The pride of Nova Scotia...beer?
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Identity mgmt. predictions from Nova
Scotia
Identity mgmt. predictions from Nova
Scotia
02/01/2005 08:20 PMWe've been looking at predictions for what's going to happen in the
identity management area in 2005, and the returns from Nova Scotia are
now in (hey, it's winter up in the Maritime provinces and it takes
longer to get to the mail box!). Abridean CTO Greg O'Malley has
chipped in with what his crystal ball is showing for the near future.
Among the things O'Malley sees happening this year:
Police raid Bank of Nova Scotia for
Royal Group Technologies documents
Police raid Bank of Nova Scotia for
Royal Group Technologies documents
02/01/2005 09:21 PMCBC Feb 1 2005 11:41PM GMT
Alchemism shows ART in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, CAN by *alchemism
Alchemism shows ART in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, CAN by *alchemism
03/19/2003 10:25 PMScotia collapse slices pension values
Scotia collapse slices pension values
01/23/2004 11:00 PMThe Scotsman Jan 24 2004 3:28AM GMT
Nova
Nova
03/14/2003 09:57 PMNova 1.3
From Nova Spivak
From Nova Spivak
01/07/2004 02:32 PMNOVA scienceNOW
NOVA scienceNOW
02/01/2005 09:20 PMNOVA scienceNOW
http://www.pbs.org/wgb
h/nova/sciencenow/
For more than three decades, NOVA
has been unrivaled in bringing authoritative, innovative, and
entertaining science documentaries to television. Now the same
award-winning producers have teamed up with veteran reporter Robert
Krulwich to cover the timeliest developments and intriguing
personalities in science and technology today. Presenting multiple
stories in a magazine format hosted by Krulwich and reported by a
diverse team of correspondents in the field, NOVA scienceNOW will air
five times a year in the NOVA time slot, Tuesdays at 8 PM ET. The
first NOVA scienceNOW episode premieres on January 25, 2005. It
includes segments on the potential catastrophic flooding that
threatens New Orleans, the "booming sands" of Death Valley, a profile
of "swarm-robot" pioneer James McLurkin, and a special report by
Krulwich on the brain structures called "mirror neurons," which may
affect everything from language evolution to the visceral appeal of
spectator sports.
PriDE
PriDE
12/06/2003 08:37 AMSupport for Postgres
NOVA | The Elegant Universe | PBS
NOVA | The Elegant Universe | PBS
10/29/2003 09:10 AMBrian Greene's The Elegant Universe becomes TV show (via Jason Kottke)
.. de Theorie die alles verklaart .. three-part series on
PBS
pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant
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Escape Velocity: Nova 1.0.4
Escape Velocity: Nova 1.0.4
03/13/2003 10:24 AMA sprawling universe dominated by a myriad of warring factions and
territorial contentions.
Nova gets read to ship
Nova gets read to ship
06/28/2004 11:40 AMDanny Ayers review of Nova Spivacks From Semantic Web to Global Mind. I guess
Nova's getting ready to ship. Hopefully he'll (Nova) be able to make
it to our "micro-content" dinner in NYC at Keen's on Aug. 19th.
=============
A post from Nova Spivack, From Semantic Web to Global Mind, in which he
looks at…well, the title says it all. It’s funny, I don’t really
disagree with any of his major points, though I wouldn’t have put
things in this way at all.
My personal take on each section:
Distributed Intelligence
A nice line here: …whereas basic written languages simply make raw
information portable, metalanguages make knowledge and intelligence
about information portable. But I disagree There’s the usual
problem of differentiating between x and meta-x, if that matters in
the slightest. Existing human languages are pretty good at making at
making knowledge portable, but there are certainly at least two
related aspects of web languages that do make a difference. That the
(meta-)data is machine-readable is one big step, and from that the
data being machine-processable is another. A practical key is that the
web languages are allow declarative expression of the information
independent of processing, something which Nova is obviously aware
with his reference to there being no need for hard-coding.
The Internet is a Brain…and the Web is its
Mind
Again I kind-of agree, but would be very reluctant to put it in these
terms. The Internet has features like those of a brain, but isn’t
yet at all smart like a mouse, and the web is currently nothing like a
mind apart from in the sense of carrying a whole load of jumbled
information around in it. The analogy to the animal brain only works
to a point, the nature of the system is so very different. I’d have
probably thrown in the phrase ‘hive mind’ somewhere around here,
the net as a whole gets what intelligence it has from lots of little
stupid entities. But even then that isn’t a very good analogy, as
the millions of individual humans sat on the edges are an incredibly
important part of the system.
