Gadget May Help Sleepers Choose Dreams (AP)
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Gadget May Help Sleepers Choose Dreams
Gadget May Help Sleepers Choose Dreams
06/29/2004 10:50 AMSan Jose Mercury News Jun 29 2004 1:51PM GMT
When a ball dreams, it dreams it's a
frisbee
When a ball dreams, it dreams it's a
frisbee
07/24/2004 09:29 PM
"Competit
ive play is encouraged, but never at the expense of respect between
players, adherence to the rules, and the basic joy of play."
The overriding ideal behind
Ultimate
frisbee is
Spirit of the
Game where sportsmanship is valued above all else.
Next week is the
World Ultimate
& Guts Championships in Turku, Finland where
23
countries compete, so now is a great time to
(re-)learn to
play<
/a>. Besides being lots of
fun for
everyone, it
might even
improve your career prospects. Alarm clock set to wake doziest of
sleepers (Reuters)
Alarm clock set to wake doziest of
sleepers (Reuters)
03/22/2005 04:51 PMReuters - Can't get out of bed in the morning?
you choose
you choose
02/10/2004 02:53 AMWhich is a better term for a binary thinker:
(a) bin-head
(b) bit-head
Choose your code
Choose your code
05/20/2004 09:51 PMZDNet May 21 2004 1:25AM GMT
Some Pay for a TV Service That They
Didn't Choose
Some Pay for a TV Service That They
Didn't Choose
03/31/2005 01:50 AMFor homeowners who do not want paid television programming or would
rather choose another provider, locked-in television fees amount to a
tax.
Choose Your Jedi
Choose Your Jedi
11/15/2003 04:31 PMCartoonnetwork.com is running a poll now where you can choose one of
three Jedi to be animated into the final chapter of the Clone Wars
micro series. While you are there why not enter to win a signed Clone
Wars animation cell and Hasbro Clone Wars prize pack!
Cli
ck here for the scoop!Choose Your Own Adventure: WTC
Choose Your Own Adventure: WTC
05/12/2004 10:02 AMYou are an executive for a top financial institution in New York.
The date is September 11, 2001. At 3:00 a.m. you got back from
an all-expenses paid "business trip" to Thailand where you had sex
with a 13 year old prostitute. You are exhausted and you fear you have
contracted syphilis. Do you try to call in sick? Or do you push
yourself to get into your office at the World Trade Center's North
Tower by 8 a.m.?
Choose Your Own Adventure
Choose Your Own Adventure
01/03/2005 10:17 AMChoose Your Own
Adventure - Never Ending Story Engine - Never-Ending Story Engine:
I knew someone on the Web would do something like this sooner or
later. The Web itself is a big Choose Your Own Adventure, when you
think about it.
This site is an interactive fiction writing engine that
allows you to read and write Choose Your Own Adventure stories. When
you get to an end of a story, you can add on to it thereby creating a
never-ending story. We offer many unique features such as writing
clans, image uploads, public/private stories, approval system, private
messaging, room linking, nicknames, and more! create an account today
or login to start writing your own stories.
If this interests you, look back to our post about Fiction Markup Language.
Choose Your Own Future
Choose Your Own Future
12/11/2003 02:30 PMFor a while it was popular to say that the "internet will change
everything." The writer of this article, Phil Dwyer, brings up
questions about that statement, saying,
"for
whom?" and "will it be a good change?" He looks at two
distinct opinions. One from Kevin Kelly who does believe the internet
will change everything for good, and another from Jeremy Rifkin who
believes technology is making life worse. Instead of just reacting to
either opinion, he points out that we (collectively) get to create our
own future - and that it's good to have both the super optimistic and
super pessimistic views stated. This way, we can work towards the
optimistic world and do everything possible to avoid the pessimistic
one.
Choose your superpower
Choose your superpower
03/20/2003 09:37 AM
In his latest newsletter, David Weinberger
asks
if there is a right to anonymity in cyberspace. Let's forget
about the Internet for the moment. In one of my favorite episodes of
This American Life,
entitled
Superpowers,
interviewer John Hodgman asks people this fascinating question: If you
could have the power to fly, or to be invisible, which would you
choose?
...Choose Your Path
Choose Your Path
03/19/2003 10:25 PMA new ad for
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic has started
appearing. Since it's hard to make out, here's the text in the ad.
Zend: Why Choose PHP?
Zend: Why Choose PHP?
