Ancient burial may mark first human-cat friendship (USATODAY.com)

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Burial Find Doubles Age of Human Bond
with Fluffy

Burial Find Doubles Age of Human Bond
with Fluffy 04/09/2004 03:54 PM

Hunt for ancient human molecules

Hunt for ancient human molecules 02/16/2004 06:35 PM
New technologies may soon allow scientists to identify some of the genes of humankind's oldest ancestors.

NASA: Ancient meteorite likely triggered
extinction (USATODAY.com)

NASA: Ancient meteorite likely triggered
extinction (USATODAY.com) 05/14/2004 06:23 AM
USATODAY.com - NASA scientists have identified a 125-mile-wide crater off the coast of Australia as the likely impact site of a giant meteorite that almost wiped out life 250 million years ago.

Ancient Maya city, artifacts are
research treasure-trove (USATODAY.com)

Ancient Maya city, artifacts are
research treasure-trove (USATODAY.com) 05/11/2004 07:56 AM
USATODAY.com - The discovery of royal tombs, jade offerings and the mask of a forgotten god is providing valuable clues about the life and times of the ancient Maya.

Iraq seeks '.IQ' domain to make its mark
on Net (USATODAY.com)

Iraq seeks '.IQ' domain to make its mark
on Net (USATODAY.com) 06/04/2004 05:59 AM
USATODAY.com - Iraq is making its first claim for an internationally recognized presence on the Internet.

On friendship and bl0gging

On friendship and bl0gging 08/21/2004 03:48 AM

This is a piece I've been working up to for quite some time, and it'll probably be an audio blog post at some time soon.

I have five really good friends in the world. When I realized that, saying that to one of them, she said that's pretty damned good and I agree. These are people who I trust with knowing anything and everything about me. People who could call me if they needed help. I would drop everything to be there for them, and vice versa. But none of these people have weblogs, and if they had them, I wouldn't point to them, because (key point) then I would lose the ability to be friends with them.

This came home to me talking with Len Apcar at the NY Times just before the DNC. In a wide-ranging discussion I said that I had given up on the idea of friendship in the blogosphere. Apcar said that now I understood something about how they approach news. You can't be friends with the people you cover. Or you can't cover people who are friends. Either way it's equally true.

Okay, enough preamble. Ed Cone is a person I admire, I think he could be a good friend, I'm sure he is to his friends, no doubt there, but key point, he and I are not friends. That means I can point to him (which I do) and write about his work (which I've not done recently) without fear of turning this weblog into nothing more than a way of scratching the itches of my friends.

Ninety-nine percent of the blogs you read are just that, friendship favor-trading. Not this one. I will tell you when I think someone is fucking up. They will think I am not being their friend, and they will be right. But when I say something is good, or someone is not fucking up, you can trust that I'm saying that because I believe it to be true.

(Of course there are exceptions to every rule. One of my friends needs a kidney, so from time to time I write about it here, being careful to explain that I'm doing a favor for a personal friend.)

Adina on friendship

Adina on friendship 02/07/2005 01:50 AM
Adina addresses issues Chris Allen raises about the flatness of online social networks. Snippet: I think part of the problem is being a post-freudian modern; intimacy is the ultimate goal of relationship and a source of secular transcendence. We need to go back to a more 18th century concept of public identity to describe the pleasures and rewards of broad acquaintance. Lots more good stuff....

Friendship Circle

Friendship Circle 02/10/2004 03:02 AM

One of the common weaknesses of existing social network services is the lack of easy flexible ways to differentiate types or depth of friendship.  Orkut, for example, allows one to group friends but also requires one to name each group.  While this requirement seems trivial and makes sense logically, it deters users from using the feature in practice.

Friendship Circle is a way to express types and depths of friendship with minimal effort.  A Friendship Circle is basically a nested rings of people (represented by icons with miniture photo and name) around a person.  To use the Friendship Circle, the user drag and drops icons from a palette of friends to the circle.  Note that this can be done using DHTML+CSS.

Distance away from the center represent depth of friendship.  So the innermost ring is populated by family members, relatives, and best friends.  The outermost ring is populated by people whom you don't really care about (i.e. connection-addicts).

