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“Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal, these are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.” -- Murphy,
The Boondock SaintsWe should not be deluded into thinking that #OccupyWallStreet is a protest against capitalism. It is a protest against the blatant theft perpetrated by the financial and banking systems that has plagued our great nation and its government for at
least the past 98 years.
On
Capitalism versus Statism:
“[...] If we are to keep the term "capitalism" at all, then, we must distinguish between "free-market capitalism" on the one hand, and "state capitalism" on the other. The two are as different as day and night in their nature and consequences.
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. State capitalism consists of one or more groups making use of the coercive apparatus of the government — the State — to accumulate capital for themselves by expropriating the production of others by force and violence [...]” -- Murray N. Rothbard, 1972 [1]
While the protests continue to grow in cities around the country [2], Anonymous is warning the NYPD against continued police brutality [3] and even previously trusted news outlets begin to censor [4] if not blatantly ignore [5].
Look through the actual photos [6]. These faces are not those of hippies, bums, or of radicals. These are the faces of your friends and family, of your neighbors and coworkers [7]. It is the
majority, the 99% of affected Americans, that are on the streets protesting. It is
We the People.
Thanks to
+Jeremy Dahl for providing the link and video,
+Michael Mozart for livestreaming the protests earlier today, and
+Breana Van Den Heuvel for providing a constant stream of photos and news as this evolves.
[1]:
http://mises.org/daily/3735[2]:
http://www.occupytogether.org/[3]:
Anonymous WARNING to NYPD on Behalf of Occupy Wall Street.! will not be forgotten or Forgiven.[4]:
http://ampedstatus.org/twittercensorship-blocks-occupywallstreet-from-top-trending-topic-twice/[5]:
Keith Olbermann calls out Media Blackout on 'Occupy Wall Street' Protest[6]:
https://plus.google.com/photos/112353210404102902472/albums/5658628267519370497[7]:
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/
Attachments
What is Capitalism?
Tom Woods explains. What do you think? Full video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiIbSEjEw3w Young Americans for Liberty at IU brought Dr. Tom Woods to speak at IU. You can keep in touch on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/YALatIU I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
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“Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal, these are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.” -- Murphy,
The Boondock SaintsWe should not be deluded into thinking that #OccupyWallStreet is a protest against capitalism. It is a protest against the blatant theft perpetrated by the financial and banking systems that has plagued our great nation and its government for at
least the past 98 years.
On
Capitalism versus Statism:
“[...] If we are to keep the term "capitalism" at all, then, we must distinguish between "free-market capitalism" on the one hand, and "state capitalism" on the other. The two are as different as day and night in their nature and consequences.
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. State capitalism consists of one or more groups making use of the coercive apparatus of the government — the State — to accumulate capital for themselves by expropriating the production of others by force and violence [...]” -- Murray N. Rothbard, 1972 [1]
While the protests continue to grow in cities around the country [2], Anonymous is warning the NYPD against continued police brutality [3] and even previously trusted news outlets begin to censor [4] if not blatantly ignore [5].
Look through the actual photos [6]. These faces are not those of hippies, bums, or of radicals. These are the faces of your friends and family, of your neighbors and coworkers [7]. It is the
majority, the 99% of affected Americans, that are on the streets protesting. It is
We the People.
Thanks to
+Jeremy Dahl for providing the link and video,
+Michael Mozart for livestreaming the protests earlier today, and
+Breana Van Den Heuvel for providing a constant stream of photos and news as this evolves.
[1]:
http://mises.org/daily/3735[2]:
http://www.occupytogether.org/[3]:
Anonymous WARNING to NYPD on Behalf of Occupy Wall Street.! will not be forgotten or Forgiven.[4]:
http://ampedstatus.org/twittercensorship-blocks-occupywallstreet-from-top-trending-topic-twice/[5]:
Keith Olbermann calls out Media Blackout on 'Occupy Wall Street' Protest[6]:
https://plus.google.com/photos/112353210404102902472/albums/5658628267519370497[7]:
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/
Attachments
What is Capitalism?
Tom Woods explains. What do you think? Full video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiIbSEjEw3w Young Americans for Liberty at IU brought Dr. Tom Woods to speak at IU. You can keep in touch on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/YALatIU I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
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“Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal, these are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.” -- Murphy,
The Boondock SaintsWe should not be deluded into thinking that #OccupyWallStreet is a protest against capitalism. It is a protest against the blatant theft perpetrated by the financial and banking systems that has plagued our great nation and its government for at
least the past 98 years.
On
Capitalism versus Statism:
“[...] If we are to keep the term "capitalism" at all, then, we must distinguish between "free-market capitalism" on the one hand, and "state capitalism" on the other. The two are as different as day and night in their nature and consequences.
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. State capitalism consists of one or more groups making use of the coercive apparatus of the government — the State — to accumulate capital for themselves by expropriating the production of others by force and violence [...]” -- Murray N. Rothbard, 1972 [1]
While the protests continue to grow in cities around the country [2], Anonymous is warning the NYPD against continued police brutality [3] and even previously trusted news outlets begin to censor [4] if not blatantly ignore [5].
Look through the actual photos [6]. These faces are not those of hippies, bums, or of radicals. These are the faces of your friends and family, of your neighbors and coworkers [7]. It is the
majority, the 99% of affected Americans, that are on the streets protesting. It is
We the People.
Thanks to
+Jeremy Dahl for providing the link and video,
+Michael Mozart for livestreaming the protests earlier today, and
+Breana Van Den Heuvel for providing a constant stream of photos and news as this evolves.
[1]:
http://mises.org/daily/3735[2]:
http://www.occupytogether.org/[3]:
Anonymous WARNING to NYPD on Behalf of Occupy Wall Street.! will not be forgotten or Forgiven.[4]:
http://ampedstatus.org/twittercensorship-blocks-occupywallstreet-from-top-trending-topic-twice/[5]:
Keith Olbermann calls out Media Blackout on 'Occupy Wall Street' Protest[6]:
https://plus.google.com/photos/112353210404102902472/albums/5658628267519370497[7]:
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/
Attachments
What is Capitalism?
Tom Woods explains. What do you think? Full video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiIbSEjEw3w Young Americans for Liberty at IU brought Dr. Tom Woods to speak at IU. You can keep in touch on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/YALatIU I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
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“Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal, these are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.” -- Murphy,
The Boondock SaintsWe should not be deluded into thinking that #OccupyWallStreet is a protest against capitalism. It is a protest against the blatant theft perpetrated by the financial and banking systems that has plagued our great nation and its government for at
least the past 98 years.
On
Capitalism versus Statism:
“[...] If we are to keep the term "capitalism" at all, then, we must distinguish between "free-market capitalism" on the one hand, and "state capitalism" on the other. The two are as different as day and night in their nature and consequences.
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. State capitalism consists of one or more groups making use of the coercive apparatus of the government — the State — to accumulate capital for themselves by expropriating the production of others by force and violence [...]” -- Murray N. Rothbard, 1972 [1]
While the protests continue to grow in cities around the country [2], Anonymous is warning the NYPD against continued police brutality [3] and even previously trusted news outlets begin to censor [4] if not blatantly ignore [5].
Look through the actual photos [6]. These faces are not those of hippies, bums, or of radicals. These are the faces of your friends and family, of your neighbors and coworkers [7]. It is the
majority, the 99% of affected Americans, that are on the streets protesting. It is
We the People.
Thanks to
+Jeremy Dahl for providing the link and video,
+Michael Mozart for livestreaming the protests earlier today, and
+Breana Van Den Heuvel for providing a constant stream of photos and news as this evolves.
[1]:
http://mises.org/daily/3735[2]:
http://www.occupytogether.org/[3]:
Anonymous WARNING to NYPD on Behalf of Occupy Wall Street.! will not be forgotten or Forgiven.[4]:
http://ampedstatus.org/twittercensorship-blocks-occupywallstreet-from-top-trending-topic-twice/[5]:
Keith Olbermann calls out Media Blackout on 'Occupy Wall Street' Protest[6]:
https://plus.google.com/photos/112353210404102902472/albums/5658628267519370497[7]:
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/
Attachments
What is Capitalism?
Tom Woods explains. What do you think? Full video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiIbSEjEw3w Young Americans for Liberty at IU brought Dr. Tom Woods to speak at IU. You can keep in touch on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/YALatIU I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
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Suppose you have a three-dimensional scene in which there are five recognizable landmark points such as corners of buildings. Take two photos of the scene, from unrecorded camera positions. Do the photos themselves, together with the focal lengths of the lenses you used to take them, give you enough information to reconstruct the relative positions of the landmarks and the cameras? The answer: no, but almost. According to the Kruppa–Demazure theorem, in general there are only ten different scenes and camera placements that could have given you the same two photos: the actual scene, and nine other alternatives that have the same two projections.
The Demazure of the theorem is Michel Demazure. He started out as a student of Grothendieck and a member of Bourbaki, proved this theorem at about the same time as he was president of the French Mathematical Society, and after that became a science museum director (twice).
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Michel Demazure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michel Demazure. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. Michel Demazure, Bures-sur-Yvette 2007. Michel Demazure (born 1937) is a French mathematician. He made contribution...
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Suppose you have a three-dimensional scene in which there are five recognizable landmark points such as corners of buildings. Take two photos of the scene, from unrecorded camera positions. Do the photos themselves, together with the focal lengths of the lenses you used to take them, give you enough information to reconstruct the relative positions of the landmarks and the cameras? The answer: no, but almost. According to the Kruppa–Demazure theorem, in general there are only ten different scenes and camera placements that could have given you the same two photos: the actual scene, and nine other alternatives that have the same two projections.
The Demazure of the theorem is Michel Demazure. He started out as a student of Grothendieck and a member of Bourbaki, proved this theorem at about the same time as he was president of the French Mathematical Society, and after that became a science museum director (twice).
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Michel Demazure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michel Demazure. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. Michel Demazure, Bures-sur-Yvette 2007. Michel Demazure (born 1937) is a French mathematician. He made contribution...
