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Bay Area: Steven Kaye posted a message
“Anyone know where to get No On 8 yard signs? The No On 8 Store doesn't have 'em.”
Tuesday at 9:25 pm - Link
So...no, then? - Steven Kaye
They have rally signs (maybe too fragile) and vinyl banners (maybe too big). Hmm. - Jason Wehmhoener
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RAPatton posted a link
Tesla Motors hits the brakes amid credit crisis - Los Angeles Times
8 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link
"The credit crisis has hit the country's leading electric car maker. Citing "extraordinary times," Tesla Motors, maker of the battery-powered, $109,000 Roadster, said Wednesday that difficult market conditions were forcing it to delay production of its next-generation vehicle, close two offices, lay off an unspecified number of employees and replace its chief executive." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
Damnit!!! It's a conspiracy!!! That's C-O-N....Spiracy!!! - Brian Norwood
NOT FAIR! - Charlie Anzman
This falls under the "so what?" category. A few hundred investment bankers, sports stars, and celebrities won't get to show off how green they are before jumping on a private jet for Davos. The world won't come to a halt. - Chris Baskind
Not that I could ever afford the roadster, or even their sedan, but I was hopeful for a coupe that was in the low 20's. - Brian Norwood
Chris, they do have a pretty nifty battery pack. Personally I'd be very interested in just buying their battery technology for a conversion project. - Jason Wehmhoener
DO NOT LIKE. :( - silpol
Jason: You may have the opportunity to buy the whole company. It's shame they're having to put off the sedan. But even that is crazy expensive. The mainstream car companies will beat them to market now. - Chris Baskind
Calacanis must be beside himself about this... - Mark VandenBerg
Does he have a car yet? Likely everybody that plunked down cash for a place in line will be po'ed. This is faintly reminiscent of Tucker - Brian Sullivan
He bought a roadster, not sure if he has taken delivery yet. - Mark VandenBerg
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Jason Wehmhoener posted a link
Election 2008 :: Karl Rove
17 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link
"With three weeks before Election Day, the number of toss-up states continues to dwindle as Florida (27 EV) and Colorado (9 EV) move from toss-up to Obama, while Indiana (11 EV) moves from toss-up to McCain. Only four states with a combined 51 electoral votes remain as toss-ups, while Obama continues to lead with 313 electoral votes to McCain’s 174 votes." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
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Mark Trapp posted a link
Six New Star Trek Photos Revealed
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19 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link
From /Film: "Paramount has begun to distribute the first production photos from JJ Abrams‘ Star Trek around the web. Above is a first look at the crew on the Bridge of the USS Enterprise from MTV. Lindelof says that Kirk’s Black shirt is the Captain uniform, and that the red shirt crew member in the background is of no importance (ie Uhura probably replaces her after she dies early on). The bridge looks extremely cool, I can;t wait to see more of it. UGO has the first cast photo of the Enterprise crew (From left to right: Anton Yelchin as Chekov, Chris Pine as James T. Kirk, Simon Pegg as Lt. Montgomery Scott, Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy, John Cho as Sulu and Zoe Saldana as Uhura)." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet
Zachary Quinto looks exactly like Sylar in his Vulcan nerve pinch shot on the site. The bridge looks really flashy and the cast looks like the cast of Gossip Girl. Not really sure how I feel about it. - Mark Trapp
That's not sylar? - Lindsey Smith
Same actor: I haven't seen him do anything else, so he just might play Spock as Sylar. Spock has.... the hunger! - Mark Trapp
Dude . . . That's John Cho from Harold and Kumar! Overall it seems like a pretty good casting - Lindsey Smith
Where's Kirk? - Tad - the Meme Maker
The guy in the black shirt I think - Lindsey Smith
Yeah. JJ Abrams decided the captain needed his own uniform. - Mark Trapp
That's not Kirk! bah - Tad - the Meme Maker
Oh, this is exciting! - Jason Wehmhoener
Seriously impressive cast and casting. Disappointed Sylar couldn't keep his own eyebrows, he's only half the man without them. Who the fuck is Chris Pine? - Toby Graham
They've succeed on casting... I just hope the writing is up to par. - Mark Philpot
Looks sweet! This shit just made my day! - Ňicķ
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Yosemite Internet Vacation Specials : Tenaya Lodge
20 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link
Woohoo! Yosemite 11/21-11/25 Gotta get some tire chains! - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
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Recchiuti Confections Candied Orange Peel - Fine Chooclates, Chocolate Gifts from San Francisco
21 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link
"An entire box of one of Recchiuti's most popular chocolates...Candied Orange Peel. Fresh orange peel is candied in-house and painstakingly cut by hand before being enrobed in smooth bittersweet chocolate. Available Oct 1st though 31st only." OMG Nadine must love me. nom nom swoon! - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
yummmm! - Susan Beebe
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Sonica: Grant Fitzgerald posted a link
Midfield General featuring Noel Fielding - "Midfielding"
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yesterday at 7:16 am - Link
Her eyes were dangerous but beautiful at the same time, leopards like marquess. Martin Pinemartin. - Jason Brooks
sooo ... wacked ... - Jason Wehmhoener
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Mona N. posted a message
“How come there's no mention of the mini Window? No need for 3rd party apps to keep up. Seriously. FF FTW!”
