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” Notes from my visit to the Maine Historical Society Research Library 2/9/08 – Google Notebook link edit i want this, too
Feb 11 tagged engine, eugenics, history, interesting, maine, marine, mhs, nostalgia, notes, portland, race, rail, railro
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TTOTD | AISI | As I See It
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“# The resulting word must be understandable by native English speakers. Foreign words are only allowed if they have essentially been adopted into English.
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“This page is part of the Proceedings of Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.”
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“The secret of Wikipedia’s content-generating process, Wales explained, is the nurturing and shaping of trust, instead building everything around distrust. He said that most social software systems are designed around expected problems. “Suppose you r
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“3) Surfaceworks is a great program. There are two ways to use it, stand alone and integrated. I believe the stand alone package goes for $999. The integrated is considerably more but maintaines parametric modeling. However, the ONLY reason to use Surface
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Retired from SolidWorks?
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“Bézier curves were widely publicised in 1962 by the French engineer Pierre Bézier, who used them to design automobile bodies. The curves were first developed in 1959 by Paul de Casteljau using de Casteljau’s algorithm, a numerically stable method to ev
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Trying for formalize tag meanings
“While tags are widely used in Web 2.0 services, their lack of machine-understandable meaning can be a problem for information retrieval, especially when people use tags that can have different meanings depending on the -
“a Distributed Collaborative Web Application Platform, Social Network and Content Management System written using VSP, VSPX, JSP, and Ajax, atop OpenLink Virtuoso. It incorporates a broad range of industry standards for data access and data management.
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via http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp
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a Wikipedia browsing aid. Use it to get a list of pages in a Wikipedia category along with the abstract of each page in the list. It can be used in two ways:
* Enter a Wikipedia category name and click Go
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TTOTD | NMU | Not much, you?
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“Enter your JavaScript, test it, convert it to a JavaScript command, then select it to cut and paste into a BookMarklet. The Split button will break existing code into multiple lines so that you may work with it more easily and the Length button tells yo
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via Paul Saffo
http://blog.longnow.org/2008/01/14/paul-saffo-embracing-uncertainty-the-secret-to-effective-forecasting/
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“estimate that fully 95 percent of all children can be taught to read if the following teaching strategies are employed:
* Systematic and explicit instruction in phonics, decoding, comprehension and literature appreciation.
* Daily exposure to -
” * free software (“free as in free speech, not free as in free beer”): source code available and you can modify and redistribute it.
* designed to be run unattended (typically from cron on an Unix machine). Several of its competitors can run only -
“The latest Harry Potter book sold 9 million copies in its first 24 hours – in English. …
By contrast, Apple reported selling a piddling 3.7 million of the much-hyped iPhones through 2007. Is the iPhone dead? Of course not. But what should be dead ar -
For me it works in Internet Explorer and Opera, but not in Firefox 2.0.0.12
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Appears to be old WP database (many fewer American Children’s Authors).
Unclear to me where the predicates name come from.
Ajax doesn’t work.
“Tennis players from Moscow
Sitcoms set in NYC
Pictures of Clint Eastwood’s Movies
Soccer player with trico -
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* Add Alerts
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* Delivery Locations
* Time Zone
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“To send SMS geofence alerts to your cell phone, AccuTracking uses Email to SMS Gateway provided by most cell phone providers. The SMS Email is your phone’s email address, which is just like a normal email address, but any message sent to it will be relay
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1. Non-Standard GUI Controls
2. Inconsistency
3. No Perceived Affordance
4. No Feedback
5. Bad Error Messages
6. Asking for the Same Info Twice
7. No Default Values
8. Dumping Users into the App
9. Not Indicating How Info Will Be Used
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“XMLmind XSL-FO Converter is a software component designed to convert XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) to various formats compatible with all major word processors.
It currently supports Rich Text Format (RTF, compatible with Microsoft® Word), Wordproc
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TTOTD | BLNT | Better Luck Next Time
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“For detailed technical information on how to use categories, see Help:Category. For everything you ever wanted to know about categories, see Wikipedia:Categorization FAQ.
Contents
[hide]* 1 When to use categories
* 2 Guidelines
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“Why is this good news? Because smaller companies, or those new to XML, you start with DocBook and graduate to DITA when and if needed.”
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“This tutorial explains how to design a beautiful form (Facebook inspired) using a clean CSS design with only
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“# 8. Phone in-use
# 9. Telephone Line Monitor (Plans)
# 10. Use old phones as an intercom
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TTOTD | 99 | parent is no longer watching
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Types of SMS ServiceSMS Interaction Design Considerations
SMS Short Codes
SMS Fundamentals
Six Ways to Implement SMS
Using an SMS Aggregator
Using a Smartphone as an SMS Modem
Using Email to SMS Gateways
Using a Mashup
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“Output
XML
Plain text Use *_/ markup Put → before internal links
Plain text, google-translated to (works only for wikipedia/wikibooks)
XHTML Align paragraphs as ‘justify’ Use logical markup (e.g., ’strong’ instead of ‘b’) Return source XHTML
DocBo
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TTOTD | qq | crying; cry more
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http://listen.weru.org/weru.m3u
“WERU provides programming that is diverse, engaging, surprising, alternative, worldly and local.