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This is a bunch of the peepz from GundamWing.com and AnimeMetro.com - getting together way back at MetroCon 2.
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SXG+: The Road TripI'm now home and settled in after a whirlwind trip to
+SXSW with
+Superdave Houdini, and getting back to work on
+LocalSense. We drove over 2,000 miles in total to
+HIRL with amazing Google+ community members like
+Carter Gibson,
+Amanda Blain, and
+Moritz Tolxdorff. It's over for me now, but the afterglow of meeting even more
amazing people than I did at the #DCHIRL will linger with me for a while yet, and the impressions they've made upon me will be permanent.
It started in Raleigh, NC where I departed at around 6:30 PM to meet
+Superdave Houdini in Valdosta, GA at around 2 AM. One Georgian speeding ticket later, I was #scheming with my soon-to-be roatrip partner (who'd just arrived from Miami, FL!) and
+Raleigh Burke in a Google Hangout for an hour or two before hitting the road again.
We stopped in Tallahassee, FL for some breakfast and #starbucks ( #buxxin !) while I knocked out a few work tasks, and were New Orleans-bound within the hour. We soon passed a sign for a place called “Buc-ee's”, which was apparently
797 miles away ( #WTF ?) [1]. This is apparently a
thing, and there's not one--but
multiple posts on The Internet™ about
that particular sign.
Following up our post-breakfast journey with a stop on Bourbon Street [2] for some wings was an absolute must, and we rewarded our success in overtaking
+Amanda Blain (who was stuck way back Atlanta on the
+StartupBus!) with a drink or two before cramming back into my car and cranking some #whitegirlfriday jams. Thankfully we had #bluetooth in the car, so
+Superdave Houdini was able to play the appropriate soundtrack for the epic that was already unfolding.
There was more
+Starbucks Coffee to be had in Baton Rouge, LA [3] before heading out on the final stretch to Texas, fueling our excitement as we looked forward to the upcoming shenanigans in Austin. Texas indeed greeted us with all its majesty, a grandiose
lone star at a rest stop just across the border, where one of Mini-Supes' (R.I.P.) last photos was taken... (photo forthcoming!) but US-10 had some surprises for us before we'd land for the night.
Just as we were passing through Vidor, TX, we encountered bumper-to-bumper traffic that we later learned was the result of an overturned truck somewhere along that particular stretch. Not especially excited to endure three hours worth of traffic, we decided to route two hours down towards Bridge City [4] and then west to Winnie before picking up US10 again on the way into Houston, where we stayed with the brilliant and gracious
+Calvin Christopher for drinks, intellectual discourse, and planning for the following day.
We all sadly lost a good partner and great friend that night [5], but we weren't to be thwarted--
the show must go on! We had three hours remaining, and needed to be back on the road. So off we went! [6]
I'm sure all the others will document the happenings in Austin sufficiently, so I'll save my insight for later--but I'll end with a special thank you to
+John Fanavans,
+Summer Fulcher, and the rest of you who met us that night when we arrived. That night certainly set the tone for the remainder of what turned out to be one of the most
alive, and
vibrant, and
incredible experiences possible.
Thank
all of you for making Google+ for what it is.
+Aaron Kasten +Al Ebnereza +Amanda Blain +Anna Lowry +Brett Bjornsen +Calvin Christopher +Carter Gibson +Daniel Armendariz +Daniel Enloe +Daria Musk +Erika Stahoski +Gisel Ocañas +John Fanavans +Johnny Roquemore +Joltrast . +Justin Myers +Ken Pham +Keyan Mobli +Laurie DesAutels +Liza Sperling (how did we miss each other?!)
+Megan Noel Rhea +Michael O'Reilly +Michele Predmore (even though we didn't get to meet!)
+Moritz Tolxdorff +Rory Swan +Sheighla Friel +Summer Fulcher +Superdave Houdini +Trey Ratcliff +Yifat Cohen.
(Did I miss anyone? Recording them here for posterity and more!)
Photo credit
+Al Ebnereza, who is
the man.
[1]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/DFPv5HMVDzj[2]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/PVHXLcXReuW[3]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/Fah5dZVjPpg[4]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/GXLjio86ua4[5]:
https://plus.google.com/111562638514922412630/posts/97Fh6BTo7gT[6]:
https://plus.google.com/107345301833335315063/posts/WaprzVgZky5
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SXG+: The Road TripI'm now home and settled in after a whirlwind trip to
+SXSW with
+Superdave Houdini, and getting back to work on
+LocalSense. We drove over 2,000 miles in total to
+HIRL with amazing Google+ community members like
+Carter Gibson,
+Amanda Blain, and
+Moritz Tolxdorff. It's over for me now, but the afterglow of meeting even more
amazing people than I did at the
#DCHIRL will linger with me for a while yet, and the impressions they've made upon me will be permanent.
It started in Raleigh, NC where I departed at around 6:30 PM to meet
+Superdave Houdini in Valdosta, GA at around 2 AM. One Georgian speeding ticket later, I was
#scheming with my soon-to-be roatrip partner (who'd just arrived from Miami, FL!) and
+Raleigh Burke in a Google Hangout for an hour or two before hitting the road again.
We stopped in Tallahassee, FL for some breakfast and
#starbucks (
#buxxin !) while I knocked out a few work tasks, and were New Orleans-bound within the hour. We soon passed a sign for a place called “Buc-ee's”, which was apparently
797 miles away (
#WTF ?) [1]. This is apparently a
thing, and there's not one-
but multiple posts on The Internet™ about that particular sign.Following up our post-breakfast journey with a stop on Bourbon Street [2] for some wings was an absolute must, and we rewarded our success in overtaking +Amanda Blain (who was stuck way back Atlanta on the +StartupBus!) with a drink or two before cramming back into my car and cranking some #whitegirlfriday jams. Thankfully we had #bluetooth in the car, so +Superdave Houdini was able to play the appropriate soundtrack for the epic that was already unfolding.There was more +Starbucks Coffee to be had in Baton Rouge, LA [3] before heading out on the final stretch to Texas, fueling our excitement as we looked forward to the upcoming shenanigans in Austin. Texas indeed greeted us with all its majesty, a grandiose lone star at a rest stop just across the border, where one of Mini-Supes' (R.I.P.) last photos was taken... (photo forthcoming!) but US-10 had some surprises for us before we'd land for the night.Just as we were passing through Vidor, TX, we encountered bumper-to-bumper traffic that we later learned was the result of an overturned truck somewhere along that particular stretch. Not especially excited to endure three hours worth of traffic, we decided to route two hours down towards Bridge City [4] and then west to Winnie before picking up US10 again on the way into Houston, where we stayed with the brilliant and gracious +Calvin Christopher for drinks, intellectual discourse, and planning for the following day.We all sadly lost a good partner and great friend that night [5], but we weren't to be thwarted-the show must go on! We had three hours remaining, and needed to be back on the road. So off we went! [6]
I'm sure all the others will document the happenings in Austin sufficiently, so I'll save my insight for later--but I'll end with a special thank you to
+John Fanavans,
+Summer Fulcher, and the rest of you who met us that night when we arrived. That night certainly set the tone for the remainder of what turned out to be one of the most
alive, and
vibrant, and
incredible experiences possible.
Thank
all of you for making Google+ for what it is.
+Aaron Kasten +Al Ebnereza +Amanda Blain +Anna Lowry +Brett Bjornsen +Calvin Christopher +Carter Gibson +Daniel Armendariz +Daniel Enloe +Daria Musk +Erika Stahoski +Gisel Ocañas +John Fanavans +Johnny Roquemore +Joltrast . +Justin Myers +Ken Pham +Keyan Mobli +Laurie DesAutels +Liza Sperling (how did we miss each other?!)
+Megan Noel Rhea +Michael O'Reilly +Michele Predmore (even though we didn't get to meet!)
+Moritz Tolxdorff +Rory Swan +Sheighla Friel +Summer Fulcher +Superdave Houdini +Trey Ratcliff +Yifat Cohen.
(Did I miss anyone? Recording them here for posterity and more!)
Photo credit
+Al Ebnereza, who is
the man.
[1]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/DFPv5HMVDzj[2]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/PVHXLcXReuW[3]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/Fah5dZVjPpg[4]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/GXLjio86ua4[5]:
https://plus.google.com/111562638514922412630/posts/97Fh6BTo7gT[6]:
https://plus.google.com/107345301833335315063/posts/WaprzVgZky5
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SXG+: The Road TripI'm now home and settled in after a whirlwind trip to
+SXSW with
+Superdave Houdini, and getting back to work on
+LocalSense. We drove over 2,000 miles in total to
+HIRL with amazing Google+ community members like
+Carter Gibson,
+Amanda Blain, and
+Moritz Tolxdorff. It's over for me now, but the afterglow of meeting even more
amazing people than I did at the
#DCHIRL will linger with me for a while yet, and the impressions they've made upon me will be permanent.
It started in Raleigh, NC where I departed at around 6:30 PM to meet
+Superdave Houdini in Valdosta, GA at around 2 AM. One Georgian speeding ticket later, I was
#scheming with my soon-to-be roatrip partner (who'd just arrived from Miami, FL!) and
+Raleigh Burke in a Google Hangout for an hour or two before hitting the road again.
