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New Tool Tracks Culture Through the Centuries via Google Books: Scientific American
HIGH-THROUGHPUT CULTURE: The new Books Ngram Viewer purports to provide quantitative analyses of cultural history via rapid analyses of more than 500 billion words published in 5.2 million books. Here are some of the words proportional to their frequency in the corpus. Image: AAAS/SCIENCE/WORDLE.ORG Can culture be decoded like a genome? A team from Harvard University has teamed up with Google to crack the spines of 5,195,769 digitized books that span five centuries of the printed word with the hopes of giving the humanities a more quantitative research tool.
In a previous article we discussed how the Semantic Web is about making content easier for machines to interpret . This is accomplished in a number of ways including tagging content as structured data and defining content as linked data within the Linked Open Data cloud (LOD). RDF provides us with a framework to do both. RDF stands for Resource Description Framework. This framework is used to represent data in the LOD cloud as an XML file, and is the basis for RDFa, a format used to mark up content as structured data for the Semantic Web. This article provides a basic explanation of RDF and RDFa.
What Is RDF and Why Should I Care? - Technorati Technology
Whether they're for clients, customers or colleagues, visual presentations are an unavoidable part of doing business. For years, Microsoft PowerPoint has been the standard bearer of slide presentation applications, but several Web-based alternatives have emerged. For the most part, the alternatives offer similar functionality to PowerPoint, sometimes more, sometimes less. One obvious advantage to Web-based presentations is that they're stored in the cloud, eliminating the potential for nightmare scenarios involving lost or corrupted thumb drives.
Hate PowerPoint? Here Are 5 Web-based Alternatives
We've shown you how to automate just about anything on your Mac without coding , but if you're a Windows user, you can automate repetitive tasks in the same way with free app Actions. Actions is a Java app that aims to bring the same automation tools to Windows as Mac users get from the Automator tool. The idea is that, through a simple drag-and-drop interface, you can create a workflow of actions that can edit files or performs various common tasks. For example, you can batch rotate a bunch of pictures, or rename a large collection of files according to specific rules. Actions works in almost exactly the same way as Automator—so brush up on your anatomy of a workflow and check out the examples below to see how it works.
Automate Just About Anything on Your Windows PC, No Coding Required
OpenStack OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement, massively scalable, and feature rich. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects delivering various components for a cloud infrastructure solution. Who's behind OpenStack? Founded by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, OpenStack has grown to be a global software community of developers collaborating on a standard and massively scalable open source cloud operating system.
OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software
These pictures look the same—but they're not. Because the sign on the right, hypothetically, takes up nearly 40% less space. That's the version in WebP, Google's plan to speed up the internet by slimming down its images.
Google Wants to Kill JPEGs With New WebP Format
You’re a kid, and therefore you like to shoot things. But what if the catapult and the air-rifle just aren’t cutting it anymore? Then you, like Jason (aka Larsplatoon) make your own coil-gun. The styling is straight out of a video-game, but inside the engineering is very real, and very lethal.
DIY, Battery-Powered Coil-Gun Destroys All Toys | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
When lecturing on science and pseudoscience at colleges and universities, I am inevitably asked, after challenging common beliefs held by many students,``Why should we believe you'' My answer:``You shouldn't'' I then explain that we need to check things out for ourselves and, short of that, at least to ask basic questions that get to the heart of the validity of any claim. This is what I call baloney detection, in deference to Carl Sagan, who coined the phrase Baloney Detection Kit .
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The Red Ocean of Cloud Infrastructure Stacks | CloudBzz
Update: am revising this still… Reposting now – but send me your comments via @CloudBzz on Twitter if you have them. It seems like every day there’s a new company touting their infrastructure stack. I’m sure I’m missing some, but I show more than 30 solutions for building clouds below, and I am sure that more are on their way. The market certainly can’t support so many participants! Not for very long anyway.
Ellen Rubin is the founder and Vice President of Products for CloudSwitch , which allows enterprises to run applications in the cloud without re-architecting the application or changing existing management tools. ELLEN RUBIN CloudSwitch At first glance, cloud computing can appear to be “virtualization taken to its logical conclusion.” After all, if the main benefit of virtualization is to consolidate data center resources and increase the speed of provisioning, then cloud is the ultimate pay-off: don’t own the resources at all and cut provisioning down to a few minutes with instant self-service gratification. But upon further thought, cloud seems to be giving virtualization a return to the spotlight. A recent Gartner study noted that cloud computing is the number two priority for CIOs – trumped only by virtualization.
Cloud Computing a Catalyst for Virtualization « Data Center Knowledge
Perl 6
Hi, my name is Camelia. I'm the spokesbug for Perl 6, the spunky little sister of Perl 5. Like her world-famous big sister, Perl 6 intends to carry forward the high ideals of the Perl community. Perl 6 is currently being developed by a team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers.Second release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 released Another iteration of release candidates for Python 2.6.8 , 2.7.3 , 3.1.5 , and 3.2.3 have been released for testing. They include several security fixes. EuroPython 2012 will be in Florence, Italy, July 2nd-8th.
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MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art · lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts ·…Google Calendar: How to make your Google Calendar your PC's
Reader Molly has turned her Google Calendar into her desktop wallpaper, using that old Windows chestnut, Active Desktop . Here's how to get it done: 1. Find the calendar you want to have as your desktop background and go to its calendar settings. There will be a calendar address section with the option to get the calendar page in XML, HTML, and iCal.Getting Things Done