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‎www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/idc-the-digital-universe-in-2020.pdf. 7 Platforms for Collaborative Creation for the Post-Industrial Age. Social_media_briefing_note. The Man Who Tried to Invent the Like Button in the 1930s. Lucas Maassen · Brainwave Sofa. Sofa by brainwave Technique:E.E.G. / 3D mill Material:Foam / Felt / Pine Size:254 x 67 x 60 cm.

Lucas Maassen · Brainwave Sofa

K-HOLE. Beginner's Guide to Crossbow Motes. The Crossbow processor/radio boards, more commonly known as motes, allow multiple sensors distributed over a wide area to wirelessly transmit their data back to a base station attached to a computer.

Beginner's Guide to Crossbow Motes

The motes run the operating system TinyOS, which handles power, radio transmission and networking transparent to the user. The network formed is adhoc, meaning the motes figure out how to form the most efficient network by themselves. Welcome to Apache™ Hadoop®! Seething in Etymological Vacuity (The Story of Theodolite) By Anatoly Liberman I have not yet met anyone who knows the word theodolite .

Seething in Etymological Vacuity (The Story of Theodolite)

It is absent from the memory of my computer, though dictionaries list it and encyclopedias provide illustrations of this surveyors’ instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles. When I explain what the word means, I usually hear the question: “Is it the same thing as a level or bubble?” The Coil Length Calculator. Diigo V5.0: Collect, Highlight and Remember! How do you recover or reset your admin password? This page is only for Joomla!

How do you recover or reset your admin password?

2.5 and higher versions. If you are still using Joomla! 1.5 instructions can be found here. Normally, you can add, edit and delete users and passwords from the back-end User Manager. MooresCloud. Open The Pod Bay Doors, MAL: The Rumpus Interview With Lori Emerson. It is summer and the Rocky Mountains loom large and golden over Boulder, Colorado, where the university spreads out in matching brown-yellow stone.

Open The Pod Bay Doors, MAL: The Rumpus Interview With Lori Emerson

Schools of mountain bikers zip past the traffic on their way up, up, up—where endless blue skies and wild spaces await. But I am on my way down, down, down: I’m visiting the Media Archaeology Lab, housed in several rooms of the lower level of an ordinary-seeming house just a block or so off campus. Down the stairs into the cool shade of a cut-rock patio I go, brushing my hand against the rough, cave-like walls. Through the window I get a glimpse of what I’ve driven 700 miles to see: a working media lab of obsolete computers (and other technology), the only lab of its kind in the country.

Walking into a room full of computers that are practically pre-historic in computer-years, I feel the sort of reverence one feels at a museum—at first I want to stand at a distance and take photos. I spoke to Lori Emerson by e-mail, shortly after my visit. View topic - Can't launch WoL client on Mac OS X 10.7.5. There we go.

View topic - Can't launch WoL client on Mac OS X 10.7.5

The issue is caused by the recent Java 7 update 9 from Oracle. Currently there seem to be two workarounds: A) Update to the Java 7 update 10 beta developer preview (not recommended, this is a public testing version) THEODOLITE. Paper Machines. Overview Paper Machines is an open-source extension for the Zotero bibliographic management software.

Paper Machines

Its purpose is to allow individual researchers to generate analyses and visualizations of user-provided corpora, without requiring extensive computational resources or technical knowledge. This project is a collaboration between historian Jo Guldi and digital ethnomusicologist Chris Johnson-Roberson, graciously supported by Google Summer of Code, the William F. Milton Fund, and metaLAB @ Harvard. NOTE: Paper Machines now bundles Jython to ensure broader compatibility. Prerequisites In order to run Paper Machines, you will need the following (Java should be installed automatically on Mac OS X 10.6-10.7. Zotero with PDF indexing tools installed (see the Search pane of Zotero’s Preferences) a corpus of documents with full text PDF/HTML and high-quality metadata (recommended: at least 1,000 for topic modeling purposes) Java 6 or higher (download page) Installation Usage Word Cloud Phrase Net.

Polar Graph with Rectangular Graph. JavaScript: Not as Expected. JavaScript’s ever-growing importance still takes people by surprise.

JavaScript: Not as Expected

Every time I post about things JavaScript makes possible, I get pushback from people who refuse to be impressed by JavaScript. Why? Processing/Generative Arts competition winners! Apple Remote Desktop Over the Internet. Google Drive Viewer. The Never-Before-Told Story of the World's First Computer Art (It's a Sexy Dame) - Benj Edwards. In the late 1950s, an anonymous IBM employee made a lady from the pages of Esquire come to life on the screen of a $238 million military computer.

The Never-Before-Told Story of the World's First Computer Art (It's a Sexy Dame) - Benj Edwards

Pin-up program running on an SD Console (Lawrence A. Tipton / Special Thanks SMECC) During a time when computing power was so scarce that it required a government-defense budget to finance it, a young man used a $238 million military computer, the largest such machine ever built, to render an image of a curvy woman on a glowing cathode ray tube screen. The year was 1956, and the creation was a landmark moment in computer graphics and cultural history that has gone unnoticed until now. Using equipment designed to guard against the apocalypse, a pin-up girl had been drawn.

She was quite probably the first human likeness to ever appear on a computer screen. Beyond the Surface: 15 Years of Desktop Aesthetics. A desktop is a changing record of visual decisions.

Beyond the Surface: 15 Years of Desktop Aesthetics

It speaks to the aesthetics of a particular work-flow and personal space. A desktop exhibits a diagram of your organizational habits and a screenshot of it captures a brief moment of its functional evolution. The image of your desktop becomes an intimate self-portrait and the impulse to decode an unfamiliar desktop is unavoidable. Xerox Star 8010 Workstation - Image via plyojump.com. About synchrotrons. This section of the new Australian Synchrotron website contains general information about synchrotrons. To go to a particular webpage or section, click on that heading in the left-hand menu. The ABOUT SYNCHROTRONS menu appears on every page in the ABOUT SYNCHROTRONS section.

What is a synchrotron? In simple terms, a synchrotron is a very large, circular, megavoltage machine about the size of a football field. From outside, the Australian Synchrotron, for example, looks very much like a roofed football stadium. Synchrotrons use electricity to produce intense beams of light a million times brighter than the sun. The electron beams travel at just under the speed of light – about 299,792 kilometres per second. With this new knowledge that synchrotron science provides about the molecular structure of materials, researchers can invent ways to tackle diseases, make plants more productive and metals more resilient – among many other beneficial applications of synchrotron science.

OpenFrameworks. This Tiny Gizmo Could Be A Very Big Deal In 2013 - And Beyond. The company is called Leap Motion, and if you want to get an idea of how much everyone in San Francisco is buzzing about them, consider this: A few weeks ago I was visiting a different hot new startup in San Francisco, and in the middle of their demo the executives said, “By the way, have you heard about Leap Motion?” Then they interrupted their own demo to show me a video showing what Leap Motion’s software does. That mindblowing video has been viewed more than 7 million times since Leap Motion put it on YouTube last May. Media Art History.