JSON ... it's the intersection of all modern programming languages. All languages have some sense of data, and structures of data. They all have simple values like number strings, and booleans. They all have some sense of a sequence of values. ... Every language has some sense of a collection of named values; it might be an object, or a record, or a struct, or a hash, or a property list, or something. All languages have these, these are universal ideas.

... But they all have the same idea about what the data looks like, and JSON has the thing that's common to everything. By being at the intersection, it turns out to be the thing that everybody can agree on, so it's really easy to pass data back and forth.

Prior data interchange formats tended to try to be the union of all the languages, and that turns out to be horrendously complex, and very difficult to deal with. JSON, by being so simple, actually became really easy to use.

    * Snap a picture of your screen.
    * Record video of onscreen action.
    * Share instantly over the web, IM, email.

Three sided-cloud

There are three sides to the cloud:

1. The authoring tool. I edit and update a feed. It contains a <cloud> element that says how a subscriber requests notification of updates.

2. The cloud. It is notified of an update by the authoring tool, and then in turn notifies all subscribers.

3. An aggregator. Subscribes to feeds that may or may not be part of a cloud.

What they call real-time 

via http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/the-pushbutton-web-realtime-becomes-real.html via http://dashes.com/anil/2009/08/what-works-the-web-way-vs-the-wave-way.html

SELECT CONCAT( "[", GROUP_CONCAT( CONCAT("{name:'",`name`,"'"), CONCAT(",email:'",`email`,"'}") ) ,"]") AS json FROM users; CREATE TABLE `user`( `id` int not null auto_increment, `name` varchar(100), `email` varchar(50), PRIMARY KEY(id) ) ENGINE = InnoDB; INSERT INTO `user` (`name`, `email`) VALUES ('Cesar', 'cesar@craftyman.net'), ('Maria', 'maria@gmail.com'), ('Jose', 'j0s3@hotmail.com'), ('Albert','albertpr@yahoo.com');

$('<ul><li><span class="library" /></li></ul>')
    .items([
        {library:'Prototype'},
        {library:'jQuery'},
        {library:'Dojo'},
        {library:'MooTools'}
    ])
    .chain();

Chain.js isn’t just bind data automatically to your HTML, but it also maintains and manages your data/items.

var data = {first:'Stephen', last:'Hawking'};
 
// Add one item
$('#persons').items('add', data);
 
// Remove item
$('#persons').items('remove', data);

via http://www.trilancer.com/jpolite2/

1. How much money do you have in the bank?
2. What is your net outflow per month?
3. What is the post-money valuation of your last round? 
4. What can you do that your competitors cannot?
5. What can your competitors do that you cannot?
6. Who are your investors?
7. Who is on your board of directors?
8. Has anyone in the engineering team actually shipped a product?
9. Assume that you have $0 for marketing, how would you market the product?
10. What keeps you awake at night?

Gregg Michael Gillis^[1] (born October 26, 1981 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), better known by his stage name Girl Talk, is an American DJ/Mixer. Gillis has released four LPs on the record label Illegal Art and EPs on 333 and 12 Apostles.

Daft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born February 8, 1974) and Thomas Bangalter (born January 3, 1975).[1] Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and were met with continued success in the years following.[2]

Daft Punk is also credited with producing songs that were considered essential in the French house scene. They were managed from 1996 to 2008 by Pedro Winter (Busy P), the head of Ed Banger Records.[3]

jQuery Google Charts 1.0

Copyright (c) 2008 Massimiliano Balestrieri
Examples and docs at: http://maxb.net/blog/
Licensed GPL licenses:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Basic usage:

var api = new jGCharts.Api(); 
jQuery('') 
.attr('src', api.make({data : [[153, 60, 52], [113, 70, 60], [120, 80, 40]]})) 
.appendTo("#bar1");

Html:



Basic scripts (use packed version in production):

 

via http://www.ajaxline.com/best-jquery-plugins-june-2009

Networks of coupled dynamical systems have been used to model ... and many other self-organizing systems. Ordinarily, the connection topology is assumed to be either completely regular or completely random. But many biological, technological and social networks lie somewhere between these two extremes. Here we explore simple models of networks that can be tuned through this middle ground: regular networks 'rewired' to introduce increasing amounts of disorder. We find that these systems can be highly clustered, like regular lattices, yet have small characteristic path lengths, like random graphs. We call them 'small-world' networks, by analogy with the small-world phenomenon (popularly 6 degrees of separation. The neural network of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the power grid of the western United States, and the collaboration graph of film actors are shown to be small-world networks.

