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The hyperdata Address Book project being developed here is meant to be the equivalent for foaf that BlogReaders are for RSS. It is a specialised Semantic Web browser that follows foaf documents around the web, building a distributed open social network. It is also a foaf editor, which you can use to publish your foaf files to an ftp/scp server.

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This service helps you to find co-references between different data sets.

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Social critic Neil Postman contrasts the worlds of 1984 and Brave New World in the foreword of his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death. He writes:

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.

AtomPub clients expect to use HTTP authentication to gain access to the server, so that's what you have to provide. Unlike a human user on a web browser, where you might implement a floating, “web 2.0” style login box (or its accessible equivalent), for a machine operating over a wire protocol, you have to reply with and respond to the proper HTTP authentication challenges. ¶

Facts About Microsoft-Owned Data Centers Adding 10,000 servers a month New data centers being planned/under construction are equivalent of over 15 US football fields of data center space.

We may not be living on a fertile world, an optimal environment for life; maybe we live on the galactic equivalent of a barren weed strewn city lot.

Eliminating paper tickets will save the equivalent of 50,000 mature trees each year and save the airline industry up to USD 3 billion annually.