When Preservation Equals Demolition
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Demolition man
Demolition man
07/22/2004 11:43 AMControlled Demolition
Incorporated is a family-owned company that demolishes bridges,
buildings, missiles, and other structures around the world. Their Web
site features a breathtaking
video of the orchestrated collapse of
the Seattle Kingdome. Company head Mark Loizeaux was recently
interviewed by New Scientist:
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"It has to
be the right job in the first place, the right explosive, the right
pattern of laying the charges, and sometimes, which sounds odd, the
right repairs to bring it down as we want, so no one or no other
structure is harmed. And by differentially controlling the velocity of
failure in different parts of the structure, you can make it walk, you
can make it spin, you can make it dance."
Link"slated for demolition"
"slated for demolition"
07/16/2004 08:40 AMCity demolition serves up a hit
City demolition serves up a hit
04/25/2004 09:49 AMA 16-storey block built in Dundee over 30 years ago is blown up by
experts, engulfing the area in a cloud of smoke.
Eco-protesters halt demolition
Eco-protesters halt demolition
04/10/2004 11:24 AMProtesters persuade builders of a grass-covered eco house in west
Wales to hold up demolition.
Israel Says It Will Proceed With
Demolition of Homes
Israel Says It Will Proceed With
Demolition of Homes
05/17/2004 12:19 AMDespite international criticism, Israeli officials said Sunday that
they intended to proceed with a plan to demolish as many as hundreds
of Palestinian homes.
Googie landmark threatened with
demolition
Googie landmark threatened with
demolition
04/29/2004 04:23 PM
Seal Beach, California's
UFO-shaped Parasol diner, which is kept in pristine 1967 original
condition by its owner, is scheduled to be torn down by a shopping
mall developer in May. This site has more Parasol pictures, articles,
and a link to an online petition.
Lin
k (Thanks, Todd!)Israeli Court Clears Way for Demolition
Israeli Court Clears Way for Demolition
05/16/2004 06:43 AMIsrael's Supreme Court on Sunday rejected a petition calling for the
army to stop demolishing Palestinian homes along the Gaza-Egypt
border.
N. Korea Says Blast a Planned Demolition
(AP)
N. Korea Says Blast a Planned Demolition
(AP)
09/13/2004 10:09 PMAP - An explosion that shot a 2-mile-wide mushroom cloud into the sky
was the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project,
North Korea said Monday, and it invited a British diplomat to visit
the site.
an interest in preservation
an interest in preservation
04/15/2004 03:49 PM
The Counter Clinton
Library A
tax exempt reaction to the
Clinton Library
being built in Little Rock, Arkansas.
A Crisis for Web Preservation
A Crisis for Web Preservation
06/25/2004 05:44 AMA Crisis for Web Preservation by Florence Olsenhttp://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0621/pol-crisis-06-21-04.asp
The Federal Depository Library Program has fallen behind
in cataloging and preserving access to government documents published
only on the Web. As a result, public access to those publications is
spotty at best. "This is not a problem; this is a crisis," said Daniel
Greenstein, head of the California Digital Library, which serves the
10 universities in the University of California system. He said
information is disappearing from government Web sites at an alarming
rate. At the Government Printing Office, which runs the depository
library program, officials are struggling with the problem, known as
fugitive documents, said Judith Russell, superintendent of documents.
Fugitive documents are electronic publications that remain outside the
federal depository collections in 1,300 libraries nationwide.
According to Greenstein, Web crawlers are fairly good at capturing
documents from the Web surface, but the technology is not as good at
capturing information from the Deep Web. The Deep Web is where
databases and dynamic Web pages — pages that gather information in
response to users' requests — reside. A recent California Digital
Library study found that about 85 percent of the Deep Web is in the
.gov domain. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject
Tracer™ Information Blog.
International Internet Preservation
Consortium
International Internet Preservation
Consortium
05/15/2004 05:47 AMInternational Internet Preservation Consortiumhttp://netpreserve.orgThe national libraries of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland,
France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, The Library of
Congress (USA) and the Internet Archive acknowledged the importance of
international collaboration for preserving Internet content for future
generations and therefore decided to form a consortium called the
International Internet Preservation Consortium. The goals of the
consortium are:
To enable the collection of a
rich body of Internet content from around the world to be preserved in
a way that it can be archived, secured and accessed over
time.
