Blue Moon

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Blue Moon 2.9

Blue Moon 2.9 01/11/2004 04:50 PM
Blue Moon solitaire for Unix.

Once in a Blue Moon

Once in a Blue Moon 07/09/2004 10:05 AM

The phrase refers to the second Full Moon occurring within a calendar month and it's happening on 31 JUL. Its rarity is about every 2 1/2 years, i.e. once in 30 occasions. Get the 411 on this crumbly Bleu Cheese source at [NASA]

Blue Moon 2.7

Blue Moon 2.7 12/25/2003 03:15 AM
Blue Moon solitaire for Unix.

Blue Moon Rising 0.1

Blue Moon Rising 0.1 09/07/2004 04:09 PM
A theme with a full moon, mountains, and sea.

CNN.com - Once in a blue moon - Jul 30,
2004

CNN.com - Once in a blue moon - Jul 30,
2004 07/31/2004 02:10 PM
CNN story about tomorrow's blue moon

cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/07/30/blue.moon/index.html
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"Blue Moon" Appears in Sky Saturday
Night

"Blue Moon" Appears in Sky Saturday
Night 07/31/2004 09:05 AM

red-eyed and blue on the dark side of
the moon

red-eyed and blue on the dark side of
the moon 03/17/2005 04:23 AM
Anne and I took Felix to his vet on Monday for a blood panel. We hoped the results would let...

Press Release: MacNETv2 and Blue Moon
Bids partner to sell rare Apple wrist
watches

Press Release: MacNETv2 and Blue Moon
Bids partner to sell rare Apple wrist
watches 03/22/2005 04:52 PM

Salem, OR (Blue Moon Bids) March 21, 2005

MacNETv2 is raising funds to buy two Xserve G5 servers. To do so they are parting with three Apple Logo Watches from the 1995 MacWorld Expo. They are in mint condition, never been worn, and have been in safe keeping since they were acquired. The watches are rare and hard to find.

"Before we made the decision to offer these watches for sale to the highest offers we searched all the Apple logo companies to see what they were getting for them. We couldn’t find a single web site offering these watches, and when we searched eBay we found the same thing; no one has them," said the MacNETv2 staff.

Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung
Moon?: Moon: Work with congressmen to
"discard" democracy

Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung
Moon?: Moon: Work with congressmen to
"discard" democracy 03/30/2005 07:38 AM
Sun Myung Moon wants congressmen to "discard" democracy 3/30 .. it's time to end American democracy

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"Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung
Moon?: Moon: Work with..."

"Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung
Moon?: Moon: Work with..." 03/30/2005 09:20 PM

AT&T Wins $3.6 Million Hosting Contract
From Blue Cross And Blue Shield

AT&T Wins $3.6 Million Hosting Contract
From Blue Cross And Blue Shield 06/03/2004 08:55 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Jun 3 2004 1:11PM GMT

True blue Big Brother too blue for MPs
(Reuters)

True blue Big Brother too blue for MPs
(Reuters) 06/22/2005 02:18 AM
Reuters - The nude antics of reality television contestants on the Big Brother program prompted Australian government politicians Tuesday to demand a review of how much nudity can be shown on free television down under.

Big Blue, Blue Titan boost SOAs

Big Blue, Blue Titan boost SOAs 06/07/2004 07:40 AM
IBM and Blue Titan plan to bolster data management wares this week, with IBM retooling DB2 Information Integrator and Blue Titan focusing on SOAs (service-oriented architectures).

Blue Bands for Blue Budgets

Blue Bands for Blue Budgets 02/01/2005 10:09 PM

I had to go all the way over to LISNews< /a> to find out that a sister Library System here in Illinois has started a totally awesome project called Libraries Matter. Here at home, our kids saved up some money to buy the 10–pack of Lance Armstrong yellow wristbands because they’re all the rage at school. Can you imagine if we could start something similar with these blue ones for libraries? Brilliant job, Alliance Library System!

One thing, though – how about offering packs smaller than 50 so that ordinary folks like myself can buy some and give them out to friends, kids, etc.? Let’s get some grassroots support going, not just top down from the institutional level! Then, let’s think about how we can use these on Advocacy Day this year.

