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Alun Salt › Comments
Re: Become an Ebook Author Now or Publish an Ebook Now - http://preview.pcmag.com/slidesh...
"In English 'their' can be gender-neutral singular. The usual rebuttal is Shakespeare, but there's this nice page on Jane Austen. http://www.crossmyt.com/hc... imagine Dougie chose it because his observation applies to all authors and not just male authors."
- Alun Salt
Re: “Bugger off, deluded fool.” - http://societymatters.org/2011...
"I think he can be: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyn... You missed these two tweets from your round up. http://twitter.com/#!/pzmyers/... and http://twitter.com/#!/pzmyers/... @MikeHelms4HIM may be Christian, but even a cursory view of his website http://mikehelms4him.blogspot.... shows he has never shown any interest in other views of religion. What leads you to believe @MikeHelms4HIM was remotely interested in interfaith discussion? I don't see @pzmyers insulting him because he was a Christian, but rather because he was insincere. In your tweet you describe the insult as gratuitous. I'll agree it was free of charge, but it wasn't without reason - even if you and I would not have responded the same way."
- Alun Salt
Re: “Bugger off, deluded fool.” - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"I think he can be: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyn... You missed these two tweets from your round up. http://twitter.com/#!/pzmyers/... and http://twitter.com/#!/pzmyers/... @MikeHelms4HIM may be Christian, but even a cursory view of his website http://mikehelms4him.blogspot.... shows he has never shown any interest in other views of religion. What leads you to believe @MikeHelms4HIM was remotely interested in interfaith discussion? I don't see @pzmyers insulting him because he was a Christian, but rather because he was insincere. In your tweet you describe the insult as gratuitous. I'll agree it was free of charge, but it wasn't without reason - even if you and I would not have responded the same way."
- Alun Salt
The Cave of Sherds and Warehouse of Pottery - http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/2011...
Thoughts on archaeology from Jordan.
- Alun Salt
In China @ Biddulph - http://alun.posterous.com/in-chin...
Re: Quora: the 10 most unexpected questions - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technol...
"According to Action Philosophers, Plato was a wrestler and two-time champ of the Isthmian Games http://comics.drivethrustuff.c... while Aristotle merely compiled a list of Olympic winners, so my money would be on Plato."
- Alun Salt
Re: Quora: the 10 most unexpected questions - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"According to Action Philosophers, Plato was a wrestler and two-time champ of the Isthmian Games http://comics.drivethrustuff.c... while Aristotle merely compiled a list of Olympic winners, so my money would be on Plato."
- Alun Salt
Test Story - My Libya tweets - http://alun.posterous.com/test-st...
Fuzzier Logic » Blog Archive » Blogging with KCite – a real world test - http://blog.fuzzierlogic.com/archive...
If you could cross this with the forthcoming Mendeley plugin from Jason Hoyt, you have an online social or semi-social wordprocessor.
- Alun Salt
Re: Silence empowers bullies - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"There's an allegation here that a journalist would like to report on the damage to the Cairo Museum, but NatGeo is reluctant to report it. If NatGeo magazine won't report on matters relevant to the society, who will?"
- Alun Salt
Re: Silence empowers bullies - http://societymatters.org/2011...
"There's an allegation here that a journalist would like to report on the damage to the Cairo Museum, but NatGeo is reluctant to report it. If NatGeo magazine won't report on matters relevant to the society, who will?"
- Alun Salt
Stone Age Color, Glue 'Factory' Found : Discovery News - http://news.discovery.com/archaeo...
The finding, which will be described in the Journal of Archaeological Science, marks the first time that any Stone Age site has yielded evidence for ochre powder processing on cemented hearths -- an innovation for the period.
- Alun Salt
from Bookmarklet
Fwd: Can scientific data be "copyrighted"? I'm very confused by some of the data access restrictions being proposed by a consortium we're loosely involved in... Someone here will undoubtedly have some relevant links for a newbie? (via http://friendfeed.com/asu...)
Kubke, suelibrarian and Scoble, Alex Scoble liked this
I think they can to an extent in the UK. I'm not sure a demonstrable fact can be copyrighted, but a collection of selected facts can be protected as a database. Though my knowledge of law is limited to Homicide at A-Level 15 years ago, so I could be mistaken. http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/copyrig...
- Alun Salt
Similar in the US to what Alun said for the UK. You can't copyright facts. What you can copyright is a specific compilation or group of facts, like a dictionary or a "greatest works" subset of grimm's fairy tales, because you've used creative input to select which facts are included. However, copyright is not the only form of protection -- there's also patent, trademark, and trade secret. Data could potentially be treated as a trade secret and made available under a contract that had various requirements.
- Donnie Berkholz
I'd like to record audio of a talk as I'm giving it, to post later, ideally sync'd with slides. Suggestions for your fav easy, low-risk, real-time solution? mac.
Yaroslav Nikolaev, Scoble, Alex Scoble and Bill Anderson liked this
I don't know about the automatic sync'd with slides, but you can upload the audio track to SlideShare and they have a tool to manually set when to advance the slides.
