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2011-11-18T16:28:00.001-05:00

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Emergence of complex dynamics in a simple model of signaling ...
www.pnas.org/content/101/44/15551.full
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The 1/f behavior is restricted to very small noise intensities and there is a ... of orderedone-dimensional lattices, small-world networks, and random graphs (24). ...
1/f noise - Scholarpedia
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Oct 29, 2007 – 3.1 1/f noise in solids, condensed matter and electronic devices ... it occurs in many different systems, both in the natural world and in man-made processes. ... But data sets are finite, and arbitrarily small $f$ cannot be realized. ....from self-organized criticality occurring within neural networks in the brain. ...
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Signal propagation in small-world biological networks with weak noise
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by D Honga - 2009 - Cited by 1 - Related articles
Oct 13, 2009 – noise; Small-world network; Measure concentration. Preprint .... the underlying probability space for (1) where F is a Brownian filtration ...
Self-organized criticality in a simple model of neurons based on ...
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Jan 25, 2005 – correlations and 1/ f noise in the activity of neural popula- tions. More importantly ... description about the construction of small-world networks. ...
Spiking regularity in a noisy small-world neuronal network - Elsevier
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0301-4622(07)00171-8
by Q Li - 2007 - Cited by 4 - Related articles
The time series of the FHN system [Eqs. (1) and (2)] at different noise amplitudes in (a)–(c) the regular network (p = 0) and (d)–(f) the small-world network (p ...
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Effects of small-world connectivity on noise-induced temporal and ...
www.matjazperc.com/publications/ChaosSolitonsFractals_31_280.pdf
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by M Perc - 2007 - Cited by 35 - Related articles
noise-induced temporal and spatial order in two-dimensional small-world ... with previous studies analysing one-dimensional small-world networks [43,44], we find .....[1] Gammaitoni L, Hänggi P, Jung P, Marchesoni F. Stochastic resonance. ...
1/fα noise in spectral fluctuations of complex networks - Elsevier
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by Y Bin - 2010 - Related articles
Two well-known examples are the small-world model network proposed by Watts ... In the following we will analyze 1/f-noise in random, small-world, scale-free ...
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Traffic dynamics based on an efficient routing strategy on scale free ...
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by CY Yin - 2006 - Cited by 30 - Related articles
such as small-world phenomena by Watts and Strogatz [1] and Scale-free .....networks and highway traffic, 1/f-like noise is observed as a common property. ...
Efficiency and Cost of Economical Brain Functional Networks
www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.../journal.pcbi.0030017
by S Achard - 2007 - Cited by 263 - Related articles
Figure 1. Small-World Properties of Human Brain Functional Networks ... confirmed detrimental effects of age on integrated global efficiency (F = 8.47, df = 1,24, ..... (2005) Fractional Gaussian noise, functional MRI and Alzheimer's disease. ...
1/fα noise in spectral fluctuations of complex networks
adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PhyA..389.5328Y
by B Ye - 2010 - Related articles
1/fα noise in spectral fluctuations of complex networks ... phenomenon in various model networks, namely random, small-world, scale-free complex networks. ...

More on Murdoch's attach on wind

2011-11-07T10:44:00.000-05:00

https://www.google.com/#q=National+Weather+Service+Radar+Operations+Center+edward+ciardi

Wind farms 'disrupt military radar and inhibit weather tracking' | Mail ...
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1 hour ago – Ed Ciardi, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Radar Operations Centre in Norman, Oklahoma, said: 'The real problem is when ...
Wind Farms Disrupting Radar, Scientists Say | Fox News
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2 days ago – “It's a lot easier to filter out interference for aviation,” Ed Ciardi, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Radar Operations Center in ...
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Recent Changes to NOAA's Wind Turbine Impact Evaluation ...
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NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Norman, Oklahoma. Edward J. Ciardi. Serco ...
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Wind Farms Disrupting Radar, Scientists Say
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1 day ago – "It's a lot easier to filter out interference for aviation," Ed Ciardi, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Radar Operations Center in ...
The CLIMATE SCEPTICS Blog: More Bad News for Wind Power
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7 hours ago – Ed Ciardi from the (US) National Weather Service Radar Operations Center told Fox News: "It's a lot easier to filter out interference for aviation. ...
The CLIMATE SCEPTICS Blog
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5 hours ago – Ed Ciardi from the (US) National Weather Service Radar Operations Center told Fox News: "It's a lot easier to filter out interference for aviation. ...
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1 day ago – “It's a lot easier to filter out interference for aviation,” Ed Ciardi, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Radar Operations Center in ...
TheEEStory.com: Wind farms bad for human health
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“It's a lot easier to filter out interference for aviation,” Ed Ciardi, a meteorologist at theNational Weather Service Radar Operations Center in Norman, Okla., told ...
Science : Federal Jack
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Oct 31, 2011 – “It's a lot easier to filter out interference for aviation,” Ed Ciardi, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Radar Operations Center in ...

Murdoch attacks wind power

2011-11-07T10:31:00.002-05:00

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Add "ciardi" section to my Google News homepage

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Wind farms 'disrupt military radar and inhibit weather tracking'

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Daily Mail - 20 minutes ago

Ed Ciardi, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Radar Operations ... Ciardi added: 'We're more worried about the future… we've seen quite a few ...

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Wind Farms Disrupting Radar, Scientists Say

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Fox News - Maxim Lott - 11 hours ago

“It's a lot easier to filter out interference for aviation,” Ed Ciardi, ... When the situation is unclear,Ciardi said, “they'll play it safe and maybe ...

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Disney reups Mayhem Pictures deal

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Disney has reupped its first-look deal with Mayhem Pictures producers Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray, the duo best known for feel-good sports ...

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Our Town: Learn over a good meal at Norwood's Victoria Haven

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Wicked Local - Cheryl MacDonald - Oct 29, 2011

Ciardi came on board at Victoria Haven in July 2009, a month shy of when the Healthy ... Maxam said in an email that Ciardi has been very involved in the ...

Mary Jo Bang

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In the fall of 2008, New Letters published Mary Jo Bang's first five cantos in translation (the very same magazine where John Ciardi published his own ...

Warriors pump up power game

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Boston Herald - Tom Layman - Oct 21, 2011

Shane Farley hit Nick Ciardi over the middle on a slant down to the 17, but that's where Cardillo spun the receiver around, knocked the ball loose and ...

Best puns in the English language

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... literary people – among them, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, writer Cleveland Amory, critic John Ciardi and historian Jacques Barzun. ...

In What Light There Is: Just a Girl

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Journal Times - 1 day ago

The phrase is from a poem by the late John Ciardi who wrote, "And still, I look at this world as worlds will be seen, in what light there is. ...

Burlington High football falls to Wakefield, faces Watertown Friday

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CN Football Notebook: Chiefs' playoff streak in jeopardy

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They lost to Sayreville at Ciardi Field in double overtime despite five touchdowns from Aaron Gere. The next year, they won in the pouring rain at ...

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What does Cory Doctorow have to say about Google?

2011-10-12T09:28:00.002-04:00

http://www.google.com/search?q=cory+doctorow+google

Cory Doctorow's craphound.com >> Blog Archive » Scroogled
craphound.com/?p=1902
Sep 14, 2007 – Update: Wer etwas Intelligentes über die Gefahren einer Google-World lesen möchte, ist mit Scroogled von Cory Doctorow bestens bedient. ...

Authors@Google: Cory Doctorow - YouTube
	www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgXwmXpaH2QMay 24, 2007 - 57 min - Uploaded by AtGoogleTalks Author Cory Doctorow discusses his book "Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present" as part of the Authors@Google series ...

Authors@Google: Cory Doctorow - YouTube
	www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E2MHeTGOOMJun 16, 2008 - 51 min - Uploaded by AtGoogleTalks The Authors@Google program welcomed Cory Doctorow to Google'sNew York office to discuss his new book "Little ...