21 hours ago - Link
agreed. i'm liking the mini-window. - Frankie Warren
mini window isn't working for me. IE6 thing? - Matt Musgrave
I have the mini Window up on the side and 'regular' view in my browser. Holy wow, this is AWESOME. - Mona N.
IE6? Gyah, burn that! - Mo Kargas
Yeah, mini-window is a great addition. Wish I could have it embedded into the same page though for when I'm only able to use a single monitor. Just a 50/50 or 70/30 split. Mini-live feed on one side, normal feed on the other. - xero
Good idea! - Gavin
i enjoy your enthusiasm mona. lol - Cee Bee the friendfeeder
This is seriously all sortsa awesome. I have FF in my peripheral vision HAHA - Mona N.
Im speed reading suddenly - johnpiercy
I need this mini window in a sidebar. Somebody get on that, STAT! - Bec "Jane Winebox" Rowe
Real time is a window in my peripheral vision, my browser is standard view. Found my way to FF. YEAH! - Mona N.
How am I supposed to get any work done now? - Kevin Cearns
i know, right? - Jason Wehmhoener
@xero In a mac you could use Fluid. - David Bittencourt
The point is, there is no need for Fluid or AIR... :\ - Mona N.
Actually, there is a need for Fluid if you want a separate app with its own icon and its own process. :P - l0ckergn0me
@l0ckergn0me What about Fluid? - Bryce
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Eric Rice posted a message
“Singularity: Would smart AI be able to prevent this kind of financial crisis or would AI be regulated by special interests? (Repost from Twitter)”
Sunday at 1:05 pm - Link
To expand, could Singularity be considered socialist? - Eric Rice
Being singularity still Scifi, I would say that it depends on if you're heading for an utopia or a dystopia... - Marcos Marado via fftogo
I wonder if they will bring that up? - http://www.singularitysummit.c... - Nice Fish Films
I'll be at the Singularity Summit, so I'll see :) - Eric Rice
special interests will control AI until it's soe chaep and prevalent that anyone can employ it. by then it will be of magrinal effect - MikeAmundsen
Thank you very much for that link Jason! - Marcos Marado via fftogo
Not even AI understands economics. - (teh)Kenny
The AI would sell its stock, then create a crisis, then buy up cheap stock, then calm everyone down. Repeat and rinse. - Amit Patel
If it was responsible for ensuring the compliance of regulations and transparency, sure. And for going on killing rampages on the executives who have had the awful taste of throwing expensive events *after* being saved by the government... (e.g. AIG and Fortis) - Pedro Pinheiro
Eric: What an incredibly provocative question. I think you need to separate "regulation" and "special interests" because the correct and democratic purpose of regulation is specifically about preventing special interests from jeopardizing a system - whether it's health, finance or food. Here in Canada, we just had a major meat contamination that resulted in many deaths. The private meat company was "self regulating." Private interests have to be answerable to the public if they serve the public. - melmcb
Special interests are tradionally framed by republicans as social groups and political causes who get in the way of "business." The "special interests" we need be most worried about are those who actually hold power. Like the thousands of high paid corporate lobbyists who fight *against* the checks and balances that protect the public good, safety and quality standards. - melmcb
How smart? Are they idiot savants who follow a narrowly-defined set of criteria? There's a famous story about neural networks where the programmers thought they were teaching a system how to recognize tanks and it was just being trained to prefer certain combinations of light and dark. Can they self-modify? - Steven Kaye
@Mel: There are also rent-seeking and regulatory capture, though, in which special interests define regulation. - Steven Kaye
I thought quants and Financial mess was skynet..was I wrong? - Fred Grott
AI would (by definition) be regulated by its own interests. So you could postulate that our entire economy is being manipulated by an Excel VBA macro that "woke up" and decided to crush the puny humans. - Chuck LeDuc Díaz
Of course that if you're talking about AI as what you see in Iain Banks "The Culture", then the answer is just not having stocks nor money. - Marcos Marado via fftogo
