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Military applications of civilian technology?

In Military, Research, Technology on 18 September 2008 with no comments

Has there been any discussion of the military’s growing reliance on “civilian” research and development, when for at least the past half-century it seems to have been the other way around? I’m thinking of video games, in particular, but I’m sure one could dredge up an abundance of other examples. And I’m not referring to [...]

Filter an RSS feed for title and first paragraph in Yahoo Pipes

In RSS, Research, Yahoo Pipes on 12 August 2008 with no comments

I’ve found and perfected (and it’s still not quite there yet) a Yahoo Pipe that takes in longer feed items and spits out versions containing only the title and the first paragraph. I usually hate this from my feeds (the New York Times, for instance), but some sites update so frequently and contain information that’s [...]