Tangent: When visiting the ALS web site tonight, I realized they’ve added blogs to the home page (kind of, sort of). Sweet! Unfortunately, no RSS feeds to be found anywhere, which means I won’t be able to add them to my aggregator, which means I’ll have to keep relying on other web sites to highlight ALS projects for me. Not sweet. C’mon, ALS, show us the RSS!

To the Moon 1.0

To the Moon 1.0 02/17/2004 11:51 PM
Icons of man’s journey to the Moon.

To the Moon!

To the Moon! 04/09/2004 04:05 PM

Well, maybe not that far. Yet.

The FAA on Wednesday licensed the first private rocket, and has given the green light for a real sub-orbital space flight. Burt Rutan and his California-based Scaled Composites have built SpaceShipOne,< /a> a funny looking rocket-powered plane that Burt hopes will usher in "a renaissance for manned space flight."

The primary goal of SpaceShipOne is to develop opportunities for private citizens to take a sub-orbital excursion:

Our plan involves flight in a 3-place spaceship, initially attached to a turbojet launch aircraft while climbing for an hour to 50,000 feet, above 85% of the atmosphere.

The spaceship then drops into gliding flight and fires its rocket motor while climbing steeply for more than a minute, reaching a speed of 2,500 mph. The ship coasts up to 100 km (62 miles) altitude, then falls back into the atmosphere. The coast and fall are under weightless conditions for more than three minutes. During weightless flight, the spaceship converts to a high-drag configuration to allow a safe, stable atmospheric entry.

After the entry deceleration which takes more than a minute, the ship converts back to a conventional glider, allowing a leisurely 17 minute glide from 80,000 feet altitude down to a runway where a landing is made at lightplane speeds.

Additional incentive for the project is the $10 million X-Prize, which is a contest of sorts to help create a space tourism industry, which will hopefully drive innovation in the field of space travel. Thus far the history of space flight includes only government-funded projects, but with tight budgets and political bickering over funding of these projects, their future is dubious.

The solution? Privatize it. So far the XPrize has 24 entrants from seven countries competing. The rules are pretty simple; the prize goes to the first privately-funded group that builds and launches a spaceship able to carry three people to 100 kilometres (62.5 miles), returns safely to Earth, and repeats the launch with the same ship within 2 weeks.

Looks like Rutan et al will take it. They just completed their second successful test flight today.

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If they can put a man on the Moon....

If they can put a man on the Moon.... 03/17/2005 03:23 AM

Two talks at MIT this week have been thought-provoking in similar ways.  The first was by a physics professor, Frank Wilczek, who recently won the Nobel Prize for his work on the Strong Force, which holds together quarks to form atomic nuclei.  Wilczek showed some impressive drawings from the latest European particle accelerators in which subatomic particles are smashed together until the quarks start flying out.  (This lecture is available at http://web.mit.edu/nobel-lec tures/.)  John Grotzinger, a geology professor, gave a talk about his experience with the Mars Rovers, which found evidence for flowing water on Mars in sedimentary rocks.  The Rovers communicate with an orbiter and can also communicate directly with stations on Earth.  In Grotzinger's more than one year with the project they've never had a communications problem.

So... if human minds can get together to make ever-better particle accelerators, why can't anyone build a reliable inexpensive nuclear power reactor?  And if the Mars Rovers can call Pasadena, how come nobody with a T-Mobile phone can make a call from most spots on the MIT campus or along Memorial Drive?

In the 1970s people would ask questions of the form "If they can put a man on the Moon, why can't they do X?"  What would be the modern equivalent?  The one great human achievement of our current decade that can be compared to the lack of accomplishment in most bureaucracies?

To the moon

To the moon 01/16/2004 11:04 AM

Bush Outlines Plan for 2015 Moon Landing is the first thing that President Bush has proposed that I'm actually in agreement with (well that's not true, I supported his State of the Union proposal to send millions to Africa for AIDS, but last I heard, that money still hasn't been sent). I've always been sad that we haven't returned to the moon since December 1972 -- nearly my whole life! And the thought of renewed exploration of the moon and then Mars thrills me, maybe I can even go! But, I can't help but wonder a) where the money will come from for all this and b) how the heck Bush can actually think he's for smaller government when, according to the Cato Institute, "based on his first three budgets, President Bush is the biggest spending president in decades."

