Archive for February, 2007
February 28, 2007
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We want to let you know the sad news that Mike Daigle’s mother, Carolyn, died this past Saturday, February 24. Many of you may know her or may have met her in the undercroft as she waited for Mike after church. Please keep Mike in your prayers as we sha
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“These various uses of the page-as-surface, for a variety of forms of content , also demonstrates the personal, though frequently work-related, work-in-progress attributes of this popular form of content capture. Again, we do see examples of a kind of inf
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February 27, 2007
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I saw this at the Grasshopper shop at BGR while seeing off Amy & Eben. It looks like a nice read-a-loud. The ISBN I wrote down was 0-89272-526-7.
“This handsome volume gathers selections from a diary kept by a recently married woman, written during a wee
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They’re available at the Grasshopper shop at BGR.
“Nestled in the small town of Mattawamkeag, Maine you’ll find our candle making studio where we practice the craft we love - making beautiful candles. We, our apprentices and our other dedicated employees
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I saw this at a UMaine display at BGR.
“The Ice Age had a profound effect on the Maine landscape. This effect is most pronounced in the Downeast region, where a vast sheet of glacial ice sculpted Cadillac and surrounding mountains, carved out the Sommes
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“Science Source began in 1986 with a few employees in an old garage with a house trailer for an office. Fifteen years later, over 30 people are employed at The Science Source’s modern 16,000 sq. ft. facility in Waldoboro, Maine.”
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“The Schwartz Extreme Performance goal is to build the finest performing vehicles on the planet. Performance means not only horsepower, but the handling, braking and ride quality that you never thought possible. We engineer the total performance package t
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“Welcome to the site of the challengers to the world land speed record in the Unlimited class; currently @ 763 MPH (341.09 m/s), or Mach 1.02!
Our goal - 800 MPH (357.63 m/s) - or Mach 1.05!”
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” The history of the NF104 AST by its primary test pilot Lt. Col. Robert W. Smith USAF (ret.)”
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February 26, 2007
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“Professor Hall narrows the definition of “God” as used in this course to the God of ethical monotheism: the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This is a single God deserving of worship. One by one, each characteristic of the God of ethical monothei
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I heard Allen Shawn talking about his book with Terry Gross on Fresh Air. He notes how important reading Darwin was to understanding his condition.
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“or building the Thunderbolt, I have narrowed the materials down to three metals; Carbon steel, CroMo and Aluminum. Each of these materials have their strong and weak points as I shall attempt to point out in this chapter. Before we proceed, I want to war
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“T6 temper 6061 has an ultimate tensile strength of at least 42,000 psi (290 MPa) and yield strength of at least 35,000 psi (241 MPa). In thicknesses of 0.250 inch (6.35 mm) or less, it has elongation of 8% or more; in thicker sections, it has elongation
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“Stressproof is a tradename of Niagara LaSalle for a modified SAE 1144 steel, alloyed with nitrogen. SAE 1144 is a heavily resulfurized steel, which substantially improves machinability. The Stressproof grade is processed by cold drawing a hot-rolled st
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“Fe, 0.15%S
Topics Covered
Background
Key Properties
Composition
Mechanical Properties
Physical Properties
Grade Specification Comparison
Possible Alternative Grades”
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“Category Steel
Class Carbon steel
Type Standard resulfurized and rephosphorized
Common Names Lead steel
Designations Germany: DIN 1.0718
Italy: UNI 9 SMnPb 23
Japan: JIS SUM 22 L , JIS SUM 24 L
Sweden: SS 1914
United States: ASTM A108 , AST
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These probably won’t work because the left and right columns will change and throw off the purple numbers. What he talks about relates to what I try to do with del.icio.us & DiamondWiki, ie, build associations.
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The Atlantic Online | July 1945 | As We May Think | Vannevar Bush
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first posted by joaom on 2005-07-23 … saved by 353 people ( 65 recently )
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MyLifeBits Project
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first posted by manuel on 2004-08-24 … saved by 210 people
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February 25, 2007
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“Joint Test Action Group, is the usual name used for the IEEE 1149.1 standard entitled Standard Test Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture for test access ports used for testing printed circuit boards using boundary scan.”
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“a 68k architecture microprocessor manufactured for embedded systems development by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly the semiconductor sector of Motorola).”
