"... A TextArc is a visual represention of a text -- the entire text (twice!) on a single page. Some funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary, it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning. A more detailed overview is available. ..."
Reminds me of Plumb Design's Visual Thesaurus
"... The idea behind the Playtarot website, was to create a fun website that combined my love of Playmobil(tm) , the Tarot, and Digital Photography. The project has been a long one, taking two years to complete, using my spare time, and pocket money to buy the bits necessary to create each card. I have been an avid collector of playmobil stuff, for several years, and I've always liked their asthetic, so I already had a bit of a headstart. The toys themselves lend easily to a graphic look, and it was only a matter of coming up with the inspiration of making my own Tarot Deck, that fused the whole thing together. I always strive to have a sense of fun in all my work, so the two fell together easily. ..."
Smithsonian Unveils New Air and Space Annex (washingtonpost.com)
"... The new building is part of the National Air and Space Museum annex near Dulles International Airport that will give the public a close-up view of more than 200 historic aircraft -- from sleek spy planes to World War I biplanes.
This morning officials from the Smithsonian and Hensel Phelps Construction Co. gave reporters a tour of the main facility at Air and Space's Dulles annex, a cavern 10 stories high and covering the equivalent of three football fields...
....The new facility will house the Boeing B-29 "Enola Gay," the space shuttle "Enterprise," a rare Boeing 307 Stratoliner (the first pressurized commercial airplanes) and the Dash Eighty, the prototype for the 707 jetliner. Other artifacts will include the Boeing B-17D "Swoose," the oldest B-17 Flying Fortress in existance from World War II. ..."
The Swoose was the flagship for my grandfather, Lt. Gen. George H Brett. That means it was the airplane that he used to fly from there here. The pilot was Maj Frank Kurtz who later named his daugther Swoosie.... and she became a movie & tv star.
Wired News: Big Retailers Squeeze FatWallet
"... Can the unpublished discount price of a DVD player for next week's big sale at Wal-Mart be copyrighted?
That's the question at the heart of a legal dispute involving several big retailers and FatWallet, a popular website that caters to bargain shoppers. ..."
Will Vinton Studios: Animation Station
"... For 25 years, Will Vinton Studios has amazed audiences worldwide with its award-winning dimensional animation. From its roots in classic Claymation to today's rich and seamless blends of stop motion and digital technologies, the studio breathes life into memorable characters with great stories to tell. ..."
Since around 1989 when we taped this off the air (for personal purposes) our family has annually watched the Claymation Christmas. On a whim tonight I asked Google if it were available... while not on DVD yet, it is on VHS!!!! Nifty!
O'Reilly Network: Jon Udell: Instant Outlining, Instant Gratification [Apr. 01, 2002]
"... The roots of instant outlining go way back to the 1980s. The history of Winer's outlining software -- including ThinkTank, the first outliner I ran on my original IBM PC, and MORE -- can be relived at www.outliners.com. ..."
Captain Leno's Instant STUMP
Whether you letterbox or you geocache, eventually you'll want to put out your own sites. Have a look at Captain Leno's Instant STUMP for a wonderful hidden in plain sight approach!!
immediacy: immediate thoughts on books, music, writing, politics, life
by Glen Engel-Cox.
Glen lives here in the DeeCee area. He and his wife have caught the geoCaching bug. That's a bit more techno-savvy than plain olde letterboxing is, but hey, I've been techno-lusting for a GPS gizmo with compass and altimeter... hey Santa Claus!!
Do a search for geocaching in Glen's search field to see their various ventures.
Welcome to Linphone.org, Telephony on Linux
"... Linphone is a web phone: it let you phone to your friends anywhere in the whole world, freely, simply by using the internet. The cost of the phone call is the cost that you spend connected to the internet. ..."
INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK ||| MONO*CRAFTS3.0
bizeee bizeee all the Time......
Saturday, November 16, 2002
Visa claims to own dictionary definition of "visa" found on
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
"... That's exactly what Visa is doing. They claim that the fame of Visa, the credit card, has so outstripped the fame of "visa," the English word, that anyone who names a company or product "visa" (even, presumably, a book called "How to Get an American H1B Work-Visa") is ripping off their intellectual property.
