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Hi, Erin!,
originally uploaded by Troy McCullough.

Photo by Troy Mc C., Baltimore, who I first met as Idletype blog -- now more a photoblogger.

Step-By-Step Guide: Embedded Windows Media in Firefox - MozillaZine Forums: "If some of the files are still missing, you can download the individual files from dlldump.com: * npdsplay.dll: http://www.dlldump.com/dllfiles/N/npdsplay.dll * npwmsdrm.dll: http://www.dlldump.com/dllfiles/N/npwmsdrm.dll * npdrmv2.dll: http://www.dlldump.com/dllfiles/N/npdrmv2.dll Download them to the Firefoxs plugins folder (usually C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins). " Problem: Windows Media Player 10 wouldn't 'play' with Firefox 1.5. Translation: I couldn't watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert anymore. bwaaaaa..... Solution: Downloaded and copied the three above files into the firefox plugin folder. And now they play together. The real story: I uninstalled, reinstalled both Firefox and WMPlayer several times, no luck, and then found this reference at the Firefox forum site: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=206213#RestoreWMP That's where I found several good leads, and diagnosed problem, found thirdparty files and got things to work. To have spent this much time is not acceptalbe to me, and for sure not to the normal mortal. I will be looking hard at IE7 when it comes out.

edwired what should I do? add the rss feed to bloglines, add to my firefox livefeeds? bookmark at delicious? aaaaayy! a blog that mention the use of iTunes for lecture delivery, well, I have to read that!

ONE: Don't miss the boat. TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat. THREE: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark. FOUR: Stay fit. When you're 40 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big. F IVE: Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done. SIX: Build your future on high ground. SEVEN: For safety's sake, travel in pairs. EIGHT: Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs. NINE: When you're stressed, float awhile.... TEN: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.

REMINDER: Next Saturday is Emily Dickinson's birthday..... here she is .... drinking again.

This image is automatically shrunk as Picasa exports it to blogger. I have tried to undo the standard photo format settings. No luck. Also I have to sign in each time I want to post to blogger! A few kinks to work out yet.

THIS is an IMAGE, not the tiny stuff uploaded using the new direct to blogger button on Picasa. Anyhow. The most current version of Picasa should do this whole upload with a decent size, and automatic login. Its not clear if there are two versions of Picasa on my computer or what. Also Picasa's directly links to all the on-line photo printers, and local pickup is available from local retailers like Ritz and Wal-mart.

I am having an ACLU sort of day: Fitness Report: "The Department of Homeland Security's privacy advisory committee -- set up to ensure that DHS does not unduly infringe on privacy rights -- wanted to change a requirement that it publish the names of people who attend public meetings. The requirement had upset many of those interested in attending the meetings because, oddly enough, they tend to be a bit touchy about, well, privacy, as well as public access to government proceedings. Publishing the names of everyone attending 'will have a chilling effect' on those key matters, says Center for Democracy and Technology associate director Ari Schwartz . The DHS counsel's office says the Federal Advisory Committee Act clearly requires that everyone who RSVPs to attend must have his name published. But privacy folks counter that the implementing regulations are crystal clear -- and should be so even to lawyers -- that the only people who need to be named are the committee members who attend along with participating witnesses. There may be some Hill action on this. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.), senior Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, weighed in yesterday, issuing a statement urging DHS 'to reconsider the policy.' Watch this space."

Gina’s World is my WordPress blog.

This beaver-built pond near the Cherry Hill golf course in Amherst was frozen into a skating rink, as smooth and clear as any zambonied rink. Zambonis, for the uninitiated, are ice smoothing machines used between periods in a hockey game to repair and recondition ice. Now if we can train the beavers to zambonie their ponds.....

EMail note: Choosing web-based mail among G, Y, and A, the big deal is ability to download and archive to home-PC, whether for overflow or because of redundancy policy for documents. I don't want to depend on a web service for permanent storage. In choosing, GMail won because the free account allows exactly that... downloading old emails via POP to Outlook. YMail does not, except on their pay account. A-webmail does not. And tho' i have an A-pop account, any websent mail in A-Web's case is not archivable. G-mail looks like it will do everything I want. Ironically, Y-mail did that before they made POP download an upgrade.

Gizmodo Gallery: Amos Latteier - Gizmodo interviews the father of the potato battery and other amazing techno-artpieces.

TwinTowersShelf

TwinTowersShelf,
originally uploaded by ginabobina.

just another demo for hank

but we knew this already. here are the specifics

Urban Habitats is peer-reviewed, online, doesnt' charge to publish, and makes itself freely available to all. APA format, under 5000 words, takes submissions on landscape architecture, urban history and so on.

Eric Staller's Conference Bike!

Tapping a New-Age Life on the Web, Cellphone and TV: "Lime is a media company devoted to new-age lifestyle programs on subjects like organic food, hybrid cars and alternative medicine that has big-name backers." And they are looking for shorts, tiny video segments; its rollback time to the 30 second movie where it all started.

Shared Earth Trust conservation and biodiversity - Wildlife Corridors talks about how landowners can improve habitat by making corridors usings shelter belts and ditches.

Ness-Hispano:Ethnic Identity in Canones- 1987 -- this details the cultural siginificance of irrigation ditches in Pueblo rural agricultural villages, and describes the cultural significance of ditch cleaning day.

eb2003-0004.pdf (application/pdf Object) -- this paper talks about the image of cities as giant water sucking buffaloes, and of ditches as reminders today, of the scarcity of water in the West. Bibliography may be useful. Actual mention of historic ditches is nil.

Volume 3, Number 1 -- The North American Geographer: " Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 2001) Geographical Voice Peter J. McCormick, 'An Unrelenting Land: The Southwest Revisited' Articles NOTE: NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHER is short-lived, shutting down in 2005 at vol5, and its articles are NOT on the WEB! --- hmmm.... Jeffrey S. Smith, Matthew R. Engel, Douglas A. Hurt, Jeffery E. Roth, James M. Stevens, 'La Cultura de la Acequia Madre: Cleaning a Community Irrigation Ditch' Throughout rural New Mexico and south-central Colorado, acequias (irrigation ditches) are the lifeblood of Hispano communities. Without the water delivered by acequias, residents would face the all but impossible task of trying to farm in the region's harsh, semiarid environment. Irrigation water is vitally important to village life. From their initial construction to the equitable distribution of water, acequias bring village residents together for a common cause. Particularly important is the annual spring cleaning. Few village events are more culturally significant than la limpia de la acequia (the cleaning of the ditch). Each year residents set aside time to help repair and maintain the village waterway. As people gather, ties between family and friends are strengthened. But more importantly, the annual event plays an invaluable role in helping to shape and sustain the local culture. Through an examination of the spring cleaning of the acequia madre (mother/main ditch) in the village of El Cerrito, New Mexico, our central objective is to articulate some of the various underlying ways cultural messages are being projected and received by local residents. Keywords: New Mexico, El Cerrito, Acequias."

Reno News and Review Cover story - November 21, 2002: "The waterscape. Not just the Truckee River, but all the canals, ditches and weirs where a dam diverts water from the river, such as at the Arlington Avenue Bridge. You have the Orr Ditch, Highline Ditch, Steamboat Ditch, Boynton Slough, all the ditches running past Verdi, the ditch system running off the Truckee that in theory is supposed to be freshening and regenerating Virginia Lake. Most of the ditches are relic features now, but they are a reminder of how dependent this area is on water and the manipulation of water. The waterscape says we live in the desert and that agriculture was an incredibly important part of early life in Reno, and we abandoned that at great cost. We stop paying attention to water, and pretty soon we have planners saying, 'Oh, we don't have a water problem in Reno. We figure we've got plenty of water until, say, 2030.'"

The shirtless guy, on the same day as Breasts Not Bombs --- ah California.

Lectures, Seminars, and other Events - Hampshire College - Amherst, MA: " NOV. 28, 6:30 p.m. MOVIE. The CBD Program will host: 'Island of Lost Souls,' at Hampshire College East Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall. Movie and pizza and 6:30. Discussion of this 1933 version, starring Charles Laughton, provokiing questions about genetic engineering and ethics, will follow the movie. DEC. 5, 5:30 p.m. PUBLIC LECTURE. The CBD Program will host: 'How the Imagined Shapes the Real' by Jerome S. Bruner, at Hampshire College, Main Lecture Hall. Jerome Bruner received his doctorate in psychology at Harvard. He has taught at Harvard, Oxford, and is presently University Professor at New York University School of Law, His interests have always centered on how human beings construct their realities -- how they acquire, retain, and transform knowledge about the world in a way that makes it possible for them to get on with their own lives and to get on as well with others in their culture. Bruner has received many honors, and was the winner of the coveted Balzan Prize in 1987. Professor Bruner played a leading role in the Cognitive Revolution of the 1960s, the movement that brought psychology back to the study of mind. "

Lectures, Seminars, and other Events - Hampshire College - Amherst, MA: "NOV. 28, 6:30 p.m. MOVIE. The CBD Program will host: 'Island of Lost Souls,' at Hampshire College East Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall. Movie and pizza and 6:30. Discussion of this 1933 version, starring Charles Laughton, provokiing questions about genetic engineering and ethics, will follow the movie."

FITC 2006 is in April, in Toronto...... graphics galore.

RemembrancePoppies

180px-RemembrancePoppies,
originally uploaded by ginabobina.

I 'stole' these poppies because I missed having a Canadian Remembrance Day poppy. In Flanders Fields the poppies grow...

Manufactured Landscapes - Review - Photography - New York Times

Flickr

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TwinTowers Fungus

TwinTowers Fungus,
originally uploaded by ginabobina.

One wonders if iPhoto and flickr are connected by EXIF fields

IMG_0981

IMG_0981,
originally uploaded by ginabobina.

testing

IMG_0981,
originally uploaded by ginabobina.

testing, testing

G'mrning glory

IMG_0784,
originally uploaded by ginabobina.

How'd it get limited to just PZQ? I wanted to post to a different blog

Durfee Conservatory: "About 120 species of trees are represented on the map, according to Ahern. He singles out as particularly noteworthy the pin oak near Munson Hall, one of the largest in the state; the black tupelo tree near the Campus Pond; the Japanese elm by South College, the oldest in the country; the beeches in front of Draper Hall; and the 'shadbush' courtyard between the Conte polymer center and the Lederle graduate research building. Ahern expects to label the trees along each route sometime next spring, and he’s hopeful the campus can also develop a database of all its trees in the near future."

Taunton River Wild and Scenic River Study: " 3. Cultural LandScape Inventory: $15,000 Point Person: Bill Napolitano We would have a uniform inventory for landscape. She has $15,000 from DCR and with this money would be able to hire a consultant to do all ten towns. Four were completed in the pilot project of DEM. This project will focus on the river corridor. ? Motion to accept this project ? Motion seconded Timeline: we could pull out information for our management plan. * Unanimous support for the proposal."

The oldest white oak in Amherst - 172 state st. -- could be several hundred years old. The ladies at the garden club say it measured 13.42 feet in 1973. Probably gained a half a foot in the last thirty years.

Concrete Corn

35-25cornfield3,
originally uploaded by ginabobina.

Martha Schwartz is famous among landscape architects for the Bagel Gardens and army-like ranks of frogs. One wonders if she had a hand in this field of concrete corn cobs!

Wildflower, North America - Selector

Wildflower, North America - Selector,
originally uploaded by zen³.

This is a clickable photo -- linking to live photos of flowers...from a flickr group.

Saki Designs: June 2005 uses a PayPal BUY NOW button to sell purses.

The Concrete CornField ! Concrete Corn Field, and no Martha Schwartz to be found.

optical-illusion-wheels-circles-rotating

optical-illusion-wheels-circles-rotating,
originally uploaded by ginabobina.

What benedetto sees after the beer and pretzel mass....oh my

The card of a very advanced pre-kindergartener--- handed to me at a playground.

Silo Bolts

IMG_0069, originally uploaded by ginabobina.

Concrete silos in Western Mass are big old barrels clamped with silo bolts.

Highlights only: Sun 17th: Amherst, via Penn to Columbus, OH: PA long, slow, duh. 822 m Mon 18th: Penn to Lawrence Kansas; via Indiana (see Terre Haute) and Illinois, and Missouri Terre Haute: St. Benedict's Catholic Church, 1896, of German residents Terre Haute: Town Hall in French/German? Style, and picnic on the rive St Louis: the story of the arch Lawrence, Kansas: U of Tues, 19th: 713 miles KS to CO, via the Plains, I-70, more than expected Catholic Churches. News of Benedict xvi arrives midday; Cathedral of the Plains: Victoria, Kansas. Santo Fidelis, 1909. Tourist office: wheat weaving and Dorothies, Colorado entry to Rockies and evening in Silverthorne, CO Wed, 20th: anticipated to Las Vegas, via Utah NParks Thu, 21st : to Los Angeles Fri, 22nd: boarding at noon.

Publications > Frontiers in Ecology > Instruction to Authors

The New Wave of Bookmarks

WedLog.com

Library Journal - Revenge of the Blog People!

I think Michael Gorman, president elect of the American Library association, should plan on attending summer camp with Larry Summers, president of Harvard. Are these *leaders* elected??? Ah, well: Library Journal - Revenge of the Blog People!

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: A searchable online version at The Literature Network

Having finished and bookmarked the paper version War and Peace Online -- is a great backup. I could skip the summaries and analysis tho'.

SimpleComments :: Adam Kalsey

Frugalbride.com Online Wedding Magazine

Frugalbride.com Online Wedding Magazine in the US and in Canada. Hmm.

Syndic8.com - Suggest a Feed

Syndic8.com concentrates on gathering RSS feeds, while Technorati does a more google-like search of weblogs themselve. Mine showed up only as I joined flickr/hello, but not otherwise. Feedster also focuses on searching weblogs and sources that have feeds. So these are kind of specialty search engines monitoring and collating more or less the RSS enabled, weblog world.