And of course, with Americans carrying record amounts of consumer debt, 17 percent of American children living in poverty, and millions of Americans going without health insurance, returning to the moon doesn't seem like the highest priority.

Meanwhile, on Mars, Sprit's rolled off its landing platform and is ready to begin its roving exploration of the Martian surface. Woo hoo!

The man on the moon

The man on the moon 06/02/2004 02:27 AM
Moon Walk 1835 -- Was Neil Armstrong Really The First Man on The Moon? The Europeans did not arrive in American till nearly the end of six thousand years; this time was necessary for them to carry their navigation to such perfection, so as to cross the ocean. The people of the moon know already, perhaps, how to make little flights in the air, and at this time may be exercising themselves. When they shall be more able, we may see them.

Fly Us to the Moon -- All of Us

Fly Us to the Moon -- All of Us 01/16/2004 11:26 AM
President Bush wants to establish a permanent lunar outpost as part of a revitalized space program. Well and good. But don't turn the moon into an extension of Fortress America. Welcome the world, or deep-six the plan. Opinion by Tony Long.

The Man and the Moon

The Man and the Moon 05/04/2004 10:32 PM
I'm Congressman Danny K. Davis, and I approved this crowning of the messiah. [more inside]

fly me to the moon...

fly me to the moon... 01/16/2004 11:27 AM

Finally the long-rumored announcement from the Bush administration happened yesterday, and the New York Times has both an article and analysis (more coverage from CNN, the Washington Post 1, 2, 3, and space.com). At first I was excited, since as I've expresse d before I wholeheartedly support spaceflight. True spacefaring abilities is be among the short list of things mankind should strive to achieve in this century. (Along with tending to some...err... tiny problems we still seem to have when taking care of our home planet).

The plan is (apparently) to phase out what's left of the Shuttle fleet (STS, or Space Transportation System). There are three Shuttles left: Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. (an early model of the orbiter, the Enterprise, only performed tests flights). Additionally, NASA space science programs will be downsized, including cancellation of further servicing to the Hubble Space Telescope. The STS phase-out would be complete by 2010 (which would also be the "date of completion" of the International Space Station), and the new transportation vehicle would be ready by 2014.

And herein lies the first problem with this plan. Are we seriously saying that the US will stay out of space for four years? I find this very hard to believe, considering that the Chinese are certain to have made some progress by then on their own goal of landing on the moon. (And let's not forget Russia...).

After the new launch, a lunar base would be established, "at most" by 2020, and subsequently used as additional research, development and launch platform for launching a manned Mission to Mars.

This "schedule" seems to me slow, and with many of its targets are so far off that (as the NYTimes analysis makes clear), easy to derail. Not to mention that the announcement provided basically no new funding for the program ($1 billion, plus the money that would come from phasing out the STS fleet).

A big factor in this seems to be "safety". For example, the NY Times analysis mentions that the shuttles have been "prone to catastrophic failure". This statement appears to imply that other space vehicles have not been prone to catastrophic failure. Mmm. Let me see. The Shuttle has flown over a hundred missions (STS-107 was the last flight of the ill-fated Columbia) with exactly two catastrophic failures. In contrast, the Apollo program flew less than 15 manned missions (with a few more unmanned) and it had two massive failures, the first in Apollo 1 (which killed the crew during a test) and the second with Apollo 13, which barely made it back to earth. The number of Soviet failures at the same time is difficult to know with a high degree of confidence, but no one thinks that it was a walk in the park. The Soviet Union, after all, never managed to put a man on the moon, and Soviet technology, though constantly a bit behind the times, was never that bad.

This reminds me of one of Steve Buscemi's lines in Armageddon: "You know, Harry, we're sitting on 4 million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon, and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?"

Setting aside the nuclear weapon for the moment (Flying to Mars and beyond may well involve some sort of nuclear- or even antimatter-powered spacecraft), this is one of those "funny 'cause it's true" jokes.

