Tour Bus, Pickup Truck Collide, Killing 1
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Truck Maker Will Sell Giant Pickup
Truck Maker Will Sell Giant Pickup
09/14/2004 07:17 AMit only gets 2 MPG highway .. cement mixer-based truck .. New Navistar
CXT pickup .. satire is dead .. Meet the CXT ..
Disgusting
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“Nothing better than waking up in
the country and getting a cup of coffee
and getting in the pickup truck and
driving around and looking at the
cows.”
“Nothing better than waking up in
the country and getting a cup of coffee
and getting in the pickup truck and
driving around and looking at the
cows.”
08/18/2004 05:06 AMElisabeth Bumiller .. New York Times ..
softballs
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Small Planes Collide in N.J., Killing 5
(AP)
Small Planes Collide in N.J., Killing 5
(AP)
08/07/2004 03:39 PMAP - Two small planes collided Saturday morning in New Jersey, killing
all people five aboard and sending one aircraft plunging into the back
yard of a home.
"How do the members of a string quartet
play together and tour together year in,
year out, without killing each other?"
"How do the members of a string quartet
play together and tour together year in,
year out, without killing each other?"
01/25/2004 03:03 PMTechnologies collide
Technologies collide
07/02/2004 07:44 PMUSA Today Jul 2 2004 11:06PM GMT
When universes collide...
When universes collide...
12/19/2003 11:35 AM Once More With Hobbits -
the Lord of the Rings meets
Once More With Feeling,
the Buffy the Vampire musical episode. There are only lyrics at the
moment, but mp3s are promised soon. Until then, you'll have to sing
along yourselves!
When Worlds Collide: AGP vs PCI-E!
When Worlds Collide: AGP vs PCI-E!
04/18/2005 02:02 PMUFOs Collide
UFOs Collide
04/05/2005 12:17 PMMy last postings have been the boring non-illustrated kind; so here's
a photo Kåre, Janus and I caught last year of two UFOs colliding
in Death Valley! . We were lucky to catch this photo and another one
of eerily human-like aliens from outer space after Kåre and I
had been sitting in the desert for more than an hour taking pictures
of the stars (having fun with the 17-35mm lens on a F3 (wiiiiiide) and
taking digital pictures with...
When dunes collide
When dunes collide
12/25/2003 06:42 PM The mating habits
of
barchan sand dunes.
WiMAX, 3G Could Collide
WiMAX, 3G Could Collide
03/22/2005 07:29 PMExtreme Tech Mar 22 2005 9:03PM GMT
How to Pickup Women Easily
How to Pickup Women Easily
05/21/2004 09:49 PM
Sorry. I was just wondering why there aren't more posts like
this which would
be more useful to geeks than waka waka about blogging or poo poo
about Bush.
To avoid disappointing you altogether, here is a golden rule I
learned when I was
single:
Don't ask questions that could be answered with a No.
Until she got to know you well enough to make an informed decision
about you, stick
with the rule and ask other types of questions. If she gets
that twinkle in
her eyes, check your wallet to see if you need to make a run to the
drug store.
If she gets that pestered look, walk away happy knowing that she
wasn't your type
after all. Delusions can be useful when you are single.
;-)
If you are a complete loser, stick with the rule until she calls
the cop or makes
a run for the door. If you are a persistent bastard, keep at
it until she gets
a restraining order against you. If you are a clueless idiot,
follow her to
Texas and congratulate her for getting a gun license.
If a butterfly in Beijing can destroy Kansas, this post has a
good chance of triggering
a population explosion.
Pickup Games, Vol. 3 - Bookworm
Pickup Games, Vol. 3 - Bookworm
06/16/2004 09:04 PM
MATT GALLANT -- Bookworm is my favorite Popcap game, even though I haven't
played them all. It's another game that can run long but is easy to
walk away from when necessary.
It's a word game with simple rules: just trace a path around the
game board to spell a word. Those tiles are then removed and new tiles
drop in to take their place. Longer words get you more points. The
challenge increases as your score gets higher, as the game will drop
burning tiles that will eat their way down to the bottom of the screen
and end the game if you don't spell a word with them. If you make a
lot of short words, you get more burning tiles. Conversely, spelling
longer words will get you green, golden, and crystal tiles that give
big bonuses when used. The game also starts picking random words for
you to try and spell for an increasing amount of bonus points.
The game is great for a quick distraction or extended play. In the
standard mode of the game, there's no time limit for spelling a word,
so it's very casual. Best of all, you can play it for free on the web.
The $19.95 downloadable version does add some nice features though,
including the ability to save and quit, and both an internet and local
high score list (which keeps track of both scores and longest words
spelled).