Memes are Evolving Minds of their Own
Hmm, sounds nice but I’d be tempted to use the meme notion as it
currently stands - pretty self-unaware little items of belief (or
knowledge).
The Infrastructure of Distributed Intelligence
This is more on ground I’m comfortable with, whatever analogies you
use for net intelligence, the wiring is a significant part. A
distinction I think Nova blurs here is between design and emergence.
Viewed holistically I suppose the XML spec could be seen as an
emergent property of the human+machine system, but if we’re talking
about the net as an mind in its own right then the watchmaker isn’t
blind.
The Evolution of Metalanguage
Not sure about the angle of this section at all, many of the ideas of
the Semantic Web languages have been around for thousands of years
(leading up to first order logic), it’s only when they’re combined
with computers, in particular a big network of computers that the
utility explodes. The feedback loop, that the philosophers can now use
the computer as a practical tool is probably quite significant too.
Mutter - we might have these metalanguages, but still I can’t
link to the individual paragraphs in Nova’s piece, can we really
expect a global mind before TypePad features named anchors?
MARC's answer = NO!
How the Global Mind Thinks
This section gives a high-level view of the layers of the Semantic
Web, and notes the role grassroots stuff like RSS is likely to play.
But “Thinks” should either be in italics or at least a courier
font (as in (cwm –think).
Can the Global Mind Pass the Turing Test
I like Nova’s example here, he was able to get the answer to a math
problem quicker than an expert by farming it out to other semi-expert
folks. But I think the Turing Test only makes sense for a very human
kind of intelligence, and a future clever web is highly unlikely to
think like like that.
Reading the Global Mind
Here Nova discusses data mining and meta-metrics on the cognitive web.
It’s an interesting area, the fact that we can safely probe inside
live systems makes everything a lot easier than analysis of biological
systems. But I think there’s a caveat here - beware of reading too
much into statistics. Just because it talks and wears the same clothes
as a causal relationship doesn’t mean to say it is a causal
relationship.
Minding Your Business
As the global mind develops it will initially be focused around making
information more useable. Indeed. Nova goes into the high-level
sharing of knowledge in organizations here, which does make sense,
those which take advantage of these developments are likely to have an
advantage. I don’t think the mind analogy is needed for that.
Knowledge Objects: A New Medium for the Web
Here Nova goes into discussion of the framework his company, Radar Networks is developing.
Sounds interesting, the approach seems to be something along the lines
of signed RDF
Objects or CBD’s. There seems
to be emphasis on the separation of data (e.g. media objects) and
metadata, which is interesting - other folks (like Adobe) go the other
way, embedding the metadata. I’m sure both have their place.
Knowledge Networks
I can’t comment much about this because a lot relates to the
approach taken by Nova and co. I’m not sure whether the Knowledge
Networks he refers to are the semantic ‘islands’ that when joined
will for the Semantic Web, or whether it’s a different (proprietary)
idea. Whatever, if you stick the stuff on the web you can have
whatever knowledge networks you choose.
On a personal note…before the Semantic Web ideas were around
(before the web or IBM-compatible PCs in fact) I myself carried the
flame of the realisable global mind. I’d got the idea from old SF
novels, and it fitted with the growth in computing power and
distribution (particularly of early personal computers). But in recent
years I’ve tended to avoid this angle, being more interested in
making what we’ve got just one (big) step more useful. I still think
the old-AI notion is basically reasonable, just the timescales and
expectation of the work involved were completely out. That’s another
reason I’m wary of talking in old-AI terms, the hype angle -
engineers are much more likely to be receptive to a tool that does
work today rather than a vision that might work tomorrow. Let’s just
get the RDF and OWL designed in, the vision emergence will take care
of itself.
My own change in focus has more and more pointed to the notion of
human augmentation as an alternative (but not incompatible) long-term
vision. Right now the distributed communications angle offers a major
augmentation, when the Semantic Web parts kick in a little more I
believe we’ll start to exploit computing power of computers a lot
more. There were I suppose two major sci-fi angles to all this - the
individual cyberman and there’s the global mind. Those of us with
access to computer technology already are cybernetic, just that the
human-computer interface is a whole lot clunkier than we expected.