What I'm saying is: I don't get it. Can't they get astronauts to fly? What's the problem? If they can't find anyone, sign me up! But of course, they can get astronauts to fly. They would, under whatever circumstances and whatever risks. But of course this whole obsession with safety is something that has been growing and growing in the Western world, with the US "leading the way" but with Europe particularly in the same boat. Apparently, people are just not supposed to die anymore.

And what about the technology? Does it really take more than 10 years to create a new moon crew transport vehicle? Of course not. Our science and technology has advanced by leaps and bounds since the 70s, particularly computer technology which is crucial to this whole endeavor. As the Washington Post notes:

Bush has outlined a tortoise-like pace, dictated by severe budget constraints, that allows a full decade just to develop a vehicle that would, once again, deliver people to the moon -- something Apollo engineers accomplished, starting from scratch, in about eight years.

The problem is not technology, it's political will, and funding. In fact, this new project is a mirror of something that was proposed ten years ago, which went nowhere, as one of the articles from the NYT describes:

In 1989, in a speech honoring the 20th anniversary of the initial lunar landing, the first President Bush proposed that the nation establish a base on the Moon and send an expedition to Mars to begin "the permanent settlement of space." He set the Mars goal for 2019 but the effort soon fizzled when the cost estimates hit $400 billion.

In today's western culture (but it's really happening all over the world) with our instant-satisfaction, one-click-shopping, celebrity-obsessed and 24-hour-of-irrelevant-news media, it's hard to think that popular support will keep steady over the course of the 15-25 years required for this project.

I must say, though, without cynicism, that I hope I'm wrong. I really, really hope that the US can stick with it. It's the one country that has the knowhow and the resources (and, at times, the spirit) necessary to pull it off. And for all the criticisms, it has maintained a continuing space program, to its credit. Does anyone think that the International Space Station would be anything but a blueprint by now if it wasn't for the time, money, and energy (however misdirected) that the US has spent on it?

And, by the way, why does the US have to do this by itself? The Chinese are moving forward, but if they keep at it there will be questions as to how much international aid they need, as this article from the economist notes. And, where's Japan, where's Russia? More importantly, where's the EU? There's been lots of talk about the potential world power the EU can become. But instead of talking about worthy goals, like using the European Space Agency for a daring multinational space exploration program, we keep discussing agricultural subsidies and whether one country has more votes than the other. It's not of course that those are not important issues, but there is zero attention, money, or "political capital" put forward for anything other than those things. I mean, Germany, France, the UK, and all the other great countries. Come on! Europe has to stop running scared from its past of internicine warfare and truly look forward to the future. The US can't be left alone holding the bag with this.

I suddenly think of part of a Sagan quote I posted sometime ago:

Spaceflight, therefore, is subversive. If they are fortunate enough to find themselves in Earth orbit, most people, after a little meditation, have similar thoughts. The nations that had insituted spaceflight had done so largely for nationalistic reasons; it was a small irony that almost everyone who entered space received a starting glimpse of a transnational perspective, of the Earth as one world.

We are not that far away. We can only hope that we, as a society, can for once look just a little beyond our noses and truly make it happen.

Dreams of the Moon

Dreams of the Moon 01/04/2004 04:37 PM

When the moon comes calling...

When the moon comes calling... 01/06/2004 04:32 AM
... this nutcase gets out in the snow with his brand-new SLR digital camera and his nightrobe!Taken at 300mm/f10/1/500s/100ISO (and, yes, I did have to adjust the colour levels in Photoshop, and the image has been cropped off of a...

To the Moon and on to Mars

To the Moon and on to Mars 01/18/2004 07:05 AM
I have been watching to see how public opinion would fall in President Bush's plan to return to the Moon...

Wi-Fi Shoots for the Moon

Wi-Fi Shoots for the Moon 12/10/2003 03:07 PM
NASA has tested Wi-Fi gear from Tropos for potential use on the moon or planets: NASA used the Tropos gear in Arizona in a simulated area of an interplanetary exploration mission, connecting a base camp with a mobile computer. NASA wants to be able to connect various pieces of gear including laptops embedded in space suits, vehicles, cameras and microphones....

Soyuz To The Moon?

Soyuz To The Moon? 08/02/2004 10:50 PM

To the Moon, Alice?