In my current project, sentient AI is normal and if you evolve the virus protection industry, you include things like rampancy protection, to prevent AI from going about the robotic 3 law violations... the treatment for news data being purely synthetic and robotic to avoid bias. I suppose this could apply to finances as well... anyway, tangent, but wanted to throw out the bad sentience issue. - Eric Rice
I think it all depends on the rules within which the AI had to live within and of course if it was allowed to modify it's own programming or not. But in reality, all an expert system or AI would have been able to do would have been to clamp down on money withdrawals from the banks and the sales of stock as the markets went down too fast. Unless you also had a Fed AI that had the ability and power to do everything that Bernanke and Paulson are doing right now. It would be interesting though to see what... - Alex Scoble CISSP
the economy would be like if there were a bunch of AI and expert systems regulating everything. - Alex Scoble CISSP
Marcos++. Seriously, if we're honestly contemplating strong AI then I think we need to consider expanding our definition of "economy" far beyond the myopic confines of the stock market.We currently have many externalities off the balance sheet that have a real direct impact on the sustainability and quality of life and the continued ability to trade goods and services. - Jason Wehmhoener
Jason +1 - Clay Newton
That's the whole point, though. This was a mathematical catastrophe, an actual singularity, a divide-by-zero moment. None of the economic models predicted that anything like this could happen. Oh, less rigorous thinkers could see it coming from a mile away, but that's not the type of thinking that can easily be assigned a Gödel number. - Victor Ganata
I dunno about mathematical catastrophe unless 'i don't have the money to pay for that' = bad math on buyers' parts, lol - Eric Rice
What are the AI's predispositions? - Brandon
Many finacial problems come from Gov. social engineering; like mandating everyone should own a home. Now, if congress was an AI... - Robert Hafer
would smart AI see a point in it all? I think smart AI would go off and start playing GTA or something ;) - alphaxion
Victor: this was not only easy to predict, but actually it was known it was going to happen. We just didn't know when, but that's just because no one really invested the power cycles needed to do so. - Marcos Marado via fftogo
Thinking about it; if you have a Congress AI you'll also want a strong human President to veto "The Destroy All Humans Act of 2012". That'll be no time to be bi-partisan. Or be bullied by being called a humanist bigot. - Robert Hafer
BTW for those who think this crisis was caused by people spending beyond their means...it wasn't. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2... - Alex Scoble CISSP
They don't hold ALL the blame, but certainly it can't be overlooked that credit industry loves this stuff. They hate when you pay your bills and they hate even more when you pay it OFF. Your debt makes other people rich. Keeping up with the Joneses, Veblen Effects, the whole nine. Ad infinitum. - Eric Rice
Well, no, that's not what screwed us. What screwed us is a bunch of guys thought it would be a good idea to bundle up those bad mortgages into securities and get people to invest in them, with the promise that they'd make a ton of money. At least, all their models showed that they'd make a ton of money. Obviously, this was not the case. - Victor Ganata
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City hopes to shuttle people in futuristic 'podcars' - CNN.com
yesterday at 9:32 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"In Ithaca, a network could connect the downtown business district and main business boulevard with the campuses of Cornell University and Ithaca College, which sit on hillsides flanking the city. When the two colleges are in session, Ithaca's population balloons from about 30,000 to about 80,000, causing big-city congestion on the city's roads. Santa Cruz, California, recently hired a contractor to design a small solar-powered podcar system that would loop through the city's downtown and along its beach front. The Institute for Sustainable Transportation predicts a podcar system will be installed in an American city within the next five years, although it is likely to cost tens of millions of dollars. Because of the huge initial investment, funding would have to come from both public and private sectors, IST officials said." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
