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Why people hate domain registrars: "Domain name servers were not responsible for lost domain names if holders did not re-register in time, Xinhua quoted a center insider as saying, since the loss was an 'act of God.'"

Fantastic article about aggregating current emotion research. "Most neuroscientists now recognise six basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprise." (subscription req'd unfortunately)

great tiny icons. [via mathowie]

can interactivity make consumers more susceptible to suggestion? "These findings suggest that marketing managers should test their campaigns for both true and false memories."

This site is a little tough to navigate because it's in German, but seeing examples of East German design from everyday tools (like drills) to architecture are worth the effort. They're like artifacts from another world. [via designboom via sterling]

cameron put together a cool tool for calculating the number of taps you'd need to enter a URL into a cellphone. [via waxy]

a quick, straightforward explanation of data portability and why companies like Google should support it. [via battelle]

Flickr applies for a patent on "interestingness" as a way of determining which media objects are getting the most attention from users. [via kottke]

paper suggesting "decentralized governance and user accountability as a means of governing the Internet." [via craigblog]

Sounds like you can add some Google Homepage modules to any web page now

This talk at Google by Dan Frankowski shows you can identify people based on anonymous movie ratings if you have another non-anonymous set of related data. [via O'Reilly Radar]

"A 2005 report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project called 'Teens and Technology' found that teenagers preferred new technology, like instant messaging or text messaging, for talking to friends and use e-mail to communicate with 'old people.'" [via cameron]

tons of data visualization ideas in one place. (also mentioned in Cal's talk.)

Cal's talk at fowa mentioned copious graphing for web ops. This was one of the tools he mentioned.

wikipedia article that includes Kollock's motivations for online contributions.