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About this

This is the notoriously underused website of Michael Scharkow, currently research associate at the University of Hohenheim and interested in mass communication, quantitative methods, and hacking.

Tumblelog

• Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser

  
  This is such a cool idea. 

• 2009 AAAS/Science Dance Contest

  Taking science to the dance, and back again
  2009 AAAS/Science Dance Contest

• posterous – Email based blogging redux

  posterous lets you create a blog by sending one simple email to post@posterous.com. Bidirectional email commenting works, too. Does it get any simpler?

• SimpleBits realigned

  Simplebits gets yet another great mini-redesign.

• ack – grep that sucks less

  Just stumbled over ack, a perl-based grep replacement that ignores .svn and makes recursive searching suck less.

The Categories

• Administrivia
• Hacking
• Other Stuff
• Science
• underused.org
• Web Design

Elsewhere

• Andreas F. Hoffmann
• Christian Siefkes
• Flavia Bleuel
• Holger Weiß
• Steffen Müller
• The SEM Blog