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Ajaxian » Bacon - a sizzling new YUI utility
yesterday at 9:15 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Beware of what you ask for. After Stephen Woods asked on Twitter why there are just no Bacon utilities in the browser Dav Glass of the YUI team went right to it and created YUI Bacon. YUI bacon is now the only JS solution to fry any HTML element with a few lines of code" - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
Mona will eat this up! Ha, ha!! - Susan Beebe
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Typography: Jason Wehmhoener posted a link
The alphabet that keeps on giving - the johnson banks thought for the week
The alphabet that keeps on giving - the johnson banks thought for the week
The alphabet that keeps on giving - the johnson banks thought for the week
yesterday at 8:54 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"There seem to be certain irrefutables about life as a graphic designer. That Helvetica will be everyone’s favourite typeface (and film). That, if ever asked to design anything for a film client, they will happily play with sprockets, film reels and/or directors chairs as iconography. That (whilst they would never be caught dead wearing the colours themselves) they will merrily recommend phenomenally bright pinks, oranges and greens to clients on a weekly basis. The other irrefutable truth is that they will spend inordinate amounts of time twisting and turning found objects in their hands or on their computers to make letterforms, to an almost obsessive degree." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
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Probe Sees Unused Internet
yesterday at 7:59 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
From MIT Technology Review: "In a little more than two years, the last Internet addresses will be assigned by the international group tasked with managing the 4.3 billion numbers. And yet, while most Internet engineers are looking to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the next-generation Internet addressing scheme, a research team has probed the entire Internet and found that the problem may not be as bad as many fear. The probe reveals millions of Internet addresses that have been allocated but remain unused." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet
Gee, ya think? - Jason Wehmhoener
Lots of unused telephone numbers out there that the telcos never got around to assigning, as well. - K Welch
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Donato (ricin) posted a link
Ariel Atom 3 | Base Price: $65k
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Tuesday at 4:28 pm - Link
It would be a lot of fun, but it seems unnecessarily expensive. There are other exocars out there: http://exocars.net/ - Jason Wehmhoener
GIMME - Mo Kargas
Yeah, I'd take just about any of them. - Donato (ricin)
There's an electric version of the Atom too: http://www.wrightspeed.com/x1.... - Donato (ricin)
the first Tesla was built on the Atom - clarke thomas
Oh, kewl, didn't know that. - Donato (ricin)
Ever since I saw the first Atom on Top Gear, I have wanted one with every fiber of my being. - ∵JPGlockner∴
I'm with Phil with on this. It would kill me, but OH MAN! - Stephen Pierzchala
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Ana posted a link
Tuesday at 2:15 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Thats cool - Christopher Welle
Awesome, both candidates give me $0 tax cut. - Jason Wehmhoener
I got $0 from both candidates too. - Morton Fox
Obama: $1000, McCain: $200. Confirms what I already thought. - ha3rvey
Obama: $1000 McCain: $0. - Christopher Welle
Obama $500, McCain $0 -- but I knew this already - William Harryman
Obama: $500 McCain: $0 ... I suppose I need to get to work on having dependents. - Erica Baker
Obama 0, McCain 0 ... @Erica I also need dependents.... if you want some help there, hollar - Sean Reiser
Obama: $500, McCain: $0... I kinda think my taxes should go up with the messes we're in, oh wells - Roshan Vyas
Interesting that it says, "You will probably not get a tax cut under the Obama-Biden plan" instead of "You will probably pay more taxes under the Obama-Biden plan" Just as true as, "You will probably not get better looking under the Obama-Biden plan" I suppose. - Doug Bloebaum
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Outsanity posted a message
“Answer this question honestly. Have you ever called anyone by a racial slur out of anger?”
