Sapere Aude
Month: July 2007
On the Web, anyone can be a mapmaker. With the help of simple tools introduced by Internet companies recently, millions of people are trying their hand at cartography, drawing on digital maps and annotating them with text, images, sound and videos. In the process, they are reshaping the world of mapmaking and collectively creating a new kind of atlas that is likely to be both richer and messier than any other.
mymaps represents. front page, bitchez
We think what happened is that the cats sort of domesticated themselves. The cats invited themselves in, and over time, as people favored cats with more docile traits, producing the 10s of breeds of house cats known today
landed in mozilla 1.9: “full zoom” functionality from Gecko to chrome; Support for ‘oncopy’, ‘onpaste’ and ‘oncut’ events, support for client-side access to the contents of local files via input type=”file”
CandyFab 4000 has constructed caramelized versions of things like a Möbius strip, a screw, a dodecahedron, and a caged ball. Now the duo is planning an open source version of their sweet technology.
Why is the Post Co. in better shape than its peers? Luck played a role. In 1984 the company bought a small test-preparation business from a Brooklyn entrepreneur named Stanley Kaplan, not really knowing what it was getting. Today the Kaplan education division is the company’s largest and fastest-growing business
hmm? these “newspapers are reinventing themselves” articles seem to be all the rage now
Fed up with losing bandmates to sex, drugs, and day jobs, Jay Vance decided to replace his rhythm section with robots.
2015-05-26: If you go to the Toyota Museum of Industry in Nagoya, you get to see this cute little fella.
2017-09-18: Robots are coming for that dreamy guitarist
This document provides a review of previous IAB statements on Internet transparency, as well a discussion of new transparency issues. Far from having lessened in relevance, technical implications of intentionally or inadvertently impeding network transparency play a critical role in the Internet’s ability to support innovation and global communication. This document provides some specific illustrations of those potential impacts.
the technical underpinnings of network neutrality, and why the telcos who oppose it will ultimately fail.
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It used to read, ‘Be a Citizen Journalist’ And no one ever clicked on it. Then we called it ‘Neighbor to Neighbor,’ and still nothing. For some reason, ‘Get Published’ was the magic phrase.” Parker will pore over 10s of submissions from readers today. These will range from a local custom-car builder trumpeting his upcoming appearance on the BET show Spring Bling to an emotional notice about a play being staged to raise funds for a 5th-grader’s bone marrow transplant. Contributors submit to 1 of 233 neighborhood Web sites, each aimed at a town or community in the Cincinnati area. Parker approves the submission (“I almost never reject one”), scans it for “the F-word,” and posts it to the site. “A few years ago, these would have come across the transom as press releases and been ignored.”
another one, this time singing the praises of gannettt. whatever!
TMS is an effective treatment for depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and auditory hallucinations, with more symptoms and disorders being researched. As regulated medical devices, TMS devices are not sold to the general public
Microsoft has been rebucketing its collection of Live services for months, in an attempt to explain succinctly where it is playing in the online services space.
yeah, cannibalizing yourself without admitting it creates headaches for marketing flacks.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 