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By gracie

現在網路相簿的服務很多，有的以照片容量收費計費、有的是上傳流量來收費，例如 Flickr。有個跟 Flickr 類似但比功能多一些 Zooomr 相簿，除了使用介面有多國語言以外，最新的功能有結合 Google Map 可標示照片拍攝的地理位置- GeoTag、People Tag、相片加入聲音等等。剛剛發現他們有個 bloggers 好康免費 Zooomr pro account 的活動 (文中有提到 Xanga, Live Journal, MySpace 的使用者也可以)，雖是非常念舊但是也喜歡試新軟體、新功能如我，晚一點來試試看好了。

順便說一下我是怎麼連結到這個好康的呢？有時候會看看 BBC 首頁的頭條，這一陣子不用說都是以色列和黎巴嫩炸來炸去都是人間煉獄的故事，不忍心每天看但是又想看一下有停火的希望沒有，就看了 "Israli bomb kills UN observers"，看不下去就隨便點科技欄位進去，看看 "In Pictures" 單元有什麼：「攝影師與數位革命」("The Photographer and Digital Revolution")，就可以看到也是 Zooomr 一員的 Thomas Hawk 怎麼從 Flickr 開始，繼續在 Zooomr 中發展自己對攝影、透過數位空間中的分享，他相信可以因此建立 offline 生活中的有共同理想、興趣、目標的社群。再來找到的資訊，就是 google 再 google 囉。

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Nothing says hardcore gamer nerd like a Fruitfucker case mod.

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I seem to have stumble upon something here with my look under the hood of the .NET Framework an other tools. Many readers where surprised and fascinated by what you can actually do with quality assessment tools like Lattix LDM or a simple concept like DSM (Dependency Structure Matrix) with its easy to understand and scalable depiction of the dependencies within a software.

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StopExit 1.01

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Whether in research report, white paper or survey form, a slew of recent analyses have come to the same overall conclusion: Today’s banks work at a disadvantage in large part because of their crazy-quilt implementation of technology.

Are these the perennial grousings of pundits or does the convergence point to a critical dysfunction? Banking has suffered from “terribly fragmented core processes” for the last two decades, according to Virginia Garcia, senior analyst with TowerGroup, Needham, Mass. She says the current focus reflects an “impetus” provided by regulators who increasingly expect to see enterprise-wide management of risk and data and processes.

The industry, Garcia says, is realizing that it will “spend fortunes” complying with regultory initiatives unless banks begin to leverage their investing across business silos. And, there’s no sugarcoating from long-time Financial Insights’ analyst Bill Bradway on the importance of getting the technology right: “Banks that don’t do a good job, to be blunt, become road kill. They’re taken out of the mix.”

In such a charged environment and in an era when other companies routinely use technology for strategic advantage, what goes awry between the time a financial services company recognizes a problem, identifies a technology solution, makes a purchasing decision and proceeds with an implementation? What can be done to address it? Here are the views of technology providers — those who have a stake in making that next technology sale.

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SYNOPSIS | Bank deployment of technology solutions is under scrutiny by many quarters. What’s keeping financial services companies from better leveraging their investments? Complex, fragmented processes, siloed decision-making and short-term horizons are among the issues identified by IBM, EDS, Microsoft and others.

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Quite a few people have asked me questions about ProBlogger being hacked last week. Questions have ranged from ‘do you know who did it?’ to ‘have you found out how they did it?’ to ‘how can we protect ourselves from being hacked?

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See the moon is once more rising
Above our our land of black and green
Hear the rebels voice is calling
"I shall not die, though you bury me!"
Hear the Aunt in bed a-dying
"Where is my Johnny?"
Faded pictures in the hallway
Which one of these brown ghosts is he?

Fare thee well my black haired diamond
Fare the well my own Aisling
Thoughts of and dreams of you will haunt me
'Till I come back home again

And the wind it blows
To the North and South
And blows to the East and West
I'll be just like that wind my love
For I will have no rest
'Til I return to thee

Bless the wind that shakes the barley
Curse the spade and curse the plough
Waking in the morning early
I wish to Hell I was with you now
One, two, three, four telephone poles
Give me a drink of poitin
Madness from the mountains crawling
When I first met you my own Aisling.

Shane McGowan (1994)

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View all your subscriptions by clicking on the My Feeds tab

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The Eagle

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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"There are three ways to a consumer's heart--mystery, sensuality, and intimacy."

-Kevin Roberts , Worldwide CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi

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"There are three ways to a consumer's heart--mystery, sensuality, and intimacy."

-Kevin Roberts , Worldwide CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi

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Recently on Read/WriteWeb we did a post comparing the top social bookmarking services, which showed that del.icio.us was behind StumbleUpon in terms of users.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “This is the next step in the evolution of the internet. It (video’s) a natural next step.”

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Tillgången till fritt innehåll på nätet växer kraftigt. Det finns cirka 200 miljoner texter, videos, bilder och ljudfiler fritt tillgängliga att använda med olika CC-licenser. Vid samma tid i fjol fanns det runt 40 miljoner. Detta enligt Google som MediaShift har pratat med.

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Tillgången till fritt innehåll på nätet växer kraftigt. Det finns cirka 200 miljoner texter, videos, bilder och ljudfiler fritt tillgängliga att använda med olika CC-licenser. Vid samma tid i fjol fanns det runt 40 miljoner.

