Lost and Found for Ancestors

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Article: Human ancestors quickly found
their feet | New Scientist

Article: Human ancestors quickly found
their feet | New Scientist 09/04/2004 03:05 AM
Human ancestors quickly found their feet .. hominds were walking upright

newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996353
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Once they were lost, but now they're
found

Once they were lost, but now they're
found 07/23/2004 04:53 PM

Mac OS X 10.4 Easter Egg Found and Lost

Mac OS X 10.4 Easter Egg Found and Lost 04/01/2005 03:21 AM
Matt Neuburg (~300 words)

This story comes from Littleton, MA, where TidBITS reader Nancy Kotary writes:

Cat Lost in Fla. Is Found in California
(AP)

Cat Lost in Fla. Is Found in California
(AP) 04/22/2004 02:56 PM
AP - When workers at San Francisco's Department of Animal Care and Control located the owner of a newly arrived stray cat three weeks ago, they couldn't believe what they found: the cat belonged to a woman in Bradenton, Fla. — 3,000 miles away.

Some Of The Lost X-Patents Found

Some Of The Lost X-Patents Found 08/09/2004 11:30 AM

About the Lost and Found directory

About the Lost and Found directory 08/02/2004 01:58 PM
My Unix experience prior to OS X is almost entirely Solaris. The root level of any Solaris partition has a directory named lost+found that you can't delete (or use!) that's "always" empty. I ignored it until recently. My b...

Lost Doctor Who Episode Found

Lost Doctor Who Episode Found 01/16/2004 10:58 AM

Lost Florida Voting Records Found

Lost Florida Voting Records Found 07/30/2004 07:13 PM
Wired News Jul 30 2004 10:33PM GMT

And You Thought Your Library's
Lost-and-found Was Full!

And You Thought Your Library's
Lost-and-found Was Full! 01/09/2004 10:11 PM

Japanese Lost-and-found Dates Back to 718

"Miles sez, 'Tantalizingly short NYT article (registration required) on the Japanese lost-and-found system, which dates back to 718 (!) and is as telling a snapshot of cultural differences as any I've seen. The picture of the umbrella room is amazing, and looks somehow like a Matrix outtake (must be the lighting & grim walls)....' "Link (Thanks, Miles!)" [Boing Boing Blog]

Lost Pink Floyd Documentary Found!

Lost Pink Floyd Documentary Found! 09/25/2004 04:14 AM
Nearly a quarter century ago, the legendary rock band Pink Floyd was captured on film days before infighting would tear the band apart during what ultimately was their last concert of “The Wall”. In the melee of the break up, the never-seen backstage documentary was shelved and forgotten. That is, until now.Film editor Howard Lamden recently discovered “The Lost Documentary” in his archives and has transferred his pristine film to DVD for release. [PRWEB Sep 25, 2004]

WWII hero's lost Hurricane found

WWII hero's lost Hurricane found 05/30/2004 05:40 PM
The engine of a Hurricane that crashed in London after downing a Luftwaffe bomber is found.

Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia
Coast?

Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia
Coast? 09/19/2004 05:57 PM

CNN.com - Lost nuclear bomb possibly
found - Sep 13, 2004

CNN.com - Lost nuclear bomb possibly
found - Sep 13, 2004 09/20/2004 03:16 AM
CNN.com - Lost nuclear bomb possibly found - Sep 13, 2004 .. you don't want to keep: .. Found

cnn.com/2004/US/09/13/lost.bomb
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Lost Navy Drone Found, Alcohol
Suspiciously Not Mentioned

Lost Navy Drone Found, Alcohol
Suspiciously Not Mentioned 05/17/2004 01:29 PM
Stop the weekly prayer circle: the Navy found their missing drone. Remember that mini-submarine the U.S. Navy sort of, you know, lost in Norway? Thank the foetus, it's been found, just 200 miles from where it disappeared. The Navy won't just suck it up and admit they were totally lit,...

Lost nuclear bomb from 1958 possibly
found off the coast of Savannah, Georgia

Lost nuclear bomb from 1958 possibly
found off the coast of Savannah, Georgia 09/14/2004 06:37 PM
CNN

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Who were your first ancestors

Who were your first ancestors 04/13/2005 11:46 AM
Who were your first ancestors? Tracking ancient ancestors and the migration of ancient peoples through DNA. Progressive maps from 200,000 years to 10,0000 years ago show the movement of our "tribes" since Adam.

Our Ancestors Saved Us From an Ice Age

Our Ancestors Saved Us From an Ice Age 03/27/2005 03:48 PM
Technocrat.net Mar 27 2005 6:47PM GMT

'Papa' might have been our ancestors
first word!