To the Moon, Alice? 12/04/2003 12:12 AM
Rumors are flying about the scope and direction of future NASA projects. Will we be heading back to the moon, or will we be stuck in near-Earth space?

That mystifying moon

That mystifying moon 07/06/2004 01:54 AM
USA Today Jul 6 2004 6:06AM GMT

A moon under water

A moon under water 01/22/2004 03:01 AM
I've had the Amazing Travelling Mucus Bug these past three days, going from runny eyes to runny nose to icky throat to nasty chunk-upping cough. I only mention it because you need context - and to remark on the wackiness...

Moon is Noah's Ark

Moon is Noah's Ark 09/09/2004 12:03 AM
The Moon should become a DNA Noah's Ark for repopulating the Earth in case of catastrophe, suggests the chief scientist Bernard H. Foing of the ESA's Research and Scientific Support Department. A more earthly frozen ark is already under construction.

Helium-3 on the Moon

Helium-3 on the Moon 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
The real reason we're going back to the Moon? "Researchers and space enthusiasts see helium 3 as the perfect fuel source: extremely potent, nonpolluting, with virtually no radioactive by-product. Proponents claim it’s the fuel of the 21st century. The trouble is, hardly any of it is found on Earth. But there is plenty of it on the moon."

Moon, Mars and Beyond

Moon, Mars and Beyond 06/18/2004 05:06 AM
Moon, Mars and Beyond
http://www.moontomars.org/

The President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond. This site gives the latest reports, data and current information on the President's Commission "Moon, Mars and Beyond". This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

What a Little Moon Dust Can Do

What a Little Moon Dust Can Do 04/04/2005 06:08 AM
On Earth, dust is annoying. On the moon, it's downright dangerous. Future explorers will have to handle it very carefully if they plan to set up a lunar base. Amit Asaravala reports from Sunnyvale, California.

Moon not to blame

Moon not to blame 05/27/2004 03:23 AM
USA Today May 27 2004 6:48AM GMT

new moon and Mars missions

new moon and Mars missions 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
Man on Mars From The Moon .. New York Times .. ruimtevaart

nytimes.com/2004/01/09/science/09SPAC.html?hp
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Back to the Moon, to Mars and Beyond

Back to the Moon, to Mars and Beyond 01/16/2004 01:00 PM
Bush's well-leaked call for a serious expansion of human space exploration deserves support. He sounded just the right notes, including this so-true line: "We do not know where this journey will end. Yet we know this: Human beings are headed into the cosmos."

Geology of Earth's Moon

Geology of Earth's Moon 09/05/2004 07:59 AM
Geology of Earth's Moon

1) Lunar Seismology
http://mahi.ucsd.edu/rb ulow/lunars.html

2) Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS)Planned Missions
http://home .cwru.edu/~sjr16/advanced/near_isas.html

3) PDS Map-A-Planet
http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/PDS/public/explorer/html/moonpick.htm

4) Volcanism on the Moon
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/planet_volcano/lunar/Overv iew.html

5) Moon Rocks through the Microscope: A Web Gallery of Images
http://www.cas.usf .edu/~jryan/moonrocks.html

6) Science Channel video clips
http://media.science.discovery.com/convergence/planets/video/ video.html

7) Understanding the Moon
htt p://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/research/moon/moon.cfm

8) Historical Lunar Data Archive
http://a strogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/LunarConsortium/