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“CC” betyder “Creative Commons” och är ett system av licenser som ger upphovsmannen möjlighet att välja vilka rättigheter han vill behålla.

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Although this is the popular form of this quotation, a more correct translation from the original Chinese would be "The journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one's feet." Rather than emphasizing the first step, Lau Tzu regarded action as something that arises naturally from stillness. Another potential phrasing would be "Even the longest journey must begin where you stand." [note by Michael Moncur, September 01, 2004]

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Why set up a PLE?

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Week in the Classroom“Using Web 2.0 Tools in a Grade One Classroom”

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Mensa

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Turn down John Bolton's nomination as UN Ambassador--If there's any single message coming out of the election, it's rejection by voters of the neo-con foreign policy that Bolton represents.

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En tanke slog mig efter det att jag knappat ihop inlägget igår kring media och bloggar var att nästa års trend förmodligen kommer bli allt större satsningar på användargenererade videoklippp. Ett tåg som många medieaktörer (redan nu synligt uppenbart) vill haka på.

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this dude is a paedophile.

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Give Up Your Ideological Blinkers

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the process of commitment can take days, weeks, or even longer — it all depends on how badly you cling to your current situation and resist leaving your comfort zone. You’ll know you’re ready when you can finally say, “I do,” and mean it.

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Overcoming problems merely for your own satisfaction is very weak motivation. Doing something you know will benefit a lot of people is much more sustainably motivating. The more you fall into your ego, turning your personal problems into your whole world, the more you lower your consciousness, shrink your options, and attract scarcity. The more you focus on serving others, even in the midst of financial crisis, the more you raise your consciousness, expand your options, and attract abundance.

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Windows is so annoying and (to me, a Mac user) so counter-intuitive, that I'd never buy a Windows machine.

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ure that your profile allows sharing. Once sharing is enabled, all of your subscriptions and folders become public. When viewing a subscription, you can click the 'Edit' link to toggle individual folders and subscriptions private. A private folder or subscription will not show up in either a Blogroll or in the /blog v

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Too much educational software just attempts to turn these really powerful devices into the next version of the workbook. That’s criminal

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I love this statement and this to me is school 1.5. Where technology just replaces the things that we do. This isn’t a new school, this is an updated school. A new school starts with a new pedagogy a new theory and even a new taxonomy of learning. School 2.0 is not an upgrade to School 1.0…it’s a whole new school. An upgrade to School 1.0 is word processing instead of hand writing or PowerPoints instead of posters. These are upgrades to an old system. School 2.0 needs to be new from the ground up…starting with the foundation in which we build our teaching practices on (Universities are you listening?).

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YouTube Streams is by far the simplest of the bunch, and is currently in beta, so has some rough edges. But if you are looking for a way to easily discuss videos with a group of your contacts, your online audience, or a group of strangers it may provide just what you're looking for.

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YouTube Streams' interface is simple and works pretty well,

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In summary, this is a service that will appeal to those looking to share and add a social dimension to their Internet video viewing experience, and will only prove lacking to those who require privacy and video synchronization features.

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http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

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sunny day,eaves dripping yesterday.sunny morning

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Globalization and Poverty - Even Indian Farmers are effected
By Davinos Greeno Platinum Quality Author

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Many farmers who traditionally grew pulses and millets and paddy have been lured by seed companies to buy hybrid cotton seeds and other GM crops, which were supposed to make their lives easier and wealthier. Instead they faced bankruptcy and ruin.

Their native seeds have been displaced with new hybrids which cannot be saved and need to be purchased every year at a high cost. Hybrids are also very vulnerable to pest attacks. All pesticides have to be bought from the company that sold them the seeds; there have been reports of blatant profiteering from these companies.

It is experiences such as these which tell me that we are so wrong to be smug about the new global economy. It is time to stop and think about the impact of globalization on the lives of ordinary people. This is vital if we want to achieve sustainability.

We are repeatedly told that without genetic engineering and globalization of agriculture the world will starve, it is constantly promoted as the only alternative available for feeding the hungry.

Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers spending more buying costly inputs for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. The consequence is rising debts and epidemics of suicides in both rich and poor countries. Cows in the European Union receive on average $2 per day in subsidies. Over 1 billion people live in the world on less than $1 dollar a day.

Farmers in the Third World are encouraged by the IMF and the World Bank to produce cash crops for export. There are usually commodities that can be easily bought and sold on the World Markets. With fluctuating world prices, Fair trade is what can drag farmers and communities out of poverty. In some African countries it is cheaper to buy American sugar and coffee than it is to buy locally produced goods. This is because of over production and subsidies in the West which means that they then dump these goods on Africa destroying local markets.

When patents are granted to companies for seeds and plants, as in the case of basmati, saving and sharing seed is defined as theft of intellectual property. Corporations which have broad patents on crops such as cotton, soya bean and mustard are suing farmers for seed-saving and hiring detective agencies to find out if farmers have saved seed or shared it with neighbours.

As Gandhi reminded us, “The Earth has enough for everyone's needs, but not for some people's greed.”

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Rich Man, Poor Man: A Rant

What upsets me in general about many non-market thinkers is the complete lack of consistency and consideration of unintended consequences of their legislated actions (favored or enacted). Like those pro-choicers who think women should be able to do whatever they want with their bodies—except strip, dance, or pose in the nude, let alone sell sex. Either you can do what you want with your body or not. We may not like what people chose to do with their bodies, but you can’t walk around trying to draw arbitrary lines based on your own preferences and then be surprised that when other people do the same, their lines and yours don’t always end up in the same spot.