12/24/2004 12:30 PMNew from
Zend today, there's a
posting that all of you out there trying to decide on a "main
language" to use might want to check out -
Why Choose PHP?.
Choose the Best FTP Server
Choose the Best FTP Server
07/13/2004 06:57 AMhow to choose between MT and TypePad
how to choose between MT and TypePad
06/18/2004 05:45 PMelise does a great job of explaining the differences in the two tools
Overture, Adwords- Which do I choose?
Overture, Adwords- Which do I choose?
09/20/2004 02:48 AMWith saturated advertising vehicles, it is becoming nearly impossible
to find a cost effective solution to internet advertising. [PRWEB Sep
20, 2004]
Choose the Right Format for Your Ebooks
Choose the Right Format for Your Ebooks
07/01/2004 08:23 PMWebDevInfo Jul 1 2004 11:43PM GMT
If You Must Marry, Choose Abroad
If You Must Marry, Choose Abroad
12/02/2003 02:00 AM"Marriage turns to crap no matter what you do," writes the 32-year-old
publisher of NoMarriage.Com: "Once you sign the dotted line of
marriage, BAM, they get fat, bitchy, cheat on you, and ass-rape you in
divorce court." (Hey, ladies: He's single!) (11-25)
Germany to choose new president
Germany to choose new president
05/23/2004 01:59 AMA federal assembly is to vote for a new German president, as Johannes
Rau ends his term.
'14% Of Americans Would Choose Apple'
'14% Of Americans Would Choose Apple'
12/08/2003 11:37 AMApple is the favourite brand of 14 per cent of Americans looking to
buy a new PC. (Macworld UK via MyAppleMenu)
Nurses use Web to choose shifts, pay
Nurses use Web to choose shifts, pay
12/24/2003 03:40 PMglobetechnology.com Dec 24 2003 2:13PM ET
More like Choose Your Own Gruesome Death
More like Choose Your Own Gruesome Death
01/02/2005 06:23 PM
"In a text with only six favorable outcomes amid some thirty-eight
possible conclusions, indeed the reader seems intensely vulnerable –
even doomed perhaps – if he were to travel only a single path.
The odds, quite simply, are against him."
Click here to
investigate the unforgiving plot of
The Third Planet from
Altair, by Edward Packard.
Click here for the definitive database of information
about
Choose Your Own Adventure-style stories
Click here
to write your own
CYOA story.
Perl Versus PHP - Which to Choose?
Perl Versus PHP - Which to Choose?
11/11/2002 10:12 AM100 Mistakes for the President to Choose
From 5/4
100 Mistakes for the President to Choose
From 5/4
05/04/2004 02:33 AMBush has made a
few
americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=64326
track this
site | 5 links
"100 Mistakes for the President to
Choose From"
"100 Mistakes for the President to
Choose From"
05/04/2004 05:02 PMNext Pope: choose by Internet?
Next Pope: choose by Internet?
04/05/2005 02:36 AMCory Doctorow:
The next Pope will be the Internet Pope -- will/can the Church use the
Internet to help select him? Do we even need the Church, or can we DIY
this?
* The choice of the next pope--one of the most influential
leaders in the world (spiritual leadership and influence over about 1
billion people)--is one of the least transparent processes
around...
* Now suppose someone built (a) a wiki to pool information
about the candidates and (b) an online and SMS feedback system to
register the global point of view.
* If such a thing were to happen would this be a good thing
for (a) the Roman Catholic church, (b) for the Christian community,
(c) for the world?
Link
(
Thanks, Marko!)
First Impression: Choose Transparency
First Impression: Choose Transparency
04/04/2005 06:03 AM"I have no reservations about making
people feel
uncomfortable."-Hatim Tyabji
, CEO, VeriFone
Thousands of models to choose from!
Thousands of models to choose from!
04/15/2004 10:30 AM
Jesus Christ: Choose
your own savior.
Everyone claims their Jesus is the "real" one,
the only authentic Christ unperverted by secular society or religious
institutions... Nowadays, even nonbelievers assert a superior
understanding of who the actual Jesus really was and what he stood
for.
Why choose the lesser Evil?
Why choose the lesser Evil?
