Musarium: discovering signs of intelligent life on planet earth

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If you live on Planet Earth, you might
be interested in this

If you live on Planet Earth, you might
be interested in this 12/19/2004 03:24 PM
Clinton Eugene Curtis gives sworn testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. [RealPlayer, sorry]
Yang Enterprises (YEI) respond.
Brad Friedman responds in kind.
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CNN.com - Earth-like planet discovered
50 light-years away - Aug 26, 2004

CNN.com - Earth-like planet discovered
50 light-years away - Aug 26, 2004 08/27/2004 03:40 PM
'Earth-like Planet Discovered 50 Light-years Away' .. one

cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/08/26/new.planet/index.html
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NASA Mars rover touches down on planet,
signals Earth

NASA Mars rover touches down on planet,
signals Earth 01/04/2004 03:54 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jan 4 2004 2:15AM ET

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life 03/08/2004 11:24 PM
Following the news from Mars, people might think it was the story of scientists who cried "Water!" over and over.

a completely intelligent, down-to-earth,
spin-free call on Sandy Berger's lifting
of classfied documents:

a completely intelligent, down-to-earth,
spin-free call on Sandy Berger's lifting
of classfied documents: 07/24/2004 06:11 PM
Sandy Berger is a test case for governing-class accountability: .. Colbert King

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10451-2004Jul23.html
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National Geographic's Strange Days on
Planet Earth Site Launches on PBS.org

National Geographic's Strange Days on
Planet Earth Site Launches on PBS.org 04/11/2005 11:13 AM
Just launched companion site for TV series debuting April 20 shows how small behavior changes can make a big difference in the environment

Intelligent life up there? Wait 20 years

Intelligent life up there? Wait 20 years 07/23/2004 07:40 PM
Galaxy is only so big, and telescopes are getting better. One researcher says it's only a matter of (not much) time.

Flash! Intelligent Life Found at
Microsoft

Flash! Intelligent Life Found at
Microsoft 05/07/2004 03:09 PM
After posting the item about spam and the recent relationship between Microsoft and whitelist provider IronPort, I got a letter from Reeves Little of Microsoft. Initially, he asked for some clarification about my opinions involving whitelists, but as we traded letters, we got into a pretty good discussion about Microsoft’s efforts to do something about spam and e-mailed viruses. I think that the whole thing is worth reading, since it reveals a side of Microsoft that outsiders seldom see. I’m going to edit out some personal items that have nothing to contribute and paste in the rest.

"Livingstone says Bush is 'greatest
threat to life on planet.'"

"Livingstone says Bush is 'greatest
threat to life on planet.'" 11/18/2003 03:32 AM

Life on earth follows 62 million year
cycle

Life on earth follows 62 million year
cycle 04/07/2005 10:48 PM
Biodiversity has a rhythm

Early Earth Atmosphere Favourable to
Life

Early Earth Atmosphere Favourable to
Life 04/09/2005 05:46 PM

Signs of life

Signs of life 12/17/2004 06:28 PM

Hah!

At least there's some evidence that Brian Dear's company - EVDB - has a logo.

Lots of folks are talking about it - but Brian's zipped lipped.

But they're apparently part of the 'Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium' - so now they're public. :-)

Hmm - why isn't WhizSpark part of this consortium? I wonder if they wanna help put up shared XML servers of Events - scraped from throughout the web? That's what OpenEvents is all about. Open APIs into shared Events.

U.S. markets show signs of life

U.S. markets show signs of life 12/28/2004 05:37 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 28 2004 9:30PM GMT

Signs of Primeval Life Said Found in
Lava Rocks

Signs of Primeval Life Said Found in
Lava Rocks 04/23/2004 01:28 AM

Study: Server Market Shows Signs of Life

Study: Server Market Shows Signs of Life 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In the fourth quarter of 2002, the server market saw its strongest quarterly sequential growth in three years, according to research firm IDC. But Forrester analyst Galen Schreck told NewsFactor that a number of factors will continue to create downward pressure on server sales.

Microsoft's Online Unit Shows Signs of
Life

Microsoft's Online Unit Shows Signs of
Life 07/19/2004 11:44 PM
After years of struggle, Microsoft's online unit is beginning to show signs of life.

Signs of Danger Were Missed in a
Troubled Teenager's Life

Signs of Danger Were Missed in a
Troubled Teenager's Life 03/24/2005 03:15 AM
A loner in real life, Jeff Weise, whose violent outburst left 10 people dead in Minnesota, found a community of sorts in cyberspace.

Bay Area IPO market showing new signs of
life Investors think ...

Bay Area IPO market showing new signs of
life Investors think ... 12/28/2003 08:13 PM
I think we will see many, many more IPOs in 2004, including the most anticipated one in the tech world, the offering for Google.". ...

