Stinky Flower Set to Bloom After 60 Years
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Stinky Flower Set to Bloom After 60
Years (AP)
Stinky Flower Set to Bloom After 60
Years (AP)
06/24/2004 08:14 AMAP - A giant exotic plant that has not bloomed in the Northeast in
more than 60 years is ready to flower at the University of
Connecticut's greenhouses. The "corpse flower" has the odor of
3-day-old road kill, and UConn botanists couldn't be more excited.
Go Stinky go!!!
Go Stinky go!!!
03/30/2005 11:30 AM
Four
high school students -- gold chains, fake diamond rings, patchy,
adolescent mustaches and sharp brains -- take on MIT and others in a
robot competition. They're undocumented Mexican Americans living
in trailers and shabby houses in Arizona. They raise only $800 from
the community to fund their project, while the MIT team raises $11,000
from corporate donors. They have to scrounge for the "most best
tampons" at the last moment to fix a leak in their robot. The
other teams snicker at their garishly painted robot when it's unveiled
poolside. You know how this is going to end. You
know. But it's very satisfying to read nonetheless.
(via
Amygdala)
Stinky links
Stinky links
02/05/2005 09:50 PMA few friends started posting all their daily links to their blog
like I've been doing for the past few months, and when I see their
sites pop up into my blo.gs sidebar or my bloglines account, I get all
excited that they wrote something, but then there's a bit of a let
down when I realize it's another set of 4-5 links.
Then I looked at my own site, filled with ten posts of 3-4 dumb
links and sighed. After five years of doing this, I never thought I'd
be reduced to handfuls of interesting links sprinkled with a dab of
jokey commentary. Maybe that's what killed Anil's site.
Stinky ROV from Phoenix Takes on MIT
Stinky ROV from Phoenix Takes on MIT
03/29/2005 02:59 PMThere's an entertaining new Wired
article about a team of four
Mexican immigrants from a Phoenix High School taking on MIT and other
top schools in the
recent MATE ROV
contest. Their ROV, named Stinky,
was hacked together from PVC pipe and other off-the-shelf parts. Their
unconventional design combined with some last minute help from
feminine
hygiene products resulted in a favorable showing compared to
robots entered by
leading Universities. Stinky ended up with the design award and the
team
received a special achievement award in addition to being declared the
overall winner of the competition. Their
story inspired the Phoenix Union High School District to create the La
Vida
Robot scholarship fund to benefit the further education of the four
team members: Cristian Arcega, Lorenzo Santillan, Luis Aranda, and
Oscar
Vazquez. More photos
are available on the team's website, as
is a technical
report (PDF format) describing their ROV.
Stinky Manure Blaze Enters Fourth Day
(AP)
Stinky Manure Blaze Enters Fourth Day
(AP)
07/28/2004 06:30 PMAP - Talk about fighting fire with fire. Crews fighting a smoky,
stinky blaze in the dried crust of a 3-acre manure lagoon on a dairy
farm Wednesday were trying to smother the flames with more of the same
— a blanket of wet cow poop.
"What bloom are you"
"What bloom are you"
08/10/2004 08:42 AMBloom Filters
Bloom Filters
04/28/2004 12:14 AM
Recent posts about LOAF, which
uses Bloom filter, created a small surge of discussion about bloom
filters, most notable
being the Using
Bloom Filters article at Perl.com by Maciej
Ceglowski whom I like to remember as the fish guy (visit his
blog to see why).
I went fishing for some bloom filter code but couldn't find a
general library in either
Java or C++. There was one for Perl but... Anyhow,
it's probably
because there isn't much code needed. Most
of the Bloom filter works
is finetuning the parameters and choosing the right hashing
function so it doesn't
really matter.
Beside Maciej's article, I found these pages useful:
BF is pretty simple stuff but useful in many areas. I am
thinking of using it
to detect 'access devices' (user name, password, SSN, credit card
numbers, etc.) being
submitted translucently (translucent as in Translucent
Database) so I can throw up a dialog warning to the user.
Using Bloom Filters
Using Bloom Filters
04/09/2004 04:00 PMPerl hashes make set membership easy at the cost of memory usage. A
lesser-known technique, Bloom filters, trades a tunable false-positive
rate for compactness -- and has interesting applications for privacy
concerns. Maciej Ceglowski explains the theory and practice of Bloom
filters.
How Gary Bloom
How Gary Bloom
07/10/2004 12:44 PMZDNet Jul 10 2004 4:32PM GMT
Bloom-Filter-0.03
Bloom-Filter-0.03
07/21/2004 01:01 AMIs Lilly About to Bloom?