An article in last week’s Economist touches on a debate about whether the income inequality “burden” is the fault of globalization or technology. It’s an interesting debate with my favorite quote reading, “The distinctions between technology and globalization count, if only because people tend to welcome computers but condemn foreigners (whether as competitors or immigrants). That makes technology easier to defend.” I mean, really, the iPod that makes working out so much more enjoyable is hardly as harmful as the Indian guy on the other end of the customer service line who’s impossible to understand.

I’m not sure that there’s much value in making efforts to separate technology and globalization, but I’m 100% sure that the income gap isn’t the “problem” with globalization. The fact that two people make differing sums of money is not in and of itself a problem in my eyes, it’s basically the American dream in a nutshell.

What I’m more concerned about is the welfare of that person at the bottom. The fact that his neighbor makes more isn’t the issue, the fact that his child may be starving to death is. Beating up on his neighbor in newspaper articles and the like doesn’t feed that poor man’s son. I think that it’s just another case of middle-class white folks (who give the least to charitable organizations as a percentage of income, even compared to people living below the federal poverty level) feeling guilty about the world’s problems. Rather than admitting that they enjoy their cell phones and designer clothing—and may be part of what they identify as a “problem” for some god-forsaken reason—they prefer to beat up on the guy who drives a Benz. Meanwhile, who the fuck is feeding the starving kid?

In this country, where abject poverty is far and away the exception to the rule, we’re in the fortunate position to report that our poorest look wealthy when seated next to the poorest in the developing world. Rather than blame a handful of people who made mind-boggling money last year, how about you freaking do something? Sure the CEO of Microsoft got a big paycheck last year, but you bought three freaking computers to send of to college with your smiling studious children. And a few of those parts were made by the aforementioned father of a starving kid on the other side of the world. Don’t pretend like your actions have nothing to do with that CEO’s paycheck.

I disagree that there’s a problem with income inequality (at least in the cases where income is earned in a system of property rights rather than tyrannical thugs accruing wealth by pillaging it away through coercion), but if your position is that there is most definitely a problem, then make choices that put you in the position of being part of a solution. Rather than being a hypocritical ass that doesn’t have to think, take responsibility for your own actions and live a life that’s consistent with your ideology. How about you start holding yourself accountable to the way you want everyone else to act?

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bright sunny day

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The WTO officials always argue that their institution fights to help for the poor. By 2001, more than 85% of the world’s population lives in nations with increasing inequality. The debt of the Third World countries have been increasing rather than the opposite, and has become a devastating weight on the people living in those countries. The corporation has shut their governments’ voices through the World Bank and International Mutual Fund, but they were wrong if they keep their people silent for long. (Amory Starr, Global Revolt, Zed Books 2005, P.33-37)

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Blinder's prediction of the future of American employment is in line with my own and that of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Where Blinder falls down is in not seeing the implication of these trends on the U.S. trade deficit. A country whose workforce is employed in domestic non-tradable services is a Third World country with nothing to export. How will the United States pay for its heavy dependence on imports of manufactured goods and energy?

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(turning applications into platforms being a key Web 2.0 technique)

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StumbleUpon has unseated last year's winner, del.icio.us. Search engines like Google can help you find the material you're looking for using keywords, but social bookmarking sites can let you directly harness the collective intelligence of other users on the Web the directly share personal interests with you. Theoretically, this can help you find what you're looking for better, but what it really ends up doing is helping you find things that you never knew existing, but wished you did. StumbeUpon installs a toolbar in your browser and lets you collaborative rate content. This improves the recommendations for other users and behavior matching is used to find users like you and pages that you haven't seen before, on-demand. One indicator I use for the popularity of a social bookmarking site is how much inbound traffic I get from it, and I've seen a clear switch during the year from del.icio.us bookmarks to StumbleUpon referrers. StumbleUpon reports that it has over 1.7 million registered users and growing. Bottom Line: Del.icio.us is still my favorite bookmarking service, but for true content discovery, StumbleUpon now makes it much easier to find new content than del.icio.us does. StumbleUpon is a winner by a nose for taking content discovery to th

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1870s,

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transmit speech electrically

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Bigger Challenges

By Will Richardson on Conference Stuff

Those of you who have read this space for a while know that Lawrence Lessig is one of my heroes. I know…it’s somewhat of a geeky choice. But he’s without question been one of my greatest teachers in the last six years. I’ve seen him speak on about half a dozen occasions, and each time I am just inspired by his passion and dedication to challenging the traditional thinking about intellectual property and copyright. In many ways, I’ve tried to emulate him in my own presentations, albeit badly.

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"talk with electricity" far outweighed anything that simply increasing the capability of a dot-and-dash system could imply

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On Wednesday I mentioned that a chapter from my book appeared in a new form at Informit.com. A snort-users reader asked how Sguil differed from ACID and BASE.

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journalists aren't trained for the new world (like grad students becoming profs), etc. The live web, citizen journalism, now that's more recent.

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made and used complex tools, formed societies, migrated over long distances, used fire, and cooked food – and they did all that without words.

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These early humans had 80% of the brain capacity of modern humans, and yet they were biologically incapable of speech. They communicated with each other visually, through gestures, observation and mimicry.

