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“Greg Wilson recently gave a talk entitled High-Performance Computing Considered Harmful. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, Wilson explains why HPC can’t be all about speed and power. Instead, we must also care, more than we have in the past,
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“We received hundreds of essays in response to our query about what anchors and unsettles our Catholic audience. So we asked some of you to speak about your tradition. The moving reflections we heard prompted us to depart from our usual format and bring y
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http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3622.html
“an open source application framework that provides a foundation upon which to build a web browser. WebKit was originally derived from the Konqueror browser’s KHTML software library by Apple, In -
This is who did the Mount Desert Island Historical Society’s previous web site.
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Typo 3, Cushy CMS, Made By Frog, Radiant CMS, Modx CMS, SilverStripe, Alfresco, Alfresco, DotCMS, Umbraco, CMS Made Simple, Drupal, Mambo (Joomla).
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“describes how to install Ubuntu by copying the contents of the installation CD to an USB drive such as a memory stick (or flash drive) and making the USB stick bootable. This is handy for machines like ultra portable notebooks that do not have a CD drive
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“I found a way of doing it in a much simpler way… without creating the separate partition to store the LiveCD:”
Archive for May, 2008
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Slugs are people who line up for a free ride at designated spots such as commuter parking lots and street corners. According to Slug-Lines.com, the term probably came from bus drivers, who would be on the lookout for counterfeit coins (also known as slugs
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Madrid, June 11 – Iranian companies will build factories in Venezuela to produce bicycles… “President Chavez has asked ministers of commerce and light industry to follow seriously the project of manufacturing Iranian bicycles in Venezuela.”
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via http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/proceedings
“provides a peer-to-peer wiki architecture, with which nodes communicate. Each node represents a set of wiki pages stored on a user’s computer. Its main benefits are:* improved performance
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“benefits to enhanced reputation,
benefits to making work easier, and benefits to helping an
organization improve its processes. Not all corporate wikis
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” * Detects available USB sticks (using HAL) and asks user which one to use
* Partitions USB stick with 1 partition
* Sets partition bootable
* Writes MBR to USB stick
* Formats partition FAT16
* Installs bootloader (syslinux)
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May 28, 2008-
TTOTD | GAL | get a life
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TTOTD | TTYL | talk to you later | http://tinyurl.com/44595t
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TTOTD | WU | what’s up?
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TTOTD | NOYB | none of your business
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TTOTD | KWIM | know what I mean
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Best factoid: Dan prototyped Smalltalk 72 in Basic
“Dan IngallsSmalltalk and Squeak co-creator Dan Ingalls on Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Lively Kernel.
Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot’s Jeff Robbins, w
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“use of Wikipedia and
spreading activation to find generalized or common concepts
related to a set of documents using the Wikipedia
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via http://www.twit.tv/floss29
“supports desktop-style applications with rich graphics and direct manipulation capabilities, but without the installation or upgrade hassles that conventional desktop applications have. The system is written entirely in th -
“very first Smalltalk system was a thousand lines Basic program, which successfully computed 3+4 in October 1972. It was followed by an assembly code implementation which became known as the Smalltalk-72 system two months later. D. Ingalls was the chief i
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“interviews computer scientists Alan Kay and Danny Hillis, two other Disney fellows… Describes Kay’s dream of a children’s computer language… Hillis discusses the acceleration of technology… “The burst of technological progress will not go on foreve
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via http://www.faviki.com/
“use of Wikipedia’s articles and associated pages as a topic ontology for this purpose. The benefits of the approach are that the ontology terms are developed through a social process, maintained and kept current by the Wikiped
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“Ajax is the method of using Javascript, DHTML and the XMLHttpRequest object to perform a GET or POST and return a result without reloading the HTML page. Below is a very simple Ajax example that calls a CGI script that prints out the word sent to the CGI
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via http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypertext_fiction&oldid=214244168
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“it serves mostly as a cautionary tale about the difficulty of moving Internet-ready writing to the page. The unnamed narrator is a stunning young woman who wants to play professional beach volleyball at least until she decides to become a model, and then
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“a JavaScript solution based on the YUI that allows you to script an annotated walk-through of your web applications that happens directly on the application and does not require any video editing skills or large downloads.”
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“Lists of links are an intermediate case between content-embedded links and menu items. Showing listed links in blue or in the site’s main link color is the recommended design — and the one most intranets follow.
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“Obama, in contrast, opened his soul up in public long before any focus group demanded it. His first book, Dreams From My Father, is a candid, haunting, and supple piece of writing. It was not concocted to solve a political problem (his second, hackneyed
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“It was because of these newfound understandings that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity one day and affirm my Christian faith. It came about as a choice and not an epiphany. I didn’t fall out in church, as folks sometimes do. The ques
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“According to the author’s note, victorious Arab troops captured several papermakers after winning a battle in 751 with the Chinese in Turkestan. This well-written, rhythmic story casts those anonymous papermakers as Old Wu and his young grandson, acciden
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via http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3660.html
“a version of the English language that uses only the most common 1500 English words. It recognizes, and forms a system for organization of, the actual English used by non-English-speakers o
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“Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.”
