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"Simple Arduino tool that reads serial data and turns into web POST calls. Useful to send data to Pachube, Twitter, AMEE."
Archive for June, 2011
links for 2011-06-28
June 29, 2011links for 2011-06-27
June 28, 2011-
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"Everything about viruses is extreme," Zimmer began. The number of viruses on Earth is estimated to be 1 followed by 31 zeroes. Small as they are, if you stacked them all up, the stack would reach 100 million light years. They are the planet's most abundant organism by far.</p><p>They're fast. We take decades to reproduce. A flu virus can generate billions of itself in us within hours. And they evolve 10,000 times faster than us, because they're creatively sloppy about making copies of their genomes, and they readily combine genes among varieties when jointly infecting a cell. Each of us has four trillion viruses on board, in 1,500 all-too-fungible varieties.
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<h3>ACT ONE. WAR OF NORTHERN AGGRESSION.</h3>
<p>Producer Ben Calhoun heads to his home state of Wisconsin, a place currently turned against itself in the form of Senate recall elections. Ben found that the old way of doing politics in Wisconsin has been flipped completely upside down. (25 minutes)</p>
<h3>ACT TWO. SPLIT A GUT.</h3>
<p>One night on stage, comedian Julian McCullough had an intense pain in his stomach, which he assumed was food poisoning. But it turned out to be a much more serious internal battle. Julian's story was recorded at Told, a storytelling show in New York City hosted by our production manager Seth Lind, presented by Horse Trade Theater Group. (11 minutes)
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links for 2011-06-26
June 27, 2011links for 2011-06-22
June 23, 2011-
The longest urls I've ever seen.
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<b>Usman Haque</b> has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass-participation performances. His skills include the design and engineering of both physical spaces and the software and systems that bring them to life. He has been an invited researcher at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy, artist-in-residence at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Japan and has also worked in USA, UK and Malaysia. He received the 2008 Design of the Year Award (interactive) from the Design Museum, UK, a 2009 World Technology Award (art), a Wellcome Trust Sciart Award, a grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, the Swiss Creation Prize, Belluard Bollwerk International, the Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence prize and the Asia Digital Art Award Grand Prize.
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links for 2011-06-21
June 22, 2011-
But baby slings, unlike stone tools, don't last…
"Dr. J. chats with Timothy Taylor, lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Bradford, and author of The Prehistory of Sex, The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death, and The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution. They discuss the role of baby slings, tools, meat and language in the evolution of human intelligence. Part 1 of 2."
links for 2011-06-20
June 21, 2011-
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#include <stdio.h>
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#include <stdarg.h>
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"Roy Tennant of OCLC talks about that organization’s commitment to linked data. At 2:30 he recapitulates his announcement that OCLC will release bibliographic data for the million works most widely held by libraries. Towards the end, he talks about the tension at the OCLC between opening data and the need to fund the infrastructure for maintaining and improving metadata."
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<ul><li><a href="http://www.percona.com/">Percona Homepage</a><strong> </strong></li><li><a href="http://www.xaprb.com/blog/">Baron Schwartz's Blog</a> – good database blog, also a good Android post</li><li><a href="http://www.maatkit.org/">Maatkit: Toolkit for Users, Developers, and Administrators of Open-Source Databases</a></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_(database_server)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_(database_server)</a></li><li><a href="http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtradb/">http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtradb/</a> XtraDB is an InnoDB fork with more performance, features, monitoring…</li><li><a href="http://www.clustrix.com/">http://www.clustrix.com/</a></li></ul>
links for 2011-06-16
June 17, 2011-
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"As of June 2011, Google has somewhere in the region of 740 million visitors per day. During the two days that the Les Paul doodle was online, those 740 million visitors, according to analytics from RescueTime, spent 26 seconds more on the Google home page than normal. 740 million times 26 seconds is 5,344,444 hours – and over two days, that's a total of almost 10.7 million man hours spent playing with the Les Paul Google Doodle. Assuming the average Google user earns $25/hour, the doodle cost companies around the world $268 million in lost productivity," ExtremeTech calculates.
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links for 2011-06-15
June 16, 2011-
"Gov. Paul LePage's top energy official says he may have spoke prematurely when he recently expressed concern over the high price of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. Ken Fletcher, head of the Maine Office of Energy Independence and Security, was quoted recently as being worried by estimates that offshore wind power will cost around 27 cents per kilowatt hour, 11 cents higher than existing rates. But after a meeting with the man leading the state's research efforts in offshore wind, Fletcher says those concerns may have been unjustified."
links for 2011-06-14
June 15, 2011-
<ul><li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x39QMzX0K0o">Primal Source video</a></li><li><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data">Pure Data</a></b> (or <b>Pd</b>) (or Pd) is a visual programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works.</li></ul>
links for 2011-06-13
June 14, 2011-
"I write a column on (mostly introductory) Python topics for IBM developerWorks, called Charming Python. Column titles are below. The copyright on these articles, incidentally, belongs either to a company called Tenco Media (before May 2001) or one called Westtech Information Services (thereafter), which are "publication brokerages." Let me know if you want to reprint anything, I'll try to get it worked out."
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<blockquote>But now, it should be obvious that chiefdoms introduced the dilemma fundamental to all centrally governed, nonegalitarian societies. At best, they do good by providing expensive services impossible to contract for on an individual basis. At worst, they function unabashedly as kleptocracies, transferring net wealth from commoners to upper classes. The noble and selfish functions are inextricably linked, although some governments emphsize much more of one function than the other. The difference between a kleptocrat and a wise statesman, between a robber baron and a public benefactor, is merely one of degree: a matter of just how large a percentage of the tribute extracted from producers is retained by the elite, and how much the commoners like the public uses to which the redistributed tribute is put.</blockquote><i>Guns, Germs and Steel</i>, Jared Diamond, p276
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