The Google 100.

Cory Doctorow: "Feeding the query string 'http' to Google causes it to barf up all the pages in its database in order of their PageRank value." [Scripting News]

This is fascinating. I was surprised to find that Google itself didn't hold the #1 spot.

[Seb's Open Research]
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Plutarch. "To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
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Online Test Prep Free-for-All. California high school students who can't afford to shell out hundreds of dollars for college entrance exam prep courses can now get free pre-test instruction online. And so can anyone else. By Amit Asaravala. [Wired News]
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Napster Co-Founder's New Venture. Like Napster, Sean Parker's latest endeavor involves sharing. But this time it's personal information, not music, which isn't likely to rile the music industry. By Xeni Jardin. [Wired News]
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Vice City proves runaway success. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City becomes the UK's fastest selling video game of all time¸ with Britons spending an estimated £12m on the title. [BBC News | TECHNOLOGY]
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The Nueros 20 Gb HD looks like the second act of the RIAA's nightmare scenario.

The Neuros can broadcast songs wirelessly to your stereo. It can record and identify songs from the FM radio. With automatic synchronization all your downloads, playlist changes, and requests from your PC library will be automatically executed.

The coup de gras for this is highspeed wireless sharing between handheld drives.  A simple user preference:  share or private.  Auto-recognition of shared drives within the wireless radius of the handheld.  The ability to select, connect, and download playlists, music, movies, etc at high speed. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

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