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TTOTD | IMO | in my opinion
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“Jonathan Wolff is the composer of the theme music for numerous TV shows, including Seinfeld and Will & Grace. He is well known for providing funky bass guitar riffs to the intro and interludes between scenes in the hit comedy Seinfeld.
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Audio
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Barcode technology
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Basic components
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“At the telephone exchange the DC voltage and audio signal are separated by directing the audio signal through 2 uF capacitors and blocking the audio from the power supply with a 5- Henry choke in each”
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“Use mouse to select driver and map. Use arrow keys to drive.
Quality: Screen size: Render mode: Music:
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Don Kobrin did some of these?
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“ets you easily give, collect and store detailed notes on documents and web pages.
Try the free service now by uploading a document or enter a web address to take a snapshot.
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“You will probably find a version of ‘Adventure’ that you can run on your machine here. Thanks to David Kinder, we have this nicely formatted list of all the versions they have available.
The original
This is the original game as written by Willie Cro
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May 23, 2008links for 2008-05-22
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“Copyright works on a simple principle, and that is: suppression. You see, it protects an author by giving her an exclusive right to her work’s reproduction and by suppressing all other editions. It’s literally a right to copy. Now, the life of a copy
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“They can be used for reading comprehension or as copybooks for improving handwriting skills. The numerous poems can be used to improve memory skills. Furthermore, many of the lessons are focused on nature subjects such as birds, insects, farm animals, et
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“Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Northwest Cove, tide pools, Northwest Arm, Sutton Island, Thallus, Eckfeldt, Apothecia, peneplain, Beech Hill, Cold Brook, Little Harbor, Baker Island, granitic belt, Aunt Bettys, Seal Harbor Wilson, felsites, Pond Rand, fro
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natural history books and videos for sale (click here for a text-only version)Scientific Supplies
plant presses, hand lenses, dissecting and compound scopes for saleChamplain Project
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“The Champlain Society, as they called themselves, published “Flora of Mount Desert Island, Maine,” authored by Rand and Redfield, in 1894. This benchmark publication cataloged vascular plants, mosses, algae and lichens.
Acadia has more than 1,100 vasc
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TTOTD | SPK | speak
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“AZ using BISAC to arrange the collection. Phoenix Public is also adding BISAC terms to the catalog record. Personally I don’t see how SCI004000 is any easier to a patron than 520 or QB, but it is good to experiment and they seem to have a significant inc
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“Search the Compact Oxford English Dictionary online; get answers to questions on English, language, grammar, spelling, quotations, and usage; find out about OUP dictionaries; improve your writing skills; try our word games, crosswords, and puzzles; win b
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May 21, 2008-
Both men participated in closed-door negotiations last year in Helsinki, Finland, where Sunni and Shiite representatives met to discuss a way forward.
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Electronic communication is typically very informal in nature and characterized by many features more often found in conversational speech.
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TTOTD | HSIK | how should I know?
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TTOTD | YMMV | your milage may vary | http://tinyurl.com/52l5da
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“ANNALS OF MEDICINE about cancer clusters and public-health investigations… During the past two decades, reports of cancer clusters—communities in which there seems to be an unusual number of cancers—have soared. The place names and the suspects var
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“Horn Book, Starred : Superb on all counts–from the elegant bookmaking to the vigorous, evocative prose . . . to the pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations that strikingly recall the work of Edmund Dulac. Rumford even manages to hint at the poem’s emot
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A Heck of a Way to Stay Warm.
Stories and Songs That Kindle Winter’s Hidden Light. ‽1997
Joining In.
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Somebody requested this
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“Ten months ago, Achatz was given a diagnosis of tongue cancer. He was informed that if he did not start treatment immediately he would die. “You have Stage IV cancer,” he remembers being told by a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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Work – Biography – News – Marginalia
* 2008
* Polaroid Project
* I Want You To Want Me* 2007
* The Whale Hunt
* Universe* 2006
* Time Capsule
* We Feel Fine
* Lovelines* 200
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via http://www.mercurial.cc/archives/2008/01/23/cultural-map-of-the-world/ who tagged Gary Friedmann before I did: http://del.icio.us/url/db1f70df6f8d5d54ec12e017a83c4c6b
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“I’m trying to decide on the best location of an AddThis widget for a certain magazine site, so I took a look at some of the biggest mainstream media sites to see how they place their SNS links in their articles. Here’s a breakdown of the placement in var
