links for 2007-07-04
July 4, 2007-
Good illustrations - woodcuts, engravings and photographs
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via Easter Maine Technical College (EMTC)
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Wood bicycle design exercise
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“Ants aren’t smart,” Gordon says. “Ant colonies are.” A colony can solve problems unthinkable for individual ants, such as finding the shortest path to the best food source, allocating workers to different tasks, or defending a territory from neighbors. A
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“Multiple Drafts Model of Consciousness is a physicalist theory of consciousness based upon cognitivism, which views the mind in terms of information processing. The theory is described in depth in his book, Consciousness Explained, written in 1991. As th
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“desktop design software for airplanes, boats and surface vehicles
PSW is a streamline-body design and analysis package for the PC. It includes programs for surface definition, CFD flow analysis, and visualization. Its three principal elements are Loftsm -
“Special MBTA train meets the Cape Cod… Special MBTA train meets the Cape Cod Railroad “Pumpkin” F10s at West Barnstable in 1997. The MBTA train was taking part in “Railfest” in Hyannis the next day. See more Pumpkin action in our professionally produce
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Sugar Skateboards - Robin Stoddard
www.sugarskateboards.com -
“action hypertext is the opposite of this
each author an indeterminate jackson-pollack splatterereach new webpage starting from scratch
with no clear idea where it’s coming from
or where it’s going
rather
freeform blocks of text
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“Google eBooks searches 29 sites, including: http://www.bibliomania.com/*, http://classics.mit.edu/*, http://www.bartleby.com/*, eserver.org, http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/*”
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“There is, to be sure, one exception. No state demands a ‘right to exist,’ nor is any such right accorded to any state, nor should it be. Mexico recognizes the US, but not its ‘right to exist’ sitting on half of Mexico, acquired by aggression. The same
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“In other words, torture didn’t start in Gitmo or among some grunts in the field and then spread. In fact perhaps the very first victim was a young American citizen, and the decision was reached right at the pinnacle of power and then hammered down on p
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“Tim Spalding of LibraryThing posts the intro to a talk he gave at the ALA in which he takes on Michael Gorman’s trashing of Knowledge 2.0. Tim challenges Gorman’s starting point. Herewith that starting point:
“Human beings learn, essentially, in o
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“As an argument for maintaining human expertise in manually assembling information into meaningful relationships, this paper is convincing. But it rests on supposing that books will continue to be the locus of worthwhile scholarly information. Suppose mor
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“Van: Vint Cerf said the middle can be arbitrarily untrustworthy, but we’ll fix it up on the ends. If the ends reject packets that aren’t answers to questions they asked, then the senders will learn to put enough in to let the recipients trust the packets
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“Add collaboration tools to love and you can write an operating system.
We can now do big things with love.
[This was a classic and beautiful statement of why the Net works and why it matters...and the fact that those two things are the same is what
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“The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools - Karen Calhoun, Cornell University for the Library of Congress. On the future of cataloging practices at the LOC with recommendations for changes. Highly criticized by cat
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“Great overview of the complexity of information retrieval (based on the experience of a grad student researching ancient Athenian finance) and its significance for library trends.”
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Net Tender - June 2007
Net Tender - June 2007 (.pdf)
Net Tender - July 2007
Net Tender - July 2007 (.pdf)