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Cory Doctorow's Fiction About An Evil Google - Slashdot
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Sep 21, 2007 – ahem writes "I saw a link on Valleywag to a story written by Cory Doctorow about what would happen if Google got in bed with the Dept. of ...
Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly ...
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Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature. ByCory Doctorow at 10:44 pm Friday, Apr 17. Writing on O'Reilly Radar, ...
Scroogled - a short story by Cory Doctorow
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by Cory Doctorow "Give me ... Greg had vested out of Google six months before, cashing in his options and "taking some me time" — which turned out to be less ...
For the Win - Cory Doctorow - Google Books
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In the virtual future, you must organize to surviveAt any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, ...
Little Brother - Cory Doctorow - Google Books
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Cory Doctorow is a coeditor of Boing Boing and the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He writes columns for Make, Information ...
Google Plus forces us to discuss identity | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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Aug 30, 2011 – Cory Doctorow: Google's Real Name policy embodies a theory that states the way to maximise civility is to abolish anonymity.
Scroogled By Cory Doctorow (The Day Google Became Evil)
www.singularityweblog.com/scroogled-by-cory-doctorow-the-day-g...
Dec 14, 2010 – Want to hear Cory Doctorow's story about the day Google became evil? Check out Scroogled on www.SingularityWeblog.com.

rational optimist - Google Search - Can "evolving prosperity" win over 2 WWs, Stalin, & the Cultural Revolution

2011-10-07T15:34:00.002-04:00

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Ideas have sex, in Ridley's schema; they follow a process of natural selection of their own, and as long as they continue to do so, there is reason to retire ...
Book Review - The Rational Optimist - By Matt Ridley - NYTimes.com
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Jun 11, 2010 – The human race really started to innovate, a science writer argues, only when people thought to exchange goods and services.
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My Sidewiki feed

2009-12-05T16:21:00.001-05:00

Why doesn't it have any content?

in reference to: http://www.google.com/sidewiki/feeds/entries/author/107029637034463780951/full?alt=json (view on Google Sidewiki)

Cough Cough Sneeze Sneeze

2009-04-29T20:10:00.005-04:00

Cough Cough
Sneeze Sneeze
Cover your mouth
Please Please
Let's be careful
How we cough
Let's be careful
How we sneeze
Catch those germs
Right i-in your sleeve
Ah Ah Ah Choo!

Click here to play the song (click on the little right arrow 'play' button).
To download the song, click here.

Optimism

2009-03-14T08:52:00.004-04:00

Somewhere is the past few months I heard a talk about the desperate state of affairs. It was porbablly climate change but maybe it was the meltdown or the mideast. In any case he was asked if he was optimistic. He said something like that optimism was the only attitude which leads to effective action so it is our obligation to be optimistic. Fake it 'til you make it.

Watchman for Dummies

2009-03-07T11:57:00.006-05:00

Reasons not to use Flash

2009-01-26T09:12:00.002-05:00

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=accnfh3pfb3_3628252qhd2

I can't get Java to work on Ubuntu Hardy LIve CD

2009-01-06T11:10:00.002-05:00

This is one of the error messages I got:

E: openjdk-6-jre-headless: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
E: openjdk-6-jre: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: icedtea-gcjwebplugin: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

I can't get colophon to work in RenderX

2009-01-04T17:55:00.005-05:00

I get this error message no matter where I put the colophon tag:

C:\Program Files\RenderX\XEP>xep myAnnotatedInterfaceCulture.fo
(document [system-id file:/C:/Program Files/RenderX/XEP/myAnnotatedInterfaceCult
ure.fo]
  (validate
   [error] Element 'fo:page-sequence' cannot be a child of 'fo:flow'. Only bloc
k-level elements are permitted in this context.
   [validation total: 1 error]
Parse error: Invalid XSL FO source 'file:/C:/Program Files/RenderX/XEP/myAnnotat
edInterfaceCulture.fo': 1 error found during validation

So I guess I'll make it a section with a title.

"Silly Little Numbers!"

2008-12-30T09:12:00.003-05:00

If people are the

only ones who use

money, how important

can it really be?

Silly little numbers!

~5-year old Rosie Avila

(Original calligraphy by Lelania Avila)

I can't get two columns in the PDF

2008-12-21T12:41:00.002-05:00

1/4/09 Update: So far I can get the whole article to be 1 column or two columns, but I can't get the title page to be one column and the body to be two columns. So it doesn't behave as suggested here.

Notes from the 11/7/08 Living with Cancer Conference

2008-12-21T12:19:00.003-05:00

Joanne Rawlings-Sekunda from the Maine Bureau of Insurance

800-300-5000
http://www.maine.gov/pfr/insurance/
They have a staff of 11.
8 of the 11 deal with consumer complaints
In general with insurance, the fewer restrictions, the more expensive.

Steve Brakey(sp?) is a Technical Expert from the Bangor SSA office

He acknowledged that it's hard to reach the Bangor office by phone. They have one line for all of Maine and Eastern Canada and Quebec.
If you call the national 800 number, they're looking at the same computers that they look at in Bangor.
If you must call, the best times are Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.
Since I worked in Canada I may be able to get benefits from Canada. I should contact the office in Fredericton NB

I'm not sure who said this:

File complaints online - I guessing this is Maine Insurance complaints.

Other notes here

Test "Quote from a blog" bookmarklet

2008-08-14T18:06:00.002-04:00

abc

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def

4. Quote from a blog, which lifts text from a page and formats it for posting to a blog, along with attribution and a link. Because this version uses an advanced Mozilla-only technique described here, though, you might rather use the version that Phil Windley discussed here.

[Jon Udell: Bookmarklets 101]

ghi

RideMatch and Modeling

2008-08-11T14:33:00.001-04:00

A project for Max and his students: model ridematch idea in NetLogo.

A substitute kludglet for del.icio.us/html urls

2008-08-04T11:01:00.013-04:00

8/12/08 Update: I've replace dm.htm with d4m.htm. Try this and this.

The new del.icio.us doesn't work well on the Blazer browser on my Palm T|X. Every page gets a "page too large" error. The old del.icio.us didn't work that well, so I often used del.icio.us/html urls that worked well: the were fast and used the small screen efficiently. del.icio.us/html urls are gone. A mobile del.icio.us is promised, but until it arrives I've come up with a kludge for helps.

http://mshook.googlepages.com/delhtmljs.htm is an html/javascript applet that is my attempt to substitute for some of the things I used to do with del.icio.us/html urls.

This url:

http://mshook.googlepages.com/delhtmljs.htm?mshook?tags&extended&count=100

does what this url:

http://del.icio.us/html/mshook/?tags=yes&rssbutton=no&extended=body&count=100

used to do for me in the old del.icio.us

This is not as fast as the old del.icio.us/html urls (which were very fast) but I still find it useful on my TX. I imagine it could be useful on other slow and/or small screen devices.

These are some other substitute urls for some other del.icio.us/html urls I've used:

The page uses the del.icio.us Linkroll script and thus the Linkroll script parameters (instead of the old del.icio.us/html parameters). I use the Linkroll page to build my url and then extract the arguments and append them to the delhtmljs.htm url.

How big is a floating 5MW wind turbine?

2008-07-29T06:09:00.006-04:00

According to Sclavounos (Floating Offshore Wind Turbines: Responses in a Seastate
Pareto Optimal Designs and Economic Assessment) a displacement of between 9800 and 14350 Metric Tons.