We stopped in Tallahassee, FL for some breakfast and
#starbucks (
#buxxin !) while I knocked out a few work tasks, and were New Orleans-bound within the hour. We soon passed a sign for a place called “Buc-ee's”, which was apparently
797 miles away (
#WTF ?) [1]. This is apparently a
thing, and there's not one-
but multiple posts on The Internet™ about that particular sign.Following up our post-breakfast journey with a stop on Bourbon Street [2] for some wings was an absolute must, and we rewarded our success in overtaking +Amanda Blain (who was stuck way back Atlanta on the +StartupBus!) with a drink or two before cramming back into my car and cranking some #whitegirlfriday jams. Thankfully we had #bluetooth in the car, so +Superdave Houdini was able to play the appropriate soundtrack for the epic that was already unfolding.There was more +Starbucks Coffee to be had in Baton Rouge, LA [3] before heading out on the final stretch to Texas, fueling our excitement as we looked forward to the upcoming shenanigans in Austin. Texas indeed greeted us with all its majesty, a grandiose lone star at a rest stop just across the border, where one of Mini-Supes' (R.I.P.) last photos was taken... (photo forthcoming!) but US-10 had some surprises for us before we'd land for the night.Just as we were passing through Vidor, TX, we encountered bumper-to-bumper traffic that we later learned was the result of an overturned truck somewhere along that particular stretch. Not especially excited to endure three hours worth of traffic, we decided to route two hours down towards Bridge City [4] and then west to Winnie before picking up US10 again on the way into Houston, where we stayed with the brilliant and gracious +Calvin Christopher for drinks, intellectual discourse, and planning for the following day.We all sadly lost a good partner and great friend that night [5], but we weren't to be thwarted-the show must go on! We had three hours remaining, and needed to be back on the road. So off we went! [6]
I'm sure all the others will document the happenings in Austin sufficiently, so I'll save my insight for later--but I'll end with a special thank you to
+John Fanavans,
+Summer Fulcher, and the rest of you who met us that night when we arrived. That night certainly set the tone for the remainder of what turned out to be one of the most
alive, and
vibrant, and
incredible experiences possible.
Thank
all of you for making Google+ for what it is.
+Aaron Kasten +Al Ebnereza +Amanda Blain +Anna Lowry +Brett Bjornsen +Calvin Christopher +Carter Gibson +Daniel Armendariz +Daniel Enloe +Daria Musk +Erika Stahoski +Gisel Ocañas +John Fanavans +Johnny Roquemore +Joltrast . +Justin Myers +Ken Pham +Keyan Mobli +Laurie DesAutels +Liza Sperling (how did we miss each other?!)
+Megan Noel Rhea +Michael O'Reilly +Michele Predmore (even though we didn't get to meet!)
+Moritz Tolxdorff +Rory Swan +Sheighla Friel +Summer Fulcher +Superdave Houdini +Trey Ratcliff +Yifat Cohen.
(Did I miss anyone? Recording them here for posterity and more!)
Photo credit
+Al Ebnereza, who is
the man.
[1]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/DFPv5HMVDzj[2]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/PVHXLcXReuW[3]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/Fah5dZVjPpg[4]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/GXLjio86ua4[5]:
https://plus.google.com/111562638514922412630/posts/97Fh6BTo7gT[6]:
https://plus.google.com/107345301833335315063/posts/WaprzVgZky5
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SXG+: The Road TripI'm now home and settled in after a whirlwind trip to
+SXSW with
+Superdave Houdini, and getting back to work on
+LocalSense. We drove over 2,000 miles in total to
+HIRL with amazing Google+ community members like
+Carter Gibson,
+Amanda Blain, and
+Moritz Tolxdorff. It's over for me now, but the afterglow of meeting even more
amazing people than I did at the
#DCHIRL will linger with me for a while yet, and the impressions they've made upon me will be permanent.
It started in Raleigh, NC where I departed at around 6:30 PM to meet
+Superdave Houdini in Valdosta, GA at around 2 AM. One Georgian speeding ticket later, I was
#scheming with my soon-to-be roatrip partner (who'd just arrived from Miami, FL!) and
+Raleigh Burke in a Google Hangout for an hour or two before hitting the road again.
We stopped in Tallahassee, FL for some breakfast and
#starbucks (
#buxxin !) while I knocked out a few work tasks, and were New Orleans-bound within the hour. We soon passed a sign for a place called “Buc-ee's”, which was apparently
797 miles away (
#WTF ?) [1]. This is apparently a
thing, and there's not one-
but multiple posts on The Internet™ about that particular sign.Following up our post-breakfast journey with a stop on Bourbon Street [2] for some wings was an absolute must, and we rewarded our success in overtaking +Amanda Blain (who was stuck way back Atlanta on the +StartupBus!) with a drink or two before cramming back into my car and cranking some #whitegirlfriday jams. Thankfully we had #bluetooth in the car, so +Superdave Houdini was able to play the appropriate soundtrack for the epic that was already unfolding.There was more +Starbucks Coffee to be had in Baton Rouge, LA [3] before heading out on the final stretch to Texas, fueling our excitement as we looked forward to the upcoming shenanigans in Austin. Texas indeed greeted us with all its majesty, a grandiose lone star at a rest stop just across the border, where one of Mini-Supes' (R.I.P.) last photos was taken... (photo forthcoming!) but US-10 had some surprises for us before we'd land for the night.Just as we were passing through Vidor, TX, we encountered bumper-to-bumper traffic that we later learned was the result of an overturned truck somewhere along that particular stretch. Not especially excited to endure three hours worth of traffic, we decided to route two hours down towards Bridge City [4] and then west to Winnie before picking up US10 again on the way into Houston, where we stayed with the brilliant and gracious +Calvin Christopher for drinks, intellectual discourse, and planning for the following day.We all sadly lost a good partner and great friend that night [5], but we weren't to be thwarted-the show must go on! We had three hours remaining, and needed to be back on the road. So off we went! [6]
I'm sure all the others will document the happenings in Austin sufficiently, so I'll save my insight for later--but I'll end with a special thank you to
+John Fanavans,
+Summer Fulcher, and the rest of you who met us that night when we arrived. That night certainly set the tone for the remainder of what turned out to be one of the most
alive, and
vibrant, and
incredible experiences possible.
Thank
all of you for making Google+ for what it is.
+Aaron Kasten +Al Ebnereza +Amanda Blain +Anna Lowry +Brett Bjornsen +Calvin Christopher +Carter Gibson +Daniel Armendariz +Daniel Enloe +Daria Musk +Erika Stahoski +Gisel Ocañas +John Fanavans +Johnny Roquemore +Joltrast . +Justin Myers +Ken Pham +Keyan Mobli +Laurie DesAutels +Liza Sperling (how did we miss each other?!)
+Megan Noel Rhea +Michael O'Reilly +Michele Predmore (even though we didn't get to meet!)
+Moritz Tolxdorff +Rory Swan +Sheighla Friel +Summer Fulcher +Superdave Houdini +Trey Ratcliff +Yifat Cohen.
(Did I miss anyone? Recording them here for posterity and more!)
Photo credit
+Al Ebnereza, who is
the man.
[1]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/DFPv5HMVDzj[2]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/PVHXLcXReuW[3]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/Fah5dZVjPpg[4]:
https://plus.google.com/116354326277822099288/posts/GXLjio86ua4[5]:
https://plus.google.com/111562638514922412630/posts/97Fh6BTo7gT[6]:
https://plus.google.com/107345301833335315063/posts/WaprzVgZky5
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That photo totally captures the fabulous time we all had! I am even swagging
+Superdave Houdini 's fuzzy thing in the photo...Miss u guys already..
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+Johnny Roquemore , When did Chee jump over to the photos team? Did he and
+Brian Rose trade jobs or something and I missed a memo?
I guess the workaround for this bug
+Eric Martindale , is make a copy of the cover photo to share in a post. A bit of a pain to click around and do that, but it should temporarily solve that issue.
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I'm in #Atlanta for the weekend, and happen to have a bit of free time tonight! Is anyone in the area interested in
+HIRL ing?
The awesome Atlanta #photography I've attached was taken by Don Brown, using a graduated neutral density filter from room 5508 of the Peachtree Westin Hotel, where
+Mary Bedard is attending the Emerging Researchers National Conference in #STEM [1]. You can get more details of the shot on his Flickr post! [2]
[1]:
http://www.emerging-researchers.org/[2]:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gettheflick/6796852379/
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I'm in #Atlanta for the weekend, and happen to have a bit of free time tonight! Is anyone in the area interested in
+HIRL ing?
The awesome Atlanta #photography I've attached was taken by Don Brown, using a graduated neutral density filter from room 5508 of the Peachtree Westin Hotel, where
+Mary Bedard is attending the Emerging Researchers National Conference in #STEM [1]. You can get more details of the shot on his Flickr post! [2]
[1]:
http://www.emerging-researchers.org/[2]:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gettheflick/6796852379/
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I'm in #Atlanta for the weekend, and happen to have a bit of free time tonight! Is anyone in the area interested in
+HIRL ing?
The awesome Atlanta #photography I've attached was taken by Don Brown, using a graduated neutral density filter from room 5508 of the Peachtree Westin Hotel, where
+Mary Bedard is attending the Emerging Researchers National Conference in #STEM [1]. You can get more details of the shot on his Flickr post! [2]
[1]:
http://www.emerging-researchers.org/[2]:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gettheflick/6796852379/
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www.flickr.com/photos/74165812@N08/6796852379
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I'm in #Atlanta for the weekend, and happen to have a bit of free time tonight! Is anyone in the area interested in
+HIRL ing?
The awesome Atlanta #photography I've attached was taken by Don Brown, using a graduated neutral density filter from room 5508 of the Peachtree Westin Hotel, where
+Mary Bedard is attending the Emerging Researchers National Conference in #STEM [1]. You can get more details of the shot on his Flickr post! [2]
[1]:
http://www.emerging-researchers.org/[2]:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gettheflick/6796852379/
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As of today, I've changed the address of my blog from just EricMartindale.com to a new location that will contain my blog posts in a new format. Don't worry though, all your old links will still work just fine.
Why am I doing this? Well, there are a number of reasons why - not the least of which are some SEO (search engine optimization) adjustments that I'm in the process of making. However, the biggest and most important thing to you is the introduction of Eric Martindale's Lifestream, which is the newest and latest feature of EricMartindale[dot]com. This new area of the site is called a Lifestream because it will show you everything that I've been doing lately, from shared posts on Google Reader to photos from Flickr.
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Cool photo!
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Your photos make me happy
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Gorgeous photo!! Glad you had a good time!
