jelly bracelets" are making a comeback with teens and some grade-school kids. But this time, there's a twist: In some parts of the U.S., they're calling them "sex bracelets" -- with various colors supposedly representing promises to perform sex acts in a

Grok Headline matches for jelly bracelets" are making a comeback with teens and some grade-school kids. But this time, there's a twist: In some parts of the U.S., they're calling them "sex bracelets" -- with various colors supposedly representing promises to perform sex acts in a

Teens Using Bracelets To Signal Sexual
Intentions

Teens Using Bracelets To Signal Sexual
Intentions 11/13/2003 06:36 AM
I'm into hugging. Oh, snap .. Jelly bracelets for booty? .. I didn't get the memo .. "sex bracelets" .. al respecto

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Ankle bracelets for conditional
sentences

Ankle bracelets for conditional
sentences 06/01/2004 02:00 PM
globetechnology.com Jun 1 2004 5:44PM GMT

Siemens to pilot RFID bracelets for
health care

Siemens to pilot RFID bracelets for
health care 07/23/2004 06:02 PM
Siemens Business Services announced this week a pilot project with Jacobi Medical Center in New York to track patients by incorporating RFID chips into the ubiquitous plastic band strapped onto patients' wrists during hospital admissions.

Making colors safe for Windows and Mac

Making colors safe for Windows and Mac 08/28/2004 11:08 AM
In a curious filing dated Aug. 26, Apple has applied for a patent detailing a "Color palette providing cross-platform consistency." According to the patent’s abstract, the palette looks to work in conjunction with an existing application to "facilitate user selection of web-safe colors." The images attached to the filing show an OS-9 interface with what looks to be a Photoshop 5-type color window. Colors are eventually arranged into groups of "Non web-safe" and "Web-safe" colors for Windows and Macintosh: "In laying out the color palette, the extent of achromatic colors located within the color palette is determined. The achromatic colors are then arranged in one group on the palette, for instance in order of lightest to darkest. The non web-safe chromatic colors are then grouped together. From this grouping blends of the colors are created. Finally, the web-safe chromatic colors are grouped together. Blends with respect to the web-safe chromatic colors are created and then grouped on the color palette.” While it seems to be a relatively outdated concept (with outdated diagrams), Apple has yet to incorporate this specific technology in one of its applications.

Making Light: Prophetable colors

Making Light: Prophetable colors 07/15/2004 05:09 AM
The Great Colors Conspiracy .. color shift

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Is Apple making the grade?

Is Apple making the grade? 07/23/2004 01:08 AM
ZDNet Jul 23 2004 5:22AM GMT

Is Microsoft making the grade?

Is Microsoft making the grade? 04/15/2004 09:09 PM
ZDNet Apr 16 2004 1:23AM GMT

Online registration making the grade

Online registration making the grade 09/26/2004 07:01 AM
Sun-sentinel.com - Sun Sep 26, 07:42 am GMT

Fully Wi-Fi Enabled Grade School

Fully Wi-Fi Enabled Grade School 11/18/2003 09:05 PM
While parents of some students in Illinois schools are concerned about potential health affects of Wi-Fi, one school in New York requires every kid to have a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop: Students use the laptops in every class and Columbia University is studying how the program works. I’ll be interested to see how laptops are eventually used throughout the school system. Teachers at this New York school rave about the additional skills they can teach kids because of the laptops but also note the added distractions in games and the Internet. It must be difficult to control how the computers are used during class....

Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series

Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series 08/10/2004 03:43 AM
[PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Making The Grade: MP3 Players Top
Students' Must-Have Lists

Making The Grade: MP3 Players Top
Students' Must-Have Lists 08/23/2004 04:57 AM
"[The iPod] is like the hottest commodity since Tickle Me Elmo. It's almost become like a status symbol." By Lindsey Unterberger, Journal Sentinel (via MyAppleMenu)

Elk Making a Comeback Across the West

Elk Making a Comeback Across the West 08/02/2004 01:21 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Sun Aug 1, 09:16 am GMT

A Twist on Back-to-School Shopping:
Butterflymall.com Pays Students to Shop

A Twist on Back-to-School Shopping:
Butterflymall.com Pays Students to Shop 08/04/2004 02:36 AM
[PRWEB Aug 4, 2004]

Is Battered Silicon Valley Making a
Comeback?

