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The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later - The Berlin Wall Through Time - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

by sbrothier & 1 other
SNAKING ALONG, cutting through fields and streets, yards and gardens, the 28-mile-long Berlin Wall stood as a border between East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. That all changed on Nov. 9, 1989, when an inexact translation, a confused border guard and a natural longing for a better life opened a hole in that wall that would eventually end the Cold War. Related Coverage | Article

October 2009

Time/Weather Desktop on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

by karlcow

Well, most of the work is done by Earthdesk and GeekTool 3.

Earthdesk is set to Natural Color, Equirectangular projection, Natural Color, Real Moonlight, centered on Vienna, Background: Starfield. Zoom 80%, Clouds 80%, Brightness 80%.

In GeekTool, the times and the weathers are all separate Shell "geeklets".

Times are generated by running shell commands like

env TZ=Asia/Tokyo date " %l:%M %p"

every 20 seconds

The weather is the tricky part. The way I am doing it now, if I am not careful, gets me throttled for too many concurrent requests to the wunderground.com API server. It also fails badly if I am disconnected, so I will need to do it differently.

FWIW: I have a PHP script which I run as separate Shell Geeklets. I invoke it with the name of the city I want. It then hits wunderground and gets back an XML stream of the local weather, which I parse, format and echo. (the way I'd change this is run the script from cron, with a 30 second wait between requests, and cache the results locally, which I would then call from the Shell Geeklets)

From there it's just a question of setting fonts, sizes, colors and moving the little Geeklet boxes around as you want them.

Roots as Narrative - Framework 1/2004

by karlcow

Since I cannot tell you the final truth about the roots of the Finnish people, I shall tell you about the search for those roots. It is only natural that we search for our beginnings and use those beginnings to construct our identity. But why do we look to roots for our identity? This is the question I shall try to answer. I will use scientific and other public discourse as my material.

Joseph Mercola

by rwatuny
Natural Health Information Articles and Health Newsletter by Dr.

Linguistics Meets Linux: Morphix-NLP

by m.meixide
NLP (Natural Language Processing) has been an important research field for about 40 years. Incorporating lingustics and computer science methods, this broad topic has many different application areas as well as important problems to solve. Analysing huge files of different languages, discovering patterns, making transformations, categorizing text, analysing and synthesizing speech, making the computers understand the semantics of language data, etc. are all related to NLP in one way or the other.

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September 2009

interactions magazine

by karlcow

Waste is part of life. Human and animal bodies produce natural waste, whereas societies produce synthetic waste. While we cannot control the level of natural waste as its production is an organic part of biological survival, we can drastically reduce the production of synthetic waste. Natural and synthetic waste come in two varieties - reusable and nonreusable. The aim of a sustainable waste economy is to reuse as much waste as possible, even to the point of reducing waste surplus to zero.

Natural Language Processing with Python - O'Reilly Media

by karlcow

This book offers a highly accessible introduction to Natural Language Processing, the field that underpins a variety of language technologies ranging from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and translation. You'll learn how to write Python programs to analyze the structure and meaning of texts, drawing on techniques from the fields of linguistics and artificial intelligence.

Land Art Generator Initiative

by karlcow & 1 other

According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 7.15 exajoules) by 2030 – a 44% increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today).

NLTK Home (Natural Language Toolkit)

by parmentierf & 1 other (via)
Open source Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for research and development in natural language processing, supporting dozens of NLP tasks, with distributions for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

CodeProject: Building an AI Chatbot using a Regular Expression Engine. Free source code and programming help

by parmentierf
This article describes how to build an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatterbot using an open source, Regular Expression-based natural language processing engine called Verbot.

Verbot 4 Engine SDK by Conversive, Inc.

by parmentierf
The Verbot 4 Engine SDK provides the Core Natural Language Processing Engine (Pattern Matching) used in the Verbot 4 Player and Verbots Online. It includes class definitions for all basic data types: KnowledgeBases, Rules, Inputs, Outputs, Synonyms, etc... as well as the methods needed to reason on a KnolwedgeBase.