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25,000 years ago

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first evidence of advanced drawing and painting skills appears, in cave paintings, such as the beautiful and famous examples at Altamira in northern Spain.

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writing

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Paper

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In 1440 the publishing industry was born when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press.

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written works could be mass-produced. Books became cheaply available.

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visual image

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printing press gave birth to a powerful industry

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1984, when Apple introduced the Macintosh computer and the first graphical user interface (GUI)

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communication has entered a digital age

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new revolution

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“In the electronic age which succeeds the typographic and mechanical era of the past five hundred years, we encounter new shapes and structures of human interdependence and of expression which are “oral” in form even when the components of the situation my be non-verbal” (McLuhan, 1995. 99).

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oral tradition

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oral tradition

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The Oral Tradition

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cultural knowledge.

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Homeric epics were examples of memory techniques to preserve c >

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L’Iva agevolata transitoria del 10% non si applica:

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alle cessioni di beni forniti da un soggetto diverso da quello che esegue i lavori;

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I covered the 30 Boxes online calendar briefly last September (see story). But the world's changed a bit since then, and 30 Boxes has as well, so I recently took another look at this interesting (and experimental) app.

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– from new york times – We may not have flying cars yet, or for a long time, but ‘replicators’ already exist and are on their way to your kitchen. “Make your own spatula or SpongeBob key ri

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bodyweight squats

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Politiker och forskare — hur hänger de ihop? Jag borde kunna svara för jag är, som riksdagsledamot och förutvarande talman i riksdagen, politiker (socialdemokraterna), samtidigt som jag är forskare (statsvetare). Och så är jag ordförande i Vetenskapsrådet, det är nya regeringen som utsett mig och det är jag glad för! Det är vi i Vetenskapsrådet, och det handlar om hundratals personer, som fördelar ett par miljarder kr varje år till det som är så nära stjärnforskning vi kan i Sverige.

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Blog Slideshows, Part 2: Turn Text Feeds Into a Photo Slideshow

By Raj on Tubetorials

This is a variation of the tubetorial Custom Flickr slideshows for your blog. The Yahoo Pipe there queries images directly from Flickr and manipulates the feed. The Pipe is then run and the RSS feed generated can be used in SplashCast to create an RSS-based slideshow.

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There's also decent evidence of a market failure in cybersecurity. Suppose Alice buys her software from Max, and Max can provide different levels of security for different prices. If Alice's machine is compromised, she suffers some level of harm, which she will take into account in negotiating with Max. But a breakin to Alice's machine will turn that machine into a platform for attacking others. Alice has no incentive to address this harm to others, so she will buy less than a socially optimal level of security. This is not just a theoretical possibility -- huge networks of compromised machines do exist and do sometimes cause serious trouble.

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Finding garbage What do you do when you are having lunch with your friends at a food court and suddenly you need to go somewhere for a short while in the middle of it (like, you asked for hot sauce but were given not-so-hot-sauce and you went back to the cashier to tell him how it’s so not up to your standard)? Then the nice janitor guy comes along and he sees your plate and tries to take it (you were so hungry you already ate most of your food before your remembered to use the sauce…). What happens now?

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On Wednesday I mentioned that a chapter from my book appeared in a new form at Informit.com. A snort-users reader asked how Sguil differed from ACID and BASE.

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There's also decent evidence of a market failure in cybersecurity. Suppose Alice buys her software from Max, and Max can provide different levels of security for different prices. If Alice's machine is compromised, she suffers some level of harm, which she will take into account in negotiating with Max. But a breakin to Alice's machine will turn that machine into a platform for attacking others. Alice has no incentive to address this harm to others, so she will buy less than a socially optimal level of security. This is not just a theoretical possibility -- huge networks of compromised machines do exist and do sometimes cause serious trouble.

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constructivist activities

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Kids have potential to succeed without sacrificing their "fun" -- iGoogle gives great educational links plus tools like calculators. Ye rowdy children, gather 'round the comp

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3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

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"The temptation," Ronell writes in her introduction entitled "Slow Learner," "is to wage war on stupidity as if it were a vanquishable object." War on stupidity, as a war on anything else, presumes that some original order can be regained or restored-some state of purity achieved. Wars on drugs and disease revolve around the rhetoric of health--bodily, spiritual, and communal. Wars promise to return us to peace and harmony. Wars promise to right wrongs or vanquish "evildoers" or "theorists" or those not considered to be "the children of God."

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00-watt $400 system

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Boston Acoustics TVee Model Two and its optional P.O.P. cloth grilles are scheduled for shipment to retailers in September 2007.

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The British handed control of Basra to Iraqi forces six months ago and are reluctant to wade in again now, despite their superior firepower.

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The only positive aspect of this silly enemy talking points memo is that they quote the Mahdi clowns crowing about their Iranian handlers. Anyone who believes that Iran is not the major cause of violence in Iraq, surpassing the defeated al Qaeda, is a naive fool. Now the Iranians have given the mostly leaderless and absolutely clueless Shia militias new toys and they somehow think that will help them against US and Iraqi forces who have spent the past 9 months kicking the living dogshit out of anyone dumb enough to raise a rifle. Terrorists and insurgents died in bunches and these weasels laid up sorry waiting to see what happened.

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Never buy tickets between Friday and Monday morning. Why? Airlines file fare increases on Thursday evenings and watch over the weekend to see if all of their competitors match the price bumps. If they don't, the carriers roll back prices by Monday afternoon.