Monday at 8:25 pm - via Ping.fm - Link
No. Absolutely not. I've never been around racism personally but it clearly goes on. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
Nope. Out of humor/irony, sure. But anger? I have far more effective words at my disposal for that. - Eric
Never. There's no need to attack someone, verbally or otherwise, because of race or gender or nationality. - ::Kristen::
Not in anger. - Steven "Joe" Perez
Nope - Rodfather
Not out of anger. - JMakesAwesomeSauce
Nope, never. - joshua m. neff
Never. - Alisha
Nope, can't say I have. - ha3rvey
No - Alan Le
I've heard them too many times to allow it of myself even in jest. - Michael W. May via twhirl
nope - MikeAmundsen
nope - RAPatton
I was the recipient of such my entire childhood in Hawaii. "Stupid haole" was the most common form. I can't think of a specific example to answer your question, but yeah, I probably have before. Let's see if anyone else is brave enough to admit it. - Josh Haley
Profanity yes, slurs no - Amber aka SDA
yes, not proud of it, but yes. same reason as josh mentioned. growing up a hated minority in hawaii, getting beat down only because of race. it sucked, but being 10 minutes from the beach didn't suck. google: 'kill hoale day' to see that we're not just whining - Morgan Haley
I was going to say "all the time", but then I saw the "anger" part. If I get pissed, I would rather attack your physical appearance...mental abilities...your mother's sexual escapades...etc.. Racial slurs actually never come to mind. - Rah™
curse some one out in anger? yeah, i'll be honest. but racial slurs? hell no. - genieyclo
I'm with Rah... resorting to racial slurs is far to easy and insults my intelligence rather than theirs. I go for deep-cutting wit and a few 'f**ks' for punctuation :) - John Worthington
Never. Ever. I do not intend to ever start. - possible248
No. But I can cuss like a merchant marine. - Cyndy
I think when you are that mad, you go for the jugular. You are looking to do the most emotional damage you can. And generally when you get that mad, you know the person in some capacity, so you know something that hurts more than skin tone. That's why a guy like Micheal Richards uses the N word. He's pissed, he knows nothing about the guy except he's black, so he goes there. I think sitting around thinking "My group is superior to that group" has very little to do with it. - Brian Norwood
But to answer the question, no. I've always had a bigger gun than that to fire off. - Brian Norwood
I think sometimes what comes out is what you've been called. For me it's bitch - I've been called a bitch a lot, especially in early childhood, so when I'm angry I tend to use that. - Alix Whitmire ƸӜƷ
An interesting point about this is, for me personally, you could call me whatever racial slurs you want. It's not going to hurt my feelings. If anything, I will only lose all respect for you. You'll still get your ass beat, but that's only because that's the minimum punishment required. - Rah™
I remember as a kid I called a girl a mulatto. I didn't know what it meant, but I heard other kids calling her that so I did it when she made me mad. I don't know if that counts as a slur, but I definitely meant it as a slur when I was like 10. - Andrew Burd
Rah, just out of interest, how proficient are you at the 'ass beating' on a scale of 1 to 10... 10 being 'Ninja' and 1 being 'Steve Urkel' - John Worthington
nah, i just throw cuffs if it gets down to it though those days are mostly long gone - Cee Bee the friendfeeder
I've been on the receiving end. - Melissa
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Notes on Python deployment using Fabric
Tuesday at 11:56 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"I found out about Fabric via Armin Ronacher's article Deploying Python Web Applications. Fabric is a Capistrano inspired deployment tool for the Python community. It is very simple to use. There are 4 main commands: local is almost like os.system because it runs a command on the local machine, run and sudo run a command on a remote machine as either a normal user or as root, and put transfers a file to a remote machine." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
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Elastic Server On-Demand: Home
Tuesday at 11:55 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Django and other frameworks or bare-bones distros packaged as VMs for free download or deployment to Amazon EC2 or Google AppEngine. Make your own servers and packages too. - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
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my love for you is a stampede of horses.: hilary pecis.
my love for you is a stampede of horses.: hilary pecis.
my love for you is a stampede of horses.: hilary pecis.
Tuesday at 9:46 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"hilary pecis' show from the paradigm shift, opened last week at receiver gallery in san francisco. her layered drawings and collages are breathtaking. influenced by technology and folk art, hilary blends her mediums seamlessly. they have a dark, beautiful armageddon like feel to them with shards of color from glossy magazines dispersed with out. from the paradigm shift closes on september 26th" - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
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Steven Kaye posted a message
“Trying to cut caffeine out (except for morning coffee). Fruit juices have lots of sugar, so not the optimal solution. Any suggestions for something without caffeine or sugar I can substitute? Besides water, obviously.”