» Wind turbine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The Enercon E-126 delivers up to 6 MW, has an overall height of 198 m (650 ft) and a diameter of 126 meters (413 ft). The Repower 5M delivers up to 5 MW, has an overall height of 183 m (600 ft) and has a diameter of 126 m (413 ft)." / wind turbine big size power stats statistics

For comparison:

USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) displacement: Full: approx. 8,885.66 tons
USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) Displacement: 14,564 LT

http://oe.mit.edu/flowlab/pdf/Floating_Offshore_Wind_Turbines.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Arleigh_Burke_%28DDG-51%29&oldid=226483912
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Zumwalt_%28DDG-1000%29&oldid=228351103

All retrieved 7/29/08

Fwd: George Lakoff, Co-founder/Sr. Fellow, Rockridge Institute; Author, The Political Mind - SendMeRSS

2008-07-14T21:44:00.002-04:00

The Commonwealth Club doesn't provide a page to point to for a description of a radio program. So here's their description of one of their program from their RSS feed.

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George Lakoff, Co-founder/Sr. Fellow, Rockridge Institute; Author, The Political Mind

George Lakoff, Co-founder/Sr. Fellow, Rockridge Institute; Author, The Political Mind

Leading linguistic and political analyst, George Lakoff, will explain how language can be used as a critical tool in progressive politics, describing how our brains work in relation to society, why language is so important, and how Democrats can use this knowledge to their advantage to win the November elections. Lakoff believes that progressives have been fighting a losing battle in America for the last 30 years because, he says, the majority of citizens vote against their own self interests.

Lakoff is a professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972. He has published many scholarly articles and books including The Political Mind (2008) as well as the influential book, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (2002). Although some of his research involves questions traditionally pursued by linguists, he is best known for his ideas about the centrality of metaphor to human thinking, political behavior and society. He is particularly famous for his concept of the "embodied mind," which he has written about in relation to mathematics. In recent years he has applied his work to the realm of politics, exploring this in his books. He is the co-founder and senior fellow of the progressive think tank, the Rockridge Institute. He previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and a Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1995) and the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute at the University of New Mexico (Summer, 1995).

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Telegraphist's Equations

2008-07-12T16:28:00.004-04:00

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521646456/
at Google Book Search
Page 82:

As an historical example, we can analyze the first transatlantic telegraph cable, laid in 1865. The cable was 3,600 km long and weighed 5,000 tons. The insulator was a vegetable gum called gutta-percha . For this cable L = 460 nH/m, C = 75 pF/m, and R = 7 mQ/m. At a frequency of 2.4 kHz, wL = R, and so the high-resistance assumption is well satisfied for frequencies below 100 Hz. At 12 Hz, we can write a and v as

a = v/wRC/2 = 4.4 x 10...
v = ...

The loss for the entire line is al = 140 dB and the delay is l/v = 210 ms. For comparison, at 3 Hz, the loss in dB and the delay change by a factor of 2, to 70 dB and 420 ms. Thus the 12-Hz component attenuates 70 dB more than the 3-Hz component. In addition, the 12-Hz component arrives 210 ms ahead of the 3-Hz component. In order to improve these characteristics, the signalling speed had to be drastically reduced, to about one word per minute, which was twenty times slower ...

Signal Noise Ratio

2008-07-12T11:09:00.001-04:00

Signal Noise Ratio

http://www.librarything.com/card_card.php?book=325583
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521646456/
Page 137:
- "Right at 1,200 Hz, signal tones can be detected if they have sound pressure levels of 57 dB or larger. This is 3dB below the noise. This means that Morese Code can be received when the signal power is comparable to the noise power within the critical bandwidth. By contract, an AM or TV boadcaster aims at 50-dB signal-to-noise ratios over much larger bandwidths to provide a clear sound and picture. This means that the NorCal* 40A can communicate at distances of thousands of mile with a transmitter power of 2 W, whereas a broadcaster might use 50 kW for coverage in a single city."

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iLarry Diamond, Senior Fellow,Hoover Institution; Professor, Centeron Democracy, Development and theRule of Law, Stanford University - SendMeRSS

2008-07-03T11:11:00.003-04:00

The Commonwealth Club doesn't provide a page to point to for a description of a radio program. So here's their description of one of their program from their RSS feed.

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Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow,Hoover Institution; Professor, Centeron Democracy, Development and theRule of Law, Stanford University - SendMeRSS

Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow,Hoover Institution; Professor, Centeron Democracy, Development and theRule of Law, Stanford University

The Spirit of Democracy

Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Professor, Center
on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University

In 1974, nearly three-quarters of all countries
were dictatorships; today, more than
half are democracies. Diamond contends,
however, that recent efforts to promote
democracy have stumbled and that many
democratic governments are faltering. He
explains that the desire for democracy
runs deep, even in very poor countries,
and proposes that even entrenched regimes
like Iran and China could become
democracies within a generation.
Produced by The Club's International Relations Memeber-Led Forum

This program was recorded in front of a live audience on May 7, 2008

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Wifi risks & benefits: What if?

2008-06-29T17:13:00.007-04:00

What if we limit the use of wifi in public libraries and it turns out that the current evidence of linkage turns out not to be causative and as a result of limiting the use of wifi we have limited public access to information which allows the public to inform themselves about their own health issues and make well informed decisions?

And this:

There have been a large number of occupational studies over several decades, particularly on cancer, cardiovascular disease, adverse reproductive outcome, and cataract, in relation to RF exposure. More recently, there have been studies of residential exposure, mainly from radio and television transmitters, and especially focusing on leukemia. There have also been studies of mobile telephone users, particularly on brain tumors and less often on other cancers and on symptoms. 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.

Anders Ahlbom, et al. “Epidemiology of Health Effects of Radiofrequency Exposure: CNIRP (International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.” Environmental Health Perspectives 112 no. 17(2004): 1741–1754 (accessed June 29, 2008).
(my emphasis)
via Progressive Librarians Guild Statement on WiFi in Libraries and the Precautionary Principle June 16, 2008 (accessed June 29, 2008)
via email from Wendy

The Bible as a user-directed narrative

2008-06-28T00:18:00.002-04:00

Highly linked.
That's what any literary criticism does: turn an author-directed narrative into a user-directed narrative.

History, Theory, and Practice of the Electric Telegraph By George Bartlett Prescott

2008-06-27T18:45:00.003-04:00

History, Theory, and Practice of the Electric Telegraph By George Bartlett Prescott:

On Monday March 12th 1860 there were transmitted over one wire from Boston to New York 204 private messages containing 7,456 words and 600 words of press news and from New York to Boston over the same wire 253 messages containing 8,957 words making a total of 17,013 words The time occupied in transmitting this large number of words was nine hours The length of the circuit operated is 260 miles and the weather was rainy during the day The despatches were all printed in plain Roman letters by the Combination instrument and accurately punctuated Messrs Grace and Edwards were the operators at the Boston and New York termini of the line

Two more documents relating to wifi and health

2008-06-27T14:23:00.005-04:00

Mobile Phones and Brain Tumours – A Public Health Concern - pdf - html
Analysis of Health and Environmental Effects of Proposed San Francisco Earthlink Wi-Fi Network - pdf - html

My original post on the topic is here.

Various Aspects of Narratives

2008-06-13T13:57:00.003-04:00

Ira Glass on narrative
The national narrative
Lists as narrative

Robotwisdom
Harper's list

User-driven vs author-driven narratives
Linear vs non-linear
Lists as part of a prose narrative

User driven narrative -> author driven narrative

2008-06-13T09:31:00.003-04:00

Says Jakob, "instead of an author-driven narrative, Web content becomes a user-driven narrative."

My user-driven narrative becomes an author-driven narrative when I tell you how I found something on the web. Which may very well bore you. But that's why I like via links. A memoir is a user-driven narrative transformed into and author-driven narrative. So are many first novels.

Wikipedia cf DocBook and DITA

2008-06-08T17:43:00.003-04:00

Wikipedia has developed as an open community process sets of meta data reminiscent of DocBook's tags. Further, the Wikimedia blog is adding structured features which move it toward DocBook and DITA.