05/06/2004 05:38 PM
The Most Important
Press Conference of This (US) Election Cycle! (It's not quite
Friday, but it's Flash. Really flash)
Choose Your Own Associated Press Lead
Choose Your Own Associated Press Lead
03/17/2005 03:26 AM
Apparently, the old "who, what, when, where, why and how" lead is too
stuffy for some in this age of web-based news reporting. The
Associated Press is trying to change with the times, and will be offering two different leads for certain
stories, so editors can pick and choose. One lead will be the
more traditional "that's the way it is," factual reporting. The
other, will be a little more... fluffy, with "attempts to draw in the
reader through imagery, narrative devices, perspective or other
creative means." It's an interesting move -- and it shows that the
Associated Press is recognizing that people don't just look at the
news to be informed any more, but (in part) to be entertained. With
so much competition out there, stories need to really get attention
beyond just the facts. Whether or not that's a good thing,
however, may depend on upon your own personal view of the news.
Car Wash dreams
Car Wash dreams
01/08/2004 08:49 PM
We know what we are, but we do not know what we can be. Shakespeare I
was washing my car...
Home dreams.
Home dreams.
07/22/2004 09:47 PM
Straw House Blog. Coolhouse. Colorado house. When summer comes, I invariably start
dreaming of places to live that are utterly unlike the standard Korean Concrete Beehive Box.
Diesel Dreams
Diesel Dreams
08/08/2004 07:03 PM
Pepsi Blue! I mean, lots
of interesting occasionally NSFW Flash video, from
some-company-or-other.
Dreams of the Moon
Dreams of the Moon
01/04/2004 04:37 PM
Mac Tip: Database of Dreams
Mac Tip: Database of Dreams
08/08/2004 10:45 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 8 2004 2:17PM GMT
The importance of dreams
The importance of dreams
08/22/2004 07:25 PM
I'm back home again; a day later than I was supposed to. With some
very interesting tan lines, I might add.
My Thursday night was one of the strangest ever. Suffice to say that
I ended up alone, in an Irish pub in Reykjavik, listening to
melancholic guitar music and downing a horribly expensive beer. I
also had a fever (of which I was not aware of the time), which
produced some of the most vivid and strangest dreams I've seen in a
long while, when I finally clambered to the youth hostel.
So I dreamed. In one dream, I was crossing a street, and as the
traffic lights went green, all of the cars turned to horses and had to
be herded away so I could cross the street. In a second dream, I saw
myself find an internet terminal, and buying tickets to Oulu for the
day that I arrive in Helsinki.
I wake up - still feverish - and recount some of the dreams to my
travel companion. She looks at me, with a slightly worrying look, as
I start to ponder that the idea from the last dream is not really that
bad.
In our hotel, on the last night, I find a free Internet terminal that
looks just like the one in my dream. So I buy tickets to Oulu,
wondering who the heck gave my subconscious a free reign over my
credit card.
For the rest of the trip, I worry about whether I'm going to make the
connection, or the inevitable gaping hole that will be left on my bank
account, or whether this was such a good idea at all, since I have
been doing nothing but travel, and I shall be doing some heavy travel
in the near future as well. (Bleargh.)
But Outi meets me on the airport, and one hug removes all doubt and
weariness.
Later in the evening, the air is charged with a magical feeling that
cannot be described in my crude words. It's as if one touch could
set the world on fire; as if the thunder outside came from your mind;
as if one look made your heart explode; as if tears and laughter and
pain and pleasure were all the same thing. No masks, no hiding behind
them. No buts, no ifs. Just...
*sighs deeply* This belongs to poets and songwriters and
philosophers; not simple engineers like me. Shutting up now.
Frontier Dreams
Frontier Dreams
05/21/2004 12:50 PM
In the back of my mind I’ve been thinking about the open-s
ourcing of the Frontier kernel, and like some other folks
it’s made me dream of software that’s close in spirit to
the early versions of Frontier, before it became the basis for a
content management system.
For those who don’t know, Frontier began life as a scripting
system for Macintosh. But not just another language—it included
an object database and a relatively rich (for the time) library of
verbs. You wrote code in an outliner, which I still think is a
wonderful way to write code.
You used it do many of the same things people use Perl and Python (and
so on) for today, only it was on Macintosh System 7. Instead of using
pipes and Unix-y things for inter-application communication, it used
Apple events. (Like AppleScript.) It was very common to use Frontier
to do tasks that required scripting one or more other applications.
For instance, your script might grab data from a Filemaker database,
format it as text in Frontier, then create a new email message in
Eudora and send it. With Frontier’s scheduler, its
cron-equivalent, you could make this happen once an hour or whatever.