Is Lilly About to Bloom?
04/18/2005 02:43 PMTwo new diabetes products could add a little punch to this drugmaker's
top line.
Bloom-Filter-0.02
Bloom-Filter-0.02
04/21/2004 05:11 PMpassion chokes the flower
passion chokes the flower
01/27/2004 06:24 PMWhen she accepted her much-deserved Golden Globe, überhottie
Charlize Theron thanked the director of
Monster, and said
said, "There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give
you a chance there is nothing you can do." . . .
Creative Commons UK: will it flower?
Creative Commons UK: will it flower?
04/06/2005 07:37 AMCory Doctorow:
Edward sez, "Becky Hogge has written an excellent article about the
launch of Creative Commons in the UK. She discusses the problems faced
by CC in the UK, the institutions supporting it like the BBC, and how
Creative Commons will become a household name in the UK."
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the most influential
public service content provider in the world, has been behind the
project from the start and is using the Creative Commons ideology as a
lynchpin for its core digital project, the Creative Archive. Beyond
this, institutions such as OfCom, Research Councils U.K., JISC, the
Museums Libraries and Archives Council, The National Health Service,
and the British Library are all making mention of CC in policy
documents mapping the future dissemination of knowledge and culture.
It may just represent good timing, but Lawrence Lessig's thinking has
emerged as a framework for a country looking to maintain its lead role
as a global content provider in the digital age.
By contrast, the commercial creative industries have raised the kind
of misinformed objections to Creative Commons that will be tiresomely
familiar to those engaged in the IP debate in the States. Although,
during his research, Tsiavos received a warm welcome from many of the
U.K.'s copyright revenue collecting societies, themselves keen to
modernise practice for the digital age, the music business press in
particular have been incredibly skeptical about the value of Creative
Commons. Key concerns voiced have been that Creative Commons somehow
undermines traditional copyright protection, that through taking part
in what is in the U.K. a novel "registration process," creators may
unwittingly give away their rights irrevocably, and also, in a
wonderfully pitched recursive argument, that signing a CC licence
could result in musicians being discounted by a music business hostile
to CC. For the time being at least, the idea that, as Tsiavos puts it,
"commons are not against markets; they only create new ones" appears
to be falling on deaf ears.
LinkThe Bloom Is Off the ASCO Rose
The Bloom Is Off the ASCO Rose
06/11/2004 02:02 AMBusiness Week Jun 11 2004 6:06AM GMT
Space Artistry in Bloom
Space Artistry in Bloom
07/09/2004 04:44 AMArtist Martin Naroznik has a vision to boldly grow where no one has
grown before, and NASA finds it fascinating. By Mark Baard.
Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom
Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom
09/02/2004 04:38 AMExplosive growth has made the People's Republic of China the most
power-hungry nation on Earth. Get ready for the mass-produced,
meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy. By Spencer Reiss from Wired
magazine.
CC Remix Music -- Simple Flower
CC Remix Music -- Simple Flower
06/18/2004 08:41 PMLos Angeles-based soul band Simple Flower has
released the source tracks for their song Flowers and Pain
under the Attribution-N
onCommercial-ShareAlike license. They're also offering to host
remixes. Give it a shot!
Vermonters on Lookout for Flower Thief
(AP)
Vermonters on Lookout for Flower Thief
(AP)
06/22/2004 10:45 AMAP - South End residents are keeping their eyes peeled for a possible
flower burglar.
Flower power turns up the volume
Flower power turns up the volume
09/14/2004 10:34 AMA Japanese company has come up with a way of turning flowers into
loudspeakers.
Same-sex weddings flower in San
Francisco (Reuters)
Same-sex weddings flower in San
Francisco (Reuters)
02/13/2004 05:09 PMReuters - Same sex couples, like a joyful Wendy and Tristan
Higgins-Goodell who had travelled up from Los
Angeles, packed San Francisco's City Hall to get married ahead of
legal challenges to have their unions declared null and void.
Veritas CEO Gary Bloom Unplugged
Veritas CEO Gary Bloom Unplugged
07/08/2004 10:42 AMZDNet Jul 8 2004 1:58PM GMT
Chip sales bloom in June
Chip sales bloom in June
08/03/2004 04:21 PMCNET News.com Aug 3 2004 8:00PM GMT
Spring bloom for property market
Spring bloom for property market
03/28/2005 06:01 AMUK house prices ease a touch in March, encouraging more house hunters
back to the market, the latest Hometrack survey says.