Researchers Develop New Machine for
Detecting Signs of Life on Mars

Researchers Develop New Machine for
Detecting Signs of Life on Mars 02/01/2005 09:58 PM

Signs of Life as Normal Return to Iran
Quake City

Signs of Life as Normal Return to Iran
Quake City 01/02/2004 02:28 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 2 2004 1:08PM ET

Planet API: Searching Thousands of
Public ASP.NET / ASMX / C# / VB.NET
webservices / Webmethods from Around the
Planet

Planet API: Searching Thousands of
Public ASP.NET / ASMX / C# / VB.NET
webservices / Webmethods from Around the
Planet 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
The Chatbot! Cyber Community has released Planet API. Planet API ( http://www.PlanetAPI.com/ ) features thousands of public ASP.NET / ASMX / C# / VB.NET webservices / webmethods. [PRWEB Mar 10, 2004]

International Earth Day- The Official
Site (www.earthsite.org) Spring/Vernal
Equinox - The Great Day of Earth

International Earth Day- The Official
Site (www.earthsite.org) Spring/Vernal
Equinox - The Great Day of Earth 04/23/2004 09:32 AM
International Earth Day Official Site .. HAPPY EARTH DAY Y'ALL! .. more... earthDay .. Earth

earthsite.org
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Discovering the joy of SAX in VB6

Discovering the joy of SAX in VB6 12/18/2002 03:01 AM
CNET Dec 18 2002 1:59AM ET

Discovering Dickens

Discovering Dickens 01/24/2004 03:55 PM

Stanford is bringing back its popular Discovering Dickens community reading project -- another example of what's possible with a healthy public domain. (In other words, don't try this with anything much more modern.)

In December 2002, Stanford’s Discovering Dickens project began with the serial release of Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. By the time the project concluded in April, 2003, it had enjoyed success far beyond what we had anticipated. Interest in the project, which has attracted participants from around the country and around the world, has remained keen, and we are happy to announce our next project: Discovering Dickens 2004.

Between January 9 and April 16, 2004, Discovering Dickens will rerelease the facsimile of Dickens’ famous novel of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities. In April, 1859, the first serialized part of A Tale of Two Cities provided the lead piece for Dickens’ new periodical All the Year Round. On the strength of this weekly serial, contemporary Victorian readership had swollen to 100,000 before the novel concluded in November, 1859.

Dickens himself played an interesting role in international copyright's development, back in the day when the U.S. was a pirate nation. (1, 2, 3.)

Discovering Berkeley DB

Discovering Berkeley DB 11/25/2003 10:23 PM

I'm working on a project at the moment which involves exporting a whole bunch of data out of an existing system. The system is written in Perl and uses Berkeley DB files for most of its storage.

I'd never done anything with Berkeley DB before, but luckily Python has a module which seems to do all of the hard work for me:

>>> db = bsddb.btopen('xpand.db')
>>> db.keys()[0:10]
[':archives:index.html', ':art:test.html', ... 
>>> db[':art:test.html']
'template;front.tp\x01\x01'
>>> 

The Berkeley DB libraries are maintained by Sleepycat Software. Unfortunately, their site is completely saturated with marketing jargon. Our customers rely on Berkeley DB for fast, scalable, reliable and cost-effective data management for their mission-critical applications. Great - now what does it do exactly?

Some digging around turned up the real information: the Berkeley DB Tutorial and Reference Guide, which contains pretty much everything you could possible want to know about the technology. It turns out that at a basic level Berkeley DB is just a very high performance, reliable way of persisting dictionary style data structures - anything where a piece of data can be stored and looked up using a unique key. The key and the value can each be up to 4 gigabytes in length and can consist of anything that can be crammed in to a string of bytes, so what you do with it is completely up to you. The only operations available are "store this value under this key", "check if this key exists" and "retrieve the value for this key" so conceptually it's pretty simple - the complicated stuff all happens under the hood.

It seems like a great alternative to a full on relational database for simple applications, although I'm slightly confused by the license which allows free use for open source products but requires a license for commercial applications. Does that mean that if I use the bsddb Python module in a commercial app I need to get a license from Sleepycat?

Blogging and Discovering about Marqui

Blogging and Discovering about Marqui 12/30/2004 01:58 PM

I've been waiting a bit to see what our bloggers thought about Marqui.

There have been a few stumbles (mainly my fault) but we're finally looking like a real program now - so I can let you all know preliminary results:

Lucas Gonze - at least tried to try it out and is discovering that open source alternatives are probably just as good. So I just gently remind Lucas that Marqui ain't for open source wonks or even bloggers - it's for Mabel at the H&R Block office in Winnepeg office to.....

Now I'm not saying Mabel ain't gonan use open source, but it's all about the developers who build Mabel's software for her. It's THEM who have to know the alternatives. Hopefully what they'll find is that for the tradeoff of spending a little money (starting at $199 a month) Marqui is pretty dam convienient and simple - to build out large scale 'Communications Management' solutions.

Eric Rice on the other hand - is glad that Marqui is using Marqui - pointing to Janet Johnson's on-line brochure case study. Eric may even use it himself for a project.

