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Friday night, I'm playing with Wolfram Alpha
Friday, May 15, 2009 by Dave Winer.
Okay, I need to get a life. 
In the meantime here are some searches I did with Alpha.
1. The obvious vanity search.
2. A common expletive phrase.
3. Ooops it doesn't know what RSS is.
5. A favorite movie.
6. A recent movie.
7. Its inventor.
8. A relative. A contemporary. A great old movie.
9. A word I looked up on Google yesterday. (Very good!)
10. The cosine of 1204. (Something it does very well that I never need.)
11. A breed of dog. (It thinks it's a chemical.)
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Dave Winer, 54, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.
"The protoblogger." - NY Times.
"The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World.
One of BusinessWeek's 25 Most Influential People on the Web.
"Helped popularize blogging, podcasting and RSS." - Time.
"The father of blogging and RSS." - BBC.
"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.
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