links for 2008-04-22

"Monkeyformats are Greasemonkey userscripts that add semantic markup in the Firefox browser to websites that do not yet support Microformats. You can then perform actions with these Microformats through Operator or some similar add-ons". Neat.

"We now have proof that every chord can be represented not with a set of random marks on lined paper, but as a point in geometrical space. Map some Bach or Beethoven using this new geometry and the chords cluster together in a small part of the graph".

"It is time to decide which social aggregator I want to use, stick with it and stop republishing stuff on other sites. The internet is starting to feel like a giant echo chamber". Which presumably seems worse as links to this post start pinging about...

"It's like we're all discovering search engines all over again. In a matter of weeks we’ve gone from 'Wow! I can find everything!' to, 'Crap! Over 600,000 results for the phrase Serendipitous Discovery? How can I find the one reference I’m looking for

As Lady Bracknell may have ruefully observed, "To be unfairly dismissed once from an Islamic broadcaster is unfortunate..."