Public marks with search numbers Public marks with search numbers http://blogmarks.net/marks/search/numbers Convertbot - Tapbots http://tapbots.com/convertbot/ Convertbot Convertbot is a unit conversion robot. Convert currency, length, mass, time and much more in an exciting new way! Converting numbers will never again be a mundane task. In addition to its innovative interface, our robot is smart enough to convert to and from mixed units. Are you 5 foot 9 inches tall? Other converters require you to convert that to 5.75 ft in your head before being able to enter it. Convertbot allows mixed units like Foot + Inches, Pounds + Ounces, and more! 2009-12-16T09:22:23Z sbrothier iphone, interface, ui, tools, software

Convertbot - Tapbots

by sbrothier

Convertbot Convertbot is a unit conversion robot. Convert currency, length, mass, time and much more in an exciting new way! Converting numbers will never again be a mundane task. In addition to its innovative interface, our robot is smart enough to convert to and from mixed units. Are you 5 foot 9 inches tall? Other converters require you to convert that to 5.75 ft in your head before being able to enter it. Convertbot allows mixed units like Foot + Inches, Pounds + Ounces, and more!

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]]> Tech.view: Turn by turn | The Economist http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15101353 <blockquote><p>Another expression of this less-is-more approach to navigation is the Maps Optimised to the Vehicular Environment (MOVE) project at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Using variations of the LineDrive approach, the researchers found that drivers needed less time to understand navigational instructions presented semantically (in words and numbers) rather than symbolically (as street signs and corporate logos)</p></blockquote> 2009-12-15T05:08:55Z karlcow cartographie

Tech.view: Turn by turn | The Economist

by karlcow

Another expression of this less-is-more approach to navigation is the Maps Optimised to the Vehicular Environment (MOVE) project at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Using variations of the LineDrive approach, the researchers found that drivers needed less time to understand navigational instructions presented semantically (in words and numbers) rather than symbolically (as street signs and corporate logos)

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]]> Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos | Facebook http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919 <blockquote><p>The Photos application is one of Facebook’s most popular features. Up to date, users have uploaded over 15 billion photos which makes Facebook the biggest photo sharing website. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translates to a total of 60 billion images and 1.5PB of storage. The current growth rate is 220 million new photos per week, which translates to 25TB of additional storage consumed weekly. At the peak there are 550,000 images served per second. These numbers pose a significant challenge for the Facebook photo storage infrastructure.</p></blockquote> 2009-11-29T11:10:26Z karlcow facebook, bigtable, haystack

Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos | Facebook

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The Photos application is one of Facebook’s most popular features. Up to date, users have uploaded over 15 billion photos which makes Facebook the biggest photo sharing website. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translates to a total of 60 billion images and 1.5PB of storage. The current growth rate is 220 million new photos per week, which translates to 25TB of additional storage consumed weekly. At the peak there are 550,000 images served per second. These numbers pose a significant challenge for the Facebook photo storage infrastructure.

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]]> 123people.com | free people search, find the public records of everyone http://www.123people.com/ Europe based - 123people is a real time people search tool consisting of images, videos, phone numbers, email addresses, social networking and Wikipedia profiles, Facebook, White pages, blogs, news... Available countries are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, US (World) 2009-11-14T20:30:48Z ycc2106 people, search, phonebook

123people.com | free people search, find the public records of everyone

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Europe based - 123people is a real time people search tool consisting of images, videos, phone numbers, email addresses, social networking and Wikipedia profiles, Facebook, White pages, blogs, news... Available countries are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, US (World)

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]]> Shell scripts no more! | nabeel shahzad http://nsslive.net/2009/02/16/shell-scripts-no-more/ using Phing for : Automatically build beta, full, and update versions from SVN Update revision numbers within several files using tokens or regex Copy it to the test site Automatically generate PHPDoc API documentation 2009-11-08T18:47:39Z Fiber_Optic phing, php

Shell scripts no more! | nabeel shahzad

by Fiber_Optic

using Phing for : Automatically build beta, full, and update versions from SVN Update revision numbers within several files using tokens or regex Copy it to the test site Automatically generate PHPDoc API documentation

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]]> unum - Interconvert numbers, Unicode, and HTML/XHTML characters http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/unum unum, a stand-alone utility program written in portable Perl which allows you to look up Unicode and HTML characters by name or number, and interconvert numbers in decimal, hexadecimal, and octal bases. 2009-10-30T15:51:25Z ycc2106 unix, converter, unicode

unum - Interconvert numbers, Unicode, and HTML/XHTML characters

by ycc2106

unum, a stand-alone utility program written in portable Perl which allows you to look up Unicode and HTML characters by name or number, and interconvert numbers in decimal, hexadecimal, and octal bases.