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万科年报部分看点

By 逍遥狂客 on 投资

万科年报的致股东书非常不错，值得一读。

08年，万科的主题词是“虑远积厚·守正筑坚”。

万科07年预期开发面积700万平米，实际完成777万平米，比06年增长55％。

07年预期竣工面积600万平米，实际完成445万平米，较目标减少26％，主要是因为其提高了装修房比重的原因，07年新开工装修房占比达53％。

08年预期开发面积848万平米，竣工面积689万平米，从这一数字来看，我认为是万科有意识地认为控制开发速度。

这可能与万科对整个房地产市场未来大半年的解读有关，适当放慢新开工速度，而全面加速竣工和销售速度。

作为企业，当销售能力远远强于开发能力时，企业的冬天才算是真正过去。

另外，从年报来看，万科总算把老王经常挂在嘴边的“产业化”改为了我一直坚持更适合的“工业化”3个字，万科在中国三大经济圈都拥有工业化基地。

07年，万科的集约化采购有趋强态势，与不同企业财团战略合作的比例进一步加大。

在建、拟建开发产品竣工结算期08年部分：

1月：沈阳兰乔圣菲
2月：none
3月：深圳第五园、富春东方尊峪、佛山四季花城、佛山兰乔圣菲、佛山万科城、上海花园小城、北京紫台、北京四季花城、长春上东区
4月：镇江魅力之城、沈阳新里程、大连假日风景（车位）
5月：武汉城市花园
6月：广州天景家园、东莞松山湖、上海兰乔圣菲、上海华漕213#、苏州金色家园、南京光明城市、北京假日风景、天津金色家园、鞍山金色家园、大连溪之谷
7月：天津假日风景
8月：苏州本岸、天津东丽湖
9月：广州金域蓝湾、东莞高尔夫花园、苏州玲珑湾、杭州良渚文化村、杭州魅力之城、北京金阳公寓、沈阳四季项目、沈阳魅力之城、鞍山城市花园、武汉西半岛
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12月：深圳东海岸、深圳万科城、深圳金域东郡、深圳金域华庭、深圳千林山居、富春浪琴湾、佛山金色家园、广州万科城、中山城市风景、珠海金域蓝湾、厦门金域蓝湾、长沙西街、上海四季花城、上海新里程、上海中林项目、杭州佑圣项目、南京金域缇香、南京万科红郡、宁波金色水岸、南昌四季花城北区、无锡魅力之城、无锡东郡、青岛魅力之城、天津宁发花园、沈阳新瑜公馆、沈阳城市花园（车位）、长春兰乔圣菲、成都魅力之城、成都双水岸、成都朗润园、成都金域蓝湾、武汉金色家园、武汉魅力之城、武汉润园、惠州惠城区、南昌青山湖项目、北京四季花城、大连溪之谷

从这一统计表看，08年万科的各季报表数字依然不会平滑，绝大部分利润将体现在第四季度。

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slay the unbelievers wherever you find them" (9:5) and "fight...the People of the Book...until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued" (9:29) and "fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah" (2:193) and all the rest (and there are many more)

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The minister said that events which followed the 9/11 incident proved that it was the brainchild of Jews. He said that according to holy Quran, Jews and Christians could never be friends of Muslims.... -- from this article

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he credulous acceptance of a Total System, with its Complete Regulation of Life and Explanation of the Universe (at no extra cost), the belief that one should never question Allah, and that one should never dare to recognize the contradictions in the Qur'an itself (but be satisfied with "naskh" or "abrogation"), and that one should never notice the 20% of the text that makes no real sense (see Christoph Luxenberg on that 20% that makes no sense), the ability to believe one thing and its opposite at the same time, or to find behind every failure of Muslim states and societies not the real reason for that failure, but the machinations of Infidels, the alacrity with which every crazy charge against those Infidels becomes deeply and truly believed, the incapacity for any degree of skepticism or lonely critical thought, the willingness to subject oneself to, or enroll oneself in, some collectivist enterprise, as if fearful of remaining an individual and eager for instruction and direction at every turn so as to be relieved of the need for thought or independent moral judgment -- all this characterizes Islam.

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Some may like the idea of being zombies, directed in what they dress and eat and think and do, every single step of the way. Some may find it positively comforting.

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A PC as Good as a Mac

By Ismael Ghalimi on Office 2.0

Among all the devices a gadget lover can crave for, the OQO has been way up there on my list for a long time. Unfortunately, it was not distributed by any major retail chain when it was first release, which made it difficult to get a sense for its fairly unique form factor. Last year, I got to play with the model 01 and was quite impressed. But this year, we signed OQO as sponsor for the Office 2.0 Conference, and we got sample units of the model 02 to showcase on the Mobility Area. Here are my first impressions about the device.

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Social Network Types, Motivations, and the Future

By Bernard Lunn on Analysis

The desire to network is as old as humanity and online social networking sites do seem to solve a need that is different from simply using email, chat and blogging tools separately. However the idea that there will be one big social network platform is the purest form of baloney. The Internet is the platform. Period, end of story. The Facebook social graph platform pitch looks like a classic end of hype cycle attempt to inflate valuation, but as they say, that's another story!

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Since Islam is fundamentally ABOUT social organization and law rather than inner spirituality (ask them! they will tell you so themselves!), those totalitarian, aggressive impulses and ideas will naturally appear.

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If we do not value our own culture and heritage, we will not be able to defend it.