'Papa' might have been our ancestors
first word! 07/23/2004 12:58 PM
123Bharath.com Jul 23 2004 5:12PM GMT

Were Your Ancestors at the Battle of
Trafalgar?

Were Your Ancestors at the Battle of
Trafalgar? 06/24/2005 04:40 PM
The National Archives in the UK have launched a new database for people to see if their ancestors were at the Battle of Trafalgar. It's called, strangely enough, Trafalgar Ancestors...

Another Branch of Human Ancestors
Reported

Another Branch of Human Ancestors
Reported 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
Scientists are reporting that a primitive hominid species lived in what is now Ethiopia more than five million years ago.

Ancestors - Introduction to Family
History Research

Ancestors - Introduction to Family
History Research 06/03/2004 05:27 AM
Ancestors - Introduction to Family History Research
http://www.pbs.org/kbyu/ancestors/researchprocess/public/index.htm

This course is divided into four lessons. It will walk you through the basics of family history research. Mastery checks throughout each lesson will help sharpen your skills, and research assignments will assist you as you begin to do your family history research. As you work through each lesson and begin your research, remember that there are resources available online and in your local community to help you if you get stuck on a particular record type.You can visit a Family History Center, call your state Genealogical Society, or search sites like Cyndi's List for more information. If you would like help learning about using specific record types or finding out about ancestors from other countries, visit Brigham Young University's Continuing Education Departments list of family history research courses. This has been added to Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub.

Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub. 11/15/2003 07:49 PM
So in addition to the standard-issue frissons to be found here (and one of the most startling involves only a light bulb), this book also attempts a Google ...

Lost mail campaign gets lost in post
(Reuters)

Lost mail campaign gets lost in post
(Reuters) 06/27/2004 01:25 AM
Reuters - A postal campaign to highlight the quantity of letters that go missing each year has been given a stamp of authority after none of the letters arrived at their intended destination.

Toothless Skull Raises Questions about
Compassion among Human Ancestors

Toothless Skull Raises Questions about
Compassion among Human Ancestors 04/07/2005 03:32 AM

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities 04/15/2005 06:43 PM
Whenever we hear about established industries whining about how much money they're losing from alternative forms of media consumption, we just shake our heads. If you do too, then brace your neck before reading on. A new study by Accenture says that TV networks will "lose" $27 billion in the coming five years because of ad skipping by DVR users. Not being able to read the full story on AdAge, we can only assume that Accenture thinks advertisers will pull back from the networks to the tune of $5-plus billion per year, simply because DVR watchers can skip ads. Not likely. The connection is highly dubious and the figures are entirely far-fetched. Yet even more troubling is the age-old "lost money" methodology. Each ad skip does not proportionally diminish the network's coffers -- no money is being subtracted from their bottom line. Rather, any "losses" from ad skipping would come from the network's inability to adapt to new trends and attract those dollars elsewise. The networks are losing money to ad-skipping no more than record companies are losing money to downloads. The quicker they see these as lost opportunities, instead of lost dollars, the better for them.

Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools
Don't Always Mesh With How People Work

Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools
Don't Always Mesh With How People Work 12/18/2003 06:55 AM
Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools Don't Always Mesh With How People Work
http://www.nsf .gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?pr03146

Of all the personal computers to be unwrapped during the holiday season, more than 80 percent will be used to go online and search the Web's more than 92 million gigabytes of data (comparable to a 2 billion-volume encyclopedia). Getting online is the easy part, finding a useful Web page is a bit harder—keeping track of a useful Web page is another issue altogether.

People have devised many tricks—such as sending e-mails to themselves or jotting on sticky notes—for keeping track of Web pages, but William Jones and Harry Bruce at the University of Washington's Information School and Susan Dumais of Microsoft Research have found that often people don't use any of them when it comes time to revisit a Web page. Instead, they rely on their ability to find the Web page all over again.

Lost without Lost? You might be in the
Land Down Under

Lost without Lost? You might be in the
Land Down Under 04/05/2005 05:23 PM
Delays in getting new episode of US shows in Australia have led many to turn to BitTorrent. It may be time to rethink the broadcast model.