Beowulf

2008-05-23T15:24:00.003-04:00

Further my infatuation with Old English (OE), sparked by Dr. D. S. Lee's lectures, I just discovered James Rumford's wonderful retelling of Beowulf. The back cover points out the he's used modern English words that come from Old English almost exclusively. The language is beautiful, as is the book design, the length is good for the impatient and there are wonderful touches: after the introduction we meet Beowulf in the original, "Beowulf is min nama" - Beowulf is my name. The final line is also included in OE.

Reconciliation

2008-05-23T15:00:00.004-04:00

I've long thought that what needed to happen in order to restore the standing of the United States within the community of nations was for Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld to be tried at the International Criminal Court at the Hague. Then hearing Mac Maharaj and Padraig O'Malley on Fresh Air, I'm wondering of some sort of international reconciliation might not be a better path.

Invitations to Communion

2008-05-19T06:46:00.001-04:00

My collection is here.

Sites: Word file or Google Doc?

2008-05-18T15:40:00.003-04:00

When I'm using a Google Sites wiki and I've got a document I want to associate with a page, should I attach a Word (or Excel or PowerPoint) file or should I link to a Google Docs file?

If it's too complex to be a Google Docs file, then it should be an Office file.
If I want several people to be able to work on it at once then it should be a Google Doc.
It probably shouldn't be both.
Any other guidelines?
How to transition from having everything as Office files on the local server to having Google Docs in the cloud?

I can't seem to get those Ubuntu USB install to work

2008-05-18T12:19:00.004-04:00

Yesterday I tried two Ubuntu 8.04 installs to USB from Pendrivelinux.com: a full install and a (for lack of a better term) lesser install. Neither worked.

The full install booted and asked me to log in but then went to a blank screen - the desktop never loaded. I could Ctrl-Alt-Del and get the shutdown options, but that was all.
The lesser install (it only requires a 1GB usb drive) would not even boot.

Both are install from the live CD which works fine. Both I tried both twice to no avail. Suggestions welcome.

Photo Book for Mom

2008-05-18T11:36:00.000-04:00

I want to make a book of photos of Mom. What are the option?

Tabblo

It looks like a 40 page minimum

Flickr
Kevin Kelly's list

Blurb

This is KK's top recommendation.

20 pages minimum

MyPublisher

20 page minimum?

Qoop (Flickr)
How many photos have I got?

Whither tinyurl?

2008-05-18T10:28:00.003-04:00

Yikes! Here's what it says this morning:

500 - Internal Server Error

This server has encountered an internal error.

Follow these instructions: change the domain name that appears in the URL in the address bar of your web browser from tinyurl.com to b.tinyurl.com and leave everything else the same. Press the "go" button or hit the return key to be redirected to the page the TinyURL you followed goes to.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you.

But following those instructions it still doesn't work.

Has it been overwhelmed by twitter?

Cataloging Graphic Novels

2008-05-16T13:55:00.004-04:00

Husson College, Bangor, 5/16/08
My Google Notebook for this is here.
monographs "never end" as distinct from serials
Graphic novels are a format.
There is a graphic novel material type.
Searching

Don't search by ISBN - you'll miss it hasn't been assigned
Rather, search by title

Overlay - wipes out the destination record - that's OK if there are only 3 lines.
Copying is a less drastic alternative to overlay.
If you've got a bad record, don't create a new record. Fix it.
"You're in a fix mode when you're doing these graphic novels"
Don't put prices on the 020. You can remove it if it's there.
If the paperback is basically the same as the hardback (it can be a cm or 2 off and a few pages off) it should be on the same record.
An adapted work is entered under the adaptor. You still give credit to the original author (245 |c & 700)
If it's not on the title page don't put it in.
100 is main entry
245 is title and statement of responsibility.
245

|n numbered part
|p part name

245 is the hardest part.

foo

Health and Microwave (and other) Radiation

2008-05-15T17:05:00.009-04:00

So far I have not found convincing anything I've heard or read about the danger of cell phones and wifi and similar technologies.

Disclaimers:

I have not myself read any actual scientific studies that discuss these issues.
It is my hope that these technologies do not affect human health adversely.
I think it is possible that these technologies cause measurable health effects.
I think it is possible that these technologies don't cause measurable health effects.

What I've heard and read:

A panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club of California. What I heard of this discussion (I didn't hear all of it) was focused around the Bioinitiative Report.
Back in December I did some searching and found and an article "How Cell Phones May Cause Autism"

Why am I skeptical?

None of what I've read or heard so far is at all specific about the dangers. It doesn't discuss or differentiate:

different frequencies of radiation
different power levels of radiation

The discussions have a fearmongering style
In at least one case it seemed as if the guy had hooked onto this issue and was riding it for all it's worth.
There's no discussion of comparative risks. For example, if a study shows some risk, how does that risk compare with the risk of riding in an automobile? As Marvin Minsky said, we need a department of homeland arithmetic.
There's reference to information bearing radiation, or something like that - I don't recall the exact wording. But it's as if the information in the radiation will somehow mess up the information in our DNA. But perhaps they're just using the term to differentiate wifi and other fairly low energy radiation from microwave radiation which is actually strong enough to cause heating.

My Google Notebook on the topic is here and here are my del.icio.us links tagged radiation.

What I don't like about Google Sites

2008-05-15T09:06:00.005-04:00

No tags (or facets) on pages
I can't create a page in a manner comperable to using CamelCase in a traditional wiki.

For some reason, this makes pages much less representative of concepts.

Google Apps for Libraries

2008-05-14T15:36:00.006-04:00

Notes:
Ellsworth Public Library 5/14/08
Mark Arnold

Deer Isle/Stonington School

Google Apps

Sites - when to attach a .doc file and when to have the doc in Docs
What about Google's right to use anything on your site.
How to do specific things with Google Apps?
How to transition from disks to Apps?

Don't call it an email account, since that can cause problems

Lucas Gonze and Jon Udell

2008-05-11T15:07:00.007-04:00

I listened to this Interview With Innovators. It brings to mind:

Dr. Lee's discussion in his last lecture on manuscripts about the lack of authorship.
Duncan Cragg's microweb
All the cataloging stuff about work and manifestation, etc. and the LibraryThing version of that.
Clay Shirky's talk at the Long Now Foundation.
Being useful. - serving
Ride match

This is a very unfocused talk, but very worth while.

audiokatia
rss

and Jon's frustration at its limit adoption

syndication
Bitzi

provides a unique identifier for a file

syndication
music playlists
curating

Microphone Craft

2008-05-08T07:02:00.004-04:00

Update: Here it is, via this search.

In the past week or so, NPR had a story on a couple in the southeast who manufacture microphones. The reporter was a women who noted that she and her ilk are "people of the microphone." I think the couple live on a farm and have chicken or geese or something like that. I've not been able to find the story with NPR's search, which I frequently find annoying.

Why I'm grumpy about apps that aren't browser based

2008-05-04T12:20:00.006-04:00

Application implemented in the browser automatically have these feature (unless the designer actively disables them, which alas, they sometimes do):

use anywhere - it's hard to find a computer that doesn't have a browser
variable font size - really small fonts are really annoying
text search - I expect it to be available - it it's not, it's annoying
copy and paste from the text - with formatting
multi-platform - Windows, Mac & Linux, obviously, but also, in may case, Palm
spell check on text input
view source - I like to know how things work
save page - it's sometimes convenient to have a local copy

iTunes is a good example of this problem. I'd like the text to be larger. It's search is good, but being able to search the visible text of the screen would be even better.

Reading via the index and table of contents

2008-05-03T13:09:00.000-04:00

When I pick up a non-fiction book in a bookstore or a library I seldom begin my examination by looking at the content. Rather, I look at the table of contents to get a general overiew, and then in the index to see if it has references to people or concepts that I already associate with the topic. More atomization.

The Most Concise AACR2 as JSON

2008-05-03T11:18:00.010-04:00

(see "The Most Concise AACR2." by Michael Gorman from American Libraries 12:8 (Sept. 1981), p. 499; - reprinted in Foundations of Cataloging : a sourcebook available here and here and available here via MARVEL!)

