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01 Jul 08

Martian Skies - The Big Picture - Boston.com

  • Yesterday's announcement by NASA of the discovery of water ice on Mars by its Phoenix Lander probe made big news everywhere. The discovery involved the observation of water ice sublimating into the air - that is, the water went from solid to vapor state without reaching the liquid stage. The Martian atmosphere has perfect conditions for sublimation - extremely thin, dry and cold. How cold? Well, you can check the Live Martian Weather Report, with data from a station on board the Phoenix Lander. Today will see a high temperature of a toasty -26 degrees F.

    What more do we know about Mars' atmosphere? It's hundreds of times thinner than Earth's atmosphere and is made of 95% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen, 1.6% argon, and contains traces of oxygen, water, and methane. We also know, from observations that it can support dust storms, dust devils, clouds and gusty winds. With an amazing number of six current live probes exploring Mars (two rovers, a lander, and three orbiters), there are many thousands of images available. Only a few, however show atmospheric phenomena. Presented here are some of the best images of Martian atmosphere (and beyond) in action. (

29 Jun 08

Digg - New MacBook Sound Level is Defective

  • In the application "DVD Player" (the default way of playing movie DVDs on the MacBook ), you can alter the volume presets. Click on the toolbar option "Window", then select "Audio Equalizer" from the dropdown menu. On the equalizer presets, raise the selector knob all the way to the top for each of the presets (ten in all). Make sure the checkbox "On" is checked in the upper left corner. Then in the window at the upper right (probably says "Manual"), select "Save Preset" and a new window opens up.
    Enter a new name like "Max Sound Preset", check the box "Use for all discs", and click on "OK".

    One more thing: select the toolbar option "DVD Player", then select "Preferences". Click on "Previously Viewed". Make sure that "Always use disc settings for: Audio EQ" is checked, Click "OK" and you're done.
25 Jun 08

How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine

    • You're probably going to read this.

      It's a short paragraph at the top of the page. It's surrounded by white space. It's in small type.

      To really get your attention, I should write like this:

      • Bulleted list
      • Occasional use of bold to prevent skimming
      • Short sentence fragments
      • Explanatory subheads
      • No puns
      • Did I mention lists?

AT&T's CDN Offering Not Displacing Akamai or Limelight Anytime Soon | The Business Of Online Video

  • Yesterday, there was a lot of talk about AT&T and their CDN announcement and as usual, a lot of questions, mostly from Wall Street, on what this means to Akamai and the rest of the CDN industry. While many sites covered the news, I saw very few sites give more details on what, if any, impact this has on the market. Lots of re-hash of the press release with very little additional info or data to compare AT&T's plans with the rest of the market.
23 Jun 08

Technology Review: Part I: The Business of Social Networks

  • Social networking is the fastest-growing activity on Web 2.0--the shorthand term for the new user-centered Internet, where everyone publicly modifies everyone else's work, whether it's an encyclopedia entry or a photo album. The growth of social networking is astonishing, and it has spread to sites of all sizes, which are increasingly intertwined as platforms open (see "Who Owns Your Friends?"). Even small players are soaring
20 Jun 08

PC World - Business Center: OLPC Spin-off Developing UI for Intel's Classmate PC

  • Intel could give its Classmate PC a user interface similar to One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop, with the chip maker preparing a version of the Sugar UI found on OLPC's laptops for its educational laptop.

    Intel has tied up with Sugar Labs Foundation to develop a version of Sugar, the UI (user interface) originally developed for OLPC's XO laptop, for its Classmate PC, said Walter Bender, a founder of Sugar Labs and OLPC's former president of software and content.

19 Jun 08

Most Doctors Aren’t Using Electronic Health Records - NYTimes.com

  • A government-sponsored survey of the use of computerized patient records by doctors points to two seemingly contradictory conclusions, and a health care system at odds with itself.



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    Dr. Peter Masucci, a pediatrician in Massachusetts, said shifting to computerized records helped improve his patient care.






    The report, published online on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that doctors who use electronic health records say overwhelmingly that such records have helped improve the quality and timeliness of care. Yet fewer than one in five of the nation’s doctors has started using such records.

Phone Smart - A New Era in Web Navigation, Thanks to Smartphones - NYTimes.com

  • This column will be devoted to helping consumers find choices. More choice can mean more confusion, but understanding how the cellphone market works and discovering strategies for getting the most for your money can beat back that chaos. Twice a month, this column will examine new phones and their myriad features. It will also sort through the cellphone plans, explain the fine print and find the loopholes. And as more phones allow you to add applications, the column will identify the most useful ones.