Angle of placement on a ring is used to express types of friendship.  To help the user, the rings are divided into four lightly colored quadrants: red, blue, green, and yellow.  Red and blue quadrants will most likely be used to hold people with personal and business relationships.

Update:

I drew up a mockup of Friendship Circle for those having trouble visualizing from my description.

Friendship Circle in German

Friendship Circle in German 02/15/2004 02:15 AM

Here is a post about Friendship Circle in German with a another diagram.

Wouldn't it be nice to have these sort of visual people organizer for e-mail clients and other tools?

BTW, I really get a kick out of seeing references to my post in foreign languages.

Yahoo to end friendship with Google

Yahoo to end friendship with Google 01/06/2004 01:17 PM
Cyber India Online Jan 6 2004 12:06PM ET

Wireless Friendship Beads for Kids

Wireless Friendship Beads for Kids 04/04/2005 10:46 AM

I can't pretend to know the inner workings of young girls, except for knowing there is a desire to wear shiny bangles and a surprising amount of blood. Ruth kikin-Gil probably has a better idea of what sort of glowing, wirelessly communicative tchotckes the young women would go for and has built her master's thesis around that arcane wisdom, designing, in concept, a group of paired 'beads' that can be used by groups of female cronies to show friendship and indicate mood.

As the group changes, so does the bracelet’s composition. When two girls are no longer friends, they can remove their friend’s bead from the bracelet and keep it as a memory of their friendship. When they become friends again, few weeks later, the removed beads can be added to the bracelet once again.

I'd wear this, except I'd just need one bead for myself and one for 'all of you people,' which I would then powder with a hammer.

Med iating social relationship through mobile communication within groups of teenage girls [Interaction-Ivrea via CollisionDetection]

Scottish man auctions friendship on
internet!

Scottish man auctions friendship on
internet! 09/01/2004 08:19 AM
Webindia123 Sep 1 2004 1:14PM GMT

Scottish leader defends friendship

Scottish leader defends friendship 01/06/2005 06:54 AM
First Minister Jack McConnell hits out at criticism over his friendship with BBC Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark.

Americans on both sides of war debate
use the Web to sow friendship in Iraq

Americans on both sides of war debate
use the Web to sow friendship in Iraq 05/30/2004 07:34 AM
SiliconValley.com May 30 2004 11:34AM GMT

Internet friendship detailed by Jennifer
Corbin's family

Internet friendship detailed by Jennifer
Corbin's family 01/02/2005 09:13 AM
Ajc.com - Sun Jan 2, 02:37 am GMT

Ecological burial

Ecological burial 09/17/2004 02:36 PM
Capsula Mundi is an Italian project to promote ecological burial. Alternatively, those who prefer the sea can become reefs. A Swedish company has come up with a freezing method. [Via Aeiou and MoFi.]

Space Burial

Space Burial 02/16/2004 12:59 AM

Human, all too human -- News-Digests.Com
re-launches

Human, all too human -- News-Digests.Com
re-launches 06/08/2004 02:59 AM
Human news aggregation operation expands to multiple publications. [PRWEB Jun 8, 2004]

Confederate Sub Crew Taken to Burial
Site (AP)

Confederate Sub Crew Taken to Burial
Site (AP) 04/17/2004 08:32 PM
AP - Thousands of men in Confederate gray and Union blue and women in black hoop skirts and veils escorted the crew of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship, to their final resting place Saturday.

Man survives site burial ordeal

Man survives site burial ordeal 09/11/2004 06:59 AM
Firefighters feed a builder oxygen to keep him alive after falls down a shift and is covered in rubble.

Private burial for Ronald Reagan

Private burial for Ronald Reagan 06/11/2004 09:02 PM
The body of former US President Ronald Reagan arrives back in California from Washington for a hilltop burial.

Mugabe defies ban for Pope burial

Mugabe defies ban for Pope burial 04/07/2005 04:56 AM
Zimbabwe's President Mugabe flies to Rome for the Pope's funeral on Friday despite a European Union travel ban.

Official falsified burial records

Official falsified burial records 09/02/2004 12:04 PM
An 'arrogant' cemetery worker falsified records because he could not admit he buried people in the wrong place, a court hears.

