plots airport conditions just like the traffic layer on google maps
Month: November 2007
Sven Travel Blog
travel blog
Temples of Humankind
a collection of breathtaking subterranean temples decorated in several motifs stressing peaceful human collaboration. The Temples are nestled in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 48km from the ancient city of Turin
Cancelling Facebook
I’ve joined Merlin and Mathowie in deactivating my Facebook account. I mostly did it because Facebook wasn’t useful to me but the incredibly hostile new beacon feature and their new social advertising efforts were the last straws.
the FB backlash begins. i concur, what has FB done for me lately?
cgoldfed library
CiteULike tag your research papers, etc. if this stuff were not behind paywalls, you’d think academia would do this themselves. a pretty crucial functionality
The Kindle Will Save Papers fantasy
Since the paid version is automatically beamed to your reader once a day, you are guaranteed to be reading yesterday’s… non-news. If you’d like to see what’s actually happening in the world, the Kindle insists that you leave your paid subscription
Giant Global Graph
So, if only we could express these relationships, such as my social graph, in a way that is above the level of documents, then we would get re-use. That’s just what the graph does for us. We have the technology — it is Semantic Web technology, starting with RDF OWL and SPARQL. Not magic bullets, but the tools which allow us to break free of the document layer.
maybe the time for the semweb is finally ripe.
Paleolithic Longevity
Wow. We are still shorter on average than paleolithic people. Meanwhile, life expectancy in ancient Rome was 21, far below even the paleolithic people.
2010-10-10: Hunter-Gatherer Longevity
Modal adult life span of homo sapiens is 68–78 years, and it was not uncommon for individuals in prehistory to reach these ages.
Trade confusion
60% of voters nationwide agreed with the statement that “foreign trade has been bad for the US economy.”
a nice example how the stupid (majority) can really screw things up for everybody, because their intuition is completely wrong
Gregor J. Rothfuss 