The Information Ethicist: Syllabus:

The Information Ethicist Syllabus I post this as an example of a blog being used in a course in a half lively, half static way. Real enthusiasm for this new ability to publish, but difficulties with the blog form. Interesting subject, tho.

Bryant Elementary School

Bryant Elementary School uses a blog as its core communication. Manila based.

seedwiki: SeedWiki (seedwiki.com)

Putting seedwiki: SeedWiki (seedwiki.com) here just proves how hard it is to separate work from play. Hmm.

Remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce

The controversial Summers remarks courtesy link from NYTimes.
The guy should resign on the basis of arrogant ignorance! Power makes you stupid, and absolute power... well, let the reader decide.

"There are three broad hypotheses about the sources of the very substantial disparities that this conference's papers document and have been documented before with respect to the presence of women in high-end scientific professions. One is what I would call the-I'll explain each of these in a few moments and comment on how important I think they are-the first is what I call the high-powered job hypothesis. The second is what I would call different availability of aptitude at the high end, and the third is what I would call different socialization and patterns of discrimination in a search. And in my own view, their importance probably ranks in exactly the order that I just described."

BTW: This should not be a surprise to Harvard women B-school alums especially. Puhleez, get on your rockets and knock this guy down. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until now.

Watermelon Special Fruitcarving

Watermelon Special Fruitcarving is a welcome relief from speed dating software. Off to the bibio-tech!

RSSCalendar.com - RSS Readers

Today I am speed-dating RSS aggregators. An exhaustive list of aggregators is at RSSCalendar.com - RSS Readers. And re-visiting blog creation/hosting because its time.....

ABOUT RSS NEWSFEEDS

ABOUT RSS NEWSFEEDS:

UTL. Resources.

19th century Short Title

UTL recent additions is a web page candidate for Shifted Librarian style RSS notification. AT UT I learned of new resources ( and some were amazing!) mostly by new items bulletins on the entry page, and by stumbling on them in the course of a project.

Movable Type

Movable Type update.

Web Design and Implementation (Winter 04-05)

This course taught at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) uses a blog as its core. Notice how students and teachers interact.

Americans Are Dumb

Americans Are Dumb took a break from whapping on the USA for Valentines Day. It would be better called " Revenge of the Canadian" -- a funny comeback for the Anne Coulter/Tucker garbola that had Glen Rhodes wincing! I dunno, listening is so much more instructive than flaming.

Overheard in my head

Overheard in my head: 1. Hey, bonamba, which side of your head you been sleepin' on?? 2. Blon.de.vous, a blog about blondes. 3. Time Out for Tomatoes, a blog about tomatoes, vegetable or human.

glenrhodes.com Weblog

Zarinmedia: online richmedia solutions

Zarinmedia: online richmedia solutions -- well for Valentines Day, consider this from last year's LavaLife project. ZM is at 425 Queen St W ( close to Queen Video!) which is hip de hip, at Spadina.

FITC 2005

FITC 2005 in Toronto April 9-11, 2005. Indeed yugop.com is Yugo Nakamura, and is at this show with the just cited designer.

marumushi.com

marumushi.com is right up there with yugop and sodaconstructor for interesting graphics, often visualizations of network relationships.

flickr graph - marcos weskamp

Overheard in New York

Overheard in New York reminds me or all the kid dialogs i recorded so long ago. Great idea. From the Yahoo top one hundred.

Erik Benson

Erik Benson "sort of runs All Consuming" -- which sort of would be nice if it worked for generating, tracking booklists but I couldn't get it to do anything useful -- slow server with a good idea, equals what? I was trying to compare it to the bookie's experience at amazon.com -- for newness of concept, simplicity, ease of use, etc. I suppose it wants to be a flickr for books, and do the social networking thing.

Yahoo RSS 2004

BTW, my joy at adding fave blogs to MY Yahoo is about a year late --- apparently they started this back in Feb, 2004. I picked this up from the RSS presentation from Jenny Levine, apologies for not having link handy. I like the idea that I can integrate into existing 'routines' vs. adding a separate reader. Arguments both ways -- convenience vs. power.

MaisonBisson.com - Students Take Academic Technology Into Their Own Hands

MaisonBisson.com - Students Take Academic Technology Into Their Own Hands -- another lib-related blog to check, appears to be in Canada from the Muskoka ads! ---- NO NO, Gina! google recognizes you are logged in from Toronto, and is targeting you as a potential customer of MUSKOKA Macs. This person is from Warren, NH I am guessing, though I cannot imagine a small town in NH has a real USA Rocket on a green somewhere. But i digress.... Looking at new software borrowing from de.licio.us, and author is a fan of tagging, with hope of its entry into academe, uses p-machine for blog.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Home Page

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Home Page is one verry heavy user of RSS feeds. It is the gateway to extensive aacademic paper databases mostly in social sciences and business. To me this is as deeply developed as I have seen in academic publishing. This SSRN project is co-hosted by Stanford, but the other half, is apparently a for profit quasi publishing company out of Rochester, NY. Excuse my inability to pin down where this fits in the arcane world of academic publishing!!!! Especially after digging deeper into JSTOR, a nonprofit, its business model, and newer initiatives.

hello, this is a little confusing!
Posted by Hello

Paracelsus Rambles

Photo Search: Google Picasa 2 Vs. Adobe Photoshop Album 2

Photo Search: Google Picasa 2 Vs. Adobe Photoshop Album 2 is a good review of photo mgmt issues and meta data uses.

Flickr

This is a test post from

, a fancy photo sharing thing.

RSS feed

Even if I am not serious, I have created an RSS feed for my blog and am testing -- only to find Blogger, at least temporarily is not generating a workable feed; tags missing and so on. oh my.May have something to do with my non-Blogger template.

My Yahoo! - RSS FAQ

My Yahoo! - RSS FAQ -- Yahoo will consider an RSS feed for listing under their "add content" pre-selections, but there is nothing to stop moi, the reader, from adding some obscure fave blog's RSS to My Yahoo! You have only to paste the URL of the RSS feed, click on add content, click the snakey little add by RSS next to the Yahoo search box, and paste in the URL. Bingo its there. Very very easy. Anyone seriously publishing for others, which is not me for the moment, should generate an RSS feed.
Bottom line, My Yahoo! and others are becoming newsreaders. Seems more convenient than standalone, since I spend so much time in a browser anyway.
Plogger Dan and others are working on the beyond RSS, since RSS is inherently cloggy, if i may coin a new use of the phrase. Won't scale well as things get bigger. Or so it seems.

quickSub

quickSub is what apparently enables Jenny, The Shifted Librarian to list twenty plus custom RSS feeds that make her a presence wherever YOU happen to be. So, example, the shifted librarian is right there on my Yahoo! entry page with the BBC and Reuters. Powerful? You bet.

February 10, 2004 Virtual Learning Series Part I - Special Libraries Association

Competitive Intelligence is this very odd, corporate sounding term that is making itself heard in the leftish library world. What gives???

ipod spoofs

ipod spoofs -- okay i don't get all the jokes, but the spoof is kinda neat, adaptable, say, to 19th century Victorian scientists :-). or whatever.

A List of Pickup Lines - Amidst a tangled web

A List of Pickup Lines - Amidst a tangled web --- Don't ask.

SF Indie Fest - I, Curmudgeon

SF Indie Fest - I, Curmudgeon and Alan Zweig, Feb 22, 2PM, Innis.

American Society of Indexers: FAQ about Indexing

iPodderX - The Ultimate Podcast Receiver and Directory

iPodderX - The Ultimate Podcast Receiver and Directory -- its internet radio to go... have to check out This Am. Life, as broadcast that needs time-shifting to my long, long drives.

Soul Drums

Soul Drums -- big event of the year, a benefit, shades of Spontaneous, eh???

JSTOR: Back Issues Needed

I would love to hunt down these JSTOR: Back Issues Needed --- probably as challenging as Roald Dahl in all languages!

JSTOR: JSTOR Participants' Meeting Summary, 2005 ALA Midwinter Meeting

megnut: September 2002 Archives

megnut: September 2002 Archives, if I may be act as historian, has an early mention of audio-blogging, which is some convoluted, geeky Applescript, text-voice-conversion-posting -- not the same as www.audioblogger.com below People seem to have been posting using audioblogger for perhaps a year now, but listen labs seems to have been offering the service in a different form for at least two years, Feb, 2003. Sometimes its like listening to somebody's answering machine, *YaWn*, but you can see where real, succinct, less than five minute postings could be very cool. Reminds me very strongly of the popular reaction to T.A. Edison's 1870's phonograph recording. Lots of excitement and speculation, and in the end, less a revolution than a seminal moment that morphed over and over into different forms.

My first audioblogger experience

-- i guess this has been around for a year or so, but i never claimed to be on the sharpest edge of trendy things! I will report this is the easiest process on the planet, even easier than settin up a blog. You can also download the mp3 file into your iTunes library.

audioblogger: Ok...Do it!!!

audioblogger: Ok...Do it!!! ...indeed, is this podcasting??? A partnership with Listen Lab.

Icon War

The Waiter You Stiffed Has Not Forgotten

The New York Times > Dining & Wine > The Waiter You Stiffed Has Not Forgotten:
"'I'd say waiting tables is one of the most stressful jobs you can have, short of being a firefighter or an inner-city police officer,' said Bruce Griffin Henderson, a singer-songwriter who did 10 years as a waiter in New York. 'You have no control over anything, but you are responsible for everything. You are always being squeezed by three immutable forces: the customer, the kitchen and the management.'"
Stressful??? I suppose, but I loved waitressing, would do it to this day if it paid and it were *appropriate*. It was a superb, fast-moving game, and physical on top of everything else.

NEW 5.8 GHz cordless phones: are they better than 2.4 GHz?

NEW 5.8 GHz cordless phones: are they better than 2.4 GHz?:
"In general, you can expect better clarity as you move from 46-49 MHz models (which are overcrowded with baby monitors and walkie-talkies) to 900 MHz models (which most homes use for cordless phones) to 2.4 GHz models. The primary benefit of 5.8 GHz models is the avoidance of interference with 802.11b wLANs and microwaves.
900 MHz w/spread spectrum - 200 to 1500 feet 2.4 GHz w/spread spectrum - 300 to 2000 feet 5.8 GHz w/spread spectrum - 300 to 2000 feet"
I haven't seen interference problems so far, and this pretty much sums it up.

Lextext :: Main Page

Lextext seems to have podcasting as a major interest; it disses PLAXO back in mid-2004, with some reader comments calling it spyware -- probably too harsh. What's interesting is how 'regular people' -- the Plaxo invite came from Dan D.-- are becoming so accustomed and trusting of web services versus their own computers. its seeped into how we do things, bit by bit, with very little fanfare.

Anthony Goff - David Higham Associates

Anthony Goff - David Higham Associates is the Roald Dahl agent.

Roald Dahl - David Higham Associates

David Higham Associates are the agents for Roald Dahl worldwide publication, and may be source of a central list.

Userati - Connections

Userati - Connections and folksonomy / tagging seem hot... i should be excited, but *yawn* for the folks who are not 'in' but are hidden treasures. would jon elster call this *sour grapes*? geeesh i should've read that stuff more carefully.

And here Wikipedia does Roald Dahl

The ORDW

The O.R.D.W., aka, the Official Roald Dahl Website is a heavy user of Flash, but the real question is: Is there a comprehensive list of Dahl's work in translation. The O.R.D.W. has a list of all current foreign publishers.

Paulines-lamb_8

Paulines-lamb_8,
originally uploaded by ginabobina.

first foto from flickr frought with fumbling. oh my.

Flickr

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ORG COMM blog as core of the course.

ORG COMM is interesting for the student logs/blog listed to the side of the instructors core course in media/communications. The instructor used this Typepad blog instead of Blackboard, according to his opening post. Study guides seemed interesting. The projects flail.

All Consuming

All Consuming Explanation is quicker to the point.

All Consuming

All Consuming is for booklist posting into blog, among other things.
The links below (43 things, etc) are the whole social networking thing, documenting, creating, blah blah blah. More interesting for me, and so much more *dangerous* socially, would a window on all the non-documented little networks running on cash, so-to-speack, versus credit cards. Credit cards record your every transaction, and tha'ts the basis of documenting these social networks. so most of this is documenting a smallish group of, self reporting people, or so it seems to me -- at least for now. So, YASN has a bit of YAWN in it, at least for me. (YASN = Yet Another Social Network.)The creating aspect is more interesting, and documenting potentially lucrative.

del.icio.us

43 Things

Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd.

Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd. is out of Vancouver, BC.

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection for further evaluation

IFTF's Future Now

IFTF's Future Now for me is a gateway to the glitteratti digerati, which has morphed over the years, with consistent institutional core and predictable social reach. Filed under good to know, but inaccessible. The tech jet set.

Flash animation: Best management practices for water quality

Canadians, could this be the source of beef bans???

Landscape.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

Landscape.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) is one example which deserves analysis: Is flash really necessary, what does it add, and who does it exclude, if any?

Exhibit of Optical Toys

HOT Blogs

Cooking.com - Falafel - Food & Wine

This recipe like mine has uncooked chickpeas. My recipe came about after many internet recipe failures. One day I interrupted a batch of hummus at the soaked chickpea stage. I imagined myself as a traditional woman in the Middle East, feeding a family, in a relatively simple cooking situation. And I aimed to be like my favorite Toronto falafel ladies who run the shop next to the Bloor West theater, kitty corner from Honest Ed's.

I buy Cedars brand chickpeas in big bags (2kg?) from Kabul Farms between the Salvation Army and the mosque, on Parliament St. Cedars chickpeas are so fresh, they sprout after a second day of soaking. I even grew some into plants for fun. The cheap Mexican chickpeas from Price Chopper are not good at all,and not much cheaper. One bag had black, boring insects! Don't bother. A 1/2 bag (3 cups?) dry chickpeas makes 3 cuisinart batches of wet chickpea mixture, five dozen falafels. They freeze very well.