Is Battered Silicon Valley Making a
Comeback? 02/17/2004 05:14 PM
EarthWeb.com Feb 17 2004 9:23PM GMT

Prince Decries Idea of Making Comeback
(AP)

Prince Decries Idea of Making Comeback
(AP) 05/03/2004 04:49 PM
AP - Sitting in his purple-draped dressing room, sipping tea amid sweet-scented candles, Prince is as peaceful and serene as a superstar could be before showtime — until you utter the word comeback.

Whooping Cough Making Dangerous Comeback
(AP)

Whooping Cough Making Dangerous Comeback
(AP) 07/12/2004 04:03 PM
AP - Whooping cough, one of those ancient scourges that infant vaccination was meant to wipe out, is making a dangerous comeback: It turns out the vaccine that babies get starts wearing off by adolescence.

Space Invaders Making A Comeback... In
The Original Form

Space Invaders Making A Comeback... In
The Original Form 12/05/2003 03:15 AM
There are plenty of old video games that have been getting an "update" lately. These are games that have the same title as a game from decades ago, but are otherwise almost entirely different. This isn't a surprise, considering the vast difference in gaming technology. However, sometimes, people just want the original classic. Taito is planning to start selling the arcade machines of "Space Invaders" again - twenty five years after it was originally introduced. It's not an update, but the same game that was such a big hit years ago (and one of the first video games I ever played). The only difference has to do with inflation. It'll now cost $0.50 per play instead of the old standard of $0.25.

Sixth-Grade Class, Faculty At Vestavia
Hills School Getting Laptops

Sixth-Grade Class, Faculty At Vestavia
Hills School Getting Laptops 07/22/2004 11:14 PM
A class of sixth-graders and faculty at Cahaba Heights Community School apparently will be the first in Alabama with laptop computers assigned to each of them. By Associated Press (via MyAppleMenu)

Making promises at TechEd

Making promises at TechEd 05/25/2004 02:47 PM

""By making promises he doesn't mean and
can't keep, he tried to buy the votes of
American veterans.""

""By making promises he doesn't mean and
can't keep, he tried to buy the votes of
American veterans."" 09/03/2004 02:42 AM

prohibited kids from making and throwing
snowballs

prohibited kids from making and throwing
snowballs 01/10/2004 11:57 AM
playing in the snow .. School officials .. Seattle Times .. snowball

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Bears could keep kids from school
(Reuters)

Bears could keep kids from school
(Reuters) 09/02/2004 02:05 PM
Reuters - Some 30 brown bears have been terrorising a Transylvanian mountain village and could delay the start of the school year, local authorities say.

10% Of U.S. Kids Sexually Exploited - At
School!

10% Of U.S. Kids Sexually Exploited - At
School! 07/18/2004 07:02 AM
Free Internet Press Jul 18 2004 10:11AM GMT

Back to School and Gaming Kids

Back to School and Gaming Kids 09/19/2004 01:26 PM
Wired News Sep 19 2004 3:52PM GMT

Back to School and Gaming, Kids

Back to School and Gaming, Kids 09/20/2004 04:53 PM
Wired News Sep 20 2004 8:31PM GMT

A school that uses PCs to treat special
kids

A school that uses PCs to treat special
kids 05/06/2004 01:37 AM
Webindia123 May 6 2004 5:21AM GMT

Kenya to Let HIV-Positive Kids in School
(AP)

Kenya to Let HIV-Positive Kids in School
(AP) 01/10/2004 07:20 AM
AP - A group of children infected with the virus that causes AIDS can attend public schools under a new agreement between the Ministry of Education and the country's largest and oldest orphanage for HIV-positive children.

Calling on Time Warner?

Calling on Time Warner? 12/29/2004 08:07 AM
CNN Money Dec 29 2004 12:05PM GMT

AP9 PassportToFun Shares Ideas on Making
this Summer Fun for You and Your Kids

AP9 PassportToFun Shares Ideas on Making
this Summer Fun for You and Your Kids 06/17/2005 04:40 PM
AP9 PassportToFun Offers Members Savings on Entertainment, Meals Out and Much More [PRWEB Jun 17, 2005]

Getting Kids To Program Old School Video
Games

Getting Kids To Program Old School Video
Games 04/06/2005 06:48 AM
It seems that every recent story about Atari has been about their attempts (in their modern form -- quite different from the original Atari) to make a killing on the nostalgia market, offering up classic games from years back to today's adults -- either on computers or (increasingly) on mobile phones. However, it appears that many feel the basic concepts of old Atari videogames are still valuable for game designers to learn -- resulting in a competition to design new games for the Atari 2600. Of course, there's one twist: the games needed to be created in 24 hours. While the story is amusing to read, what it really does is remind people that, despite all the amazing graphics found in today's game, a game is still about gameplay at its core -- which many of today's game designers seem to forget.

