October 2009
Using Speak Text in Snow Leopard [they moved it...
If I were an Apple developer, where would I hide this useful feature?
Ah-ha! Try selecting the text, then holding down the “Control” key to get to the Contextual Menus!
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(BN) Why Governments Never in Default Pay More...
Governments Never in Default Pay More Interest Than Companies Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — California is the world’s eighth- largest economy. Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. is the largest U.S.-based deepwater oil driller. The state known for its wine, Hollywood and earthquakes collected about $80 billion in taxes in the year ended June 30, compared with $3.6 billion in revenue for Houston-based...
The Human Body Is Built for Distance
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Get Your Files Out of Google Docs With New Export...
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Google Docs has become a viable tool for web workers and businesses looking to create, manage, and share their word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet files in the cloud. To-date, however, if you’ve wanted to take your data out of the cloud and download it to your desktop, you would have to do so one document at a time. But today, Google announced the...
URLs set to go international; hackers set to...
Internet set for change with non-Latin addresses http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_11704/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=Pk9M9E3Y Posted via email from T H I N K | Comment »
WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal
via personaldemocracy.com
Smart move, US gov.
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[OPINION] Internet Archive: Text Archive (is...
1,702,375 itemsWelcome to Text Archive Welcome to the Open-Access Text Archive. This collection is open to the community for the contribution of any type of text, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses. Check our FAQ for more information. Recent Internet Archive blog posts focused on Texts:
Guest Blogger: Barbara Janis of the Presidio Trust Celebrate Banned Books Week...
NYTimes uses "epic fail". Ugh: "The campaign does...
From The New York Times: ADVERTISING: The Billion Designers of Windows 7 In Microsoft’s new ad campaign, the company credits a billion PC users with the creative genius behind moving beyond a certain unnamed previous Windows operating system. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/business/media/22adco.html Posted via email from T H I N K | Comment »
ThisOneIsOnUs & The NIN Hotline present : "The...
via youtube.com
Damn good user-created NIN footage.
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Assuming the CRTC has teeth, I actually think the...
explain why, in the case of a technical ITMP, network investment or economic approaches alone would not reasonably address the need and effectively achieve the same purpose as the ITMP. via crtc.gc.ca
This basically puts the onus on the teleco to beef up their infrastructure (eliminating future need to traffic shape), and leaves open a top-teir (although likely expensive) level of...
Canada Adopts Comcast/Bitorrent Standard For...
On the eve of the FCC’s upcoming Network Neutrality rulemaking, Canada has now settled its definition of “reasonable network management” and set rules for traffic throttling. Amazingly, the rules the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) settled on for “reasonable network management” look a lot like the standard our own FCC settled on in the Comcast/BitTorrent...
[Canada TELECOM NEWS] CRTC issues net neutrality...
The CRTC unveiled its new rules Wednesday, a day ahead of its U.S. counterpart. Big telecommunications companies such as Bell and Rogers can interfere with internet traffic only as a last resort, the CRTC says. Instead, they should use “economic measures” such as new investment and usage limits to combat congestion on their networks. The Canadian Radio-television and...
Off the Shelf, Onto the Laptop - Libraries Try...
Kate Lambert recalls using her library card just once or twice throughout her childhood. Now, she uses it several times a month.
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Michael C. Weimar for The New York Times Kate Lambert, 19, a student at Pasco-Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Fla., is an avid user of e-books offered for loan by her...
Think Tank: The 'Veritas' About Harvard
That’s because the real priority of elite higher education, as the receding tide of money has exposed, is the greater glory of elite higher education and the administrators and faculty members who work there. That’s where all the money went, and that’s where, now that some of the money turns out to have never existed in the first place, it needs to come from. via...
Twitter finally adds a "Report as spam" button.
Today we’ve added another tool to our spam fighting toolbox that will give users the ability to flag bad accounts on Twitter. via blog.twitter.com
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WikiReader is an electronic encyclopedia giving physical form to Wikipedia. Now you can take it with you wherever you go. via thewikireader.com
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Librarians still have vital role in the Web 2.0...
In the past months much has been written about the hyped Web 2.0. Evangelists have talked about applying this to almost everything published or diffused online. Many people expect scientists to be leaders of the Web 2.0 pack. Observing the behaviour of my end users, however, it is not yet clear to me whether this prophecy has been achieved.
The concept of science intelligence (SI) in science...
The Ribs of Reform
This is something like what Srnicek is suggesting for politics: instead of the fast-cook burger revolution of revolution, what if we considered the slow-cook barbeque of reform? via bogost.com
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Fibreculture Journal : Creative Labour and the...
Interestingly, I’m told by a psychologist friend researching the formation of depression in migrants that current, more reflexive literature on quantitative, empirical research argues that the fuss over sample sizes (i.e., the need to have a large sample if the claims and results are to have any scholastic purchase on the phantasm of veridicality) is problematic in all sorts of ways...
A Library to Last Forever - Sergey Brin (Google)
Mountain View, Calif. “THE fundamental reasons why the electric car has not attained the popularity it deserves are (1) The failure of the manufacturers to properly educate the general public regarding the wonderful utility of the electric; (2) The failure of [power companies] to make it easy to own and operate the electric by an adequate distribution of charging and boosting stations. The...
I take it back. I hate Amazon. Burundi(!?) gets...
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Kindle to be available to international customers!
The Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore) offers international customers over 200,000 English-language books, including New Releases and New York Times Bestsellers, which are typically priced less than physical editions. Over 1,000 different rights-holders now have books available in the Kindle Store, including leading publishers Atlantic Books, Bloomsbury, Canongate, Faber and Faber,...
The demise of the dollar
Brazil has shown interest in collaborating in non-dollar oil payments, along with India. Indeed, China appears to be the most enthusiastic of all the financial powers involved, not least because of its enormous trade with the Middle East. via independent.co.uk
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Who's the crook at A.I.G.?
The people who lost the most when A.I.G. F.P. went down were the employees of A.I.G. F.P.: DeSantis himself had just watched more than half of what he’d made over the previous nine years vanish. The incentive system at A.I.G. F.P., created in the mid-1990s, wasn’t the short-term-oriented racket that helped doom the Wall Street investment bank as we knew it. It was the very system that U.S....
King Burger
Double-Double, grilled onions, ketchup and spread only”—I repeated what has been my standard order for the last 10 years. I perfected my In-N-Out Burger order in high school after several years of good, but less-than-perfect, variants. Ask any Californian or expat their In-N-Out order and they’ll be able to recite it for you on the spot. via weeklystandard.com
Of course,...
New transmission from Alden: fantastic exploration...
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[AUDIO] Michel Foucault's Madness and...
Exactly fifty years ago, a 33-year-old Frenchman named Michel Foucault completed what would become one of the most influential works on the history of psychiatry: Madness and Civilization: A history of insanity in the age of reason. The book made a philosophical star of its author and changed our view of madness. via abc.net.au
A must listen! Very excellent interview.
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