Tuesday at 8:55 am - Link
decaf coffee? If not coffee, than decaf tea? - Iris
Many kinds of herbal tea. You could juice veggies. Not all sugar is necessarily "bad" and fruit has lots of good stuff in it. Guess it depends on the context of your overall diet, exercise and metabolism. - Jason Wehmhoener
Try the green white fusion tea from Stash. It's not entirely caffeine free but the amount is small, plus I find the tea has a natural sweetness that stands without added sugar/honey. Does well hot or over ice. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Tea especially white and green. While it won't cut it out completely the caffeine levels are really low and almost negligible. - Lindsey Smith
White tea is very gentle and pleasant, I agree. - Jason Wehmhoener
Caffeine-free diet pop? I think the other suggestions are better. - Låura Ħarris
i did flavored seltzer for a while. there's a particular brand I love that I think is only sold on the east coast. Bastards. - Kaia ♥s Seitan.
Flavored mineral water is pretty good. I made a rule of only drinking sugar cane soda, which means I rarely have soda these days. - kε̄ndRæk
Laura - We do drink diet or caffeine-free diet soda, but looking for better alternatives. - Steven Kaye
i'm a big fan of carbonated mineral waters w/ a bit of flavorings, but no sugar [http://www.lacroixwater.com/]. some of my friends say it's disgusting (w/ sweeteners), but i like 'em. - MikeAmundsen
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Jason Wehmhoener posted a link
World of Good | Notes on Design
Tuesday at 8:59 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Ebay has created a new sub-site where “shopping shapes the world.” World of good offers products designed with sustainability in mind. Lately, I’ve been thinking that my choices as a consumer could be as significant as my professional ambitions to take on responsible clients and projects. And what girl doesn’t like to learn that a shopping spree can help others? Users can search by cause, purchase impact, or category. Art, clothing and accessories, educational objects, and sports are just a few of the many categories. Check out this hip felt laptop bag by Tom Bihn (biodegradable and made from fair trade materials), create a studio mascot with one of these cotton stuffed llamas, or imagine your business card in this funky frame by Fred R. Lopez, whose work has been used for the New Mexico logo." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
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Tuesday at 8:28 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Ontologies are enabling technology for the Semantic Web.  They are a means for people to state what they mean by the terms used in data that they might generate, share, or consume.  Folksonomies are an emergent phenomenon of the Social Web. They arise from data about how people associate terms with content that they generate, share, or consume.  Recently the two ideas have been put into opposition, as if they were right and left poles of a political spectrum.  This is a false dichotomy; they are more like apples and oranges. In fact, as the Semantic Web matures and the Social Web grows, there is increasing value in applying Semantic Web technologies to the data of the Social Web. This article is an attempt to clarify the distinct roles for ontologies and folksonomies, and previews some new work that applies the two ideas together - an ontology of folksonomy." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
Take with a shaker of salt, as this presentation was given by a vendor, but might be of interest: http://www.kapsgroup.com/prese... - Steven Kaye
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Perroquet
Tuesday at 8:26 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Born out of a lifelong fascination with science photography and nature documentaries, Perroquet showcases a body of work by fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø..." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
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Installation of an irreversible axis on a dynamic timeline
Tuesday at 8:26 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Peripetics is a six act motion piece presenting six imaginations of disoriented systems, including the evolution of educational plant-body-machine models and liquid building materials. Crafted by surreal motion studio Zeitguised the brilliant 3 min film was developed for the opening exhibition at the Zirkel Gallery." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
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Labyrint: interactive performance through body navigation
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Tuesday at 8:24 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"A modern dance performance that's part of a danish installation called Labyrint, at the Kaleidoskop K2. The performance uses infrared tracking and interactive video projection, developed by the programmer Jonas Jongejan, and Ole Kristensen." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
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Cee Bee the friendfeeder posted a link