School kids to receive RFID tags

School kids to receive RFID tags 07/13/2004 08:23 AM
ZDNet Jul 13 2004 11:55AM GMT

High school kids tie-wrapped for
protesting war

High school kids tie-wrapped for
protesting war 03/13/2003 10:24 AM
Snapshots of cops cuffing anti-war kids with tie-wrap on Market Street in SF. I guess there weren't any fajita thieves to bust that day.Lin k Discuss (Thanks, Paul!)

Charter school gives kids online
education

Charter school gives kids online
education 08/02/2004 06:10 AM
Staronline.com - Mon Aug 2, 09:15 am GMT

Give your kids a jump on school with
LeapPad

Give your kids a jump on school with
LeapPad 08/29/2004 12:22 AM
National Post Aug 29 2004 4:33AM GMT

Calling time on the £1 USB memory
watch

Calling time on the £1 USB memory
watch 06/02/2004 07:18 AM
Cash'n'Carrion Last batch - ever

Calling time on rogue diallers

Calling time on rogue diallers 08/04/2004 01:25 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Tue Aug 3, 06:38 pm GMT

Japan school kids to be tagged with RFID
chips

Japan school kids to be tagged with RFID
chips 07/12/2004 10:14 PM
The chips will be put onto kids' schoolbags, name tags or clothing to track the kids' movements.

School Kids Caught Counterfeiting
Dollars (Reuters)

School Kids Caught Counterfeiting
Dollars (Reuters) 04/11/2005 07:53 AM
Reuters - A 12-year-old Seattle school student and his buddies were caught after counterfeiting $20 in one-dollar bills that were circulated among the students and used in the cafeteria to buy food, school officials said on Friday.

High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics
Competition

High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics
Competition 03/30/2005 02:05 PM

Grok Description matches for jelly bracelets" are making a comeback with teens and some grade-school kids. But this time, there's a twist: In some parts of the U.S., they're calling them "sex bracelets" -- with various colors supposedly representing promises to perform sex acts in a
GrokA matches for jelly bracelets" are making a comeback with teens and some grade-school kids. But this time, there's a twist: In some parts of the U.S., they're calling them "sex bracelets" -- with various colors supposedly representing promises to perform sex acts in a

No, not jelly. . .

No, not jelly. . . 09/10/2004 11:44 PM
Belly Rolls, mmmmm . . .

Jelly Friends 1.0

Jelly Friends 1.0 11/10/2003 11:30 PM
Freeware Icons for Mac OS X.

Police: Greasy Man in Petroleum Jelly
Jam (AP)

Police: Greasy Man in Petroleum Jelly
Jam (AP) 05/17/2004 04:21 PM
AP - Roger Chamberlain may have thought he managed to slide by police when he switched motels. But when he was allegedly found a short while later glimmering from head to toe in petroleum jelly, authorities believed they had their man.

Sugar Free Jelly Worms [Flickr]

Sugar Free Jelly Worms [Flickr] 02/01/2005 09:34 PM

Reagan Remembered With Jelly Beans,
Flags (AP)

Reagan Remembered With Jelly Beans,
Flags (AP) 06/06/2004 02:37 PM
AP - Ronald Reagan was remembered with jelly beans, flowers and American flags on Sunday at memorials in his hometown and outside the mortuary where the former president's body lay.

Among 'Gipper' Memorabilia, Blue Jelly
Beans (Reuters)

Among 'Gipper' Memorabilia, Blue Jelly
Beans (Reuters) 06/08/2004 09:05 AM
Reuters - Among the plethora of Ronald Reagan statuettes, books, movies and speeches on sale on Monday perhaps none conveys his outlook more than blue jelly beans.

Jelly offers component-rich XML
scripting (Builder.com)

Jelly offers component-rich XML
scripting (Builder.com) 11/13/2002 12:01 PM

How to create jelly text effects with
adobe photoshop

How to create jelly text effects with
adobe photoshop 11/01/2002 12:36 AM
Stickysauce Oct 31 2002 11:55PM ET

Robbers strike jelly bean plant
(Reuters)

Robbers strike jelly bean plant
(Reuters) 08/12/2004 10:30 PM
Reuters - Two armed men have robbed the Jelly Belly factory north of San Francisco, making off with cash but none of the jelly beans that were a favourite of the late President Reagan, officials say.

