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Start with the Freeman Dyson prediction about green technology.  He's not talking about windmill generators, but plants with silicon leaves, engineering biology and taking over the role of evolution to remake the Earth.  If you want to know about alien minds, trying reading the essays by Colapinto and Cook.  They don't look to the stars and little green men who think different, but to South America.  Then Jon Mooallem looks at the history of people seeking anti-gravity and gravity radio.  Each essay, no matter how down to earth, could be used to inspire SF stories.

Here's the table of contents with links to the articles on the web:

• Zonkeys are Pretty Much My Favorite Animal - Jon Cohen
• The Interpreter - John Colapinto
• The Universe's Invisible Hand - Christopher J. Conselice
• Untangling the Mystery of the Inca - Gareth Cook
• Restoring America's Big, Wild Animals - C. Josh Donlan
• Our Biotech Future - Freeman Dyson
• The Coming Robot Army - Steve Featherstone
• Malaria: Stopping a Global Killer - Michael Finkel
• The First Assassination of the Twenty-First Century - James Geary
• Our Silver-Coated Future - Robin Marantz Henig
• Children are Diamonds - Edward Hoagland
• The Selfless Gene - Olivia Judson
• The Autumn of Multitaskers - Walter Kirn
• First Churches of the Jesus Cult - Andrew Lawler
• A Curious Attraction - Jon Mooallem
• Swingers - Ian Parker
• Science and Islam in Conflict - Todd Pitock
• Deadly Contact - David Quammen
• How to Trick an Online Scammer into Carving a Computer out of Wood - Ron Rosenbaum
• A Bolt from the Blue - Oliver Sacks
• Darwin's Surprise - Michael Specter
• The CSI Effect - Jeffrey Toobin
• Numbers Can Lie - Andreas Von Bubnoff
• A Mighty Wind - Florence Williams

Just the fact that I can link to full-text versions of all but three of these articles on the web is science fictional.  It represents a major paradigm shift in copyright, economics and the dissemination of knowledge.  And I'm not linking to these articles to give you free reads, you should buy the volume and study it.  I'm linking to web pages as a way to review this book, because just sampling these links will give you a taste of what I'm talking about far better than I could with descriptive words.  Most people do not like to read off computer screens, but having these essays online is an excellent way to recommend them to your friends.

This collection is a snapshot of our times but far different from what you see on the news at night.  These articles are overwhelmingly about the future, either predicting fantastic new developments, or warning us of dire happenings if things continue as they are now.  All the concepts that science fiction writers use to write visionary science fiction.  I've been getting this volume each year for awhile now, but I've yet to meet anyone else that recommends it.  That's a real shame.  Science was never so accessible, so why isn't it more popular?

Could this be why the SF mag editors aren't seeing that many science fiction stories cross their desks?  Because we now live in a world that seems science fictional compared to what we grew up in just a few decades ago.  I was watching a new cop show called Life on Mars, about a detective thrown into the distant past of 1973, and I was struck by the scene where he's wishing for a cell phone.  Or another time when he mutters about wanting a computer.  I'd love to time travel back to see The Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, or the Beatles in Germany, but I don't know if I could live without my sixth sense, the Internet.

The world and election I remember seeing through a 19" black and white TV in 1960 is so very different from how I see reality in 2008 while watching a 52" high definition set.  I think we take science for granted now, and back then science was that gee-whiz Mr. Science stuff that nobody paid any attention to other than the proto-geeks.  Many of the science stories in this year's collection come from The New Yorker, The Atlantic and other mundane periodicals.  Today I can switch on my TV and see an hour documentary on the history of the black hole, and the controversy over the information paradox that Stephen Hawking had proposed that angered scientists for years.  When I was growing up, my choices were Gilligan's Island, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie.

In the early days of three channel television, there wasn't room for physics and astronomy shows.  Today I can find several science documentaries on every night, and not boring ones like we used to see on 16mm film in science class, but fantastic shows with killer computer graphic clips beautifully illustrating cutting edge science, like string theory and the effects of dark matter of galaxy formation.

