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Ben Shoemate

I design corporate intranets, portals, and web strategies. Co-founder of Base22. Amateur philosopher and science enthusiast.

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May 6, 2008

Justification of Ockham’s Razor as a principle of reasoning

Scientists use the principle of Ockham’s Razor as their guide. Ockham’s Razor states that when there are multiple consistent theories are being considered, the choice should be the simplest one. Simple theories have an…

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Dec 12, 2007

The Ron Paul Tea Party — Liberty is Brewing

On Dec 16, on the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party — Ron Paul organizers (if you don’t know who he is watch this) want you to donate to the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign. They are to create what they call a money bomb — the largest single day…

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Dec 9, 2007

Download a backup of wikipedia to your laptop or local lan

Yesterday I downloaded Wikipedia — All of 2,120,684 English articles of it are now on my hard drive.
A few stats for the curious (for the English version only):

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Dec 8, 2007

Google Trends API coming soon

Google is planning to release an application programming interface for its Google Trends program, according to Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google. She also said the company would make it possible to download data from Google Trends…

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Dec 8, 2007

Eat fruit, lose weight

Here is a list of foods that burn more calories than they contain. Called negative calorie foods, the following 15…

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Dec 7, 2007

Decode Your Genome For $1,000

from Consumerist by Chris Walters

For $1,000, a small California-based company called 23andMe (financed in part by Google) will decode your DNA and tell you whatever it can about your predispositions, health risks, and family traits — for example…

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Dec 7, 2007

Tired of waiting on hold — outsource your waiting to India

It’s not just for Fortune 500 companies, you can use a company like Brickwork and pay someone $4/hr to sit on hold for you. From the website:

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Sep 3, 2007

A new site, again

I have had my first real stretch of free time in almost 4 years these past 2 weeks. With it, I thought I would clean a little house and update my website. I have 2 goals with this new site: consolidate and simplify.