Gmane – is an interesting project that provides archiving and comfortable interface to a huge number of mailing lists. What they do is subscribe to a huge number of mailing lists, receive and index messages. They also provide archives over web and NNTP (news). And they even allow to post without subscribing to mailing lists (they do use one-time confirmation though).
Sounds good? Add to that that the service is totally free, and it willsound even better than good.
There is a very interesting article at Perl.com. It is about building a search engine using perl language. The interesting part is that the article is not about the usual reverse index type search engines. It takes a different approach – vector space searching.
Reading the article reminded me of the few things:
There is this hilarious collection of the graduates’ photographs – “Planetdan’s Senior Photo Collection“. If there is a chance that you will ever have to photograph a graduate, then check these pictures with comments. If you are not going to make any pictures ever, then check the pictures and read the comments anyway. They will make you smile. I promise.
If for some reason you need a list of all sorts of different web user agents (spiders, robots, crawlers, browsers), then you can check the list here. These are separated into three huge pages with descriptions, and links to the vendors’ sites.
This might be useful when writing a robots.txt file or developing a site with different content varied by the web client.
If you have been seeing lots of bearded and moustached guys lately and thinking of growing your own facial hair, but don’t know what design you should go for, I can give you some help here. Apparently, lots of people with beards and moustaches are gathering together very often to have some kind of contest. Like a beauty contest. This type of events should be a lot of entertainment to participate in, but being an audience should be good too.
Here is one of the websites that cover such an event. There are galleries with photographs of the event and of the participants (separately) too. Enjoy.
You can find other similar sites if you suddenly get carried away. Here’s a list of several beard competitions to get you going.