CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK: Dishes That Earned Their Stars
The 15 best things The New York Times’ restaurant critic ate in New York City in 2010.
Read on for all the juicy details:
http://nyti.ms/hZ3QRX
"Technology, and the hype that surrounds it, is changing the way we speak. But we don't have to turn into drones, all spouting the latest i-word. Chris Bowlby says it's time for the techno-bullied to fight back with their own subversive speak.
With the online Oxford English Dictionary recently re-launched and on the look-out for new language, maybe it's time for a counter-revolution.
Can we create a new vocabulary that expresses not marketing mania, but the downside, the frustration, the terrible things we sometimes suspect modern technology is doing to us?
When your cursor makes you a curser, do the necessary words come to mind?
Let's start to talk about the crazily fidgetal, the MisApps, mobile drones and Skypeochondria that afflict us all.
Dawn of the age of the robot
The Guardian, Thu 30 Dec 2010 07.00 GMT
Corporate America wants help coming up with fresh ideas. Can a new breed of consultant teach companies how to think?
In France, Civil Unions Gain Favor Over Marriage
Civil unions confer most of the benefits and protections of marriage, and French couples increasingly prefer them. Major benefit - you can end them simply with a registered letter. http://nyti.ms/gl7zzk
The rising popularity of e-books highlights many modern dilemmas, says Bill Thompson
Dr. Meir's research sheds new light on the interrelations between two notions that play an important role in language and communication, iconicity and metaphor. This study shows that the iconicity of a form may constrain the possible metaphorical extensions that the form might take. Put another way, certain metaphorical expressions in spoken language cannot be "translated directly" into sign language if their form is iconic.
Google shows off a notebook running its much anticipated Chrome operating system but says that it will not go on sale until 2011.
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USC is starting a social-technology laboratory with a focus on the segments of digital culture that are expected to bring in the big bucks.
They are often accused of being distracting, but recent research has found that action packed video games like Halo and Call of Duty can enhance visual attention, the ability that allows us to focus on relevant visual information. This growing body of research, reviewed in WIREs Cognitive Science, suggests that action based games could be used to improve military training, educational approaches, and certain visual deficits.
Scientists release an improved version of the web program that estimates the scale of disaster following an asteroid or comet impact.
Scientists demonstrate a system to "print" holographic images at a remote location and update them every two seconds.
Got the following email this morning from a Chinese company announcing that they will "persist" to steal our registered brand.What do you think?
Begin forwarded message:From: YangGareth <gareth.yang@hotmail.com>
Date: 21 October 2010 01:08:52 EDT
To: Quantum Brands
Subject: quantumbrandsDavid Luo advise us to change another name, we will persist in this name.Dear Sirs,
We are Hanshin company based in Chinese office. We will register the "quantumbrands" as internet keyword and CN internet domain names. We have handed in our application and are waiting for Mr. David Luo's approval. We think this name is important for our products in Chinese market. Even though Mr.
Best regardsGareth Yang
The findings raise the question: "Does the heart fall in love, or the brain?"
Which ones best describe you?
Commercial space travel takes a step closer with the opening of the runway at the world's first spaceport in the US state of New Mexico.
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2010)
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Got the following email this morning from a Chinese company announcing that they will "persist" to steal our registered brand.What do you think?
Begin forwarded message:From: YangGareth <gareth.yang@hotmail.com>
Date: 21 October 2010 01:08:52 EDT
To: Quantum Brands
Subject: quantumbrandsDear Sirs,
We are Hanshin company based in Chinese office. We will register the "quantumbrands" as internet keyword and CN internet domain names. We have handed in our application and are waiting for Mr. David Luo's approval. We think this name is important for our products in Chinese market. Even though Mr. David Luo advise us to change another name, we will persist in this name.
Best regardsGareth Yang
Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85
Dr. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician, developed an innovative theory to study uneven shapes and applied it to physics, biology and many other fields.
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A study of Facebook app shows that social influence "switches on", driving mass downloading, only beyond a threshold popularity.
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"An effort to make apps that can run on any web-ready gadget, from phones to TVs, has been given a cash kickstart by the EU.
A European project to develop an application environment for every internet-connected device has received 10m euros in funding.
The project aims to sidestep operating systems and proprietary app stores by providing a web-based approach."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/09/14/fcc.super.wifi/index.html?