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black supremacist racism.

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Those of us in the business need to understand that it is society that is changing and why we need to change our educational systems. But for mothers and fathers understanding that the tools their children use are different, allow them to communicate and live in different ways continues to be an emotional attachment that the digital natives, digital immigrants argument still fits nicely into.

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what’s the hook? What is it we tell educators, administrators, parents, school boards, and community members for the reason we need to shift the way we teach? They have been part of this social shift yet they don’t understand it, or refuse to see it. Out-sourcing is part of this shift, so is in-sourcing, so is innovation, and business. We all live in this shifted society but do we understand it? Do we understand what it means not only for us but for our children?

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The number killed in Iraq is far less than in other modern American wars. In Vietnam, the U.S. lost on average about 4,850 troops a year from 1963-75. In the Korean war, from 1950-53, the U.S. lost about 12,300 soldiers a year.

A 2006 Duke University study found that it was 100 times as likely that an American knew one of the 292,000 Americans killed in World War II than someone today would know a service member slain in Iraq.

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Americans are not casualty averse. They are failure averse,” Carafano said. “They were unhappy with the lack of progress and spiraling violence. That is why you have seen public support rebound after it was clear the surge was working.”

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“You will recognize them by their fruits. Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”—“If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.”

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Interpretando a Vygotsky. Las redes sociales y el aprendizaje informal.

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ou've got a video file on your computer that your iPod doesn't support, fear not.

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Clasificación de los blogs en función de su relación con la formación.

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1876, marked not only the birth of the telephone but the death of the multiple telegraph as well.

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Alexander Graham Bell, who we all know as the inventor of the telephone, actually spent much of his life focusing on education of the deaf. He was one of America's biggest proponents of oralism and funded many schools for the deaf, all of which forbid sign language. He was also an early supporter of the eugenics movement which had a heavy influence on his opinions of Deaf culture

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Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 5 will, when it comes out, have some improvements in connection parallelism.

Just like IE8 increase from 2 concurrent connections per host to 6, Mozilla Firefox will also increase it to 6. The about:config entry for this is "network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server".

Furthermore the max number of HTTP connections will be increase from 24 to 30. The about:config entry for this is "network.http.max-connections".

The number of HTTP connections that can be established per host will go up from 8 to 15. The about:config entry for this is "network.http.max-connections-per-server".

If you using Firefox from behind a proxy then the max number of concurrent connections will be increased from 4 to 8. The about:config entry for this is "network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy".

All in all this will make Firefox 3 beta 5 even faster. These changes are needed since, according to Mozilla developers:

Sites are demanding more connections due to JS traffic, and we're using up more of the total connection limit with suggest requests, antimalware, extension traffic, etc.

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osper in the workforce I needed to be able to talk about cricket came as a huge relief.

If you knew the extent of my lack of interest in the sport of cricket spectating, you might find this puzzling.

It's hard to pinpoint the cause of this militant lack of interest. It might be a female thing; it might be a reaction to my father's seasonal lack of availability, or to his one-eyed barracking. My father was your archetypal one-sided sports fanatic.

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had promised that travel would be scaling back after last week in Edmonton — and when you look at the calendar, it certainly looks that way. I just didn’t know that I’d be headed back up to Canada just barely more than 24 hours after landing from Alberta on Saturday. It’s OK, though, because I have been looking forward to my work in Windsor (Greater Essex County Schools), because it will be a small part presentation and then a lot of conversation about achieving clas

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examples of terrorist use and potential use of mobile to web and web to mobile technologies and tactics"

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Josh es Senior VP, Idea Development en la firma de analistas Forrester Research y coautor de “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies”, una de las “biblias” sobre la revolución que están provocando las nuevas tecnologías y medios sociales. En definitiva, uno de los gurus más reputados en este campo.

La conversación sirvió para aclarar algunos de ls argumentos en los que más está incidiendo Josh últimamente en informes y conferencias:

Las tecnologías sociales pueden alterar cada elemento del marketing, extendiendo una nueva actitud centrada en el cliente.
Antes de lanzarse a una desenfrenada actividad social o de adoptar ciegamente estas nuevas tecnologías, las empresas deben tener claros los objetivos que persiguen con ello. La metodología de Forrester se llama POST: People (cómo participan tus clientes), Objectives (qué pretendes conseguir), Strategy (cómo vas a conseguirlo), Technology (qué tecnologías son las más adecuadas).
Aunque este despliegue deba forzosamente tener al principio un carácter experimental y adaptativo, para maximizar las probabilidades de éxito es imprescindible aplicar métricas que aseguren que se están cumpliendo los objetivos . Pero medir el marketing en medios sociales es difícil y es necesario sustituir las métricas tradicionales (visitantes, páginas vistas) por otras que expresen el valor para el negocio de las conversaciones y relaciones que se crean.

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"George Bush is an intellectual compared to her." - Oliver Stone on Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sara Palin

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That's what happened to me about a year ago when my key wouldn't work on my car outside of the Kroger.

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You can use adrenaline / panic to kick start your motivation.

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At some point, the state will not only be issuing IOUs to state employees, but to jurisdictions themselves. That means that at some point schools, counties, and municipal governments will have to operate without any state money. That will be an interesting challenge.

The bottom line, and I have spoken to a lot of people about this. There will come a point when the state starts defaulting on its obligations and those entities will basically have to shut down. If that happens, the entire state could come crashing down and then the state's economy will go from on the brink of disaster as it stands now to over the cliff. This is not an exaggeration.

