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June 2009
Obama | One People
by tisienpo
The City illustrates the emotional flow of the Presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C. Through an analysis of the number of mobile phone calls made in Washington D.C. on Inauguration Day and the home state or country of phone origin, it is possible to see peaks of call activity as the crowd anticipates President Obama's oath, a drop in call activity as the crowd listens to his inaugural address, and peaks again as the crowd celebrates the inauguration of the new President. Through their cell phones, those present at the historic event share their impressions with friends and family in vast numbers: on the morning of January 20th, call activity is two to three times stronger than usual, and it rises to five times the normal levels after 2 pm as President Obama takes his oath and people begin to celebrate.
Ubuntu (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by tadeufilippini
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Ubuntu (philosophy)
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For other uses, see Ubuntu (disambiguation).
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Nelson Mandela explains the concept of Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of Southern Africa. Ubuntu is seen as a classical African concept. (Dion Forster 2006a:252)[1]
PULANDO UM TRECHO ..TEMOS :
Meaning
An attempt at a longer definition has been made by Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1999):
“ A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. ”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu further explained Ubuntu as follows (2008):
“ One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity.
We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.
”
January 2009
F.E.A.R. 2 : Project Origin • La communauté francophone de F.E.A.R.2
by warnz
Fear-2.com est le site non-officiel de F.E.A.R.2 : Project Origin le plus complet du web : infos, news, forum, telechargements, videos, images. Le jeu est développé pour la console de jeu Xbox 360® de Microsoft, le PC Windows et la plateforme interactive PLAYSTATION®3 par Monolith Productions et sera édité par Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment. Sa date de sortie est déjà connue : le 10 février 2009 en Amérique du Nord, et le 13 février 2009 partout en Europe. Ce sera incontestablement l'une des plus grosses sorties de cette année 2009.
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December 2008
October 2008
Ajaxian » Firefox 3.1 beta: Geolocation, @font-face, Video and Audio, XHR++, and TraceMonkey
by srcmax
1 comment
WebKit lead with their @font-face implementation, and getting browser #2 to support it is huge. Now you can load up a font using same-origin rules via simple CSS:
CSSHttpRequest - Hacks - nb.io
by marco
& 1 other
Similar to JavaScript, this works because CSS is not subject to the same-origin policy that affects XMLHttpRequest. Like JSONP, CSSHttpRequest is limited to making GET requests. Unlike JSONP, untrusted third-party JavaScript cannot execute in the context of the calling page
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
by holyver
& 24 others
, 1 comment
A Web cache sits between one or more Web servers (also known as origin servers) and a client or many clients, and watches requests come by, saving copies of the responses — like HTML pages, images and files (collectively known as representations) — for itself. Then, if there is another request for the same URL, it can use the response that it has, instead of asking the origin server for it again.
TheDieline.com: The Leading Package Design Website: Lanjaron Water
by karlcow
Ooooh beautiful irony. Selling water in Bottle is one of the big wrong doing of consumerist society. One which participates to Global Warming. And seeing a mountain under the water at the bottom of a bottle of water is exactly an unintended demonstration of it.The sleek, clear, grooveless shape of the bottle magnifies the Mulhacén mountain (Sierra Nevada, Spain) arising from its base, conveying the sense of purity and natural origin of the brand in a single powerful message.
August 2008
The Coming Battle Over Web Fonts
by marco
The only protection of value is the ability to prevent site A from directly linking to fonts on site B, and that can also be obtained with bare font files, simply by imposing a same-origin restriction on font linking
RSS: What is a 'River of News' style aggregator?
by greut
& 2 others
(via)
Standard news readers organize feeds into groups, and then under each feed are items. If there's an unread item in a feed, the feed's name is bold. If you leave the cursor on an item long enough the feed name goes un-bold. These programs work much like mail readers, so much so that they are sometimes even integrated into mail readers.
the concept of "river of news" origin
July 2008
BARCODE PLANTAGE
by karlcow
Written in the highly accessible Processing scripting language (designed specifically for artists and designers), Barcode Plantage is a neat little program. It takes a barcode and processes it using certain algorithms to create a tree-like image unique to the code, complete with key info such as country of origin and manufacturer.
May 2008
TalkOrigins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy
by jdrsantos
& 3 others
Talk.origins is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins. Most discussions in the newsgroup center on the creation/evolution controversy, but other topics of discussion include the origin of life, geology,
I’m a Linkin Park Fan
by Madhu
Linkin Park is a truly unique band. They are not just Rock, Rap, or Electronica band. They compromise of a veritable mixture of different styles and stylists in music, this makes them a hybrid in the type of music they play and their fan-base too. I am true lover of Linkin Park
Linkin Park’s origin began in 1996 when rapper guitarist Brad Delson and the in famouis Mike Shinoda started a band called Xero. Other members of the band were Mark Wakefield the vocalist, Joseph Hahn the DJ, Rob Bourdon the drummer, and “Phoenix” Farrell the bassist. Xero made a four track demo tape including: Fuse, Stick N’ Move, Rhinestone, and Reading My Eyes.