Rule 1. Describe the item you have in hand. Record the following details in this order and with this punctuation:
Title : subtitle / author's name as given ; names of other person or bodies named on the title page, label, container, title frame, etc. -- Edition (abbreviated). -- Place of publication : Publisher, Year of publication.
Number of pages, volumes, discs, reels, objects, etc. ; Dimensions of the object (metric). -- (Name of series)
Descriptive notes
Examples of descriptions
His last bow : some reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes / A. Conan Doyle. -- London : Murray, 1917.
305 p. ; 20 cm. -- (Murray's fiction library)
A white sport coat and a pink custacean / Jimmy Buffett. -- New York : ABC, 1973.
1 sound disc. ; 12 in.
Backing by the Coral Reefer Band.
Little Ernie's big day / by Norma Eustace ; designed by Doris Manier. -- 2nd ed. -- Chicago : Little Folks, 1980.
1 filmstrip ; 35 mm. -- (Big day filmstrips)
If the item is a serial...

{"Title":"Title",
"subtitle":"subtitle",
"author's name as given":"author's name as given",
"names of other persons or bodies named on the title page":"names of other persons or bodies named on the title page",
"Edition":"Edition",
"Place of publication":"Place of publication",
"Publisher":"Publisher",
"Year of publication":"Year of publication",
"Number of pages":"Number of pages",
"Dimensions of the object":"Dimensions of the object",
"Name of series":"Name of series"}

Example 1:

{"Title":"His last bow",
"Subtitle":"some reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes",
"Creator":"A. Conan Doyle",
"PublicationPlace":"London",
"Publisher":"Murray",
"PublicationYear":1917,
"NumberOfPagesEtc":"305 p",
"Dimensions":"20 cm",
"SeriesName":"Murray's fiction library"}

Example 2:

{"Title":"A white sport coat and a pink crustacean",
"Creator":"Jimmy Buffet",
"PublicationPlace":"New York",
"Publisher":"ABC",
"PublicationYear":1973,
"NumberOfPagesEtc":"1 sound disc",
"Dimensions":"12 in",
"DescriptiveNotes":"Backing by Coral Reefer Band."}

Example 3:

{"Title":"A white sport coat and a pink crustacean",
"Creator":"Jimmy Buffet",
"OtherPersonsEtcNamedOn":"designed by Doris Manier",
"Edition":"2nd ed.",
"PublicationPlace":"Chicago",
"Publisher":"Little Folks",
"PublicationYear":1980,
"NumberOfPagesEtc":"1 filmstrip",
"Dimensions":"35 mm.",
"SeriesName":"Big day filmstrips"}

Why is field identification using punctuation so important to Michael Gorman? It's arcane and difficult for a machine to parse. Why not use labels which are at least somewhat self-documenting (and therefore somewhat less arcane) and easy for a machine to parse. He seems to be fine with MARC, but remember that it was created essential to computerize the process of typesetting the catalog cards the Library of Congress used to sell. An important characteristic of those cards was the use of various typographic conventions (font size, bold, layout) in addition to punctuation. We've long since given up on that attractive and marginally useful aspect of catalog presentation and Gorman is not (any longer, at least) complaining about that.

Test post

2008-05-02T06:51:00.001-04:00

This is a test post via blog.gears.

Old vs New - Cataloging rules and tags

2008-05-01T15:19:00.003-04:00

The old way: lots and lots of rules, some of which are meant to define and then take into account the needs of the user.

The new way: let the user define her own needs and take them into account as he sees fit, and then aggregate the result, both statistically and by tagger.

Google Notebook Atom REST example

2008-04-23T07:03:00.000-04:00

Here.

Why I use Google products so much

2008-04-22T06:33:00.006-04:00

Basically because I currently give them my best chance of leaving a digital legacy.

If I host stuff myself, it all goes away (except what's in the Google cache) when I stop paying for it.

Keeping stuff around seems to be part of the Google way. How ephemeral that is remains to be seen. Alas, that means I'm using Google Notes instead of trying out Evernote.

What about vandalism?

Google Notebook & Atom

2008-04-22T05:20:00.002-04:00

All of a sudden it dawned on me that Google Notebook is just (?) Ajax manipulation of an Atom store.

Minimal 3D PDF file

2008-04-17T08:38:00.003-04:00

Here is a minimal (18kb) 3D pdf file. Here's the same file as text to make it easy to look at.

u3d-pdf-howto.pdf is the file I started with. I used pdftk.exe (PDF Tool Kit) to break it into it's individual pages. I found u3d-pdf-howto.pdf file here.

How to Embed a Google Docs Spreadsheet in a Blogger Post - Part II

2008-04-15T09:19:00.004-04:00

An update to this post.

The iframe code is here.
I can no longer edit that post in Blogger.
I can edit the post with this.

Where does the Google App Engine SDK keep it data?

2008-04-10T18:01:00.004-04:00

C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Local Settings\Temp\dev_appserver.datastore

There's also:

C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Local Settings\Temp\dev_appserver.datastore.history

These are binary files, but you can see some text.

How to Embed a Google Docs Spreadsheet in a Blogger Post

2008-04-01T13:52:00.005-04:00

Here's the code:

I give up!

I can't get the html to display without messing things cup, so go here and view source to get the code - it's an iframe

The original spreadsheet is here.

April Trial: Search ALL of MARVEL! at Once

2008-03-31T08:58:00.002-04:00

My initial impressions are here.

Fake it 'til you make it

2008-03-29T13:22:00.005-04:00

New to my collection of FITYMIs from Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm:

you may understand how the adoption of the outward and visible sign has some strange influence in developing the inward and spiritual state of which it is the expression.

From here

Later:

The first, on an individual level, is as a kind of cognitive therapy or as a way of generating rules of conduct: if you believe certain propositions, or try to make yourself believe them, the world becomes more tolerable and your behaviour better adapted to it. This need not be because they are simply grand untruths. It might be because they are needed to balance other grand untruths generated by default by other bits of my mind.

Later:

..., I knew on one level that my fears were ridiculous, and that there are in fact no lions on Swiss alps, no wolf-packs in the lake district and no giant carnivorous elk anywhere. But the only thing that made them go away was to behave as if I were not frightened and to summon up images of my spiritual self as a larger, more dangerous beast than anything to be found around me. Propositional truth did nothing for my fears. Propositional falsehood worked.

Acid, quenelles, teleology
Andrew Brown (again)

Fake it 'til you make it

Perform the acts of faith and faith will come

Loyola, Exercises (1548)
From Dawn to Decadence page 39

Assume a virtue, if you have it not,... For use can almost change the stamp of nature

Hamlet to his mother (1602)

So with faith, if it does not lead to action, it is in itself a lifeless thing.

James 2:17

we need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real

William James
Principals of Psychology Chapter 21 (1890)

Helen blushed, and Sister Teresa seemed to read her thoughts. "In the beginning, we all feel a bit like imposters in our capes and veils and being called 'Sister.' But don't worry about it - just act like you think a nun should when you're not sure what to do, and you'll find that through grace and love, you become one."

Lying Awake
Mark Salzman p83

Brain scientist also tell us what we�ve always known, that practice makes perfect. Repetition of an action actually strengthens neural pathways, which James Austin calls, �long-term potentiation.�[40]

Wesley vs. the God Module:
Can Wesley Help a Nonreductive Physicalist Post-Modern Theology of Religious Experience?
Cliff Guthrie

I see that I found several of these here (pdf).

10/24/04 - Lot's of good stuff in Remembering the Future, Imagining the Past: Story, Ritual, and the Human Brain by David Hogue. There's even an index entry for "living as if".