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What a great photo... Wonderful memories had by all it seems :)
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Ha, I did -- I chose it because of Newton's quote, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” While the potential irony was not lost on me when creating the image, I felt justified in choosing the Solvay Conference photo due to the unreasonable [at the time] methods utilized by many of these individuals to accomplish their scientific achievements (which I would further argue is more about understanding, rather than adapting).
Thanks for being part of an incredibly astute audience, though. :)
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+Alexa Landsman I didn't, this is a photo from the protests. Anonymous has been playing a major role, and with this comes memes like "Forever Alone" and "Y U NO". There's a few more in this album, if you look through.
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We went to the Circle of Masters tournament a while ago, and kicked some serious ass. Here's some photos that were taken at the event, with Amber, myself, and Sensei scattered throughout.
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Is anybody seeing this?
ABC News: Saddam Hussein Removed From Court Room: "Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein argues with chief judge, Raouf Abdel-Rahman after his half brother, Barzan Ibrahim, not seen, was forcibly removed from the trial held in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Sunday Jan. 29, 2006. Saddam Hussein's trial quickly collapsed into chaos after resuming Sunday with one defendant dragged out of court and the defense team walking out in protest. The former Iraqi leader was then ejected after shouting 'down with traitors' and 'down with America.' Saddam and his seven co-defendants are charged in the deaths of about 140 Shiite Muslims following an assassination attempt against the former Iraqi leader in the Shiite town of Dujail in 1982. At left is Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid. (AP Photo/David Furst, pool)"
Kinda makes me want to draw a party hat on his head... he's making a complete fool of himself. Oh wait. Saddam already was a fool. Maybe he's just trying to prove it?
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When did you create your first Google Account?During a conversation at the
+LocalSense office today, I happened to go back and look for the oldest email I'd received in my Gmail account and it got me thinking about just how much data I've given Google over the years. It's incredible to think about a sense of scale now, especially considering that I have [as of this moment]
134,530 messages in Gmail
alone -- that doesn't even consider all of Google's other services now tied to my Google Account.
You can quantify some portion of how much Google knows about you through the "Google Dashboard" [1]. Google also allows you to download [some] of your data with their data liberation tool [2]. I recommend doing this regularly, and making an effort to be aware of the amount, and
value, of
your data.
I received the first two emails in my Gmail inbox on 11/28/04. They were both from Google, and a few of the links don't work anymore. [3] Didn't anyone tell them that cool URIs don't change? [4] The attached photo is of the well-written introduction to Gmail, the second message in my inbox. It's fun to look back and think about the state of email at the time, and how innovative Gmail actually was.
[1]:
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html[2]:
https://www.google.com/dashboard/[3]:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/start.html[4]:
https://www.google.com/settings/exportdata
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When did you create your first Google Account?During a conversation at the
+LocalSense office today, I happened to go back and look for the oldest email I'd received in my Gmail account and it got me thinking about just how much data I've given Google over the years. It's incredible to think about a sense of scale now, especially considering that I have [as of this moment]
134,530 messages in Gmail
alone -- that doesn't even consider all of Google's other services now tied to my Google Account.
You can quantify some portion of how much Google knows about you through the "Google Dashboard" [1]. Google also allows you to download [some] of your data with their data liberation tool [2]. I recommend doing this regularly, and making an effort to be aware of the amount, and
value, of
your data.
I received the first two emails in my Gmail inbox on 11/28/04. They were both from Google, and a few of the links don't work anymore. [3] Didn't anyone tell them that cool URIs don't change? [4] The attached photo is of the well-written introduction to Gmail, the second message in my inbox. It's fun to look back and think about the state of email at the time, and how innovative Gmail actually was.
[1]:
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html[2]:
https://www.google.com/dashboard/[3]:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/start.html[4]:
https://www.google.com/settings/exportdata
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When did you create your first Google Account?During a conversation at the
+LocalSense office today, I happened to go back and look for the oldest email I'd received in my Gmail account and it got me thinking about just how much data I've given Google over the years. It's incredible to think about a sense of scale now, especially considering that I have [as of this moment]
134,530 messages in Gmail
alone -- that doesn't even consider all of Google's other services now tied to my Google Account.
You can quantify some portion of how much Google knows about you through the "Google Dashboard" [1]. Google also allows you to download [some] of your data with their data liberation tool [2]. I recommend doing this regularly, and making an effort to be aware of the amount, and
value, of
your data.
I received the first two emails in my Gmail inbox on 11/28/04. They were both from Google, and a few of the links don't work anymore. [3] Didn't anyone tell them that cool URIs don't change? [4] The attached photo is of the well-written introduction to Gmail, the second message in my inbox. It's fun to look back and think about the state of email at the time, and how innovative Gmail actually was.
[1]:
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html[2]:
https://www.google.com/dashboard/[3]:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/start.html[4]:
https://www.google.com/settings/exportdata
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When did you create your first Google Account?During a conversation at the
+LocalSense office today, I happened to go back and look for the oldest email I'd received in my Gmail account and it got me thinking about just how much data I've given Google over the years. It's incredible to think about a sense of scale now, especially considering that I have [as of this moment]
134,530 messages in Gmail
alone -- that doesn't even consider all of Google's other services now tied to my Google Account.
You can quantify some portion of how much Google knows about you through the "Google Dashboard" [1]. Google also allows you to download [some] of your data with their data liberation tool [2]. I recommend doing this regularly, and making an effort to be aware of the amount, and
value, of
your data.
I received the first two emails in my Gmail inbox on 11/28/04. They were both from Google, and a few of the links don't work anymore. [3] Didn't anyone tell them that cool URIs don't change? [4] The attached photo is of the well-written introduction to Gmail, the second message in my inbox. It's fun to look back and think about the state of email at the time, and how innovative Gmail actually was.
[1]:
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html[2]:
https://www.google.com/dashboard/[3]:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/start.html[4]:
https://www.google.com/settings/exportdata
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October 16th is Ada Lovelace Day, in which we celebrate women's achievements in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Ada Lovelace is heralded as the first computer programmer, writing programs (calculating Bernoulli Numbers) for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine as early as 1843 [1]. One of the most prominent mathematicians at the time, August de Morgan, had impressive things to say about her abilities, “which would require all the strength of a man's constitution to bear” [2], and Babbage himself highlighted her prowess over other contemporaries to Faraday, the legendary English scientist, in a succinct personal correspondence [3]. I've included a transcription of her work [4], showing just how thorough and detailed she was.
It's important to take a moment to note some of the other women who have made significant contributions to the advancement of society over the years. One of my favorites is Marie Curie, seen in this photo as the only women to appear alongside the intellectual powerhouse that assembled for the Solvay Conference in 1927. Seated between physicists Planck and Lorentz, she is in good company along with the likes of Einstein and Heisenberg.
Curie remains, to this day, the only person to have ever won a Nobel Prize in multiple sciences. [5]
Here are a couple other notable women that deserve recognition:
- Gertrude Belle Elion (biochemist): Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1988. [6] Gertrude invented an incredible swathe of drugs using innovative new research methods [7], including the first treatment for leukemia. [8]
- Jane Goodall (primatologist): outstanding achievement in anthropology through her incredible 45-year field study of wild chimpanzees [9] which has wildly changed the school of thought in regards to man's connection to primates. Goodall has been a role model of mine since I first encountered her and her work as a child reading National Geographic Magazine.
Instead of letting today pass only remembering one woman's contributions, take a moment to share your story and your female role model. [10]
So, what women do you revere in science, technology, engineering, or maths?
#AdaLovelaceDay #STEM
[1]: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Ada_and_the_First_Computer.pdf
[2]: http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/demorgan.gif
[3]: http://books.google.com/books?id=vKesSblgySgC&lpg=PA164&as_brr=0&pg=PA164#v=onepage&f=true
[4]: http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html
[5]: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/nobelprize_facts.html
[6]: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1988/elion-autobio.html
[7]: Holloway, M. (1991) Profile: Gertrude Belle Elion – The Satisfaction of Delayed Gratification, Scientific American 265(4), 40-44.
[8]: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8325/83256-mercaptopurine.html
[9]: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature5/fulltext.html
[10]: http://directory.findingada.com/stories/
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My list of entrepreneurial shortcomings includes Mirascape, which aspired to be a ubiquitous augmented reality (AR) operating system for the real world. The problems we were solving (and our packaged solution) would have been the backbone for all of the [imagined] technology you see in this Samsung promo video for a new tech they're excited about,
transparent and flexible OLED displays. [1]
If you're not familiar with augmented reality; it is the visual overlay of otherwise hidden information on the real world, as you observe it.
While you can ogle over ostentatious technologies like the embedded-display contact lenses the University of Washington is so proud of [2], it's exciting to see companies like TDK [3] and Laster Technologies [4] bring these kinds of stepping stone technology to bear. We can all download and install the awkward and barely applicable consumer-level AR applications on our smartphones ([5], [6], and [7]), but they will all remain novelty applications until we see major innovation in the display space.
One of the more practical examples I've seen of augmented reality in the real world is WordLens [8] (sadly only available for iOS), which provides
instantaneous video translation through your device. It's not hard to imagine a pair of Oakley glasses with this display technology built-in, providing you with always-on translation while in an unfamiliar foreign location. Or perhaps even displaying your friend's tweet as a speech bubble above their head for a few seconds -- imagine if it were
built right, how amazing it
could be.
I genuinely hope to see more of this transparent display technology built in to more consumer-level products, and eyewear in particular. We need a lot more developers playing with the
practical applications of augmented reality, and not just displaying compass-aligned markers over a geotagged Wikipedia article or Flickr photo. The high-power hardware necessary to do real-time computer vision processing is coming, and the applied software world needs to be ready for it.