WERU’s sound is made possible by volunteer power, listener support and community participation. We offer diverse music and -
“Includes SMS competitions, SMS voting, SMS information services, SMS dating services, SMS campaigns or SMS for customer relationship management.”
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“The SMS server physically consists of a GSM cellphone
connected, through a PCMCIA card, to a Linux PC running
Python and with a permanent Internet connection.
The Python program runs continuously 24 hours/day and
is triggered into activity by two typ -
” * Building User Profiles by Data Mining Browser History Visited Links
* 2008 – The Year of Con-currency
* My Mobile Internet Device Form Factors
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TTOTD | 9 | parent is watching
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“We successfully installed a distribution of Damn Small Linux on a Lexar 512mb Secure Disk USB 2.0 Jump Drive and it worked quickly and flawlessly. There’s no guarantee that every USB Drive will boot Linux using this method (for example, the new Imation
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“The basic processing paradigm is pattern matching. In this respect XSLT inherits — from a long tradition of text-processing languages such as Perl — a tradition that can be traced back to languages such as SNOBOL in the 1960s. An XSLT style sheet consi
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“This article describes how an XSLT processor, in this case the author’s open-source Saxon, actually works. Although several open-source XSLT implementations exist (see Resources), no one, as far as we know, has published a description of how they work. T
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“subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.
It is possible to assign materials, vertex color, UV coordinates and textures,
no animations.
System Requirements* Windows: OpenGL required. From 0.99.00: Windows 2000 or higher r
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” explores the system of categories that is used to classify articles in Wikipedia. It is compared to collaborative tagging systems like del.icio.us and to hierarchical classification like the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Specifics and commonali
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“investigates possible semantic differences that may hinder the unambiguous mapping and transition from one thesaurus to another. It focusses on the differences of meaning of terms and their relations as intended by their creators for indexing and queryin
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“Still, possibly the real problem with folksonomies in not their chaotic tags but that they are trying to serve two masters at once; the personal collection, and the collective collection.”
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“results show that co-occurrences of categories within individual articles have a power-law distribution, and when mapped reveal the nicely clustered semantic structure of Wikipedia. The results also reveal the content coverage of the article’s authors, a
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“Wikipedia’s fundamental components, i.e. articles, authors, edits, and links, as well as content and quality are analysed. Possibilities of research are explored including examples and first results. Several
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Wikipedia has the chance to become a resource of semantic statements, hitherto unknown regarding size, scope, openness, and internationalisation. These semantic enhancements bring to Wikipedia benefits of today’s semantic technologies: more specific ways
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http://mayoclinic.com/health/lactobacillus/NS_patient-acidophilus
http://naturalstandard.com/
Lactobacillus acidophilus is generally considered to be beneficial because it produces vitamin K, lactase, and antimicrobial substances such as acidolin, acido -
TTOTD | F2T | Free to talk
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“Beginning this winter, more than 2,000 healthcare providers, including 15 rural and urban hospitals across Maine and one-third of practicing physicians in Maine, will join with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (part of the Department o
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via http://www.whynot.net/ideas/4464
It’s really simple.1. Find a book you want to read
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” Specifics and commonalitiess of these systems of subject indexing are exposed. Analysis of structural and statistical properties (descriptors per record, records per descriptor, descriptor levels) shows that the category system of Wikimedia is a thes
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“The Webmap build starts with every Web page crawled by Yahoo! and produces a database of all known Web pages and sites on the internet and a vast array of data about every page and site. This derived data feeds the Machine Learned Ranking algorithms at t
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“2 Common Copyright Questions
2.1 Copyleft
2.2 Choosing A FOSS License
2.2.1 The GNU General Public License
2.2.2 BSD-Style or Permissive Licenses
2.2.3 The GNU Lesser General Public License
2.2.4 The GNU Affero General Public License
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“Extract information from any webpage as JSON, XML, HTML, CSV, RSS Feeds, Text, and more. Start using the ‘programmatic’ the web today!
To get started, choose a website to extract data from and enter its web address (eg: http://xyz) below: “
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Good 30k’ view of network/social/device ecosystem. Moore’s, Gilder’s, Metcalfe’s laws, Maslov’s hierarchy.