Fwd: Weekly e-mail from St. John's

2008-03-28T15:15:00.001-04:00

This is a test

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michele Daley <saints315@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Subject: Weekly e-mail from St. John's
To: saints315@verizon.net

March 27, 2008

ST. JOHN'S EVENTS & NEWS

This Sunday March 30^th – Holy Eucharist: 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. Lectionary readings: Acts 2:14a, 22-32; Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31.

Sundays in April, Holy Eucharist:– 8:00 and 10:00.

Church Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30-2:30.

Downeast Transportation offers YEAR ROUND public bus transportation around SWH and one or two stops in Bass Harbor on Wednesday (only) for $1.00. All buses are accessible with wheel chair lifts. Trips to and from Ridge Apt, the library, SWH medical center, Kozy Kove, Norwood Cove apt., the Food Mart, Double J, Bass Harbor post office, Birchwood Apt. etc. can be made (on Wednesday) without a car. Downeast Transportation also offers trips to and from Bar Harbor to Ellsworth and Bangor EVERY Monday and Friday (year round). The cost is $9.00 round trip. Downeast Transportation buses are available to ALL of us--They are not just for the elderly or those living in housing. They also have schedules that could be handed out at the food pantry. (A schedule is currently posted on the bulletin board in the undercroft)

Come Home for Supper on Friday, April 4! If you're willing to be a host (a very easy and lovely opportunity) please contact Barnes...244-7985, Bromage...244-3227, or Craig....244-5267, and remember to sign up this Sunday, March 30^th, so the committee can plan for this always enjoyable evening.

The Best Ever Spaghetti Dinner, held at the S.W. Harbor Congregational Church on the High Road, will benefit the Westside Food Pantry and will be on Saturday, April 5th from 4:30-7:00p.m. The cost is $5.00 for adults; $3.00 for children 12 and older and no more than $15.00 for a family. Children under 12 are free!

Tired of the same old faces at church? Invite a friend! Invite a neighbor! Welcome a stranger!

Between the Services:

Dear SJ Member, In response to my recent note regarding our Sunday Forum, I have had several good replies with useful comments and suggestions. If you have not weighed in with your views/wishes, please do so at william.baker@umit.maine.edu

This Sunday, March 30, Jean Rohrer and Mary Mitchell will present "Medical Missions in Ecuador," based on their recent work there.

For the month of April, the following schedule has nicely taken shape:

April 6: Bible Study: "St. Luke: The Gospel for All People" (Please read afresh the entire Gospel of Luke by April 6.)

April 13: Mary Anna Fox, "Compassion International: Ministering to Children in the Dominican Republic." Ms. Fox is a member of the Southwest Harbor Congregational Church.

April 20: Mary and Jim Vekasi, "'Create in Me a Clean Spirit': Non-Violent Communication."

April 27: Joan Grant, "Spiritual Hospitality: A Seal Cove Retreat and Training Center for the Spiritual Life."

Please join us in the undercroft at 9-10 a.m. each Sunday.

Yours, Bill Baker

Why Google Sites & Blogger over proprietary system?

2008-03-28T15:04:00.007-04:00

Goals?

Who updates?

Email posts to blogger.com
Categorize posts via tags
Relatively infinite design, programming and hosting resources
Easier to maintain (?)
I don't like the way the proprietary system paints the page with every link.
The proprietary sites I've seen are very rough.
How many people in the proprietary organization?
If the proprietary organization doesn't work out, we can't can't someone else to work on the site for us because it's a proprietary system. We'd have to rebuild the site.
Here are a couple sites:

Example

Dr. Mel Levine in Bangor - April 30, 2008

The pages are slow to load.
Caveats:

I am not a designer
I am not a copy writer
I understand function

Spencer suggested that we look at the Acadia Senior College web site here.
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

Service times should be first and formost - that's mostly what people want to see
No fluff language.

Money

Dialup (& PDA & Cell phone) Friendly Websites

2008-03-27T16:15:00.002-04:00

I'm not doing much at The 'Bary, but this item is appropriate there.

MaineCat - The recording of Library of Congress bibliographical data in machine form

2008-03-25T14:52:00.003-04:00

MaineCat:

"Author Buckland, Lawrence F
Title The recording of Library of Congress bibliographical data in machine form; a report prepared for the Council on Library Resources, inc
Publisher Washington, Council on Library Resources, 1965

HOLDINGS FOR Maine Info Net CENTRAL DATABASE
REQUEST THIS ITEM
Library Shelving Location Electronic Link Call Number and Serial Holdings Request Status
Univ of Maine ORO Annex 029.7 B856 DUE 04-24-08

Edition Rev., February 1965
Phys descr x, 54 p. 22 cm
Subject Cataloging
Data tapes
Information storage and retrieval systems
Automatic Data Processing
Alt author Council on Library Resources"

I like this item.

It predates MARC and the September 1966 Scientific American example.
You can see element that became part of MARC.
The internal formats they came up with are reflected in the MARC binary format.
It includes verbal descriptions of the programs that translate an entry into printed output. The elements of XSLT and XSLT-FO are there.
Henriette Avram is nowhere to be seen in the document.
The main example card is about a JFK education speech (?). The publication date is November 23, 1964.

IT Conversations | O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference | Alex Russell

2008-03-25T11:17:00.002-04:00

IT Conversations | O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference | Alex Russell:

"Alex Russel, creator of the Dojo web toolkit, discusses the future of mobile phone development based on his experience in the mobile, security, and web development industries. He claims that although smart phones are increasing in power, they will not be a suitable platform for open source development. That, and restrictions by handset makers and network operators, mean that the web is the only viable platform for developing mobile phone applications in the future."

I'm pretty sure Alex refers to the lack of "thingification" as one of the the problem with the mobile network. Does that bascially mean the ability to attach a url to something and pass it around? I also missed other, possibly important terms. It's worth listening to again.

I think this a different sense of thingification that commonly used.

Critiquing Hugo

2008-03-25T09:18:00.000-04:00

I'm saddened and sometimes amazed of the vehemence and pervasiveness of critiques of Hugo Chavez and the socio-political experiment going on in the relatively democratic Venezuela as compared with governments with whom the United States is, if not friendly, at least tightly allied, say Saudi Arabia or say, Nigeria. Avowedly unbiased NPR is not exempt. A case in point: the interview a few months ago with Joe Kennedy and his work with the Venezuelan government to bring less expensive fuel oil to low income people in the northeastern United States. Joe would point out the relative levels of democracy between Venezuela and most other major oil producing states, but the interviewer wouldn't hear it and kept insisting, well, I ought really go find the interview and reference it.

In any case, again, what's the real issue? Actually using Venezuela's oil wealth to benefit poor people?

Self critique: Is this really the same as the failure of American leftist to give up on Stalin as the reality of his rule became known? I hope not. I don't think so. I think the Venezuelan rich have not been had their wealth stripped or been imprisoned simply because of their wealth.

Red vs. Underlieing (sp?) Culture

2008-03-25T09:10:00.002-04:00

The current state of Russia illustrates my long time assertion, which I think predated the fall of the wall, that what we claimed to object to in the Soviet Union were at least as much Russian characteristics as Communist characteristics. This leads me to the conclusion that what they (? - conservatives? Protestants?) was the government helping out either poor people or just people different than the speaker. They tended not to object to the government helping them out, be they defense contractors or farmers or their particular flavor of worship.

(That's underlieing not underlining

Lists vs. Prose

2008-03-25T09:05:00.001-04:00

5/11/08 Update: Wikipedia:Embedded list

Recently I came across a Wikipedia article in which there was a style notice suggesting that the page ought to be rewritten as prose as opposed to the list that it was. I've not been able to re-find it, but I'd like to see their reasoning on the issue since I'm much inclined to make lists and outlines of my ideas instead of prose and don't particularly see why it ought to be prose. On the other hand, I admire well written non-fiction prose, say John McPhee or Richard.

