Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz said reports about him beating up a Chicago heckler are inaccurate, and that the heckler struck him first. Punch-Out Boy: Pete Wentz Gives His Side Of Hometown Heckler Beatdown

Some autistics are leading a nascent civil rights movement, fueled by neuropsychological researchers who are taking a fresh look at the nature of autism. The condition, the researchers say, shouldn’t be thought of as a disease to be eradicated. The autistic brain may not be defective, but simply different — an example of the variety of human development.They’ve found that previous measures of autistic intelligence were severely flawed, that autistic brains are highly efficient in some tasks — even superior in some intelligence tests. (Source: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-03/ff_autism?currentPage=all) The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know

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120 Billion Web Pages Indexed by Cuil (Linux World)‘Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user,’ said Tom Costello, CEO and co-founder of Cuil, a new search offering that claims to have indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than any other search engine.

Ex-Googlers launch Cuil, world’s “biggest search engine” (Ars Technica)Cuil.com is new to the search engine scene, yet it is already the “biggest search engine on the web” with three times as many indexed pages as Google. The team approaches search from a unique perspective, but may have a difficult time unseating any of the longtime search kings from their thrones. Read More.

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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Maryland and Howard University have developed a technique to create tiny, highly efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from nanowires. New fabrication technique yields nanoscale UV LEDs

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Digital Web contributor and “information indexer” Heather Hedden returns this week with a fresh look at taxonomies in Better Living Through Taxonomies. Web projects can vary in complexity and size. But web professionals could improve the life of most websites with attention paid to hierarchy, controlled vocabularies and clear wording. A solid, simple taxonomy can greatly improve search and findability, so give people visiting your site a solid starting place for browsing.

In addition, thanks to all Digital Web readers who said “hi” during Web Directions North this past week! It was an excellent event, and I’d like to thank the amazing organizers, generous sponsors and high-quality attendees who made it (again) one of the best conferences of any calendar year.

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Wikipedia Scanner, a new data-mining service launched Monday, traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources, and for the first time puts comprehensive data behind longstanding suspicions of manipulation.CalTech graduate student . See Who’s Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign

University of Haifa researchers have discovered a yeast-derived substance called Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF) that acts similarly to insulin and may become an oral treatment for diabetes and its complications.In the studies–done on cell cultur. Yeast-Based Oral Diabetes Treatment Discovered

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AOL seems to be in some kind of a no-win spiral. It is the one-time superstar of online access, but in the 2000s has become the silly old-timer to spunky relative newcomers like Google and Yahoo. AOL has tried changing CEOs, changing strategies. It has actually done a lot of interesting things — its phone service and In2TV, for instance — yet rarely seems to get much credit.

Today, the University of Michigan released data from its American Consumer Satisfaction Index. Google and Yahoo are about even, getting scores of 78 and 79, respectively. Way down the list — barely above government agencies such as the IRS — sits AOL, with a score of 67.

It’s not as if old Web properties can’t be turned around. The survey also shows that Ask.com — the one-time Ask Jeeves — rose nearly 6% in the ratings to 75 points.

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