Bluetooth gives hearing aid a new meaning
Grok Headline matches for Bluetooth gives hearing aid a new meaning
Build Your Own Bluetooth Hearing Aid
Build Your Own Bluetooth Hearing Aid
07/09/2004 09:57 PMWhat's the meaning of 'trust'?
What's the meaning of 'trust'?
04/23/2004 04:00 AMDavid Heath, writing in "The Sydney Morning Herald" last week (link
below) asks, "What do identity and trust have in common?" His answer:
not very much.
Meaning of Silence
Meaning of Silence
12/19/2004 03:05 PMSmall counterpoint to the last post. What you don't blog about,
what conversations you choose not to participate in, is the strongest
signal you can send around here....
The Meaning of Innovation
The Meaning of Innovation
12/19/2004 03:12 PMI'm at a "Global Innovation Outlook" event organized by IBM in New
York. Lots of great folks here, and -- halleluja! -- open WiFi in the
auditorium at Rockefeller University. It's too early to pass judgment
on the program, but IBM is asking the right questions in exploring the
nature of innovation in today's world.
War Gives Memorial Day a New Meaning
(AP)
War Gives Memorial Day a New Meaning
(AP)
05/31/2004 02:18 AMAP - Deb Granahan never gave much thought to Memorial Day. It was a
day off from work, an excuse to find some great buys at the mall and a
chance to crack open the grill for a family barbecue.
W3C to give the Web more meaning
W3C to give the Web more meaning
02/11/2004 08:16 AMPC Pro Feb 11 2004 12:24PM GMT
meaning of life plus one
meaning of life plus one
01/03/2005 10:02 PM
Think about
43 things
you'd like to with your life:
finish reading
Ulysses,
stop
trading time for money,
visit Machu
Picchu, or tell
someone you love
them everyday...
and at least 38 other things. on the meaning of "parody"
on the meaning of "parody"
07/27/2004 09:36 AMEveryone's seen the brilliant
JibJab Flash of Bush/Kerry. The
piece claims to be a "parody" of Woody Guthrie's "This Land."
As any copyright lawyer recognizes, it is not a "parody" in the sense
that "fair use" ordinarily recognizes it. A "fair use" "parody" is a
work that uses a work to make fun of the author. JibJab is using
Guthrie's work not to make fun of Guthrie, but of the candidates. (For
the now classic case on this, see
Dr. Suess v. Penguin Press, where a "parody" of
O.J. Simpson using The Cat in the Hat was not "fair use.")
Guthrie's publisher's lawyers too recognize this. As CNN's Allen
Wastler
reports, Guthrie's publisher is now threatening JibJab.
What's great about this story, of course, is the levels of hypocrisy.
Guthrie was not much for property rights himself. It's
said that there is a not-often-sung verse:
As I went walking, I saw a sign there;
And on the sign there, It said, 'NO TRESPASSING.'
But on the other side, It didn't say nothing.
That side was made for you and me!
But whether Guthrie believed in property rights or not, the key thing
this story should do is force us to ask generally: Does a law that
makes a political parody such as Jibjab illegal (even if it is not a
"parody" in the copyright view of the world) make sense?
(Note to citizens: We're permitted to change the law.)
(Thanks to Paul Puglia!)
The Meaning of a House
The Meaning of a House
09/10/2004 12:18 AM
This has a value in our profession, and it doesn't have to do with
scale at all. It has to do with
the actual meaning of a house.
The Social Meaning of RDF
The Social Meaning of RDF
03/11/2003 01:22 AMThe W3C is about to undertake a discussion of what the social meaning
of RDF is -- what the real world import is of an RDF statement.
Kendall Clark previews the debate and recent related discussion.
The Meaning Of iPod
The Meaning Of iPod
06/18/2004 07:54 AMHow Apple's iPod music-player and its imitators are changing the way
music is consumed. By The Economist (via MyAppleMenu)
The Nature of Meaning in the Age of
Google
The Nature of Meaning in the Age of
Google
04/16/2004 06:20 AMThe Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google by Terrence A.