The Pioneer Village complex comprises 28 buildings on 20 acres housing over 50,000 irreplaceable items of historical value, restored to operating order, arranged in groups and also in the chronological order of their development.

There are 12 historic buildings around the circular "green". There's a Frontier Fort, a real honest-to-goodness Pony Express Station, an Iron Horse, and a home made of sod. There's a general store and a toy store, chock full of all the goods from yesteryear. An original art collection including 25 Currier and Ives prints, 23 Jackson paintings, and the largest single collection of Rogers statues.

You can ride a priceless steam carousel, see 17 historic flying machines and marvel at 100 antique tractors. See the world's oldest Buick, a 1902 Cadillac and a 1903 Ford, both designed by Henry Ford, plus 350 other antique cars, all displayed in their order of development.

For me, the web is URIs, a standard set of verbs and a standardized EVAL function. The verbs are mostly GET and POST and the standardized EVAL function is the concept of a browser that can EVAL HTML and can eval JavaScript. I don't thing we can afford to leave JavaScript out of the top level definition of what the Web is because there is too much at stake.

There is a huge difference between a web of algorithms and a web of data. For computing eons, we have known that a combination of algorithms and data structures lead to programs. Less well known (outside computer science) are the problems of trying to build applications using one without the other or trying to fake one using the other.

Lisp, TeX, SGML...all of these evidence the struggle between declarative and imperative methods. Today, the problems are all the same but the buzzwords are different: JavaScript, XSLT, XML...

via http://bitworking.org/news/427/js-rest-and-empty-windows

By Rudolf Ammann
Presented at Hypertext 2009
30 June 2009, Torino, Italy

Working from the online archival record, this paper aims to reconstruct the emergence at Jorn Barger’s initiative of the weblog community from a predecessor known as the NewsPage Network.

Operational transformation (OT) is a technology for supporting a range of collaboration functionalities in advanced groupware systems. OT was originally invented for consistency maintenance and concurrency control in collaborative editing of plain text documents. Two decades of research has extended its capabilities and expanded its applications to include group undo, locking, conflict resolution, operation notification and compression, group-awareness, HTML/XML and tree-structured document editing, collaborative office productivity tools, application-sharing, and collaborative computer-aided media design tools. Recently, OT has been adopted as a core technique behind its collaboration features in Google Wave, which took OT to a new range of web-based applications.

via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ykZYKCK7AM&feature=channel

void branch(float h) {
  
  h *= (float) $('#val_size_1').val();
  
  // All recursive functions must have an exit condition!!!!
  // Here, ours is when the length of the branch is 2 pixels or less
  if (h > 5) {
    pushMatrix();    // Save the current state of transformation (i.e. where are we now)
    rotate(theta);   // Rotate by theta
    line(0,0,0,-h);  // Draw the branch
    translate(0,-h); // Move to the end of the branch
    //ellipse(0, 0, 40, 40);
    branch(h);       // Ok, now call myself to draw two new branches!!
    popMatrix();     // Whenever we get back here, we "pop" in order to restore the previous matrix state
    
    // Repeat the same thing, only branch off to the "left" this time!
    pushMatrix();
    rotate(-theta);
    line(0,0,0,-h);
    translate(0,-h);
    branch(h);
    popMatrix();
  }
}

Brook Wilensky-Lanford grew up on beautiful Mount Desert Island, Maine, and studied religion at Wesleyan University, the marvelous faculty of which bear no responsibility for any of the Mythographer’s errors. She has just completed Columbia’s Nonfiction Writing MFA program. In between, she has written church newsletters, answered fan mail for a perfume company, and edited photography books. She’s a contributor to Storyville radio. Her personal and historical essays have appeared in Salon and Triple Canopy and Books That Saved My Life, and she’s working on a book about people who are looking for the Garden of Eden, literally. (There are more of them than you might think, and they’re still looking.)

This tutorial will demonstrate the following development process:

Write C programs in AVR Studio.

Compile them into a .hex file using the AVR-GCC compiler (which integrates into AVR Studio).

Simulate the target AVR chip and debug the code within AVR Studio.

Program the actual chip using the AVRISP mkII USB device, which is attached to our target chip with a special 6-pin cable.

Once programmed, the chip runs the program in your circuit.

Step 4: Manage your line via the dashboard.

