links for 2008-04-30
April 30, 2008-
TTOTD | BFF | best friend forever
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TTOTD | PPL | people
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“. The RightScale Dashboard makes it easy to setup, launch, and monitor all of your EC2 and AWS activities.”
Archive for April, 2008
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April 28, 2008-
TTOTD | 4NR | foreigner
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TTOTD | 1457 | last | http://tinyurl.com/5g7s2m
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The next stage of mashups - getting organization to make their data (calendars, etc.) available as feeds - filtering feeds for trusted sources.
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via http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3621.html
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“Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them.”
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“Bringing world-class educators and their messages
to parents, teachers and administrators in Northern and Eastern Maine
Dr. Mel Levine* Educating All Kinds of Minds: A Non-labeling Approach to Understanding Differences in Learning
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links for 2008-04-27
April 27, 2008-
“these lists have been alphabetized, but only by first letter, thus representing only the first pass of a left-to-right radix sort. Some Greek papyri from the years A.D. 134-135 contain fragments of ledgers that show the names of taxpayers alphabetized by
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“Yet to me, literate programming is certainly the most important thing that came out of the TeX project. Not only has it enabled me to write and maintain programs faster and more reliably than ever before, and been one of my greatest sources of joy since
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via http://www.shelburnemuseumstore.org/tilachst.html
“The story of the National Historic Landmark steamboat Ticonderoga, 20th-century maritime history on Lake Champlain, and how the Ti came to be at Shelburne Museum.110 pages; by Richard M. Strum.”
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“The era of steam travel and the extraordinary story of the Ti’s 2-mile overland journey from Lake Champlain to Shelburne Museum in winter 1954-55. 25 minutes, close captioned.”
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“There is a whole range of relationships between these entities, which have been described in FRBR, but AACR does not directly reflect this theoretical model and the terms that it uses. These relationships are important in enabling catalogues to collocate
links for 2008-04-26
April 26, 2008-
TTOTD | K | okay
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TTOTD | SNAG | sensitive new age guy
links for 2008-04-25
April 25, 2008-
“Google Fellow Jeff Dean had a very interesting presentation on Handling Large Datasets at Google: Current Systems and Future Directions. He discussed:
• Hardware infrastructure
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“Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off. This pattern has long been known to cognitive psychology, b
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“The template is setup at 300px/in and 1088px by 638px, which seems to be the setup for most business card printers. When you’re done creating your cards, save a TIF/JPG/PDF/EPS image of the front of the card and another for the back.
I have used Ove
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Includes summaries of Panizzi, Cutter, Ranganathan & Lubetzky’s principals and shows how FRBR fulfils them.
“Do not use this old essay. Please read this book chapter instead.I wrote this in library school in 2003. In 2007 I was able to turn it into s
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“Hundreds of papers you can download and print for free. We’ve got graph paper, lined paper, financial paper, music paper, and more.”
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TTOTD | 4FRNFR | forever and ever
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“Sixteen rules referred to the selection of what is now called an authorized name. Rule II (all of Panizzi’s rules were given Roman Numerals) told the cataloger to enter author’s name under his or her surname in the English alphabet (whatever the orde
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“An explanation of where FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) comes from, given by a look at the work of librarians such as Panizzi, Cutter, Ranganathan, and Lubetzky, and an examination of four themes in the history of library catalog
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“He suggests writing a 1000-line program with the constraints listed below. These constraints are intended to be excessively restrictive, so as to force developers out of the procedural groove. I guarantee if you apply this technique, their code will move
links for 2008-04-24
April 24, 2008-
“When an artist relies on such intense personal commitmen from such a small population, it’s like an animal that relies solely upon the fruit of one tree to survive. This is a recipe for extinction. Distinctions between demographics resemble mountain rang
links for 2008-04-23
April 23, 2008-
TTOTD | IMS | I’m sorry
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“article by Jared Diamond in the current New Yorker about revenge, which concludes with the touching story of how his father-in-law’s life was poisoned because he never shot a fascist whom he had at his mercy in Poland when the war was ending. I can’t
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“Here’s an interesting and counter-intuitive aspect of EverNote. Human memory degrades over time. Digital memories, however, not only retain full fidelity, they can actually improve over time. Faces that you can’t find in your EverNote archive today m
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“Shirky pointed out that “cats in sinks” has none of the limitations of former category systems such as the Dewey Decimal System or the Library of Congress scheme or Yahoo’s hierarchical category structure. There is no need for a category “cats”
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TTOTD | IOW | in other words
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100 1 Noad, Timothy.
245 14 The illuminated alphabet :|bcreating decorative
calligraphy /|ccalligraphy by Timothy Noad ; text by
Patricia Seligman.
260 New York :|bSterling Pub.,|c2004, c1994.
300 159 p. :|bcol. ill. ;|c23 c
links for 2008-04-22
April 22, 2008-
“Certified Juice Feasting Consultant. A human being with a passion for experimenting with, observing, and refining the embodied experience. A licensed acupuncturist, massage therapist, and natural health advocate committed to sharing wisdom developed thro
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“Consumer IR, or CIR, refers to a wide variety of devices employing the infrared electromagnetic spectrum for wireless communications. Most commonly found in television remote controls, infrared ports are equally ubiquitous in consumer electronics, such a
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“It is happening on the client. SQLite seems to be everywhere. Your operating system, phone, browser, applications, everywhere. I bet I have around 20 SQLite engines on my system right now, and growing. Why is this happening? Well, instead of coming up wi
links for 2008-04-21
April 21, 2008-
http://www.google.com/notebook/public/17894154587286929730/BDQ7XSgoQnJ-t3pYj
I’m listening to and enjoying these.
“Introductory lecture on Old English given by Dr S. D. Lee, University of Oxford, 11/11/07. ‘Who, where, what, when?’. Email: stuart.lee@el -
TTOTD | WKD | weekend
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” 1. The Parts of the Whole 2. The Hebrew Bible in Its Ancient Near… 3. The Hebrew Bible in Its Ancient Near… 4. Doublets and Contradictions, Seams and… 5. Critical Approaches to the Bible: Introduction… 6. Biblical Narrative: The Stories of the..
