Links for 2006-10-20

• John Battelle's Searchblog: Data Switzerland?
  John Battelle has a great idea about storing data in info-privacy friendly countries. But I'd go a step further and say that big data stores should also store data in an encrypted format, so only someone with a key can make the data useful.
  filed under: privacy, law
• The Gender Genie
  put in some text, and see if this script can guess the author's gender based on word usage. (I was looking for a Perl module that does this, but no luck.)
  filed under: language, writing, psychology, gender