Sheila Williams, the editor at Asimov's SF Magazine, complains she receives too many stories beginning with exploding space ships.  That was a popular way to begin a story back in the 1930s.  Explosions are dramatic and quickly lead to action, but what people want today are new far-out ideas to create sense-of-wonder SF, and evidently too many potential science fiction writers are living on ancient clichés.  They need to be reading the science essays and watching the science documentaries on TV, because the mundane world has passed old science fiction by, leaving it quaint and suitable for nostalgia retrospectives.

The Donlan and Dyson articles inspired me to envision fantastic changes in our everyday landscapes.  Donlan writes about scientists wanting to repopulate the American plains with substitute "megafauna" like that found 13,000 years ago during the Pleistocene overkill, which would make traveling out west like a safari crossing a well populated African wildlife preserve.  Imagine tooling west on Interstate 70 and seeing elephants, tigers, lions, camels dwelling in the high grass beyond the highway fences?  If you add in Dyson's biological experiments, and think about T. Boone Pickens' giant windmill farms, our country is going to look very different.  When I was growing up, the future was exciting because of rocket travel.  Traveling to Mars may end up boring compared to just staying home.

I think about the recent hurricanes, Katrina and Ike, and wonder what our coastlines would be like if we could build houses that were indifferent to big waves and wind.  In my neighborhood I'm seeing hawks, raccoons and red foxes set up habitats.  I know there's a chance that possums, coyotes and armadillos exist unseen.  It wouldn't take much to let our lawns become urban prairies and adapt our lifestyle to allow for more wildlife, renewable energy, shifting ecologies so where we live would no longer be manicured sameness.

If we listen to Freeman Dyson, we could have all kinds of scientifically created plants and animals joining us, like shrubs that produce electricity.  How do you make such a neighborhood biosphere into a science fiction story?

On the TV at night, the news is all bad, dwelling on lost jobs, crashing stock markets, terrorism, melting glaciers, oil panics that make me worry that the future will be dim and full of drudgery.  Reading The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008, makes me think the future will be more like living in Oz.  I wonder what the mood of the country would be like if ABC, CBS and NBC nightly news programs shifted their focus from Wall Street to science laboratories around the world, would we all feel better about the future?

The public fear you see in the news is all about economics, and that's because economists are uncertain about the future.  Reporters should spend more time interviewing scientists, who are more confident about what's ahead.  Reading Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman made me feel a whole lot better about the next forty years because he interviewed hundreds of people with solutions, not problems.  The articles in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 aren't gosh-wow futurism like the 1939 World's Fair, but working class science, as real and ordinary as cloning and gene splicing.

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Technology is a broad concept that a species' use of the vessel and equipment and with knowledge of the deals, and how a species' ability to control and optimize your environment influences. Human use of technology in simple tools for the transformation of natural resources began. The ability to fire from the prehistoric discovery and invention of the wheel, sources of food available in the increase in travel to help the man and his environment control. The recent technological development, including the printing press, telephone, Internet, communication, physical barriers on a global scale, and the men may talk. However, not all technology for peaceful purposes, developing weapons of ever - increasing destructive power in history, from clubs to nuclear weapons is achieved.

A number of methods, technology and society around him have influenced. In many societies, technology (including the contemporary world economy, development of more advanced economy) and has contributed to the emergence of a class of vacation is allowed. Unwanted by many technical processes - products, known as pollution, produce and natural resource depletion, soil and the environment. The impact of technology and new values of a society of different technology implementations often new ethical questions. For example, a term that originally only for the machines, and the challenge of traditional norms apply in the case of human productivity, the emergence of the concept of efficiency are included.

Philosophical debate in the society with its current and future technology to use, but differences with the technology to improve the human condition deteriorates or it is generated. Neo-Luddism, anarcho-primitivism, and similar movements in the modern world, that it harms the environment and alienates people claiming criticism ubiquity of technology, transhumanism and technical ideologies, as the proponents-progressivism viewed as beneficial for society and Continued technical progress the human condition. In fact, until recently, is that the technology only to human development, but was limited in recent scientific study is that other primates and some simple equipment Dolfin communities have developed and passed on his knowledge to other generations, you can send a signal was considered.

