via http://twitter.com/programmingjoy/status/5857692995

I decided to re-engineer it from the ground up. JPolite V2 is then a complete re-design from the ground up with nothing from V1 except for the look & feel. The code structure is much clearer which makes it easier for customization, as well as integration with other jQuery plugins.

A new feature that is now being tested with JPolite is called XDO (XML Data Object), which currently supports JSON objects only. The whole idea is based on some discussion around “Thin Server Architecture” and REST architecture style, that a browser client first construct the foundation of a web app with STATIC content (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) from a web server, and then exchange only DATA (XML, JSON, TXT) with the application server, which relieves the server from the burden of generating HTML markup. This feature is still experimental with lots enhancements expected.

Magnetism:
Electromagnetism:
An electric motor in 10 minutes
Fun with High Voltage
A 10 minute railgun
A 30 second motor
Listening to magnetism
Electrochemistry:
A plastic hydrogen bomb
Building your own solar battery
Building a Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Homemade Batteries
Collecting Chemical Elements
Radio:
A quick and simple radio
Building a radio in 10 minutes
Build a portable crystal radio
A radio out of household items
A simple AM transmitter
The Three-Penny Radio
Thermodynamics:
Aerodynamics:
A Bernoulli levitation ball
A Homemade Vacuum Pump
A Classic Propellor Toy
Light and optics:
Simple laser communicator
Make a solar hotdog cooker
A solar powered marshmallow roaster
Biology:
Extracting DNA in your kitchen
Mathematics:
Kaleidocycles
A Geodesic Dome
A Homemade Microgram Balance
Computers and Electronics:
A Computer Controlled Transmitter
A Free Space Laser Data Transmitter
Fun With Solderless Breadboards
A Simple 1 Watt Amplifier

• via http://delicious.com/url/248ad3827d03107181bfd0b380dbe945 The Question of Global Warming - The New York Review of Books
• Why "Jump" by Van Halen is the greatest record ever made
• http://twitter.com/charlesfrith/

• OpenBTS is a software-based GSM access point, allowing standard GSM-compatible mobile phones to make telephone calls without using existing telecommunication providers' networks. OpenBTS is notable for being the first free software implementation of the industry-standard GSM protocol stack.
• The GSM Software Project: We want to bring together all the folks that are interested in building a gsm receiver.

 * A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database
 * More Python and C# idioms: Finding the difference between two lists
 * To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start
 * Restructuring expert attention to revive the lost 
   art of personal customer service
 * Allman Brothers, Oct 14: Huntington or Nashville? 
   A parable about syndication and provenance.
 * Talking with Daniel Debow about using Rypple 
   to open the Johari Window
 * More visualization of Nobel Peace Prize winners in Freebase

"Instead of lots of people saying, “You know, somebody should … ” there were lots of people saying, “So I did this, this, and this” - Postman pondering Orwellian (control) v Huxlean futures (indifference), media not as means of communication but shaping our conversations - indifference - what do you plan to do (in 1984? nothing) - what's new? What's the difference between classroom and American idol auditions - (dis)engagement? "escaping from the anonymity of modern life" (Henry Canby in 1926!) - Being on the assembly line, existing in suburbia, connected only by roads - a brief history of 'whatever', meh, here we are now, entertain us - generations - narcissism and search for identity (in culture that doesn't give it) - knowing ourselves through relations, new media enabling new conversations, new way of knowing - a new language, remixing Charlie (ouch!): masks, constructing identity - tension between values of individuality and community - we speak video - lets do whatever it takes

Dileep refers to "Bolles' book" I find this work provides a very rich metaphor for my experience of perception and belief.

via http://www.openculture.com/2009/05/getting_hired_and_fired_by_the_new_yorker_as_told_in_tweets.html

• via Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• How could Jeff Hawkins Hierarchical Temporal Memory be used to make sense of this data? http://www.numenta.com/

via http://nikolledoolin.com/pblog/?p=184
via http://librivox.org/the-turn-of-the-screw-by-henry-james/

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