Keeping Found Things Found on the Web

Keeping Found Things Found on the Web 01/28/2004 08:56 AM
Keeping Found Things Found on the Web - A Research Project of the Information School at the University of Washington
http://kftf.isc hool.washington.edu/projKFTF.asp
http://kftf .ischool.washington.edu/publications.asp

The goal of this study is to understand better the ways in which people manage information for subsequent re-access and re-use. The study focuses on the management of information found on the Word Wide Web. Follow-on studies will look at similar problems and practices of personal information management for other information types including email and personal files (electronic and paper-based). The classic problem of information retrieval, simply put, is to help people find the relatively small number of things they are looking for (books, articles, web pages, CDs, etc.) from a very large set of possibilities. This classic problem has been studied in many variations and has been addressed through a rich diversity of information retrieval tools and techniques.

A follow-on problem also exists which has received relatively less study: Once found, how are things organized for re-access and re-use later on? What can be done to avoid the need to repeat the entire search process? We refer to this as the problem of Keeping Found Things Found. The current study addresses this problem in the context of World Wide Web use. The study focuses on use of the Web by managers, researchers, librarians and other information specialists. But it is expected that the results of the study will be relevant to most users of the Web.

The Lost Art of the CD-ROM

The Lost Art of the CD-ROM 04/08/2005 12:27 AM

I was reading today about how Wikipedia is going to release a CD or DVD of all its content. Very cool idea.

This got me reminicising about "The Golden Age of CD-ROMs." Remember when CD-ROMs were the big thing? From, say, 1996 to 1999 or 2000. Remember when Encarta and Cinemania amazed you with the depth of their content?

I remember Encarta 95. Man, that was amazing. Pictures, video, a little trivia game — I had a double-speed CD-ROM drive, and could get lost in Encarta for hours. I remember too that it had an update feature, where you could dial-up to the Internet and it would download new versions of articles that needed to change. The first one to update was the article on Yitzhak Rabin after he got assassinated. I was blown away.

And Cinemania — that was a really great product too. Thousands of reviews from Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin, video clips, star biographies — I could blow an afternoon just exploring. Cinemania was what got me hooked on Roger Ebert. (I still read him religiously, and he's emailed me twice. Once in response to this post over on my personal blog.)

And "The Ultimate James Bond" CD-ROM was heroin for me at the time. I reviewed it nine years ago for Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. It was the first writing I did for that site. The review (and the CD-ROM screenshots — first time I had ever screencapped anything) still hold up today. That was a great, great product. Did anyone else have this?

When I worked at Best Buy for eight months in 1998, DVD-ROM drives were just coming out. I remember thinking that I had to have one, because then I could browse Encarta without having to switch CDs. I wanted a DVD-ROM drive for four or five years because of this, but could never justify it. When I finally bought a machine that had one...it was kind of anti-climactic, because I was already hooked on Wikipedia.

But whatever happened to the CD-ROM? The Internet killed them. You just don't see them anymore. Now we have the Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia, so there's no need for Cinemania or Encarta.

If you get the urge to publish a CD-ROM, you may as well just put it in a password protected Web site — you get continuing membership fees, better tracking, and you can keep it updated.

The CD-ROM is truly a lost art. It's too bad because I firmly believe that you get more involved with reading offline than online. See this post — when you're online, more content is just a click away. When you're offline — like when you were browsing a CD-ROM — you have a tendency to get into the reading more and with greater comprehension.

I miss CD-ROMs.

"Lost"

"Lost" 09/24/2004 03:00 AM

lost at sea

lost at sea 12/19/2004 03:48 PM

I am having a really hard time sleeping. For almost three weeks, I try to go to sleep between ten and midnight. I fall asleep for about ten or fifteen minutes, and then I wake with a start. My legs feel antsy behind my knees, my brain won't shut up, and I end up tossing and turning for about twenty minutes, until I get so angry that I get out of bed and read until at least one in the morning. Last night, it was two-fucking-forty before I was able to fall asleep. When I wake up, I have a headache, my neck hurts, and I feel like I haven't slept at all. This is really getting old.

I know it's not diet, but it could be lack of exercise. I was pretty damn sick the last two weeks, and running when I have a cold is the opposite of enjoyable. Darin says that I should exercise more, and I agree. I miss running, and I discovered, to my horror, that I've put on nearly ten pounds since August — a product of my Body By Guinness and Linux fitness fatness program.

But it's more than just that. If I'm honest with myself, I actually think my brain is kicking me out of bed every night because there's stuff I have to deal with that I've been avoiding: things I need to write, people I need to talk to, and issues I need to resolve. Anne recently did what she calls "Emotional Housekeeping," and I think I'm going to do it myself.