Rules for a Dictionary Catalog By Charles Ammi Cutter, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Philip Lee Phillips, Oscar George Theodore Sonneck

2008-03-23T19:23:00.000-04:00

Rules for a Dictionary Catalog By Charles Ammi Cutter, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Philip Lee Phillips, Oscar George Theodore Sonneck: ""

What I Like About Marc

2008-03-23T13:28:00.001-04:00

It's the earliest rich data format that I know of.
It demonstrates lots of the data encoding techniques of its day. It may have invented some of them
I see a forerunner in the card examples in Scientific Amerrican.
It and the metadata it embodies is going forward into the future as part of the semantic web.

2008-03-22T22:36:00.001-04:00

This is a test of blogging from Opera Mini.

And now I edit.

Rules for a Dictionary Catalog By Charles Ammi Cutter, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Philip Lee Phillips, Oscar George Theodore Sonneck

2008-03-21T18:23:00.001-04:00

Rules for a Dictionary Catalog By Charles Ammi Cutter, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Philip Lee Phillips, Oscar George Theodore Sonneck: "1 To enable a person to find a book of which either A the author B the title V is known c the subject J 2 To show what the library has D by a given author E on a given subject F in a given kind of literature 3 To assist in the choice of a book G as to its edition bibliographically H as to its character literary or topical"

Things Joseph has figured out

2008-03-18T20:13:00.000-04:00

"Moma car": Amy's van
"Nana car": the Maxima
"Bop car": the Taurus

Evidenced during a surprise visit today.

iPhone not having copy & paste is bad

2008-03-17T11:11:00.000-04:00

According to Jakob Nielson the iPhone doesn't have copy & paste. This is bad. For me, at least, copy and paste is a major mechanism for exploring the internet.

copy a word or phrase and paste it into Google - does the iPhone have a "highlight and search" mechanism?
copy a url and then paste it into the browser address bar and hack it
copy a snippet from a page I'm tagging and paste it into the comment

By not having this mechanism my universe is made much smaller to no benefit for me that I can think of.

http://del.icio.us/ttotdpost updater

2008-03-17T10:22:00.000-04:00

For now I'm giving up on updating http://mshook.googlepages.com/ttotd2delicious02.html to use http://textingtermoftheday.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=processFeed instead of http://www.google.com/reader/public/javascript/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/TTOTD?n=3&callback=getPosts as its source. I want to because I think that the blogspot JSON feed may update sooner than the reader feed.

supplant only works with the top level items in an object.
I'm afraid that jsont.js may have trouble with $t as the name in an object and it's too convoluted for me to try and debug right now if it does.

The Origins of MARC

2008-03-14T21:42:00.001-04:00

Origins of MARC IBM punch card SciAm 9/1966 p232

Hey Mister - You've got a banana in your ear!

2008-03-11T10:15:00.000-04:00

I was walking along one day and I noticed up ahead this guy who had a banana in his ear. So I said, "Hey Mister - You've got a banana in your ear." He kept walking, so I said a little louder, "Hey Mister - You've got a banana in your ear." He just kept walking, so I called out as loud as I could, "Hey Mister! You've got a banana in your ear!" Still, he just kept walking. So I ran up ahead of him and turned around and put up my hands so he would stop and shouted as loud as I could, "HEY MISTER! YOU'VE GOT A BANANA IN YOUR EAR!" He stopped and looked at me and said, "Sorry, I can't hear you sonny, I've got a banana in my ear."

I remember that joke from my childhood (that's in the 1950's - way before Bert and Ernie did it) and my Mom laughed every time she heard it.

Fwd: "jojoba" - Word of the Day from the OED

2008-03-09T20:08:00.001-04:00

This is a text to see how the fancy typography survives the trip to a blog and how it does in the Atom feed.

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OED Online Word of the Day

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jojoba, n.

ADDITIONS SERIES 1997

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(hhb) Formerly also jajoba, jojobe, jojove. [a. Sp. jojoba, ad. native Indian hohohwi.]

a. A desert shrub, Simmondsia chinensis (family Simmondsiaceae), native to northern Mexico and the south-western U.S., that is used for the oil it yields. Also, = *jojoba oil below.

1900 E. J. WICKSON California Fruits (ed. 3) 43 The 'jajoba' (Simmondsia californica) is a low shrub, the fresh fruits of which..are eaten like almonds. 1933 Bot. Gaz. LXXXXIV. 826 Simmondsia californica, commonly known in the southwest as 'jojobe' or 'jojove', is an evergreen shrub. 1958 Econ. Bot. XII. 261 Jojoba, the gray box bush, is a drought-resistant, long-lived, evergreen, desert shrub bearing fruit like an acorn set in sepals. 1983 Houston (Texas) Chron. 21 Aug. I. 19/5 The August harvest of jojoba looks good so far, raising the spirits of manufacturers of just about everything from food to floor wax. 1989 Times 31 Aug. 25/6 Jojoba is hardly absorbed in the gutan attractive feature if you are trying to make low-calorie foods. 1989 Sunday Tel. 10 Dec. 43/4 Brown paper wrapped grapefruit and jojoba soap, £2.25.

b. jojoba oil, oil extracted from the fruit of the jojoba, used in cosmetics and as a substitute for sperm oil.

1975 Nature 22 May 272/3 Chemical analysis of jojoba oil has confirmed that it is strikingly similar in composition to sperm oil. 1986 Look Now Oct. 68/2 The Renewer Lotion contains collagen, jojoba oil and a special firming ingredient to smooth and soften the skin.

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Images in Google Docs & Notebook

2008-03-08T16:18:00.000-05:00

In Google Docs, when you insert an image into a document, you can choose to have the image data actually included in the document.
In Google Notebook, when you clip an image, it puts a pointer to the image in the notebook, not the image.
If you export the notebook to the Google Doc, it will still be a pointer.

So, if you clip an image on localhost, you'll only be able to see the image if you're on that machine.

OpenURL Checker

2008-03-07T22:31:00.000-05:00

http://mshook.googlepages.com/openurlchecker.html

Example: http://tinyurl.com/24aa7m

Wikipedia Category Summaries

2008-03-07T18:20:00.001-05:00

http://mshook.googlepages.com/dbpediacategorylist.html

Some examples:

Texting Term of the Day

2008-03-07T18:14:00.000-05:00

Three locations:

Fwd: reel pizza update/schedule

2007-10-19T16:02:00.001-04:00

e-greetings to all

here are the films playing at Reel Pizza from October 19 - 25.
See you soon.

-Lisa

Fri Oct 19 - Thurs Oct 25
EASTERN PROMISES (R) 96min 6:00 and 8:15

Fri Oct 19 - Mon Oct 22
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON (PG) 100min 5:30 and 7:45

Tues Oct 23 - Thurs Oct 25
LADRON QUE ROBA A LADRON (PG-13) 98min 5:30 and 7:45

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Hi everyone

Here is the text of the schedule that takes us up to the time of our family
break. Perhaps today's awarding of the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE to Al Gore for his
work in spreading awareness about man-made climate change with the goal of
reversing it will inspire you to bring your families to see this week's midweek
movie, THE 11TH HOUR. One of the strong points of this film about the impact
humans have had on the Earth is a considerable discussion about possible,
alternative solutions that can point us towards a more sustainable future. THE
11TH HOUR screens Tues Oct 16 - Thurs Oct 18 at both 5:30 and 7:30.

-Lisa and Chris.
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To our wonderful community,

We are getting to that dreaded time of year again, and, even though we aren't
going away anywhere (insert very sad face here), we are still going to take a
break (our closing night will be Mon Nov 12th), fix some things that want
repair, perhaps even make some improvements, and host our family for
Thanksgiving. And we promise to reopen before the New Year begins.

We look forward to another year of inviting our senior friends for winter
matinees, hosting events for our local non-profits, displaying unique art, and
seeing all our community come together for food, film, fun and fraternity.

