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Will Femia is a Weblog enthusiast who, through good fortune and dumb luck, was introduced to the form as his position as chat producer for MSNBC.com careered into obsolescence. On any given day, Will can be found having already spent an unhealthy amount of time squinting at a computer screen.

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Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:32 PM by Will Femia

"The mystery why cybercriminals want a discontinued Nokia phone isn't getting any clearer." A good one to follow the books and magazines with secret messages in them - obsolete phones with secretly valuable alternative technology in them.

Face recognition comes to Flickr.- How soon before you can take a photo of a stranger's face, plug it into the Web and get matching photos along with the name and personal pages like Facebook? Relatedly, I was just reading about Google launching a "similar images" search.

Canon in D with Korean Break Dance

China is trying to bring some order to its language - particularly the characters used to name people. I don't have a strong opinion on whether Chinese needs to be more efficient but the idea that you can suddenly not have a name because the characters you use to spell it are declared obsolete and no longer part of the language kind of blows my mind.

Torture memos set to music might actually be better than the Paul Krugman song. I bet someone could do a nice cover of this.

"The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world." I understand that you're meant to use the timeline to narrow the range of offerings. I couldn't find an intelligent use for it so I just poked around and got lost for a while looking and maps and photos.

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