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]]> Swine Flu Mortality http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2603/4052849920_fb143b60b5_o.jpg This info graphic shows the immense threat of the Swine Flu compared to other manners of death. Today's the 300th day of the year 2009, so I used the numbers of deaths on the Poodwaddle's World Clock (which uses the death stats of the official WHO data and statistics) for a quick comparison. The number of swine flu deaths is from the official german epidemic info site. - click here to zoom image 2009-10-30T14:33:15Z ycc2106 flickr, image, swine, statistics, chart

Swine Flu Mortality

by ycc2106

This info graphic shows the immense threat of the Swine Flu compared to other manners of death. Today's the 300th day of the year 2009, so I used the numbers of deaths on the Poodwaddle's World Clock (which uses the death stats of the official WHO data and statistics) for a quick comparison. The number of swine flu deaths is from the official german epidemic info site. - click here to zoom image

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]]> inudge.net - Nudge http://www.inudge.net/index.en.html Everyone can create music * Select 1 of 8 different Sound Patterns from the small Matrixes icons on the right. * Use your mouse to draw notes on each 16 Step Matrix. * For each Pattern, adjust Volume, Mute, Clear, or set Audio Pan from Left to Right. * Click on the Tempo numbers and click up or down to change the overall Tempo. * Get & Share allows you to Send Mail, Get Link, Get Embed code or Spread in communities. * Use the Feedback Forum to tell us what you think, leave your comments or make suggestions. * Check out MOST LISTENED and NEWEST iNudges below! 2009-10-20T07:42:45Z oqdbpo share, sound

inudge.net - Nudge

by oqdbpo

Everyone can create music * Select 1 of 8 different Sound Patterns from the small Matrixes icons on the right. * Use your mouse to draw notes on each 16 Step Matrix. * For each Pattern, adjust Volume, Mute, Clear, or set Audio Pan from Left to Right. * Click on the Tempo numbers and click up or down to change the overall Tempo. * Get & Share allows you to Send Mail, Get Link, Get Embed code or Spread in communities. * Use the Feedback Forum to tell us what you think, leave your comments or make suggestions. * Check out MOST LISTENED and NEWEST iNudges below!

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]]> ABCya! The Leader in Kids Educational Computer Games http://www.abcya.com/ The following activities include: learn the alphabet, uppercase to lowercase letters, categorizing, mouse manipulation, drawing, counting numbers and much more. These activities are great to use in the computer lab! 2009-10-05T17:44:52Z ycc2106 mousepractice, elearning, interactive, k, draganddrop

ABCya! The Leader in Kids Educational Computer Games

by ycc2106

The following activities include: learn the alphabet, uppercase to lowercase letters, categorizing, mouse manipulation, drawing, counting numbers and much more. These activities are great to use in the computer lab!

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]]> New Agreement Declares ICANN Independent http://www.circleid.com/posts/new_agreement_declares_icann_independent/ The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has reached a major milestone today with a new agreement in place with the U.S. Department of Commerce allowing the organization greater independence and giving more countries oversight of the organization 2009-09-30T21:12:02Z marco internet, icann

New Agreement Declares ICANN Independent

by marco

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has reached a major milestone today with a new agreement in place with the U.S. Department of Commerce allowing the organization greater independence and giving more countries oversight of the organization

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]]> The Trouble with Version Numbers http://wordaligned.org/docs/software_versioning/index.html <blockquote><p>Software version numbers should be straightforward to implement. Their sequencing is hardly subtle: version 1.0 is the first production quality release; version 1.1 improves on it, version 1.2 is a little better; and so on until we get to version 2.0, which delivers more substantial changes. Then comes 2.1, then 2.2 ...</p><p>As anyone who has tried to implement such a scheme will realise, it can be a surprising source of problems, and although these problems have been tackled by many projects in many organisations there seems to be no consensus on how to reach a solution. To give an example: deriving the version number from the version control system is tempting, but ultimately turns out to be unsatisfactory.</p></blockquote> 2009-09-23T03:14:58Z karlcow versioning

The Trouble with Version Numbers

by karlcow

Software version numbers should be straightforward to implement. Their sequencing is hardly subtle: version 1.0 is the first production quality release; version 1.1 improves on it, version 1.2 is a little better; and so on until we get to version 2.0, which delivers more substantial changes. Then comes 2.1, then 2.2 ...

