Stories by danso

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (Ore.) to black out his Congressional website

SOPA cosponsor quits after "waves of negative sentiment" by free speech groups

A Million Pageviews, Thousands of Dollars Poorer, and Still Countlessly Richer

New Bill Would Put Taxpayer-Funded Science Behind Pay Walls

The SOPA Debate and Congress's Understanding of Child Porn

The Wealthiest Americans Ever [2007]

Why Pinball was Illegal in NYC for 30 years

Uncloaking a Slumlord Conspiracy with Social Network Analysis

NASA Open Government Plan

Library of Congress Prints & Photos Goes JSON

Did the New York Times/WaPo just enter in a contract to get HTML meta tags?

Show HN: My (late) holiday hack: SOPAOpera.org

What Data? Alice In Clinical Trial Wonderland

Old, million-dollar violins don't play better than the new models

CanIStream.It

The Irrationality of Price Anchoring

Publishers vs. Libraries: An E-Book Tug of War

Ruby lesson: Scraping a jail's website

Introduction to Information Retrieval (pdf/html)

Autopsies, once routine, now only done on 5% on patients who die in hospitals