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- Daniel H Pink: The Adventures Of Johnny Bunko
[asa mybookr]1594482918[/asa] Its undertitle is ‘The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need’ – and it is presented as a manga-style comic, and could be read in well under an hour. It is an illustration of just 6 advices:
1. … - Wordle.net – generate text base art easily
Wordle.net allows to play with texts which via the online applet can be transformed into nice pieces of art. As a quick example I tried to use just a few words from the famous Haiku from Basho:
Der alte Teich.
Ein … - Shelley Powers: Practical RDF
[asa mybook]0596002637[/asa] Good O’Reilly book about RDF, RDF Schema, its definition and for what it can be used. Some information also about Ontologies and OWL, but not too much.
As a ‘practical’ book it presents also available tools, but the … - “Top Ten Signs You’re a Fundamentalist Christian”
The Top Ten List points out in 10 statements sharply some of the really strange parts of the beliefsystem – which most in our culture seem to have become so used to that the real strangeness of …
- Thomas B Passin: Explorer’s Guide to the Semantic Web
The book was published in 2004 and it shows – many things are phrased as open questions, but it does give some overview about the topics of the ‘layer cake’, i.e. RDF, Ontologies, Logic/Inference, Trust, in addition speaking about Semantic …
- One-liners …
“Warum sagen wir: die Zeit vergeht? Und nicht ebenso betont: sie entsteht?”
- Alexander Kluge, Seen sind fuer Fische Inseln.“Was gefällt uns am besten an einem Menschen? Dass wir ihm gefallen.”
- John Reed“Buchhandlungen verlasse ich immer mit schweren Depressionen wegen der …
- Johnny Chung Lee: Wii
Really cool idea to use the Wii for
get minority report real
cheap smart board, on the wall or anywhere, or create a multi-touch laptop LCD
turn your monitor into a 3D ‘window’ through head trackingAmazing – check out the …
- Charles Platt: The Silicon Man
Great book – I liked this very much! Without giving too much away, it is about the possibility of uploading people into complex computers. The first part is mainly a detective story which I did not find too impressive, but …
- Moebius Transformations Visualized
Nicely illustrative video Mobius Transformations Revealed, done by Douglas N. Arnold and Jonathan Rogness of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
- HandicappedToCyborg
Slashdot points to the story that a doubly amputated runner was disqualified from participating in the Olympics – because with his replacement limbs he might well be invincible!I find that a fascinating …
- Greg Egan: Schild’s Ladder
Another one of the great scifi stories by Greg Egan – he is really incredible rich in transcribing ideas of new physics into a story in/of the future, trying out the thoughts in fictional reality.This time the story starts …
- String Theory In 2 Minutes
The Discover magazine made a contest for 2 minute movies on string theory – have a look at http://discovermagazine.com/twominutesorless String Theory – I really liked the winning ‘String Ducky’ entry!
- Orson Scott Card: Speaker for the Dead
Second book of the Ender series – lots of new ideas, a new alien race, with a mysterious lifecycle and ecology – quite nicely revealing during the book out of the human perspective.I like also the …
- Gerhard Richter: Church Window
New design for a church window in Cologne Cathedral – see the Wired article:
- So wie du heute lebst
So wie du heute lebst,
lebst du morgen.
As you live today,
you will live tomorrow.
A simple sentence, heard in my Yoga class as a wisdom from the far-east.
At first I thought this is kind of stupid, defying any sense of change. But … - Your “Permanent Age”
Interesting blog entry from Scott Adams musing about a ‘permanent age’ everyone is in – could be old or young, sometime/often then not perfectly suited to the real age. Also, in a similar …
- Avidan Shamir: Seam Carving For Content Aware Image Resizing
A really cool and beautiful idea, how one can resize images in a content-aware fashion – check the picture for (ragged) lines across the picture which provide the lowest additional details to the picture.The video is giving a very …
- Learning Foreign Languages
In ACM Ubiquity, there is a nice article Philip Yaffe: Fast-tracking Foreign Languages: How to Meet the Linguistic Challenges of Working Abroad about learning of foreign languages.It is somewhat directed at english-speaking …
- Diesel Ad: Global Warming
… interesting what kind of ads one can do – see this ‘Global Warming’ series from Diesel.
- Telepresence Taken Seriously
Telepresence taken seriously: Ivan Anywhere – this article tells about a programmer working remotely and missing the presence – so he built a true telepresence. Must be a bit eerie, but then … …
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