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June 2009
architects construction management claims atlanta
by newandforever
architects construction management claims atlanta
Free Music Archive
by garret
& 1 other
Not to be confused with the Live Music Archive (see the MP3 Hub section, above), the Free Music Archive is a new (in 2009) resource of free and legal MP3s that was launched by the venerable NYC-area public radio station, WFMU (which is, you should know, the longest-running free-form radio station in the US). The Free Music Archive describes itself as "a social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio." Featuring downloadable songs placed online by WFMU, KEXP, and a handful of other interesting musical organizations, the Free Music Archive can be browsed by curator or genre, but you have to thumb through a lot--there are no easy indexes to get a broad look at the offerings. And while the site claims to have more than 5,000 MP3s available, what's here is decidedly idiosyncratic. Still, as a large repository of free and legal MP3s, it's worth a visit every now and then. [review from www.fingertipsmusic.com]
May 2009
The Great Flickr Tools Collection
by Spone
& 33 others
[Regularly Updated] Looking for Flickr Tools, hacks and services for a powerful photo sharing experience? Flickr is a revolution in photo storage, sharing and organization , making image management an easy, natural and collaborative process. Get comments, notes, and tags on your photos, post to any blog, share and chat live and more! Flickr claims to be the best online image management and photo sharing application.
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March 2009
People's Music Store: Build Your Own Record Shop
by garret
(via)
"People's Music Store is a newly launched DIY online music store. It was created by the founder of MP3 reseller Bleep.com, Ged Day. People's Music Store styles itself as "the first music store entirely powered by music fans." Basically the service allows you to set up your own custom-designed record store, with music chosen from a catalogue of indie record labels (so far no major record label music). The idea is that you earn points, equivalent to 10% of the price of the single, EP or album that you sell. These points can only be used to buy other music items on the People's Music Store site.
There are more than 650 stores currently, with over 250,000 songs in the catalogue - most appear to be available at $0.99 per song or $8.99 per album. The site claims to be "working with" 4,500 labels, including 4AD, XL, Rough Trade, Matador, Dominio, and Ged Day's own Warp.
Other than the lack of major label music, there is another minor annoyance for those of us who don't live in the U.S. - international users will frequently run into a "we're sorry, but this release is not available in your country" message. However on the plus side, all the music available for download is DRM-free and at high quality 320Kbps." [reawriteweb]
just hear it | playable music search
by garret
& 4 others
"Similiar to Seeqpod and Songza, Just Hear It offers registered and unregistered users alike a seamless interface for song search and playlist creation, all from within the browser.
Just Hear It claims to be completely legal, following DMCA guidelines, and paying royalties to all of the major performing-rights organizations, like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. In the future, Just Hear It aims to negotiate licenses to share revenue with labels. Currently, much of the music actually seems to come from YouTubeYouTube reviewsYouTube reviews - much like another site we recently reviewed, StreamDrag." - Mashable
Home Income Plan
by postasaurus
Mail online have reported that UK pensioners with an existing equity release scheme could save up to £300 million collectively by switching to an alternative plan at a lower interest rate. Equity release rates are fixed for life and have reduced over the past few years from around 8% to approximately 6%. The site claims that customers who have loans with the longest established lenders such as, Northern Rock and Mortgage Express could gain significantly by switching. It is estimated that approximately 10,000 pensioners could save up to £30,000 in interest payments over a 15 year period by switching their current equity release plan to one with a lower interest rate.
February 2009
The Spiritual Brain: Interview with Denyse O'Leary
by anubis99
(via)
According to the editor, the book “The Spiritual Brain - A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul” (Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary, Harper One, 2007) “offers compelling evidence that religious experiences have a nonmaterial origin”.
To learn more about this book and its claims, I contacted the coauthor Denyse O’Leary to ask her if she could answer a few questions, and she kindly agreed.
December 2008
Language Log » Swearing and social networks
by karlcow
Un ensemble de données pour tester des programmes autour du mail :) intéressant. Analyse statistiques, géographiques, UI, etc.The Enron email dataset provides a nice chance to test out these claims. It is large (about 250,000 distinct messages, sent and received by over 11,000 distinct email addresses), and it contains a moderate amount of bad language.
Sham vs. Wham: The Health Insider: British Researchers Dispute Coffee/Tea Dehydration Claims
by karlcow
This research was published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and it dispels the long-term belief that tea dehydrates the body of fluids.
November 2008
Greenwash | Environment | guardian.co.uk
by karlcow
Fred Pearce exposes the exaggeration, absurd claims or downright lies that big business makes about its green credentials
Media Matters
by dggit
& 11 others
(via)
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation — news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda — every day, in real time.
Using the website www.mediamatters.org as the principal vehicle for disseminating research and information, Media Matters posts rapid-response items as well as longer research and analytic reports documenting conservative misinformation throughout the media. Additionally, Media Matters works daily to notify activists, journalists, pundits, and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions.
October 2008
No REST in CMIS » Untangled
by karlcow
(via)
I am getting tired of big companies making idiotic claims about REST and their so-called RESTful architectures. The only similarity between CMIS and REST is that they both have four-letter acronyms.
September 2008
Rational insurance claims process Re-engineering e-Kit
by BlueVoodoo
This e-Kit for IT Managers can help you learn about IBM Rational software’s role in insurance claims process re-engineering and the use of IBM tools to enable flexibility, agility and scalability while increasing reliability and reducing operational overhead.