As anyone who has tried to implement such a scheme will realise, it can be a surprising source of problems, and although these problems have been tackled by many projects in many organisations there seems to be no consensus on how to reach a solution. To give an example: deriving the version number from the version control system is tempting, but ultimately turns out to be unsatisfactory.

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]]> YubNub - YubNub.org http://yubnub.org/ YubNub is a command-line for the web. After setting it up on your browser, you simply type "gim porsche 911" to do a Google Image Search for pictures of Porsche 911 sports cars. Type "random 49" to return random numbers between 1 and 49, courtesy of random.org. And best of all, you can make a new command by giving YubNub an appropriate URL. 2009-09-11T20:07:05Z ycc2106 search, tools, custom, cool

YubNub - YubNub.org

by ycc2106 & 24 other(s)

YubNub is a command-line for the web. After setting it up on your browser, you simply type "gim porsche 911" to do a Google Image Search for pictures of Porsche 911 sports cars. Type "random 49" to return random numbers between 1 and 49, courtesy of random.org. And best of all, you can make a new command by giving YubNub an appropriate URL.

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]]> New ELI 7 Things... Brief Explores Data Visualization II | EDUCAUSE http://www.educause.edu/blog/pkurkowski/NewELI7ThingsBriefExploresData/177243 <blockquote><p>Data visualization is the use of tools to represent data in the form of charts, maps, tag clouds, animations, or any graphical means that make content easier to understand. Graphic representations of data are popular because they open up the way we think about data, reveal hidden patterns, and highlight connections among elements. Because current web applications allow anyone with access to data to enter information and easily create a virtualization of it, students, informal learners, and the purely curious can now easily create visualizations that might reveal trends that were not obvious from the numbers alone.</p></blockquote> 2009-08-26T10:20:51Z karlcow datavisualization

New ELI 7 Things... Brief Explores Data Visualization II | EDUCAUSE

by karlcow

Data visualization is the use of tools to represent data in the form of charts, maps, tag clouds, animations, or any graphical means that make content easier to understand. Graphic representations of data are popular because they open up the way we think about data, reveal hidden patterns, and highlight connections among elements. Because current web applications allow anyone with access to data to enter information and easily create a virtualization of it, students, informal learners, and the purely curious can now easily create visualizations that might reveal trends that were not obvious from the numbers alone.

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]]> robtex http://www.robtex.com/ swiss army knife internet tool in the searchbox above you can search for: RBL checks multible RBL:s if a specific is listed (81.62.124.116) DNS checks detailed dns information for a hostname () or a domain () IP-number checks ip number information such as dns reverse and forwards (81.62.124.116) C-net checks an entire c-network (81.62.124) whois lookup checks whois information for a domain () route checks a specific routed prefix () AS numbers checks information on an AS-number (AS ()) BGP announcements checks prefixes origined from a specific AS-number (AS) AS macros checks who belongs to an AS-macro (example: as-ams-ix-peers) RFC documents Request For Comments (rfc2822) add engine to browser 2009-08-18T06:24:19Z ycc2106 whois, blacklist, net_tools, online

robtex

by ycc2106 & 6 other(s)

swiss army knife internet tool in the searchbox above you can search for: RBL checks multible RBL:s if a specific is listed (81.62.124.116) DNS checks detailed dns information for a hostname () or a domain () IP-number checks ip number information such as dns reverse and forwards (81.62.124.116) C-net checks an entire c-network (81.62.124) whois lookup checks whois information for a domain () route checks a specific routed prefix () AS numbers checks information on an AS-number (AS ()) BGP announcements checks prefixes origined from a specific AS-number (AS) AS macros checks who belongs to an AS-macro (example: as-ams-ix-peers) RFC documents Request For Comments (rfc2822) add engine to browser

