Puzzlepieces

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Reading my psychology textbook, I just came across the word meme. That would be the first time I've seen it outside the blogosphere.

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Thursday, September 25, 2003

For the World's A B C's, He Makes 1's and 0's - a non-technical, social article about Unicode. Via FS Consulting.

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Visual Cognition Lab - Demos and Stimuli - a video similar to the one I saw in psychology class today is shown on that page (labeled as "Sustained inattentional blindness -- selective looking" under the " Inattentional Blindness Examples".

The experiment works like this: carefully count the number of times during the video that the white-shirted players pass the ball. Then watch it again, not focusing on the white players, and you will understand the "trick". This won't work on everyone all the time.

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Electronic paper reaches video speed: Colour movies might soon be playing on single sheets. - saw this yesterday but just read it this morning. I am interested in "electronic ink and paper," and apparently Philips Research has managed to do both animating (much faster frame rate), and gradient, full colour. Presumably they'll have animation and colour together soon. Will look for more on this later. Via Dave Harris.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Google Directory - Health > Occupational Health and Safety > MSDS - when I have the time (i.e. never) I should make an easy MSDS (material safety data sheets) lookup tool.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Gary and others mention Google's new Search by Location; however I haven't noticed anyone point out that this is probably using code or at least ideas from Geographic Search (Google cache if unavailable), the winner of the Google Programming Contest some time ago.

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Friday, September 19, 2003

Upcoming.org - I haven't checked it out yet, but from what Matt Haugley has to say, I can really understand what people mean when they talk about the next generation of social software tools. Blogs, wikis, chats, forums, etc., etc., are just the very beginning. Via Stewart Butterfield on Many 2 Many.

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New Zealand News - Technology - Prying Google seen as a risk - I am sooo sick of articles like these. When will people realize that if they put something on the Internet, anyone can see it. You can even prevent search engines like Google from indexing your website in a process that takes about one minute, once. I am no Googlepologist, but please, stop blaming Google for you displaying your private information online.

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Wednesday, September 17, 2003

It isn't unusual for my websites to get occasional visits from NIPR.mil (i.e. any military computer; see previous link for info), but it is interesting to note that someone from that address found my blog today by querying Google for terrorism "mpg file".

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Fun with fusion: Freshman's nuclear fusion reactor has USU physics faculty in awe - I don't really see how I could have possibly not linked to this. (As a side note, my Earth Science professor mentioned Yellowstone today, which I blogged about recently). Via Blogdex. And why not link to some Wikipedia articles: Nuclear fusion and Philo Farnsworth. The latter could use plenty of work.

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Monday, September 15, 2003

A fake $200 bill with George Bush's picture is what at least two people have tried (one successfully) to pay with. More fun today via Blogdex.

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List of famous experiments (Wikipedia) - this is a nice list, but it seems a little short. Know what's missing? Add it!

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Joi Ito's Web: Ordering of letters don't matter - Joi brings up an interesting point. I read the given paragraph with zero difficulty. Read all the comments too. Unless I'm mistaken, Waypath hasn't indexed any of this yet, so try this Feedster query. Via Blogdex.

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Saturday, September 13, 2003

A monster awakens? - this story (via Metafilter), about the possiblity of the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park erupting caught my interest more than usual since I am now taking an Earth Science course in university. Anyhow, to verifty the claims from the article, I wandered over to What's New at Yellowstone Volcano Observatory?. The informative page has science, rather than the sensationalism of the article I linked to. Read both and compare. Note that the people at the YVO may have their own biases too.

Update: - I created the Geology channel on the Internet Topic Exchange and posted this there.

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Friday, September 12, 2003

Row and column based access controls in wiki tables - a post which I am interested in, on a new blog called wiki-thoughts. Via the wiki channel on the Topic Exchange.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Egg Art Sculptures Carving - last one for tonight. Via Metafilter.

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Man ships self in cargo crate from New York to Texas - here's one more. Via Daypop.

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Wooden Mirror - this is for Steph, who complains I don't post interesting stuff any more. Be sure to view the video.

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Blogger bucks premium-services trend | CNET News.com - making a paid-for service free. Thanks Google. What will Tara and the other folks at The End of Free say? Via Dave.

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Monday, September 08, 2003

Don Park's Daily Habit - Don is really getting into the merging of blogs and wikis, which is very much to my liking. That blog-wiki software I was going to make last year never happened, and won't, but the existing stuff is probably excellent.

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