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JSONSelect is an experimental selector language for JSON. It makes it easy to access data in complex JSON documents. It feels like CSS. Why not give it a try? - Bill Jackson

TR-Lines (2011) ARTWORK BY JOAO MARTINHO MOURA HTML5 Visual Art - "Transversal Lines, 2011" Made with processingjs Recomended browsers, in better result order: safari5, chrome3, firefox3, ie8 HTML5 DIGITAL ART is a set of sketches implemented in the html5 canvas. All sketches made in processing.js. - Bill Jackson

Complex and slick JavaScript-based animation has been made easier with the emergence of frameworks and libraries that give developers the ability to create stunning and eye-grabbing animation and transition effects that make it easy these complex tasks. In this article, you will read about the top 10 JavaScript-based animation frameworks and libraries that will enable you to create engaging and captivating user experiences. - Bill Jackson

U.S. Obesity Trends Trends by State 1985–2009 Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater. BMI is calculated from a person's weight and height and provides a reasonable indicator of body fatness and weight categories that may lead to health problems. Obesity is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer, and type 2 diabetes. During the past 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States. In 2009, only Colorado and the District of Columbia had a prevalence of obesity less than 20%. Download the Maps The prevalence of obesity is depicted in a PowerPoint slide presentation format. (30 slides total, PPT-2.9Mb) Thirty-three states had a prevalence equal to or greater than 25%; nine of these states (Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia) had a prevalence of obesity equal to or greater than 30%. - Bill Jackson

The Sangaku Case Mod It’s a fusion of computer technology with Japanese the furniture-making tradition. Sangaku translates to “mathematics tablet” in Japanese. - Bill Jackson

I managed to solve my problem (which must have been a corrupted database) without demoting my OD to standalone. This has allowed me to leave the server running in 'standard' mode so that the day-to-day administrator can still use Server Preferences. The procedure I followed was: - Bill Jackson

The Space Station Light Human space flight is an awesome part of living in the future. But why does it still seem so abstract? There are people in space right now! Did you know that? Do you know how many there are? ISS-Notify is a simple attempt at making our space program more real. Many times a day the international space station passes overhead unnoticed. Often it happens during the day when it's too bright to see the tiny dot in the sky. So this light will pulse and shine whenever the station is overhead -- making the invisible visible. - Bill Jackson

In the post, the user wanted to load a YAML object into his hash and then present the data from the hash in a form. Needless to say it was not very DRY the way it had to be implemented. So I started looking into it, I found this. This solution was a great starting point for where I ended up, but it was not general enough, it was hard coded, plus it was missing the getters and setters. So it turns out that in ruby it wasn't too much trouble to convert a hash into a class object. So let's get started: - Bill Jackson

Based on the latest developments in neurotechnology, the Emotiv EPOC is a revolutionary, new personal interface for human computer interaction. - Bill Jackson

An edible art exhibit? Sounds great. An edible art exhibit at the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami? Even better. Renowned body painter, Filioppo Ioco's fine art exhibit Fun Foods (warning: Flash site) focuses on the body as a delicacy. The exhibit features photos depicting nude models rolled into tasty treats and painted accordingly. Images of people hidden in oozing piles of pancakes, banana splits and s'mores has us worried about the vegans out there for a minute, but don't sweat; there are one or two sexy carrots included in the set. While some are tongue in cheek (for example, the penis-shaped bomb pop), many of them challenge you to find the model in amongst the food. Photographs from the exhibit below the jump (do we even need to tell you NSFW?). - Bill Jackson

C'Dent is a new Acmeist programming language for writing portable modules. It is based on the computer programming principle known as H.O.P.E. (Hack Once, Please Everyone) When you write a module in C'Dent, you can use it in a dozen different programming languages. For instance, you could write a module in Python and use it in JavaScript, or you could write a module in JavaScript and use it in Perl 6, Ruby or Java. - Bill Jackson

don't buy bitcoins... use carrots instead Carrot is the first vegetable that is completely distributed. The network is made up of users like yourself so no grocer or supermarket is required between you and whomever you're trading with. This decentralization is the basis for Carrot's security and freedom. Your Carrots can be accessed from anywhere with a garden. Anybody can start growing, buying, selling or accepting Carrots regardless of their location. You don't have to be a criminal to wake up one day and find your garden has been raided. Rules vary from place to place, but in most jurisdictions gardens may be raided by rabbit collection agencies, by a competing vegetable market, by not fertilising or for terms of service violations. In contrast, Carrots are like bitcoins - seizing them requires access to your private seeds, which could be placed on a carrot stick locked in your fridge, thereby enjoying the full legal and practical protections of physical property. - Bill Jackson

Streamgraphs are a generalization of stacked area graphs where the baseline is free. By shifting the baseline, it is possible to minimize the change in slope (or “wiggle”) in individual series, thereby making it easier to perceive the thickness of any given layer across the data. Byron & Wattenberg describe several streamgraph algorithms in “Stacked Graphs—Geometry & Aesthetics”, several of which are implemented by pv.Layout.Stack. As additional examples, see stacked graphs of employment and unemployment statistics. - Bill Jackson