First, researchers at the University of California, San Diego discuss the importance of studying earthquakes on the moon, also known as moonquakes, and the Apollo Lunar Seismic Experiment (1). Users can discover the problems scientists must deal with when collecting the moon's seismic data. The students at Case Western Reserve University created the second website to address three missions the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) has planned between now and 2010, including a mission to the moon (2). Visitors can learn about the Lunar-A probe that will be used to photograph the surface of the moon, "monitor moonquakes, measure temperature, and study the internal structure." Next, the Planetary Data Service (PDS) at the USGS offers users four datasets that they can use to create an image of a chosen area of the moon (3). Each dataset can be viewed as a basic clickable map; a clickable map where users can specify size, resolution, and projection; or an advanced version where visitors can select areas by center latitude and longitude. The fourth site, produced by Robert Wickman at the University of North Dakota, presents a map of the volcanoes on the moon and compares their characteristics with those on earth (4). Students can learn how the gravitational forces on the Moon affect the lava flows. Next, Professor Jeff Ryan at the University of South Florida at Tampa supplies fantastic images and descriptive text of the lunar rocks obtained by the Apollo missions (5). Visitors can find links to images of meteorites, terrestrial rocks, and Apollo landings as well. At the Science Channel website, students and educators can find a video clip discussing the geologic studies on the moon along with videos about planets (6). Users can learn about how studying moon rocks help scientists better understand the formation of the earth. Next, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum presents its research of "lunar topography, cratering and impacts basins, tectonics, lava flows, and regolith properties" (7). Visitors can find summaries of the characteristics of the moon and the main findings since the 1950s. Lastly, the USGS Astrogeology Research Program provides archived lunar images and data collected between 1965 and 1992 by Apollo, Lunar Orbiter, Galileo, and Zond 8 missions (8). While the data is a little old, students and educators can still find valuable materials about the moon's topography, chemical composition, and geology. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/

Moon rocks on Earth

Moon rocks on Earth 07/29/2004 08:41 PM

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MSNBC reports that a rock from the moon dating back some 340,000 years ago was found right here on our very own little chunk of real estate called Earth. A rare find to be sure, this is still not the first time a moon rock has been found on our own planet. Roughly 30 moon rocks have been found on Earth since 1979, with about 20 lunar impacts causing them to head our way in…
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Dice Roller

Dice Roller 05/27/2004 09:27 AM
Dice Roller 1.0 Released

SCO dice ahora que la GPL es
inconstitucional

SCO dice ahora que la GPL es
inconstitucional 11/02/2003 09:46 PM

Quantum Dice Debut

Quantum Dice Debut 01/16/2004 12:59 PM
Quantum Dice Debut
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/011404/Quantum_dice_debut _011404.html

Einstein famously objected to quantum physics by saying that God does not play dice with the universe. The quantum world is filled with uncertainty, so much so that getting a quantum computer to generate random numbers would require an impractical amount of computing resources. A scheme for generating pseudo-random numbers, however, makes for practical quantum dice and could also play a key role in constructing quantum computers. [Technology Research News January 14/21, 2004]

Job posting on Dice.com up 22% in Q1
2005

Job posting on Dice.com up 22% in Q1
2005 04/16/2005 07:34 PM
ZDNet Apr 16 2005 10:23PM GMT

Verizon Rolls The Dice With EV-DO In Sin
City

Verizon Rolls The Dice With EV-DO In Sin
City 07/28/2004 04:22 AM
Following AT&T Wireless' weak UMTS 3G high speed wireless data rollout last week that seemed entirely designed to get DoCoMo off their back, rather than to actually sign up any customers, Verizon Wireless has responded by beginning the expansion of their own 3G EV-DO rollout. While the service has been available for some time in Washington DC and San Diego, the next target on the list is everyone's favorite gambling town, Las Vegas. While they don't say where the next rollouts will be, expect them to start showing up a bit faster now that (a) there's a bit of competition out there and (b) they've had some time to get things going on a more national basis. Amusingly, the announcement highlights the fact that the high speed EV-DO offering easily switches back to 2.5G 1xRTT technology in areas not covered by EV-DO. This is exactly what the AT&T Wireless system does not do, skipping over EDGE to go all the way back down to slow (and not particularly steady) GPRS connections.

Subversion dice: 'No molestéis a Linus'

Subversion dice: 'No molestéis a Linus' 04/07/2005 12:38 PM

Multi-functional Dice roller

Multi-functional Dice roller 06/11/2004 07:07 PM
First Code Release

Rolling The Dice To Legalize Online
Gambling In The US

Rolling The Dice To Legalize Online
Gambling In The US 09/17/2004 02:31 PM
Even though plenty of online gambling customers are Americans, they're mostly breaking the law. The Department of Justice has been really cracking down on online gambling lately, even to the point that they accuse sites who advertise online gambling operations of breakin g the law. However, some online gambling operations are pushing hard to convin ce Congress a better solution is to legalize and regulate online gambling. Of course, this lobbying effort has been going on for quite some time and so far hasn't been successful at all. In fact, so far, Congress and the DOJ have moved even further against online gambling. Meanwhile, here in California, we're looking to offline gambling to solve all of the state's financial problems. Seems to send a bit of a mixed message, doesn't it?

