Daily Quippages 05.27.2009

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• MIT’s Technology Review offers a video which briefly explains IBM’s Watson, a computer system which will use natural language technology to compete on Jeopardy.

• From Universe Today, an article on a proposal to create a national holiday called Space Exploration Day on July 20, the day the US first placed humans on the Moon.

New Twitter worm – don’t enter your username and password at twittercut.com – via TechCrunch.

• CNET writes of a Firefox plug-in that resolves shortened URLs with a mouse-over.

• Pitchfork has Wilco tour dates from today through 9.14.2009.  Opening acts include Okkervil River, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Akron/Family, Grizzly Bear and Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band so check Pitchfork to see who opens the show in your town.

• Neil Finn (Split Enz, Crowded House) is 51 and Siouxsie Sioux of the Banshees is 52 today – Happy Birthday!

• Don’t forget to keep your web page(s) interoperable -> XHTML 1.0 Transitional validator.

• Non-affiliated plug for a nice analytical tool to test your web site’s load speed, from Pingdom.

•  The Mac Twitter client Tweetie now offers built-in video recording right from your iSight cam – via Jesse Stay via 9to5 Mac.

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