- Peter Murray
Keynote has an option to record narration as you present. It's worked for me for 20 min talks on a 2007 MacBook.
- Alun Salt
Oh! I didn't know that about Keynote. I need to check that out -- thanks!
- Peter Murray
How about a decent microphone for the iPhone? People usually have it on them and could record all talks very easily. Why doesn't that exist, yet?
- Björn Brembs
It does - Blue Mikey: http://www.bluemic.com/mikeyfo... (works in iPhone and iPod)
- AJCann
That requires me to hold it in my hand. I'm a scientist, not a rock star :-) I should have specified that it needs to click to your lapel and the iphone can stay wherever people are usually carrying it.
- Björn Brembs
Phone. Top pocket. Done ;-)
- AJCann
I'd be interested if anyone knows of a good radio USB lapel mike. I haven't found such a thing but would eb good for live streaming
- Cameron Neylon
Huh -- about $50 from Amazon. Kinda steep for very occasional use. I wonder if the sound quality would make it worth it. (Alternatively, one could wear a Bluetooth headset, but that would look kinda geeky.)
- Peter Murray
from BuddyFeed
+1 AJCann
- Graham Steel
I'm a t-shirt guy... :-)
- Björn Brembs
Slideshow plugin for the Tabs - http://flowplayer.org/tools...
jquery for tabs
- Alun Salt
Message - http://aws.amazon.com/message...
On Wikileaks hosting
- Alun Salt
PHP to PDF mailing labels | Geeks & God - http://geeksandgod.com/forums...
Script fix
- Alun Salt
R&OS: pdf class User Contributions - http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf...
PHP class to make mailing list labels
- Alun Salt
National Statistics Online - Suicides - http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci...
Wondering about this as a proxy for happiness measure. Not convinced it would work.
- Alun Salt
The Proper Study Of Mankind: Thoughts on the Templeton Foundation - http://psom.blogspot.com/2010...
Thoughts on Templeton funding
- Alun Salt
The 1140px CSS Grid System/Framework · Fluid down to mobile - http://cssgrid.net/
This looks to be potentially very useful.
- Alun Salt
Sahil Lavingia - Optimize your website for iPhone in 10 minutes. - http://sahillavingia.com/blog...
Alt CSS for mobile media.
- Alun Salt
Re: I’ve taken the plunge with MailChimp - http://adventuresinstudentdeve...
"MailChimp looks good. I agree with Vic that Monday morning might be the better time simply to avoid being left in the mailbox over the weekend. I've nothing helpful to say about the email though as it looks professional and I simply can't see what could be improved. Can't even find a pedantic spelling mistake just to show I've read it. :)"
- Alun Salt
Re: I’ve taken the plunge with MailChimp - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"MailChimp looks good. I agree with Vic that Monday morning might be the better time simply to avoid being left in the mailbox over the weekend. I've nothing helpful to say about the email though as it looks professional and I simply can't see what could be improved. Can't even find a pedantic spelling mistake just to show I've read it. :)"
- Alun Salt
Re: I’ve taken the plunge with MailChimp - http://studentdevpt.com/2010...
"MailChimp looks good. I agree with Vic that Monday morning might be the better time simply to avoid being left in the mailbox over the weekend. I've nothing helpful to say about the email though as it looks professional and I simply can't see what could be improved. Can't even find a pedantic spelling mistake just to show I've read it. :)"
- Alun Salt
Re: IVF Nobel Prize: shame the Vatican can't congratulate Prof Edwards - http://telegraphblogs.disqus.com/ivf_nob...
"In that case I've probably mangled the scenario. If it's a choice between someone else being wrong and me, I'd tend to put money on it being me. :) It's a good book though, The Pig That Wants to be Eaten."
- Alun Salt
Re: IVF Nobel Prize: shame the Vatican can't congratulate Prof Edwards - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture...
"In that case I've probably mangled the scenario. If it's a choice between someone else being wrong and me, I'd tend to put money on it being me. :) It's a good book though, The Pig That Wants to be Eaten."
- Alun Salt
Re: IVF Nobel Prize: shame the Vatican can't congratulate Prof Edwards - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"In that case I've probably mangled the scenario. If it's a choice between someone else being wrong and me, I'd tend to put money on it being me. :) It's a good book though, The Pig That Wants to be Eaten."
- Alun Salt
Re: IVF Nobel Prize: shame the Vatican can't congratulate Prof Edwards - http://telegraphblogs.disqus.com/ivf_nob...
"If you want an exact date for the start of development, I can't give you one. My body is the result of life combining and recombining over billions of years. You might feel that life starts with conception, but that can only happen with live egg and sperm cells. I see a chain of life rather than continuous sparks. It does raise the question that, if it's the fact that a human cell is alive that qualifies it for protection, is contraception murder? It reminds me of one of Julian Baggini's philosophical puzzles. You're in a clinic that has caught fire. You're in a lab in this clinic with a convenient trolley and a fire-retardant blanker. On this trolley is space for two three-year old children (who for some reason are in the lab) or a heavy freezer that contains a thousand embryos from IVF treatment. You're only going to make one trip out of the clinic. Who or what do you choose to save?"
- Alun Salt
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