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November 7, 2009
Collective Imagination
Google Transparency, choice and control technology announced From Google: Today, we are excited to announce the launch of Google Dashboard. Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? The Google Dashboard offers a simple view into the data associated with your account --...
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Continuing internet education. Yo dawg! This is a soccer tournament weekend for the Free-Rides. (First game: 8:00 AM. Time of departure from Casa Free-Ride: 6:30 AM. Zombification complete!) At the moment, the younger offspring and I are chilling before the younger offspring's team's...
Collective Imagination
Jim Hall: Transitions in an open source software project This is the third of four guest posts by software and system engineer, and former maintainer of freeDOS, James Hall....
Collective Imagination
China elects to limit torture and killing of children who use The Internet China's Ministry of Health has decided to ban torture (sometimes leading to death) as a "treatment" for "internet addiction."...
Greg Laden's Blog
The next document I put together will be done with LyX I don't mean blog posts or emails. For blog posts I use souped up gedit, and for emails I use pico. (There was a time when I thought I'd be using emacs for both of those, but emacs suffers from a deep philosophical dysfunction.) I'm...
A Blog Around The Clock
Ignite talks at ScienceOnline2010 Ignite-style talks are very, very energetic. They last 5 minutes each and the slideshow is set to automatically change slides every 15 seconds. Thus, one cannot be slow or go over time. These kinds of talks can be very...
November 6, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
Tweetlinks, 11-06-09 Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my...
Greg Laden's Blog
Software needed: Nifty bash math tools And when I say bash math, I do not mean being mean to math, and I do not mean math as it is done in bash. I mean math as humans do it, but on the bash command line....
Dynamics of Cats
LHC: toast LHC started overheating when a cooling unit cut out...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...
November 5, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
On the radio tomorrow I'll be briefly on the Skeptically Speaking radio show tomorrow night at 8pm Eastern, introducing ScienceOnline2010. You can listen live here....
A Blog Around The Clock
Cool new Scienceblogs.com widgets Having difficulties following the flood of blogging here on scienceblogs.com? Well, it just became much easier. Go to this page and find the widgets with all sorts of feeds: the Select feed, the Channels feeds and all the individual blog...
Mike the Mad Biologist
Obama's Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Is Not Hopey or Changey Not understanding the internetz.
Uncertain Principles
Beyond Rocket Science It's not getting as much press as the "X Prize" for private rocket launches, but NASA has quietly been running a contest for work toward a "space elevator," offering up to $2 million for a scheme to transmit power to...
Neuron Culture
Still hope for writers everywhere: Robots take over sports desk - but need writer to write lede. A robot writes a sports story -- but misses the lede. Still working on the forest/trees thing
November 4, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
Tweetlinks, 11-04-09 Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my...
Greg Laden's Blog
WYSIWYG not WYSIWTG Huh? ...The person I was talking to responded (quite seriously) that WYSIWYG means "What You See Is What You Get", not "What They Get", that Word actually renders the document on screen based on the capabilities of the default printer on that computer, so that...
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
An Open Letter and Wednesday Morning Jams... ...to everyone's favorite Dark Lord of the Sith. Dearest Darth Vader, I noticed this morning that the gloves that you were wearing on Saturday night are in the back seat of my car. If you'd like them back, holler at...
Terra Sigillata
Latisse®: Tell me more about my eyes A very funny reader clues me in to the use of social media in pharmaceutical marketing. I know I'm not Brooke Shields but do my eyelashes really look that bad?
The Primate Diaries
How the Internet Enables Intimacy In the latest TED Talk, anthropologist Stefana Broadbent suggests that the technologies of social media--such as blogs, facebook, and twitter--are actually promoting greater intimacy between people rather than sucking time away from social involvement as is often supposed. In this...
November 3, 2009
The World's Fair
Public Health in the 21st Century: the Open-Source Outbreak Science Scout Twitter Feed I mentioned earlier, about being involved in a great student conference (you know the whole Chewbacca thing). Well, we're starting to roll out the videos online. Here is the first, and it's a great one...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so...
Adventures in Ethics and Science
DonorsChoose 2009 Social Media Challenge: How we did. Hey ScienceBlogs readers: you rock! In a year where lots of folks are waiting for the signs of economic recovery to be manifest in their daily lives, and where public school budgets have been even more hard hit than they...
November 2, 2009
The Book of Trogool
Making standards that work One phenomenon that will be—indeed, already is—utterly unavoidable in the data-curation space is the creation of standards. I once heard Andrew Pace say that standards are like toothbrushes: everybody thinks they're great, but nobody wants to use anybody else's. Be...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so...
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