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Kebun Bahasa adalah sebuah lembaga bahasa yang berfokus di dalam mengembangkan serta meningkatkan kemampuan berbahasa Inggris berbasis Integrated Skills (Speaking, Wrtiting, Reading dan Listening) yang akan membantu proses peningkatan mutu kualitas berbahasa Inggris serta mengaplikasikannya ke dalam percakapan, maupun tulisan sehari-hari

Kebun Bahasa is a language institution which focuses on developing and increasing the ability of English based on integrated skills (consists of speaking, writing, reading, and listening). In short, it will help you in empowering the English quality and practicing it weather in daily writing or conversation.

Didirikan pada tanggal 23 Maret 2005 dengan akte izin yang menginduk pada yayasan Kiprah Alam

This institution is built on March, 23 2005 by supporting of official document (landed to) Kiprah Alam Foundation.

Le temps, tous les grands penseurs vous diront qu’aujourd’hui c’est la plus grande richesse de l’Homme. Au rythme effréné où va la vie contemporaine, heureux celui qui possède le temps de s’arrêter et de profiter de ses acquis. À quoi bon posséder le monde si on ne peut pas s’asseoir pour respirer ? Il y avait d’ailleurs un excellent dossier dans La Presse il y a un environ un mois. Les articles traitaient des personnes riches du Québec, on apprenait qu’une grande partie étaient « low profile » et que, surtout, ils préféraient « s’acheter du temps » plutôt qu’exposer leur richesse en achetant des Mercedes, des châteaux ou/et des putes.

Que voulaient-ils dire par acheter du temps ? Simple : engager une ménagère pour sauver le temps de ménage, embaucher une gardienne à temps plein pour s’occuper des enfants lorsque les parents sont indisponibles (on sauve ainsi le fastidieux temps pour aller chercher/porter les enfants à la garderie), payer une homme à tout faire pour l’entretien extérieur et domiciliaire, avoir un chauffer privé, etc. Des petits luxes que la majorité ne peut pas se payer mais qui ne visent qu’une seule chose : maximiser le temps passer à rien faire.

Bon, rien faire, c’est exagéré. En fait, je veux dire, maximiser le temps à pouvoir faire autre chose que des tâches ménagères, de la bouffe et du transport. Ainsi, lorsque Papa et Maman arrivent à la maison, le repas est prêt et les enfants sont contents de les voir arriver. Ils partagent tous ensemble le souper et au lieu qu’après le dessert tout le monde s’éparpille un peu partout (les parents à la vaisselle, les enfants dans leurs chambres, etc.), tout le monde peut profiter du salon ou du jacuzzi en famille tandis que la ménagère fait la vaisselle.

Je sais, je sais. Je vous vois déjà maugréer contre mes propos en disant « Oui mais King, les gens riches peuvent se permettre ces luxes, pas nous, classe moyenne ou pauvres. » C’est vrai, je conçois qu’un gars de shop et sa femme caissière ne peuvent pas se payer une bonne, une gardienne, un chauffeur et un jardinier. Cependant, plutôt que d’acheter du rêve avec leurs 20$ de loterie, de payer 600$ par année pour les 60 chaînes télé, d’acheter pour 1000$ d’alcool par année et toute autre dépense « superflue », s’ils investissaient 100$ par semaine pour gagner du temps, ils seraient plus heureux.

100$ par semaine, ça permet de payer 2 visites de ménagères. 1 visite de ménagère et 1 repas préparé. Si ce maigre 100$ pouvait permettre à la famille X d’avoir le jeudi soir de libre de tout stress parce que quand ils arrivent ils n’ont pas besoin de se soucier du repas ni du ménage, ils pourraient passer du temps avec leurs enfants plutôt qu’avec John Molson qui leur permet, sans perdre de temps, de vivre un état de complaisance qu’ils n’ont pas lorsqu’ils sont sobres.

Encore, imaginez 100$ pour 2 visites de ménagères : le lundi et le jeudi. Jeudi soir, la maison est propre, on est heureux puisque demain, vendredi, c’est la dernière journée de travail avant la belle fin de semaine. Durant le week-end, pas de stress sur le ménage puisque la maison était déjà propre et qu’ils suffit juste d’entretenir un peu. Lundi matin, la maison est presque un bordel, mais ce n’est pas grave, lundi soir elle sera de nouveau propre.