This is a stunningly bad law, and the lawmakers who wrote it need to be thoroughly spanked, but what's worse are the thieves at Visa who've decided that the anti-dilution standard is ready-made for expropriating small businesses of their domain-names. Bastards. ..."
Just another example of tORt hell What I want to know is when will common sense ever be of value again? I guess not as long as we have a legal system that is based on how much money one can spend. sigh
I participate in an online community, Brainstorms. Some one was asking about giving browser base presentations. I mentioned I used to do such and had templates. So, someone asked me for more info.... well, I got carried away on my response which is given below (click on MORE....).
Howard,
Below are two representative pages from the earliest days I was doing this. In those days two things are worth noting:
1) I had used outlining software since about 1985-86 (PC-outline & ThinkTank. Around 92-94 I was using MORE the grandchild of ThinkTank. I was used to developing outlines with included texts that could shown as presentations. More or less what we take for granted now with PowerPoint was reel cool then.
2) I did a lot of presentations in those days (have a look) and always have tried to walk the talk. So, I figure out how to put my presentations online with early html. My editor was BBEdit -- using a text editor like that made it easy for me to make two text files (1) front page and (2) information page -- oh, yes and (3) end page with my email and contact information.
Now I use TextPad which has a feature "clip library" that comes loaded with HMTL Tags and other goodies. One of the HTML Tags is "blank page" I've added that to the end as example of blank slate. I also use TextPad for most of my text editing. In fact, I'm typing this right now in TextPad and will copy and paste it into Caucus when I'm finished. So, I'm still using the tools from 80's and 90's in the 21rst century.... wow, had not thought about that before. heh.
So, Here's example of front page which acts as an anchor or index for the talk while mapping out the agenda with "relative links" to the other pages. The HTML listed below is probably not legal these days, but still seems to work. This talk can be found at http://ariel.adgrp.com/~ghb/talks/941207_REL/TOC.html
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<H2>Regional Educationl Labs
<br>Technology Transfer Group</H2>
December 7-8 1994
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<H1>Overview and Contrast of Information Technologies</H1>
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<li><H2><A HREF="culture.html">Culture</A></H2>
<li><h2><A HREF="access.html">Access</A></h2>
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<LI><B>from</B> expensive scarce resources
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Smart Mobs - The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold
"... Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive. ..."
The previous entry for U phone is an example of the types of entries you'll find at Howard's blog. These stORies begin to demonstrate concretely the notions of chaos theORies and self ORganizing systems that we've been thinking about for a number of years.
"... uphone is an experimental utility for immediate sound archiving. How it works: U phone in to a local number & leave an audio message which uploads directly to this web page ..."
Currently on the page are repORts from the European Social Forum meeting in Florence Italy. Interesting idea of providing online ORal fORum.
"... The Conferencing Experience Project, ConferenceXP, is a research and development initiative of Microsoft Research Learning Sciences and Technology group.
ConferenceXP integrates recent advances in high performance audio, video and network technologies to seamlessly connect multiple distant participants in a rich immersive environment for distance conferencing, instruction and collaboration. ConferenceXP provides an extensible foundation for interactive collaborative environments, and serves as a research platform for designing and implementing distance conferencing and learning applications. ..."
Search for books and compare prices at ISBN.nu
"... isbn.nu offers a quick way to compare the prices of any in-print and many out-of-print books at nine online bookstores. You can view the results with or without the shipping costs of a single book, and also find the fastest source for a book from ordering to delivery.
Search on the title, author, or subject to find books of interest, and then simply click Compare Prices to rapidly find the prices for that book. ..."
This is most interesting. The searches cross through the collectins of Amazon.com, Powell's books, Barnes&Noble, Bamm.com, aLibris, fatbrain.com, eCampus.com, and Half.com for the lowest prices.
As of today, I haven't used this to order yet. I'll report back later when I do.
"... Alternative MedCare provides professional, personalized, individual consultations in alternative, holistic, integrative and homeopathic medicine, nutritional and vitamin therapy and herbal medicine by experienced, highly skilled, licensed, board-certified family physicians specializing in classical homeopathy and nutritional therapy. ..."