Robin Good has probably the best written, most articulate, most persistent and idealistic posts of them all and is keeping us all on our toes. This comes from our one "professional" writer/blogger.

And Meryl Evans did an in-depth analysis of the tool - check it out. That should give you a taste of what Marqui is. And Jon Lebkowsky is pointing out that Marqui is trying to go beyond just text.

DL Byron points out how M arqui's SEO efforts point out clearly that they need to be doing their OWN blogging - but we all knew that already - right?

Mitch Ratcliffe just kind of acknowledges that he's part of the program, while defending the integrity of it, the company and himself. Right on to Mitch - is all I can say!

Nathan Weinberg has an honest assesment of where we are right now while Richard Murray keeps trying to break things and push the envelope. Coolio! I was counting on that! Thanks Richard!

Jonathan Abad keeps cranking out posts while Geek central thinks it's as easy to use as using Microsoft Office.

While some - like Molly - just kind of do their duty, others completely go off - like the head lemur.

I'd say I'm blown away by the quality of the blog posts so far, but not surpirsed. I can't wait to see what the others will come up with. At least Mr. Claus is considering being a client.

Meanwhile Marqui is slowly getting it's act together. 2005 will certainly be an interesting year!

Poll Position: Discovering Courage

Poll Position: Discovering Courage 09/20/2004 05:01 AM
Q: Can bravery be learned?

Discovering Google's full potential

Discovering Google's full potential 07/06/2004 03:12 AM
Miami Herald Jul 6 2004 7:17AM GMT

Discovering Existing Source Paths of MSI
Applications

Discovering Existing Source Paths of MSI
Applications 07/01/2004 05:36 AM

Publishing Companies Discovering That
The Market Can Change

Publishing Companies Discovering That
The Market Can Change 07/12/2004 05:39 AM
It's not just the music and movie industries that seem to have a hard time dealing with the internet. Book publishers are now freaking out that Amazon.com sells used books alongside new books, and suggests this is the "Napster of the book industry" even if nothing illegal is happening. An Amazon representative points out their worries are overblown. Indeed, many more people are buying used books, but they're often doing so to experiment with and discover new authors or genres -- which leads to them buying even more new books. Either way, the industry has framed the issue incorrectly, calling it a "problem," rather than looking at how it could be an opportunity. They also don't seem to believe that (just as with the music industry) one reason why sales may be down is that people have many more options (surfing the web, playing video games, watching TV, going for a walk, etc.) than just sitting around and reading a book. Perhaps it's more of a marketing problem than anything else.

Discovering a New World of Beauty in
Lowly Detail

Discovering a New World of Beauty in
Lowly Detail 05/27/2004 08:05 PM
In the Metropolitan Museum's show of Italian art, the viceral joy will likely come from happening on artists you might not know.

Hackers Are Discovering a New Frontier:
Internet Telephone Service

Hackers Are Discovering a New Frontier:
Internet Telephone Service 08/01/2004 11:24 PM
Already, a few malicious attacks have shut down corporate Internet phone networks, disrupting business at a cost of millions of dollars.

April 2003 Column> Discovering Internet
eBusiness Gossip and Buzz

April 2003 Column> Discovering Internet
eBusiness Gossip and Buzz 03/11/2003 09:44 AM
My April 2003 column is complete and titled "Discovering Internet eBusiness Gossip and Buzz". It mentions the latest Internet's eBusiness "Gossip and Buzz" resources that I articulate in my various national key note presentations, workshops and television/radio interviews.

intelligent OS-64

intelligent OS-64 08/23/2004 02:55 PM
iOS-64: Design Aims And Features.

IBM gets intelligent about BI

IBM gets intelligent about BI 06/10/2004 09:53 AM
This year is the year IBM has chosen to get more intelligent about BI (business intelligence).

Intelligent Design? I Think Not

Intelligent Design? I Think Not 12/19/2004 03:54 PM
A common assertion from the "intelligent design" crowd (that is, people who can't imagine or understand the concept of evolution, so they have to fall back on God. They used to be called creationists, but after legal failures, they realized...

Intelligent Portals

Intelligent Portals 08/02/2004 06:25 AM
Intelligent Portals
http://www.intelligent-port als.com/

The premier Web Community for portal developers and managers responsible for delivering a dynamic, interactive user environment that is integrated with key underlying applications, processes, analytics, and data resources. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

The Intelligent Fire Arm

The Intelligent Fire Arm 03/15/2003 04:04 PM

New smart gun from a South African company with biometric sensors that limit who can fire it. But what's particularly novel is that the Intelligent Fire Arm also comes with an embedded camera that takes a photograph whenever the gun is fired, something sure to prove popular with hunters who want a visual record of their kill.
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Intelligent Whimsy

Intelligent Whimsy 07/30/2004 10:13 AM
Copper - tales about Copper and Fred, his dog. By Kazu Kibuishi.
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