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June 2009

writing | ben fry » Transit Trekkies

by karlcow

“They actually … attempted to downplay what the existing control center looks like, because they wanted to make it look real to the average eye as compared to… we’re pretty Star Trekky up in the new control center now.”

Le réseau Twitter émerge comme source d'information pour les médias - Technologies - Le Monde.fr

by srcmax
Les réseaux sociaux sur Internet intéressent les médias : le New York Times vient de nommer une rédactrice en chef chargée de ces nouveaux outils, Jennifer Preston. Elle doit en développer l'usage dans la rédaction, afin de "trouver des sources, dépister des tendances, diffuser des informations et en collecter", selon Jonathan Landman, directeur adjoint de la rédaction. Au premier rang de ces outils figure Twitter, le réseau social de micro-blogging.

May 2009

PIRATERIE EN SOMALIE - UN WEB DOCUMENTAIRE DE FRANCE 24

by gregg (via)
Le Studio Multimedia de France 24 réalise cette semaine un webdocumentaire pour aider à comprendre les enjeux de la Piraterie en Somalie. Je pense personnellement que ce type contenu mixant différents formats (video, texte, son images et interactivité relative dans ce cas de figure) est un support de grande valeur ajoutée pour le reportage...

Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships

by pac-recrutement
Companies are working fast to figure out how to make money from the wealth of data they're beginning to have about our online friendships

The Plenitude - The MIT Press

by karlcow

We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every utensil, every thing, is compound—composed of tens, hundreds, even thousands of other things. Although each piece of stuff satisfies some desire, it also creates the need for even more stuff: cereal demands a spoon; a television demands a remote. Rich Gold calls this dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff the "Plenitude." And in this book—at once cartoon treatise, autobiographical reflection, and practical essay in moral philosophy—he tells us how to understand and live with it.

BLDGBLOG: Earthquakes on Street View

by karlcow

Imagine, though, owning the building centered directly over the earthquake that destroys your whole city... And imagine the weird derived value such a property might hold in the future for disaster enthusiasts.

You go to purchase a small house at 3706 W. 106th Street in Los Angeles – only to find that you've been outbid, by several orders of magnitude, approaching $50 million, by an earthquake enthusiast in Japan. He or she has gone around the world purchasing epicenters, strange plots of land in the middle of nowhere that have no apparent use or distinction other than that they figure into the unfolding seismic history of our planet's surface.

It's an otherwise unknown subculture that has remained camouflaged within the international property market.

This is why text messages are 160 characters in length

by karlcow

And why 160 characters? Again, when Hillebrand discovered during his research that the average post card usually contained around 150 characters; people were already used to communicating using so few characters. (Telex messages were usually around this length, too, meaning that business users could easily adapt to text messages.) You’ll also find that your average e-mail today isn’t much longer than a text message.

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April 2009

Numerical Enigma | Smartkit Puzzles and Brain Teasers

by smartkit
Can you decipher the code and figure out who Smartkit is talking about in their new online game Baby Enigma?

YouTube - Average 40Matches

by paulantoinem
This film was made in a kitchen over two days using approximately 2500 photographs - Ce film a été fait dans une cuisine plus de deux jours en utilisant environ 2500 photographies.

March 2009

< H X A 7 2 4 1 > : MiniLight minimal global illumination renderer

by karlcow

MiniLight is a minimal global illumination renderer. It is primarily an exercise in simplicity. But that makes it a good base and benchmark for development and experimentation. And it just might be the neatest renderer around (on average, about 570 lines). There are translations into several programming languages.

Kutiman, Big Media, and the Future of Creative Entrepreneurship | 43 Folders

by xibe

Because, this is what your new Elvis looks like, gang. And, eventually somebody will figure out (and publicly admit) that Kutiman, and any number of his peers on the “To-Sue” list, should be passed from Legal down to A&R.

Everybody knows the business has moved from legal to binary files. The question now is how much more lead time old media companies and other IP-obsessives can afford to burn by pretending it’s otherwise.

S is for Semantics: MIN and MAX in SPARQL

by karlcow

It is a bit embarassing when I teach SPARQL to someone with a background in SQL. Once they figure out how it works, they start to appreciate it as a powerful language for representing just what information you want from a graph. Then they start asking about some of the commonly used query operations from SQL - things like aggregators and grouping operations like COUNT, SUM, MAX, MIN and AVG.

Evolution of the Web from 2000 to 2007 - average web object size quintuples since 2000

by karlcow

Summary: In a comparative survey of data traces from 2000 and 2007, University of Twente researchers found that the nature of the Web has changed from a static one-way medium to a dynamic platform for interactive services such as photo and video sharing portals.

The Web has changed dramatically over the past seven years. During that time the Web has moved from a static one-way medium toward a dynamic platform for interactive services such as photo and video sharing portals. In a comparative survey of data traces served over the Web from 2000 and 2007, University of Twente researchers found that the nature of web sites has changed (Sadre and Haverkort, 2008).

February 2009

L'écologie profonde est-elle un humanisme ? I - Mouvements

by karlcow

une règle des bibliographies françaises sur l’écologie : elle ne compte aucun représentant, direct ou indirect, de l’écologie philosophique, de l’éthique environne-mentale, ou de la « deep ecology ». Ni le Norvégien Arne Naess (né en 1912), ni les Américains John Baird Callicott (né en 1941), Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), Edward Abbey (1927-1989), Edward O. Wilson (né en 1929), ni le Britannique James Love-lock (né en 1919) n’y figure. Pourquoi ? Parce qu’ils ne sont pour ainsi dire pas traduits en français. Pourquoi ne sont-ils pas traduits en français ? Parce que l’écologie philosophique a chez nous la réputation d’être une pensée « controversée ».