FACET is a computer program developed by NASA that generates simulations for managing air traffic scenarios. It provides a "big picture" view of what's happening in the skies overhead. For any given moment in time, it can show thousands of aircraft swarming through our national airspace. With each aircraft represented as a tiny icon, a FACET simulation can look like an "ant farm in the sky," with aircraft clustering around major airports like ants targeting a drop of peanut butter. You may have seen video generated from FACET on the morning news during air travel outlook reports. - Bill Jackson

Orthogonal is an unusual computer language in which your program flow can go sideways. In actuality in can go in just about any direction you could want. Orthogonal is currently a proof-of-concept experiment, and right now the language is rather primitive. Nonetheless, a working interpreter has been created, and several non-trivial programs have been written for it, including the pi spigot algorithm. - Bill Jackson

This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn't record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer. - Bill Jackson

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MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all modern browsers. No more setup for readers. No more browser plugins. No more font installations… It just works. - Bill Jackson

tmux is similar to screen as it lets you run numerous TTY’s in the same terminal window. It supports some very cool and intuitive features natively as well as a much more readable configuration syntax (ever looked at a .screenrc file?). - Bill Jackson

This API returns the Consumer Broadband Test speed test statistics for a US County given the passed Latitude and Longitude. The statistics are grouped into wireline and wireless and are the number of tests, average download speed, average upload speed, maximum download speed and maximum upload speed. This data is calculated nightly and includes all tests to date performed through the consumer broadband test. We are providing this API to increase the value of the consumer broadband test. Currently the consumer broadband test only gives the result of the individual test. We think individuals would like to know the context of their test; do I get a similar result to the average tests in my county? The more people know about their broadband access speed the better. - Bill Jackson

We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. We decided to honor our hacker roots and challenge convention by custom designing and building our software, servers and data centers from the ground up. The result is a data center full of vanity free servers which is 38% more efficient and 24% less expensive to build and run than other state-of-the-art data centers1. But we didn't want to keep it all for ourselves. Instead, we decided to collaborate with the entire industry and create the Open Compute Project, to share these technologies as they evolve. - Bill Jackson

ISO-Base™ Seismic Isolation Platforms work by using the principle of base isolation to decouple seismic shock and vibration from equipment through the use of our patented Ball-N-Cone™ Technology. This eliminates or dramatically reduces the path on which damaging shock waves and vibrations can travel. - Bill Jackson

A lightweight, modular JavaScript game engine to easily produce high quality games. Includes a large variety of components such as animation, event management, redraw regions, collision detection, sprites and more. - Bill Jackson

A filmed compilation of interviews, explanations & case studies A project by Tim Anglade Presented by Scality With additional support from InfiniteGraph As his NOSQL Summer was drawing to a close, Tim Anglade put out a call for sponsorships to try to foster additional attention, sharing & goodwill in the worldwide NOSQL community. Among those answering the call were Scality & InfiniteGraph, who generously offered to go above & beyond the initial expectations and whole-heartedly agreed to support a new community endeavor. And so in late 2010, Tim embarked on a 77-day Tour around the World from Paris to New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Tokyo, Rome, Berlin, Malmö & London. At each stop he'd meet & interview NOSQL vendors, users & thought-leaders — and organize or participate in a few events. The resulting video footage is assembled here. Here’s to hoping you’ll have as much fun watching them as Scality, InfiniteGraph and Tim had fun putting them together. - Bill Jackson

Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. It is designed to support the following * Persistent messaging with O(1) disk structures that provide constant time performance even with many TB of stored messages. * High-throughput: even with very modest hardware Kafka can support hundreds of thousands of messages per second. * Explicit support for partitioning messages over Kafka servers and distributing consumption over a cluster of consumer machines while maintaining per-partition ordering semantics. * Support for parallel data load into Hadoop. The use for activity stream processing makes Kafka comparable to Facebook's Scribe or Cloudera's Flume, though the architecture and primitives are very different for these systems and make Kafka more comparable to a traditional messaging system. See our design page for more details. - Bill Jackson

Portland's only Headphone Boutique and Digital Audio Hi-Fi Salon - Bill Jackson

Why “Upcycled Electronics”? Upcycled: All of my products are made with as many recycled bits and pieces as possible, from the bands to the clasps and from the wires to the baubles found on each item. Electronics: Most items are made by allowing my inner child to do fun things with electricity. Cacophonous Creations? What’s the use in creating something if you can’t create a little cacophonous joy with it? *weg* - Bill Jackson

Sparrow is a minimalist mail application for Mac. It was designed to keep things simple and efficient. No fancy stuff here... just your mail and nothing else. - Bill Jackson

Through technology, the scientific method, and the innovative application of the ancient vitriol we will come together to vanquish that which is evil. Prepare for our revelation at Open Source Bridge, June 2011. - Bill Jackson

Casual users might be satisfied with plain text editors, such as TextEdit on Mac OS, or Notepad on Windows. However power users, or software developers are always in need of a more advanced text editor. Features like code syntax highlighting, line numbers, extended search and replace, proper encoding support etc, are essential elements. While using Windows at the office, Notepad++ (free application) is my favorite text editor. Unfortunately Notepad++ has not been ported to Mac OS yet. For quite a long time on Mac OS I have been running Smultron as the main text editor. The problem is that Smultron is not being developed any more. And although it’s fast enough, I have had some issues while loading large files (e.g. 100k lines), as well as in some cases difficulty detecting UTF-8 encoding properly. Therefore I decided to look for an alternative * free * text editor, and it was TextWrangler that has won me over. - Bill Jackson