So today, I will catch up on e-mail (I got it down to 200-ish, but it's swelled back up to > 500), and finish several interviews (including Slashdot's Ask Wil Wheaton Anything). I will also take some ideas that have been brewing in my brains and move them into my The Writer's Notebook, to make room for new ones. A symptom of my insomnia (and maybe it's wrapped up in the cause) is a lack of inspiration. I haven't sat down to do any real creative writing in far too long, and I'm starting to feel performance anxiety, you know? It's like standing at the edge of a pool that you know is filled with cold water: the longer you stand at the edge, the harder it becomes to get up the courage to dive in.

I hope that getting all these unresolved e-mails and related issues taken care of will encourage my brain to actually quiet down when I want to go to sleep.

Weird . . . when I started writing this, I truly didn't know why I've been so agitated, but I think I just got it — or at least I've got it narrowed down. Who says blogging isn't therapeutic?

for want of a pen a kid was lost?

for want of a pen a kid was lost? 05/12/2004 09:59 PM
The pen is mightier than...? Remember Afghanistan? Terry, former Nitpicker, is now a public affairs specialist in Kandahar. He's learned that the children of Afghanistan want nothing more than they want a pen. Maybe we can help them out by sending some?

Just how lost PFF is

Just how lost PFF is 09/09/2004 11:12 AM
I continue to be astonished at how far PFF has moved from its roots. The group has issued a press release demanding Supreme Court review of Grokster, buttressed with supporting blog entries by Bill Adkinson and a "grid" by Solveig Singleton with a six (yes, count them, six, with some including italics) factor test that courts are to apply to decide whether a technology is legal or not. I can well understand New Dealers racing to craft multifactored tests to regulate innovation. But I thought the whole point of the conservative (economic) movement was to teach us how harmful such regulation was to innovation and growth. Any test that cannot be applied on summary judgment guarantees that federal judges will be forced into a complex balancing to decide which innovation should be allowed. And thus, any industry threatened with competition can then use the courts to extort from these new competitors payment before they are permitted to compete. That is precisely what Valenti says the VCR case was about. He didn't want to stop the VCR, he tell us. He wanted only to force VCR manufacturers to pay for the right to sell consumers VCRs. Courts, and lawyers, have ruled Silicon Valley long enough. The great hope of the Grokster opinion was that it would return us to the time when entrepreneurs could invent without seeking a permission slip from a federal court (to borrow from the President) . It is simply bizarre to see PFF now call for a return to the days of industrial policy regulated by federal judges. Especially bizarre when you consider how taxing this policy will be to many of the "supporters" of PFF. Many (e.g., Apple, Microsoft, Intel), but alas not all (EMI, Vivendi, BMG). Thus the danger of putting principle up for bid.

All was not lost

All was not lost 09/27/2004 03:10 AM
USA Today Sep 27 2004 6:14AM GMT

Do Over : the lost olive

Do Over : the lost olive 09/03/2004 06:20 PM
Its time for a do over. Time to try this again. I will be researching and writing things that I hope...

How ETS Lost The GMATs

How ETS Lost The GMATs 12/29/2003 04:07 PM
If you've taken a standardized test, you've probably dealt with ETS (Educational Testing Service), a private company that administers the SAT tests, the GREs, and until now, the GMATs (the standardized test used for business school admissions). However, the folks who own the GMATs have realized that ETS has done a dreadful job in keeping up with the technology, and that has resulted in incorrect scores and cheating on exams. So, now, they've given the GMAT contract to a competitor, Pearson, who handles the ACT tests. Instead of admitting that they've screwed up and need to get better, ETS responded by saying that they'll just create their own GMAT-style test and try to convince business schools that it's just as effective. Either way, it sounds like ETS didn't keep their eye on the technology ball, and lost one of their higher profile customers.

I went West and now I'm lost

I went West and now I'm lost 02/05/2005 09:14 PM
L.A.'s got me all confused -- can I go home again?

To the Lost City.

To the Lost City. 03/19/2005 02:56 AM
To the Lost City. Researchers at the University of Washington discovered an undersea hydrothermal vent field that promises new information about the origins of life. A monthlong research trip in 2003, documented online, yielded results that have just now been published in Science (subscribers only, sorry). The UW's Lost City site has much of interest, including an online journal from the excursion; pictures and video are also available here and here.

Lost in Meatspace

Lost in Meatspace 12/29/2003 11:43 PM
Rumors of my velocitation are true. For reasons having to do with bread and bread, this correspondent has lately become a commuting, buttoned-down member of Cheever's professional archetype. Not precisely a salaryman, mind you, just a consultant on a gig that takes all his energy. It features slit skirts on city streets, glorious validation, real life and cash, and comes on the heels of a watershed. My grandfather died. He was my giant. Everything I'm worth is traceable to him....
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Lost and Found for Ancestors

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