Bon, bon bon…Je m’égare. Vous vous dites la même chose j’en suis certain. Je me suis emporté, ce qui devait être un court paragraphe d’introduction est devenu un billet complet. Ce que j’avais à vous dire sur le temps, je vous le dirai demain. Je manque un peu de temps aujourd’hui pour vous en parler.

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]]> http://cuzzoclay.wordpress.com/?p=372 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:49:14 +0000 cuzzoclay http://cuzzoclay.nl.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/mccain-in-true-form/ This link was sent to me in an email and I checked out the clip.  I suggest any American who may chance upon this site to check out the video at the following link.  I hope you read this post before the election too.

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Hier findet ihr die (etwas korrigierten) Personenbeschreibungen, die ich letzten Dienstag aus dem Textchat kopiert habe.
vorstellrunde

It's been fairly tough this week - had alot on and I am glad to be here sitting down writing this.

It's nice to get on the computer sometimes, as it can really make a difference - I love the manual side of designing and building fireplaces, but it is nice to do something other than CAD, where y' hands aren't getting dirty... ;) (this is of course assuming I have a clean keyboard)

I had an interesting problem to solve at a customers house on Thursday, I actually went with a colleague as a sort of advice giver. The paint on the customers flue had disolved, due to the sealant that was used to seal the base of the flue pipe, to the top of the stove.

It's interesting because we normally purchase the sealant from a specialist wholesale outlet, but having run out unexpectedly, we had to purchase an off-the-shelf product - (I can't disclose the company or product, for legal reasons).

The purpose of me telling you all this is; given it was a product that is sold to the public, it could be a problem you may encounter in the future. I must mention here; this has never happened to us before, so their must be an element in the "public" product, which is not in the "wholesale" product that can eat paint away...

Not good eh?

Anyway, once we had established what caused the damage to the flue pipe, it was a fairly simple process to rectify!

How we fixed it?

We laid dust sheets down - this is one of the most important things to remember, so as not to damage anything else in the room. We then sanded the flue pipe down around the area where the damage had occurred. Incidentally, we used P60 grade sand paper to start with, as this is coarse and then to finish, we used P120 grade sand paper as it is much smoother.

The next thing we had to do, was to spray the flue pipe black, to match the colour of the stove - this was done using matt black paint and I have to say, when finished, it truely was a centre-piece.

Anyway, if you ever encounter this problem and need a bit of advice before you do the job, then comment here and I will lend a hand ;)...

Have a good weekend!

Buck

L’introduction de Laura Koetzle évoquait l’impératif de collaboration qui s’imposait aux organisations, d’une part, parce que c’est ce que vivaient les « clients » sur le web et d’autres part, parce que les futurs employés de ces organisations seraient rompus aux techniques de collaboration du web et ne comprendraient pas que cela ne puisse exister.

Du web 2.0 dans l’entreprise ?

C’est ce que présentait Tim Walters en proposant de dépasser la gestion de contenu pour aller vers de la gestion de contenu, de communauté et d’expérience utilisateur (en anglais, cela fait WCM to WCCCM… ce qui est plus drôle). Deux axes à la présentation donc, accepter l'intégration avec des communautés internes et externes, et améliorer l'expérience utilisateur (cette traduction mot à mot de l'anglais ne me plait pas... auriez-vous autre chose ?) en allant vers plus de personnalisation, de recommandation... Les questions des attentes croissantes des utilisateurs du SI et leur utilisation pour leur métier d'outils disponibles "dans le nuage" comme facebook, twitter... ont été abordées. Plutôt réjouissant de constater que les pratiques du web 2.0 commencent à diffuser dans les organisations de toutes tailles et toutes natures !

Marier les informations structurées et non structurées !

La seconde partie étaient consacrée à la Business Intelligence. Enfin c'est ce que je nommais comme cela, avant que les intervenants de cette présentation, Matthew Brown et Boris Evelson, n'expliquent qu'il fallait plutôt parler d'Information Intelligence lorsque l'on souhaitait exploiter la richesse des informations structurées ainsi que celles non structurées d'une organisation. Une amélioration que j'avais intégré à l'informatique décisionnelle sans l'expliquer, ce qui m'avait mis dans l'embarras face à un spécialiste de l'informatique décisionnelle qui me refusait de faire une introduction sur ce que cela apportait à la performance des organisations, arguant du fait que la BI était un sujet ancien et connu... Un sujet très certainement à enrichir des pratiques de collaboration issues du web !