Brooks http://information
r.net/ir/9-3/paper180.htmlAbstract By
Author:The culture of lay indexing has been created by
the aggregation strategy employed by Web search engines such as
Google. Meaning is constructed in this culture by harvesting semantic
content from Web pages and using hyperlinks as a plebiscite for the
most important Web pages. The characteristic tension of the culture of
lay indexing is between genuine information and spam. Google's success
requires maintaining the secrecy of its parsing algorithm despite the
efforts of Web authors to gain advantage over the Googlebot. Legacy
methods of asserting meaning such as the META keywords tag and Dublin
Core are inappropriate in the lawless meaning space of the open Web. A
writing guide is urged as a necessary aid for Web authors who must
balance enhancing expression versus the use of technologies that limit
the aggregation of their work.
Quest for meaning at arcade
Quest for meaning at arcade
01/25/2004 06:21 AMLos Angeles Times Jan 25 2004 9:38AM GMT
Robotics and the Meaning of Life
Robotics and the Meaning of Life
07/20/2004 11:18 AMThe Open University in the UK, has
found a practical use for Asimov's robot stories. They're being used
as
part of a robotics class, called Robotics and the Meaning of Life:
a practical guide to things that think. The Laws of
Robotics are
considered in terms of real control architectures such as subsumption
and on the practicality of using them to design safe robots. Asimov's
Laws are just one part of a larger course that reviews the history and
state of the art in robotics from
R.U.R.
and the Turing
Test to Moore's
law. Students get hands-on experience using a Lego Mindstorms
compatible
robotics
simulator called OU-Robotlab.
Required reading for the course includes Asimov's I,
Robot, and Ruth Aylett's Robots:
Bringing Intelligent Machines to Life.
Diminishing America's Meaning
Diminishing America's Meaning
06/10/2004 11:35 AMRichard Cohen (Washington Post): A Plunge from the Moral Heights. The Bush administration
constantly reminds us that there's a war on. That's wrong. There are
two. One is being fought by soldiers in combat, and the other is being
fought for the hearts and minds of people who are not yet our enemies.
However badly the administration has botched the first war -- where,
oh where, is Osama bin Laden? -- it has done even worse with the
second. It has jutted its chin to the world, appeared pugnacious and
unilateralist, permitted the abuse of POWs and others at Abu Ghraib,
and now toyed in some fashion with torture. The Bush administration
has shamed us all, reducing us to the level of those governments that
also have wonderful laws forbidding torture, but condone it anyway.
Even if there wasn't a moral issue, you'd imagine
that even this crowd would grasp the practical necessity of treating
prisoners with decency. If we declare license to do this to other
nations' combatants, other nations will do it to ours.
But the issue is deeper. As Michael Froomkin, professor of law at the
University of Miami, notes on
his blog, the adminstration's rationale is
truly frightening. Of a redacted copy of the Justice Department memo
Ashcroft won't give Congress but which has been leaked widely to the
media, Froomkin writes:
(It) sets out a view of an
unlimited Presidential power to do anything he wants with “enemy
combatants”. The bill of rights is nowhere mentioned. There is
no principle suggested which limits this purported authority to
non-citizens, or to the battlefield. Under this reasoning, it would be
perfectly proper to grab any one of us and torture us if the President
determined that the war effort required it. I cannot exaggerate how
pernicious this argument is, and how incompatible it is with a free
society. The Constitution does not make the President a King. This
memo does.
Will this be the catalyst that helps
Congress find its spine?
Meaning behind the Google mania
Meaning behind the Google mania
08/14/2004 09:01 PMObserver Aug 15 2004 0:22AM GMT
On The Meaning Of The Word Shareware
On The Meaning Of The Word Shareware
10/30/2003 09:23 PMI'm not sure what it means these days. (Brent Simmons via MyAppleMenu)
Meaning Description Language
Meaning Description Language
05/08/2004 09:00 AMnews..