August 2008
Yuuguu Newsletter » Yuuguu bridges gap for CINTIQUE Translations
by sbrothier
2 comments
What does a business do to stay in touch and share documents with its people when those people – industry specialists based (in the target country) abroad– are spread across the globe? CINETIQUE Translations, a company that provides expert translation services faces just such a challenge and turned to Yuuguu to solve the problem.
Founded in 2002 by Laurence Auffret, a biologist and translation lecturer at Manchester University, CINETIQUE Translations was set up to combine the two specialist skills of science and translation to produce a thriving business that specialises in offering translation services to the technological, scientific and engineering communities.
CINETIQUE Translations’ work includes: websites and user interfaces; conference publications, presentations and training modules; installation, operating, and maintenance manuals; and patents, claims, EU compliance documentation and tender documents.
All this kind of work requires the utmost accuracy but a key issue in terms of translation in general - and technological, scientific and academic translation in particular – is to generate translations that do not just do the job in literal terms, but are able to translate the exact sense, meaning, and phrasing of any work. In other words, all translations must mean precisely the same ‘thing’ as in the original document. In CINETIQUE Translations’ fields of expertise this means it is essential that translators are fluent, not just in the requisite languages, but also the information contained in the original documents, as well as how that same information needs to be communicated in the target market.
To help achieve this, CINETIQUE Translations uses ultra-specialist translators, they live and work in their home territory and in the specific industry. It also researches any documents that it produces thoroughly, often running them past focus groups, which are themselves based in the target territory. That all means that effective sharing tools – like web conferencing – would be vital. But, they are also expensive, complex to set up and time-consuming. CINETIQUE Translations is using Yuuguu to contact its in-country consultants – and sample groups – simply. It also uses Yuuguu to share documents and enable live document editing and note-making through the screen-sharing and control features.
The benefits, says Laurence Auffret, are obvious: “Our translations are done by industry experts who live in the country where the translated document is going to be used. Firstly, it’s really important for us to be able to discuss documentation as a team - publisher, client, translator, editor, project manager - in real-time”.
“Also, team meetings always take place online and we need to share our views on certain aspects of the documents, in real-time. So, we screen-share and one person can add on another linguist’s work – it’s a great tool.”
June 2008
May 2008
Anti-beef claims hard to swallow -
by misspo
Jeremy Rifkin's campaign to change beef consumption and inspection and cooking standards
March 2008
InfoQ: A Brief Introduction to REST
by mbertier
& 1 other
You may or may not be aware that there is debate going on about the “right” way to implement heterogeneous application-to-application communication: While the current mainstream clearly focuses on web services based on SOAP, WSDL and the WS-* specification universe, a small, but very vocal minority claims there’s a better way: REST, short for REpresentational State Transfer. In this article, I will try to provide a pragmatic introduction to REST and RESTful HTTP application integration without digressing into this debate. I will go into more detail while explaining those aspects that, in my experience, cause the most discussion when someone is exposed to this approach for the first time.
Quantitative Analysis - Why Ferraro's Claims are Inaccurate
by democrattotheend
Much has already been said about Geraldine Ferraro’s controversial comments implying that Obama wouldn’t be where he is if he were white (or a woman). The purpose of this post is not to attack or defend her comments, but to test her hypothesis that Clinton has been hampered by her gender while Obama has been helped by his race by looking at the exit poll numbers for people who said that a candidate’s race or gender had any influence on their vote.
February 2008
GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - God, Without the Fuss
by springnet
His mother, Dodie Osteen, claims never to have seen him mad. The same goes for his brother Paul, though his senior adviser and chief of communications Donald Iloff Jr. (also Osteen's brother in law), claims he's seen him irritated a couple of times.
January 2008
Web Site Assembles U.S. Prewar Claims - NYT
by ravi
Students of how the Bush administration led the nation into the Iraq war can now go online to browse a comprehensive database of top officials’ statements before the invasion...
WorldNetDaily: Teen claims invention of Obama slogan
by pmdm
(via)
"according to U.S. trademark No. 3,266,236, that slogan belongs to Stefan Doyno, a Scarsdale, N.Y., resident who invented the jewelry products – rings and pendants – and is working on expanding his line. As part of his work he obtained "Change Rocks" as a registered trademark"
The famous nine for 2007 - Intellectual Asset Management
by pmdm
"In no particular order and making no great claims for the selection other than it is one I have given quite a bit of thought to, here are my – and, by extension, the IAM blog’s – top IP personalities of 2007"
December 2007
nettime-l: Re: <nettime> Critique of the "Semantic Web"
by karlcow
Berners-Lee (see http://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/0718-aaai-tbl/#(17) ) denies that "the Semantic Web is about making one big ontology" Instead he claims: "The semantic web is about a fractal mess of interconnected ontologies...." This may be true, but then we have this already - it's called culture. Even Web 1.0 and 2.0 are part of it. Only it is not formalized in a meta-ontology interconnecting and extending all these micro-ontologies. That will remain a megalomanic dream.
November 2007
Open source, Lego-like computer modules run Linux
by CharlyBr
A New York-based startup is readying a modular, open source hardware/software system resembling a set of electronic Legos. Bug Labs claims device developers can build "anything" using "Bug," which comprises an ARM11-powered base and various modular add-ons.
October 2007
How to easily Resize your Windows Vista Partition? Partition your C Drive
by jsbi
There are many products in the market like the legendary Partition Magic - but although it claims to work with Windows Vista, but the fact is that it doesn't does the job that well. So you may be wondering how to resize your existing partitions like c: , d: drives without losing any data. I'll help you out today to do just that and also without the need for any costly programs.