“Waclowsky looks at how technology is increasing our ability to realize fundamental human needs from one end of the hierarchy to the other. Network -
[edited]Americans send ~20 billion text messages per month..That’s only 85 messages/ month / subscriber: not quite 3 per day.
Korean teenagers send an average of 2,000 messages / month: 60 / day.How many text messages do you send in a day?
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“# What is SMS?
# How to create an SMS message
# How to send email to any phone
# Searching Google via SMS
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“I believe we’re entering the Functional Reactive Programming paradigm shift. At least I hope we are.
Behaviors that update views on data only when that data changes.
Named resources ala URIs that expose those views, thereby exposing that data thr
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* Manage text alert lists.
* Facilitate many-to-many text discussions.
* Provide updates and collect feedback.* Respond with live text from any web page.
* Use variables for custom responses.
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“‘Ruby Event-Driven Update Exchange’: an application server for dynamic Web 2.0 applications. Uses the ‘Distributed Observer Pattern’ for exchanging resource updates between browsers and servers and between servers. Resources are JSON objects.”
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“language where components are assembled by connecting their signals, which declaratively represent state as time-varying values. To support the construction of interactive programs that require an unbounded number of signal connections, signals in SuperG
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“Last year’s Tour of California was the first race to incorporate CSC’s real-time object field tracking technology. It was an experiment at the time, with the company outfitting seven riders’ bikes with tiny GPS devices. It must have been a hit, because t
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“The basis of our understanding of Japan’s industrial economy: a review of social science research
Early inter-firm studies: traditional vs. modern
Shift to organizational and institutional focus
Government leadership and strong governm -
TTOTD | BLNT | Better Luck Next Time
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TTOTD | CYAL8R | see you later
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Begins by comparing current American empire to previous empires – religion, debt, hegemony
“Audio Broadcast KQED Jan 01 2007
Recorded Apr 18 2007
American Theocracy
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“Chapter 11 of Meehan’s dissertation gives a detailed account of an interactive story, about a hungry bear named Arthur, that I will use to illustrate Tale-Spin’s operations and their backgrounds.
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Creating a worldTale-Spin asks what characters
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February 19, 2008-
TTOTD | n00b | newbie
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“in developing countries where the dominant computer is the cellphone, and the dominant network protocol is SMS, a phenomenon that he calls “the invisible computer revolution.”"
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“EpiSurveyor allows anyone to very easily create a handheld data entry form, collect data, and then transfer the data back to a desktop or laptop for analysis.”
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“American Literature has been providing short stories and classic novels since 1997. We enourage you to enjoy The Short Story of the Day and other features of this site . . . especially our brand new Discussion Boards”
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“is a powerful widget library that provides rich widgets like Grid with sort, paging and filtering, Tree’s with Drag & Drop support, highly customizable ComboBoxes, Tab Panels, Menus & Toolbars, Dialogs, Forms and a lot more right out of the box”
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“Books provided the little traveled Jefferson with a broader knowledge of the contemporary and ancient worlds than most contemporaries of broader personal experience. By 1814 when the British burned the nation’s Capitol and the Library of Congress, Jeffer
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“Installation and maintenance of generated JavaScript projects requires the installation of Ruby and RubyGems.
The command-line application newjs is installed as below, for any operating system (except the ‘sudo’ part – use as necessary):
sudo
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“Spindle Search lets you catalog your disks and then sends the information to Google’s search tool. (you need to provide this information when you add the disk to your catalog.)”
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“Freeware and Open Source plugins for Google Desktop Search By Larry Gadea (trivex@trivex.net)”
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“sharing laughs around the table, on the waterfront under Southern stars, with an inventor of the world you work in, that’s really a lot of luck.
XML is ten years old today. It feels like yesterday, or a lifetime. I wrote this that year (1998). It’s -
“SMS is the only pervasive data network in places like sub-Saharan Africa. It can, and should, be pressed into service in ways that don’t occur to those of us swimming in an ocean of high-speed Internet connectivity.”
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” SMS was an accidental success that took nearly everyone in the mobile industry by surprise. Few people predicted that this hard of use service would take off. There was hardly any promotion for or mention of SMS by network operators until after SMS star
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See Mythbusting the ‘Google generation’ report http://tinyurl.com/36cysp
“The study making this claim was constructed and published in a way that resists all efforts to evaluate its relevance, accuracy, or authority. Which hardly matters, since none -
“Some presidents (Carter and Johnson, in particular) have used modern communications to micromanage and undermine their subordinates. Lincoln, with his excellent judgment, somehow avoided this trap, using the telegraph to both guide and empower his genera
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“A professor friend of Paul’s, a policemen and a curious editor all get an investigation rolling regarding what really happened to Jaan, who is he, and is he perhaps much, much older than they think? Paul meets and falls for a neighbor and putative friend
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“information about highly
creative learners and tenets of authentic teaching and learning.”
