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A NEW type of internet that can send information in deep space has been successfully tested by NASA.
The technology sent dozens of images from a NASA spacecraft to Earth over 32.4 million km – almost ten times the distance between Earth and the moon.
November 2008Monthly Archives
links for 2008-11-19
links for 2008-11-18
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Wallace and Gromit are making a comeback this Christmas in a new cartoon announced today.
links for 2008-11-13
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The OpenEEG project is about making plans and software for do-it-yourself EEG devices available for free (as in GPL). It is aimed toward amateurs who would like to experiment with EEG. However, if you are a pro in any of the fields of electronics, neurofeedback, software development etc., you are of course welcome to join the mailing-list and share your wisdom.
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wow.
Unlimited tolerance must lead to…
…the disappearance of tolerance.
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we
extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are
not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the
intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and the tolerance with
them. In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should
always suppress the utterance of intolerance philosophies; as long as
we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by
public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we
should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for
it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the
level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they
may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it
is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their
fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance,
the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any
movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we
should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal,
in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to
kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”
Karl
Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
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links for 2008-11-11
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This is an excellent short video about Cassini, the most ambitious inter-planetary space mission ever launched. It was created using clips from Carolyn Porco's speech at the Pop!Tech innovation conference.
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Part game, part free music site, TheNextBigSound is surely one of the slickest new music sites we’ve seen.
As demoed at the TECHcocktail event in Chicago last week, the concept is simple and ingenious: listen to free music from unsigned bands, and “sign” your favorites to your own virtual record label. When your signed artists become hits on the site, you score points. -
Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!
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There are hundreds of plugins and services which can provide statistics about your visitors. However I found that even though something like Google Analytics provides an incredible depth of information, it can be overwhelming and doesn't really highlight what's most interesting to me as a writer. That's why Automattic created its own stats system, to focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface.
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Loves me some PJ. Ignoring the usual libs libs libs mantra he satirically effects so well, the reality is there – the republicans are not conservatives anymore.
Let us bend over and kiss our ass goodbye. Our 28-year conservative opportunity to fix the moral and practical boundaries of government is gone–gone with the bear market and the Bear Stearns and the bear that's headed off to do you-know-what in the woods on our philosophy.
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He can no longer drive and struggles to dress himself but Terry Prachett, creator of the cult Discworld books, refuses to be broken by Alzheimer's.
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Open source office suite needs some decent open and royalty-free cliparts. This tutorial presents valuable clipart repositories and an extension which enables direct downloading of graphics into the OpenOffice.org documents.
links for 2008-11-09
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Some Great Books are recognized at once with a fusillade of critical huzzahs and gonfolons, like Joyce's Ulysses. Others appear almost furtively and are only discovered 50 years later, like Moby Dick or Mendel's great essay on genetics. The Principia Discordia entered our space-time continuum almost as unobtrusively as a cat-burglar creeping over a windowsill.
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Google Personalized Homepage has a to-do gadget, who'd be be better suited in Google Calendar. As there's no option to add gadgets in Google Calendar, someone created an even simpler version as a Greasemonkey script.
links for 2008-11-08
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Take a Hummer full of average self-made millionaires. Strand them in the desert. Strip them of their money. Take away everything they own. Rob them of their connections, their networks, their families.
Ten to one they’re millionaires again in less than five years.Can you be a millionaire in five years?
As it stands right now, probably not. So what is it that’s different about John Q. Millionaire? Why can he take his kids to Euro Disney and you can’t?
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As corporate adoption emerges, there’s nothing wrong with learning lessons from others and making them your own. Start by making sure you have all of your bases covered with the major tools. In other words, copy and paste the items below, then fill in the blanks with your own company-driven effort.
Here’s a framework of 22 tools to consider with notable brand examples:
links for 2008-11-06
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What sorts of things do you take for granted as a natural part of Unix that other people are surprised at?
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Review Dell may be late to the netbook party, but it's turned up with something very fashionable on its arm to make up: the Inspiron Mini 9, bulging in all the right places with HSDPA 3G mobile broadband goodness.
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Whether you’re just starting out and need a drag-and-drop builder or you’ve been coding for years and need tools to help you be more efficient, there’s something on this list for you. Here are over 130 tools to make you a better and faster designer. Feel free to add more in the comments.
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we. featuring the words of arundhati roy
a documentary that is astonishing and beautiful and weep making…
Ah, love, let us be true…
…to one another!
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
- Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
(This has NOTHING to do with how wonderful and magic the election result of yesterday in the USA was. Just love this.)
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