]]> http://religioncompass.wordpress.com/?p=304 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:00:13 +0000 oldfield1 http://religioncompass.nl.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/news-tubeligion-religious-transformation-into-the-internet-age/

According to a recent article in Time Magazine, YouTube is fast becoming a hotspot for transporting religious information into the Global market. It is being used by diverse sectors of religion, including pastors, rabbis, pious laypeople and Roman Catholics, to celebrate and explain their beliefs. The online climate allows increased exposure of values and beliefs which may otherwise fall below the radar of the majority. As religious values in many societies are waning, this new form of ‘advertising’ could revolutionize religion, putting it back on the map.

The video above is part of a 1971 television program, featuring Alan Watts, who popularised Asian philosophies for a Western audience. The video was posted by Alan's son Mark. It appears courtesy of alanwatts.com.

Related articles:

Teaching & Learning Guide for: The Social Ethic of Religiously Unaffiliated Spirituality
By Siobhan Chandler, Wilfrid Laurier University
Religion Compass, March 2008

2 октября я посетил сие мероприятие. Проходило оно в здании Делового информационно-выставочного центра:

Собственно, подробно рассказывать не стану, почитать можно по ссыле указанной выше, скажу лишь, что больше всего понравилось выступление Сергея Кулькова, от Лаборатории Касперского, несмотря на то, что сам я не пользуюь их софтом. Помимо информации об их продуктах, я узнал, что у нас в Екатеринбурге планируют запустить электричку до аэропорта =) Говорят такое только в Москве есть =) (сам я не узнавал точно, так что не ручаюсь за достоверность)

По пути на конференцию сфоткал городской пруд:

Сради раздаточных материалов были: антивирус (NOD32), календарь и коврик для мыши и символикой этого антивируса, блокнот с логотипом Oracle, различные журналы, проспекты и прочая печатная продукция. Особенно улыбнул презерватив в коробочке с символикой Касперского =))

По сабжу вроде все.

Насколько дней назад ко мне на балкон залетел попугай, потусил немного, был сфоткан, после чего свалил:

И последнее - пишу этот пост, а за окном идет снег... (второй раз за эту осень, первый был 27 сентября, после чего почти 2 недели было относительно тепло)

694 laptops have gone missing over the past 4 years, and at least 24 memory sticks (although 121 are officially reported missing).

These are the people who are supposed to be protecting our security. Yet they can't even look after our information. We have laws restricting our freedoms which are supposed to stop terrorists (though most of these laws do more harm than good), and yet the 'Defense' of our nation consists of a clumsy organization who lose personal data on millions of people. This is disgraceful.

This follows in previous months the loss of: driving test candidate information; January saw 600,000 military recruit's information lost; 84,000 prisoners' details was lost in August; all this among countless other cases.

Read the article.

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Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Rakesh Mohan said the financial crisis in the advanced economies and the likely slowdown in these economies could impact the IT sector in India.

“About 15-18 per cent of the business coming to Indian outsourcers includes projects from banking, insurance, and the financial sectors, which is now uncertain.  The current developments with respect to the US financial markets are very eventful, and may have direct impact on the IT industry,” Mohan said speaking at IMF-FSF high-level meeting on the ongoing financial turmoil.

The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), the IT trade body also indicated that it may revise its software export growth target downwards by few percentage points for 2008-09. Nasscom President Som Mittal had said the downward revision is due to US financial turmoil.

Nevertheless, the association believes that export will reach the $60 billion target in 2010. Mittal said the financial crisis impacted the industry and the December review is likely to reveal the exact impact.

The current financial turmoil started with the sub-prime mortgage problem in the US, which snowballed into major crisis, leading to meltdown in some of the global financial giants.

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information overload research group (which is sponsered by google and other information corporations.)

Click somewhere on the right-hand panel
Simply press the Ctrl-+ key.
The Name, Size, Type and Modified columns will automatically adjust themselves to display all their information.
Note: The + is the one on the numeric keyboard