In other news...

I've decided to accept the Charles River Analytics offer. (Not that I was really entertaining that many offers, really.) CRA is an applied AI company that does contract work, mostly for the US government. Anyway, the pay is decent, I have 13 weeks of work, and it looks like things should be pretty interesting there. It's still got a startup kind of feel (being about 20 years old but still small), and it looks like at least a few pretty brilliant people work there - they take pride in being well-stocked in PhD's. I'll be working in the Cognitive Systems group - I'll post more about that as I learn more details.

Link Dump

In no particular order, and with no attempt at coherence:

Cognition Technologies: mmmm meaning-based search. Definitely need to look into this for next summer.

Harry Maugans tells us how to make Ajax easy.

Now that I'm thinking about the summer and making my body usable again, here are 10 ideas to get You exercising.

Want some nice wallpapers? If you can get past the annoying Flash (warning: "soothing" music), there are some neat ones here.

And finally... Eric Prydz's Call on Me, now for females!