Now today there are few human beings who, for biological reasons, cannot forget. What sounds like a blessing, they certainly do remember where they parked their car in a shopping mall. It turns out that they have tremendous difficulties in acting in time, in deciding in time, because they remember all their bad, failed decisions in the past, and therefore hesitate to make a decision in the present.
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Slitscan imaging techniques are used to create static images of time-based phenomena. In traditional film photography, slit scan images are created by exposing film as it slides past a slit-shaped aperture. In the digital realm, thin slices are extracted from a sequence of video frames, and concatenated into a new image.
Over the past few months I’ve been talking with many people passionate about Information Visualization who share a sense of saturation over a growing number of frivolous projects. The criticism is slightly different from person to person, but it usually goes along these lines: “It’s just visualization for the sake of visualization”, “It’s just eye-candy”, “They all look the same”.
Way back in 2006 I wrote a blog post concerning the modelling of time in RDF (see Refactoring Bio With Einstein Part 3: Temporal Invariants. That post also provoked some discussion in the blogosphere. Although I haven’t written anything on the subject for the past three years I haven’t stopped thinking about it. In fact I’ve been working quite hard on the problem, mainly by modelling real data, especially geographical information. This is the first of a series of blog posts describing my experiments. I’d like to thank Leigh Dodds and Jeni Tennison who gave me valuable feedback on an earlier version of this write-up.
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Cambridge Grammar for First Certificate (book audio) Intermediate to Upper-intermediate This book provides complete coverage of the grammar needed for the Cambridge FCE exam, and develops listening skills at the same time. It includes the full range of FCE exam tasks from the Reading, Writing, Listening, and Use of English papers, and contains helpful grammar explanations and a grammar glossary. Contents 1. Present tenses: Present simple, present continuous, state verbs; 2. Past tenses: Past simple, past continuous, used to (and to be used to), would; 3. Present perfect simple and past simple: Present perfect and past simple, present perfect simple and continuous; 4. Past perfect: Past perfect simple and continuous; 5. Future 1: Present tenses, will, future continuous; 6. Future 2: Going to, future in the past, present after time adverbs, future perfect, to be about to; 7. Adjectives: Comparative and superlative adjectives, position, order, adjectives ending in -ing and -ed; 8. Adverbs: Formation, adverbs and adjectives easily confused, comparative and superlative adverbs, modifiers, position; 9. Questions: Yes / no questions, short answers, question words, question tags, agreeing; 10. Countable and uncountable nouns, articles: Countable and uncountable nouns, a, the and no article, special uses articles; 11. Pronouns and determiners: Possessives, reflexive pronouns, each other etc, there and it, someone etc, all, most and some, each and every, both, neither etc; 12. Modals 1: Use of modals, obligation, necessity; 13. Modals 2: Permission, requests, offers, suggestions, orders, advice; 14. Modals 3: Ability, deduction: certainty, probability and possibility; 15. Passive: Passive, to have something done; 16. Reported speech: Reporting about the past, reporting about the present, verbs used for reporting, questions; 17. Verbs followed by to-infinitive or -ing: Verb + to-infinitive, verb + infinitive without to, verb + -ing, verb + object + to-infinitive, verb + that, adjectives; 18. Phrasal verbs: Meaning and form, verb + preposition, verb + adverb, verb + preposition + adverb; 19. Conditionals 1: Zero, first, second and third conditionals, mixed conditionals; 20. Conditionals 2: Unless, in case, as / so long as, provided that, I wish / if only, it’s time, I’d rather, otherwise / or else; 21. Prepositions 1: Prepositions of place and time; 22. Prepositions 2: Prepositions which follow verbs and adjectives, prepositions to express who, how and why, expressions with prepositions; 23. Relative clauses: Defining and non-defining relative clauses, relative pronouns and prepositions; 24. Linking words 1: Because, as and since, so and therefore, in order to, to + infinitive and so (that), so and such, enough and too; 25. Linking words 2: In spite of and despite, but, although and though, even though and even if, participle clauses, before and after + -ing, when, while and since + -ing.
"Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) says Twitter has produced $1 million in revenue over the past year and a half through sale alerts. People who sign up to follow Dell on Twitter receive messages when discounted products are available the company's Home Outlet Store."