What's Holding Up the New York Tech Scene? - ReadWriteWeb

Since moving to New York from London in 1990, I have become a firm convert to the idea that New York is the center of the universe. London, Paris, Berlin, Mumbai are all pretty great, but if you like cities, New York is it. So it has always been a source of frustration for me - and other New Yorkers - that our great city is such a slouch when it comes to high tech startups compared to boring suburbs like San Jose and Palo Alto, and even provincial towns such as Boston and Austin. Well, I finally figured out the problem. It's called Wall Street.

Sure, Wall Street is what makes New York great, or at least rich. So why is it the problem? Two reasons. First, Wall Street absorbs too much of the talent. Second, Wall Street generates a short term "in a New York minute" mindset.

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  • Since moving to New York from London in 1990, I have become a firm convert to the idea that New York is the center of the universe. London, Paris, Berlin, Mumbai are all pretty great, but if you like cities, New York is it. So it has always been a source of frustration for me - and other New Yorkers - that our great city is such a slouch when it comes to high tech startups compared to boring suburbs like San Jose and Palo Alto, and even provincial towns such as Boston and Austin. Well, I finally figured out the problem. It's called Wall Street.






    Sure, Wall Street is what makes New York great, or at least rich. So why is it the problem? Two reasons. First, Wall Street absorbs too much of the talent. Second, Wall Street generates a short term "in a New York minute" mindset.

14 Jun 08

Search engines and journalism: Seven key issues as news goes online - Trends in the Living Networks

  • Recently the Future of Journalism conference was held in Sydney, run by the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, the body that represents workers in media and entertainment, including journalists. One of the broadcast media channels which covered the event called me last week to get some ideas for their interviews with the keynote speakers at the conference.

This Boring Headline Is Written for Google - New York Times

  • JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web, analyzing and ranking online news articles on behalf of Internet search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

The Last Express | Gametap



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    Adventure 


    | Windows

    | Pheonix Licensing

The Last Express - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • The Last Express is a video game created by Jordan Mechner and Smoking Car Productions, published in 1997. It is an adventure game that takes place on the Orient Express, days before the start of World War I. It is noted as being one of the few video games that attempts to realistically simulate real-time, and also as one of the largest commercial failures in the history of video games (with a reported six million dollars in development costs) despite many rave reviews and an impressive pre-release response.
11 Jun 08

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

  • what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

Nick Carr: Is Google making us stupid? | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News.com

  • In the the July issue, The Atlantic has an exceptional and provocative article by Nick Carr, asking "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" It's a riff on Carr's book, The Big Switch (reviewed here), but covers new ground and has me worried. Carr writes:



The Evolution From Linear Thought To Networked Thought - Publishing 2.0

  • was thinking last night about books and why I don’t read them anyone — I was a lit major in college, and used to be voracious book reader. What happened?


    I was also thinking about the panel I organized for the O’Reilly TOC conference on Blogs as Books, Books as Blogs — do I do all my reading online because I like blogs better than books now? That doesn’t seem meaningful on the face of it.

Edge: THE PANCAKE PEOPLE, OR, "THE GODS ARE POUNDING MY HEAD"

  • But
    today, I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex
    inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information
    overload and the technology of the "instantly available". A
    new self that needs to contain less and less of an inner repertory of
    dense cultural inheritance—as we all become "pancake people"—spread
    wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed
    by the mere touch of a button.

What Magazines Still Don’t Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0

  • This time I’m going to pick on The Atlantic, which like the Washington Post is a publication I have a great deal of affection for (published by my former employer Atlantic Media), so this is not a general critique but rather a very specific example representative of a much larger industry-wide problem (i.e. I could find instances of the same problem on virtually any magazine website).

Slashdot | Is Google Making Us Stupid?

  • "Is Google making us stupid? Following a growing body of research within neuroscience, Carr argues that as we use the Web 'we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies.' This sounds great: Who wouldn't want to have the 'recall' capacity of Google? But, as Carr writes: 'The Internet promises to have particularly far-reaching effects on cognition. ... The Internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It's becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV. When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is recreated in the Net's image.' In other words, as we 'go online' in increasing numbers and to an increasing degree, are we losing our ability to think coherently and deeply, preferring instead to process byte-sized information quickly, regurgitate 140-character 'tweets,' and skim thought? Is the concern overblown, or are we becoming the Web that we created?"
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