Metadata and Tagging

We used to write important information on the back of photographs. Today they are digital, but we would still like to remember, years from now, where who and what is in those photos we took.
Wrestling the information into the filename might be a good idea. It assures us that the metadata (descriptive info) is copied [...]

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Cult movie I want to see: The Room

The Room (imdb) is a movie in the “so bad it’s good” category. Not having seen it yet, just reading the reviews in imdb and seeing the clips on Mahalo Daily got me giddy with excitement. I love how the interviewer managed to keep a straight face throughout the interview, except at the very end.
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Bookmooch’s Search Engine

[Illustration credit Andrice Arp, courtesy of BookMooch.com]
Regarding my previous post about Twitter’s database architecture and scaling, here’s a post about bookmooch.com’s scaling troubles (bookmooch is a book swapping site).
Bookmooch had a search engine for books, using a single table that indexed each word in a book’s title/author/etc. This system was very efficient for searching (one [...]

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Funny names

Out of boredom:

Name for a site (only Hebrew speakers will get this): vayehi.org
Name for a girl: lolcat

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Joe Rogan about DMT

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is the alleged molecule that the brain produces during REM sleep that causes us to dream. Rogan claims in the video below that sleep is a psychedelic experience and that taking DMT allows you to experience that. One side-effect is that, just like regular dreams, you quickly forget the experience once [...]

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