Right now the global mind is maybe bigger, thanks to the distribution
of hosts, but an awful lot dumber. Really, really dumb. But an
enormous benefit is already coming from a third avenue, those two
pretty crude things mixed together, an augmented humantity. Not that
it shows very much outside science and technology.
Anyhow, Nova has a word along those practical, next-step lines:
Note: The patent-pending Radar Networks Semantic
Applications platform represents four years of stealth R&D. The
platform is in pure Java and complies with open standards for the
Internet and Semantic Web. A lightweight, unsupported version of the
platform will be released to the public under an LGPL open-source
license in summer of 2005. The full, commercially supported version of
the platform will be available via a commercial license from Radar
Networks.
Looking forward to it.
Marc's final note: Oh goodey, Nova's technology is
patented. That way it'll attract investment and THEN they can fuck us
- right? Why would we get involved in something that's
patented?
The Dark Nova Project
The Dark Nova Project
04/23/2004 10:41 AMDark Nova 0.1.3 Alpha released
Escape Velocity: Nova 1.0.8
Escape Velocity: Nova 1.0.8
05/10/2004 02:50 PMA sprawling universe dominated by a myriad of warring factions and
territorial contentions.
The Power of Pride
The Power of Pride
07/14/2004 10:09 AM
Despotism. Because, as communities go,
so goes the nation.
W's False pride
W's False pride
09/24/2004 11:57 AMThis is interesting: Republicans for
Humility.
When I look at the W presidency and closer at the man himself and
ask myself why I would not vote for him, humility ranks at the top
(the lack of it, actually). I've seen time and time again, whenever he
is asked a challenging question, or given the opportunity to reflect
on past decisions, and Bush will respond in the most ways that
approach complete arrogance.
Progress is continuing well in Iraq. I've never made a mistake in
my presidency. Rumsfeld is doing a terrific job. The economy is strong
and turning a corner.
Some write it off as optimism, but when he was asked about any bad
decisions he's made earlier this year and said he's never made a
mistake, he lost all credibility with me. Mistakes aren't always a bad
thing, they're an opportunity to learn. And great men make thousands
of mistakes on their way to greatness. When I heard him state his
complete lack of mistakes, one word came to mind: Pride.
For a religious man, he should know about the sing of Pride and even to the
non-religious, most folks have a low tolerance for arrogance. The line
between "That guy is really optimistic" and "That jerk thinks he's
perfect in every way" is a fine one.
It's great to see a republican-run site asking for some humility.
People aren't perfect. Even great leaders make mistakes. The greatest
leaders we've ever had took the time to reflect on them, acknowledge
them, and repair any damage caused. When it comes to W, I'm not seeing
any of that, just a complete lack of introspection and humility.
Display With Pride
Display With Pride
04/15/2005 12:34 PMYesterday's
update at SW.com included the unveiling of the
new
Pride
Displays Trilogy cabinet, designed specifically to house their
A New Hope,
The Empire Strikes Back
and
Return of the Jedi display dioramas. Also announced was a
mystery item that will be on display in prototype form at the
StarWarsShop.com booth.
Thousands due at Gay Pride
Thousands due at Gay Pride
07/03/2004 03:35 AMTens of thousands of people are expected on the streets of London for
Europe's biggest gay festival.
Display Your Figures With Pride
Display Your Figures With Pride
09/25/2004 09:27 AMThe next generation in
Star Wars figure display systems has
arrived, thanks to
Pride Displays. This British-based company has
just received the license to produce official action figure display
settings in the United Kingdom and Ireland (overseas customers might
want to contact British collectors for help). The first one to be made
available is a Tatooine setting from
A New Hope, but more are
planned for the future. These sets are availble to pre-order, for
30.00 plus P&P, from their website and will be made available in
January 2005. We'll have more pictures and a detailed review coming
soon.
Pondering "Pride and Prejudice"
Pondering "Pride and Prejudice"
06/01/2004 11:22 PMPurposes of Blogs in the
Classroom
"(via Rick
Barter) Samantha Blackmon at Purdue
offers this reasoning behind her use of Weblogs with her
students...
She has a class blogging
about Pride and Predjudice that gets to some of what she
describes. [Weblogg-ed
News]
A very interesting blog that supports the idea of a library using
blogs and/or wikis for book discussion groups.
