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October 2009
WMBR 88.1 FM Radio Show | Nonstop Ecstatic Screaming
by garret
Two hours of sound designed to split your skull open, break your brain, and pop your funk. Bloopity bits and bobs, plinkety plonk, drone, skronk, assorted noise, a bumping beat here and there, etc.
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September 2009
50 Great Examples of Data Visualization | Webdesigner Depot
by sbrothier
& 4 others
Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information.
And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for.
But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner.
Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter.
August 2009
When fish get emotional - New Scientist
by paulantoinem
Who ever heard of a fish being in two minds about something? Yet it seems that like humans, fish process information - and perhaps emotions - on different sides of the brain. ...
The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting. - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine
by paulantoinem
We actually resemble nothing so much as those legendary lab rats that endlessly pressed a lever to give themselves a little electrical jolt to the brain. While we tap, tap away at our search eng ...
Pimki Home Page
by jpcaruana
& 6 others
(via)
Pimki is a PIM (Personal Information Manager) loosely based on Instiki's Wiki technology. This is the place to dump your brain, organise your thoughts and Get Things Done. The ease of use and immediacy of a wiki combined with extended view to slice and dice the data give you a unique power to store, manage and retrieve all loose bit of information in your life.
There are a lot of features added over a regular Wiki, features that only make sense when you view it as a personal application and not so much as a group oriented application. See below for a full list of goodies.
Brain Off » There is a Kitfox. More on OpenStreetMap at Camp Roberts :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet
by karlcow
The OSM rails app and tile rendering system were straightforward to take offline, and run locally. Walking Papers took some hacking. The print and scan storage was optionally disengaged from S3.
July 2009
Brain Dominance Test (Online-Test) - test your brain dominance - The IPN
by ericpaul
(via)
Brain Dominance Test (Online-Test)
June 2009
CodeProject: Designing And Implementing A Neural Network Library For Handwriting Detection, Image Analysis etc.- The BrainNet Library - Full Code, Simplified Theory, Full Illustration, And Examples. Free source code and programming help
by jpcaruana
(via)
This article will explain the actual concepts of Backward Propagation Neural Networks - in such a way that even a person with zero knowledge in neural networks can understand the required theory and concepts very easily. The related project demonstrates the designing and implementation of a fully working 'BackProp' Neural Network library, i.e, the Brain Net library as I call it. You can find the theory, illustration and concepts here - along with the explanation of the neural network library project - in this article. Also, find the full source code of the library and related demo projects (a simple pattern detector, a hand writing detection pad, an xml based neural network processing language etc) in the associated zip file.
50 Great Examples of Data Visualization | Webdesigner Depot
by oqdbpo
& 4 others
Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information.
And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for.
But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner.
Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter.
May 2009
inkdroid » Blog Archive » rest, the semantic web and my feeble brain
by karlcow
So. Should I have two different URIs: one for the real-world Newspaper Page, and one for the HTML document that describes that page? Is the Newspaper Page an Information Resource? Am I muddling up something here? Am I thinking too much? Should I just let sleeping dogs lie? Your opinion, advice, therapy would be greatly appreciated.
Lightroom | The Darkroom
by mozkart
Another World Lightroom Preset
A slightly HDR-esque set of Lightroom presets to enhance your photos.
The presets work better on images with many details and textures, also be aware that the effect is very strong,…
The Sprawl Lightroom Preset
I love cyberpunk. Since I was a kid I’ve always wanted one of those brain implants to connect to the cyberspace (if I think about it right now.. jeez, having…
Nocturnus Lightroom Preset
I usually take photos in low light conditions, especially at night. And the places I like the most are usually very dark streets, with just a small light lighting up…
Cinematic Lightroom Preset
In this Kit you’ll find 4 different presets I’m using often as a starting point to process my pictures with a “cinematic” look.
Cinema 1 - High contrast, rich black, low…
Daido Moriyama Lightroom Preset
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?
Organ Donation, Tissue Donation, Organ Transplants - The Gift of a Lifetime
by gregg
A man waits and wonders if a new heart will arrive. A woman walks without pain with a bone transplant, and a child grows up with a new liver. A mother in the midst of a tragedy helps give life to others through organ donation. These are the stories of lives transformed by the miracle of organ donation and organ transplants. These are the stories of Americans who give and receive The Gift of a Lifetime.
Transplant Journey
Waiting for and Giving the Gift — In this dramatic photo-documentary journey, experience the stories of patients whose hopes rise and fall with each passing day as they wait for organ transplants. Learn how families look beyond their grief in order to give life to others.
March 2009
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.
click opera - Supersize mind
by karlcow
>Click Opera stores information that I no longer have in my brain; when I connect to this information, I have a way to remember.
This, you can't know and that is the irony. There are things which are still in our brain but we don't remember how to access them. Then suddenly one day, they come back to the surface.
What is happening with the external storage is not the storage by itself, but the search functionality on this external storage. I can have thousand of photos, but if there are not slightly organized (no dates into it for example), there are just a useless pile of bits. The fact that they contained structured information help when we need to access them with tools.
A simple creation date of the file can achieve that. We relate the date to memories of places. Either in your brain or somewhere on the external storage if you write the list of things you have done.