Documentation for the Combine (focused) crawling system

by karlcow

The Combine system is an open, free, and highly configurable system for focused crawling of Internet resources. It aims at providing a robust and efficient tool for creating topic-specific moderate sized databases (up to a few million records). Crawling speed is around 200 URLs per minute and a complete structured record takes up an average of 25 kilobytes disk-space.

Cost and Challenges of opening a cafe

by karlcow

Budgeting $15 for the payroll for every hour your charming cafe is open (let's say 10 hours a day) relieves you of $4,500 a month. That gives you another $4,500 a month for rent and $6,300 to stock up on product. It also means that to come up with the total needed $18K of revenue per month, you will need to sell that product at an average of a 300 percent markup.

Les rêves de révolution… et d'être le propriétaire d'un café.

January 2009

Le vertige fractal

by Neewok

Une véritable mystique a entouré les images fractales lors de leur apparition, née essentiellement de la notion "d'auto-similarité", qui invite le spectateur à une plongée vers l'infini. La notion d'infini a toujours fasciné, et voir une invitation à l'infini se matérialiser sur une figure est autrement plus suggestif qu'une réflexion philosophique abstraite

Alberto Posadas - biographie

by Neewok

"Ce qui comprend et gouverne toute chose". C'est ainsi que Anaximandre définissait to ápeiron ou le commencement de tous les êtres. Par ce mot qui désigne littéralement "ce qui ne connaît pas de limites", Anaximandre fait moins allusion à un infini physique que mental. Pour mieux comprendre cette acception nous pourrions parler ici d'un infini se développant dans un espace fini. C'est sur ce paradoxe que repose aujourd'hui la musique fractale. Les profils d'une figure fractale, par exemple, tendent vers l'infini et sa dimension est définie par un nombre irrationnel. Le même ordre se reproduit à des niveaux chaque fois inférieurs ouvrant ainsi des paysages constamment nouveaux. Alberto Posadas s'est appuyé sur cette idée stimulante pour écrire Ápeiron

Automatic Tile Cutter - Google Mapki

by delavigne & 1 other (via)
Automatic Tile Cutter From Google Mapki Jump to: navigation, search This code is verified as functional. This code was written by Will James of onNYTurf.com and is designed to work in conjunction with the scipts that allow you to Add Your Own Custom Map. Note that the Automatic Tile Cutter works with both v1 and v2 of the GMaps API, but requires a bit of adjustment in order to work with v2. See the section on how to figure out values for your tiles.

L'album le plus vendu sur Amazon en 2008 était aussi offert gratuitement - Numerama

by srcmax & 1 other
Distribué sous licence libre sur les réseaux P2P, l'album Ghosts I-IV de Trent Reznor figure en tête des albums les plus vendus en 2008 sur la plateforme de téléchargement d'Amazon aux Etats-Unis. "La gratuité c'est le vol", accusait Denis Olivennes dans un pamphlet qui lui a valu quelques mois plus tard de présider les accords de l'Elysée sur la riposte graduée avec les maisons de disques et les fournisseurs d'accès. "La gratuité c'est des ventes", pourrait aujourd'hui lui rétorquer Trent Reznor, le très engagé leader de Nine Inch Nails (NiN).

L'album le plus vendu sur Amazon en 2008 était aussi offert gratuitement - Numerama

by sbrothier & 1 other
Distribué sous licence libre sur les réseaux P2P, l'album Ghosts I-IV de Trent Reznor figure en tête des albums les plus vendus en 2008 sur la plateforme de téléchargement d'Amazon aux Etats-Unis. "La gratuité c'est le vol", accusait Denis Olivennes dans un pamphlet qui lui a valu quelques mois plus tard de présider les accords de l'Elysée sur la riposte graduée avec les maisons de disques et les fournisseurs d'accès. "La gratuité c'est des ventes", pourrait aujourd'hui lui rétorquer Trent Reznor, le très engagé leader de Nine Inch Nails (NiN).

The average person speaks | Antony Loewenstein

by srcmax
A recently released documentary, before Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, on life in Sderot and Gaza:

Google: Firefox and Chrome Run Gmail Twice as Fast as IE, Says Google

by srcmax (via)
Google has taken a more aggressive approach to moving users away from Internet Explorer, recommending that Gmail users install Firefox or Chrome if they want to see Gmail run "an average of twice as fast."

December 2008

La Légende de Bouddha

by sbrothier
Primé en 2005, La Légende de Bouddha figure parmi les 11 titres en présélection aux Oscars 2005, aux côtés des films prestigieux des grands studios américains tels que Shrek 2 (Dreamworks), Les Indestructibles (Buena Vista), Gang de Requins (Dreamworks), Le Pôle Express (Warner), etc... Ce long métrage d'animation a été le fruit d'un travail et de moyens exceptionnels : plus de 400 créateurs ont participé à la réalisation des 200.000 dessins et 1.000 décors entièrement peints à la main, à la façon des premiers dessins animés des Studios Disney.

Conceptualizing AtomPub for Map services « Vish’s ramblings

by karlcow 2 comments

AtomPub is both a format and a protocol. And I think that the AtomPub is a natural way to expose data especially also GIS data. I am going to go over how in my opinion GIS data exposed as map services seamlessly falls into the AtomPub data container structure. The figure below illustrates a simplified data container structure in AtomPub.

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