Pride In One's Country
Pride In One's Country
11/11/2003 10:33 AM Are
You, Deep Down, Secretly, Between-You-And-Me, Proud Of Your
Country? Even if you're not
Canadian?
Because
a lot of people in the world, no matter how badly run
their country might be, seem to be just that. Isn't it weird, though -
and, well, stupid - to be proud of something that just happened to
happen to us and that we've done nothing to deserve, whether for good
or for bad? A more telling question that occurs is: what nationality
would you
choose to be, if you couldn't be the one you are?
Here's
the
menu.
Cruelty at Pilgrim's Pride
Cruelty at Pilgrim's Pride
07/20/2004 11:28 AMA video of chicken abuse raises issues at the nation's No. 2 poultry
producer.
NOVA | The Elegant Universe | Watch the
Program | PBS
NOVA | The Elegant Universe | Watch the
Program | PBS
11/16/2003 05:58 AMWatch The Elegant Universe (3 hours) [via Malin Cantwell] .. series of
quick time vids .. view in streaming video .. three-hour stream ..
available online .. online
pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html
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Ambrosia updates Escape Velocity: Nova
Ambrosia updates Escape Velocity: Nova
03/13/2003 10:20 AMAmbrosia Software today posted Escape Velocity: Nova 1.0.4, an update
to the company's popular action/adventure game...
Super-nova pre-dinner/party June 23
Super-nova pre-dinner/party June 23
06/02/2004 05:09 PMI'm going to try to help plan a dinner/party that I can't attend.
David Beckemeyer et al to are working on Heckelbot so I can be there virtually. The
dinner/party is scheduled for June 23, the day before Supernova 2004 at the
Westin in Santa Clara. I ALWAYS go to Supernova, but this year I just
can't make it since I have to be in Tokyo for a shareholders
meeting.
Here a
wiki page for the planning.
Speaking of Supernova, I'm hoping I will be able to participate in
the conference via rigged Hecklebot as well. Stay tuned for more on
this. ;-)
New NOVA Website Examines the Wrath of a
Tsunami
New NOVA Website Examines the Wrath of a
Tsunami
03/22/2005 03:16 PMIn "Wave That Shook the World," a special report shot within days of
the tsunami, NOVA presents a clear explanation and analysis of the
tragedy on March 29 at 8pm ET on PBS, revealing exactly how the deadly
waves were triggered by one of the most powerful earthquakes recorded
in the past century. Additional information is available at
http://www.pbs.org/nova/tsunami. [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]
New NOVA Website, TV Program Help
Explain Tsunamis
New NOVA Website, TV Program Help
Explain Tsunamis
03/22/2005 03:34 PMWave That Shook The World is the new site and special report shot
within days of the disaster. NOVA presents a clear explanation and
analysis of the tragedy, revealing exactly how these deadly waves were
triggered by one of the most powerful earthquakes recorded in the past
century.
Poultry Not Paltry for Pilgrim's Pride
Poultry Not Paltry for Pilgrim's Pride
04/26/2004 11:37 AMRising chicken prices boost earnings and have the firm crowing.
U.S. Men Salvage Some Pride with
Basketball Bronze
U.S. Men Salvage Some Pride with
Basketball Bronze
08/28/2004 06:57 PMReuters via Wired News Aug 28 2004 10:34PM GMT
Triumphant Olympics End With Pride,
Relief (AP)
Triumphant Olympics End With Pride,
Relief (AP)
08/29/2004 04:25 PMAP - Efharisto! A nervous world learned the Greek word for thank you
and repeated it endlessly at an astonishingly successful Athens
Olympics that quelled fears, surprised skeptics and greatly honored
the birthplace of the games.
Iraqis Watch With Wary Pride as Little
Changes, and a Lot
Iraqis Watch With Wary Pride as Little
Changes, and a Lot
07/03/2004 01:25 PMThe transfer of formal sovereignty to an interim government of Iraqi
leaders seems to be working on the national psyche in subtle ways.
Heather Gold on Pride 2005
Heather Gold on Pride 2005
06/22/2005 01:49 AMDavid Pescovitz:
With San Francisco Pride 2005 coming up this weekend, geek comedian
Heather Gold has written an essay about her sense of pride and
Pride:
Pride is traditionally the day queer folks take a break
from designing and catering other people's parties to have a party of
our own. I'm still debating whether I’ll go to the Gay Pride
Pride Parade this year. I usually go, but I'm a little hesitant this
year. I think it’s because I'm reaching gay middle age, which
can begin as early as 25...