CORPORATE
ANOREXIA

CORPORATE
ANOREXIA 07/29/2004 10:17 AM

Think of a corporation like a human body. To be healthy, the body needs to take in sufficient and appropriate nourishment, exercise, and avoid behaviours known to cause disease and injury. Likewise, a corporation needs to 'invest' in people, technology, infrastructure and innovation -- the nutrients of business growth -- 'exercise' that investment to generate revenue, and avoid the behaviours (bad decisions, bad acquisitions, letting the competition inflict a beating on you) that lead to corporate 'illness' and 'injury'. By this analogy, the corporate model of the 1990s was the body-builder -- investing heavily in food, and exercising to build muscle and strength and speed and resilience. The catchwords of the day were innovation, knowledge, human and intellectual capital. There was even talk of a 'war for talent', an acknowledgement that bright, creative people were so valuable that companies would fight over them. Investments with long-term value are called assets, and the corporation of the 1990s generated wealth and growth by investing in assets. By contrast, the corporate model of this decade is the dieter -- staying healthy by eating as little as possible, spot-exercising and using diuretics to reduce every visible ounce of fat, forgoing muscle and strength and speed and resilience for the appearance of health. The catchwords today are cost-management, outsourcing, offshoring, and risk management. Focus is on short-term, quarter-over-quarter bottom-line change, and the corporation of today generat es wealth by eliminating costs. Both mechanisms, carried to an extreme, are unhealthy. The body-builder can cheat and create artificial 'assets' with steroids. Enron did exactly that, puffing up its balance sheet with non-existent assets. The dieter's extreme is called anorexia, and it's an insidious and self-perpetuating disease. You lose weight, and for awhile everyone tells you you look better. So you lose more, and eventually you get obsessed with your weight, and then you reach a wall where you can't lose any more, and it starts to affect your mind so you can't function properly anymore. Then it gets worse. I believe what we're seeing in the corporate world today is corporate anorexia. I described last week the horrendous 9-step race-to-the-bottom that has driven corporations to abandon quality, sacrifice domestic workers, and gouge and sue customers in the never-ending, desperate attempt to keep in the good books of insatiably demanding shareholders. You can see the unhappiness in the faces of today's executives, and the weakness and vulnerability of the depleted corporations that they lead in their financial statements and forecasts. Meanwhile, fawning consultants, instead of warning about the shortage of innovation, investment and long-term strategy, are making excuses for it. It's insane, it's unsustainable, it's bad for consumers, workers and the economy, and it's irresponsible. You can no more cut your way to corporate greatness than you can starve yourself to health. The cure for corporate anorexia is as difficult as the cure for the human illness. And as with the human illness, it's going to take a 'support group', people beside corporate managers who will be patient and understanding as the patient at first may get sicker before they get better. That means shareholders will have to abandon their absurdly unrealistic expectations of perpetual double-digit profit growth, and recognize that the real value of the stocks they hold is probably only a quarter to a third what they're currently valued at -- a bitter pill to swallow for which greedy brokerage firms also share responsibility. It also means shareholders must learn to think, and assess their investments, over the longer term. Innovation takes time to generate a return, especially when many corporations are essentially starting from zero -- much of today's R&D expenditures are spent on incremental and copycat products that produce safe but paltry revenue improvement. Innovation also entails risk, and that means spending money on ideas that fail in order to learn and to generate the blockbuster successes that draw on those failures, which in turn means some short-term adverse earnings trends (which are currently brutally punished in the marketplace). It also means deferring profits to build back the infrastructure and 'muscle' that can once again start generating new revenue from new products, new channels, quantum-leap process improvements, new technologies and other true innovations. While investors will need to be patient, the professions that advise and monitor corporations and their management -- consultants, investment analysts, accountants, and government agencies -- need to take the lead and lay out a roadmap back to sustainable corporate health, and explain it and 'sell it' to managers and investors. Consultants need to stop apologizing for their clients' anorexic investment in innovation, dig out the work they did a decade ago on the innovation process and its business case, and start showing executives what needs to be done and how to do it. Investment analysts need to develop much longer-term horizons for forecasting and evaluating public companies. The myopic focus on quarterly earnings, and the absurd demand for steady, uninterrupted profit growth short-changes companies that make long-term investments and think ahead, and needs to be replaced with longer-term perspectives on companies' ability to generate sustainable profits and earnings growth. Some people have advocated eliminating quarterly earnings reports entirely, which would be a good start. But analysts need to develop models that will generate reliable longer-term forecasts, based on an in-depth appreciation of a company's ability to invest intelligently and realize a superior, measured return on its investments, to create future wealth, managing risk and uncertainty as assets and not merely minimizing them as liabilities. Accountants need to develop new methods of assessing corporations' longer-term health and viability, not just focus on increasingly convoluted and meaningless measures of last year's 'paper profit'. These measures are needed to inform investors, but more importantly they're needed to guide management. We all need to get serious about the value of intellectual, human, customer and social capital. Government needs to use tax law to encourage longer-term investments in research and innovation and to encourage corporations to take calculated risks and strive for quantum improvements in products, processes and technologies. Government also needs to work in partnership with corporations to make joint investments in innovations that can produce Future Wealth both for the company and for the society as a whole. Corporations in turn need to be encouraged to 'get out more' and think about ways they can make the world better, and governments can and must offer incentives to do so, in return for a stake in the value of the wealth created (not just a give-away to corporations). Unfortunately, in countries like the US with near-bankrupt governments, this assistance will have to take the form of manpower and intellectual investment rather than financial incentives. Recovering from a debilitating disease is a slow and difficult process, especially when the patient is still in denial. But before Western corporations infect the entire economy with anorexia -- as the current wave of myopic downsizing, outsourcing and offshoring threatens to do -- we need to recognize the illness for what it is, and start working together to nurse the patient back to health. (The Innovation Incubator pictured above is a service of my consultancy, Meeting of Minds)

