An online friend just told me about three projects involving sending physical objects around to other folks -- via post or carrier. They sound like fun.
1. 1000journals
The1000journalproject is an independent, privately funded social experiment. It is an attempt to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels, to see where they go, and what people do with them.
Nervousness.org is our online presence, where we try experiments in Land Mail (also known as Snail Mail), to see if we can find new ways for people to interact and communicate. We encourage your participation!
As of this minute there are 7981 Nervous People, 6893 Objects (LMAOs), and 34351 exchanges.
and 3. 20 Things Project
The 20 Things project is an online gallery showcasing the work of artists who create limited edition multiples.
The only way to acquire this work is to make work of your own to trade.
Art swaps are organized at irregular intervals, in groups of 20, at the whim of the site organizer.
ADDX Kurier Frequency List -- automagically presents a list of english broadcast programs active in the current hour. There are links other DX pages here as well.
Listen in on what the rest of the world is saying...
Wave3 Software offers Session which is a collaboration tool for both Windows and Mac OS X platforms. They offer a 30 trial version and the full blown sells for $199. Might be worth looking at.
Grid Computing Book Resource Page This is a reference page for a new bokk, Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality for Concurrency and Computation:Practice and Experience, edited by Fran Berman, Geoffrey Fox, and Tony Hey.
I've been working with Tony the past day or two and he's shared a copy of this volume with us. Looks good, but needs a 2nd edition with end-to-end QoS
When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
U.S. Declaration of Independence, July 2, 1776
-- highlights recommended by a friend
Sen. Robert Byrd: 'Today I Weep for My Country' (washingtonpost.com)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The oldest voice in the U.S. Congress rose on Wednesday to offer a final pre-war warning that President Bush's march to battle is dangerously misguided.
"Today I weep for my country," said West Virginia Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd. "No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. ... Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned.
"We flaunt our superpower status with arrogance," Byrd said, adding: "After war has ended the United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of . We will have to rebuild America's image around the globe."
Item 5 is worth thinking about:
5. Of the 535 members of Congress, only ONE (Sen. Johnson of South Dakota) has an enlisted son or daughter in the armed forces! If you really want to stand up for America, please send your twin daughters over to Kuwait right now and let them don their chemical warfare suits. And let's see every member of Congress with a child of military age also sacrifice their kids for this war effort. What's that you say? You don't THINK so? Well, hey, guess what -- we don't think so either!
Microsoft InfoPath
The Microsoft Office Information Gathering and Management Program
Microsoft InfoPath™ (previously code-named "XDocs"), is a new product in the Microsoft Office family and streamlines the process of gathering information by enabling teams and organizations to easily create and work with rich, dynamic forms. The information collected can be integrated with a broad range of business processes because InfoPath supports any customer-defined XML schema and integrates with XML Web services. As a result, InfoPath helps to connect information workers directly to organizational information and gives them the ability to act on it, which leads to greater business impact.
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What is an ontology and why we need it
Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology
Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305
Why would someone want to develop an ontology? Some of the reasons are:
· To share common understanding of the structure of information among people or software agents
· To enable reuse of domain knowledge
· To make domain assumptions explicit
· To separate domain knowledge from the operational knowledge
· To analyze domain knowledge
Topicmaps.Org is an independent consortium of parties interested in developing the applicability of the Topic Maps Paradigm[1] to the World Wide Web, by leveraging the XML family of specifications as required.
This work includes the development of version 1.0 of an XML grammar for interchanging Web-based Topic Maps, called XML Topic Maps (XTM) Version 1.0, written by the Topicmaps.Org Authoring Group. All versions of the XTM Specification will be permanently licensed to the public.
Socialtext: Social Software Solutions
There's a revolution underway. Tools like wikis and weblogs make it easy to write on the web. With these tools, people communicate, collaborate, and build knowledge. Naturally. It's as fast as email. As responsive as writing on a whiteboard.
My friend Ed Vielmetti is working here now.