1. Assimilation
The Borg are already known for the assimilation ambitions, but did you know that Wikipedia assimilates content at an alarming rate?
It happened to me, it happened to others. Someone creates a new article, adds a couple of links (resources). Later some Administrator (read Borg Queen) removed those resources and labels [...]
Archive for August, 2008
10 Things Wikipedia and the Borg have in common
Posted in Technology, tagged Adaptation, Assimilation, Borg, Citation, Credibility, Drones, Google, Hive, Internet, Misinformation, Rant, Search, SEO, Spam, Star Trek, TNG, Universe, Voyager, Wikipedia on August 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
$155 of groceries
Posted in Opinion, tagged Economy, greceries, inflation, job, jobless, Money, poor, Recession, shopping on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is how $155 of groceries looks like. After shopping and filling up the car, we were out of over $200 and that was the small one.
With the recent job loss, I wonder how somebody who is jobless deals with this. So far it does not hurt me much, but many people cannot keep up. [...]