[1]:
Amazing Screen Technology : Samsung Flexible AMOLED[2]:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/[3]:
http://www.oled-info.com/tdk-starts-mass-production-transparent-24-qvga-pmoleds[4]:
http://www.laster.fr/produits/promobiledisplay/[5]:
http://www.layar.com/[6]:
http://www.wikitude.com/[7]:
http://www.junaio.com/[8]:
http://questvisual.com/
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Amazing Screen Technology : Samsung Flexible AMOLED
This is CF of Samsung Mobile Display & AMOLED. I'ts amazing and wonderful technology!!! In korea, netizen says "Samsung kidnaps aliens(or hijacks UFO) again!" :)
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My list of entrepreneurial shortcomings includes Mirascape, which aspired to be a ubiquitous augmented reality (AR) operating system for the real world. The problems we were solving (and our packaged solution) would have been the backbone for all of the [imagined] technology you see in this Samsung promo video for a new tech they're excited about,
transparent and flexible OLED displays. [1]
If you're not familiar with augmented reality; it is the visual overlay of otherwise hidden information on the real world, as you observe it.
While you can ogle over ostentatious technologies like the embedded-display contact lenses the University of Washington is so proud of [2], it's exciting to see companies like TDK [3] and Laster Technologies [4] bring these kinds of stepping stone technology to bear. We can all download and install the awkward and barely applicable consumer-level AR applications on our smartphones ([5], [6], and [7]), but they will all remain novelty applications until we see major innovation in the display space.
One of the more practical examples I've seen of augmented reality in the real world is WordLens [8] (sadly only available for iOS), which provides
instantaneous video translation through your device. It's not hard to imagine a pair of Oakley glasses with this display technology built-in, providing you with always-on translation while in an unfamiliar foreign location. Or perhaps even displaying your friend's tweet as a speech bubble above their head for a few seconds -- imagine if it were
built right, how amazing it
could be.
I genuinely hope to see more of this transparent display technology built in to more consumer-level products, and eyewear in particular. We need a lot more developers playing with the
practical applications of augmented reality, and not just displaying compass-aligned markers over a geotagged Wikipedia article or Flickr photo. The high-power hardware necessary to do real-time computer vision processing is coming, and the applied software world needs to be ready for it.
[1]:
Amazing Screen Technology : Samsung Flexible AMOLED[2]:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/[3]:
http://www.oled-info.com/tdk-starts-mass-production-transparent-24-qvga-pmoleds[4]:
http://www.laster.fr/produits/promobiledisplay/[5]:
http://www.layar.com/[6]:
http://www.wikitude.com/[7]:
http://www.junaio.com/[8]:
http://questvisual.com/
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Amazing Screen Technology : Samsung Flexible AMOLED
This is CF of Samsung Mobile Display & AMOLED. I'ts amazing and wonderful technology!!! In korea, netizen says "Samsung kidnaps aliens(or hijacks UFO) again!" :)
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My list of entrepreneurial shortcomings includes Mirascape, which aspired to be a ubiquitous augmented reality (AR) operating system for the real world. The problems we were solving (and our packaged solution) would have been the backbone for all of the [imagined] technology you see in this Samsung promo video for a new tech they're excited about,
transparent and flexible OLED displays. [1]
If you're not familiar with augmented reality; it is the visual overlay of otherwise hidden information on the real world, as you observe it.
While you can ogle over ostentatious technologies like the embedded-display contact lenses the University of Washington is so proud of [2], it's exciting to see companies like TDK [3] and Laster Technologies [4] bring these kinds of stepping stone technology to bear. We can all download and install the awkward and barely applicable consumer-level AR applications on our smartphones ([5], [6], and [7]), but they will all remain novelty applications until we see major innovation in the display space.
One of the more practical examples I've seen of augmented reality in the real world is WordLens [8] (sadly only available for iOS), which provides
instantaneous video translation through your device. It's not hard to imagine a pair of Oakley glasses with this display technology built-in, providing you with always-on translation while in an unfamiliar foreign location. Or perhaps even displaying your friend's tweet as a speech bubble above their head for a few seconds -- imagine if it were
built right, how amazing it
could be.
I genuinely hope to see more of this transparent display technology built in to more consumer-level products, and eyewear in particular. We need a lot more developers playing with the
practical applications of augmented reality, and not just displaying compass-aligned markers over a geotagged Wikipedia article or Flickr photo. The high-power hardware necessary to do real-time computer vision processing is coming, and the applied software world needs to be ready for it.
[1]:
Amazing Screen Technology : Samsung Flexible AMOLED[2]:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/[3]:
http://www.oled-info.com/tdk-starts-mass-production-transparent-24-qvga-pmoleds[4]:
http://www.laster.fr/produits/promobiledisplay/[5]:
http://www.layar.com/[6]:
http://www.wikitude.com/[7]:
http://www.junaio.com/[8]:
http://questvisual.com/
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Amazing Screen Technology : Samsung Flexible AMOLED
This is CF of Samsung Mobile Display & AMOLED. I'ts amazing and wonderful technology!!! In korea, netizen says "Samsung kidnaps aliens(or hijacks UFO) again!" :)
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The author of the particularly famous
Wheel of Time series passed away yesterday due to
cardiac amyloidosis. Diagnosed with the disease in March of 2006, Jordan, born James Oliver Rigney Jr., vowed to fight the disease and continue his legendary writing career for many years to come. It is a great loss to the fantasy community, and on behalf of RolePlayGateway, we send our condolences to his family and friends, who will no doubt be the most affected by his passing.
You can catch more on Robert Jordan's Official Blog, but due to the high traffic, here's a mirror of his post:
It is with great sadness that I tell you that the Dragon is gone. RJ left us today at 2:45 PM. He fought a valiant fight against this most horrid disease. In the end, he left peacefully and in no pain. In the years he had fought this, he taught me much about living and about facing death. He never waivered in his faith, nor questioned our God’s timing. I could not possibly be more proud of anyone. I am eternally grateful for the time that I had with him on this earth and look forward to our reunion, though as I told him this afternoon, not yet. I love you bubba.
Our beloved Harriet was at his side through the entire fight and to the end. The last words from his mouth were to tell her that he loved her.
Thank each and everyone of you for your prayers and support through this ordeal. He knew you were there. Harriet reminded him today that she was very proud of the many lives he had touched through his work. We’ve all felt the love that you’ve been sending my brother/cousin. Please keep it coming as our Harriet could use the support.
Jason will be posting funeral arrangements.
My sincerest thanks.
Peace and Light be with each of you,
Wilson
Brother/Cousin
4th of 3
To Catalyst: Never, never loose faith. RJ did not. Harriet hasn’t. I haven’t. Going through what we have, our faith is only strengthened. Besides, if God didn’t exist, we would have never had Jim. We did. God does. Remember my Brother/Cousin, my friend, think of him fondly and glorify God’s name.
Editor’s Note:
The entire staff of Dragonmount.com would like to extend its most deepest sympathies to Robert Jordan’s family. He touched all of our lives in some way and we wish him the rest and peace he deserves. We will be posting information in the near future about where you can send condolences. Please check the News Section for these updates.
May you rest in peace.
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My list of entrepreneurial shortcomings includes Mirascape, which aspired to be a ubiquitous augmented reality (AR) operating system for the real world. The problems we were solving (and our packaged solution) would have been the backbone for all of the [imagined] technology you see in this Samsung promo video for a new tech they're excited about,
transparent and flexible OLED displays. [1]
If you're not familiar with augmented reality; it is the visual overlay of otherwise hidden information on the real world, as you observe it.
While you can ogle over ostentatious technologies like the embedded-display contact lenses the University of Washington is so proud of [2], it's exciting to see companies like TDK [3] and Laster Technologies [4] bring these kinds of stepping stone technology to bear. We can all download and install the awkward and barely applicable consumer-level AR applications on our smartphones ([5], [6], and [7]), but they will all remain novelty applications until we see major innovation in the display space.
One of the more practical examples I've seen of augmented reality in the real world is WordLens [8] (sadly only available for iOS), which provides
instantaneous video translation through your device. It's not hard to imagine a pair of Oakley glasses with this display technology built-in, providing you with always-on translation while in an unfamiliar foreign location. Or perhaps even displaying your friend's tweet as a speech bubble above their head for a few seconds -- imagine if it were
built right, how amazing it
could be.
I genuinely hope to see more of this transparent display technology built in to more consumer-level products, and eyewear in particular. We need a lot more developers playing with the
practical applications of augmented reality, and not just displaying compass-aligned markers over a geotagged Wikipedia article or Flickr photo. The high-power hardware necessary to do real-time computer vision processing is coming, and the applied software world needs to be ready for it.
[1]:
Amazing Screen Technology : Samsung Flexible AMOLED[2]:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/[3]:
http://www.oled-info.com/tdk-starts-mass-production-transparent-24-qvga-pmoleds[4]:
http://www.laster.fr/produits/promobiledisplay/[5]:
http://www.layar.com/[6]:
http://www.wikitude.com/[7]:
http://www.junaio.com/[8]:
http://questvisual.com/
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Amazing Screen Technology : Samsung Flexible AMOLED
This is CF of Samsung Mobile Display & AMOLED. I'ts amazing and wonderful technology!!! In korea, netizen says "Samsung kidnaps aliens(or hijacks UFO) again!" :)
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Please see my post regarding
Capitalism versus Statism [1], watch the video from Anonymous [2], and take a look at the non-partisan nature of these protests [3]. Don't just look at my links, go out and
do the research yourself.
The #OccupyWallStreet movement appears to be spreading like
wildfire across the country. San Francisco [4], Washington D.C. [5], Nashville [6], Portland [7], and New Orleans [8] all had organized and peaceful protests today and yesterday consisting of
thousands of people. Other protests are rapidly forming around the nation [9], numbering at 895 different cities at the time of this post.
There's something very real, visceral, and most importantly
democratic about how we're using the Internet to show a ground-up perspective of what is happening at these protests. There's nothing like seeing people like
+Michael Mozart on the ground in New York,
streaming live video of the protests, or
+Rob Salzman sharing a steady stream of photos of the thousands of protesters in Portland
directly to the internet. It's getting more and more difficult to trust anything
but an individual who is on the ground, experiencing and documenting things first hand.