It depends on what the meaning of
"throes" is
It depends on what the meaning of
"throes" is
06/24/2005 07:29 PMThe vice president defends his rosy outlook on Iraq -- but
acknowledges that there's still "a lot of bloodshed" to come.
How a Nation Forfeits its Meaning
How a Nation Forfeits its Meaning
05/08/2004 11:43 AMSidney Blumenthal: Thi
s is the new gulag. President Bush, Condoleezza Rice and other
officials, unable to contain the controversy any longer, engaged in
profuse apologies and scheduled appearances on Arab television. There
were still no firings. One of their chief talking points was that the
"abuse" was an aberration. But Abu Ghraib was a predictable
consequence of the Bush administration imperatives and policies.
There was a saying in Vietnam that summed up much of
America's operations there: "We had to destroy the village to save
it."
We are going to destroy America to save it if we keep on the current
path. The nation I love is risking its very soul, operating as if law
and morality are irrelevant because, after all, "We're in a war, don't
you see?"
We're in a war with ourselves, too. We are risking the part of being
American that has so attractive here and around the world: the sense
that we paid attention to human rights and meant it.
We are still better than most. We are investigating the abuses. We are
not Saddam-like butchers and madmen. But we are not going in the right
direction.
It seems that Rumsfeld and Bush apologized for horrific abuse mostly
because there are pictures of it. They're warning us of even worse to
come, because there are also pictures of that.
But such abuse is not new. There were
re
peated warnings (Washington Post) from the Red Cross and human
rights organizations. For that matter, prisoners are widely abused
in
America's domestic prisons (NYT) -- and guess what, some of the
worst conditions are in Texas.
We are a revenge-loving society to begin with: Throw away the key or
hang 'em high, and if the state kills a few innocents in our names,
well, sorry about that. And we decided after Sept. 11 that we would
fight a dirty war, here and abroad, thumbing our nose at international
law and the Constitution because that would get the job done.
Anyone in authority claiming surprise at the reality of the prison
abuse is surely lying, because the reality of our new way of making
war has been no secret. (See, for example, Mark Bowden's Atlantic
Monthly piece,
"The Dark
Side of Interrogation," which was published in October 2003.)
The polls suggest that Americans are comfortable with the idea that
it's okay to shred the Constitution at home and ignore all human
rights abroad in the amorphous "war on terrorism," which has now been
expanded to include anything the Bush administration says it is. Shame
on our government. Shame on us.
How deep in to the anything-goes depravity have we sunk? I hope it's
not too far to come back out. And I pray that Americans as a people
will wake up to what is being done in our names, and then put a stop
to it.
No one is suggesting we give in to terrorists. We went to Afghanistan
for good reasons, though we then pulled vital resources from that
battle to take out Saddam and his nonexistent weapons of mass
destruction, and then make a terrifying muddle of the reconstruction.
(We
must see it through in Iraq. I don't know how we can do it
at this point, but we must.) Now Afghanistan is a mess again, and the
entire world is coming to loathe us in unprecedented ways.
The soldiers and mercenaries in one Iraqi prision are the tip of a
foul iceberg. At stake here is the very meaning of America.
These are frightening times.
Meaning Mobile Entertainment
Meaning Mobile Entertainment
07/28/2004 01:20 PMJustin Hall explains what he's about.....
Two new articles give some sense of what I
trumpet as a freelance writer. I cover
technology, digital culture, and electronic entertainment. What I get
most excited about professionally these days is mobile multiplayer - I
have the feeling like mobile phones have terrific potential for play,
for poking fun, for horsing around. So I keep my eye out for signs
that these devices are becoming less productive.
I found one of those signs recently, and finished an article about
it this morning:
Mobile Play by Mail - The future of wireless entertainment may
well lie in some of the oldest modern games. Soon, your buddy list may
light up with game moves as well as messages.
This was a fun article to write, because I had a chance to research
some of the history of games played through the post. That's some
dedicated gameplay! Filling out 3x5 cards and mailing them around -
cards filled with orders and movements and even intrigue. Play by Mail games
were an early way to enjoy social, multiplayer gaming before the
internet. And I saw a company in Hong Kong that has instituted Play
by Mail gaming for mobile devices and so this article is working to
spell out some of the best potential for that technology.