Per cuisinart batch, approximate quanitities:

3 cups of soaked chickpeas, up to top of cuisinart blade stem
1/2 large onion, chopped coarsely
1 heaping tsp. cumin
1 heaping tsp coriander
1 tsp dried mint or 1/2 cup chopped fresh mint
1/2 cup of fresh chopped parsley, nice if you have it.
1 clove garlic, chopped
1/2 tsp. baking powder
salt to taste.

Pulse it all together in the Cuisinart, till the mixture is fine. The raw, ground mixture, when formed, should hold together like meatballs. Make tiny patties,like a flattened golf balls. Its best to fry as you form in shallow, hot olive oil, flipping after the patties get golden crusty. The crust helps insure the falafels hold together. Each batch makes about 20 falafels.

Sauce
Tahini
Lemon/lime juice == I use either fresh, or Nellie's, available from Trader Joe's in the USA
Water
salt
Possibly best to start with tahini, add lemon juice, salt, and thin with water. Experiment. Tahini appears to curdle and coagulate in the lemon juice. The mixture thickens over time. Thin to a consistency that is flowable even when refrigerated.

Transparency International

4 what??? where's my bloggie going?

a funny exercise, running randomly through other peoples blogs. I react this way: 1. experts, political rants and religious reverie bore me. 2. genuine, simple everyday stories can be neat. 3. funny, succinct, top three of the day links are neat too. 4. photos add life. 5. the best of all is the weblist, lively linked, professional, personal from owlfish. If this is "me" that's nice, and if it interests others fine too.

MarioJournal [Sunflower]

MarioJournal [Sunflower] has a cute fade in flash banner.

Master Killers

Master Killers a movie in production group blog out of the Bronx

George's toys

George's toys is another one of those toy bloggers, very odd, not as if they are ebay fanatics, but they talk about 'best stuffed dog sites" -- huh??

annebelanger.com

annebelanger.com just to hear the french -- PQ.

Stolidoli

Stolidoli a desperate, funny SAHM --- Stay At Home Mom. Yes.

X-Ray Specs

X-Ray Specs is YOW!!! the real revolution is here, but since podcasting is the tsunami du jour....

my way

my way has a scroll of pix across the top --- how'd he do that.

Training Materials From The Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production

=';'=-F ! F !-=';'=

=';'=*-__F ! F !__-*=';'= is a teenager in Brazil who is very kitty expressive with the punctuation marks.

John's Conservative Thoughts

John's Conservative Thoughts only because it is so straight and ordinary, like honest.

Gifts today

Gifts today obsesses, in a very strange way on stuffed dogs.

My diary

My diary is very simple and sweet, a soldier in singapore.

Site Meter - Counter and Statistics Tracker

SEM - Scanning Electron Microscopy Image Gallery

SEM - Scanning Electron Microscopy Image Gallery has more neat pictures.

The Bentley Snow Crystal Collection

Great old time pictures from the 1900's at The Bentley Snow Crystal Collection a project out of Buffalo, NY

If you are seeing this on Tuesday, Jan 11th, I am mid-transition to a semi-custom format that retains the custom, branded ARKONE look, with my links, and adds working archives. The Blogger profile is wrong on the recent posts, but okay on all else.

sodaconstructor is from the NYTimes newsroom -- for those slow news days.

Rethink Initiative: Reuse, Donate or Recycle Computers and Electronics looks like a start for the computer waste problem. Now for the old tires ;-)

Among other things one learns at the UMFF 2004 Short Film Competition is that Avid has owned Digidesign for ten years. andy barlow, anyone?

Relevant History: Why doesn't THIS get on OLN? is a pleasant surprise for me because its author is coming from Saffo's Intstitute for the Future, heavy duty historian-futurists.

Ohio Learning Network -- Introduction to Teaching and Learning has articles about student resistance to group work. Its oriented to new pedagogical ideas.

Grand Text Auto ? Teaching with Blogs

Net diarists blog their way to a job Employers increasingly turn to blogs to learn about prospective employees, whose efforts offer on-line portfolios showcasing their talents, RANDY RAY reports @ workopolis.com --- old story, new story. I didn't know Tucows was Canadian, even Torontonian.

FlickrBlog is a relatively new thing....

baffledexperts: Making a free radio station

Dave Barry's Blog for the semi-annual check in .

For the beaver-ravaged in Massachusetts and the raccoon-ravaged in Toronto, hey try this.

eye of science, micrographia lives.....

Steve Garfield's Video Blog has a new year's resolution: reality video blogging -- i like it. My dinner with Carol and Steve....

Real Torino Pasta is for real, from Dave Barry's blog

CBC Radio | Ideas | Features | The Story of Steam radio documentary on steam.

Telegraph | News | Gondoliers to face random breath tests in drink crackdown: "Gondoliers are to face spot breathalyser checks in a drink-driving crackdown on Venice's increasingly unruly and crowded canals. At the moment, Italy's navigation code does not cover the whole Venetian lagoon, enabling boatmen to escape police checks on the use of alcohol or drugs. Guys and Dolls That legal loophole is now being closed by the city authorities, alongside other regulations introduced last week to ease congestion of Venice's canals."

baffledexperts is a nice example of great "individual sharing expertise" blogging. Its focused on radio documentaries, its funny, focused informative and uses pictures -- from Adam Norman, a blogger among you. Another, of the "hey, check this out" style, is Idle Type . Quick one liners let the recommended site speak for itself. Great example of brevity as the soul of wit. Also less work to blog.

Bright Ideas dims out today. Time for something new.

Fake Google Logos, Google Logo Creations, Fun Google Logos, Fabricated Google Brand Variations by Google Fans. Logoogle.com

Welcome to the Official Site of Muammar Gadafi -- indeed.

toronto beach in winter
Posted by Hello

testing with beaver and beach, how funny
Posted by Hello

ConstructionEquipment.com has the mags, the conferences, all the listings your could want.

Digital Archaeology at UCSD, the academic version of extreme excavation used to prep sites in old buildings at Amherst College -- who were those guys anyway?

:: Discovery Channel CA ::

International Chimney Home Page

Aid Effectiveness rates the ngo's and gov efforts.

Canada Country Analysis Brief:
"Canada is a major source of U.S. oil imports. From January to October 2003, the United States imported 1.9 million bbl/d of oil from Canada (1.5 million bbl/d of which was crude oil). This makes Canada the top petroleum supplier to the United States and the third-largest supplier of crude oil imports (behind Saudi Arabia and Mexico, and ahead of Venezuela). Canada has been the top supplier to the United States of refined petroleum products, including gasoline, jet fuel, distillate, etc., since 1996."

These folks do all the basics of web development from India. What was that about American jobs that would replace manufacturing??

"Why should perfectly good broadcasts go straight to TV heaven after only one showing? " asks David Pogue after receiving an Emmy for a TV segment others wanted to see post-broadcast.

An amateur, a high school teacher created this pro quality Apple iPod ad.

Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting -- nice format design blog with illustration in each entry

SuperBot 3.1: Free Website Downloader for Windows recommended by Michelle.

yugop.com is also the maker of the hand clock, posted earlier.

Wired 11.09: Learning to Love PowerPoint

Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil

BLOGHORREA: SIFTERS BLOG SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

Giornale Nuovo --- now this is how academics should publish.;-0

Harvard Film Archive: Links particularly the locals.....

Harvard Film Archive: About the HFA: "Based at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) stores more than 8,000 films in climate-controlled vaults in Southborough, Massachusetts. Preservation is HFA's watchword: saving rare and valuable film from rapid deterioration was the stated mission of film maker and faculty member Robert G. Gardner '48 when he founded the archive in 1979. " ... and i always thought it was j*u*s*t a neighborhood theater ;-)!

Documentary only film fests. PZQ -- because truth is stranger than fiction.

Sorry Everybody has a photo gallery that is a hoot of a worldwide conversation with sooooooo much more personality than email.

washingtonpost.com: Faces of the Fallen has the Iraq casualties on a calendar.

CNN.com Specials Iraq Military casualties includes a link to historical body counts from Vietnam, Korea, WWII, WWI, and back. The carnage from early 20th century is astounding, and WWI numbers are minor compared to Europeans who died by the millions -- war sux,yes.

LURP Elsevier Author Gateway

IFILM - by the month all the film festivals you could want.

Red poppies on Remembrance Day in Canada makes me want to buy up a million and to distribute them in the USA as a constant reminder of Iraq to tone down the macho-ness of it all --- in Canada Veterans/Remembrance Day is proud, but more a sad, sweet, thing as it should be. I am not sure if the American veteran associations also do poppies or if its just a Commonwealth thing.

Steve Garfield's Video Blog

Seth Macfarlane Biography confirms source of New England bits in Family Guy.

8mm Film Transfer Super 8 Film to Video DVD: Consumer Tutorial seems to be up to date, well-meaning, and a decent place to start.

NFB Mediatheque is one of many many video sites in Toronto -- which has a whole world of people experimenting and exhibiting once you start looking. Pretty amazing.

Documentaries on the Big Screen -- RIDM was the subject of the 2003 forum in Montreal. Contains extensive notes on film distribution in other countries.

Media-Alliance - Promoting media excellence, ethics, diversity and accountablility in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility. had an August 2004 program on distribution, getting through the current system.

Solid Entertainment - Science & Technology appears to be one of the middle guys providing documentaries to cable TV. Documentaries appear longer than I'd expect for an hour long timeslot given the 7:4 content to commercial ratio. In one hour one expects at very best (8:4), 40 minutes of program and 20 minutes of commercials.

Media Resources Center UCBerlkey video and film. Recall UCB is the home of the digital libraries initiative. I would think UCLA would be the big hitter in media libraries.

UC Berkley list of documentary distributors and a gateway to more. Now we're getting somewhere.

eMotion is more along the lines I expected for cutting edge technology applicable to documentary distribution. One of their press releases has this snippet: "Explore International is an award-winning documentary distributor established by National Geographic Television and Canal , one of the world's foremost media groups. The two groups united in October 1995 to form Explore International as a joint venture documentary distribution company."

And up in the corporate towers, well maybe a side office, a documentary distribution discussion. what year??? A few names to trail.

Reality Film is an odd llittle startup out of State College PA that has the right idea, but has the feel of a film school paper parsed out to web pages, with not much feel for real world users.

In search of floating light bulbs I found this: Art in America: Billy Kluver at Sonnabend

Fortysixthousandonehundredfortynine documentary titles just in case you were interested....

Keeping Time Basics.

Edward S. Curtis directed the1914 film documentary In the Land of the Headhunters but will be remembered more for this Photographic Collection in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress

List of Corporate Archives and some other archivist activities -- fairly recent too.

And a few niches for history fans

All the different names for historian!

JAIC online-- jackpot of photo and film chemistry.

JAIC 1991, Volume 30, Number 2, Article 3 (pp. 145 to 162) -- chemistry of 19th c. Celluloid for preservation.

AMPLIFIER | amplifiermification | amplifier helps creative people sell their stuff. Nice intro, page.

Rochester Industrial Timeline shows what a hotbed this city was: Bausch & Lomb, Eastman Kodak, Western Union, Xerox, and more.

Pedestrian

Fabric Workshop and Museum : Upcoming Exhibitions: "Experiments with Truth Guest Curator: Mark Nash December 3, 2004 - March 12, 2005 The Fabric Workshop and Museum will collaborate with guest curator Mark Nash to present the film and video exhibition Experiments with Truth. This exhibition is an international survey of contemporary filmmaking intended to reassess the influence of cinema and the use of documentary within contemporary visual art practices." Philadelphia, PA. I guess everyone is thinking about "truth" -- hmm.

Paul Kaiser's art resume at Riverbed Artworks lists co-creator Shelley Eshkar of the great animated movies, like Pedestrian (2002) I first saw projected on a sidewalk in New York. The other memorable from 2002 was UberOrgan creator, Tim Hawkinson who made a musical "whale" that showed first at Mass MOCA then in NYC.

These artists claim no authority to truth, they are just artists, making things that "work", as might an engineer, in the best sense of the word. I think a documentary should also "work". Esther Shub does via editing found footage to form a visual argument that "works".

Shelley Eshkar's Pedestrian is alive and well according to this 2004 article that also gives motion capture background.

Motion Picture and Television Reading Room (Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress) a must visit.

Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive has a section on ephemera.

The full program at Ryerson costs $18K/yr, which seems high for Canada. Seems to have a strong vocational angle, almost guaranteeing job at the end of two years, depending on market conditions --- and who would know that????

The Mira Godard Study Centre hours are 11-5, M-F, R15, School of Image Arts

Ryerson's courses for image collection preservation and management.

George Eastman House crators of photogrpahy and film preservation, in addition to camera technology.

Walid Ra'ad speaks at Ryerson on Nov 26th, with a visual take on history.

SEE Magazine: January 30, 2003, a glowing review of one-woman Vancouver performance.

Tent has the wide angle pictures Julie made with digital camera.

Northeast Historic Film - Home is a New England specific organization located in Maine.

AMIA Program -- 2004 Minneapolis. Given the content I have to believe there are Ryerson and librarian connections too.

The Detroit Historical Museum does industrial history -- which is not to say film.

Industrial Light & Magic - Timeline , the Lucas-Star Wars film folk begins in 1977.

Association of Motion Image Archivists -- Hollywood -- 1998 Conference discusses industrial films, and discusses state of scholarship as of six years ago.

Scottish Screen Archive contains industrial films line The Romance of Pesco Underwear (1913)!!! Hmm.

Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology has a section on industrial films -- this is an English language site, though it will trigger a Japanese language add-on for browser.

Eastman (Photography)

Caveman Chemistry

Cameras: the Technology of Photographic Imaging

Carnegie Mellon Libraries: History: History of Technology and Science: Primary Sources

Steam Engine Library at U Rochester, NY

Netcraft: Redesign Cripples Paypal Service a potential new add via Garfinkel, and M. Schrage's specialty now is innovation economics.