Stand proud Gay Parcheesi Players with Hay Fever! You are not alone.
Soon, you too will have a float in the parade. And a special flag.
This is how we got the new acronym GLBTIQQ. We used to be the gay
community. Now, we are the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transexual,
intersex, queer and questioning community. If we really want to be
genuinely inclusive, we should add FSP for friendly straight people.
And then add some vowels, because they're feeling oppressed and
excluded from the acronym. Then add T for Tired, because you're
exhausted by the time you get to the end of it. GBLTIQQUOEFSPAT. This
is how the Parade got so long.
No one will be left out! Except the numbers. Maybe the genderqueer
folks can be the numbers. Or maybe we can just use ?. The Parade is
now as long as ?. They should have a halftime break. They can have
straight men come out and play football for us.
LinkAmbrosia updates Escape Velocity: Nova
for Panther
Ambrosia updates Escape Velocity: Nova
for Panther
12/16/2003 05:30 AMAmbrosia Software today posted Escape Velocity: Nova 1.0.7, an update
to the company's popular space action/adventure game...
Nova Media unveils Mac support for UMTS
connections
Nova Media unveils Mac support for UMTS
connections
04/30/2004 07:57 AMNova Media today unveiled Mobile High Speed 3G, which it says is the
first Mac OS software to support online connections using the UMTS
(Universal Mobile Telephone Service) protocol...
Nova offers Mac wireless UMTS data
connections
Nova offers Mac wireless UMTS data
connections
04/30/2004 07:56 AMNova media on Friday introduced Mobile High Speed 3G, which adds the
ability for Macs to connect to online services through mobile phones
using the UMTS protocol. UMTS is gaining traction in Europe and
provides the ability to download up to 384Kbps. In addition to UMTS,
Mobile High Speed 3G provides support for GPRS, EDGE, HSCSD and
GSM-based cell phone networks worldwide.
NOVA scienceNOW Launches Online
Destination for Hot Science
NOVA scienceNOW Launches Online
Destination for Hot Science
03/14/2005 05:03 PMThe NOVA scienceNOW web site is a newly designed portal on NOVA's Web
site, the most trafficked destination on pbs.org. The site will be
updated regularly with fresh content throughout the year, creating an
exciting ongoing presence for the series and an online destination for
thought-provoking science.
Terra Nova - Virtual Worlds
Collaborative Blog
Terra Nova - Virtual Worlds
Collaborative Blog
04/03/2005 07:57 AMTerra Nova - Virtual Worlds Collaborative Bloght
tp://terranova.blogs.com/Terra Nova is a collaborative weblog experiment. It is about
an emerging social phenomenon called "virtual worlds" --
computer-generated, persistent, immersive, and representational social
platforms. Currently, the most popular virtual worlds are massively
multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs), such as Everquest and
Star Wars Galaxies. However, there are many other old and new
varieties of virtual worlds. Posts at Terra Nova will offer news and
opinions regarding the social, economic, legal, psychological, and
political aspects of these worlds. They will feature scholarship,
insights, and data relevant to the study of virtual worlds. This has
been added to
Social
Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Cthulhu at the Nova Express coffee house
[Flickr]
Cthulhu at the Nova Express coffee house
[Flickr]
03/22/2005 04:38 PMFrom a Picture of Pride to a Symbol of
Abuse in Iraq
From a Picture of Pride to a Symbol of
Abuse in Iraq
05/07/2004 12:45 AMRelatives and friends of Pfc. Lynndie R. England, who appears
prominently in the photographs of prisoners in Iraq being abused, are
searching for answers.
What will we come to With all this pride
of ancestry, we Yankees? -- Robert Frost
What will we come to With all this pride
of ancestry, we Yankees? -- Robert Frost
10/28/2003 11:08 PM Ancestry Maps
from the 1990 census: Which states have the highest percentage of
people of
Danis
h ancestry?
Greek<
/a>? His
panic? Who (perhaps)
doe
sn't realize that we almost all came here from somewhere else?
Using the data provided on 1990 Census question 13, which asked
respondents to identify the ancestry groups with which they identified
most closely, the State of Minnesota provides us with these nifty
Ancestry maps. More info
here on
'the ancestry question' from the US Census Bureau.
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