For a broader view of the positive potential for mobile
entertainment, check out my last article before that:
Mobile Entertainment: The Power of Play. In that piece I argue
that mobile entertainment serves a critical social function -- it
will teach us how to be connected citizens.
Both of these articles were written for TheFeature.com, a
Nokia-sponsored research publication about the mobile internet. I've
been a contributing editor there since August 2003; moving and going
to school has me scaled back to a sort of regular contributor. I look
forward to continuing to write, and play in this area!
[Justin Hall's Links]
The True Meaning of Service
The True Meaning of Service
07/17/2002 07:16 PMKendall Grant Clark investigates the DAML-Services ontology, which
ties together web services with the semantic web and could well play a
key part in the web of the future.
Subculture, the meaning of style
Subculture, the meaning of style
09/25/2004 12:03 PM
For Westerners, the index case of subculture has to be the
1960s UK
conflict between the razor-sharp, tailored
mods and their
mortal enemies, the greasy
rockers
.
Difference was critical to these first self-identified
youth subcultures: difference in dress, in music, in drug of choice,
in the favored
mode of
transport...everythin
g. This obsessive focus on not just standing out, but standing out
just so - on showing the world precisely the right angle of a
hat, length of a coat, shortness of hair - has defined many a
subculture since. We recognize
b-boys,
ganguro
girls, and
straightedge
punks by such deployments, among many, many other identifiable
groups. (It's not just a youth thing, either:
leath
ermen and the
delightfully recrudescent
roller derby culture are largely adult phenomena.)
To a
devotee of a given subculture, such matters, far from being a
"narcissism of small differences," are a matter of pivotal
import in framing how one presents oneself to the world:
how we want to
be seen, how we want others to understand us. But I'm getting
older now, and further out of the loop, and I realize that just maybe
I'm losing the ability to discern these differences in the people I
pass walking down the street. I find myself asking, who and where are
the new subcultures? And how do they choose to present themselves to
us?
Scrooge -- The True Meaning of Xmas?
Scrooge -- The True Meaning of Xmas?
12/08/2003 11:42 AM Scrooge was onto
something. "'At this festive season of the year, it is more
than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for
the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.' Oh?
And they don't suffer in January or February? They don't feel hungry
in July and August? Why should it not be just as 'desirable' to help
out these wretches in those months? Why not go further, in fact? Why
not make some 'slight provision' for the poor and destitute every
single day of the year?"
It Depends on What the Meaning of the
Word 'Replace' Is
It Depends on What the Meaning of the
Word 'Replace' Is
04/07/2005 03:09 AM
On the differences between how Mac OS and Windows handle replacing
one folder with another.
Some software I've been meaning to talk
about late ...
Some software I've been meaning to talk
about late ...
11/19/2003 08:08 PM
Some software I've been meaning to talk about lately:
Poisoned -- A P2P
open-source file sharing application that aggregates "FastTrack
(Kazaa, iMesh, Grokster), Gnutella(LimeWire, BearShare, Shareza),
OpenNap (Napster), and OpenFT". If you really feel like paying for it,
they have links to the EFF among others. One thing I find interesting
about this app is that everybody has the username "poisoned" so who
will the RIAA sue?
LaunchBar --
surely this has been blogged before here but LaunchBar is an app
switching utility that has an uncanny ability to know which app you
mean. I find myself using Expose and command-tab more now but others I
know swear by LaunchBar.
iSeek -- Puts
a search box in your menu bar, allowing you to search Google,
Dictionary.com, and wikipedia easily.
iChatStatus -- a great, dorky little open source app that
will display what music you're listening to (from iTunes) over
iChat.
5:28 PM
| steve jenson
Barry Diller's Search for Meaning...
Barry Diller's Search for Meaning...