From the Dashboard, you can complete every task necessary to launch your line. You can also make it as simple or as complex as you wish… your Dashboard is customized for your needs. Using the Dashboard, you have complete control of all aspects of your business. From your Dashboard you can:

• Find a manufacturer
• Create packaging
• Create a business entity
• Create a corporate identity
• Order affordable graphic design
• Create a website
• Create a prototype of your product
• Find buyers for your line
• And more!

via http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3976.html

Is it too much like Walmart?

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3976.html

Is it too much like Walmart?

">Neal Stephenson on culture

via http://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/1724767013

Amazon.com: Virtualization For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)): Bernard Golden: Books

via http://twit.tv/floss65

I like the way this is written with the bold paragraph labels. "Bottom line: Some private Medicare plans can be good deals. Others will wind up costing you more than you would pay with a Medicare-Medigap combination." "Also: Some Medicare Advantage plans are evaluated by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, with results published periodically in US News & World Report. To see how 325 plans rank, go to http://health.usnews.com/usnews/ health/best-health-insurance/rank_ medicare_2006.htm."

"No need to burn a CD. Just run the installer, enter a password for the new account, and click "Install", go grab a coffee, and when you are back, Ubuntu will be ready for you. Wubi is Safe You keep Windows as it is, Wubi only adds an extra option to boot into Ubuntu. Wubi does not require you to modify the partitions of your PC, or to use a different bootloader, and does not install special drivers. It works just like any other application. Wubi is spyware and malware free, and being open source, anyone can verify that. Wubi is Discrete Wubi keeps most of the files in one folder, and if you do not like it, you can simply uninstall it as any other application."

"creating a state of universal coverage. ... DirigoChoice insurance plan has opened enrollment for small businesses and self-employed individuals, through a public-private health insurance venture with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine. More than 1,000 individuals have already enrolled, and coverage is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2005. In May 2005, the state announced that Dirigo Health will provide coverage for families earning up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level, up from the previous limit of 150 percent. In announcing the news, Governor John Baldacci said that by expanding coverage, the state will save an estimated $10 million in charity care and bad debt for those who previously had no health insurance. For More Information Web site: http://www.dirigohealth.maine.gov/index.htmlContacts: Trish Riley, Executive Director and Adam Thompson, Legislative and Constituent Liaison, Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance Phone: (207) 624-7442 "

"Simple example >>> import jsontemplate >>> jsontemplate.expand('Hello {name}', {'name': 'world'}) 'Hello world' This Python example should look familiar to many people.* The JavaScript version is a straightforward translation of this API. "

This is what Richard uses.

"More From The Studio 'Go On, Say It' add 'Oviedo' add More On Blind Pilot * Mar. 19, 2009 SXSW 2009: Blind Pilot * Sep. 17, 2008 Blind Pilot: Devotion And Doubt * Jan. 1, 2009 Top 10 Great Unknowns, From Second Stage * Dec. 23, 2008 Songs Of The Year: Best Music Of 2008 * Dec. 8, 2008 The Year In Music From All Songs Considered * Jul. 3, 2008 Blind Pilot: 'Oviedo' * Dec. 8, 2008 The Top 11 Debut Albums Of 2008 Morning Edition, April 7, 2009 - The band Blind Pilot literally rode a pair of bicycles to success. The folk-pop outfit, formed by singer-guitarist Israel Nebeker and drummer Ryan Dobrowski, has taken two bike tours, playing its music all along the West Coast. The first of these two tours was supposed to run from Vancouver all the way down to the Mexican border. Unfortunately, the trip was cut short when the band's bikes were stolen outside San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. "

" - searched - retrieved details - reserved These states map to URIs: - http://quuxTravel.com/searched - ??? depends on previous state - ??? depends on previous state " via http://devhawk.net/2007/05/24/REST+Is+Neither+CRUD+Nor+CRAP.aspx

UM3481A Multi-Instrument Melody Generator M66T Single Melody generator HT2830C Train sounds HT-2860 Alarm sounds HT2884 Sound effects via http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/g_knott/index2.htm