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]]> Autopager - Create new ap rule for page without "next" in links - teesoft, make software to a tee http://member.teesoft.info/content/view/97/82/lang,en/ This works on AutoPager 0.5.1.4 or newer version. This is the recording of the steps to create the rule for http://www.pspad.com/en/pspad-extensions.php. This demo shows how to create AutoPager rules for the pages which don't have "Next" in links. They only have a navbar includes all the page numbers like this: Page: [1], 2, 3, 4. The final link xpath get in this tutorial is: //div[@id='obspoz']/p/text()[contains(.,'[')]/following-sibling::a[1] Steps explains: //div[@id='obspoz']/p :select the navbar. //div[@id='obspoz']/p/text() : select the texts in the navbar since current page number does not have a node //div[@id='obspoz']/p/text()[contains(.,'[')] : select the text for the current page number. It will be easier if the current page number has a node, for example if it's a span with class='current': //div[@id='obspoz']/p/span[@class='current']. //div[@id='obspoz']/p/text()[contains(.,'[')]/following-sibling::a[1] : select the first link after the current page number text. 2009-08-18T00:30:49Z decembre autopager, extension, firefox, xpath, tutoriel, tutorial

Autopager - Create new ap rule for page without "next" in links - teesoft, make software to a tee

by decembre

This works on AutoPager 0.5.1.4 or newer version. This is the recording of the steps to create the rule for http://www.pspad.com/en/pspad-extensions.php. This demo shows how to create AutoPager rules for the pages which don't have "Next" in links. They only have a navbar includes all the page numbers like this: Page: [1], 2, 3, 4. The final link xpath get in this tutorial is: //div[@id='obspoz']/p/text()[contains(.,'[')]/following-sibling::a[1] Steps explains: //div[@id='obspoz']/p :select the navbar. //div[@id='obspoz']/p/text() : select the texts in the navbar since current page number does not have a node //div[@id='obspoz']/p/text()[contains(.,'[')] : select the text for the current page number. It will be easier if the current page number has a node, for example if it's a span with class='current': //div[@id='obspoz']/p/span[@class='current']. //div[@id='obspoz']/p/text()[contains(.,'[')]/following-sibling::a[1] : select the first link after the current page number text.

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]]> SSRN-Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006 <blockquote><p>Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for protecting the privacy of individuals in large databases by deleting information like names and social security numbers. These scientists have demonstrated they can often “reidentify” or “deanonymize” individuals hidden in anonymized data with astonishing ease. By understanding this research, we will realize we have made a mistake, labored beneath a fundamental misunderstanding, which has assured us much less privacy than we have assumed. This mistake pervades nearly every information privacy law, regulation, and debate, yet regulators and legal scholars have paid it scant attention. We must respond to the surprising failure of anonymization, and this Article provides the tools to do so.</p></blockquote> 2009-08-14T10:47:40Z karlcow opacité

SSRN-Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm

by karlcow

Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for protecting the privacy of individuals in large databases by deleting information like names and social security numbers. These scientists have demonstrated they can often “reidentify” or “deanonymize” individuals hidden in anonymized data with astonishing ease. By understanding this research, we will realize we have made a mistake, labored beneath a fundamental misunderstanding, which has assured us much less privacy than we have assumed. This mistake pervades nearly every information privacy law, regulation, and debate, yet regulators and legal scholars have paid it scant attention. We must respond to the surprising failure of anonymization, and this Article provides the tools to do so.

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]]> YouTube - penguin cafe orchestra numbers 1-4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXxiTPiikiw penguin cafe orchestra numbers 1-4 2009-08-06T21:11:47Z ericpaul popmusic, Penguin Cafe Orchestra

YouTube - penguin cafe orchestra numbers 1-4

by ericpaul

penguin cafe orchestra numbers 1-4

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]]> HotBits: Genuine Random Numbers http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ 2009-08-03T19:14:22Z rwatuny générateur, nombres, aléatoire, radio-actif

HotBits: Genuine Random Numbers

by rwatuny

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]]> Versioning URIs | Jeni's Musings http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/112 <blockquote><p>One of the particular points of contention at the meeting was whether URIs for non-information resources (ie for real-world and conceptual things) should contain dates or version numbers, or not.</p></blockquote> 2009-07-27T01:34:23Z karlcow espacedate

Versioning URIs | Jeni's Musings

by karlcow

One of the particular points of contention at the meeting was whether URIs for non-information resources (ie for real-world and conceptual things) should contain dates or version numbers, or not.