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“a multi-master serial computer bus invented by Philips that is used to attach low-speed peripherals to a motherboard, embedded system, or cellphone. The name stands for Inter-Integrated Circuit and is pronounced I-squared-C and also, incorrectly, I-two-C
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“Social Software and the Rural Library: Blogs, Wikis, IM, and more! How are these tools being used in libraries? What is the potential? What might the future hold? Moderated by Brenda Hough, Technology Coordinator, Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS).
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“SS: And now it’s time for you to re-shelve these books that Girl Scout Troop 179 returned today covered with what I hope is oatmeal. Be sure to wipe the covers with the sanitizing solution. And keep your mind on your work, Trent. Last week I found Lady C
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“The PathAuthor provides a tool enabling teachers to create, modify, validate, and reuse paths over the World-Wide Web and over paths that have been developed previously. The PathServer is the means through which teachers may publish their paths, and stud
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“based at the Englishman’s Bed and Breakfast in Cherryfield, Maine. Our guests experience these fine gourmet teas at breakfast, for afternoon tea and at special high teas. Teas of Cherryfield products can be found at a number of retail outlets throughout
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“In 2003, Planet Inc. saw an opportunity to rescue Green Forest. The plan was to rebuild Green Forest into a truly environmentally friendly green brand while continuing to offer products at an excellent value to consumers. After two years of researching,
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” Python is a pretty cool language. SICP is a pretty damn cool book. SICP uses scheme, not python, but I wanted to see how hard it is to use Python rather than scheme. The answer is, not hard at all! There are two issues that I ran into so far:
One: Py
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“A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media
Tim Russell: Once again we take you to the hushed reading room of the Herndon County Library for the adventures of Ruth Harrison, Reference Librarian. …
prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2005/10/
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February 23, 2007
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February 22, 2007
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“Imagine if you will for a moment a society in which mathematics has become property, and it’s owned by people. Now every time you want to do anything useful: build a house, make a boat, start a bridge, devise a market, move objects weighing certain num
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“The converter will accept xForm container files such as HTML or XHTML but can be another language such as XML or XFDL. XFDL is IBM’s proprietary form description language used in IBM Workplace Forms. The converter will extract the xForm definition from t
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“RDFa on the other hand, has confronted the issue of creating a generic syntax for putting metadata into HTML right from the start, because that was it’s whole raison d’etre. Once you have written one RDFa parser, you need write no more, unless of course
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February 21, 2007
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“Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the “body shops”—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower, including a lot of the “experti
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“It’s not an insight that comes naturally to many of the people in space and aviation, who are too busy advertising price, engineering reliability and optimizing assets. But it’s going to be key to their success long-term. Which is why we need a workshop
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“a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Sid
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“This starts to resemble the way bacteria share plasmids. If you manage to come up with a useful generated program, add it back to the pool of programs from which we draw our samples. Now you start getting positive feedback for code snippets that continue
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Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is av
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“i’ll argue that if the Web paradigm is a Page + Links, the paradigm for the Semantic Web may be a notebook + the memex.”
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“governmental involvement in the ascertainment of historical truth—whether in court, by commission of inquiry, or in other ways—is directed at securing approval of a particular historical narrative, as a step toward imposing that narrative, to a great
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February 20, 2007
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“The right controller produced rotational acceleration for roll, pitch, and yaw. The left controller produced acceleration without rotation for moving forward-back, up-down, and left-right. Coordination of the two controllers produced intricate movements
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Freeware
Celestial Computing with Numerit
Technical Reports
Useful Links
Orbital Mechanics with Mathcad
Aerospace Trajectory Optimization with SOCS
Lunar and Interplanetary Mission Analysis
Celestial Computing - The Journal
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February 19, 2007
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“Thus, the issue of making deals with content companies has quickly led to a kind of Catch-22 for Google. As one Hollywood executive, who didn’t want to be identified because of the continuing negotiations, said of Google: “The more content they license,
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“However, this didn’t seem to make a lot of sense. While the MAC address of the cable modem does need to be registered with comcast, it seems less obvious why they would need the MAC address of the PC itself. Maybe at some point it was necessary, but as I
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”This particular construction requires 20×6mm aluminum bar, 15×2mm brass bar, 10mm brass rod, 12mm OD straight copper pipe, dead computer hard drive, some hardware/scrap metal parts/plywood and at least a small drill press.
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February 18, 2007
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