Let's be honest up front--nobody is going to like this deal. No one. It's a bad deal. It's a horrible deal. And it is one that we have to sign because if we do not, things get so much worse. I cannot tell you how many different people have said this same thing in their own words.

On Wednesday, Senate Republican Leader Dave Cogdill called this deal the best they were going to get.

"My deal, one more time, has always been that I would try my best to get it to a position where I f

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Bridging and merging the educational technology team and the library team to form a new, cross-school department focused on 21st century learning: the ISB21 Team.

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an amazing strategy that converts procrastinators into effective human beings, respected and admired for all that they can accomplish and the good use they make of time

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t's that time again!

As many of you know, each year the Internet must be shut down for 24 hours in order to allow us to clean it. The cleaning process, which eliminates dead email, inactive ftp and www sites, and empty USENET groups, allows for a better working and faster Internet.

This year, the cleaning process will take place from 12:01 a.m. GMT on April 1 until 12:01 a.m. GMT on April 2 (the time least likely to interfere with ongoi

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Dan Gillmor, We The Media, l'essor du «journalisme citoyen» («citizen journalism»)

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3.) Does theatre have an inherent responsibility to be provocative?

If by provocative you mean arousing and stimulating, then yes. Like a Hungarian massage.

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Vocaroo permits users to record audio IMMEDIATELY to the web using a computer with a microphone.

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很抱歉隔这么久——在其推出四天后——才向大家介绍这项新技术，什么是bacn？ “你需要，但非当即需要的电子邮件：myspace提醒，twitter友人以及简讯等。”（

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这是一个非常棒的幻象。在看下面的文字前，你可以先去看看。我在此要表述的是，这个幻象不但显现出我们的感知如何从一种情况转换到另外一种情况，而且表明了我们可以训练我们自己，在这不同的感知间转换（首先我按第一种方式看，然后用第二种方式，接着我不得不尽力回到第一种方式上，在我训练自己再次按照那样的方式去看时，阴影形成）。

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I like the way the Blu-ray menu system works. While you’re watching a film, you can navigate the menus and sub-menus (like chapters, extras, etc.) in a transparent layer on-screen, while the film is still playing, so you never have to stop or go back to the main menu.

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Video consumption will grow when it is placed in the context of articles or relevant social network pages, not when it resides in video libraries of portal and publications. This was among the conclusions from our executive summit in Washington earlier this week.

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ture or from the people who you thought were protecting you.

Remember, these people are under no obligation to protect you from anything. It’s not part of the social contract. They can let you die if it suits them, and your survivors have no legal recourse. The only reason they go to all this trouble is to preserve their illusion of legitimacy and make you think that they should have control over every aspect of your life, for your own good.

These are not people to be respected; there is nothing respectable about how they do what they do. They may instead be feared, but above all they must be opposed, for not only violating the Fourth Amendment by breaking into people’s homes without good reason, but for doing what they do best: violating the t

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They seemed overpolite and unsure how to relate to me.

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mes - Republicans on the right and Democrats on the left with less incentive to reach out to the political middle, much less compromise at the Capitol.

-- Term limits: Proposition 140, passed in 1990, limits legislators terms to six years in the Assembly and eight in the state Senate.

-- Ballot-box budgeting: Initiative-loving Californians mandated set-aside funding for all kinds of single-interest issues, from education to stem cell research.

-- Prop. 13: The 1978 landmark law slashed commercial and residential property tax rates, shifting state reliance to other more volatile sources.

-- The two-thirds majority rule: The Golden State is one of just three states that require a two-thirds majority vote from each legislative house to pass budgets.

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感谢Michael Coghlan发来Tony Buzan的演讲短片。这个短片是在讨论围绕着创造力如何教孩子们学习。我非常赞同他的观点。我一生都保持创造性，我也看来了在教育过程中它是怎样被视作“不正常”并且得不鼓励的。但是如Buzan所说：“‘正常’是非自然的…… 我们在教授非创造力。”很好的短片，在11分30秒左右时关于什么是“创造力”的重复阐述也很好。

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Ma i legumi servono anche per le loro apparenti qualità "negative", le stesse che continuano stupidamente ad impensierire qualche nutrizionista e medico arretrato, che arriva al punto da consigliarne un uso limitato (3-4 volte a settimana), solo perché qualche signora che non li mangia mai si lamenta del mal di pancia la prima volta che li consuma. "Ah sì, ha problemi con i fagioli? E lei non li mangi!" consigliano i moderni "medici di Pinocchio": una vera castroneria anti-scientifica.
Proprio all'opposto, è l'uso che crea l'organo. E' la flora batterica simbionte del colon che deve abituarsi in pochi giorni ai polisaccaridi tipici dei legumi (stachiosio, raffinosio, verbascosio ecc). Dopodiché i legumi avranno per tutta la vita una digestione più facile di quella dell'insalata. Provare per credere. E allora, davvero, i legumi cambiano l'alimentazione, la trasformano in sana e naturale. Cambiano la vita quasi più dei cereali integrali.

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E non parliamo di carni (antibiotici, farmaci, ormoni), pesci (mercurio, cromo ecc) e altri cibi animali, ancora più inquinati, perché con tracce non di microgrammi come l’inquinamento presente nei vegetali, ma di milligrammi, cioè 1000 volte di più.