There is a major difference between "digital natives" and "digital immigrants", even at the chemical level [10]. We're entering a time where the people who've grown up with practically ubiquitous Internet access are becoming comfortable with adulthood and asserting their beliefs and opinions. This will have major and far-reaching implications at all levels of the human condition -- and I think we're only
beginning to see the manifestation of this paradigm shift.
I'll be at the protest at Moore Square here in Raleigh, NC on Sunday at 5PM. Join if you'd like.
[1]
https://plus.google.com/112353210404102902472/posts/QursuT1238T[2]
A message from Anonymous to the 99%[3]
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmKnCYzsbAREkc4_OfOjkD4vImvA?docId=6a6e6c9c649b45ecb6d415087395b2e5 and
https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt/status/121264275699417089[4]
https://plus.google.com/109398421611492546729/posts/gToCsE1PQjK[5]
https://plus.google.com/102476083858002705976/posts/WJhKqkv4EEA[6]
https://plus.google.com/108581371748491713295/posts/WxCWwTajucm [7]
https://plus.google.com/114124942936679476879/posts/7D47m9zJmjL[8]
http://www.wwltv.com/news/Occupy-NOLA-Takes-To-The-Streets-131290704.html[9]
http://www.meetup.com/occupytogether/[10]
http://books.google.com/books?id=74wgRl197fYC
Attachments
A message from Anonymous to the 99%
The Tipping point has ARRIVED.
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Please see my post regarding
Capitalism versus Statism [1], watch the video from Anonymous [2], and take a look at the non-partisan nature of these protests [3]. Don't just look at my links, go out and
do the research yourself.
The #OccupyWallStreet movement appears to be spreading like
wildfire across the country. San Francisco [4], Washington D.C. [5], Nashville [6], Portland [7], and New Orleans [8] all had organized and peaceful protests today and yesterday consisting of
thousands of people. Other protests are rapidly forming around the nation [9], numbering at 895 different cities at the time of this post.
There's something very real, visceral, and most importantly
democratic about how we're using the Internet to show a ground-up perspective of what is happening at these protests. There's nothing like seeing people like
+Michael Mozart on the ground in New York,
streaming live video of the protests, or
+Rob Salzman sharing a steady stream of photos of the thousands of protesters in Portland
directly to the internet. It's getting more and more difficult to trust anything
but an individual who is on the ground, experiencing and documenting things first hand.
There is a major difference between "digital natives" and "digital immigrants", even at the chemical level [10]. We're entering a time where the people who've grown up with practically ubiquitous Internet access are becoming comfortable with adulthood and asserting their beliefs and opinions. This will have major and far-reaching implications at all levels of the human condition -- and I think we're only
beginning to see the manifestation of this paradigm shift.
I'll be at the protest at Moore Square here in Raleigh, NC on Sunday at 5PM. Join if you'd like.
[1]
https://plus.google.com/112353210404102902472/posts/QursuT1238T[2]
A message from Anonymous to the 99%[3]
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmKnCYzsbAREkc4_OfOjkD4vImvA?docId=6a6e6c9c649b45ecb6d415087395b2e5 and
https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt/status/121264275699417089[4]
https://plus.google.com/109398421611492546729/posts/gToCsE1PQjK[5]
https://plus.google.com/102476083858002705976/posts/WJhKqkv4EEA[6]
https://plus.google.com/108581371748491713295/posts/WxCWwTajucm [7]
https://plus.google.com/114124942936679476879/posts/7D47m9zJmjL[8]
http://www.wwltv.com/news/Occupy-NOLA-Takes-To-The-Streets-131290704.html[9]
http://www.meetup.com/occupytogether/[10]
http://books.google.com/books?id=74wgRl197fYC
Attachments
A message from Anonymous to the 99%
The Tipping point has ARRIVED.
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Please see my post regarding
Capitalism versus Statism [1], watch the video from Anonymous [2], and take a look at the non-partisan nature of these protests [3]. Don't just look at my links, go out and
do the research yourself.
The #OccupyWallStreet movement appears to be spreading like
wildfire across the country. San Francisco [4], Washington D.C. [5], Nashville [6], Portland [7], and New Orleans [8] all had organized and peaceful protests today and yesterday consisting of
thousands of people. Other protests are rapidly forming around the nation [9], numbering at 895 different cities at the time of this post.
There's something very real, visceral, and most importantly
democratic about how we're using the Internet to show a ground-up perspective of what is happening at these protests. There's nothing like seeing people like
+Michael Mozart on the ground in New York,
streaming live video of the protests, or
+Rob Salzman sharing a steady stream of photos of the thousands of protesters in Portland
directly to the internet. It's getting more and more difficult to trust anything
but an individual who is on the ground, experiencing and documenting things first hand.
There is a major difference between "digital natives" and "digital immigrants", even at the chemical level [10]. We're entering a time where the people who've grown up with practically ubiquitous Internet access are becoming comfortable with adulthood and asserting their beliefs and opinions. This will have major and far-reaching implications at all levels of the human condition -- and I think we're only
beginning to see the manifestation of this paradigm shift.
I'll be at the protest at Moore Square here in Raleigh, NC on Sunday at 5PM. Join if you'd like.
[1]
https://plus.google.com/112353210404102902472/posts/QursuT1238T[2]
A message from Anonymous to the 99%[3]
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmKnCYzsbAREkc4_OfOjkD4vImvA?docId=6a6e6c9c649b45ecb6d415087395b2e5 and
https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt/status/121264275699417089[4]
https://plus.google.com/109398421611492546729/posts/gToCsE1PQjK[5]
https://plus.google.com/102476083858002705976/posts/WJhKqkv4EEA[6]
https://plus.google.com/108581371748491713295/posts/WxCWwTajucm [7]
https://plus.google.com/114124942936679476879/posts/7D47m9zJmjL[8]
http://www.wwltv.com/news/Occupy-NOLA-Takes-To-The-Streets-131290704.html[9]
http://www.meetup.com/occupytogether/[10]
http://books.google.com/books?id=74wgRl197fYC
Attachments
A message from Anonymous to the 99%
The Tipping point has ARRIVED.
Replies are automatically detected from social media, including Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. To add a comment, include a direct link to this post in your message and it'll show up here within a few minutes.
Please see my post regarding
Capitalism versus Statism [1], watch the video from Anonymous [2], and take a look at the non-partisan nature of these protests [3]. Don't just look at my links, go out and
do the research yourself.
The #OccupyWallStreet movement appears to be spreading like
wildfire across the country. San Francisco [4], Washington D.C. [5], Nashville [6], Portland [7], and New Orleans [8] all had organized and peaceful protests today and yesterday consisting of
thousands of people. Other protests are rapidly forming around the nation [9], numbering at 895 different cities at the time of this post.
There's something very real, visceral, and most importantly
democratic about how we're using the Internet to show a ground-up perspective of what is happening at these protests. There's nothing like seeing people like
+Michael Mozart on the ground in New York,
streaming live video of the protests, or
+Rob Salzman sharing a steady stream of photos of the thousands of protesters in Portland
directly to the internet. It's getting more and more difficult to trust anything
but an individual who is on the ground, experiencing and documenting things first hand.
There is a major difference between "digital natives" and "digital immigrants", even at the chemical level [10]. We're entering a time where the people who've grown up with practically ubiquitous Internet access are becoming comfortable with adulthood and asserting their beliefs and opinions. This will have major and far-reaching implications at all levels of the human condition -- and I think we're only
beginning to see the manifestation of this paradigm shift.
I'll be at the protest at Moore Square here in Raleigh, NC on Sunday at 5PM. Join if you'd like.
[1]
https://plus.google.com/112353210404102902472/posts/QursuT1238T[2]
A message from Anonymous to the 99%[3]
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmKnCYzsbAREkc4_OfOjkD4vImvA?docId=6a6e6c9c649b45ecb6d415087395b2e5 and
https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt/status/121264275699417089[4]
https://plus.google.com/109398421611492546729/posts/gToCsE1PQjK[5]
https://plus.google.com/102476083858002705976/posts/WJhKqkv4EEA[6]
https://plus.google.com/108581371748491713295/posts/WxCWwTajucm [7]
https://plus.google.com/114124942936679476879/posts/7D47m9zJmjL[8]
http://www.wwltv.com/news/Occupy-NOLA-Takes-To-The-Streets-131290704.html[9]
http://www.meetup.com/occupytogether/[10]
http://books.google.com/books?id=74wgRl197fYC
Attachments
A message from Anonymous to the 99%
The Tipping point has ARRIVED.
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October 16th is Ada Lovelace Day, in which we celebrate women's achievements in science, technology, engineering, and math.Ada Lovelace is heralded as the first computer programmer, writing programs (calculating Bernoulli Numbers) for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine as early as 1843 [1]. One of the most prominent mathematicians at the time, August de Morgan, had impressive things to say about her abilities, “which would require all the strength of a man's constitution to bear” [2], and Babbage himself highlighted her prowess over other contemporaries to Faraday, the legendary English scientist, in a succinct personal correspondence [3]. I've included a transcription of her work [4], showing just how thorough and detailed she was.
It's important to take a moment to note some of the
other women who have made significant contributions to the advancement of society over the years. One of my favorites is
Marie Curie, seen in this photo as the only women to appear alongside the intellectual powerhouse that assembled for the Solvay Conference in 1927. Seated between physicists Planck and Lorentz, she is in good company along with the likes of Einstein and Heisenberg.
Curie remains, to this day, the only person to have ever won a Nobel Prize in multiple sciences. [5]
Here are a couple other notable women that deserve recognition:- Gertrude Belle Elion (biochemist): Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1988. [6] Gertrude invented an incredible swathe of drugs using innovative new research methods [7], including the first treatment for leukemia. [8]
- Jane Goodall (primatologist): outstanding achievement in anthropology through her incredible 45-year field study of wild chimpanzees [9] which has wildly changed the school of thought in regards to man's connection to primates. Goodall has been a role model of mine since I first encountered her and her work as a child reading National Geographic Magazine.
