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... I have decided to just post my nuggets that I have taken away from Robert B. Laughlin's The Crime of Reason.
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Most entertainment is the celebration of disposable knowledge. In fact, when we are relaxing we avoid useful information. This is why some people do not like my Facebook posts and Twitter updates. They are on these technologies to relax and I am confronting them with potential useful information. (Sorry, but I do not plan to stop. Just unfriend or unfollow me, I am really OK with it.) Let me quote from the book, "Soap operas are enjoyable because their intellectual maintenance costs are low."
All advertising is information you do not want to see. "Advertising is Fun's evil twin brother. The two go everywhere together." If you want to enjoy yourself from free you have to accept advertising.
...in their use of the commons, the Itza' break free of the textbook ‘resource exploitation' frame by means of one of the fundamental orientations of human cognition: the tendency to believe in supernatural entities. (See Atran's 2002 book In Gods we Trust.) Atran and Medin show that the Itza' do not treat forest resources as mere ‘objects of a payoff matrix' (as perhaps some of their neighbours do), but rather ‘as intentional, relational entities, like friends or enemies'. For the Itza', the spirits of the forest have supernatural powers of knowledge. Villagers believe that if they fail to respect the kind of reciprocal relationship with these spirits that would be expected of any human social relationship, they risk being punished. These beliefs are reflected in behaviour patterns that turn out to be the most sustainable of these three neighbouring ethnic groups.
* http://twit.tv/floss97 about http://exist.sourceforge.net/
* example: http://history.state.gov/
* http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4301.html
* http://www.amazon.com/Building-Social-Web-Applications-Establishing/dp/0596518757/
* interview with Jon Udell
* at ~22:30 - Jon: ~"an application" can be accomplished by a convention
* noticings (Flickr game) - Activity Stream - Oauth - OpenID
* http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4289.html
* panel discussion of spectrum: cognitive radio, FCC, policy, lots of complicated stuff
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more) restart protection, space sextant, digital autopilot, landing radar, program alarms, rendezvous radar, reaction thrusters, scanning telescope, braking phase, inertial platform, descent engine, human spaceflight, powered descent, erasable memory, pilot opinion, gimbal lock, descent stage, abort button, flying qualities, guidance computer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more) Neil Armstrong, North American, World War, Age of Systems, Chris Kraft, David Scott, Jack Garman, Space Task Group, Michael Collins, Scott Crossfield, Robert Chilton, Project Apollo, Edwards Air Force Base, Joe Shea, Aaron Cohen, Alan Shepard, Don Eyles, Draper Laboratories, Floyd Bennett, Eldon Hall, Charlie Duke, Mission Control, Deke Slayton, United States, Mercury Seven
...Amazon’s “See a Kindle in Your City” promotion. Her Kindle was in her purse; she’d crocheted a cover for it out of green yarn. In the past, she said, she’d taken books out of the library, but some of them smelled of smoke—a Kindle book is a smoke-free environment. I thanked her and bought some digestive biscuits and a teapot, and then I went next door to Sherman’s Books and Stationery. I asked Josh Christie, who worked there, to recommend a truly gut-churningly suspenseful novel. I was going to do a comparison between the paperback and the Kindle 2 version. Christie suggested “The Bourne Identity” and a book by Michael Connelly, “The Lincoln Lawyer”—one of his colleagues at the shop swore by it. I bought them both.
Outside, I sat on a bench near L. L. Bean, eating an ice cream, and tried to order “The Bourne Identity” wirelessly from the Kindle Store. But no—there is no Kindle version of “The Bourne Identity.” What?
The present volume presents first, the theoretical basis for these hull modeling systems and second, the procedures for computing hull geometric, buoyancy and other properties by mathematical methods utilizing such models. The emphasis is upon the nomenclature and fundamentals underlying several different methods of hull geometrical modeling with the intention of providing the understanding needed to use intelligently both existing and future tools. Some topics included in the volume are continuity and fairness of surfaces, B-spline and NURBS representation, ruled and developable surfaces, subdivision surfaces, and classic computational topics such as hydrostatic properties and initial stability.
ISBN # 0-939773-67-8
No one denies that printed books are irreplacable. They can be lent, traded, displayed and enjoyed for decades.
But electronic books have their place as well. They're portable, adaptable, infinitely customizable and —whether you like it or not— they're going to live side-by-side with printed books for years to come.
We want to dispel the myth that digital books can't also be crafted works of visual design. Just as web design has evolved and matured, so too will ebooks, and book designers have a new medium available in which to express their creativity.
The Zen Garden is a place to showcase this new way of designing stories.
Use the dropdown at the top right to switch between different styles.
* http://mshook.appspot.com/z/d4m.htm?/mshook/scheme * The Ten Commandments 1. How to recur on a list of atoms, a number and an S-expression | 23 64 83 2. Cons to build | 37 3. Typical element, cons & recur | 45 4. Change >= 1 arg closer to termination & test | 57 65 84 5. +, X & cons; test 0,1,() | 67 6. When to simplify | 94 7. Subparts: sublists & subexpressions | 103 8. Abstract reps w/ funcs | 107 9. Abstract patterns w/ funcs | 134 10. Funcs to collect > 1 value | 140 * The Five Rules 1. Car 5 2. Cdr 7 3. Cons 9 4. Null? 10 5. Eq? 12 * Dimensions of functions o On lats (lists of atoms - flat), numbers or S-expression (hierarchy) o Test, insert (L/R), replace, remove o Straight/single function, abstracted/generalized * Data types and structures o atom 3 o number o list 3 & 4 o S-expression 3 & 4 o lat (list of atoms) 15 o set 111 o pair 117 & 118 o rel 119 more at http://tinyurl.com/kll3de
The book starts with Anne's wedding to Gilbert, which is very small and takes place in the Green Gables orchard. After Anne and Gilbert's wedding, they move to a house that Anne has long anticipated as her "house of dreams", in Four Winds Point, an area near the village of the Glen St. Mary. There, Anne and Gilbert meet many interesting people, such as the eccentric Captain Jim and Miss Cornelia Bryant, who deems the Blythes as part of "the race that knows Joseph." Anne also meets Leslie Moore, who lost her beloved brother and her father, and then was forced by her mother to marry the mean-spirited and unscrupulous Dick Moore. She felt free for a year or so after her husband disappeared on a sea voyage, but then he turned up, amnesiac, brain-damaged and generally helpless. She becomes friends with Anne, but is sometimes bitter towards her because she is so happy and free.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%27s_House_of_Dreams
Examples
Here are some PDF output examples that give an idea of what can be done with dblatex and dbcontext.
Dblatex
* Some examples of the features supported by dblatex:
o DocBook Examples
o MathML Examples
o Sources of the Examples
o Sources + PDF Examples
* The dblatex User Manual is a good example of a default DocBook book output rendering.
* The User Manual in DB2LaTeX style shows the DB2LaTeX style applied to the same document.
* The User Manual in Simple style shows a quite basic latex layout applied to the same document.
* A W3C MathML Test Suite 2.0 Excerpt (bzipped) demonstrates the large MathML 2.0 support included by dblatex.
* The DocBook Definitive Guide (gzipped) compiled with dblatex and the tdg-dblatex.xsl stylesheet.
Dbcontext
* The dblatex User Manual done by dbcontext can show how dbcontext handles the same manual.
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Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Alva Noe, author of the book Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness, in which he challenges the assumptions underlying neuroscientific studies of consciousness.
My take away: virtualization is useful if you're running a data center or administering a lot of PCs
