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“extensible, customizable, and modular. Each soundscape is a small piece of Python code — typically less than a page. A soundscape can incorporate other soundscapes; it can combine other soundscapes, switch between them, fade them in and out. This packag
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via Ron
1 hour long
Archive for July, 2008
links for 2008-07-31
July 31, 2008links for 2008-07-30
July 30, 2008-
“FAST (Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structures,
and Turbulence) Code is a comprehensive aeroelastic
simulator capable of predicting both the extreme and
fatigue loads of two- and three-bladed horizontal-axis
wind turbines (HAWTs). This document covers the -
“models the wind turbine as a combination of rigid and flexible bodies. For example, two-bladed, teetering-hub turbines are modeled as four rigid bodies and four flexible ones. The rigid bodies are the earth, nacelle, hub, and optional tip brakes (point
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via http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92998234
“Soah is a girl from a small village suffering from a long devastating drought. In order to appease the Water God, the most beautiful girl from their village must be sacrificed. Villagers -
via http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92998234
“The protagonist of the series is a shy young girl named Shizuka and her outgoing male friend Mamoru. The series revolves around Shizuka’s high school life after she contracts “Translucent -
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Riding the Aby May Swenson
I ride
the “A” train
and feel
like a ball-
bearing in a roller skate.
I have on a gray
rain-
coat. The hollow
of the car
is gray.
My face
a negative in the slate
window,
I sit
in a lit
corridor that race -
“The Enercon E-126 delivers up to 6 MW, has an overall height of 198 m (650 ft) and a diameter of 126 meters (413 ft). The Repower 5M delivers up to 5 MW, has an overall height of 183 m (600 ft) and has a diameter of 126 m (413 ft).”
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via http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/mpbc/.jukebox/media/mpbc/709969/mp3/speakinginmaine/podcast/13363/709969.mp3
“Matthew Simmons hopes to to use part of the facility for an Ocean Energy Institute. The article quotes Simmons as saying:“Both [le
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“Sclavounos estimates that building and installing the TLP’s should cost a third of what it costs to install current offshore tower windmills. Another advantage of using floating platforms is that the windmills could be moved around. If a company with 400
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” 1. Sclavounos, P. D. (2007). Modeling, Valuation and Risk Management of Assets and Derivatives in Energy and Shipping. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Working paper.
2. Sclavounos, P. D., Tracy, C. and Lee, S. (2007). Floating Offshore Wi -
“P-Flow (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: 2 .jar files, and 1 .html file.) (PDF)
AMass (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: 1 .jar file, and 1 .html file.) (PDF)
Wave Partial Reflection (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: 6 .class files, 2 .html files, and 3 .jpg f -
“covering news and regulation of wave, tidal and offshore wind enrgy since 20033.”
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“SWAN(1) is a serially coded wind-wave model (WAM) designed to overcome the traditional difficulties of applying predecessor models (e.g., WAM,2 presently used at NAVOCEANO) at relatively small scales (e.g., less than 500-m grid spacing). Specifically, it
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“SWAN is a wave-averaged model that solves transport equations for wave action density N (energy density divided by relative frequency): (20) where cx and cy are the propagation velocities in the x and y directions, is the relative frequency, and
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“Turbine capacity: 2.3 MW
Turbine weight: 138 tonnes
Turbine height: 65 m
Rotor diameter: 82.4 m
Floating element’s length below sea level: 100 m
Total weight: 5300 tonnes
Diameter of the turbine at sea level: 6 m
Diameter of the floating ele -
“ToneDial adds tone-dialing support to the address book. Just hold your handheld speaker close to the phone to dial a number.
* Dial phone numbers directly from the address book
* Generates touch tone (DTMF) sounds
* Dial rules for local, -
“The Goertzel filter is an IIR filter that uses the feedback to generate a very high Q bandpass filter where the coefficients are easily generated from the required centre frequency, according to the following equations. The most common configuration for
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“Two different simulation models for integrated dynamic analysis of floating offshore wind turbines are
described and compared with model scale experiments for the Hywind concept for floating offshore wind turbines.
A variety of both environmental condi -
” * Source - How to get the source for the software
* Installation - Installing Laconica
* List of servers - existing servers using Laconica
* Developer community - who’s around, how they communicate
* mailing list: laconica-dev - f -
Very close to my km practice with del.icio.us & gnb
“the progress of knowledge representation and information exchange in the field of health care, and about personal strategies for memory management and effective communication.” -
The good quote is along the lines of, if humans were set down on this earth all of a sudden with no past or traditions we’d invent religion within a month.
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“The core argument behind the presentation can be summarized by this tweet from Tim O’Reilly
On monday friendfeed polled flickr nearly 3 million times for 45000 users, only 6K of whom were logged in. Architectural mismatch. #oscon08
On July 21st
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“Touch-Tone DTMF Generator
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a digital book providing a comprehensive introduction (tutorial) to the JavaScript programming language. Apart from a bookful of text, it contains plenty of example programs, and an environment to try them out and play with them.
links for 2008-07-29
July 29, 2008-
“(4) Goertzel G.: “An Algorithm for the Evaluation of Finite Trigonometric
Series”, American Mathematics Monthly, Vol. 5, January 1958″
links for 2008-07-28
July 28, 2008-
“specialized audio analyzer, filter, frequency converter, hum filter, data logger etc (see history at the bottom of this page). You can download it from this site. Or look into the manual though the manual included in the archive will be more up-to-date.
