Archive for January, 2008
January 31, 2008
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TTOTD | NE1 | anyone
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Kurt Bollacker
“”Data’s got to continuously move to stay alive; and it’s got to be frequently accessed by a lot of people. Open source, publicly documented formats and software will be the long-term survivors,” he said.
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“The thing that makes the Nano Hawk different from the previous version is that it has a Lipo battery in it. The previous version had a capacitor that would charge but would give you less then a minute of flying. With the lipo battery I got a good 5-6 min
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1. How to recur on a list of atoms, a number and an S-expression | 23 64 83
2. Cons to build | 37
3. Typical element, cons & recur | 45
4. Change >= 1 arg closer to termination & test | 57 65 84
5. +, X & cons; test 0,1,() | 67
6. When
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” This C program generates octave-band or third-octave-band pink noise audio waveforms. The power spectral density of pink noise is inversely proportional to the frequency, giving a negative slope of 3 decibels per octave.
The program computes 2^19
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January 30, 2008
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January 29, 2008
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“Poking around the photos the Library of Congress has posted at Flickr shows some of the strengths and weaknesses of social tagging.
For example, take this 1940 photo of two kids gathering potatoes in Maine. There are about 80 tags, ranging from potato
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January 27, 2008
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Multiple sources
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“In January, many Japanese will observe the “first kettle,” the first tea-drinking party of the New Year. Novelist Liza Dalby lived in Japan for several years. This month, she describes her celebration of the “first kettle” in San Francisco.”
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“One survey of Japanese mushroom workers found that those who produced edible mushrooms - suggesting consumption by workers - had a far lower death rate from cancer than those who produced non-edible mushrooms.
Compounds derived from mushrooms could
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“For example, M$ULkeCrZ translates as “Miss you like crazy!”. SMSglossary.com is a Web guide to this bizarre lingo.
“While working on a story about SMS technology for Digital Journal magazine (www.digitaljournal.com) I saw an opportunity,” said Andy Wa
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“Researchers looked at more than 40,000 adults and compared those who drank less than one cup of tea a day to those who drank three to five cups a day. They found that over the span of 11 years, those who drank more tea were less likely to die of heart di
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Way cool! Append (at least) Atom or RSS 1.0 url to this and get back JSON!
For example:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/38ggau
Parms:
?n=2&callback=drawPosts
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via http://www.mister-wong.com/
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“One thousand innocent bystanders
One sleepy evening this October, Cory Hogan stumbled onto Wikipedia while trawling the web for information on US Vice President Dick Cheney. He read the site’s extensive screed on the curmudgeonly veep, and before he k
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January 26, 2008
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“Context and content work efficiently together as an ensemble, sharing the burden of communication. If the relationship between the two is honored, their interaction can make potentially complex practices of communication, interpretation, and response muc
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via http://ibm.com/do via Patriot’s game
IBM claims they did their online store.
I waited for the Flash, but I wouldn’t normally. How many do?
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Some of the podcasts are interesting. There’s a good collection of semantic web links.
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via http://www.smsglossary.com/definitions/y.html
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“HoFo Message Board!
Do you need a shift covered? Looking to pick up some hours (Stay under 40!) Then check the message board! Remember, if you make a switch, let a CS Soup know.
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Find Web Conversations and discover interesting stuff example
* Find web sites linking to another web site.
* See the relationship between conversations of the Web.
* Browse the Web by browsing its conversations.
* Discover intere
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“the authors sneakily keep increasing the complexity until in the last three chapters they cover continuation-passing style, the applicative-order Y combinator (!) and writing a scheme interpreter in scheme (!!). Some of these topics would go over the hea
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January 25, 2008
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# Create invoices, quotes / estimates and receipts.
# Multi-currency support.
# Print in PDF or Microsoft Word© format.
# Email directly to your customers.
# Creates invoices from quotes.
# Create receipts from invoices.
# Taxable and non-taxable l
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“a lookup index for Semantic Web documents built on data intensive cluster computing techniques. Sindice indexes the Semantic Web and can tell you which sources mention a resource URI, IFP, or keyword. Sindice does not answer triple queries. You can use S
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January 24, 2008
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“the English language slang used in mobile phone SMS. It is an abbreviated form of English known as a rebus. With predictive text input increasingly being used, it is becoming less common. This type of language has been alleged to not obey or follow stand
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3D boat design software
Aerohydro
SurfaceWorks Marine is a further development of MultiSurf LT with a completely new interface. It has all the functionality of MultiSurf LT with some added features. The number of surfaces is no longer limited
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Not actually a pretty printer, but it could be useful sometimes when I’m looking for an online pretty printer.
“how an DHTML tree view can be constructed from XML using the SAX Parser.
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Not actually a pretty printer, but it could be useful sometimes when I’m looking for an online pretty printer. pdafriendly? Alas, neither Blazer 4.3 nor Opera Mini “demonstrates that it is possible to use the project even in some older browsers if needed.
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“I would recommend first converting the XML DOM tree into JavaScript arrays of objects that are more easily and quickly sortable than the XML DOM tree or the table’s HTML. This example is compatible with IE 6 for Windows, or Netscape 6 and later. IE 6 dis
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Doesn’t work with RSS 1.0.