Pre-1829 Historical Area of the Scholarly Societies Project

BSHS News and Events Guide

Bert Hansen: "'The Complementarity of Science and Magic Before the Scientific Revolution,' American Scientist (March 1986), pp. 128-136. This article was reprinted in Good Writing: A Guide and Sourcebook for Writing Across the Curriculum by Linda Simon (St. Martin's Press, 1988), pp. 278-296, as a exemplary expository essay." --- the magic connection again.

History and the public understanding of science

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's interest in fiming science is detailed here.

Norman McLaren short bio mentions NFB (Canada) and Grierson. Work left to MOMA and LA Motion Picture , however. Used film as canvas directly, reminiscent of artists bypassing camera to work, for example, directly with photosensitive paper, as in exhibit at MFA/Boston, and historically.

Time update the whole blog thing, but particularly the blogs to check in on column! Like I could keep up on blognerdity via evhead who I guess is a google multi-millionaire now.

Dr. Sofia Akerberg at the same 19th c. popular science conference as Sam Alberti, talked on Victorian aquaria, another sort of science museum.

Dr Sam Alberti gave a great presentation this summer at York U. on the museum experience from the patron point of view, vs. the curator/manager point of view. Much of the conference converged on education/entertainment tensions in the context of museums and scientific "shows". This is a sidebranch of the evidence/entertainment thread I had noted in motion pictures.

Who's Who of Victorian Cinema adds to the cinema and pre-cinema stack.

Paul Auster , author of Book of Illusions, novel with Hector Mann 1920's silent film comic, recommended by Bill Allison.

Mike's Blog Regarding ODOTs Highway Plan appears to be a one-event blog that chronicles a highway expansion plan, modified to citizen satisfaction, and with a happy ending. [habitat corridors blog].

Software Engineering for Internet Applications is another P. Greenspun book, written after SQL for Nerds and Philip and Alex's Guide (updated 2003)

A relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks is the classic E.F. Codd June, 1970 article describing RDMBs --- well sort of --- Part 2 seems to be missing, ACM please note. Back to the *real* library!

System R page is insider material on the history of SQL and RDMB's at IBM in the 1970's.

Funny, classic, and presented in the context of Web services (eg. blogs, communities like www.photo.net versus internal IT dbase management): SQL for Web Nerds from Phillip Greenspun. Elitist, but hey, it has so many nerdly little bits of engineering wisdom and history , you have to enjoy it.

Quick Reference Cards , printable pdfs for everything PHP, SQL, CSS and more.

One week, USD$2450 get you certified in Using and Managing MySQL -- the cert exam a USD$450 value!!! hmm...

The Business Mac: An Introduction to SQL and relational databases is a simple enough explanation, with a block diagram.

EVS536X, Server-side Web Development is the ASP flavor basics for DB-website, so db itself, scripting role and options, and user-interface.

Understandable explanation of relational databases, in context of GIS.

Interesting mix of environment and technology at UV, but Carolyn Merchant is so much more colorful!

Nice format for blog, maybe I just like the folder tabs --- thesunmachine.net

Meetup: Organizing local interest groups. just won MIT Innovator of the year.

Canastota not only has a village history, but a village historian with office hours at the Municipal Building.

An old, still funny comic from Dan Siegler

People knew persistence of vision, illusions, etc. in day to day and night light viewing long before the 1600's. In my view, these everyday, taken for granted 'facts' were picked up and used by the artists and engineers, for example as camera obscurae and optical instruments, and then much more formally, as subjects of study for natural philosophers. In greater scientific circles, I have to give Newton credit for a color wheel going to white, though not explained as persistence of vision. Then we move on to "Chevalier Patrice D'Arcy (1725--1779) --- who carried out experiments on visual persistence and measured its duration with some precision ub 1765, based on a casual comment in Newton's Opticks 1704, says Nicolas Wade. Newton wrote on this much earlier than 1704, but Opticks was likely more available than 1600's articles in Transactions of The Royal Society. The lowly wagon wheel seems to be at the root of movies.

Flic A Bic From Mountain Bike Magazine gives a lot more detail on the cylinder lock story....I guess you have to consider the U-lock similar to a clippable chain...onto plan B. Meanwhile, Kryptonite Locks has a recovery plan.... hmmm... I wonder if having a key and a lock is considered "proof of purchase".

Film & History Links to many historical sites. There's history of film, history as portrayed in film; now what we really need is a film about film history.

Your brand new U-Lock is not safe! is the message from BikeForums.net, with videos demoing the pen undoing the Kryptonite Lock.

speed. madness. flying saucers. is the blogger who broke BIC pen beats the Kryptonite Bike Lock Story. It must be a particular BIC, since I have just tried a promo-pen (Bic-made) and its too small for the cylinder, for the moment. See the NYTIMES article from today's paper.

Cracker Jack Movie Cartoons Double Flip Book from the 1930's, cute, but a little too late for me.

AMERICAN MUTOSCOPE AND BIOGRAPH RELEASES --- Funny -- Air Fairy Lillian Tries on Her New Corsets....

Re: Desperately seeking flip book info: "I have a foggy recollection of reading about a librarian finding contemporary drawings on margins near the fore-edge of a sixteenth or seventeenth century book that would animate when the pages were flipped. " - Gene Freeman. Now this would be interesting, given that pop-up books have been around since at least Rene Descartes! early 1600's.

Flippies Custom Flip Books - Creative Promotional Marketing Tools claims flip books were invented in 1868. Seems late to me. And who exactly did this???

Fulbrights and Hafbrights. Hmm. After reading this article and talking with iPowerWeb, I moved from Interland to iPower. From a proposed 239.40 annually, with short-tempered customer service and sales folk, to 95.40 annually, with a great sales person, Rene, and most excellent resources: higher capacity, more traffic, front-end tools for d-bases, marketing, while preserving the nerd-style access one sometimes needs for custom applications. Fulbright to iPower Hafbright to Interland.

Technoscience, a publication of 4S wants submissions

French site on thaumatrope and folioscope seems to make the transition, and includes dates and names.

Thinking while typing!!! had been lost from my log listings.

Thau´ma`trope Pronunciation: th?´må`tr?p n. 1. (Opt.) An optical instrument or toy for showing the persistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn. Does the thaumaturge create thaumatropes --- root thauma? and what are trope and turge?

Definition: \Thau"ma*turge\, n. [See {Thaumaturgus}.] A magician; a wonder worker. --Lowell. The bird and cage flipside on a string is captioned as a thaumaturge. And Ricky Jay has written seven books on magic and antiquarian literature.

Le flipbook or le flip book is known in French as the folioscope or livre anime.

Reference to

"Ricky Jay’s book with a forty-nine word title, The Magic Magic Book: An Inquiry into the Venerable History & Operation of the Oldest Trick Conjuring Volumes, Designated “Blow Books” [For Whosoever Bloweth on the Pages, if He be Versed in the Secret Method May Cause the Images to Appear, Vanish & Change at Will Many Several Times]. I understand the book was published in an edition of only three hundred copies"

more on blow books

Ricky Jay, historian of magic, and blow books

Rare Book School, something I'd expect Thinking While Typing to reference. Comes via T. Belanger, and flip books.

another in the flip book thread

This 2003 posting inquiring on the history of flip books has the smell of a truffle. ;-)

Decent explanation of early animation (motion picture) from hash.com

whazza matta

Innis Cinema Guide

Artificial Retina uses wireless "telegraphy" to stimulate nerves, very reminiscent of 19th century frog's leg receivers. My my.

SSPAis not Short Statured People of Australia, but an org that certifies people to work in all those call centers --- woe the simple, non-interned, non-certfied grad.... hoops, hoops, hoops.

Untitled Document and specifically documentaries, all the way back to Lumiere Brothers in 1895, Kay Armatage the specific prof. Dr. Lars Karl would be proud.

Innis College Library is the UT place for film.... and for, hmm, environmental studies.

Edison, the Man VHS at Video Universe is backordered since April. Who'd've guessed, but interesting place to browse the science category.

Edison, The Man (1940) is what I could compare historiographically to text.

Interview on NPR with Martin Pernick, author of The Black Stork has information on the film.

W.I.S.O.R. stands for Welding and Inspection Steam Operations Robot, director Michel Negroponte.

Burt Rutan's team for the X PRIZE is named after his company Scaled Composites. And the Canadian Team - Da Vinci Project -- based in Scarbororough, has just announced intended launch on Oct 2nd.

CSE 191: Video Game Programming Seminar lecture slides are good overview of real world process, making, marketing video games; instructor a vet of the industry. Lecture 7, on behavior and AI of systems is closest to my interest.

CS426 - Multimedia (aka Intro to Video Game Design and Programming) shows videogames in classic entertainment mode; emphasizing the graphics, rules, etc, but not the novelistic potential. Relevant, but not where I want to be.

Another view of Science fiction- frowm wordIQ.com.

Center for the Study of Science Fiction at UKansas, land of Oz, is also a viewpoint; the question is links to history of science, if any. Also meagre so far are new media: graphic novel, history gaming.

Eng 256 is an academic survey of history of sci-fi.

MA DOR - Sales Tax Holiday... interesting.

This trip has possibilities, but seems overdone in the hilly areas, looks nice south of Lowville.

> Kintera.com traded as KNTA, non-profit software.

RSS: Your Gateway To News & Blog Content, a pretty comprehensive tutorial.

PC911 - Friendly Computer Help In Plain English for my dying clock problem.

ANSARI X PRIZE volunteers sign up here....

Z Magazine Online, July/August 2004 Table of Contents recommende by Mort.

Global Art and culture art refs

On the impossibility of thwarting truck bombs: " 'What do you do when you have whole cities built up with no regard to this threat?" asked Daniel Benjamin, former counterterrorism director at the National Security Council. 'Are we going to turn Lower Manhattan into a pedestrian zone?'" What a great idea!! Thwart terrorists and lose weight.... and consider the aesthetic improvement for a city like Washington, DC on removal of the concrete barriers.

Lots of Edison references in THE EYES OF AMERICA-PAGE 1 which is of the genre "alternative history".

wingedpig.com is deep enough for me.

They say Reginald Denny (1891-1967) - Aviation Pioneer is the father of drones. Neat story. I am sure the big drones are more complicated -- a little.

Yahoo! News - Wall St. Sees Little to Fear from Kerry Presidency: "Upscale retailers such as Neiman Marcus Group Inc. and Nordstrom Inc. have reported solid sales growth this year, while discount stores like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have said steep gasoline prices are pinching consumers' pocketbooks. " sounds a little like the rich are richer, and the poor are poorer. Making sure one's brother's boat is solid may be the key to rising tides lifting all.

Nobody Died When Clinton Lied is a single themed photo-blog of leftist, public political protest signs.

World Wide Words explains "stem-winder", which used to mean rousing political oratory, and now means, to many people, a long-winded speech.

In case you are coming to Canada this weekend, here's a great story of this Monday's holiday, hijacked from the grounds up: The first Monday in August, banks, post office, schools and many businesses are closed, as cities and towns throughout Canada celebrate "Civic Holiday." It started in 1875, as a “Day of Recreation”, celebrated only in the City of Toronto. Other cities liked the idea, and adopted it as an official municipal holiday. A century later (1968), the City of Toronto renamed this “nameless” holiday after Lord John Graves Simcoe. but its still called Civic Holiday --- go figure. It isn’t an official Federal holiday, but most of Canada celebrates it. Quebec does not. (Qu'est ce-qui se passe ici?!!) The holiday has a different name in different places. By hijacking a holiday, first in Toronto, then bit by bit across Canada, most Canadians, except the Quebecois, now have one long weekend every month from May to October.

Peter Galison and Robb Moss do HS 152: Filming Science, which should lend some legitmacy to non-traditional master's projects in History of Science.

When you're an American in Canada, and the Kerry campaign writes up a great block party in Jamaica Plain in your own backyard --- you know you're missing the excitement of the most important election in a long long time. Enormous praise to the Democrats for making me want to be back in the States, for starting to restore to the leadership of our country idealism, strength, humility, honesty, pride -- all those *romantic* things I, and most Americans believe in. Makes me want to go home. I miss you all.

Bruno Latour: EXPOSITIONS | EXHIBITIONS: A Parliament of Parliaments via Silbey is about everyday life --- does not my parking project belong here?

" A doctor, a lawyer and a scientist were having a discussion about whether it is better to have a wife or a mistress..... "

CARIBANA Toronto's Summer Carnival is this weekend, mon, steel drums, reggae, the whole enchilada (oops wrong ethnic reference). Hail Trini and Jamaica!

Nanotechnology Precaution Is Urged for cosmetics, of all things; includes issues of worker safety in mfg. and introduction into waste stream.

Stanford Social Innovation Review -- good reading for the MBA who thinks good management is a fundamental of many types of organizations.

FREEWAYBLOGGER.com for the express-ive types.

JibJab is the home of the now famous spoof of Guthries "This Land"

For true Republicans on their Freedom fries.

Idle Type a definite add to the permanent list.

"Interdependence and psychological orientation. In V. Derlega and J.L. Grzelek (eds.), Cooperation and helping behavior: Theories and research, Academic Press, 15-42, 1982." , the classic article.

Jon Elster 2004

Reading list for History of 20th c. Physics

The Marteau Early 18th-Century Currency Converter just in case today's rates and currencies bore you.

U.S. Embassy Cairo - Science & Technology Grants has grants for young scholars ranging from standards & metrology to environmental technologies. A worthwhile possibility for prestigious prize winners.

A2LA - The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation is a membership, trust organization. Roxanne Robinson is VP here.

NCSL International 2004 Annual Workshop & Symposium Tutorials appears to include the morals of measurement! "The question is then asked, What is so special or different about the international recognition process for laboratory accreditation bodies? The simple answer is Confidence. There must be confidence that the accreditation bodies are competently accrediting testing and calibration laboratories for their competence to perform the tests or calibrations on their scopes of accreditation. This level of confidence is fundamental to the obligations of the MRA that each signatory accreditation body has to promote the acceptance of data from accredited laboratories of each MRA partner. This tutorial will explain the peer evaluation process leading to this confidence and try to make some sense out of the myriad of calibration accreditation bodies in the United States and the recognitions that each of them hold. "

Royal Egyptian Cubit circa 3000BC, has all the elements of a legal system: decree, judiciary, sanctions....