Novelty theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Monday at 11:44 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Novelty theory attempts to calculate the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. It is an idea conceived of and discussed at length by Terence McKenna from the early 1970s until his death in the year 2000. Novelty theory involves ontology, morphogenesis, and eschatology. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation. According to McKenna, when "novelty" is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as timewave zero or simply the timewave results." - Cee Bee the friendfeeder via Bookmarklet
The graph shows at what times, but never at what locations, novelty is increasing or decreasing. According to the timewave graph, great periods of novelty occurred about 4 billion years ago when Earth was formed, 65 million years ago when dinosaurs were extinct and mammals expanded, about 10,000 years ago after the end of the ice age, around late 18th century when social and scientific revolutions progressed, during the sixties, around the time of 9/11, and with coming novelty periods in November 2008, October 2010, with the novelty progressing towards the infinity on 21st December 2012 - Cee Bee the friendfeeder
An interesting perspective http://dataisnature.com/?p=469 - Jason Wehmhoener
yes, jason, i was reading that earlier and felt like posting about novelty theory, as i've read a bunch of terence mckenna including timewave zero - Cee Bee the friendfeeder
It's an interesting concept, too bad it's not really testable. - Jason Wehmhoener
well it does take into account major "novelties" and/or happenings and events throughout the history of the world and graphs them, whereby a pattern begins to emerge. it just so happens that the point at which ultimate "novelty" occurs coincides with the end date of the mayan calendar (dec. 2012). check it out - Cee Bee the friendfeeder
Maybe the ultimate novelty is a brand-new Mayan calendar? - Kelly Fox
The trouble has to do with semantics. "Novelty" can't really be defined in an objective way, which leaves the whole thing open to cherry picking supportive data and discarding discouraging data in a purely subjective way. As someone who deals with data visualization for a living it bugs me when quant and qual get mixed up in a single data series on a chart. Keep in mind that when I first read True Hallucinations shortly after it came out in '94 I was totally enthralled by the story and the theory... - Jason Wehmhoener
...but long association with McKenna-heads since kinda took the wind out my sails for that idea after a while. Too many people just want this idea to be true and aren't willing to look at it critically. Terrence was an amazing storyteller though, gotta give him credit for that. - Jason Wehmhoener
I did find the dataisnature blog post's association with timewave theory, computer herding, and mathematical limits to be interesting though. The association points towards the possibility that sometimes feedback loops can create limit conditions. It's just really hard to imagine "infinite novelty". That pair of words is sort of a linguistic toy. Is it possible, or a flat contradiction in terms? - Jason Wehmhoener
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Lindsay Donaghe posted a message
“I am SOOOO bummed! My workplace has blocked Gmail. They had "discouraged it before but if I needed to use it for an "emergency" it was there (which I have minor one now and needed to use). Now it's officially blocked. I feel so cut off from my life. Very unhappy right now. Not happy at all.”
Monday at 9:44 am - Link
That sucks. My office did that when I was there but it was because they wanted a record of all of our emails. - Trish R
DO NOT LIKE. I'm waiting for them to pull that chit here. - Yolanda
Booo! Booo! - Daniel J. Pritchett
Oh, I'd lose my mind for sure. Between email and gchat, I am able to maintain some semblance of sanity. - .·*♥pea♥*·.
IM is already off limits, pea. Gmail was my connection otherwise. If they get rid of FF I may go nuts since it's my last connection to the outside world besides my phone (which I hate using at work). - Lindsay Donaghe
You'll manage as long as they don't cut you out of FriendF ... NO CARRIER - Jemm
Try https://mail.google.com instead of http://mail.google.com -- that's how I get around it at my office (where the latter is blocked and the former works A-OK) - Kirk Kittell
Coming to a workplace near you, Compliance of the Damned: SOX, JSOX, ISO 140001, GLB. The heavy hitters of corporate scare! - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart
That really is a bummer. Your company's behavior is silly. What do they want to archive with this ? - Ryo
Ryo, have you ever heard of information theft at 35 pages per minute? Similar philosophy to the Chinese government ;-) - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart
I realize this may be a very, very low-tech opinion, but for emergencies I rely on a telephone. Call me a luddite, I guess... - Mark VandenBerg
Hey Mark, iPhone man. - Roberto Bonini
Mark, it's one of those emergencies that is the kind that I need to take care of today but don't need to leave the office for... I could shoot off a 5 minute message and maybe have a couple of quick followups without