To foster the development and use of
common tools, techniques and standards that enable the creation of
international archives.
To encourage and
support national libraries everywhere to address Internet archiving
and preservation.
Jobs in home preservation spat
Jobs in home preservation spat
06/11/2004 11:34 AMApple CEO Steve Jobs wants to tear down a 17,000 square foot home that
he owns in Woodside, California, because he claims it is a dump...
Ultima preservation efforts: a guide
Ultima preservation efforts: a guide
07/18/2004 08:45 AMNelson has wirtten a fantastic post about the modern disposition of
the Ultima games, including unauthorised bundles of the game's many
incarnations along with easy-play emulators for running them on modern
hardware.
The most impressive is the Ultima Classics collection. "Sedryn Tyros"
has collected the Ultima games and distributed them in a bundle along
with DOSBox setups that make it easy to run the games. His supplement
also includes original pre-PC versions of the early games, often
better than the PC ports, along with the emulators you need to play
them on a PC. Alas, this collection is completely unauthorized and
you'll have to scour your back alley's bittorrent site to find it.
Another option is fan-made reconstructions of the game engines. The
best is Exult for Ultima VII, a portable engine that runs the classic
game on many platforms (including Xbox!). Just take the open source
game engine, copy over the assets from your Ultima Collection CD, and
you're in business.
LinkGuide to Digital Preservation from NIST
Guide to Digital Preservation from NIST
01/24/2004 08:54 AMK2 Plus 3 Equals 1
K2 Plus 3 Equals 1
06/16/2004 03:08 PMThe sports equipment maker continues its growth-by-acquisition
strategy.
Jobs thinks demolish in preservation
tussle
Jobs thinks demolish in preservation
tussle
06/10/2004 02:28 PMAlso: eWeek fumbles domain name renewal, VIPs and VPNs, and schwagging
the dog and pony.
MXF+JPEG-2000+HDD = Future of Video
Preservation?
MXF+JPEG-2000+HDD = Future of Video
Preservation?
02/07/2005 01:23 AMSlashdot Feb 6 2005 4:16PM GMT
Drive to balance digital preservation
and copyright
Drive to balance digital preservation
and copyright
10/29/2003 12:11 AM
In an attempt to secure
one legal front in preserving digital materials, the Internet Archive is
petioning the United
States Copyright Office to allow exemptions to the Digital
Millenium Copyright Act ( DMCA ). As
that law now stands, the Internet Archive could run into legal
challenges if it makes copies of materials beyond the wishes of their
owners.
(via
Steven Kaye )
Yin Yu Tang - a Chinese home
preservation project
Yin Yu Tang - a Chinese home
preservation project
12/10/2003 04:36 AM Yin Yu Tang is a late
Qing dynasty merchants' home that was transported from its original
site in southeastern China and rebuilt at the Peabody Essex Museum It
offers a glimpse into the daily life of the Huang family, residents
for more than two centuries. The story of the dismantling, transport
and reassembly is a fine example of an international preservation
project.
(flash alert) Internet2 Plus P2P Equals...
Internet2 Plus P2P Equals...
04/30/2004 11:57 AMSelf-help equals self-harm?
Self-help equals self-harm?
12/02/2003 03:10 AM Self-he
lp equals self-harm? Are self-help books harmful rather than
helpful? This article argues that dissatisfaction with one's abilities
and achievements will not not be helped by affirmations of self-worth.
Nor will we succeed in coping with the bitter feelings for those who
have wronged us by practing the "anger therapy" of slamming
a punching bag. [More Inside]
When Zero Equals Many in Windows XP
When Zero Equals Many in Windows XP
06/04/2004 09:11 AMWired News looks into Windows XP's dropped Wi-Fi connection problem:
Daniel Terdiman tries to dig for the bodies in his search for why
Windows XP drops Wi-Fi network connections inexplicably and often
shows them as still active. Microsoft claims there's no systematic
problem, but it's clear from reading any forum in which Wi-Fi is
discussed--such as the DSLReports.com site--that this is a frequent
issue. My solution, provided to me by a vendor about two years ago, of
restarting Wireless Zero Configuration is explained in the article.
