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Hunch : Guide practical decision making

by sbrothier & 1 other
Look. Decision-making is difficult, and decisions have to be made constantly. What should I be for Halloween? Do I need a Porsche? Should I dump that loser? Is Phoenix a good place to retire? Whom should I vote for? What toe ring should I buy? It's a cruel world out there. Coin-flipping, I Ching consultation, closing your eyes and jumping, postponing the inevitable, Rock-Paper-Scissors, and asking your sister are all time-honored means of coming to a decision -- and yet we think there's room for one more: Hunch.

June 2009

WebHome < Main < Reprap

by Neewok

Look at your computer setup and imagine that you hooked up a 3D printer. Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust, think Lego bricks and you're in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself.

RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown on the right - a self-replicating machine.

Aligning Ontologies with Falcon - Home

by night.kame

Falcon-AO, a prominent component of Falcon, is an automatic ontology matching system that helps actualize interoperability between (Semantic) Web applications that use different but related ontologies. Recently, it has become a very practical and popular choice for matching Web ontologies expressed by RDF(S) and OWL. Falcon-AO is implemented in Java, and presently, it is an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license.

Why we love Semantic Web technologies - TechnicaLee Speaking

by karlcow

RDF is a data standard that is both expressive enough to represent any type of data that’s connected to the server and also flexible enough to handle new data sources incrementally. URIs provide a foundation for minting identifiers that don’t clash unexpectedly as new data sources are brought into the fold. Named graphs give us a simple abstraction upon which we can engineer practical concerns like security, audit trails, offline access, real-time updates, and caching.

un peu trop communiqué de presse, mais des idées à retenir

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May 2009

Linked Data Tutorial - NG

by karlcow

a practical guide to publish and consume linked data based on URIs, specified in [RFC3986], and RDFa (see [RDFA-SYNTAX]). It is in a sense an advanced tutorial as it requires some basic understanding regarding URIs, HTML, linked data, and RDFa. Guidelines what to do when are provided with this note.

The Plenitude - The MIT Press

by karlcow

We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every utensil, every thing, is compound—composed of tens, hundreds, even thousands of other things. Although each piece of stuff satisfies some desire, it also creates the need for even more stuff: cereal demands a spoon; a television demands a remote. Rich Gold calls this dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff the "Plenitude." And in this book—at once cartoon treatise, autobiographical reflection, and practical essay in moral philosophy—he tells us how to understand and live with it.

April 2009

MIT Media Lab: Design Ecology / Information Ecology

by karlcow

Technology has allowed people to develop larger social networks than previously done. But as a result, we have more relationships than we can manage. Social Gardening explores using plants as metaphor for relationships, hoping to encourage us to tend our social connections like we do our garden. By tracking and analyzing communications through email, instant messaging, social websites, SMS, and phone, Social Gardening proposes to give feedback on how our relationships are flourishing or wilting. It may also provide a practical interface to browse and manage conversations and contacts.

The World Famous Index of Arduino & Freeduino Knowledge

by karlcow

The World Famous Index of Arduino & Freeduino Knowledge

... an evolving index of practical subjects for the Arduinotm and Freeduino microcontrollers, as found in the Arduino site, Playground wiki, forum and that big WWW thing.

February 2009

click opera - 5.8 x 7.2 reasons why architects aren't as free as musicians

by karlcow

7. Okay, maybe it's not practical to live in a barn unless you're a cow.

Momus is reading my blog?

Sμblog | James Tizard

by greut (via)

Sμblog (pronounced sub-log) is is my attempt to combine ideas about microblogging, messaging and the sematic web into a practical tool ready for everyday work.

XMPP to RDF microblogging tool, quite nice and well documented.

The 20 Most Practical and Creative Uses of jQuery - NETTUTS

by karlcow & 2 others

20 creative uses of jQuery in modern day websites and applications;

January 2009

December 2008

Q - Equational Programming Language

by Emaux
Q is an interpreted, dynamically typed functional programming language based on term rewriting which allows you to define functions using symbolic equations. It works on Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows, and comes with a bunch of useful libraries which turn it into a practical programming tool. The Q programming system is free software distributed under the GPL

The Gamelans of the Kraton Yogyakarta

by Emaux
This document is a study of how, in a specific context that is animated by a particular understanding of the world, musical instruments become objects of reverence in addition to their practical utilization as tools of musical performance. The context of this study is the royal palace (kraton) of the former Sultanate of Ngyogyakarta Hadiningrat (hereafter shortened to "Yogyakarta," which is also the name of the city in which the palace is physically situated)

Chand Baori well | Oddity Central

by karlcow

Built back in the 10th century, the incredible well of Chand Baori, India was a practical solution to the water problem in the area.

November 2008

Developing an Image Gallery with eZ components

by Fiber_Optic
This tutorial shows you how to program a web application that stores photographs in an image gallery. It's based on libraries included with the eZ components, and so gives you a practical example of the library usage.

SWIMS encourage you to seduce the rain! « kostas voyatzis

by sbrothier
A galosh is an over shoe that sl ips over the wearer ’s indoor footwear but is made of waterproof material to protect the more delicate material s of the shoe as wel l as the wearer ’s foot from cold and damp. SWIMS are a reintroduction of the rubber overshoe, a practical accessory for men’s shoes that became popular in the late 1800’s and has protected elegant footwear in cities like London and New York ever since. “We have taken the concept one step further and added an element of timeless design, playfulness and improved functionality”.

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