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Search for torrents with G_________ Torrents

Search for torrents with G_________ Torrents

I’m sharing in LifeHacker’s commercially acceptable hacker naughtiness with this link to a torrent search engine which used the above logo. After a day on Lifehacker, they had removed the logo however.

As Lifehacker points out, the name for G______Torrents does not come from any affiliation with Google. Rather the search engine uses Google’s new Google Co-Op Custom Search Engine.

I have not had time yet to try the new Custom Search Engine feature but the torrent search engine seems like it does a good job.

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By Bruce Eisner

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

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This link (which came by way of the PatternHunter blog: is to a new (at least to me) research center with a fascinating focus: Here is a bit from the intro to their website ( bold the center paragraph which is the meat of the matter

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Google Earth Maps Burning Man

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Burning Man Earth: Mapping the Cultural Genome

Burning Man in 3D — CNET

Google Earth maps Burning Man Lifehacker.

I got these links via a nice post by Lifehacker which I reference above. Here is the introduction to this mash-up of Burning Man and Google Earth from the Burning Man site:

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By Bruce Eisner

“Psychedelics and the Evolution of Information Technologies” Richard Doyle online lecture Rice University Oct 9th Webcast

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The webcast will go live 20 minutes before the scheduled start time which is October 9th, 4 PM EDT. Here is the abstract of the talk:

Before its possession became a criminal offense in the United States, the psychedelic compound LSD-25 was given to engineers and designers to break "creative logjams" and promote innovation in the Cold War United States. In the late 1950′s and early 1960′s, for example, the Ampex Corporation(inventor Read more »

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