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“# Use case #1 - Scheduling : Jane is trying to coordinate a meeting.
#2 - Health Care: Kayode wants to query clinical data.
#3 - Web Aggregation: Stephan wants a synthetic review before buying a guitar.
#4 - Querying sites and digital libraries: DC4Pl
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“we focus on automating the construction of indexes. The idea is to crawl GRDDL source documents and extract embedded RDFa to feed an RDF store. SPARQL queries are then solved against this store and rendered as web pages to automatically generate up-to-da
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100MB limit
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January 23, 2008
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“The Python programming language has all the features necessary to make it good at functional programming (FP). In this article, we examine a few interesting FP ideas like higher order functions, closures, lambda, currying, etc. from the `Pythonic’ point
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“SICP, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/), is another great CS textbook that’s in the works for translation. The examples in the book were originally in Scheme.”
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“This is a cross browser “post-it note” script. Use it to broadcast special events or news on your site. Easily dismissed, the script also allows you to specify the frequency of its appearance (either once per browser session, or every time the page cont
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“One of my goal was to fly one day between trees and over beautifull landscape. No doubt now, my dream have come true.”
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“the US
TDMA (IS-136) standard, the pulsations occur at a 67 Hz rate. The
digital speech signals are gathered up over a 20 msec time interval
and then transmitted in two bursts of 3.33 msec. The rest of the time
(13.3 msec) other cell phones will tran
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# ‘If children are to become readers for life, they must first love stories’
# 100 books every child should read - Part 2: Middle years
# 100 books every child should read - Part 3: Early teens
# Your view: Which books should every child read?
The T
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“This site, in conjunction with it’s sponsors, has been established to abolish the ever-present lie that is “LOL.”‽ Over the past decade it has become increasingly obvious that countless web users are misrepresenting themselves by typing LOL (or “lollin
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“The solution to reclaim these lost middle moments is by creating rituals. Every culture on earth uses rituals to transfer information and encode behaviors that are deemed important. Personal rituals can help you build a better pattern for handling everyt
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Neither exciting nor particularly informative.
“”The people who are building real applications, and deriving real benefit, don’t give two hoots about RDF and triple stores. They just want the effects.”
For Talis, a key desired effect is the ability to
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“The Public Advocate Office is committed to public service in representing Maine utility consumers in any matter that is covered by the authority of the Public Utilities Commission so that they have affordable, high quality utility services. We who work a
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January 22, 2008
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“Jane Austen 12/16/1775 7/18/1817 Sense and Sensibility 1811
Pride and Prejudice 1813
Mansfield Park 1814
Emma 1815
Northanger Abbey 1817
Persuasion 1817
Charles Dickens 2/7/1812 6/9/1870 The Pickwick Papers 1837
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“framed as a letter from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about the events leading to his meeting his wife.
The novel is divided into three volumes. The first part, narrated by prosperous farmer Gilbert Markham, describes the arrival of t
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via MDI Hospital SWH clinic waiting room
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“Facebook’s $15 billion valuation suggests that that dollars are about to flow into the social graphs based on proprietary web applications. Would you bet on that, or an open social platforms like email, SMS, and….phone numbers?”
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“Blinksale is perfect for anyone who needs to invoice clients for services or products sold. Blinksale is an excellent choice for accountants, designers, IT pro, developers, and more. Basically, if you need to send invoices, Blinksale can work for you.”
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It’s not clear to *me* what it does. Claims 26 members as of 1/21/08. Via a comment left at
http://talkabout.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/links-for-2008-01-21/#comments
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“This is a cross browser “post-it note” script. Use it for special events or news on your site. Easily dismissed, the script also allows you to specify the frequency of its appearance (either once per browser session, or every time the page containing it
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“Each Sticky is created on the fly by adding the required elements to the DOM. Note the text mode which enables you to copy the text from any or all of your Stickies in one go – something that can’t be done with conventional Stickies applications.
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” * What’s this?
* Screenshot
* Demo
* Download
* Bookmarks
* Install
* Environment
* Known bugs
* Special Thanks
* Related Links
* Todo
* How to sync your data between your office and home.
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” I once thought that individual cognition and personality, influences from broad socio-economic factors, and degree of devotion to religious or political ideology were determinant. Now I see friendship and others aspects of small group dynamics, especial
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“The question isn’t how to protect users’ privacy, but rather how to give them better tools to control their own data - not by selling privacy or by getting them to “sell” their data, , but by feeding their natural fascination with themselves and allowing
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“Intelligent control of an animal’s behavior is still a computational process, but the neurons are “selfish neurons,” as Sebastian Seung has said, striving to maximize their intake of the different currencies of reward we have found in the brain. And wh
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“The world was not as it seemed! Or as most adults thought and claimed! I never trusted “just a story” again.”
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So far as I can tell, no one has looked in to the same person having different beliefs at different times and in different contexts. That is my own experience.
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No pictures. It’s not clears why I should buy this product. Based in Concord. Any relation to SolidWorks?
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January 21, 2008
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“Clickatell covers 663 networks in almost 201 countries for outbound messages, and 100
countries for inbound (two-way) messaging. Message delivery includes load balancing and intelligent routing.
View coverage | Calculate pricing “
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