03/31/2005 10:57 PMA Queens Garden Gives New Meaning to
'Green'
A Queens Garden Gives New Meaning to
'Green'
09/16/2004 04:02 AMFlushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens has broken ground for a $12
million renovation featuring geothermal energy and recycled rainwater.
Business Intelligence - Words Without
Meaning
Business Intelligence - Words Without
Meaning
05/31/2004 02:14 PMTrends, promises, and media hype are all abuzz about business
intelligence (BI). Every major vendor has BI solutions that promise
to increase the competitive advantage. Not too long ago it was
Knowledge Management that promised to increase the competitive
advantage. Before that it was Customer Relationship Management, Data
Mining, Content Management, and Customer Analytics. So, what is it –
really? [PRWEB May 31, 2004]
Holiday party gives meals from home a
whole new meaning
Holiday party gives meals from home a
whole new meaning
12/24/2003 08:16 PMGoogle Doesn't Know Me was reserved for steamed taro, a root vegetable
Yu picked up earlier that day at Lee's Asian Market near Albany. ...
Kuleshov effect: meaning is too
contextual for metadata
Kuleshov effect: meaning is too
contextual for metadata
01/02/2004 05:58 AMDanah Boyd has posted an interesting rumination on the "Kuleshov
Effect," wherein a still image is freighted with opposite emotions by
adding different soundtracks to it. The most interesting question this
raises for me is: how can we expect "accurate" tagging of the
subjective content of an artistic work ("Happy boy," "Pretty dog")
when there are such fundamental conditionals dependent on context?
Lev Kuleshov was a Russian filmmaker. Because of the political climate
of Russia, he was left without access to actual film. Instead, he
constructed films by splicing film and telling his story in a
collage-esque manner. In addition to his style of film, he's known for
something called the Kuleshov Experiment. In this experiment, an image
of a man's face is shown juxtapositioned with various other images
immediately following. Viewers thought that the man's emotion changed
even though it is exactly the same shot.
LinkThursday Humor: The true meaning of
"service"?
Thursday Humor: The true meaning of
"service"?
03/24/2005 08:15 AMI thought I had a handle on the meaning of the word
“service.” “The act of doing things for other
people.” Then I heard the terms Internal Revenue Service, Postal
Service, Telephone Service, Civil Service, Selective Service,
City/County Public Service, Customer Service, Service Stations. I
became confused about the word “service.” This is not what
I thought “service” meant. Then today, I overheard two
farmers talking and one of them mentioned that he was having…
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Microsoft Brings New Meaning to 'The
Works'
Microsoft Brings New Meaning to 'The
Works'
08/16/2004 01:48 PMTechzonez Aug 16 2004 5:14PM GMT
Sudden Meaning for the Political Verb:
to Link
Sudden Meaning for the Political Verb:
to Link
04/09/2004 04:12 PMCareless writing by a major blogger (Kos) brought a turn in the
scandal cycle to Blogistan. The Kerry people have decided they will
now be held responsible for "comments made by any blogger they link
to," writes Atrios. Why? Because any blogger can get you killed. At
stake here is the meaning of the verb "to link" in politics. No one
knows, and that's... tricky.
Cisco deal gives new meaning to great
sales pitch
Cisco deal gives new meaning to great
sales pitch
08/23/2004 04:47 AMSeattle Times Aug 23 2004 9:39AM GMT
Commentary: Internet stock talk may have
statistical meaning
Commentary: Internet stock talk may have
statistical meaning
09/24/2004 01:29 PMIHT Sep 24 2004 5:25PM GMT
Booble Explains Meaning Of Parody To
Google Lawyers
Booble Explains Meaning Of Parody To
Google Lawyers
01/28/2004 03:38 PMAs we
predict
ed last week when the so-called "porn search engine" Booble
launched last week, it didn't take long for Google's lawyers to swing
into action and insist that Booble hand over the domain. Booble has
the full letter on their
site, and with it, their response, explaining to Google's lawyers
the meaning (and legal protections) associated with a parody. They
also knock Google for suggesting that Booble somehow "tarnishes"
Google's image, but does it in a way you might not expect: "Entering
the terms "porn" and "sex" in the Google search engine return
98,400,000 hits and 269,000,000 hits, respectively, while entering
these same terms in the Booble adult search engine return 268 hits and
291 hits, respectively. Therefore, the Google mark - which has a
longstanding association with pornographic terms and material - is
obviously not tarnished." Also, Booble appears to have edited their
"we're not Google" disclaimer to add: "(for starters, we have a sense
of humor)."
