Information Overload

Stuff is happening on the Internet. Stuff you should know about. Don't you wish you had a robot that could go out and ransack the Internet and use machine learning to decide what things were of interest to you? Or what you needed to know? Well as it happens, I have such a web robot. While it is busy finding stuff in the usual places (and some unusual ones) of potential interest to me, you can follow what it finds here.


Since I don't know what it will find, obviously I can't vouch that the links are accurate, safe for work, or anything except that a piece of software I wrote thinks I may be interested in it.

Enjoy

Last updated 7:53PM 02/11/2013

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