Read [Bookworm Download Page]
Play [Bookworm Free Online Version]
when gadget bl0gs collide
when gadget bl0gs collide
03/08/2004 11:17 PMthe important thing, when entering a market with an established
player, is having some sort of differentiation
Two cultures of fauxonomies collide...
Two cultures of fauxonomies collide...
06/05/2005 10:47 PMThere's been an enormous amount of good stuff around about tags and
folksonomies recently, which I've not really had enough time to
interrogate fully. One particularly interesting experiment has been
the Cloudalicious service.
Cloudalicious was apparently inspired by the Grafolicious service which tracks
changes in the rate of bookmarking for any given URL as well as
creating browsable interfaces for getting to grips with tags.
Cloudalicious takes this one stage further - showing how the actual
tags that people use to describe a given URL change over time. This
blurry mess of semantic data is known as a 'Tag Cloud'.
But what do changes in a tag-cloud mean? Probably the most obvious
underlying cause for a change in the words used to describe a site
would be that the site itself has changed. You could probably
use an analysis of the changing tag-cloud to get a handle on what's
happening to the site. That's quite interesting.
After that - or alongside that - another underlying cause could be
a change in the vocabulary around a subject. At a really grand
level, if you can imagine a one hundred year tag-cloud around a gay
novel, then it might start with lots of people using the tag invert, with this gradually
giving way to homosexual, then gay and potentially after that,
queer.
There's a really nice illustration of this on a weblog called P.S.
which has a post called Tagclouds and cultural change. In it, there are a lot of
illustrations of the take-up of the tag 'Ajax'. You could argue this
one in a couple of ways - a new concept emerges and a weblog might
change direction to deal with it. In that case it's just about the
content changing. But for the most part the examples that the article
uses are about specific unchanging individual articles, not whole
weblogs. The vocabulary around the posts is changing, not the
posts themselves. In the following graph from that article, Ajax is
the pale blue line that - over time - becomes the tag of choice for
the article in question:
But there's also a third potential cause for changes in a tag-cloud
over time - that people might approach the very act of tagging
differently - that their understanding of what they're doing might
develop. This is a change in the nature of tagging itself. And this is
what I want to talk about really briefly.
Matt Webb and I
did a fair amount of work around tagging with a project called
Phonetags that I never get time to properly write up. As we were
working on it, we came to realise that each of us had a radically
different understanding of what a tag was. Matt's concept was quite
close to the way tagging is used in del.icio.us - with an individual the
only person who could tag their stuff and with an understanding that
the act of tagging was kind of an act of filing. My understanding was
heavily influenced by Flickr's
approach - which I think is radically different - you can tag other
people's photos for a start, and you're clearly challenged to tag up a
photo with any words that make sense to you. It's less of a filing
model than an annotative one.
When I came to use del.icio.us I approached tagging in the way that
made sense to me from Flickr. So any and all links were covered with
loads of keywords with no thought for how they ought to clump
together. I just tried to describe what the link was about in some
way. Joshua and I had a bit of an argument about the way I was using
it, actually. The browsing interface didn't really suit an approach
that had an enormous number of orphaned tags. You can get a sense of
how out of control it all got with this
visualisation of my tags. At the end of the argument I said to
Joshua that it was almost like he was treating tags as folders. And he
replied, exasperated, that this was exactly what they were. It
was just that now an object could exist comfortably in a number of
folders so you didn't have to enforce an arbitrary heirarchy on your
filing...
So two radically different forms of tagging that really share very
little in common with one another - which leads to the question, is
there room for two different paradigms here (at least) or will there
be some refactoring and adaptation that moves us towards one or other
model?
To help answer this question, here's a representation of the
tag-clouds surrounding my weblog over time (you can see the original
in context on Cloudalicious):
So this basically traces my weblog over the last year. Each
coloured line represents a particular tag - its height on the graph
indicating its 'weight' - how often it is used in relation to the
other tags. Here's where it gets interesting - there's at least one
really significant shift of emphasis that happens over the year,
between the blue and the red lines. This really does look like an
ongoing shift of emphasis in the community of people who have
bookmarked my site. And here's the really interesting bit - the two
tags are almost exactly the same. The blue one is blogs and the
red one is blog. But why such a dramatic shift between the two
tags?