NCSL International 2004 Annual Workshop & Symposium is about the state of the standards world today.

Cal Lab Magazine the international journal of metrology.

Bell - The Toronto International Film Festival for 2004.

TheTent City story , explains what happened atToronto industrial site over by Cherry Street. I noticed when the shanty town disappeared, but did not know what had happened. Interesting debate on the many interests at stake, and on questions of justice.

Beyond Shoji variations on the mass produced panels.

Shoji Sliding Door-Double Sided* is along the right lines.

NIST Legal Metrology, well, law/measurement, obvious isn't it?

Glidehouse - IKEA -style, prefab house needs no connection to the electrical grid! In what climate I wonder? Nice presentation using IPix.

For those yearning to be Canadian.

Dammitol is just the beginning. Dana Wyse had taken it to EXTREMES.

scary squirrel world - squirrel photos, pictures, pics, facts, games... squirrels has not been to toronto!

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Sprawl, A to Z is from the new Dolores Hayden book. Nice photos.

Catholic Legal Immigration Network is national, and has solid programs for immigration aid providers.

National Consumer Law Center is a decent gateway to a lot of prey-on-the-poor issues; poor goes hand in hand with vulnerable due to language, education, disability, illness.

Meet the Chicks is kinda cute --- girl investment clubs.

Oddpost, just bought out by Yahoo, is in the email game.

Bikes Not Bombs is an exceptionally worthy organization, but I can't donate online. Por favor!!!!!!

Popular Science Conference :: Programme

EndNote - What's new in EndNote7? is full of references to features that appear not to be in recent U-licensed version.

United States Patent: 6,754,472 is the electric body. Helmholtz, duBois Reymond and d'Arsonval would be proud.

Professor Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger & tech also has his paper collection at his website, thank you.

A German history of Science site with nice digital pictures that I wound into via David Panatalony, acoustics, IHPST, and mit.

MapQuest: Maps: map works!

Mad People's Own History --- great example of history that is important, and new, and by its nature, so far, "outsider".

MIT OpenCourseWare | Physics | 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2002 | Video Lectures is as amazing for its ease of video replay as for the content.

EndNote resources

a pigeon, a frog, and an elephant: martyrs to telegraphy.....

The Pioneers : An Anthology : Clement Ader (1841-1926) also figured the string galvanometer of Einthoven.

Slightly irreverent spellings (you can only change one letter): Qween, Starbux, groop.

Scientists born 1801-1850 may be the site I keep returning to. If so, it is one of the best quick find, with pictures, sketches of major and minor figures in history of electro-science.

Three bright ideas: 1. No linen left behind --- motto of the high end Sally shopper 2. Lake Woebeme where all our intentions are above average --- motto of the over-ambitious doomed to perceptions of slackdom. Both, oddly, are sourced from mottos about children. 3. Hummus and spaghetti. I sauteed a zucchini, added some diced canned tomatoes, cooked that, added separately cooked spaghetti, mixed it up, seasoned, etc --- then, because it was soooo boring, I tossed in a spoonful of hummus. Oh my god good! It gives you this richness of mac and cheese, some extra flavor and it makes the dish.

Since I am in the bright idea (and lightbulb) business: How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a lightbulb? The Answer is SEVEN: (1) One to deny that a light bulb needs to be replaced, (2) one to attack and question the patriotism of anyone who has Questions about the light bulb, (3) one to blame the previous administration for the need of a new light bulb, (4) one to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of light bulbs, (5) one to get together with Vice President Cheney and figure out how to pay Halliburton Industries one million dollars for a light bulb, (6) one to arrange a photo-op session showing Bush changing the light Bulb while dressed in a flight suit and wrapped in an American flag, 7) and finally one to explain to Bush the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country. -- *¸..· ´¨¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- -:¦:- ((¸¸.·´ *

Henry Martyn Paul appears to be the HM Paul writing so many Edison articles in Science in 1884 and 1885 `"During 1880-'3 he was professor of astronomy in the University of Tokio, Japan, after which he returned to his post in Washington. Professor Paul is a member of various scientific societies, and is the author of astronomical monographs that have been published as appendices to the annual volumes of the "Observations" of the United States naval observatory"

I am parking DRAPER father and son below. Not really a bright idea, but hey, these seem to be bright guys.

"DRAPER, JOHN WILLIAM (1811-1882), American scientist, was born at St Helens, near Liverpool, on the 5th of May 1811. He studied at Woodhouse Grove, at the University of London, and, after removing to America in 1832, at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1835-1836. In 1837 he was elected professor of chemistry in the Univrsity of the City of New York, and was a professor in its school of medicine in 1840 1850, president of that school in 1850-1873, and professor of chemistry until 1881. He died at Hastings, New York, on the 4th of January 1882. He made important researches in photochemistry, made portrait photography possible by his improvements (1839) on Daguerres process. His son,HENRY DRAPER (1837-1882), a slacker by comparison, graduated at the University of New York in 1858, became professor of natural science there in 1860,and was professor of physiology (in the medical school) and dean of the faculty at some point. He succeeded his father as professor of chemistry, but only for a year, dying." Very sad... George Barker, of UPenn, American physicist, scientist was very close with Henry, and with the father. The connection with Edison --- Barker was friendly with all the inventors, Farmer, Wallace, and the most successful of all Edison. Barker setup the dynamo visit to Ansonia, and got Edison running on the bulb.

See pictures of John Ambrose Fleming's first oscillation valves which picked up on the Edison effect.

Edouard Branly, and French telegraphy, most bios seem to skip the nerve electricity story and tout Branley as a physicist, and one or two call him a `"medicin" and a "physicien". Some confusion on "physicien" and English "physician" seems to happen from time to time.

On the other hand there`s this: RECYCLING THE FUTURE - WOLFGANG HAGEN Lecture: "Around 1890, the Catholic professor of physics Edouard Branly from Paris went to the Salpetri?re every morning to practise the therapy that was always also an experiment: Branly, the physicist, applied electric shocks to women suffering of hysterical fits. He administered local shocks to their bodies, using the rheophor, the electrical brush. [SLIDE 9] At lunchtime, Branly retreated to his university laboratory to repeat in an experimental model what he had done to living persons in the morning: applying electricity to nerves. In the morning, he treated live nerves with electric shocks, in the afternoon he did research on electrical models of nerves. This is how the first receiver in radio history was developed. [SLIDE 10] Branly succeeded in producing a china bottle filled with strange scobs which conducted electricity under electromagnetic radiation and became non-conductive again when the radiation was interrupted by means of a little mallet: the Branly tube. Branly had found what could be termed the model of a hysterical neurospasm. When the radiation hits the bottle, the coherer, as it came to be called later on, neurospasm, catalepsy, catatonia set in. No radiation: normal state."

Yesterday Edison in Korea, today Edison in Vietnamese.

Bright ideas is a boring name, but illuminated ideologies doesn`t do it. Nor does lit logic, though that`s in the right direction. Susa says alliteration is desperate and not very clever. I think its the pun of the sound world of words. And the accidentals, like Would World, slip o the keyboards, I use my cell-a-phone to call you, and my cell-o-phane to wrap. Well, neat stuff. Cultural notes from Canadian Sunday morning tv. Morphing car ads: A Kia ad where this young guy goes up to an apparent junker, pulls away the camouflage junker car cover, to reveal a brand new Kia. An apparent mini-van ad, panning all around the vehicle with the usual platitudes and soft lights, and in exactly the expected spot for the mileage pitch, slips in "delivers 48 meals per gallon" and finishes " the Salvation Army Mini Van, get one." or something like that. And again, one of the best shows on TV is "How It Is Made", produced in Quebec. It focuses on everyday things, but goes far beyond the usual science documentary with gorgeously edited shots of mixing vats, assembly lines, filling machines, sometimes choreographed with music. A real pleasure.

Mother of all paper bags from the Smithsonian.

All those fantastic electrical engineers at the IEEE History Center - Legacies Project. including George Westinghouse, but not Edison.

How come bright ideas like the Zimbardo prison experiment are so little discussed? Google "zimbardo prison" to get the background. Then Google "zimbardo ghraib" to see items on this Iraq prisoner abuse. All blogs. Seymour Hersh got it right on the News Hour when he said its not "just a few bad seeds" like the chiefs are spinnig it. This abuse is reflective of an environment that said hey, no rules for dirty Iraqis.. when the truth comes out maybe we'll get the bit by bit story of how it got to the point that probably normal kids ended up posing and laughing over stacks of bodies. In those moments I'm sure they couldn't distinguish between those prisoners and annoying mosquitoes on a summer day. Heads should roll on this one, but what disturbs me much more deeply is the utter ignorance of the socio-psychological work, now thirty years old, that predicts what happened at Abu Ghraib. It is scary to think of this so very tech-smart country --- USA --- being so very people-stupid. The Founding Fathers would be ashamed, and their genius truly squandered. They looked at the dark side and designed a constitution against it. Contrary to Bush's stupid claim about "its not in our nature as Americans", it *is* in the nature of all human beings, including every American, to be cruel when authority and environment encourage it. And it happens all too often in racist America, and would happen more if not for the design of the constitution. Power makes you very very stupid.

In the 1800's , hearing from people like Faraday, and Maxwell on the magical forces of electricity and magnetism must have sounded as bizarre as this report which sounds to me like the scientific precursor to the transporter on the Enterprise: "Photons Teleported Six Kilometers // Technology Research News April 16, 2004 // Real-life teleportation will never come close to the teleportation of fiction, but instantly sending single quantum particles like photons from one place to another has been proved possible in laboratory experiments. The ability promises to extend the reach of quantum cryptography, which offers potentially perfect security. Researchers from the University of Geneva have moved quantum teleportation a step forward by instantly transporting qubits -- photons whose properties can represent a 1 or a 0 -- over six kilometers of optical fiber. The light pulses that transport information over today's long distance optical fibers are each made up of billions of photons and the signals are able to travel long distances only because the pulses are periodically refreshed. Quantum cryptography signals cannot be refreshed because copying them destroys the information they carry. Teleportation is akin to a fax machine for quantum particles. A pair of photons are entangled, or linked so that their properties remain in lockstep, and one of the pair is sent to the receiver. The particle to be transported is brought into contact with the sender's half of the pair, which destroys the original particle but in the process turns the receiver's half of the pair into an exact replica. The quantum relay could span several hundred kilometers. Longer distances would require quantum repeaters, which require quantum memory. Researchers are still figuring out how to make quantum memory. It is to soon to say when quantum relays could be used practically, according to the researchers. The work appeared in the January 29, 2004 issue of Physical Review Letters. "

The RSS feeds at Technology Review: MIT's Magazine of Innovation would be a good place to start on blog upgrade.

Not just another science museum, the Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception is what floats my boat much more than any of the Smithsonian or Deutches museums.

Duddell's other instruments marketed by Cambridge Scientific were more serious, galvanometers, ammeters, oscillographs. I may yet learn what my antique galvanometer is all about.

Edison was not alone: William Duddell demo'd the singing arc light among other electro-sensible things in lighting, telegraphy, and according to Rowbottom p171, electro-physiology.

Map of US 219 and Alternatives shows shortest time/distance to DC.

? The American Physiological Society - Founders number five, Bowditch, Mitchell et al., in 1887 as electricity was coming on. Wonder where Beard and Rockwell were in the mix. And Pupin?

Excellent gateway to bio-electro-chemistry in 19th century. Nothing slick, but the illustrations, plentiful and linked to other collections as well.

TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENTS OF EUROPE is one piece of a great collection of "outsider" historian/curators.

Edison After Forty

Technology, Invention, and Innovation collections: William Hammer lists Exhibitions where Edison exhibited. I found this by squirreling through the finding aids at the Archives Center of the National Museum of American History/ Smithsonian.

The Atlantic Cable by Bern Dibner seems to be the same as the print book except for the print foldout map.

Dyer: Edison, His Life and Inventions - CHAPTER XXIX is a more convenient format than the on-line book.

US President`s timeline for the collection with some US history.

Finally I find s where they've been hiding all those trade show catalog

George Miller Beard (www.whonamedit.com)is also connected to Edison via Alphone Rockwell, inventor of the electric chair.

Paul Forman 1998 talk at Stanford

Quantum Theory readings and links relevant to Forman/Hendry

Le Web de l'Humanité -- un journal candidat pour ma liste de "links"

Je les ai trouvés, mes aigus, circonflex, et graves.... C'est pas mal drôle d'écrire, et de ne pas savoir comment semble mon "accent" à l'oreille, à l'entendu français. Je prends les mots qui viennent dans la tête, sans savoir s'ils sont vrai. Ça doit être drôle d'entendre pour un québecois.

Je commence aujourd'hui a ecrire en francais. J'ai ajouter Le Devoir a mon liste de "links" . Et je cherche mes accents aigus, circonflex, et graves!

In Minneapolis , "The Bakken Library is a center for education and learning that furthers the understanding of the history, cultural context, and applications of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and their benefits to contemporary society."

Steve Shapin writes a a longish, SSK article .

On a lighter note: "KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) -- A busy mom was making a green salad when she unexpectedly came across some protein -- live protein. Laurie Kollman was tearing up triple-washed spinach Sunday night when her 11-year-old daughter Ashley saw something moving. It was a small tree frog. 'All last week I'd been pulling out handfuls of spinach,' said Kollman, who said she'd used the spinach in three earlier salads. 'Then last night I was making salad for today's lunch and found it.' Kollman uncovered the tiny, lethargic frog and made it a home in a plastic tub, with spinach to eat. 'Mom, it's 'Fear Factor,'' Ashley said in reference to the TV show where people earn prize money by eating all manner of things. Kollman said the frog perked up after it was freed from the fridge and she took it to school Monday to show to her 20 third-grade students at St. Matthew's School. The students quickly named it Popeye."