This has solved 99 percent of my Windows XP Wi-Fi problems, but it's
nestled so deeply that it's baffling. I've felt for a while that
Microsoft should have a top-level interface to WZC because when it
stops running, the user has no idea that anything's afoot until they
drill down, down, down, and see that the setting reads "not
running."...
"The preservation of jazz history and
the iTunes Music Store"
"The preservation of jazz history and
the iTunes Music Store"
08/02/2004 08:42 AM"Brown Equals Terrorist"
"Brown Equals Terrorist"
07/11/2004 04:41 AMMe minus Zoloft equals what?
Me minus Zoloft equals what?
02/01/2005 10:02 PMAfter seven years on meds, my therapist says I'm stable. Does that
mean I'm cured?
Brown Equals Terroist
Brown Equals Terroist
07/09/2004 01:45 PM
Brown
Equals Terroist - the story of a photography student who refuses
to provide his ID to a security officer, and is swiftly confronted by
Homeland Security. His ongoing struggle with the event is chronicled
in the related
blog.
In N.C., technology equals prosperity
In N.C., technology equals prosperity
04/20/2004 07:30 PMThis year's North Carolina Senate race pits Rep. Richard Burr -- a
conservative Republican advocate for telecommunications and biotech --
against moderate Democrat Erskine Bowles -- an investment banker with
tech industry ties who was President Clinton's chief of staff. Job
losses in a tech-friendly region are a top concern for state voters.
Neuromancer radio play preservation
effort in the teeth of bureacracy
Neuromancer radio play preservation
effort in the teeth of bureacracy
03/19/2005 03:03 AMCory Doctorow:
A fan of the BBC radio play adaptation of William Gibson's Neuromancer
has launched a one-fan preservation and distribution effort. Jody
Armstrong has the audio available for download on a web-page, along
with some fan-art and a plaintive disclaimer begging someone from the
Beeb to return the phone-calls and emails left asking for permission
to do so.
I've been trying to locate somebody at the BBC or some information in
relation to redistributing this recording to allow those who were not
able to hear the play to enjoy it. I have sent a letter, four e-mails
via the tortuously confusing BBC Website contacts page and made over a
dozen phone calls to various departments. I have left numerous
voicemails as a result of these phoen calls. Nobody has responded to
the messages, those I spoke too seemed to respond like a dog that had
been shown a card trick and no hint as to whether I can redistribute
it has been forthcoming.
If, whether it be the BBC itself, those responsibel for the play or
William Gibson himself, has a problem with this distribution of the
play, please bear in mind 4 things before breaking out the lawyers.
1) The bandwidth, this site and even the pretty pictures you see on
this page is mine, an impoverished Gibson fan who wants to do a favour
for the other fans. It's out of my pocket, I'm spending my money, be
kind...
2) I have made attempts to contact you and have been ignored. True I
am probably breaking copyright laws, however I am promoting 'Play of
the Week', William Gibson's work and the talented people behind the
radioplay.
3) E-Mail me, I'll take it down straight away.
Link
(
Thanks, Boris!)
New online framework for provision,
preservation & access to academic theses
New online framework for provision,
preservation & access to academic theses
04/07/2005 01:18 PMPublicTechnology.net Apr 7 2005 4:32PM GMT
Progress Report On National Digital Info
Preservation Program
Progress Report On National Digital Info
Preservation Program
05/22/2004 06:50 AMProgress Report On National Digital Info Preservation
Programhttp://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0503/mgt-campbell-05-03-04.a
spLaura Campbell, associate librarian for strategic
initiatives at the Library of Congress, says of her work spearheading
the LC's collaborative National Digital Information Infrastructure and
Preservation Program, "It's the best job I ever had." Campbell and her
colleagues are finishing up their review of 22 proposals from
potential preservation partners and are working with experts to
construct a technical architecture for the preservation process.