And you might archive the data in its object database and create
weekly reports based on that data.
That’s just a for-instance, of course. The gist of it was that
it made it possible to do custom things that apps like Filemaker and
Eudora would never (quite rightly) have supported on their own.
Sounds like AppleScript, right? Well, yes. But Frontier brought some
things that AppleScript doesn’t have. (The browse-able object
database, the richer library of verbs, the code outliner, the
scheduler, and so on. Frontier is an entire environment on its own,
though an open one, aware of the rest of the system.)
My dream app
First thing—I don’t have plans to work on Frontier.
I’d love to use the results of someone else’s work,
though! As much fun as it would be for me to work on it (partly
because the kernel is an old friend, but more so because I know a lot
of Frontier users who are cool cats) it just isn’t on my path.
However, I’d be happy to make sure my software works well with
people who want to script it with Frontier.
Anyway... my dream app goes back to that earlier vision of Frontier.
To bring it up-to-date, there are a few things I’d love to
see:
Python
Whitespace-aware Python just begs to be written in an outliner.
The language is similar in style to UserTalk (Frontier’s
scripting language), but, key fact, it’s
object-oriented.
The object-oriented thing is a big deal: I’ve gotten so I
won’t even consider writing in a procedural language for
anything but the smallest of tasks. I want objects.
And Python is just plain cool.
I wouldn’t advocate dropping UserTalk, I’d argue for
making Python a first-class peer of UserTalk. There are some
challenges to consider, though. Frontier internally is receptive to
other languages. (Note that you can write scripts in any OSA language,
including AppleScript). But you’d have to make it so Python
could access the object database (to store and retrieve data and to
call other scripts) and you’d want a way to freeze-dry Python
objects in the database.
Cocoa front-end
Okay, obviously I don’t care about classic Mac OS or Windows. I
care about OS X.
When Frontier was written, there were no system-supplied user
interface controls for tables, outlines, and toolbars. And all
applications polled for events (via WaitNextEvent, if I
remember correctly).
The first obvious thing to do is replace a bunch of the user interface
code with .nib files and standard Cocoa widgets. However, I think
I’d retain the existing outliner for writing scripts. (Cocoa and
Carbon can co-exist: it’s not a problem.) But all toolbars, the
object-database browser, text-editing views, and so on would use Cocoa
user interface.
In theory, you’d end up with less code, better performance, and
a modern OS X UI.
Bonus points: custom windows
Sometimes you want to create a mini-application, a custom dialog or
window backed by a script. Frontier has a long history (at least on
classic Mac OS) of supporting this: you could run dialogs from
resources, you could run MacBird cards.
In the year 2004, the thing to do would be to run dialogs and windows
from .nib files. You’d lay out your user interface using
Interface Builder, then run it in Frontier.
How would you handle wiring up actions and outlets to scripts in
Interface Builder? Glad you asked. You probably wouldn’t. One
way to handle this is to give each item a unique tag in IB. Then your
script might have a handler like on itemDidSendAction (itemRef,
actionRef). This would be called when a checkbox was clicked, a
button pressed, whatever. Your script would, obviously, have to branch
on which item sent the action and what the action was. Not quite as
slick as wiring up actions, but it would work.
The other side of the coin is outlets. That’s where tags come
in. To get a reference to an item, you might write something like
itemRef = cocoaWindow.itemWithTag (tag, windowRef). Then
you could do things like set the value of a text field like so:
cocoaWindow.setStringValueForItem (itemRef,
someString).
Double bonus points
Get PyObjC in the mix of
all this, and now you’re talking about something
extraordinary.
Anyway...
It’s possible that there will be an exciting burst of creativity
once the kernel is made open-source. I think that’s totally
cool, it it comes to be. For my part, I’d be happy to answer any
questions I can for people who work on the code, since I know a little
about it.
It’s entirely possible that the things I’d like to see are
not the things most people would like to see, and that’s fine.
(But I can dream, right?)
P.S. A glimpse into the kernel: The first thing you’ll discover
is that, before Frontier was Frontier, its name was Cancoon.
Dreams of big media
Dreams of big media
02/12/2004 09:54 AM
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the proposed Comcast-Disney combo
is just another in a line of big power grabs that rob consumers of
alternatives.
animated dreams
animated dreams
02/11/2004 03:51 AM
I enjoy film. I guess the word "film" is starting to be an inaccurate
term, since we are quickly moving...
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