They describe how they discovered a latent hyperbolic, or negatively curved, space hidden beneath the Internet's topology, leading them to devise a method to create an Internet map using hyperbolic geometry.
In their paper, the researchers say such a map would lead to a more robust Internet routing architecture because it simplifies path-finding throughout the network. "
Read more...
NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled end its 25-year career with one final trip into space today. The shuttle will be manned by six astronauts and is expected to be in flight for twelve days. The STS-132 mission is to deliver equipment to the International Space Station which includes a Russian Mini-Research Module, a set of batteries for the station's truss and dish antenna, and other replacement parts.
However, the launch takes place today at 2:20pm EST, a time when most of the United States is at work.
Fortunately, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is making it very easy to follow the action online. NASA isbroadcasting the event live on its website, and is running a launch blog which provides frequent updates on the status of the launch.
Additionally, some excellent information can be found on both NASA and the Kennedy Space Center's Twitter feeds at @NASA, @NASAKennedy(the above picture was a TwitPic from Kennedy.)
"Four N.Y.U. students have decided people should be able to communicate online without surrendering their privacy to a big business."
For Kids2020Foundation.com, we have been getting informed by the experts about how to make choices for hosting and servers. Cost, security, scaleability and processes. The words of wisdom have been "cloud computing" -using services like Amazon's or Google's.
Ran across this article from ZDNet, which explains the key integration issues and benefits.
"Cloud-based integration platforms allow you to design, build, monitor, and manage integrations centrally (from the cloud) - yet deploy just the runtime to where the integration needs to occur – either in the cloud or on premise."
Separating the runtime, while unifying the administrative and management functions, eliminates unneeded complexity and dramatically increases the quality of:
1. Collaboration
2. Component Re-use
3. Data visibility and control
4. Policy standardization and enforcement
5. Configuration management
6. Monitoring
7. Auditing/validation
8. Reporting
They deliver the same benefits as SaaS applications themselves including:
1. Significantly reduced cost structure
2. No integration products to install and maintain
3. Automatic upgrades – no “rev lock” issues
4. Usage based pricing – can start small and expand over time
5. Global connectivity and access
Added benefit - positioned for the future - With a cloud integration platform, applications and data sources outside your firewalls can easily be added to your portfolio using the same distributed runtime, centralized management framework."
Read more here: http://bit.ly/axKfuj
"The speed with which the remaining pool of net addresses are being used up seems to be accelerating."
"Are you ready for your fears to
In light of a world framed by news that continually provokes our fears, this new approach for sharing and crowdsourcing our fears is refreshing.
The comments to Dan Yoder's blogpost are as interesting as this post. They spotlight the value-based issues with social media and reflect people's desires to roam free of restrictions or exploitation. Gives us greater insight into perspectives coming from the fringe in the wider digital arena.
You can read more on his actual blog http://rocket.ly
Business Insider posted a copy of Dan's blog - and has the list of comments referred to above.
http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-to-delete-your-facebook-account-2010-5
"Complexity used to be so simple. It meant progress. We liked it. Now the most intractable issues of our age, from war to finance, are tangled in ways that inspire headaches, not awe."
Nobel laureate physicist Brian Josepheson - head of ‘Mind-Matter Unification Project’ in Cambridge - was disinvited from a physics conference by Antony Valentini due to Brian's interest in paranormal consciousness.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/04/no_place_for_the_paranormal_at.html
I met Brian during a conference on Quantum Entanglent at the Human Scale in Utrecht years ago when I gave the follow up keynote speech to his. He is a person so curious and fascinated by consciousness that his studies and research bring nothing but enlightenment to physics.
From the Inqisitr: http://www.inquisitr.com/69290/acta-the-acronym-hardly-anyone-knows-yet-shoul...?
from Pew Internet : The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future
Bottom line - by 2020, 71% of experts surveyed predict online cooperation will make mainstream institutions significantly more responsive and efficient.
"The imperatives and expectations created by the internet will force change in institutions, no matter how resistant they are. There is simply too much pressure from the ground up for institutions to retain 20th century forms. Media companies are classic examples of organizations that have to respond to the new digital realities. All institutions will have to start listening more intently to their stakeholders. “Molecular democracy” and “Long Tail economics” are asserting themselves."
"UK industry body, Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has published a new report examining how a range of new technologies will impact the recruitment sector and the services it provides.
The REC has now identified eight key trends including cloud computing, data memory, data security, green IT and the growth of social networks.