Differences in meaning of finger
chopping in Korea and Japan
Differences in meaning of finger
chopping in Korea and Japan
06/05/2005 11:34 PM
I wrote earlier about the origin of the Japanese
the ritual of chopping off pinkies. In Japan, the ritual comes the
importance of the left pinkie in the grip of a Japanese sword.
Removing the left pinkie is literally disarming and was used to punish
people in the past. This has been ritualized and continues to be used
by small number of Yakuza and others in Japan as a form of punishment
or taking responsibility.
This is why I didn't understand why the Koreans were severing their
fingers in protests against the Japanese. Two Koreans chopped their little fingers off in in front of
the Japanese embassy in March to protest Japanese comments about the
Dokdo islands and in
2001, 20 Koreans chopped their off their little fingers in protest
against Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine.
I was beginning to understand the issues that the Koreans were
protesting against, but I didn't see how this finger chopping was
involved. I decided to get to the bottom of this and asked friends
during my trip to Korea.
Although it is an ancient custom, if I understand correctly, one of
the most famous incidents was An Jung-geun, a
legendary leader in the armed resistance against the Japanese
occupation, chopping off parts of several of his fingers and writing
"Korean Independence" in blood on the Korean national flag. Later he
assassinated Japanese politician Hirobumi Ito in
1910. Hirobumi Ito was a key figure in the Meiji
Restoration of Japan, former prime minister and former Resident
-General of Korea. Using the blood from severed fingers to write
such statements became a sign of solidarity in the resistance against
the Japanese and I believe the recent finger chopping is a
continuation of this.
I am not trying to make a statement about or a judgement on the
anti-Japanese protests or the actions by the Japanese, but trying to
clarify something that was confusing for me.
PS I found this article about the protests that ran in today's Korea
Herald insightful on the relevance of these protests.
UPDATE: Edited post to reflect comments that An Jung-geun chopped
his fingers before the assassination and that it's an ancient custom
which didn't start with An Jung-geun.
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New Hal Robins book: The Meaning of Lost
and Mismatched Socks
New Hal Robins book: The Meaning of Lost
and Mismatched Socks
09/23/2004 05:19 PM
Mark Frauenfelder:
Hal Robins is a wonderful cartoonist and a delightfully peculiar guy.
He's from the past and future, and the distant present all at once. I
wish you could hear his grandiose speaking style and high pitched
voice. He's also got a new book out,
The Meaning of Lost and Mismatched Socks, which John Shirley
reviews in his blog.
Hal Robins (in the
guise of Pedale) has discovered--and the very amusing,
detailed drawings he's put in this slim volume from North Atlantic
Books illustrate--that while the mysterious appearance of Unknown
Socks in your drier (and the mysterious disappearance of the socks you
expected to find) may be conventionally explained, deeper,
darker explanations can be found by looking farther than the interior
of the drier mechanism: “It has long been thought that
life must also exist on other planets. These life forms most
likely have appendages for the purpose of locomotion. It follows then
that such beings have a practical need to keep these appendages warm,
hence alien footwear. . .As we employ rebellious machines, which from
time to time squirt our stockings into the abyss of space, so do
they. And as we receive theirs, it follows that their sock drawers
must also receive ours. Even as you read these lines (relativistically
speaking), some alien eye or eyes, perhaps set in chitinous, horny
lids, are perplexedly scanning one of a pair of argyles which you lost
last Tuesday. Some unthinkable thing may be fingering, with its
spatulate claws, in the reddish light of a giant sun, a missing unit
of your support hose...”
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Grok Description matches for Bluetooth gives hearing aid a new meaning
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