In-search of the source of the universe, singularity, art and science. A short docu/drama inspired by Space Collective and other forward thinking terrestrials. Set in the near future and narrated through a series of interviews from the past and letters from the future in a kind of audiovisual diary essay style. Shot in 5 countries over 2 years. This film uses five digit dates, eg (0)2009 - the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. Directed & Produced by Jason Gleeson
Have you ever wondered what the guy who invented the World Wide Web is up to these days? What about the guys who created Photoshop, or the one who created the PHP scripting language?
About the Photographer: I mostly enjoy combining photography with both travel and the outdoor landscape. This activity began informally as I started to cover my bland office wall with pictures taken while hiking or traveling remote destinations. Over the past couple years, my interest has grown as I've followed the works of outdoor and adventure photographers. I began with a 35mm SLR, stepped up to a 6x7 medium format camera, and also began using 4x5 large format equipment. More recently, most of my images are made on Nikon's D700 digital SLR camera.
A Jew Remembers Her Escape From Nazi Germany. I have not been writing about Israel and the Jews as often as I’ve done in the past. Why? For starters: The information is in, it keeps coming i ...
Pushbutton is a name for what I believe will be an upgrade for the web, where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience, using free and open technologies at low cost and without relying on any single company like Twitter or Facebook. The pieces of this platform have just come together to enable a whole set of new features and applications that would have been nearly impossible for an average web developer to build in the past.
this one's a very new discovery for me, and i like to look through the blog section especially. their description says it best: "Part literary publication, part therapeutic expression, our aim is to promote creativity for self-development through the publication of a diverse mix of artistic work, all with a focus on self-awareness and self-help. Why? Because we believe that sometimes simply owning something on the page is all it takes to move past it and move on, for both reader and creator."
This is a stream-of-consciousness look at shinobi-inspired media from decades (and in a few cases centuries) past. Beside the black-clad commandos we know and love as ‘ninja’ you’ll also find extended family like masked vigilantes and hooded detectives, trouble-making wizards and mischievous magicians, short-skirted sword girls with shadow skills, and more.
OAuth, OpenID…they sound like the same thing and they kind of do vaguely similar things But I’m here to tell you, OAuth is not Open ID. They have a different purpose. I’ve been playing around with OAuth a bit in the past couple weeks and have a grip on what it’s aiming to do and what it’s not aiming to do. To start with, here’s what OAuth does have in common with Open ID
I did want to apologize for assuming that the XHTML errors I had recently were due to WhatWG members having fun at my expense. I've had people deliberately break my XHTML-based comments in the past when I've written about XHTML, and the break was documented with a screenshot in the web site of a WhatWG member. I put 2 and 2 together and came up with 5. (1/10/2009)
Anne VK est taquin (see via). -- Ceci dit j'admire Shelley pour maintenir ses sites en full xhtml + extensions > svg+rdfa. Mais Dieu que la route est difficile avec des navigateurs si peu adaptés. (Firefox et son yellow screen of death)
"A look into the future that never was" "The Paleo-Future blog was started by Matt Novak in January of 2007. Matt has since become an accidental expert on past visions of the future, and has amassed the world's largest (only?) library of media related to the study of paleo-futurism. " Books, articles, images up to the 1800s
An archive of Transparencies that have run in our past issues and online at www.good.is
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Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: 'What are you working on?' As employees answer that question, a feed is created in one central location enabling co-workers to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions, and share links and other information. Yammer also serves as a company directory in which every employee has a profile and as a knowledge base where past conversations can be easily accessed and referenced.
Google Time Search - Shows you options to restrict search results to a specified time period (like 24 hours, past week and so on).
During the past decade, rapid developments in information and communications technology have transformed key social, commercial, and political realities. Within that same time period, working at something less than Internet speed, much of the academic and policy debate arising from these new and emerging technologies has been fragmented. There have been few examples of interdisciplinary dialogue about the importance and impact of anonymity and privacy in a networked society. Lessons from the Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society fills that gap, and examines key questions about anonymity, privacy, and identity in an environment that increasingly automates the collection of personal information and relies upon surveillance to promote private and public sector goals.
Would you know if a dear, but seldom seen, friend happened to be on the same train as you? The proximeter is both an agent that tracks the past and future proximity of one’s social cloud, and an instrument that charts this in an ambient display. By reading existing calendar and social network feeds of others, and abstracting these into a glanceable pattern of paths, we hope to nuture within users a social proprioception and nudge them toward more face-to-face interactions when opportunities arise.