March 2008
Use Server Cache Control to Improve Performance - apache web server settings for optimized caching with configuration files
by korbinus
& 3 others
Caching is the temporary storage of frequently accessed data in higher speed media (typically SRAM or RAM) for more efficient retrieval. Web caching stores frequently used objects closer to the client through browser, proxy, or server caches. By storing "fresh" objects closer to your users, you avoid round trips to the origin server, reducing bandwidth consumption, server load, and most importantly, latency. This article shows how to configure your Apache server for more efficient caching to save bandwidth and improve performance.
Caching is not just for static sites, even dynamic sites can benefit from caching. Graphics and multimedia typically don't change as frequently as (X)HTML files. Graphics that seldom change like logos, headers, and navigation can be given longer expiration times while resources that change more frequently like XHTML and XML files can be given shorter expiration times. By designing your site with caching in mind, you can target different classes of resources to give them different expiration times with only a few lines of code.
Use Server Cache Control to Improve Performance - apache web server settings for optimized caching with configuration files
by camel
& 3 others
Caching is the temporary storage of frequently accessed data in higher speed media (typically SRAM or RAM) for more efficient retrieval. Web caching stores frequently used objects closer to the client through browser, proxy, or server caches. By storing "fresh" objects closer to your users, you avoid round trips to the origin server, reducing bandwidth consumption, server load, and most importantly, latency. This article shows how to configure your Apache server for more efficient caching to save bandwidth and improve performance.
Caching is not just for static sites, even dynamic sites can benefit from caching. Graphics and multimedia typically don't change as frequently as (X)HTML files. Graphics that seldom change like logos, headers, and navigation can be given longer expiration times while resources that change more frequently like XHTML and XML files can be given shorter expiration times. By designing your site with caching in mind, you can target different classes of resources to give them different expiration times with only a few lines of code.
February 2008
Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos
by pmdm
& 5 others
"Let’s take a look at the origin of tech companies’ logos and how they evolved over time"
(hat tip : Simon Gobert)
Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos
by karlcow
& 5 others
You’ve seen these tech logos everywhere, but have you ever wondered how they came to be? Did you know that Apple’s original logo was Isaac Newton under an apple tree? Or that Nokia’s original logo was a fish? Let’s take a look at the origin of tech companies’ logos and how they evolved over time:
November 2007
Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut-Ups by William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
by Neewok
William Seward Burroughs, plus connu sous son nom de plume William S. Burroughs, est associé à la Beat Generation et à ses figures emblématiques (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg). On retient aussi de lui son utilisation littéraire du cut-up, technique (mise au point dans une petite chambre d’hôtel pouilleuse, rue Gît-le-Cœur à Paris avec Brion Gysin) qui consiste à recréer un texte à partir de bribes découpées et mélangées au hasard, utilisant parfois des fragments d’autres auteurs.
La revue des ressources vous propose d’écouter en version originale "Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut-Ups"
October 2007
Tab Kit Firefox extension____Organize Your Tabs By Site with Tab Kit
by decembre
Organize your tabs by domain or origin, manage their layout, and more ....
September 2007
The TTABlog: TTAB Finds "PARIS BAGUETTE" Geographically Deceptively Misdescriptive of Bread
by pmdm
"Applicant admitted that its goods do not come from Paris, and so the question became whether consumers would believe that Paris is the origin of Applicant's bread."
July 2007
IPKat - IP news and fun for everyone: No F in Justice, but one F in Fulham, rules TM Registry
by pmdm
The IPKat has just been perusing a curious little case, the unsuccessful application of one Mr Kevin Scranage to register the words THERE AIN’T NO F IN JUSTICE as a UK trade mark for Tee shirts, sweat shirts, baseball caps (Class 25). The Kat assumed that this was going to be one of those rather tricky "immoral mark" cases, on the basis that the slogan, read out aloud and at speed, would appear to the listener as "There ain't no f***ing justice". but no, the Registry pulled a surprise and refused registration on the ground that the slogan was not distinctive, being a sign which was likely to be taken by the public as a personal statement by the wearer rather than acting as an indicator of trade origin.
Le Revenu
by CharlesNepote
"[...] Selon Atos Origin, l'avenir des paiements mobiles passe par la collaboration entre les banques et les opérateurs de téléphonie mobile [...]"