Find IT Careers at Dice - Sponsored Link

Find IT Careers at Dice - Sponsored Link 03/19/2005 02:27 AM
Ad - www.dice.com Mar 19 2005 6:38AM GMT

Motorola rolls dice with Microsoft deal

Motorola rolls dice with Microsoft deal 03/06/2004 02:04 AM
Crains ChicagoBusiness Feb 28 2004 11:01PM GMT

World Poker Tour Enterprises Rolls the
Dice

World Poker Tour Enterprises Rolls the
Dice 04/04/2005 01:49 PM
Will WPTE's online gaming site be a revenue juggernaut? It better be.

Dice.com says Linux jobs growing;
certification rarely required

Dice.com says Linux jobs growing;
certification rarely required 08/10/2004 05:29 PM
While employers are increasingly looking for workers with Linux IT skills, they're not necessarily seeking those with Linux certification, according to online IT job board Dice.com.

Dice survey shows defense, government IT
salaries catching up

Dice survey shows defense, government IT
salaries catching up 02/05/2005 08:59 PM
While overall salaries for IT professionals dropped to their lowest levels in four years in 2004, a new survey from Dice Inc. indicates that workers in defense and government-related industries bucked the trend.

La Guardia Civil dice que el exceso de
Internet puede llevar a la pederastia

La Guardia Civil dice que el exceso de
Internet puede llevar a la pederastia 03/22/2005 04:59 PM

Clay on NYC

Clay on NYC 04/09/2004 04:12 PM
This is a fantastic interview with Clay about NYC. Funny, brilliant, twisty in its insights....

Clay-riffic

Clay-riffic 07/08/2004 01:58 PM
"Untitled Inspirational Memoir" by American [White] Idol '03 Clay Aiken hits #9 on the Amazon bestseller chart. It will be published (presumably with a title) in November. Order yours today. Or, run home and mail off your Great American Novel -- or at least your own dashed-off U.I.M. -- to Random House, publisher to the stars.

why i like clay shirky

why i like clay shirky 04/11/2004 07:43 PM
his gothamist interview is my love of new york with logic substituting for romance

Jonas on Clay on all of Us

Jonas on Clay on all of Us 05/05/2004 04:12 AM

Here's Jonas' reaction to Clay's latest piece - on 'Situated Software'.  I had a completely different reaction.  I see situated software - as teh same as what I call "activity based computing."

Inspired by Don Norman's work - I really think activity based computing happens when digital lifestyle aggregation is a norm.

Here's Jonas' post.....

Communicate.

Clay Shirky just published an essay on “Situated Software”, software tailored towards a specific situation.

Part of the future I believe I’m seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I’m calling situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation or context. This way of making software is in contrast with what I’ll call the Web School (the paradigm I learned to program in), where scalability, generality, and completeness were the key virtues.

Shirky touches on the very foundation the whole “Social Software” craze is all about – communication. He acknowledges, correctly, the basic foundation of it – communication.

Communication is cool. Everyone communicates, and sends verbal and non-verbal factoids at almost every waking second. The amazing part about mankind, and one of those things that not only set us apart from “lower” mammals and other life-forms, is our need and will to communicate, no matter what. Deprived of our primary means of communication, that is the verbal way, we invent and use secondary and tertiary means. Hearing and speech impaired use sign language, we use body language and simple pictorials to communicate, and if that all is taken away from us, we still seek and find a way.

Which by the way, also explains the withdrawal symptoms and “addictions” to email, Everquest, or IRC. We communicate. If taken away, we lose a form of communication, which is – as everyone who lost hearing or speech or vision will attest to – is something rather uncomfortable and painful. Losing this channel of communication equates to a loss of senses, sensory deprivation, and comes with all the psychological side-effects, such an event has to the affected.