Color Inspector 1.0 helps select colors
for projects

Color Inspector 1.0 helps select colors
for projects 08/13/2004 04:32 PM
Comm-Unity Networking Systems (CNS) has released Color Inspector 1.0, a color browsing tool that assists with locating the right colors for projects and saving color schemes for later use. It features six color match swatches -- Shade, Tint, Complementary, Analogous, Triadic and Split Commentary -- and also offers the ability to copy Hex and Decimal values and CSS codes and change and edit themes. In addition, FileMaker Pro users can generate and copy the TextColor function for the current color. Pricing is US$35 for a single user, $28 for non-profit or educational users, with discounts available for multiple and site licenses. A demo that times out after 30 minutes of use and expires after 30 days is available. Color Inspector 1.0 runs in Mac OS X, although the CNS Web site doesn't note the minimum version number required.

PITCH LOCK:
AN INNOVATION WAITING TO BE
EXPLOITED?

PITCH LOCK:
AN INNOVATION WAITING TO BE
EXPLOITED? 09/09/2004 05:41 AM

Unless you're a DJ, or have one of those high-end digital music players, mixers, or mixing software tools (and actually read the instruction book) you probably don't know what Pitch Lock is. Basically, it's a function that allows you to change the tempo (speed) of a recording without changing its pitch. DJ's use this function to 'sync' two songs so that one blends into the next. This is called 'beatmixing' and here, from the DJ Cafe site, is an example of how it's used, with cross-fading (lowering the volume of the ending song while increasing the volume of the starting one) to make a series of songs with different beat-per-minute tempos into one 'endless' song: If the song the crowd is hearing is 130 BPM, and the next song you want to play is 132 -- you slow the second song down to 130 bpm using pitch control, and cue it up to the beat. When you are ready to bring the second song into play, throw the record so the beats stay aligned and listen to it on your headphones. Make sure they are in sync!! Once you are sure things are in order, use your cross fader to let the new song blend into the old one, and eventually go completely across so only the new song is playing. This will give the illusion that the song never ended. I didn't think much about this, although one of the software tools that works with my MP3 jukebox has a Pitch Lock feature, and it was kind of fun slowing down and speeding up my favourite songs and second-guessing whether the artists should have picked a different tempo. But then this afternoon I was listening to one of my favourite songs from the new Sarah McLachlan album on the radio and it sounded funny -- a lot faster than the version I was used to. I figured it was a remix so I listened through and the DJ announced it but didn't say anything special about it. So I cued up the original and listened, and I knew it wasn't a remix or my imagination. And then it occurred to me: The station is using Pitch Lock to speed up the songs by a just-less-than-noticeable amount so they can play more songs per hour and have more time for commercials. So that got me thinking: What else could this be used for? Consider this fact: Average speech is about 140-160 WPM, and when we try to speak much faster than that our speech becomes slurred. When we're thinking about what we're saying, we talk even slower -- 80-120 WPM. But we are able to comprehend properly-articulated speech of 210 and even 240 WPM without difficulty (average reading speed, by contrast, is 275 WPM, and speed readers top 800 WPM, though they don't read every word). So that means that we could use Pitch Lock to accelerate speech by 50%, to a speed much faster than we could crisply deliver it, but with no loss in comprehension. And thanks to Pitch Lock, it would come out in the same deep, calm, enticing voice as the original, but deliver 50% more words, information or argument per minute. Still think this is a silly innovation? Here are some commercial and time-saving applications that occurred to me right off the top of my head. I'm sure there are more: Voice-mail message replay: Double the playback speed to whisk past the ums and ers and retrieve your messages in half the time. Audio tape/audio book learning: Get through the tapes in 2/3 the time; learn 50% faster. Ditto for audiotaped or even videotaped conferences. Advertising: Tell your customers, or your potential voters, 50% more in the minute you're paying for. And maybe, by using up their idle brain time, reduce attention deficit syndrome and get people to pay closer attention to what you're saying to boot. Or maybe not. Language learning: Slow down the playback speed while you're learning a language, and gradually increase it as you learn to parse the words faster and as your vocabularly grows. This could also be used for simultaneous translation in conferences, as long as they allowed short breaks