Legal wrangle over forced burial

Legal wrangle over forced burial 07/29/2004 11:34 AM
A man threatens legal action to prevent his mother being buried more than four years after her death.

Yahoo! News - Ron Reagan Jr.'s Remarks
at Burial

Yahoo! News - Ron Reagan Jr.'s Remarks
at Burial 06/13/2004 05:43 AM
The Only Decent Reagan Tribute .. bitchslaps .. eulogy

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Viking burial site revealed (Reuters)

Viking burial site revealed (Reuters) 09/07/2004 08:49 AM
Reuters - Archaeologists say they have excavated an "extremely important" burial site of six Viking men and women, complete with swords, spears, jewellery, fire-making materials and riding gear.

Cemetery Offering Organic Burial Option
(AP)

Cemetery Offering Organic Burial Option
(AP) 06/23/2004 12:14 PM
AP - In what may be the ultimate expression of back to nature, three entrepreneurs are creating what they say is California's first organic cemetery, hoping their ban on floral arrangements and formaldehyde will serve as a national model.

Mass burial for Haiti storm dead

Mass burial for Haiti storm dead 09/23/2004 10:49 AM
Flood victims in Haiti are buried in a mass grave, amid more warnings of the threat of disease.

Badgers threaten Stonehenge burial sites
(Reuters)

Badgers threaten Stonehenge burial sites
(Reuters) 08/08/2004 08:28 PM
Reuters - Determined digging by badgers living near Stonehenge's 5,000-year old circle of megaliths is damaging ancient archaeological artefacts and human remains.

Museum mulls re-burial of historic bones
(Reuters)

Museum mulls re-burial of historic bones
(Reuters) 01/06/2004 01:07 PM
Reuters - Skeletons in a London museum could be given a Christian burial as curators look for more ethical ways of keeping human remains than in storeroom boxes.

Record-Beating Truffle Goes Home for
Burial (Reuters)

Record-Beating Truffle Goes Home for
Burial (Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
Reuters - The world's most expensive truffle returned to Italy to be buried on Saturday.

Space Burial Launches in Tradition-Bound
Taiwan (Reuters)

Space Burial Launches in Tradition-Bound
Taiwan (Reuters) 02/19/2004 11:22 AM
Reuters - A U.S. company specializing in space burials has launched its service in Taiwan, where centuries of culture often see funerals involving scores of relatives, bands and professional mourners wailing over a loudspeaker.

Human Capital Institute and Human
Capital Magazine Announce Agreement

Human Capital Institute and Human
Capital Magazine Announce Agreement 06/22/2005 03:00 AM
The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a non-profit think tank, educator and professional association, and Human Capital, a leading talent management magazine, announced today an agreement to bring HCI's game-changing research and information to readers of Human Capital. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2005]

Ancient Hominids

Ancient Hominids 04/12/2005 10:01 AM
Ancient toothless skull possible first sign of early human compassion
New evidence of early human ancestry in Africa
Ski ll employed by early hominid tool makers

Ancient Scripts

Ancient Scripts 12/06/2003 08:39 AM
Ancient Scripts
http://www.ancientscripts.com

Ancient Scripts gives overviews of ancient writing systems, as well as phonetics and historical linguistics. Images of the writing systems are displayed with English phonetic approximation. Searchable, with links and a bibliography.

What Ancient Tech Do You Do?

What Ancient Tech Do You Do? 06/22/2005 02:52 AM
Slashdot Jun 21 2005 9:35PM GMT

I Like Ancient People

I Like Ancient People 04/16/2004 10:27 AM
Oldest Jewelry Discovere d In Africa n Cave At least 75,000 years old, the find suggests that early humans had a complex sense of symbolism.

Ancient Bristlecone Pine

Ancient Bristlecone Pine 01/02/2005 12:46 AM
life expectancy .. Methuselah .. aqu

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The most ancient militants on earth

The most ancient militants on earth 08/27/2004 01:29 PM
The inimitable fiction writer and satirist George Saunders typically runs his political convictions through his work as undercurrent, the subsurface but unmistakable charge of his dark and poignant hilarity. But lately, life in the time of al-Qaida and George W. Bush seems to be drawing Saunders' voltage right up to the surface. His latest offering is this "press release" -- a manifesto of sorts from a group known as PRKA.
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