Imagine your son/daughter died in Iraq a week ago:
: "And from the White House came a letter of condolence signed by President Bush. Two letters, actually. 'The exact same one, twice,' Wayne Deutsch noted dryly, sitting at the kitchen table of their wood-frame house in Dubuque's working-class North End neighborhood. 'What does that tell you? It was a form letter.'" Hey, its only a few every day.... easy come, easy go.... attaboy, george!
-- From an article on US heartland feelings on campaign politics

Q-Ray - Ionized Bracelet --- as seen on TV!

Zoom Airlines starts flying to Paris, May, 2004.

Sally's Ontario Stores are a full time job!

DISCOVER Teachers College home of some of my favorite people.

Now this is the event, but this sounds like the the fun part: "After the dinner, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Carter and others will head to Dream, a Washington nightclub. There, 5,000 people, paying $50 each, will see them and a bevy of performers, including OutKast, Ginuwine, Kenneth (Babyface) Edmonds and Q-Tip."

If you ever wanted to know How it's made there's a TV show out of Quebec that tells all. Too bad you can't replay segments from the website tho'.

New word: Hummouscide (noun) (from Arabic hummous, a chickpea pate + Latin cidere - to die )--- death by hummous. / Thank you, Carmela Canzonieri.

Adding to my collection of outsider museums and timelines: Timeline of the Bicycle

For an interesting array of services and software with a social action twist : TechSoup.

Sweet Singing Potatoes

Adding to the timeline collection, Edison Chronology with clickable maps

Do New Jersy and the National Park Service know about EdisonMuseum.Org - The Edison Museum in Beaumont, TX????

So many people, so many photons. The Ionizing Radiation Division of NIST covers everything from definitions to site visits.

Use this gateway in to the DOE Openness Project on Human Radiation Experiments, and find many oral histories. This footnote mentions units of radiation if not their histories.

Be prepared for page by page pdf's at History of Radiation Regulation in Medicine an on-line book.

NIST Calibration Services: Ionizing Radiation Measurements

Another victim of Thomas Edison is Topsy the Elephant .

Wouldn't you like to know Why Dolores Chumsky Hates Thomas Edison ??

I wanted a job with Good Earth Productions after seeing their piece on the Trent-Severin portage rail.

After a particularly interesting episode of Frontiers of Construction I wanted to work for International Chimney Corporation.. They are: "structural movers extraordinaire..... in June 1999, they tackled the challenge of moving the Cape Hatteras lighthouse.... the third lighthouse that International Chimney has relocated - they also moved the Southeast Lighthouse on Rhode Island in 1993 and Massachusett's Highland Lighthouse in 1996." They also do theaters and airport terminals.

A decent tutorial on Digital Video Cameras and S-video.

Projector People : Deciphering Cables and Connections explains TV connectors, Svideo, component,etc.

Alex Rosen shares a fun warp image applet among other things

David Bessler's pipecleaner dance for those slow moments.

Another bit for the Timeline Collection : The First World War and links to all your favorite wars: English Civil War and American Civil War, etc.

The Political Graveyard sorts dead politicians into parties they'd never have imagined in life.

We need more than Hadrian's Wall which is only 84 miles long, here divided into six (wimpy?) sections.

BBCBritish History Timeline divides UK history into ten easy to digest periods.

Bold Type: Excerpt by Federico Andahazi is good for a few quotes.

Bold Type: Federico Andahazi tells how The Anatomist caused a scandal, and then was picked up for English translation.

This site portrays Federico Andahazi as a feminist comic historical novelist. I agree.

Federico Andahazi's other works include El Padre del Monstruo. I'd call him a genre writer --- comic medical historical fiction.

Something Awful - The Internet Makes You Stupid features cubes! Thank you Keynyn. A worthy addition to the comedy column and my faves: Rather Good

Teich's Tech Tidbits from the the science director of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), publishers of Science, prominent in Edison histories and in the late 1800s.

Tech Tidbit -- May 20, 2002 focuses on lightbulb Its a whole world of "outsider" history. Hugh Hicks, serious amateur, has the third most important collection of light bulbs after bigwigs Smithsonian and the Henry Ford Museums.

Early incandescents at a serious amateur site is relatively up to date, and better than anything I have done -- so far. Edward J. Covington.

How far we have come with the clock !! A simple idea, but someone had to think it, eh?

Deep down on this geology website : you find: "On May 16, 1896 Edison filed a patent [US 865,367] for a fluorescent light source. It was basically an X-ray tube coated on the inside with calcium tungstate. The device was highly dangerous and impractical because it gave off X-rays, the dangerous effects of which were made clear when one of Edison's assistants died of X-ray exposure. It was also impractical because X-ray tubes require a very high voltage and convert most of the electric power supplied to them into heat. Edison patented it anyway but soon ended his X-ray work. Neither Roentgen nor Pupin patented their inventions, both of which have been of immense value to mankind over the last one hundred years. Now, what about the fluorescence of the natural mineral, scheelite? It was also found to fluoresce under X- rays."

Xrays as a cartoon, kind of cute, to start. But what are they? How are they different than lightbulb radiation, from radioactivity, and how did they get incorporated into military medicine and when. Irene and Marie Curie are reallys who I am after.

Edison's U.S. Patents List starts in 1868, at 90,646, with patents available in PDF. What's missing are all the earlier light patents findable through the 19th century masterfile at U of T.

Edition Structure shows the organization of the Archives into Notebooks, Documents and Company Records. According to the website U of T owns the microfilm version of papers.

MATTHEW JOSEPHSON was a 1950's biographer of Edison.

Camille Flammarion in 188? speculates very specifically on the nature of life on Mars. A popular subject, North American Review, makes "Mr. Edison's Conquest of Mars" fall into place.

United States Patent: 115,494 is the Electric Advertising Cabinet, a bit more like electronic stage, than say neon lights (which are not yet around!)

United States Patent: 109,688 appears to belong to Lord Kelvin, Wm. Thomson, of Edinburgh. 1870.

Revolving Tower, gun discharge by electricity besides being a bizarre electronic precursor to the machine gun, also uses platinum filament. 1861, Patent 35,847. Also Patent 33457 uses charcoal electrodes.

Samuel Gardiners 1858 light bulb patent at the USPO has a platinum coil of TAE experimenting fame.

SAA: Business Archives Section Website, last article in their 1991 newsletter describes a session between Weindruch and Cincinatti Historical Society. At the time his company is eleven years old. I'd bet the Society of American Archivists would comment informally on access issues such as Kiran's.

Make Legal History is part of History Factory marketing pitch at a legal conference, by Bruce Weindruch, CEO. The blurb says: " Bruce shows three basic ways to apply heritage to your firm. First, perform a heritage audit to identify your firm’s historical assets. Second, capture the oral history of your firm and its people — and leverage this compelling resource. Third, apply The History Factory’s guiding methodology: “Start with the future and work back.” You will learn how take your firm’s current business objectives and systematically make connections to past examples to create seamless continuity." How's that for excellent historiography???

Washington Business Forward - November 2001 - Cast of Characters by Rachel L. Dodes, is tongue in cheek, about the History Company and competing firms, all located in the DC area. She asks " Are History Associates and other corporate archivists for real or are they just publicists masquerading as academics?" It would be interesting to ask RL. Dodes for comment, advice on Kiran's problem.

International Vegetarian Congress - Paris 1900 - pre-congress notes and reports is my first foray into finding out just who passed through Paris in 1900! My my from A-Z it seems.

WEAPONS of MARS DESTRUCTION (written some time before the Iraq invasion, as Colin Powell addressed the UN, and reprinted here): The Mars Rover lands on the red planet. Martians, microscopic to the human eye are appalled at this unexpected invasion. The rock hammers pulverize a town and cause casualties. The Martians use their extensive contacts around the solar system, and investigate this terror over the next two years and come to a conclusion about the Earth. There are many terrorist Earthlings, but one seems more dangerous that all the rest. They send this communiqué to the White House, with this message and ultimatum: “We have intelligence that tells us you are hiding WMD’s. Disclose them, and turn them over. Now. Or face consequences.” In the White House. “ But we don’t have any weapons of Mars destruction. All we have is enough crap to blow our planet into oblivion. But man we don’t have a damn thing that can get it to Mars. Better show them what we have. ” Two weeks later. “Do you think we are fools? You pretend to cooperate. You have ignored our warnings to disarm. Thus we are launching a pre-emptive strike to liberate the American people from your oppression, to liberate America. “To the American people. Do not be afraid. We intend to liberate you, to show you a better way of life, a system, a civilization, and a way of governance, that we on Mars know to be superior to that which you experience under the warlordship of Dubya Bush. We have superior technology and advanced, precision weapons, that will shock and awe your leaders into surrender. Surrender now, warlord terrorist supporter. Surrender your Weapons of Mars Destruction.” Two weeks later. America is overrun with Martians. The precision strikes have taken out not only the White House, but every McDonald’s in the land. Disneyland is in shambles. The cultural icons of America's 100 years of recalled history, mostly roadside attractions featured in Zippy, are spared. But the country is in chaos.... Shall I continue?

Mass Media & Environmental Conflict -- Radium Girls shows involvement of public health officials and courts, circa 1925, along with manufacturer duplicity.

Shoe Fitting X-Ray Device is part of a site on questionable medical devices, many of them electric.

Tricho System: X-ray Depilatory has details, excerpts from commercial literature and names and locations of "medical experts" recommending this really bad stuff.

History of Medicine - Sense, twitch and soul: an essay on the history of neurology from Ian Carr, UManitoba fits along with medical electricity of Galvani, Volta, and all the zapper physio companies that followed along as electricity came on board.

Class Schedule for Class D26 LIGHTING from the US Patent Office, has images of old patents all the way back to 1790.

ACHRE Report: Introduction mostly focuses on 1940's and beyond, and has as its purpose preventing future human experiment disasters. This contains some pre-1940 information, interesting to compare its version of the radiation story against other versions of what was publicly available and what was state of the art regarding radiation info/warnings from 1900's through 1940's.

Building Public Trust: Message From The President, at the time *sigh* Bill Clinton, is as good door onto an extensive DOE for history of radiation in the military and how the government treated it, mostly from 1940's onward, ie, post WWII.

Vincent Cirillo of Rutgers works on military medicine. He says of x-rays, "epidemiology of typhoid fever had an immense impact on American military medicine, but X-rays, which revolutionized the diagnosis of war injuries, did not have a comparable effect. A common assumption, freighted by presentist assumptions, is that new technology is rapidly incorporated into medical practice. However, factors other than scientific utility played decisive roles in determining how new technologies such as X-rays were employed."

MedHist: Military Medicine courtesy of the Wellcome Trust gives a good number of websites covering many eras, and varied subjects like surgery, nursing, epidemiology.

The First True Incandescent Light Bulb has the quick and simple story, tho' it won't pass historiographic muster for a 30 pp paper, eh?

Lemelson - Edison does the whole Edison story, well the main parts, and encourages you to make a light bulb. Why did I throw away all those old dryer parts????

Radiology Centennial Slides provides some great images of x-rays throught the years, courtesy of Penn State University.

Antecedents of the X-Ray is a nice site by Amy Williams (?) of Mary Washington College in Fredricksburg, VA.

Siemens - First x-ray tube for Prof. Roentgen and some Siemens history from their website: [siemens] Med has contributed countless innovations to the advancement of medicine over the past 125 years: e.g., 1890 – the first industrially manufactured, electric dental drill, 1896 – the first X-ray tube (one year after the discovery of X-rays), 1911 – the electrocardiogram with electronic signal amplification, 1913 – the electric hearing aid, 1956 – a universal measurement system for nuclear medicine, 1958 – the pacemaker was developed in Sweden, 1966 – the first ultrasound device with real-time imaging, and 1975 – the first instant image from a CT scanner. Siemens technicians installed an MR system in the US as early as 1982. In 1992 Siemens Med was the first to implement digital networking in a radiology department in Vienna. Developed in 1999 and based on Windows NT, the syngo user interface sets common, user-friendly standards for viewing images and operating workstations.

Impact of the X-Ray

Analogical Reasoning

ASIS&T 2004 Annual Meeting; "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts"

ideaCity03 | Ideas Change the World

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2004

Skype

Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize

Science Timeline a pretty simple thing. "DownLoad" boxes are pointless.

Thomas Bartholin (www.whonamedit.com) of the eponymous cyst.

Robert Hannafin a lonnnnnng resume with educational tech emphasis, jazzy, with lots of grant money, and a business background.

A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics (from Notices) is an interesting supplement to my sci-tech women story.

The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Mission Statement is a very interesting site, out of North Dakota, in early stages of development.

The plural of index is indices, and the plural of vertex is vertices, and the plural of cervix is cervices. So the armed cervices must be women. Donald Rumsfeld is are going to be real mad when this gets out.

News Analysis: Sudden Shift on Detainee Test to see if the article will *last* beyond seven days. This is the print page version.

I thought I was original with "flawful" falafel unitl I found this spoof.

Clay Mathematics Institute - Fermats Last Tango a drama about math, well, let's do it, folks.

The Four Color Theorem is an update on the Appel-Haken proof.

Library of the Ages lets you sort ancient books and win points!

Definitions of Public History with a program at NYU.

SHARP Web Soxiety for The History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

MIT Tech Review touts "systems biology" as "the hottest" --well maybe it is *yawn*. But anyhow Institute for Systems Biology is a place to start.

Kathy Poole has good content.

wade davis has good flow.

See Phish shows? Right here

Sentient Cog talks about 18th Century Jaquet-Droz who made an automaton that could write its own name. It wrote "Cogito ergo sum" --- ayhhh! Condillac would be ssoooooooo wowed.

Camera Phone Moblog Community My dreams have come true.....

