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

Manufactured Landscapes - Review - Photography - New York Times

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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

The New Wave of Bookmarks

WedLog.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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

del.icio.us

43 Things

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

Exhibit of Optical Toys

HOT Blogs

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

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

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

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 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..... "