In a way, communication is like lightning. It will always find the easiest way, no matter how. Deprived of simple ways to strike, the next easier path is taken, and so on. Successful “social software” is a lightning rod for such communication. It provides an easier way to convey factoids to other individuals. Take the whole “social network” misnomer, for an example. Friendships were expressed on online communities long before Friendster or Orkut. The WELL, heading into its 21st year of existence, is full of verbal and non-verbal displays or friendship and acquaintanceship. Or animosities, outright hate, curiosity. Name it, and it was there.

The problem is, telling it that way won’t get one quoted in eWeek. It’s one thing to call oneself an “expert” in Social Networking or a Visionary, or a Pioneer. Passersby stand in awe, the industry rejoices and jumps at the possibility of raking in VC money, and because it sounds academic, few questions are asked. Simply sounds better than “someone who knows, that people talk”, doesn’t it?

Take the “backchannel” discussion for a second. There are proponents and opponents of … communication. The basic understanding is simple – someone, somewhere, uses computerized means, such as IRC or AIM, or a WiKi, to comment in realtime on something. That something are mostly talks and presentations in conferences. Before IRC or IM was discovered, whispers were used, body language, such as yawning, applauding, rolling of eyes, or demonstrative snoring. With wireless networks starting to fill conference venues, the lightning strike of communication sought and found an easier, less prone to misscommunication, way in IRC and IM.

Skinned of the multiple layers of new words and stripped of the means, backchannel opponents and proponents are back to the basics – communication is good or bad, depending what’s it all about and who it is all about. Proponents point out the less disruptive and more constructive nature of IRC communications, opponents focus mostly on its exclusionary nature, both neglecting to acknowledge that before IRC and IM, other means were employed, which were equally exclusionary and similarly constructive – those things commonly called the “hallway track”.

Yes, speaking in new words, or calling ordinary things by academic sounding names has its advantages. Most importantly, it introduces a new lawyer of discussion. “I don’t really like it, when people talk about me behind my back” simply sounds less mature than “I think backchannels are useless”.

Communication is old. Providing better means to communicate and convey accurate factoids makes for a potential way to channel conversations into a system. It’s that simple, and I have no idea why we need to make it more complicated than that.

[a preponderance of evidence - What Willis Wuz' Talkin' 'Bout]

Clay on Situated Software

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Clay takes apart the Semantic Web, starting small and heading towards the big and beautiful. He ends by pointing out that metadata is politics and that there is a virtue to messiness. It's a brilliant piece and I'd be much happier about it if the ending points weren't ones I've been trying to write about for a few months. Damn that Shirky!...

Smart Box Design Rolls Out Farkle for
Palm OS Handhelds, a Lively Mobile
Rendition of the Classic Dice Game,
Featuring “Smart” Opponents

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Palm OS Handhelds, a Lively Mobile
Rendition of the Classic Dice Game,
Featuring “Smart” Opponents 09/13/2004 12:34 PM
Smart Box Design announces the release of Farkle, a Palm OS version of the classic dice rolling game. Farkle offers players an opportunity to challenge friends or compete against a variety of “intelligent” computer opponents with a wide range of personalities—from cautious to daring—that will determine the level of risk each opponent is willing to take when deciding just how far to push their luck. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

INTERNET ROUNDUP: Clay flowers

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[etech] Day 2 Clay Shirky - Phone as
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Clay begins a segment on tech and education. He says he thinks of his group at NYU as "The Department of the Recently Possible." A few years ago they noticed that students were increasingly integrating phones into their apps. So they started looking into it. One experiment: PacManhattan that mates the urban grid and the game grid. The runners are controlled by people in a control room via mobile phones. DodgeBall was an experiment in mobile social networking. "Mobile phones are the first things since keys that everyone carries," Clay says, citing Marko Ahtisaari. DodgeBall alerted him that there was...

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[etech] Clay Shirky: Ontologies and Tags

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Clay Shirky tried to use some crippled software to rip a DVD, and it didn't work. The software was apparently written by legally paranoid people who are trying to diguise their paranoia by blaming The Man. The law does not forbid software from copying unencrypted DVDs (all burned DVDs are unencrypted) -- hence the existence of Nero, Popcorn, etc. It is a shame that so much voluntarily crippled software and hardware is out there, but let's not lay all the blame on the law.

Clay pigeon shooter goes out with a bang
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(Reuters) 04/27/2004 06:07 AM
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