The Shifted Librarian Moblog --- a very cool Treo 600 based blog, hosted at text america. Extremely cool. Further inspiration.

Free Range Librarian has a quick how to on RSS, inspiring me to clean up my MT Logs.

Barbie.com - Activities and Games for Girls Online! where 92% of people surveyed want Barbie to be a LIBRARIAN!

Guide to logic symbols and terms used in philosophy may be a useful reference

Luca Ferrero philosophy of biology.

Philip Kitcher of Columbia U/NYC talks about science policy, and underlying philosophical questions that need to be addressed. Approaches Rawl's Theory of Justice.

Judith Grabiner CV with list of publications interesting possibilities, good writer. Syllabi on google search, good for possible probable for Math #4.

Steve Fuller reviews Collins' Sociology of Philosophy here.

Steve Fuller's Homepagetells all, prolific writer, social epistemology. social theory of law, sociology of knowledge. In UK, Warwick since 1999.

Donna Haraway - Professor of Feminist Theory and Technoscience European Graduate School for Media and Communications. Big title. Note John Waters and Bruce Sterling on faculty, like Mick Jagger on the tour.

Randall Collins' Sociology of Philosophy reviewed here.

Edublog.com is NOT DEAD. This blog, a funded (amazing!) project at U of T, that I had found in April 2003, and marked as a goner , is riz from the grave.

This author writes so very casually about his memories of the shoe fluoroscope in the CJOnline.com - The Topeka Capital-Journal

DOE Oral History with Gofman this section on Pre-1945 uses of high dose radiation including the shoe fluoroscope.

The Shoe Fitting FluoroscopeOn Target - Weekly Journal, Issue May 13, 2001

The basic story Baigrie alluded to: ANR | Edison, Clarence Dally, and the Hidden Perils of the X-Rays. No mention of a commerical fluoroscope tho'.

Piled Higher and Deeper

As I do all this, and think on an OGS topic, and an MA topic, and think "build on what you know", it suggests, not biology, however fascinating I find biology, but libraries and information. How is this particular 'scientific' world, libraries, quite an incredible world of information systems, taxonomy-plus, treated as part of the information sciences? Or is it?

Finding Articles Listed in Indexes. I am having a deja vu experience at the U of T libraries. First using the indexes to find relevant articles, then having an odd/difficult time figuring out whether UT has the article in electronic form; sometimes there is a direct link along with the index reference, but often theres just the entry. Then its the same disjoint experience in electronic form, of going to a catalog, then to shelves, or e-shelves , and so on. Disjoint, and labor intensive, though not nearly so much as sneaker-search.

This is the bio of the author of the paper I printed out: ``History or heritage? Historians and mathematicians on the history of mathematics''. Professor Grattan-Guinness is an expert on History of Mathematics in all its width. He studied mathematics, history of science, logic and philosophy of mathematics in Oxford and at the London School of Economics and received his doctoral degrees at the University of London. He held a professorship for the history of mathematics and logic at Middlesex University until his recent retirement. He has treated a large variety of subjects (logic, philosophy of mathematics, applied mathematics, biographical studies, numerology in classical music and many others) in several books and countless research papers. In his talk, he will be discussing the special way mathematicians deal with the history of their subject.

I'd get to this eventually, but here off someone's bibliography: Unguru, Sabetai. "History of Ancient Mathematics: Some Reflections on the State of the Art," Isis 70 (December 1979): 555-565.

Mahoney - The History of Computing in the History of Technology

"Nobody can separate the `internal' history of science from the `external' history of its allies. The former does not count as history at all. At best it is court historiography, at worst Legends of the Saints. The latter is not history of `science', it is history ... So you believe that the application of mathematics to the physical world is a miracle? If so, then I invite you to admire another miracle; I can travel around the world with my American Express card. You say of the second, `That's just a network. If you step out of it by so much as an inch, your card will be valueless.' Quite so. That is what I am saying about science, nothing more and nothing less." (Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France , pp. 218, 221.)

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Ontogeny and Phylogeny vs. Evo and Devo Ontogeny and Phylogeny (Stephen Jay Gould)

Strickland, D.H.: Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art. has the Christion side of monstrosity and rejection.

Evo and Devo Department Unveils New Evo-Devo Center

Teratology, the study of monsters, at theNYAM - Library site, mentions Camille Dareste.

Bio Library at UT One wonders, where's best to put all this stuff one finds, aaaaaaaaaaargggggggggghhh!

Basics in bioinformatics Well, think of genomes and DNA and nucleotides, of which each human has 3000 million (3 billion) as a universe of stars. Look at the sky some night and try to figure not only what you see, but all else past and future, and wonder. Billions and billions of little nucleotides, as Carl Sagan would have said.

Blogger is wonderful, and I will continue to use Blogger, but I am working with Moveable Type: Advantages in Moveable Type 1. Post Comments 2. Post photos 3. Categories for entries 4. Extended entries, titles 5. Publicity, Trackback, RSS feeds, all for future expansion
Advantages to Blogger 1.Simplicity of setup 2. Ease of use, adding authors, changing looks, settings. 3. No need to install blogging software on your own host. 4. A fun, encourgaging experience for the neophyte. 5. Expandable to Blogger Pro.

essays :: ten tips for a better weblog Read Rebecca Blood's advice every day for the first year. Its perfect for every new blogger who intends to have readers. And even if you are your own audience, its worth it so you give yourself good quality.

Epistrophe Apostrophe Apostasy Gawwd.... On weblogs, I turn the corner, and possibly flow this one out of existence. I am moving on to a bio-blog, something that is for self-education. And onto making a choice in the weblog world that assures me exportability and safety of content. (The blogger server has failed me a few times in the past days.) So, some more tedious software angst between Blogger and Moveable Type, and evaluating Radio Userland simple and complex packages. My morning routing moves away from weblogs, web reading, to books before anything else. On history of biology, particularly relevant give genetic engineering and bio-tech prominence, I had started way back with Gina Kolata (Flu & Dolly), Sunstein & Nussbaum (Clone,Clones & Clones), Steven Jay Gould (Panda's Thumb and numerous others), Dawkins (Hungry Gene), and an internet survey showing up socio-biology in modern garb. And I have returned to it via Evelyn Fox Keller (Century of the Gene, A Feeling for the Organism, and ???dev biology???), Jennifer Trusted (Beliefs & Biology -a survey from Aristotle to now of Western biology), and Stephen Jay Gould ( Urchins in the Storm). I and other seem to find similiarites (surface at least) in social sciences and biology which often degrades into unexamined socio-biology. But I also see parallels in the two professions and their internal prejudices and divisions. EFK / SJG are the two authors who write about the science sociologically; neither mentions sociology, or economics, ever. I see parallels in qualitative vs. quantitative methods, antipathy to new 'technologies', observation vs. measurment, holism vs. reductionism, specific vs. general. The other murky area is religion and science and how they have interplayed over the years; coming, as far as I am concerned, from the same roots, they diverged at a point (modern science) as each has vied for supremacy in having the one true explanation. I have never believed in fundamentalism, and have never seen the dichotomy, and consider them different facets of the same mystery, even more than just opposite sides of the same coin. Another facets of the same mystery? Arts. And facets we cant' imagine. Religion, philosophy, natural science, social sciences; identity. I had a funny image reading SJG, somewhere into the fourth story of a famous biologist, scientists as worms in the compost. I would be very happy to achieve the nobility of compost worms -- and cows --- and hens ;-).

The H word Friday night. Dicitonary discussions at dinner. True sequence, with me flipping the pages: Pagan. Pagan comes from Old Roman 'pagus', a country district. Pagan lead to heathen. Heathen from the heath, also the country. Heathen leads to henotheism, which is one of these: 1. A religion based on the teachings of Heno. 2. A belief in one god as female, honoring the hen as a sacred animal. (Heathen henotheists worship heath hens.) 3. A belief in one god, without denying multiple gods. We all decided we liked definition 2, but soon moved onto hendecasyllabic.....

Normally-interesting political blogs bore me today. So I turn to neglected areas, good people I havent touched on in a while, libraries. Who's writing is as important as the normal subject area. Thus Dan Gillmor, The Shifted Librarian, and Library Stuff. Many areas are neglected. Try to find good specialty blogs on EPA, FCC media consolidation, etc. Well, not so far, general political spewing, but no notable watchdogs. Little by little. Weblogs are a ways off from mainstream. Perhaps as the younger crowd matures into citizenry. MType customization is for geeks I am finding. To their credit, geeks are great for info exchange via fora. I joined the MT forum yesterday, member 10,500 or so. Would have been nice to have registered on day one of installing MT, and come in under the first 10,000. Again, surprized at how few users, and how good the info exchange is. I am not alone in my difficulties, nor am as disabled as some folks using MT. Blogger still gets my vote for simplicity and user-orientation, but MT/Typepad will likely even the score. I am thinking of using MT for a main blog and Blogger for secondary, simpler blogs. Userland(Radio) seems also to be worth the $40. It comes with hosting, fully supported, as sophisticated as MT, and may have more/different features. It is one of the big three, and for professional completeness, I should know what its about. And roll your own is not, by a long shot, out of the question. In fact, the simplicity of Rebecca Blood's site, and Josh Micah Marshalls adds to their appeal. All that said I do yearn for simplicity, and leaving this infrastructure world. But I have to do the due diligence because I don't want to invest my time or other people's time in content, then find its not exportable to other formats for different markets, for different people's reading styles and so on. Bloggers, overall, number 500,000. Static websites are prime candidates for coversion to blog front ends.

On weblogs I have evolved to where I have to stop and invest more in infrastructure (MT), and write a coherent summary. I have scanned a territory, have a sense of what is there, but have not been exhaustive, so have loose ends, and no real, coherent expression of what I have done, ie, nothing showable to anyone, except as notes in the roughest form. So next step is writing the summary, getting MT running for my purposes and then experiment with other people on what might work: limited size group blogs centered around some interest. Anyhow. I have a lot of MT work to do , and today is the day to attack it. And I dread it: import Blogger blog, get archives working, get the look right, get photo and file upload working, make initial guesses at categories.

Yes, there is a band on all shell fishing in Buz Bay. There goes Jan's plans to harvest 'um and my plans to eat them. Oil spills are such a drag when they hit close to home. Not to make light of this but as long as Napa Valley's wine country doesn't get hit with any misfortune, think we'll make it thru the summer along with Westport's brewed "Buzzards Bay Beer".

Not to be morbid, given the lamb exchange, but... MonitorTan is the dead log of Hiawatha Bray, a great Boston Globe tech writer. An interesting post-mortem, since journalists, you'd think, like to write, like Dan Gillmor of the San Jose News(?) And Hartford Courant's Denis Horgan who had to be shut down before he stopped blog-writing. So why would a journalist's blog go away, when he is so good.

So that's 'ow ye hook contributors, mates. Give 'em something to chew on, in this case lamb, and watch 'em blog. Any observations on the Buzzard's Bay oil slick mess, Tom? (Why I Ask). Some blog-euphoric, techno-idealists think corps of citizens hooked into blogs are going to dig up all sorts of dirt the big boys are ho-humming. As a gardener, Tom is a great dirt-digger, and being local to Westport Beaches, he could dig a few newsworthy clams.

Hungry sheep make early lambs......particularly good seasoned with sumac baladi and grilled or coated with a dusting of ground black trumpet mushrooms and rosemary, pan seared and finished in a 450 degree oven. Braised lamb shanks with carrots, fresh ginger, garlic, tomatoes, red wine, orange zest, prunes, coriander seeds and marjoram is wonderfully flavorful and melt in your mouth tender. Lamb stew with fresh fava beans is also a keeper.

Hungry sheep make early lambs

Yesterday I managed to go a long way with MType, though the look is too corporate, and I want more control over the column size, placement and so on, which I believe is beyond stylesheet modification. And now I can do everything with MT I can do with Blogger. So, I have three blogs: this, ELD3740 the wrapped blog, and the MT blog. I think I am going to call it quits on scanning blog-landia because it is becoming too much like cable TV, scanning to see what's on and coming away feeling time's been wasted. Along with a lot of self absorbed junk blogging, I have found homeless blogs, regional blogs (Southern US, Israel), environmental blogs. And all may become relevant some day, but watching TV/bloglandia is not what my life is all about, so I have to shut down the screen. Important as weblogging may be as a new social phenomena (BTWThe PBS Lehrer Report did a segment on blogging yesterday, which says its really getting mainstream), its going to roll on with me or without me. And my job is to answer: how is all this going to play in my life? Well, this morning I could not write in the blog about something that happened yesterday. It was a visit to a homeless shelter. I could (and did) write when I had absolute assurance no one would ever see it. I may yet publish it. But for the moment, blogging shut me down. It was that hesitation you have about sharing things that are too personal, things that are too intimate, things that make you cry. I think I may maintain a private blog, as I have since 1995 (Crested Butte and my first laptop) which will be totally unpublished, though subject to excerpt and publish, and some private, self-education blogging for my own reference, which I will allow others to access, but which may be boring. And then I am thinking, worthwhile public blog on some areas that I really like, with a definable audience, and with contributing colleagues. Public blogs, the good ones are funny and/or newsy and/or intelligent and/or lively and/or truly connecting with an audience.