Now of course, this is only one weblog and it's difficult to come
to any significant conclusions based on one example like this. But we
could use it to form a hypothesis for other more technical people to
test elsewhere. So here is that hypothesis - that the shift from
people using blogs to blog represents the increasing dominance of a
Flickr-style paradigm of tagging. Imagine the process of annotating a
weblog - if you tag it with 'blogs' it seems clear that you are adding
it to a collection of some kind. 'Blogs' is clearly the name of a
folder which houses links to weblogs rather than an attempt to
describe the weblog itself. But tagging something with the term
"blog" suggests quite the opposite - to tag a link 'blog' suggests
that I'm attempting to describe the link not as belonging to a bin
labelled 'blogs' but simply as a 'blog' in and of itself. It is my
conjecture, therefore, that the folder metaphor is losing ground and
the keyword one is currently assuming dominance.
To test if this theory is correct - to see if one model of tagging
is becoming dominant over another - should be relatively simple. You
could use tag-stemming to spot
tags with common roots in popular URLs, and then look for significant
changes in their proportionate usage over time. I'd be particularly
interested in tags that described the format of the object on the page
(article vs. articles, quiz vs. quizzes, searchengine vs.
searchengines) rather than the subject (trees, nuclear fission, cats).
If someone was to do this kind of research then I'd be delighted -
because it's those kinds of studies and observances in user behaviour
that allow us to design better interfaces to support these
innovations.
IBM, Microsoft Collide on Collaboration
IBM, Microsoft Collide on Collaboration
02/05/2005 09:20 PMAnalysts say the battle could determine which vendor leads the markets
for messaging, which Microsoft has traditionally led, and
collaboration, which IBM has dominated.
One dead as two coaches collide
One dead as two coaches collide
01/27/2004 03:34 AMOne person dies and 41 are injured in a collision between two coaches
on the Yorkshire Wolds.
Pickup Lines for Lady Luck
Pickup Lines for Lady Luck
12/31/2003 06:08 PM Want to get
lucky? Just start thinking like you already are.
Dale, Pa. Cuts Off Trash Pickup for Some
(AP)
Dale, Pa. Cuts Off Trash Pickup for Some
(AP)
01/16/2004 10:56 AMAP - Officials in this small borough are playing dirty, refusing to
pick up garbage from about a dozen delinquent customers after nearly
two-thirds of trash pickup clients failed to pay their bills.
New Pickup Makes Hummer Look Rather Puny
(AP)
New Pickup Makes Hummer Look Rather Puny
(AP)
09/16/2004 11:15 PMAP - This one could make the Hummer look like a girlie car.
International Truck and Engine Corp. is producing what it calls the
world's biggest production pickup, a 14,500-pound monster capable of
towing 20 tons.
Co. Produces 14,500-Pound Monster Pickup
(AP)
Co. Produces 14,500-Pound Monster Pickup
(AP)
09/16/2004 07:11 PMAP - This one could make the Hummer look like a girlie car.
International Truck and Engine Corp. is producing what it calls the
world's biggest production pickup, a 14,500-pound monster capable of
towing 20 tons.
Pickup Games, Vol. 1 - Inspector Parker
Pickup Games, Vol. 1 - Inspector Parker
06/14/2004 10:38 PM
MATT GALLANT -- I'll be rounding out each
day of my guest stint here with a recommendation of a nice game that
you don't necessarily need to make room for in your schedule—
one that you can play a round of in just a few minutes.
Today's game sharpens and speeds up your logic neurons. It's called
Inspector Parker, it's published by Oberon Games, and it'll
definitely wake up a brain put to sleep by too much office work.
Pickup Games, Vol. 2 - Knizia's Samurai
Pickup Games, Vol. 2 - Knizia's Samurai
06/15/2004 07:44 PM
MATT GALLANT -- Today's pickup game just
barely qualifies, as games can take more than a few minutes, but I
included it because it's turn-based and easy to get back into in case
you do have to stop mid-game. It's Reiner Knizia's Samurai, a
computerized version of the popular board game, and it even has an OS
X version.
Target Saw Pickup in Sales Last Week
Target Saw Pickup in Sales Last Week
12/30/2003 09:44 AMTheStreet.com Dec 30 2003 8:43AM ET
Pickup Games, Vol. 4 - Kingdom of
Loathing
Pickup Games, Vol. 4 - Kingdom of
Loathing
06/17/2004 07:33 PMMATT GALLANT -- Today's pickup game is
a web game— that is, one implemented entirely through HTML and
Javascript that's generated by a lot of clever server-side scripting
and database manipulation. It's Kingdom of Loathing, a turn-based RPG.
The main focus of the game is humor, with send-ups of popular RPG
conventions, as well as internet culture. But unlike a lot of other
comical games you can play over the internet, the game underneath the
humor is actually very full-featured and has a lot of content. A lot
of very funny content.