Make someone you love happy this holiday season with a REEL PIZZA gift
certificate or BIG TICKET pass. Send me an email (reelpizza@me.acadia.net) or
a card (PO Box 625, 04609), leave a message (288-3828), or grab me at the
market or the postoffice, and we will set you up properly.

We appreciate you all for being so enthusiastic about what we do
here. We are grateful for all your comments, both complimentary and
critical, and your unflagging support of our community cinema. THANKS
from all of us for helping to make 2007 another successful year, and
here's to more and better in 2008.

Let the winter begin!
-Chris, Lisa, Pierce and Chloe (who turn TEN in November!)
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NEW ART IN THE LOBBY
CAROL SHUTT Hulls Cove BETWEEN THE LINES: The Power And Spirit of Words

Carol Shutt received her degree in Fine Arts from Syracuse University and
has been teaching and making art ever since. She considers herself a mixed
media artist and likes to explore ideas through a variety of techniques and
materials.
The work in this show is very different from other work Carol Shutt has
created, and is her response to ongoing political and social issues.
About this work, which was begun in a personal journal but eventually made
its way into her art , she says, ?The morning headlines, which bombard me
like incendiary devices, stay with me throughout my day. The art you see in
this show has been a way for me to respond to and look for meaning in these
headlines. This work integrates my interest in words and my love of art
making, and reflects my concerns for our world.?
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Fri Oct 19 - Mon Oct 22
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON (PG) 100min
Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men
walked upon its surface. This intimate epic is full of stunning archival
footage, much never used before and now remastered for this film, plus the
original audio recordings from mission control have been for the first time
seamlessly lip-synched to soundless 16mm footage of many historic moments.
This extraordinary film brings together most surviving crew members from every
Apollo mission that flew to the moon (including Jim Lovell, Buzz Aldrin, Dave
Scott, John Young, Gene Cernan, Mike Collins, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell,
Charlie Duke and Harrison Schmitt) who tell their riveting, witty stories in
their own words.

Tues Oct 23 - Thurs Oct 25
LADRÓN QUE ROBA A LADRÓN (PG-13) 98min [mostly in Spanish with subtitles]
This lively, intelligent and hilarious heist picture features an engaging
multi-ethnic Latino cast. Set in contemporary Los Angeles in the service
economy reality of many immigrants, two petty thieves plan to rob the biggest
thief they know of. He is a slick, local infomercial guru who has become
insanely rich selling his worthless snake oil to unsuspecting, poor immigrants.
But his empire seems almost impossible to infiltrate, until they decide to use
real day laborers to gain access. Full of humor and heart, this entertaining
caper proves that being underestimated is sometimes your best advantage.
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Fri Oct 26 - Mon Oct 29
2 DAYS IN PARIS (R) 96min [partly in French with subtitles]
In her directing debut, Julie Delpy (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset) has made an
honest and sharply observed romantic comedy that follows the attempts by a
French expat photographer (Delpy) and her American interior designer boyfriend
(Adam Goldberg) to reignite the spark in their relationship with a trip to
Europe. After a disastrous visit to Venice, they go to Paris to meet her
overbearing parents (played by Delpy?s real parents) for a few days. But his
inability to speak French makes him increasingly uneasy, and seemingly everyone
they meet is her former boyfriend or potential suitor.

Tues Oct 30 - Thurs Nov 1
NO END IN SIGHT (NR) 102min
Director Charles Furgeson, former Brookings Institute senior fellow and MIT
political scientist, examines how the principle errors of US policy in the
first years of the war ?the use of insufficient troop levels allowing the
looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government, and
the disbanding of the Iraqi military ?largely created the insurgency that has
had our country in such a quagmire for so long. His credentials earned him
candid interviews with Senior Bush administration officials, including Deputy
Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Colin
Powell?s Chief of Staff Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson and General Jay Garner,
head of Iraq Operations through May 2003. Winner of the Sundance Special Jury
Prize, this critically acclaimed documentary ?with a thirst for history that
transcends ideology? (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly), and ?as lucid
as it is level-headed, with a potential to reach across partisan lines?
(Dennis Lim, Los Angeles Times) is widely considered of all recent docs on the
subject of the war to be ?the least partisan and most compelling? (Jack
Mathews, NY Daily News).
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Fri Nov 2 - Mon Nov 5
THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB (PG-13) 104min
In this dynamic, observant film adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler?s bestseller,
director/screenwriter Robin Swicord (screenwriter of Little Women, and Memoirs
of a Geisha) reveals the lives of a group of friends (a tight-knit ensemble of
actors, including Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Hugh
Dancy and Maggie Grace), through the witty prism of their literary heroine. A
group of six meets monthly at each other?s houses. From their discussions of
Austen?s oeuvre emerge echoes, parallels and predictions of their current
situations, loves and lives.

Tues Nov 6 - Thurs Nov 8
DELIRIOUS (NR) 107min
With much humor and compassion, Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion, The Real
Blonde) fractures the fairytale of fame, its glamour and its isolation.
Cranky, small time celebrity photographer Les (Steve Buscemi), deep in a
mid-life crisis, can?t seem to get the break he needs to get the exclusive
photo to make his career. He meets a young homeless man who hopes to get into
acting (Michael Pitt) who becomes his assistant in exchange for room in his
closet. When the young man?s acting career takes off after meeting a starlet
(Alison Lohman), his paparazzi mentor becomes increasingly resentful. Elvis
Costello makes a cameo appearance as himself.
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Fri Nov 2 - Mon Nov 12
BEE MOVIE (PG) ?min
Brand new, this animated film from creator Jerry Seinfeld is about a bee who
doesn?t want to spend his life making honey. He bucks tradition and heads
off on a journey of self-discovery where he meets a nice florist (Renee
Zellweger). When he shockingly discovers that humans actually steal their
precious gold, he decides his life?s work is to stop this injustice in its
tracks and set the world right by suing the human race.
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COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?

EASTERN PROMISES (R) 100min
A Russian teenager dies while giving birth. Naomi Watts plays a midwife
determined to find the newborn?s relatives, armed with only the girl?s
diary, written in Russian, and a business card. Viggo Mortensen is the
charismatic, trusted driver of the volatile son of the head of London?s
Russian Mafia. The family?s more unsavory business operates hidden behind
the front of a high-end restaurant. The intersection of these two lives sets
into motion a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution. This
mesmerizing thriller is from director David Cronenberg (A History of Violence)
and screenwriter Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things).

MICHAEL CLAYTON (R) 120min
George Clooney, Tom Wilkerson, and Tilda Swinton star in the gripping
debut film
of director Tony Gilroy (screenwriter of all three BOURNE films). This
character-driven thriller features Clooney as the chief ?fixer? at a
prestigious, powerful law firm whose personal life is in a shambles and is deep
in his boss?s (Sydney Pollock) debt; Swinton is the chief counsel at an
agrochemical company facing a class action law suit; Wilkerson is his good
friend, the feared lead attorney defending the knowingly guilty company just
enough to keep the case in limbo. But when Wilkerson goes off the deep end, it
becomes Clooney?s job to clean up the mess.

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (PG-13) 131min
Boldly colorful and ambitious, Julie Taymor (Frida, Broadway?s The Lion King)
brings her rich visual flair, as well as her hallmark giant puppets and dancing
troupes, to this unique romantic musical. This story of young love in the
counter culture of lower Manhattan?s East Village set against the Vietnam War
is told through the lyrics of 33 classic Beatles songs. Jude (Jim Sturgess), a
Liverpool ship?s welder, ends up in NYC, meets Max (Joe Anderson) and, with
his sister Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), they share an apartment with some musician
friends JoJo, Sadie and Prudence.
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FILMS TO LOOK FOR IN 2008:

INTO THE WILD
DARJEELING LIMITED
BLAME IT ON FIDEL
PETE SEEGER: POWER OF SONG\
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
and many more...
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