Orlando Bloom is king of Google
Orlando Bloom is king of Google
12/26/2004 07:28 AMArticle.wn.com - Sun Dec 26, 02:45 am GMT
Let a thousand conspiracy theories bloom
Let a thousand conspiracy theories bloom
12/17/2004 06:33 PMI'm about to hit the sack, but current indications are that
Bush has won Ohio by a couple of percentage points and thus has been
re-elected as President of the United States.
Ohio. Isn't that the state that Diebold president Walden O'Dell promised to deliver to the
Republicans?
I don't know if Ohio voters used Diebold machines. If they did, I'm
certainly not about to say that the machines were fixed in any way.
But the problem with voting machines without a paper trail is that
there's no way anyone can be absolutely certain that the election
wasn't stolen. In a modern democracy, that just ain't healthy.
Bloom County on Rather, back in 1984
Bloom County on Rather, back in 1984
09/17/2004 12:58 AMBloom County called this one ..
CBS
mournival.com/2004/09/found-my-old-bloom-county-books.html
track
this site | 4 links
Let a Million Videos Bloom Online
Let a Million Videos Bloom Online
12/31/2004 06:44 AMLet a Million Videos Bloom Online .. este
artigo
businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2004/nf20041229_0845_db01
6.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily
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site | 3 links
Flower of Africa: A Curse That's Blowing
in the Wind
Flower of Africa: A Curse That's Blowing
in the Wind
04/07/2005 02:33 AMAll over Nairobi, Kenya, thin plastic bags littered by consumers are
piling up into little mountains of disease.
Flower Power Takes on Land Mines
Flower Power Takes on Land Mines
01/28/2004 09:15 AMA Danish biotech company develops a genetically modified flower that
changes color when the plant is close to a land mine, making it easier
to track down and remove the hidden explosives.
Genetically Modified Flower Detects
Landmines
Genetically Modified Flower Detects
Landmines
01/27/2004 05:15 PMSmelly Flower Attracts Fans in Texas
(AP)
Smelly Flower Attracts Fans in Texas
(AP)
07/14/2004 08:33 AMAP - Just about any other flower would smell sweeter, but that hasn't
stopped plant lovers from enduring the stench of the rare blooms of
the Amorphophallus titanum plant.
Shelving My Addiction or Promiscuous
Corpse Flower
Shelving My Addiction or Promiscuous
Corpse Flower
06/22/2005 02:57 AMI've got a seriously bad "anime addiction". So much so that I've
completely run out of room to store my...
Super Flower Products - Lian Li on
Steroids?
Super Flower Products - Lian Li on
Steroids?
01/19/2004 12:53 PMTechnology sales to bloom in 2004 - EU
study
Technology sales to bloom in 2004 - EU
study
02/19/2004 12:41 PMLooking good for IT and telecoms
Let A Million Pirate Radio Stations
Bloom!
Let A Million Pirate Radio Stations
Bloom!
05/07/2004 01:28 PMPirate radio stations are nothing new, but one guy is now trying to
train more people in
how to
set up their own pirate radio station (with the more politically
safe sounding name: microbroadcasting), with the idea of creating a
(radio) wave of civil disobedience about how the FCC allocates radio
licenses. Of course, plenty of radio broadcasters aren't too thrilled
about this idea and are fighting heavily against it. The pirate
stations are mostly breaking the law, and it's unlikely enough of them
will show up to make a major difference. Besides, you have to wonder
why it's worth bothering with radio anymore. Why not just set up a
station online?
Inter-Korean Relations Bloom in
Cyberspace
Inter-Korean Relations Bloom in
Cyberspace
07/05/2004 04:42 AMHankooki Jul 5 2004 9:03AM GMT
Softcore Chinese flower girl photos --
on Xinhua
Softcore Chinese flower girl photos --
on Xinhua
12/16/2003 04:09 PM
Bruce Sterling muses aloud, "Holy macaroni. Why is the official
news agency of the People's Republic of China posting a whole bunch of
nude body-painting? Have they lost all their little gray Mao suits
over at Xinhua? What gives? A couple of these pics are Veruschka
Lehndorff art-shots from the mid-1980s. Some official Chinese web-guy
has been collecting these things. What could this be about?"
LinkGiant Stinking Flower Is, Alas, From a
Proper Family
Giant Stinking Flower Is, Alas, From a
Proper Family
01/26/2004 07:34 PMScientists say they have finally solved the mystery of the
evolutionary origins of the plant that produces the biggest flower on
earth.
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