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]]> Smartphone Satisfaction Numbers - eMarketer http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007180 2009-07-17T11:23:55Z bs_pepper etude, iphone

Smartphone Satisfaction Numbers - eMarketer

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]]> The Inside Numbers on Twitter - eMarketer http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007185 2009-07-17T11:23:28Z bs_pepper twitter, etude

The Inside Numbers on Twitter - eMarketer

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]]> Dreams and free energy machines http://wesseldiwesseli.blogspot.com/ "At the core of Wessel di Wesseli's teachings and beliefs stands the rule of preservation of energy, which he knows to be inconclusive. He believes that 1+1 can be 3 or more. Because we, humans, aren't just numbers you add up, we are more than a simple or even dead equation. On this page you will find concepts based on this principle and artistic machines or mechanical art if you will. You will see references to the perpetuum mobile machines." "Often described as a crazy loner Mr. di Wesseli has been relentlessly searching for answers in the field of the perpetuum mobile for more than 45 years, with many eureka moments along the way aswell as failures. " 2009-07-06T19:19:09Z borsky 012-Weird science, 043-Heteroclites, 020-Blogs

Dreams and free energy machines

by borsky

"At the core of Wessel di Wesseli's teachings and beliefs stands the rule of preservation of energy, which he knows to be inconclusive. He believes that 1+1 can be 3 or more. Because we, humans, aren't just numbers you add up, we are more than a simple or even dead equation. On this page you will find concepts based on this principle and artistic machines or mechanical art if you will. You will see references to the perpetuum mobile machines." "Often described as a crazy loner Mr. di Wesseli has been relentlessly searching for answers in the field of the perpetuum mobile for more than 45 years, with many eureka moments along the way aswell as failures. "

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]]> Re: vCard RDF merge.... from Toby Inkster on 2009-06-30 (www-archive@w3.org from June 2009) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Jun/0147.html <blockquote><p>A while back I wrote a little RDF vocab that extended the 2006 vCard vocab. It introduces a few extra terms which I thought were useful, mostly taken from the vCard 4.0 drafts at the time. e.g. a "lang" property to indicate languages spoken by the person represented. One other thing it has though is a more vCard-like way of representing telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc.</p></blockquote> 2009-06-30T10:58:22Z karlcow rdf, vcard

Re: vCard RDF merge.... from Toby Inkster on 2009-06-30 (www-archive@w3.org from June 2009)

by karlcow

A while back I wrote a little RDF vocab that extended the 2006 vCard vocab. It introduces a few extra terms which I thought were useful, mostly taken from the vCard 4.0 drafts at the time. e.g. a "lang" property to indicate languages spoken by the person represented. One other thing it has though is a more vCard-like way of representing telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc.

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]]> letters numbers http://www.letters-numbers.com/ 2009-06-25T15:26:26Z mixher studio, graphisme, newyork

letters numbers

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]]> S C R I B B L E R http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler Scribbler takes simple vector based input (in the case of the online toy, your drawing) and creates its own drawing on top of it based on a number of simple rules. When a new scribble line is created it chooses a few numbers at random that eventually determine what sort of line it will draw. As it begins to draw it fine tunes those values to the type of drawing that you've made. Certain scribbles are better at following straight paths, others are better at outlining curves, and others are better for filling in large areas of color. Because there is randomness built into the program, each scribble is unique. 2009-06-21T18:58:37Z ycc2106 webtoy, draw, fun, editor, online

S C R I B B L E R

by ycc2106

Scribbler takes simple vector based input (in the case of the online toy, your drawing) and creates its own drawing on top of it based on a number of simple rules. When a new scribble line is created it chooses a few numbers at random that eventually determine what sort of line it will draw. As it begins to draw it fine tunes those values to the type of drawing that you've made. Certain scribbles are better at following straight paths, others are better at outlining curves, and others are better for filling in large areas of color. Because there is randomness built into the program, each scribble is unique.

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