Click the MORE link below, or suffer a joyless life bereft of
comfort or understanding, like a dog in a museum.
Two Power Brokers Collide in Iraq
Two Power Brokers Collide in Iraq
08/21/2004 11:24 AMMoktada al-Sadr has shown how a portly cleric with a dedicated militia
and an artful grasp of Shiite street politics can confront American
power.
Like Particles, 2 Houses of Physics
Collide
Like Particles, 2 Houses of Physics
Collide
01/22/2004 03:19 AMA drama of two renowned laboratories played out at a conference in
Oakland, Calif., over a puff of primordial matter with an otherworldly
name: the quark-gluon plasma.
Charter Schools and Testing Collide
Charter Schools and Testing Collide
08/19/2004 03:19 PMThe education policy of the Bush administration is founded on two
pillars: standardized testing and charter schools. However, as
reported in this New York Times article (see also the audio archive at
NPR or nonsubscription coverage at the Boston Globe) , the US
Department of Education's own testing data show that nationwide,
charter schools are, in aggregate, lagging their public counterparts.
Animation and mobile devices collide
Animation and mobile devices collide
02/05/2005 09:10 PMRemember when you were a kid and you learned how to animate something?
You took a notepad and slowly drew pictures on each page, then created
a "flip book" that would animate the drawings until you ran out of
paper. My favorite animation to draw was an Evel Knievel-type
motorcycle jump over several cars that always ended in disaster.
Two Small Planes Collide in New Jersey
(AP)
Two Small Planes Collide in New Jersey
(AP)
08/07/2004 10:19 AMAP - Two small planes collided Saturday morning in New Jersey, killing
at least one person and sending one aircraft plunging into the back
yard of a home.
When games collide with movie makers
When games collide with movie makers
07/03/2004 05:30 AMThe film industry is becoming more interested in gaming, says Daniel
Etherington of BBC Collective.
Four Police Cars Collide During Exercise
(AP)
Four Police Cars Collide During Exercise
(AP)
09/22/2004 04:27 PMAP - Don't give up the training. Traffic snarled for miles on a
highway in northern England on Wednesday after four police cars
collided with each other and blocked the road, apparently during a
training exercise.
Logging and Politics Collide in Idaho
Logging and Politics Collide in Idaho
08/08/2004 09:17 PMA Bush administration plan to overturn a Clinton-era ban on building
roads in roadless areas is drawing the usual divisions.
Dogs Maintain Pickup Rights in Tennessee
(AP)
Dogs Maintain Pickup Rights in Tennessee
(AP)
04/13/2004 07:19 AMAP - After much howling in the Legislature, senators decided that dogs
can continue riding free in the backs of pickup trucks.
GM delivers first full-size hybrid
pickup
GM delivers first full-size hybrid
pickup
05/03/2004 01:58 PMScience, Politics Collide in Election
Year
Science, Politics Collide in Election
Year
08/17/2004 03:30 PMDirect and Related Links for
'Science, Politics Collide in Election Year'
“With more than 4,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel Prize
winners, having signed a statement opposing the Bush
administration’s use of scientific advice, this election year is
seeing a new development in the uneasy relationship between science
and politics….
Two Trains Collide Near Amsterdam
Central Station
Two Trains Collide Near Amsterdam
Central Station
05/21/2004 01:04 PMReuters via Wired News May 21 2004 5:18PM GMT
Two Trains Collide in NY During Morning
Commute (Reuters)
Two Trains Collide in NY During Morning
Commute (Reuters)
04/19/2004 08:25 AMReuters - At least 30 people were injured during
their Monday morning commute when two trains collided in a
tunnel near New York's Pennsylvania station, officials said.
Science, Politics Collide in Election
Year (AP)
Science, Politics Collide in Election
Year (AP)
08/14/2004 01:02 PMAP - Last November, President Bush gave physicist Richard Garwin a
medal for his "valuable scientific advice on important questions of
national security." Just three months later, Garwin signed a statement
condemning the Bush administration for misusing, suppressing and
distorting scientific advice.
Have you heard? It's in the stars, next
July we collide with Mars...
Have you heard? It's in the stars, next
July we collide with Mars...
01/01/2004 01:29 PM A better 2004? A mixed look at what Indian and
Chinese astrologers see for the new year. We're soon to move into the
Chinese
year of
the monkey, a
symbol of revolution, movement and changes... a
year of more conflict and disharmony in international relationship but
there are good chances of seeing new light and brighter future after
struggles.
But on the brighter(ish) side,
Stargazers agree that the coming 12
months cannot fare much worse than the seesaw ride that the world went
through in 2003, dogged by war in Iraq, fluctuating financial markets
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