Time to sum up my trip to bloglandia. Before the trip: Finding Josh Marshall, and really good political blogging, and realizing blogging had changed. Recognizing a desire to roll my own blog like JMM, my history of private blogging in chrono-order for the past ten years, and logging as self-education. Trying to solve a no-tech friend's need to update a 'current events' page on a website. Starting the trip: The thrill of getting it all in five minutes with Blogger, discovering other ways to blog, discovering I knew enough to wrap my web page around a Blogger core. Discovering the blog-techies were the PC/Unix folks of old. Same crowd, new members, different toys. Discovering law/tech/journalism/politics as professions, academic areas having glommed onto blogging. Getting into the trip: Getting good on Blogger, and starting in on Moveable Type; being drawn into techno-euphoria.Speculating on blogs as the next big thing, inviting a friend to join blog, and finding it is a form that doesn't 'take for every person, or for every application. Closer observation of who and how of blogs, including dead blogs, who doesn't blog. Finding Philip Greenspun starts up five days AFTER I do, and wondering how he will see this. Coming down and going home: Deciding, or trying to decide, which blogs of all I have visited in past weeks,on my own page. How do I want to use blogging in my work, and wondering how I can keep things simple, and not have multiple logs running in parallel, too thin. Blogs are lots of things: blogs as cliques, blogs as self-education, as self expression, as professional commentary, as trade journal, as special interest magazine, as dynamic web page; in gov't I saw a place for blogged notice and comment by the public in admin law. And another regional blog oriented to cultural landscape as in Stonewalls, Rails/Trails, Inst Cultural Landscape at the Arnold Arboretum. Blogs are people writing and reading, expressing and listening, perfoming and appreciating; Blogs as performance, as class discussion, as pure private self-expression, self-awareness. One to one, one to many, many to one, many to many. And if blogs require some sort of literacy, who is left out? And do they care if they aren't part of Club Blog? How do blogs differ from bulletin boards? (which always struck me as boring, CB radio in text, is it membership? or what? ) How different than an individually archived (if this is even possible!)instant messaging session? Like a blogged interactive interview. What makes a good blog? Why are blogs born? Why do blogs die? What's the critical mass/right balance of focus-generality/ of a blog? ie, is tge magic just enough readers to motivate writers? what should it cover? what should it not cover? My writing improves because I am aware of the time constraints of readers. I get succinct, edit for logical order. And now I am reading a history of the news, oral news, written news. In all the MY ARCHIVES DONT WORK!!!!

Identity Theory which I once bookmarked for decent content, is converting to blogging, but it seems like a gasp before dying.

Why are some blogs so good? On top of being funny, they are succinct. Dave Barry best of the breed

On a more serious note, I read Andrew Sullivans conservative political blog today, after the Rick Santorum, gay-bashing week, and was moved enough to send him an email of support.

Print Boston Globe informs me of Gorilla Glue, news to me. And of FROZEN peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Web follow up (researching, going deep) reveals FAQ #11 :

"11. Can Gorilla Glue be frozen? Yes. Gorilla Glue can be frozen. To use it again, let it get close to room temperature."

Note that I am almost a year behind on frozen peanut butter & jelly sandwich news Relationship to blogs? Well, I know news isn't always news.

The Class Action Unfairness Act hmm.

Why are some logs so good? Going deep. Check out Talking Points Memo on Rick Santorum, which ref's the full transcript, ie, the context of the sodomy/homosexuality remarks. Clearly JMM researchs, thinks, and articulates, to the benefit of public discourse. That's citizenship, democratic values, all those all-american things that Fox-style name-calling is not.

Now that I have installed a Movable Type system, and have the base for a sophisticated blog, the MT people are introducing TypePad, a Blogspot/Blogger equivalent! Good for them. Includes hosting, as does Radioland.

Just scanned around to see what K-12 is doing in weblogs. Seems quiet and a little boring, cause adults are running the show. College through twenty something are active users, but not the highschoolers from what I've found. Wibsite.com found via the Boston twenty something crowd is a hoot. Kyla updated me on Instant Messenger. Yahoo! preferred by the kids I talked to because of enhancements like emoticons, IM backgrounds (including Doodle!), not found on AOL IM. So we did basic three way conversation with Xenia, I added to friends list, and played tic-tac-toe on a Doodle background. Seems to me this could work from Toronto to Lebanon on a Saturday morning! Pretty neat. All this, of course ties into cell phones in a way I can't experience because I have so few 'enabled' friends. But these things can change.

In Australia, Modern Aboriginal Art is a Hot Commodityreminds me of the recent Gee's Bend quilt exhibit at the guggenheim. Weblogs mean anything here?

Why do blogs die? EduBlog is a dead blog on educational uses of blogs. Powered by Blogger, a free service, it was a FUNDED project at the University of Toronto. The defunct blog is useful source of names for a post-mortem. Leading to the interesting question: Why do blogs die?

How will I use weblogs now that I have the mechanix under control? Well, to start its for my own education, how I am going to become a more informed citizen. I am already using the ELD3740 blog to keep Carmela up on how others are incorporating weblogs at York and Harvard --- a mixed bag --- and for smart uses of tech in courses generally. I have been seeing a lot of Manila logos. What is Manila? Manila is from the folks at Radio Userland, but seems to be more than a group blog, and more than Macromedia Contribute. It appears to be web-based, ie, log on from anywhere in the world, but $900 is pricey. At least there is a 60-day demo.

Back to Westport's great stonewalls, here's Robert Thorson's site: Stone Wall Working Group He is the author of Stone by Stone, a book about New England stone walls, mostly in Western Massachusetts and Connecticut. Weblog format might be good for this kind of site, since so many people over the region could, and would contribute what's happening in their areas. Pondering what weblogs are all about, and how they fit.... geographical is one way, like a local newspaper; memoir/diary is another, though often un-interesting, but some would open windows onto hidden worlds; and quasi-trade journal, keeping up with some topic/profession/special interest is another.

Thanks Gina for your flattering introduction. Yes, am totally into gardening and creative cooking. My sugar snap peas and English peas are just starting to sprout. Planted them on March 29....before the last blast of cold weather and snow. Nothing's happening in the cold frame yet. It's located on the south side of the house and on sunny days temps reach 90 degrees inside. Even on days that are only 45. Got to get a jump on the short growing season here in New England anyway you can. Spent most of the day burning leaves and brush. Found two Easter eggs leftover from yesterday's hunt. Maybe the holidays aren't so bad after all....well off to grill chicken dusted with a spicy ancho chili dry rub, fresh asparagus from the garden and roasted potatoes with garlic and rosemary cooked in a pouch on the grill...

Tom Zembo joins the blog today. He's an heirloom tomato, exotic vegetable, and garlic grower, from Westport, Massachusetts. He's a chef, too, right up there with the folks featured at Lee's Market chef's series. I want him to be my partner in crime for a canoe trip from the Head of Westport to The Back Eddy passing by the ospreys in the flats and the crabs ?really? at Hix Bridge. if we live through that, we deserve a Westport wine tour. And a stone wall tour. There's a seedy side to this wholesome picture, and it develops later, in the hot weather. come back to check it out. Really easy to get people added, even the non-technically inclined. Blogger continues to impress me.

I have successfully installed a MovableType weblog on my Unix host at Burlee which hosts www.arkone.org. A little messy the first time through, MT appears to more sophisticated than Blogger. Comments, multiple users, and so on. But its also more complicated to administer, and changing the look involves a bit more than just clicking on a library of templates.

Still having trouble with Blog archiving. An archive index page seems not to be written, nor are the links on my main page. Hmm.

Really blew my week to have the Verizon DSL line down from Monday AM to Thursday PM. I have found how to add contributors to my Blogger blog. Blogger Pro link is back up, and working, thus worth checking out. Not so easy to install Moveable Type. Requires knowledge of Unix, file editing, CGI scripts, and so on. Not for the timid. I ran into trouble immediately on download (something with a VRML invalid line) with IExplorer, used Netscape instead, and on and on. Uploaded to Arkone via FTP, and unpacked and uzipped on the Unix system. Probably easy for anyone who has worked in any Unix world for more than two weeks. For someone like me it will be a labored, figuring out the little gotcha's. I want to try a buy-it package like Radio/Userland. Tho' I don't need the hosting. Philip Greenspun started a blog at the Harvard Law School blog site. Interesting because he himself created and promoted a database backed community software system (Ars Digita), and used it to created the infrastructure for photo.net, a community of photo enthusiasts. Also he is a generous genius with a righteous sense of sharing. Not always easy for him to understand the simple among us, I think, but he is sharp, smart, and worth following.

And, aaaaaaargh! They cut off the early posts! Oh well. They were only the initial freak outs about the changing colors which I found weird, but which others found fascinating.

First week on Blogger, and I see old entries are no longer editable. Hmm. I am setting up archives, but will be trying Moveable Type this week, which I hope supports multiple users and comments, thus making it useful for a group, eg, a class, a group of watchdog activists, or just friends co-publishing. If Moveable Type works its better than roll-my-own, since I don't have the savvy to support anyone but myself. Good for me, but not useful for partner-in-crime-ship.

Tax time! Well, this year I re-considered e-filing with the IRS. What a joke. Its a mishmash 'alliance' with a bunch of profit making private companies that act as intermediaries to the government. Some cater to seniors, some are free for the under AGI $20K crowd, and $9.50 for others. And other's who know what their angle. They have to make money, right? Further, its not clear how privacy is insured. I read one statement that boiled down to "We'll try harder" Maybe that's good enought for buying a book at Amazon. But not for me, dealing with the government. The IRS should be investing in processing e-taxes internally, and not contracting it out. Paying taxes is a civic ritual. Even when an accountant gets involved, I'm the one who slaps on the stamp and sends it through the US Postal Service. What's next, privatizing voting? Way too private-enterprizey to me!!! So IRS, I post to you with paper and glue! Until you give me direct access, and filing, for all income levels, one nation indivisible, and all that stuff.

Blogging from Palm is old news, demo'd back in 2000, and written about in vintage O'Reilly detailing components and costs. Despite my being three years behind the curve, I find plogging neither dead, nor mainstream. The most recent stuff was Daniel Sandler's site on plogging. Between this and the evolution of cell phone/ PDA convergence, we'll see. Micro-publishing seems not to relate to blogging, but is current terminology for desktop publishing of e-books, CD's, DVD's, etc. Micro-journalism is something different, and here are comments from back in 2002 , by Jonathon Delacour. UC Berkeley Journalism had a very worthwhile panel discussion on Weblogs and Society, webcast archived,

Yah gotta be tough! Should I boycott L'Oreal because of this?

Course websites. Roll your own, or use course-ware? MIT Open Course Ware. Seems sweet, simple to me. WebCT, for on-campus courses, seems almost oppressive, like you are joining a club, a society, dedicated to this format of learning. The good is the course infrastructure. The bad is over-invovlement in infrastructure and the WebCT infterface in chat, and email. Not clear on cost, support, learning curve, etc, but worth evaluating when it is available on campus. Other names in the biz: Blackboard and Course Compass. Wireless and Palm on campus! I happened onto the Wifi Confrence at Case Western Reserve, live, via streaming video, and caught the Palm people demoing Tungsten W, the cell/PDA/+++ , and talking batteries-of-the future, displays of the future, and $Gbyte SD Memory cards. The uses seemed passive tho'; students surfing, downloading ebooks, videos, and little about publishing. I want to publish from my TungstenW with keyboard, weblogging, and even better, minor editing of websites.

Okee. So Contribute is an editor that you, the website manager/creator, can let your clients/content contributors use in a limited way. Still, I want it much simpler and on the web. On other scores I am figuring out exotica like RSS feeds ( a form of the NYTimes Newstracker), and info intake strategies from a very good guy Steve Cohen who is part of the library world. Not to get too far off the track. I care about the social side of techie things, thus don't like to go as deeply as cutting edge software development environment like Eclipse tho' it would be important to understand their implications. I guess I am a little jaded from so many years of seeing NEW, REVOLUTIONARY stuff, that I'd rather focus on the revolution once it hits the streets, often decades hence. Its background. This is not to say its unimportant; it is, but in ways we probably can't forsee just now. I am relatively more interested in technologies that are more in the plain folks world and which are being used in power struggles, and which are at the root of power shifts. This would be control of the spectrum, classic monopoly business & free speech issues, copyright & patent, and how common folk are using technologies, eg, wireless, Palm, etc in interesting innovative ways to better life.

Turns out others have had the same thoughts about web-based editing, but few seem to have a clean, simple solution that runs on Macs, PC's, whatever. A decent list appears at O'Reilly courtesy of Uche Ogbuji

First cut evaluation of Macromedia Contribute is disappointing because editing is hosted on the users computer, not on the web. Contribute is a dumbed down editor that makes link, photo addition easier, makes review of changes easy and hides the FTP process behind a publish button. It is not all that simple, but probably masterable by people who can do WORD or PowerPoint. It allows people to add new pages, and appears to manage site files when more than one person is involved. I want something more web-based and simpler. I want the single person owner of a website, say a professor, an artist, a social worker, a small business owner to sitdown at a computer anywhere and change at least the text of pages in a site, and to do it mindlessly. AS if their site is a big notebook on the web. Perhaps I am not looking at the right software. I suspect this is already available -- the web-based 'editing' of yahoo/portal home page content is along these lines. I simulated what I want --- web based editing --- by wrapping a webpage as a template around Blogger code. Then Blogger acted as the web-based editor by doing its thing of taking input off a form and glomming it into a pre-existing page. Blogger, the whole process from Day One, has made sense to me. Contribute, for what I want, simple site updating by a busy, non-technical, often mobile user, does not. I want to update from a beach in the Dominican Republick, where I happen to be working.

Just showed this to Kyla, sort of funny watching the colors change.

Well, back on the home front. I sent an email to Burlee, and asked them if Mov Type 'hosting' was cool. No response. On my hub I have populated the 'log' with kid cartoony thangs. And I have downloaded Contribute to see what that is all about.

This is the ticking time bomb stuff that scares me.

Ah, Friday, and even intrepid Canadians are home, as an ice pellet storm goes to its twenty-eighth hour. I finished websites today, did some embedded style sheets and parted with my old hub at arkone.

so my first demo of the blog proves me wrong. someone likes the changing colors!!! oh my

so the color thing! the template is funny, it changes colors on you, live, in action. well, it'll freak out the first few folks and annoy the rest. but interesting. I changed over to a few other templates easily.

Well, it took a few shots, and after reviewing my ftp info, I got it right. Mystery is control of the page color. The time seems to be California time, and why not, eh?

Today is my first day in Webloglandia. Roll your own and Blogger are winning so far. More later. Ciao.

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