"Details In MySQL, our entities are stored in a table that looks like this: CREATE TABLE entities ( added_id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, id BINARY(16) NOT NULL, updated TIMESTAMP NOT NULL, body MEDIUMBLOB, UNIQUE KEY (id), KEY (updated) ) ENGINE=InnoDB; For example, a typical entity in FriendFeed might look like this: { "id": "71f0c4d2291844cca2df6f486e96e37c", "user_id": "f48b0440ca0c4f66991c4d5f6a078eaf", "feed_id": "f48b0440ca0c4f66991c4d5f6a078eaf", "title": "We just launched a new backend system for FriendFeed!", "link": "http://friendfeed.com/e/71f0c4d2-2918-44cc-a2df-6f486e96e37c", "published": 1235697046, "updated": 1235697046, } "

This is why the web is not just neutral on the good/bad spectrum

But the richest people and the hundreds of thousands somewhat less rich, could not invest the money themselves. They needed intermediaries, the financial sector. Overwhelmed with such an amount of funds, and short of good opportunities to invest the capital, as well as enticed by large fees attending each transaction, the financial sector became more and more reckless, basically throwing money at anyone who would take it. Eventually, as we know, the bubble exploded.

StumbleUpon via Amos

"some economists don't think we should fix this. Some welcome high unemployment, thinking it’s the best way to get workers out of declining industries and into growth industries. They consider a period of high unemployment a way of convincing people who were previously employed "pounding nails in Nevada" to go do something else -- part of the respiration of the capitalist organism, as Josef Schumpeter said. They tend to like the fact that financial asset prices are now low, and condemn attempts to raise them as efforts to keep the feckless financiers who bought them during the boom from suffering their just punishment. Followers of this line of argument -- I call them the Marx-Mellon-Hayek-Hoover axis --tend to say things like: “What's to fix?”"

"Tools Included for Every Developer Declarative PHP with Annotations Stays out of your way, not in it Loosely coupled Model-View-Controller Create RESTful APIs with Ease D.R.Y. in Philosophy & Practice Caching-Oriented Architecture Open Source under MIT License"

"One of the people I was hanging around with online back then was Gordy Thompson, who managed internet services at the New York Times. I remember Thompson saying something to the effect of “When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.” I think about that conversation a lot these days."

"At its heart is a formal Mathematica representation. Its inference engine is basically a large number of individually hand-engineered scripts for tapping into data which he and his team have spent the last several years gathering and "curating". For example, he has assembled tables of historical financial information about countries' GDP's and about companies' stock prices. In a small number of cases, he also connects via API to third party information, but mostly for realtime data such as a current stock price or current temperature. Rather than connecting to and relying on the current or future Semantic Web, Alpha computes its answers primarily from his own curated data to the extent possible; he sees Alpha as the home for almost all the information it needs, and will use to answer users' queries. "

via http://blog.spn.org/id.3508/detail.asp via http://blog.spn.org/id.3505/detail.asp

via http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2009/03/everythings_amazing_nobodys_ha.html

via http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#slide=8;title=REST%20-%20The%20Better%20Web%20Services%20Model;talk=6451 "So, in order to prove the point that SOAP should not be compared against REST, I decided to do some coding. Since I had just finished the implementation of WS-Transfer for PlumbworkOrange, I thought that it would be a great idea to use it to build a RESTful application. And of course, what's the most well-known application out there? The Web of course. WS-Web The idea is based on the following: * Follow the REST principles for building the WWW but using SOAP and without assuming HTTP. * The uniform application semantics of WS-Transfer are assumed. * Each resource is still associated with its own URI although now the URI can be application/transport-protocol independent (e.g. urn:uuid:bla-bla-bla-bla). This has the advantage that the name or identifier of a resource is not coupled with the technology used to access it."

"An extensive directory of non-profit and volunteering resources and organizations. This funky site allows you to post jobs, volunteer opportunities, internships, events, programs, resources, and campaigns. Although it’s more of a social networking site, it does encourage people to promote good in the world,"

Cool, but not as cool as an MSX Z-80 in Java*Script* http://jsmsxdemo.googlepages.com/jsmsx.html via http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Architecture-Leading-Thinkers-Software/dp/059651798X

http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol17/?pg=139 http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol17/?pg=142

"Fit is a tool for enhancing communication and collaboration. Fit creates a feedback loop between customers and programmers. Fit allows customers and testers to use tools like Microsoft Office to give examples of how a program should behave--without being programmers themselves. Fit automatically checks those examples against the actual program, thus building a simple and powerful bridge between the business and software engineering worlds. With Fit, customers can provide more guidance in development process by lending their subject matter expertise and imagination to the effort. The added visibility customers get into what is currently happening in a product allows them to steer projects the moment they begin to drift off-target. How Fit Works Fit works by reading tables in HTML files, produced with a tool like Microsoft Word. Each table is interpreted by a "fixture" that programmers write. The fixture checks the examples in the table by running the actual program. "