after each speech for the translator to catch up. Padding a good show: If the show you're watching or the music or talk you're listening to is wonderful, and you never want it to end, or if you're a producer and the program's a bit short, just use Pitch Lock to stretch it out a bit. After all, if Bernstein can get away with stretching Samuel Barber's famous and extraordinary 6:50 Adagio for Strings into a piece that lasts over 10 minutes without adding any notes, maybe he's on to something. Studying and transcribing music: Having trouble following the chord changes or finger patterns in a favourite song? Slow it down with Pitch Lock and take your time. Likewise if you're visually disadvantaged, slow down speeches to the pace at which you can comfortably take notes. These and other applications could be exploited either at the time of recording, or at the time of playback. I'm sure the military and forensic sciences are already using this. It might also be used to listen to heart-beats, or study the songs of whales or birds, in slow motion yet at an audible pitch level. Or to determine an optimal speaking rate for computerized voice synthesizers (likely a lot faster than today's unsophisticated versions). What else could Pitch Lock be used for? And what if we combined it with other new technologies: For example, could we teach speech-recognizing computers to 'speed talk' much the way we 'speed read', to 'read aloud' or play back the common words that make up 80% of normal speech and are not essential to understanding at, say, 500 WPM, and the rest at 200 WPM, so we could become 400 WPM 'speed listeners' and 'speed learners'? And in this increasingly oral/aural culture, might we then give up reading and writing entirely?

The Meanings and Implications of
Convergence

The Meanings and Implications of
Convergence 11/14/2003 04:44 AM
what convergence means

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Search for Words with Multiple Meanings

Search for Words with Multiple Meanings 04/15/2005 06:25 PM
A search engine claims to create lists of context-based homonyms, which sounds like a darn good idea to me. But then I got started thinking about the nature of spelling and language, especially in English which stems from so many sources (including Norse, who would guess?). The classic IR example of how a search term can be ambiguous is "bank" -- does that mean "financial institution", "to store something", "side of a river", "airplane maneuver" or what? How should the search engine handle this situation? It gets even more complex to cope with when there are names, slang, acronyms and abbreviations added to the mix. Does a person searching for "coke" want to find the cola, the drug, the form of coal? How about "freddy mac" or "jones" or "ARIA"? There have been several different approaches to address this problem.Research-oriented information retrieval often take a cluster approach, trying to group like elements by concept. Visualization tools use various graphical displays to help researchers see the relationships among these ideas.Some search engines show other words frequently found in the same locations, to encourage searchers to choose one of the meanings.Another approach is to highlight the matched words with surrounding text from the found documents. This is like the librarian's "Key Word In Context (KWIC) listings, and was pioneered on web search interfaces by Google.Oddly enough, there seems to be no accepted linguistic term for words which are spelled the same, may or may not sound the same, but mean different things. Homonyms sound the same or are spelled these same but mean different things (e.g. bore vs. boar).Homophones sound the same but are different in meaning or spelling or bothHomographs are spelled the same and may or may not sound the same, but mean different things (e.g. bow, card, swallow). Note: many linguists use this term only for words that are spelled the same but do not sound the same. Polysemeshave same etymological word source but multiple meanings (according to some)Heteronyms are spelled the same but have different pronunciations (according to some)For text search purposes, we only care about homographs, because the spelling is what matters.Definitionshttp://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguistic Terms/WhatIsAHomograph.htmhttp://www2.hawaii.edu/~fredr/homonymy.htmht tp://www.johnsesl.com/templates/vocab/homographs.phphttp://rec-puzzles .org/new/sol.pl/language/english/meaning/synonyms/contranymLists of English homophones (change pronunciation)http://www.marlodge.supanet.com/wordlist/homogrph.htmlht tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Homographs http://www.marlodge.supanet.com/wordlist/homogrph.html (claims to be homographs, but only includes changed pronunciation)http://www.opundo.com/homographs.htm (ditto)http://markandkatiecraven.home.att.net/homograph.htmhttp://www- personal.umich.edu/~cellis/heteronym.html (heteronyms only)