Dante - The Language Learning Chatterbot by Alan J. Brown

by parmentierf (via)
Dante is the successor to CoLIn and Leo. A lot of improvements have been made including a seperate vocubulary and memory, subject linking, improved accuracy, better input parsing and greater response relevance. Dante still learns everything he says from natural conversation without additional input or artificial ranking and can learn and speak any language.

August 2009

Ai Research - Creating a new form of life - MyBot - Your Messenger Companion

by parmentierf
MyBot is your personal virtual companion. It is a pattern-matching chatbot (software that can converse in natural language), capable of learning from you.

FrontPage Magazine - We're Not the Soviets in Afghanistan

by paulantoinem
Comparisons between our current efforts in Afghanistan and the Soviet intervention that led to the collapse of the USSR are natural and can be helpful, but only with great care. Below are a numb ...

LUSH

by rwatuny
Fresh Handmade Soaps and Natural Cosmetics

Hackers and Painters

by Neewok (via)

I've never liked the term "computer science." The main reason I don't like it is that there's no such thing. Computer science is a grab bag of tenuously related areas thrown together by an accident of history, like Yugoslavia. At one end you have people who are really mathematicians, but call what they're doing computer science so they can get DARPA grants. In the middle you have people working on something like the natural history of computers-- studying the behavior of algorithms for routing data through networks, for example. And then at the other extreme you have the hackers, who are trying to write interesting software, and for whom computers are just a medium of expression, as concrete is for architects or paint for painters.

Limestone Pavers

by wsiebler
Range of limestone pavers and natural limestone tiles

July 2009

Main | Smarter Cities

by karlcow

Smarter Cities, a project of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a non-profit 501(c)(3), is a multimedia web initiative whose mission is to foster a little friendly competition (see Annual Cities Research and Rankings below) as well as provide a forum for exploring the progress American cities are making in environmental stewardship and sustainable growth.

Curb™ The natural media company, green marketing, creative agency, clean advertising, guerilla marketing, sustainable marketing, sand sculpting.

by oqdbpo
CURB offers a unique portfolio of sustainable media, with a proven track record of generating enormous awareness at minimal cost to the environment. Our natural experts use only sustainable earth elements to create everything from national advertising campaigns to astounding corporate art. Ultimately we just love to do cool things with nature.

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

by srcmax & 3 others

So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

June 2009

cutlery pen caps dining biodegradable - designboom

by sbrothier & 1 other
designer's own words: Turn your favourite office tool from your desk in a common cutlery...this is din-ink. A set of pen caps, including a fork-cap, a knife-cap and a spoon-cap, that replaces the normal pen cap during lunch time! All caps are made by annually renewable resources, like natural starch and fibres, to be 100% biodegradable and atoxic, warranting the best alimentary use. Dispensing each set in a compostable packaging the whole set is designed to respect the environment. Now give your office ballpoint pen a good excuse to be gnawed by your teeth: use them for din-ink.

Clouds Taste Metallic

by tehu 2 comments

<!-- We start our little story with the invention of the modern day computer. Over the years, the computers grew in numbers, and the next natural step in the evolution was ... -->

Un indice donné par un insider mais c'est peut-être une fausse piste.

Mannahatta » Home

by jeanruaud (via)
Ever wondered what New York like before it was a city? Welcome to Mannahatta, 1609. Now, after nearly a decade of research, the Mannahatta Project at the Wildlife Conservation Society has un-covered the original ecology of Manhattan. That's right, the center of one of the world's largest and most built-up cities was once a natural landscape of hills, valleys, forests, fields, freshwater wetlands, salt marshes, beaches, springs, ponds and streams, supporting a rich and abundant community of wildlife and sustaining people for perhaps 5000 years before Europeans arrived on the scene in 1609

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