"This document provides a high level introduction to MGrammar, a language for writing textual, domain-specific languages. This document begins by covering the basics of grammar development using MGrammar before diving into specific features for input and output processing, and programming against compiled grammars. There is also coverage of modularity, and advanced grammar techniques, including parameterization and recursion. Note: As an accompaniment to this document, you might like to read the MGrammar Language Specification, which is installed with the Microsoft Oslo SDK to the following location: documentsMGrammar Language Specification.docx. MGrammar Basics Consider the following simple set of rules for composing a song: • The song must begin with a header, represented by the characters, Song. • A song is divided into one or more bars. • Each bar contains four values. • Each value can either be a note or a rest. • A note is represented by a character between A and G. • Each note can be flat or sharp, represented by the b and # characters, respectively. • A rest is represented by the dash character, -. • The song can be formatted using whitespace characters (spaces, carriage-returns, and line-"

"Wikipedia is offering an interesting feature: compile articles into books, and get it printed by "PediaPress." Alternatively you can get the book as a downloadable PDF or OpenDocument. Rad! I can imagine some pretty awesome/hilarious collections; what book would you make?"

via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document-oriented_database "But if anything I wrote sounds vaguely familiar because you somehow managed to dumb your RDBMS into storing structured data in BLOBs, added versions and timestamps on all records, grappled with minimizing transactions and locks, denormalized data like there’s no tomorrow, or relied too much on a message queue, then time to rethink. Are you using a hammer to polish your china? (Tip: not a good idea, invest in soft cloth) The thing about relational databases, dumbing them down doesn’t create a dumb database that you can scale easily, and doing read consistency on top of write consistency is two problems to solve. It’s still a shared resource programmed in COBOL pretending to be a mainframe from the day structured data would fit nicely in tabular form. Which, granted is perfectly fine for a lot of applications. And insufficient for others."

via review for Marantz SA-1152 review http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&q=marantz+sa-11s2+sm5866a5&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

via http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4018.html "I would recommend reading the book in this order: * Core knowledge - Introduction, Chapter 1 and 3 - Chapter 4, 8, 9 - Optional: chap 10 (comparison to SOAP). * REST service examples - Chapter 5, 6 and 7 * REST clients - Chapter 2 and 11 The service examples (chapter 5 - 7) should really have been one chapter. The client chapters does not show how to write clients against the provided example services, which is a major mistake. The core knowledge scattered throughout chapter 4, 8 and 9 (like the ATOM publishing protocol which is covered multiple places) should be collected and ordered. So why the four starts ?. I have to admit that my annoyance with the books topical layout is trumped by the authors knowledge and their ability to pack a surprising number of usable facts into this book. So if you do not loose your way in their topical jungle then you will eventually come through as a REST maven."

Here's another one for browsing del.icio.us on a small screen and/or slow computer: http://mshook.googlepages.com/d4m.htm?/ http://mashable.com/2009/02/20/delicious-new-tools/#comment-11401300

via http://bensoncc.com/classic_navigator_088.htm "faces a total shortfall over the next 75 years of 0.56 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is slightly less than the estimated cost over that same period of extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts just for the top 1 percent of households: 0.6 percent of GDP.[i] (Currently, households in the top 1 percent make more than $450,000 per year.) This striking fact should serve as a much-needed “reality check” in discussions over entitlement programs and the nation’s long-term fiscal future. Too often, such discussions assume that Social Security faces a titanic shortfall that will require radical restructuring of the program, while paying little or no attention to the enormous fiscal damage that would result from extending the tax cuts without paying for them."

"professor of Learning Sciences and Computer Science at Northwestern University and am a member of the faculty of the Cognitive Science Program. I am also the founder and current director of the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling. I am a founding faculty member and current governing board member of NICO, the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. I have authored numerous software packages including the NetLogo modeling software. I got my Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab in 1993. "

"NetLogo models that implement multiagent problems or solutions. Click on the title name to see the applet running and get the source code. If you need us to build a model for you (or just some consulting), don't be shy, just send me an email. I'll be your consultant."

