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A really interesting question. Can a Spam Filter play a game of chess? Matthias might be interested to try this at his job ;-) The tale of the spam filter that learns to play chess is very interesting. It shows, that seemingly simple algorithms can produce interesting results. via indy blog

Bitflux has compiled the Top100 list of swiss blogs. This humble blogs comes in at rank 99 (only a couple of ranks behind my blogging friend tanja) Interestingly, the Muga-Blog, one of the top business blogs in Switzerland doesn’t make the list. Is the Technorati ranking reliable? And when will our invisible business blog make the ranks? Technorati Tags: blog, switzerland, puppy

A couple of weeks ago, we moved to a house. A beautiful house, a lot of rooms, a huge garden, cellar - everything needed. This weekend, the kids were out of the house (on vacation or with grand-ma). Instead of just enjoying life doing nothing, my wife and I spent saturday and sunday going through the boxes, sorting the books, installing shelves in the cellar, opening boxes, rearranging furniture, hanging paintings and all the other things necessary to make an area, that was looking like the beginnings of a landfill area to something habitable for a family. ...

Where indeed? Check this puzzle, reportedly by Einstein. And yes, I know who own the fish, but I’m not going to tell you…. Technorati Tags: einstein, fish, puzzle

We like the moon via Don Dahlmann - ahh - interesting Pleix via vowe - disturbing Web Guitar via babo - fun Technorati Tags: music, guitar

It’s absolutely unbelievable, how little it takes to make a good design. Actually, it’s unbelievable, how much it takes to make so little. The Mighty Mouse is such a thing. While I haven’t seen it yet, or actually laid hands on it, it seems to me, reading the descriptions, that the designers have put a lot of thought into this. Items like the left/right finger detector. The built in speaker for audible feedback. The roll-thing (I wonder how this compares to the IBM version of old, where a tracking-point was used instead of a wheel – I never got the hang of that and didn’t like it). The squeeze buttons. ...