Strip Bracelet

Strip Bracelet 04/06/2005 11:31 AM

The Strip Bracelet is single length of silver, stamped with the logo of its designer. It arrives flat in a felt case and you bend it yourself to fit your wrist. It might possible be the laziest product design I've ever seen. The next model will require you to mine your own silver.

Strip Bracelet [MoCoLoCo]

Terrell Owens Sprains Ankle Against
Dallas (AP)

Terrell Owens Sprains Ankle Against
Dallas (AP) 12/19/2004 03:35 PM
AP - Philadelphia star wide receiver Terrell Owens was forced out of Sunday's game against the Dallas Cowboys, limping off the field with a sprained ankle.

Bracelet Returned Nearly 60 Years Later

Bracelet Returned Nearly 60 Years Later 01/12/2004 01:49 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 12 2004 0:39AM ET

Medical smart bracelet

Medical smart bracelet 12/31/2003 01:10 PM
A Turkish doctor has invented a "smart bracelet" that the elderly and infirmed can wear that can automatically alert a family member or a nurse...

Hello Kitty insect repellant bracelet

Hello Kitty insect repellant bracelet 04/13/2005 03:19 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Sid, who blogs Winkie, lives in Tokyo. Yesterday, he got a press release for a Hello Kitty branded insect repellent pendant, designed to be worn on the wrist or around the neck. The press release has lots of great janglish:

It is good feeling to have a food outside. But, it is bad if unpleasant bugs come. So, now a handy bug repellent with no smell gets popular.

The press release also cautions journalists not to imply that the pendant actually does the thing it is advertised to do:

We appreciate your corporation that the word such as "repellent" and "repel unpleasant bugs", etc. can be used on publicity, but the word or wording that imply "Effective for mosquitoes" or "itchy" and "mosquito", etc. cannot be used. A conventional repellent is registered with pharmaceutical product and/or quasi-pharmaceutical product. However, this product is not yet registered as a wording of "Effective for mosquito", etc. cannot be used.

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What Is the Significance of Ellipsis?

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A is for Atkins and Anorexia

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Pro-anorexia merchandise

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Article about pro-anorexia and pro-bulemia websites that sell merchandise to foster solidarity among people with eating disorders.

Many of the homepages and forums have been disabled but a plethora of sites can still be easily found. Anorexics can now go online and for between $US3 ($4.30) and $US25 buy a red-beaded "ana" bracelet - a symbol of solidarity that identifies them to the rest of the community. The bracelets are designed to help anorexics resist their hunger by being worn on the hand used to eat with. Red bracelets signify anorexia and blue "mia" bracelets represent bulimia. Green symbolises recovery. Health professionals believe these sites can influence their anorexic patients, including those who end up in hospital with life-threatening conditions.

(Here's a site that sells the stuff) Link

The significance of methane on Mars

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The work being done by the NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity are well publicized. Less well publicized, thus far, is the recent discovery of methane in the Martian atmosphere. A terrific source of information concerning Martian methane is contained in the blog written by author Oliver Morton. He also wrote the book Mapping Mars. There is also something of a debate about how strongly this finding supports the theory that life exists on Mars today.

Wales set for first anorexia unit

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Anorexia linked to child dancers

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