" * Wi-Fi update: Add WPA Enteprise and WPA2 capabilities * Make Bluetooth connections with other devices * Get email on your TX with VersaMail * Move pictures and videos to your handheld * Listen to music with Pocket Tunes Popular Help Topics * Palm TX Frequently Asked Questions ... * Windows Vista compatibility * Folders for 'palmOne' and 'Palm' appear in Windows Start menu * Charging your handheld: USB 'trickle charge' vs. power adapter * Video received as attachment plays audio only (no video) * Diagnosing and solving third-party software conflicts "

"Tech tips and notes with a bit of commentary. OS X and XP mostly." via http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/07/21/john-faughnans-amazing-outlook-hack-and-why-it-matters/

"t’s true there are a great many useful plugins available for jQuery and it makes them super-easy to write, but I want to let you in on a little secret: jQuery.fn = jQuery.prototype;"

via http://routeabout.blogspot.com/2008/07/fwd-larry-diamond-senior-fellowhoover.html "PR: Political Rights CL: Civil Liberties Status: F-Free; PF-Partly Free; NF-Not Free Sub-Categories: Political Rights A: Electoral Process B: Political Pluralism and Participation C: Functioning of Government Sub-Categories: Civil Liberties D: Freedom of Expression and Belief E: Associational and Organizational Rights F: Rule of Law G: Personal Autonomy and Individual Rights

"Results of these studies to date give no consistent or convincing evidence of a causal relation between RF exposure and any adverse health effect. On the other hand, the studies have too many deficiencies to rule out an association. A key concern across all studies is the quality of assessment of RF exposure. Despite the ubiquity of new technologies using RFs, little is known about population exposure from RF sources and even less about the relative importance of different sources. Other cautions are that mobile phone studies to date have been able to address only relatively short lag periods, that almost no data are available on the consequences of childhood exposure, and that published data largely concentrate on a small number of outcomes, especially brain tumor and leukemia. Key words: electromagnetic fields, EMF, epidemiology, health effects, radiofrequency, RF. Environ Health Perspect 112:1741-1754 (2004) . doi:10.1289/ehp.7306 available via http://dx.doi.org/ [Online 23 September 2004]"

"This recommendation should be seen as an interim precautionary limit that is intended to guide preventative actions; and more conservative limits may be needed in the future." More liberal limits might ultimately be indicated.

"Scratch is designed to help young people develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design."

" * 3D ACIS Modeler for geometry creation and modification. * Precise Hidden Line V5 for generating hidden, visible, and occluded line information for drawing views. * 3D InterOp Translators for data exchange capabilities between ACIS and CATIA V5, CATIAV4, Unigraphics NX, Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, Inventor, Parasolid, IGES, STEP, VDA formats. "Spatial software components provide a robust and proven foundatio"

"Recalling George Bush's ranting about how the endless "war on terror" is a battle for freedom, Carlin echoed James Madison's thinking with a simple question: "Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?""

"The Russert Test was a disaster because it rewarded people willing to lie unabashedly on TV. They lied because they could not truthfully defend their positions. But Russert's famed "gotcha" research couldn't catch them. Much has been said this eulogizing week about Russert's hard-working ways assembling the material in advance of the show. Old metal. When someone told a new lie on Meet the Press, such as when Dick Cheney flat-out denied he had ever said that intelligence confirmed the Al Qaeda/Iraq link, Meet the Press had no procedure for producing the contrary evidence. This would hardly have been difficult, given Google, an earpiece and a producer to do instant research. As it happened, NBC had the rebuttal to Cheney's lies in its own archives, but it remained for The Daily Show to do the research."

Wren, Locke, John Evelyn, Nicholas Barbon a property speculator via The Economist 2008-06-07-13 p97

" * Bulleted list * Occasional use of bold to prevent skimming * Short sentence fragments * Explanatory subheads * No puns * Did I mention lists? What Is This Article About? For the past month, I've been away from the computer screen. Now I'm back reading on it many hours a day. Which got me thinking: How do we read online?"

"Dr. Fadl had laid the intellectual foundation for Al Qaeda’s murderous acts. His defection posed a terrible threat."

via http://www.faviki.com/ "use of Wikipedia's articles and associated pages as a topic ontology for this purpose. The benefits of the approach are that the ontology terms are developed through a social process, maintained and kept current by the Wikipedia community, represent a consensus view, and have meaning that can be understood by reading the associated pages. We have demonstrated the use of Wikitology to improve the performance of an information retrieval system and as a source of evidence in a intra-document entity co-reference task.