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“ARSS, is a program that analyses a sound file into a spectrogram and is able to synthesise this spectrogram, or any other user-created image, back into a sound.”
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* General Analysis/Processing
o Aglaophone “…a system of interconnectable modules for the recording, processing, and playback of real-time audio”
o ATSH very cool analysis/resynthesis program from Prof. Oscar Pablo Di Liscia
links for 2008-07-27
July 27, 2008-
“a tool for handling web pages: finding information about it, finding headers, internal and external links, etc”
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“Snap a picture of anything on your desktop.
Record video
Record VideoRecord video of what you do, or what you see.
Share online
Share OnlineInstantly uploaded. Share in email, IM, or blogs.
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links for 2008-07-26
July 26, 2008-
“economics of deepwater wind turbines will be determined primarily by the additional costs of the floating structure and power distribution system, which are offset by higher offshore winds, close proximity to large load centers (e.g. shorter transmission
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“fully coupled dynamic analysis of floating wind turbines that enables a
parametric design study of floating wind turbine concepts and mooring systems. Pareto optimal
designs are presented that possess a favorable combination of nacelle acceleration, mo -
38 turbines 57MW
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“Once people on Samsø started thinking about energy, a local farmer explains, “it became a kind of sport.”"
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“130, 3.6 megawatt wind turbine generators covering 24 square miles in Federal waters of Nantucket Sound off Massachusetts with the capacity to produce about 468 megawatts. The average expected production from the proposed wind farm could provide about 75
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” * Set Master volume to 50%.
* Set the Mixer A, OSC2 channel to 100% amplitude.
* Store a value of 600 in the A2 Frequency Fine register.
* Turn the Mixer A, OSC2 channel on. “ -
$50
* 18-Pin DIP PIC IC
* 2.0 to 5.0 Volts Operation
* 16Khz Sample Output Rate
* 2400 or 9600 Baud Serial Connection
* 6 Independently Controlled Voices
* Amp, Freq, Ring Modulation
* Hard Sync.
* ADSR Envelopes
* Musical Notes
* English Phonem
links for 2008-07-25
July 25, 2008-
“Turn it on. The LED glows indicating it is in record mode. Tap out a beat and the controller records your beats. After sample memory is filled up (about 5 seconds), the LED goes out and the beatbox goes into playback mode, endlessly looping playback of y
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I heard Nate Harrison at the Berkman Center Mashup conference a few years ago.
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wkpda: “a partially analog, partially sample-based drum machine built by the Japanese Roland Corporation in 1984. The brainchild of Tadao Kikumoto, the engineer behind the Roland TB-303, it features a 16-step step sequencer and a drum kit that, at that ti
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“free modular software based synthesizer. What this means is that the entire system is based on objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want. For example, if you wish to run 3 Physical Modelling s
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“attempts to simulate the original sound of the Roland TR-909. This drumcomputer hits the market 1984 and was a long time the state of art in house and techno productions. Shift-Click the Step-buttons for accent triggers. Shift-Click-Move knobs for smooth
links for 2008-07-24
July 24, 2008-
via Marshall & Gary
“an African-American civil rights activist. He was born Benjamin Franklin Chavis, Jr. on January 22, 1948 in Oxford, North Carolina. Since 2001 he has been CEO and Co-Chairman of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network,[1][2] which he cofou -
“Commonsense can-do solutions for a time of imploding paradigms, natural disasters, and government-induced chaos. Also featuring the journal of Yeoman Gardener”
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“The “aaah” sound has most of the original harmonics still present, the “oooh” sound has most of them removed (or to be more precise, reduced in amplitude.) By gradually changing from “oooh” to “aaah” and back again, you can simulate the “sweeping filter”
links for 2008-07-23
July 23, 2008-
Great, yes. But how long can it last?
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“We bring rhythm into your life by sharing the rhythmic music and instruments of the world
via our retail store, mobile sales and service, drum repair, classes, workshops, community programs, and performances, for school enrichment, conferences, retrea
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“The Universe Web I’ve just described is a lot like the World Wide Web:
* An Entity is like a Web Resource
* The State of an Entity is like an HTML Web Representation of a Web Resource
* A Link in an Entity’s State is like a Web URL insid -
“Site µ-resource is a view and nav structure
site: name: Flickr2,
title: ‘Share your pictures the Flickr2 way!’,
content: [
{ top-nav:
[ -http://flickr2.com/images/flickr_logo_gamma.gif.v1.2.7-,
[ -http
links for 2008-07-22
July 22, 2008-
see
http://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#search/book/11b42bf11aa3f8e4
and
http://www.google.com/notebook/public/17894154587286929730/BDSWSIwoQ4uumgq0j#SDSeqSgoQha6AlrQj -
The DTMF works pretty well. Some digits duplicate.
“decode a variety of digital transmission modes commonly found on UHF radio. A standard PC soundcard is used to acquire the signal from a transceiver. The decoding is done completely in software. Current -
“Now, why would you want to do such a thing? It’s a defensive strategy. The message entitled “Re: Next week” probably ought to be entitled something like “Consensus reached among A, B, and C on issue X for project Y.” Which title would you rathe
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“Tech tips and notes with a bit of commentary. OS X and XP mostly.”
via http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/07/21/john-faughnans-amazing-outlook-hack-and-why-it-matters/ -
“records all your incoming and outgoing phone calls. It can start and stop automatically, recording each phone call by its own. You will need a phone hardware, either a regular voice modem or the RecOnBox. Full automatic recording requires the RecOnBox.”