Instead of letting today pass only remembering
one woman's contributions, take a moment to share
your story and
your female role model. [10]
So, what women do you revere in science, technology, engineering, or maths? #AdaLovelaceDay #STEM [1]:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Ada_and_the_First_Computer.pdf[2]:
http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/demorgan.gif[3]:
http://books.google.com/books?id=vKesSblgySgC&lpg=PA164&as_brr=0&pg=PA164#v=onepage&f=true[4]:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html[5]:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/nobelprize_facts.html[6]:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1988/elion-autobio.html[7]: Holloway, M. (1991) Profile: Gertrude Belle Elion – The Satisfaction of Delayed Gratification, Scientific American 265(4), 40-44.
[8]:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8325/83256-mercaptopurine.html[9]:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature5/fulltext.html[10]:
http://directory.findingada.com/stories/
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October 16th is Ada Lovelace Day, in which we celebrate women's achievements in science, technology, engineering, and math.Ada Lovelace is heralded as the first computer programmer, writing programs (calculating Bernoulli Numbers) for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine as early as 1843 [1]. One of the most prominent mathematicians at the time, August de Morgan, had impressive things to say about her abilities, “which would require all the strength of a man's constitution to bear” [2], and Babbage himself highlighted her prowess over other contemporaries to Faraday, the legendary English scientist, in a succinct personal correspondence [3]. I've included a transcription of her work [4], showing just how thorough and detailed she was.
It's important to take a moment to note some of the
other women who have made significant contributions to the advancement of society over the years. One of my favorites is
Marie Curie, seen in this photo as the only women to appear alongside the intellectual powerhouse that assembled for the Solvay Conference in 1927. Seated between physicists Planck and Lorentz, she is in good company along with the likes of Einstein and Heisenberg.
Curie remains, to this day, the only person to have ever won a Nobel Prize in multiple sciences. [5]
Here are a couple other notable women that deserve recognition:- Gertrude Belle Elion (biochemist): Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1988. [6] Gertrude invented an incredible swathe of drugs using innovative new research methods [7], including the first treatment for leukemia. [8]
- Jane Goodall (primatologist): outstanding achievement in anthropology through her incredible 45-year field study of wild chimpanzees [9] which has wildly changed the school of thought in regards to man's connection to primates. Goodall has been a role model of mine since I first encountered her and her work as a child reading National Geographic Magazine.
Instead of letting today pass only remembering
one woman's contributions, take a moment to share
your story and
your female role model. [10]
So, what women do you revere in science, technology, engineering, or maths? #AdaLovelaceDay #STEM [1]:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Ada_and_the_First_Computer.pdf[2]:
http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/demorgan.gif[3]:
http://books.google.com/books?id=vKesSblgySgC&lpg=PA164&as_brr=0&pg=PA164#v=onepage&f=true[4]:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html[5]:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/nobelprize_facts.html[6]:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1988/elion-autobio.html[7]: Holloway, M. (1991) Profile: Gertrude Belle Elion – The Satisfaction of Delayed Gratification, Scientific American 265(4), 40-44.
[8]:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8325/83256-mercaptopurine.html[9]:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature5/fulltext.html[10]:
http://directory.findingada.com/stories/
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October 16th is Ada Lovelace Day, in which we celebrate women's achievements in science, technology, engineering, and math.Ada Lovelace is heralded as the first computer programmer, writing programs (calculating Bernoulli Numbers) for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine as early as 1843 [1]. One of the most prominent mathematicians at the time, August de Morgan, had impressive things to say about her abilities, “which would require all the strength of a man's constitution to bear” [2], and Babbage himself highlighted her prowess over other contemporaries to Faraday, the legendary English scientist, in a succinct personal correspondence [3]. I've included a transcription of her work [4], showing just how thorough and detailed she was.
It's important to take a moment to note some of the
other women who have made significant contributions to the advancement of society over the years. One of my favorites is
Marie Curie, seen in this photo as the only women to appear alongside the intellectual powerhouse that assembled for the Solvay Conference in 1927. Seated between physicists Planck and Lorentz, she is in good company along with the likes of Einstein and Heisenberg.
Curie remains, to this day, the only person to have ever won a Nobel Prize in multiple sciences. [5]
Here are a couple other notable women that deserve recognition:- Gertrude Belle Elion (biochemist): Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1988. [6] Gertrude invented an incredible swathe of drugs using innovative new research methods [7], including the first treatment for leukemia. [8]
- Jane Goodall (primatologist): outstanding achievement in anthropology through her incredible 45-year field study of wild chimpanzees [9] which has wildly changed the school of thought in regards to man's connection to primates. Goodall has been a role model of mine since I first encountered her and her work as a child reading National Geographic Magazine.
Instead of letting today pass only remembering
one woman's contributions, take a moment to share
your story and
your female role model. [10]
So, what women do you revere in science, technology, engineering, or maths? #AdaLovelaceDay #STEM [1]:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Ada_and_the_First_Computer.pdf[2]:
http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/demorgan.gif[3]:
http://books.google.com/books?id=vKesSblgySgC&lpg=PA164&as_brr=0&pg=PA164#v=onepage&f=true[4]:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html[5]:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/nobelprize_facts.html[6]:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1988/elion-autobio.html[7]: Holloway, M. (1991) Profile: Gertrude Belle Elion – The Satisfaction of Delayed Gratification, Scientific American 265(4), 40-44.
[8]:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8325/83256-mercaptopurine.html[9]:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature5/fulltext.html[10]:
http://directory.findingada.com/stories/
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October 16th is Ada Lovelace Day, in which we celebrate women's achievements in science, technology, engineering, and math.Ada Lovelace is heralded as the first computer programmer, writing programs (calculating Bernoulli Numbers) for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine as early as 1843 [1]. One of the most prominent mathematicians at the time, August de Morgan, had impressive things to say about her abilities, “which would require all the strength of a man's constitution to bear” [2], and Babbage himself highlighted her prowess over other contemporaries to Faraday, the legendary English scientist, in a succinct personal correspondence [3]. I've included a transcription of her work [4], showing just how thorough and detailed she was.
It's important to take a moment to note some of the
other women who have made significant contributions to the advancement of society over the years. One of my favorites is
Marie Curie, seen in this photo as the only women to appear alongside the intellectual powerhouse that assembled for the Solvay Conference in 1927. Seated between physicists Planck and Lorentz, she is in good company along with the likes of Einstein and Heisenberg.
Curie remains, to this day, the only person to have ever won a Nobel Prize in multiple sciences. [5]
Here are a couple other notable women that deserve recognition:- Gertrude Belle Elion (biochemist): Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1988. [6] Gertrude invented an incredible swathe of drugs using innovative new research methods [7], including the first treatment for leukemia. [8]
- Jane Goodall (primatologist): outstanding achievement in anthropology through her incredible 45-year field study of wild chimpanzees [9] which has wildly changed the school of thought in regards to man's connection to primates. Goodall has been a role model of mine since I first encountered her and her work as a child reading National Geographic Magazine.
Instead of letting today pass only remembering
one woman's contributions, take a moment to share
your story and
your female role model. [10]
So, what women do you revere in science, technology, engineering, or maths? #AdaLovelaceDay #STEM [1]:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Ada_and_the_First_Computer.pdf[2]:
http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/demorgan.gif[3]:
http://books.google.com/books?id=vKesSblgySgC&lpg=PA164&as_brr=0&pg=PA164#v=onepage&f=true[4]:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html[5]:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/nobelprize_facts.html[6]:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1988/elion-autobio.html[7]: Holloway, M. (1991) Profile: Gertrude Belle Elion – The Satisfaction of Delayed Gratification, Scientific American 265(4), 40-44.
[8]:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8325/83256-mercaptopurine.html[9]:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature5/fulltext.html[10]:
http://directory.findingada.com/stories/
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Hurricane Sandy: Resources, Guides, and InformationWith
#HurricaneSandy already flooding streets [1] and causing damage [2] in
#NYC due to the effects of the combined hurricane, western stormfront, and full-moon tides [3], I wanted to take just a quick moment to collect some resources related to the storm. I have quite a few friends directly in the path of the storm (ahem,
+Sharon Strandskov!) and I want to urge everyone to stay safe.
Make no illusion, this storm is serious business: take a look at the attached photo to see a comparison to Hurricane Irene.As always,
preparedness is key. If you're in the path of the storm and haven't yet found your battery-powered radio, it's strongly recommend that you do so now while you have the light, as both your Internet and cell signals are likely to be interrupted. If you haven't stocked up on water and [non-perishable] food, it's a bit late and you're going to have to hunker down and hope for the best.
Course of Action:From the FEMA Guidelines [4]:
1) Listen to the radio or TV for information. [ed.: or FEMA's Twitter [5]]
2) Secure your home, close storm shutters, and secure outdoor objects or bring them indoors.
3) Turn off utilities if instructed to do so. Otherwise, turn the refrigerator thermostat to its coldest setting and keep its doors closed.
4) Turn off propane tanks.· Avoid using the phone, except for serious emergencies.
5) Moor your boat if time permits.
6) Ensure a supply of water for sanitary purposes such as cleaning and flushing toilets. Fill the bathtub and other large containers with water.
As an additional tip that I recently learned, you can fill plastic bags with water and put them in your freezer to prepare for extended power/water outages. These will stay cool longer than bottled water in your refrigerator.
If you're in one of the evacuation areas and haven't yet followed the instructions or aren't able to do so, make sure to seek shelter and follow the appropriate guidelines. [4]
Resources:Google Crisis Map:
http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy -- this is awesome, and a great central resource keeping up to date.
NOAA Station 44065:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44065 -- this is a buoy off the coast of New York tracking the wind speed and direction, if you want direct from-the-source reports.
GOES-14 Satellite Imagery:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/1min/index.php -- Composite satellite imagery from the SSEC program at WISC, on a 1 minute loop.
Weather.gov:
http://www.weather.gov/ -- useful for official advisories and up-to-date information, straight from the source.