NOW: Commentary - Bill Moyers on Election 2002 | PBS
"... George W. Bush believes he now has a mandate.
That mandate includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to give up control over their own lives.
It includes using the taxing power to transfer wealth from working people to the rich.
It includes giving corporations a free hand to eviscerate the environment and control the regulatory agencies meant to hold them accountable.
And it includes secrecy on a scale you cannot imagine. Above all, it means judges with a political agenda appointed for life. If you liked the Supreme Court that put George W. Bush in the White House, you will swoon over what's coming.
And if you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture. These folks don't even mind you referring to the GOP as the party of God. Why else would the new House Majority Leader say that the Almighty is using him to promote 'a Biblical worldview' in American politics?
So it is a heady time in Washington -- a heady time for piety, profits, and military power, all joined at the hip by ideology and money. ..."
hyperlit: a literary hypertext authoring system
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what kind of monolithic hypertext system can be created in a single night of coding?
Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)
This was described in today's Washington Post: "The Service of Sharing," By Karen Leggett (Special to The Washington Post, Monday, November 11, 2002; Page C10)
This is just the kind of project that should use the protocols established by The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (http://www.vhf.org)
Bell 47 WEB Site: Whirlybirds Episode Guide,
"... This is the show that made the Bell 47 helicopter into a television star and a national icon of vertical flight. Conceived and produced by Desilu Studios, home of the much beloved TV sitcom I Love Lucy, Whirlybirds brought the look, sound, and capabilities of the Bell 47 helicopter into the mainstream of popular culture during the mid-1950s. For several generations of post-war television viewers, the 47 was to become the helicopter. The series debuted in 1957 and ran through 1959 for a total of 111 half-hour episodes, of which 106 eventually aired. Thirty-nine episodes were quickly re-syndicated by CBS under the name Copter Patrol. The show had a big draw; some estimates place the Whirlybirds weekly audience share as high as 25 million fans --- and this was the 1950s! ..."
Technical Commentaries on the Star Wars movies. As they say "What happens when you detonate a spherical metal honeycomb over five hundred miles wide just above the atmosphere of a habitable world? Regardless of specifics, the world won't remain habitable for long. "
Amazon.com: Books: Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
"... Mobile, wireless, Net-connected devices are now being hawked by the computer and telecom industries, prompting technology author Rheingold to take stock of the incipient revolution. Glimpsing the future in vignettes of wireless users in Helsinki and Tokyo, Rheingold primarily explores the sociology that might characterize a world of "ad-hocracy," in which people cluster temporarily around information of mutual interest. Rheingold describes how consumerism might change when pedestrians, as their mobiles detect stores and restaurants, patch into electronic gossip about an establishment. The location-detection feature of these devices will inevitably breach privacy, which informs Rheingold's somewhat skeptical stance toward this brave new world, and contrasts with the enthusiasm of certain computer scientists he interviews, such as Microsoft's promoter of a wireless urban space pervasively connected to the Internet. ..."
Amazon.com: Books: Dark Fiber : Tracking Critical Internet Culture
"... In Dark Fiber, Lovink combines aesthetic and ethical concerns and issues of navigation and usability without ever losing sight of the cultural and economic agendas of those who control hardware, software, content, design, and delivery. He examines the unwarranted faith of the cyber-libertarians in the ability of market forces to create a decentralized, accessible communication system. He studies the inner dynamics of hackers' groups, Internet activists, and artists, seeking to understand the social laws of online life. Finally, he calls for the injection of political and economic competence into the community of freedom-loving cyber-citizens, to wrest the Internet from corporate and state control. ..."
DSpace: Durable Digital Depository: MIT Libraries
".. DSpace, a newly developed digital repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of MIT.
As a joint project of MIT Libraries and the Hewlett-Packard Company, DSpace provides stable long-term storage needed to house the digital products of MIT faculty and researchers. ..."
"... The Public Library of Science is a non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world, for the benefit of scientific progress, education and the public good. ..."
"... The Public Knowledge Project is a federally funded research initiative that seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of academic research through innovative online environments. It is testing whether more open, coherent, and integrated systems for scholarly communication can advance the global exchange of knowledge within the public sphere. ..."