Wired News:
Hack a Nintendo DS to Make an Awesome Digital Sketchbook  —  The Nintendo DS Lite can be an excellent portable digital painting tool.  It’s simple and compact, pressure-sensitive, easier to view in daylight than a laptop and inconspicuous.  And, when coupled with the paint application Colors …

Anand Rajaraman / Datawocky:
Are Machine-Learned Models Prone to Catastrophic Errors?  —  A couple of days ago I had coffee with Peter Norvig.  Peter is currently Director of Research at Google.  For several years until recently, he was the Director of Search Quality — the key man at Google responsible for the quality of their […]

John Markoff / New York Times:
Global Dreams for a Wireless Web  —  SITTING on the porch at Finca Torrenova, his 800-acre retreat on this Mediterranean island, Martin Varsavsky ticks off the credentials of the group of Internet entrepreneurs finishing lunch at a nearby table.  —  “He has 40 million uniques, he has 50 million […]

Tim O’Reilly / O’Reilly Radar:
MicroHoo: corporate penis envy?  —  After reading endless pieces about Microsoft’s obsession with search, I am forced to offer the following theory: penis envy (from Wikipedia): … Microsoft was once motivated by its own Big Hairy Audacious Goal: “a computer on every desk and in every home.”