Weather.com:
http://www.weather.com/Take a moment and look up your local news station's Facebook / Twitter and subscribe, optionally via SMS so that when the power goes out, you still have a method of receiving realtime updates (provided cell coverage doesn't go down / get inundated with emergency requests).As a bonus, there's a pretty awesome
#HTML5 canvas wind visualization demo that updates in realtime [6]. Some pretty slick techniques there, so view the source [Luke].
Feel free to add your own resources in the comments. I'll edit the post to add the most helpful resources.[1]:
http://observer.com/2012/10/gowanus-canal-flooding/[2]:
http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2012/10/29/crane-dangles-from-nyc-high-rise-clearing-streets[3]:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/26/hurricane-sandy-looms-over-the-us/[4]:
http://m.fema.gov/hu_during.htm[5]:
https://twitter.com/fema[6]:
http://hint.fm/wind/
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Hurricane Sandy: Resources, Guides, and InformationWith
#HurricaneSandy already flooding streets [1] and causing damage [2] in
#NYC due to the effects of the combined hurricane, western stormfront, and full-moon tides [3], I wanted to take just a quick moment to collect some resources related to the storm. I have quite a few friends directly in the path of the storm (ahem,
+Sharon Strandskov!) and I want to urge everyone to stay safe.
Make no illusion, this storm is serious business: take a look at the attached photo to see a comparison to Hurricane Irene.As always,
preparedness is key. If you're in the path of the storm and haven't yet found your battery-powered radio, it's strongly recommend that you do so now while you have the light, as both your Internet and cell signals are likely to be interrupted. If you haven't stocked up on water and [non-perishable] food, it's a bit late and you're going to have to hunker down and hope for the best.
Course of Action:From the FEMA Guidelines [4]:
1) Listen to the radio or TV for information. [ed.: or FEMA's Twitter [5]]
2) Secure your home, close storm shutters, and secure outdoor objects or bring them indoors.
3) Turn off utilities if instructed to do so. Otherwise, turn the refrigerator thermostat to its coldest setting and keep its doors closed.
4) Turn off propane tanks.· Avoid using the phone, except for serious emergencies.
5) Moor your boat if time permits.
6) Ensure a supply of water for sanitary purposes such as cleaning and flushing toilets. Fill the bathtub and other large containers with water.
As an additional tip that I recently learned, you can fill plastic bags with water and put them in your freezer to prepare for extended power/water outages. These will stay cool longer than bottled water in your refrigerator.
If you're in one of the evacuation areas and haven't yet followed the instructions or aren't able to do so, make sure to seek shelter and follow the appropriate guidelines. [4]
Resources:Google Crisis Map:
http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy -- this is awesome, and a great central resource keeping up to date.
NOAA Station 44065:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44065 -- this is a buoy off the coast of New York tracking the wind speed and direction, if you want direct from-the-source reports.
GOES-14 Satellite Imagery:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/1min/index.php -- Composite satellite imagery from the SSEC program at WISC, on a 1 minute loop.
Weather.gov:
http://www.weather.gov/ -- useful for official advisories and up-to-date information, straight from the source.
Weather.com:
http://www.weather.com/Take a moment and look up your local news station's Facebook / Twitter and subscribe, optionally via SMS so that when the power goes out, you still have a method of receiving realtime updates (provided cell coverage doesn't go down / get inundated with emergency requests).As a bonus, there's a pretty awesome
#HTML5 canvas wind visualization demo that updates in realtime [6]. Some pretty slick techniques there, so view the source [Luke].
Feel free to add your own resources in the comments. I'll edit the post to add the most helpful resources.[1]:
http://observer.com/2012/10/gowanus-canal-flooding/[2]:
http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2012/10/29/crane-dangles-from-nyc-high-rise-clearing-streets[3]:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/26/hurricane-sandy-looms-over-the-us/[4]:
http://m.fema.gov/hu_during.htm[5]:
https://twitter.com/fema[6]:
http://hint.fm/wind/
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Hurricane Sandy: Resources, Guides, and InformationWith
#HurricaneSandy already flooding streets [1] and causing damage [2] in
#NYC due to the effects of the combined hurricane, western stormfront, and full-moon tides [3], I wanted to take just a quick moment to collect some resources related to the storm. I have quite a few friends directly in the path of the storm (ahem,
+Sharon Strandskov!) and I want to urge everyone to stay safe.
Make no illusion, this storm is serious business: take a look at the attached photo to see a comparison to Hurricane Irene.As always,
preparedness is key. If you're in the path of the storm and haven't yet found your battery-powered radio, it's strongly recommend that you do so now while you have the light, as both your Internet and cell signals are likely to be interrupted. If you haven't stocked up on water and [non-perishable] food, it's a bit late and you're going to have to hunker down and hope for the best.
Course of Action:From the FEMA Guidelines [4]:
1) Listen to the radio or TV for information. [ed.: or FEMA's Twitter [5]]
2) Secure your home, close storm shutters, and secure outdoor objects or bring them indoors.
3) Turn off utilities if instructed to do so. Otherwise, turn the refrigerator thermostat to its coldest setting and keep its doors closed.
4) Turn off propane tanks.· Avoid using the phone, except for serious emergencies.
5) Moor your boat if time permits.
6) Ensure a supply of water for sanitary purposes such as cleaning and flushing toilets. Fill the bathtub and other large containers with water.
As an additional tip that I recently learned, you can fill plastic bags with water and put them in your freezer to prepare for extended power/water outages. These will stay cool longer than bottled water in your refrigerator.
If you're in one of the evacuation areas and haven't yet followed the instructions or aren't able to do so, make sure to seek shelter and follow the appropriate guidelines. [4]
Resources:Google Crisis Map:
http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy -- this is awesome, and a great central resource keeping up to date.
NOAA Station 44065:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44065 -- this is a buoy off the coast of New York tracking the wind speed and direction, if you want direct from-the-source reports.
GOES-14 Satellite Imagery:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/1min/index.php -- Composite satellite imagery from the SSEC program at WISC, on a 1 minute loop.
Weather.gov:
http://www.weather.gov/ -- useful for official advisories and up-to-date information, straight from the source.
Weather.com:
http://www.weather.com/Take a moment and look up your local news station's Facebook / Twitter and subscribe, optionally via SMS so that when the power goes out, you still have a method of receiving realtime updates (provided cell coverage doesn't go down / get inundated with emergency requests).As a bonus, there's a pretty awesome
#HTML5 canvas wind visualization demo that updates in realtime [6]. Some pretty slick techniques there, so view the source [Luke].
Feel free to add your own resources in the comments. I'll edit the post to add the most helpful resources.[1]:
http://observer.com/2012/10/gowanus-canal-flooding/[2]:
http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2012/10/29/crane-dangles-from-nyc-high-rise-clearing-streets[3]:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/26/hurricane-sandy-looms-over-the-us/[4]:
http://m.fema.gov/hu_during.htm[5]:
https://twitter.com/fema[6]:
http://hint.fm/wind/
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Hurricane Sandy: Resources, Guides, and InformationWith
#HurricaneSandy already flooding streets [1] and causing damage [2] in
#NYC due to the effects of the combined hurricane, western stormfront, and full-moon tides [3], I wanted to take just a quick moment to collect some resources related to the storm. I have quite a few friends directly in the path of the storm (ahem,
+Sharon Strandskov!) and I want to urge everyone to stay safe.
Make no illusion, this storm is serious business: take a look at the attached photo to see a comparison to Hurricane Irene.As always,
preparedness is key. If you're in the path of the storm and haven't yet found your battery-powered radio, it's strongly recommend that you do so now while you have the light, as both your Internet and cell signals are likely to be interrupted. If you haven't stocked up on water and [non-perishable] food, it's a bit late and you're going to have to hunker down and hope for the best.
Course of Action:From the FEMA Guidelines [4]:
1) Listen to the radio or TV for information. [ed.: or FEMA's Twitter [5]]
2) Secure your home, close storm shutters, and secure outdoor objects or bring them indoors.
3) Turn off utilities if instructed to do so. Otherwise, turn the refrigerator thermostat to its coldest setting and keep its doors closed.
4) Turn off propane tanks.· Avoid using the phone, except for serious emergencies.
5) Moor your boat if time permits.
6) Ensure a supply of water for sanitary purposes such as cleaning and flushing toilets. Fill the bathtub and other large containers with water.
As an additional tip that I recently learned, you can fill plastic bags with water and put them in your freezer to prepare for extended power/water outages. These will stay cool longer than bottled water in your refrigerator.
If you're in one of the evacuation areas and haven't yet followed the instructions or aren't able to do so, make sure to seek shelter and follow the appropriate guidelines. [4]
Resources:Google Crisis Map:
http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy -- this is awesome, and a great central resource keeping up to date.
NOAA Station 44065:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44065 -- this is a buoy off the coast of New York tracking the wind speed and direction, if you want direct from-the-source reports.
GOES-14 Satellite Imagery:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/1min/index.php -- Composite satellite imagery from the SSEC program at WISC, on a 1 minute loop.
Weather.gov:
http://www.weather.gov/ -- useful for official advisories and up-to-date information, straight from the source.
Weather.com:
http://www.weather.com/Take a moment and look up your local news station's Facebook / Twitter and subscribe, optionally via SMS so that when the power goes out, you still have a method of receiving realtime updates (provided cell coverage doesn't go down / get inundated with emergency requests).As a bonus, there's a pretty awesome
#HTML5 canvas wind visualization demo that updates in realtime [6]. Some pretty slick techniques there, so view the source [Luke].
Feel free to add your own resources in the comments. I'll edit the post to add the most helpful resources.[1]:
http://observer.com/2012/10/gowanus-canal-flooding/[2]:
http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2012/10/29/crane-dangles-from-nyc-high-rise-clearing-streets[3]:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/26/hurricane-sandy-looms-over-the-us/[4]:
http://m.fema.gov/hu_during.htm[5]:
https://twitter.com/fema[6]:
http://hint.fm/wind/
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