by Skip_C after being nearly found by Adam_S. This is a static image: amazingly, there is no animation involved.

This post by: Martin_P

Congratulations, Dan and Damian

http://www.spaink.net/fishman/home.html

…on getting a threat of legal action from the Church of Scientology for accidentally hosting a copy of the Fishman Affidavit (a wad of precious Scientology internal documents that escaped onto the net after being entered into a court record in the USA). The link goes to an online copy of the Affidavit that Dutch author Karin Spaink has successfully defended in court.

This post by: Martin_P

Fark: Photoshopping New York Post front-page scoops

The PhotoShop Challenge format still has life in it.
Photoshopped newspaper front pages get sucked into a whirlpool of self-reference.

This post by: Martin_P

Rob Manuel - the stuff I’ve made

http://www.b3ta.co.uk/

Andrew A points out that Rob Manuel, creator of some of the most twisted things on b3ta.com, has his own site. This illustrates what you can do with an acoustic guitar, many pictures of kittens, Flash games and lots of rude pictures, if you’re a freak.

This post by: Martin_P

An alternative guide to Zen

In need of spiritual enlightenment? Look no further. Maharishi Fattifatbastard offers some guidance:

This post by: Bhagesh_S

Michael Moore vindicated?

This is the standing ovations, crying audiences and people feeling united in outrage at the Bush administration. Lifelong republicans are swearing they will vote against Bush. What’s more, these stories are coming from republican heartlands. Many more stories here.

F911 is on track to be an order of magnitude more successful than Moore’s previous film, “Bowling for Columbine”, which itself was an unprecedentedly successful documentary. Moore gets a lot of criticism from both left and right (heck, maybe only 97% of his claims are true) but the charges that he just preaches to the choir or that he hasn’t made a good (moving, funny, entertaining…) film are looking pretty empty. Yes he does use the popular media in the way that other people disdain, but from this it looks like he actually gets his message across.

This post by: Martin_P

B*tt-plugs

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/plugs.php

You make a simple request for customer service, and what do you get?

This post by: Martin_P