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在美国9岁到17岁之间96%的的青少年登陆互联网使用社会化网络技术，诸如聊天，短讯息，写Blog或者访问象Facebook和MySpace这样的在线社区”。我想知道他们其中有多少人读书的，不是说哈利波特，而是课本。

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The nation's major credit reporting companies will make on-line credit reports accessible to blind people's audio software under an agreement announced Wednesday.

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Have we all gone mad?

Stupidity is seen as smart, capitalism is a failed system regardless of it being the most successful in history, socialism is great even though it’s proven to fail every time, and Obama is a genius for doing the same thing Bush was hated for in building big government and massive spending.

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Ma almeno togliamo la buccia dei frutti? Macché, va sempre consumata, se mangiabile

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Right- no one. Not on the radar. This large town, in the farthest south of Iraq, has a trade port. Old, decrepit, constantly needing dredged, it still serves as a port-of-entry for goods into Iraq. Not as important (overall) as say, Basra, Iraq only has a couple of ports open to deeper water and the Gulf. But, have you heard of anything there in Um Qasr? Nope. Does that mean its safe? NOT FRIGGIN HARDLY. Um Qasr is extremely dangerous- but not due to insurgents located there- it's the CRIMINAL elements that run that place. Its closer to Iran than Baghdad, has near-direct access into the Gulf, and is also a quick drive into Kuwait; not that the Kuwaiti's are all that accepting of them from there. But Basra is very similar in composition- with one very very important addition: oil. Oil leaves from Basra, and not all of it is recorded by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil. I'd wager that less than 70% of the oil exported thru Basra is actually accounted for- some reports even less. No one knows, because it could be MUCH more. Pipelines that disappear into the desert exit at remote outlets into the river leading into Basra; think anyone who's siphoning off that supply wants to give it up soon?

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How many here have heard of any problems in Um Qasr?

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The Museum of London has a number of online games. I particularly like the Medieval Game of Life where the player takes on the role of someone who lived in the Middle Ages and has to make various decisions along the way.

It’s sort of a “Choose Your Own Adventure” activity.

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"Dwindling budgets suddenly make low-cost social media look like the pretty girl at the ball. " - Ann Handley, Marketing Profs

"Companies will struggle with how to control who says what -- but will increasingly realize that in an economic downturn, they need all the marketing muscle and leverage they can get and actively encourage." - Charlene Li

Our take: This makes a lot of sense to us, but we expect that it will be tempered by the fear of totally blowing it. Getting into the social media space and doing it wrong is something that a lot of companies fear getting blown apart for. We expect that to change slowly and only for a limited number of companies.

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Dave Pollard创建了他自己的PLE图表（尽管他没这么标识），并且考虑了学习和社交网络的整合。象McLuhan一样，他将交流工具描述成我们身体感觉的延伸，然后，观察到我们更愿意拥有而不是分享这样身体上的延展。“所以，我们希望将工作中获得的知识在自己的空间里以对自己有效的方式来进行组织，这一现象也许不显得那么令人惊讶了。我们讨厌被动地收到那些我们不需要也没有要求过的信息，无论它们是通过电邮、邮寄或者电话的方式发送来的。”有趣的是，他说博客和维基都不能很好地服务于这一需求（我想，这大概是许多OLDaily读者得要通过电邮或RSS订阅才看到这帖子的原因吧。）

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Now, Abu Dhabi's Masdar initiative, a partnership with MIT to build a zero-carbon emissions city on the emirate's desert edge, was almost the polar opposite in terms of fossil fuel foresight. Masdar, which means "source," was launched with the goal of maximizing current oil exports and creating a prosperous future that doesn't hinge on oil wealth or even oil usage.

Masdar's supply demands already have global solar, wind, water, and cleantech firms salivating...

American solar stock First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) is first to bite, having been chosen to provide solar panels to Masdar's solar power plant. Other Green Chip Stocks favorites are sure to follow. Will those same companies have a fresh target in Dubai, after Abu Dhabi imposes bailout conditions that promote clean energy?

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我将与自己在NRC（译注：加拿大国家研究委员会，Stephen的工作单位）的同事分享 Scott Gavin的一个很棒的幻灯片。我曾经描述过这种内部通信方式的转变，具体地说，就是由“文档驱动式管理”(依靠Word文档或Excel表格)转变为“数据驱动式管理”(人们使用简单的Web2.0式界面汇报进展，利用这些软件管理报告，等等)。另外这个幻灯片有着类似的描述。Rory Chalcraft, Learn

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Content in Today's Society

It's not just bloggers whose content is being used, shared, and profited from today - perhaps now bloggers can begin to appreciate what other industries, like the recording industry or the movie-making industry, has had to face in this new digital age.

How did it come to this? Jonathan Handel, a digital media, entertainment and technology lawyer posts on his blog about the nature of content in today's society.

He sees six reasons for content's devaluation (to paraphrase):

Supply and Demand: The supply of online content has grown enormously in the past decade, including user-generated content, a bunch of which includes content created by people who don't care if they get paid for its creation.
Loss of Physical Form: When you steal an object (like a DVD, for example), you deny it to the owner. When you "steal" a movie, by downloading it, it's still there for others to use. Its intangible nature makes its appropriate feel much less like stealing.
It's Easy: Getting content from the internet is far easier than through traditional methods.
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Culture: A generation of users has grown up indifferent or even hostile to copyright.

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