Submission + - James Kim's Body Found
borked writes: James Kim's Body found. Rest in peace James.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/10436601/detail.html
Submission + - Google Won't Say Why It De-indexed Talk.Origins
J. J. Ramsey writes: "Talk.Origins is an archive with thousands of pages exposing creationist pseudoscience. Rather mysteriously, Google pulled the plug on its search engine, only giving the vague reason: "No pages from your site are currently included in Google's index due to violations of the webmaster guidelines." This may have been triggered by a recent cracking of the site that added "hidden links to non-topical sites," but curiously enough, Google won't say just what the violations were. As Wesley R. Elsberry, put it, "My mission, whether I liked it or not, was to find and fix whatever problem the TOA [Talk.Origins Archive] might have, with no guidance as to what the problem was and nothing at all about where to start looking.... I was extremely lucky. The damage to my site was limited and in the first place that I happened to look. Other honest webmasters might not be so lucky. They may have to undertake an arduous process of vetting pages, essentially having to second-guess the mind of the cracker in trying to locate a problem that Google knows the exact location of." This was probably a bad decision on Google's part, since Talk.Origins moved its business to Yahoo!. Oops.
Hat tip to blogger Larry Moran."
Hat tip to blogger Larry Moran."
Submission + - Our love/hate relationship with Wikipedia
netbuzz writes: "The Washington Post this morning gets its snickers in a bunch at the expense of those Wikipedians who do the best they can to apply the minimum "notability" standards needed to keep the online encyclopedia's 1.5 million English entries relatively free of worthless junk. "It's also safe to assume these are people with a lot of time on their hands," the Post writer notes. ... These are people doing a truly thankless job ... and they deserve a few thank-yous.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9474 "
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/947