Nearly 5 terabytes of digital works characterized as "at risk" have
been collected so far. They include Web pages that document recent
events, such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the
ongoing war in Iraq. Librarians used to worry about preserving access
to books and periodicals, says Campbell, but with most Web sites
staying up an average of only 44 days, preserving access to them is
far more complicated. In addition, the copyright issues surrounding
long-term preservation of digital journals, books, and audio and video
material have yet to be resolved. "There may be technological
solutions that make the management of restricted material much
easier," says Campbell. Because so much about digital preservation is
yet unknown, Campbell says the library's strategy is to learn by doing
and be prepared to make corrections along the way. She credits the
many experts she consulted during the planning phase of the program
with impressing upon her the need for continuing flexibility: "It
helped us realize that we would always be learning and adjusting,"
says Campbell.
Chase Durer Special Forces Underwater
Demolition Team Chrono Reviewed
(Verdict: Beefy)
Chase Durer Special Forces Underwater
Demolition Team Chrono Reviewed
(Verdict: Beefy)
06/24/2005 04:01 PM
Friend-of-Gizmodo Scott reviewed
his heavy-duty Chase Durer Chronograph, a big, beefy quartz thing that
I actually saw on the wrist of Greg Kihn last night. He was one of the
contestants of Beat Me Baby One More Time or whatever it's called.
But I digress. This is a quartz chrono with PVD coated body and
bracelet. It's water resistant to 1000 feet, meaning you can go diving
for the lost treasure of Atlantis. In terms of underwater demolition,
however, the watch does not have a remote timer/detonator even though
it certainly does look like it should have one.
Review - Chase Durer Special Forces Underwater Demolition Team
Chronograph [WristWatchReview.com]
Bush speech calls for demolition of Abu
Ghraib prison, as “a fitting symbol
of Iraq’s new beginning,”
Bush speech calls for demolition of Abu
Ghraib prison, as “a fitting symbol
of Iraq’s new beginning,”
05/25/2004 02:43 PMThe Washington Post article .. straight news account .. tearing
down
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52711-2004May24.html
track
this site | 4 links
SP2 Plus Athlon 64 Plus DVD Decoder
Equals Glitch
SP2 Plus Athlon 64 Plus DVD Decoder
Equals Glitch
08/27/2004 02:08 PMIntalling Microsoft Windows XP SP2 on top of an AMD Athlon 64
processor running a popular DVD decoder may cause a loop where the PC
perpetually restarts, accoridng to Microsoft.
Technologists Plus Social Scientists
Equals What?
Technologists Plus Social Scientists
Equals What?
04/09/2004 04:00 PMI'm at this meeting for the next two days in Tokyo, a gathering of some
extraordinary technologists and social scientists who are trying to
puzzle out some of the ways we'll be using tomorrow's mobile devices.
I'm here mainly to listen, and learn.
Cricket: Warne equals record
Cricket: Warne equals record
07/13/2004 03:11 AMShane Warne takes his 527th Test wicket but Sri Lanka hang on for a
draw against Australia in Cairns.
Cricket: Murali equals record
Cricket: Murali equals record
05/06/2004 10:01 AMMuttiah Muralitharan equals the Test bowling record by taking his
519th wicket against Zimbabwe.
Paintball Equals Tragedy Plus Time
Paintball Equals Tragedy Plus Time
12/13/2003 01:26 AMColumbine Paintball offers a chance for individuals and groups to
re-enact the school massacre with paint in place of precious
life-giving fluids. "Come and shoot your friends and family members in
remembrance." (12-13)
Jail suicide figure equals record
Jail suicide figure equals record
12/31/2004 05:13 AMHome Office figures show 95 jail inmates in England and Wales killed
themselves this year.
Never Equals A Year And A Half For Opera
On Microsoft
Never Equals A Year And A Half For Opera
On Microsoft
08/31/2004 11:02 PMThe Feature Sep 1 2004 2:44AM GMT
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When Preservation Equals Demolition
