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“Developed by the author of the much-beloved Quicksilver, you can browse Secrets by application to see what tweaks are available for the apps you have installed.”
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Description of how Google evaluates the quality of their search results.
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“Managers who ignore the reality that at NPR, the customers (the stations) own the company, do so at their peril. “
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“So while it shocks the waitstaff when my fifth-grader now orders a plate of squid and devours it with gusto, finishing her meal with a decaf coffee, I’ve been reaping the benefits of her diverse palate for years.”
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The decision to minimize service staff ripples throughout the meal. “We’re just cutting out the middleman,” said Sam Gelman, a sous-chef at Momofuku Ko. “It’s you eating and me cooking.”
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“”In 2002, history buff and police sergeant Michael Logghe self-published the lavishly illustrated True Crimes and the History of the Ann Arbor Police Department. The library worked with Logghe to produce an online version of the book.”"
Monthly Archives: March 2008
links for 2008-03-15
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August 4-5 2008, Chicago. Working Groups on “Case Law”, “Municipal Governments,” and “Government and Copyright Issues”
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“Each dance step actually simulates the way a molecule moves.”
links for 2008-03-14
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“Season five’s final montage was densely packed with images,scenes,jokes, heartbreaks, and surprises. Since the montage serves as Simon and Burns’s final statement on their characters and themes, we thought it deserved a closer look. A much closer look.”
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“Technology has also been integrated in other ways: the Pilsner Unique Bar is connected to sister franchises elsewhere in the country, so that patrons can challenge barflies in other towns to contests.”
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“Really cool sculptures by British artist couple Tim Noble and Sue Webster. Each piece doesn’t look like much in itself, but cast incredibly realistic shadows – usually representing them – once shed light upon.”
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“I like a guy who eats enough fudge that he wants to build a robot out of it.”
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“I’d like to Sagittarius your Pisces, and that’s no Taurus.”
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‘During an early chat-room revolt that presaged the rampant interactivity that dominated the conference, Meebo user avenger proclaimed, “Shit, we’ve got 1/10 of the room on here. We ARE the panel.”‘
links for 2008-03-13
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“Imagine how you would feel if your name was François, but there was no ç available. Now imagine if your language used a totally different alphabet and you couldn’t use computers at all because of it. It’s a question of human rights, really.”
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“The main function of these pages is to present a catalogue of European alphabets. The characters which are, or were, used to write each of the languages of Europe (as far as it has been possible to find information on them), are included here.”
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“I realize that I have potentially hurt the feelings of nearly 3,000 musicians, for which I apologize. By no means should you ever stop writing and recording music.”
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“Photographs of a variety of Tequila bottles. Examples of Blanco, Reposado, Añejo and Extra Añejo…”
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Just what it says.
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Typically thorough TidBITs coverage of the upcoming changes to iPhone.
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‘Then he wrote, “ok, all together now… let’s raise our hands on the count of …. three,” and people really did raise their hands all across the room. The reporter from the local Austin newspaper looked shocked.’
links for 2008-03-12
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“We do not blame,nor chastise,the authors of these typos. It is natural for mistakes to occur;everybody will slip now and again. But slowly the once-unassailable foundations of spelling are crumbling,and the time has come for the crisis to be addressed.”
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“For the fifth and final season of The Wire, Simon recently spoke to The A.V. Club about winding things down, the state of American journalism, what Greek tragedy means in today’s America, and what’s next on his docket.”
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“Just before The Wire ended, Williams spoke with The A.V. Club about life as Omar, The Wire’s thematic arch, and R. Kelly’s prolificacy.”
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NPR’s “Day to Day” visits Typhoon Restaurant in Santa Monica, and “Bryant Park Project” interviews David Gracer of Rhode Island’s “Sunrise Land Shrimp”
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“In this time some 700 members have entered more libraries, bookstores, fairs and other venues than our closest competitor in this space assembled in ten months of work, drawing mostly on chain bookstores and publicists.”
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Feature on Matana Roberts and Rob Mazurek. Never mind that they don’t actually live in Chicago anymore! Still nice to see them in WSJ…
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Author of Twitterrific looks at Apple’s forthcoming marketplace for iPhone apps.
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Seven hour symposium on baking and candy traditions in the Midwest.
WNUR “Jazz” Show, 2008-03-11
artist: “track” – album (label)
Luiz Bonfa: “Calypso Minor” – Solo in Rio 1959 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Jorge Ben: “Mas, Que Nada!” – Samba Esquema Novo (Universal)
William Parker/Raining on the Moon: “Soledad” – Corn Meal Dance (AUM Fidelity)
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane: “Blue Monk” – At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note)
Cassandra Wilson: “‘Round Midnight” – After the Beginning Again (JMT)
Steam: “Non-confirmation” – Real Time (Eight Day Music)
Ornette Coleman: “Embraceable You” – This Is Our Music (Atlantic)
Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble: “BHU” – After the Dawn Has Risen (Open Minds)
Keefe Jackson’s Project Project: “The Grass Is Greener” – Just Like This (Delmark)
Rob Brown Ensemble: “Worlds Spinning” – Crown Trunk Root Funk (AUM Fidelity)
Roy Campbell Ensemble: “Pharoah’s Revenge Part I” – Akhenaten Suite: Live at Vision Festival XII (AUM Fidelity)
Ben Allison & Man Size Safe: “Little Things Run the World” – Little Things Run the World (Palmetto)
Muhal Richard Abrams: “Steamin’ Up The Road” – Song For All (Black Saint)
The Engines: “Jet Lag” – The Engines (Okkadisk)
Faruq Z. Bey/Northwoods Improvisors: “Zychron” – Journey Into the Valley (ESR)
Garrison Fewell/Eric Hofbauer: “Dogon Delta Blues” – The Lady of Khartoum (Creative Nation Music)
Paul Bley Trio: “Ida Lupino” – Closer (ESP Disk)
Anthony Braxton/Mario Pavone Quintet: “Eronel” – Seven Standards 1995 (Knitting Factory Works)
Dave Douglas: “Blue Heaven” – Soul on Soul (RCA)
links for 2008-03-11
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“Shocked into a library induced euphoria, Curious Expeditions has attempted to gather together the world’s most beautiful libraries for you starting with our own pictures of Strahov. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.”
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“The three companies settled in Seattle for different reasons, and each had its own motivation for choosing to sell books. Together, though, their combined power in the book industry has put the city in the position of tastemaker.”
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“Their remarks come from a stream of internal communications at Microsoft in February 2007, after Vista had been released as a supposedly finished product and customers were paying full retail price.”
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“Another reason the show may feel different than a lot of television: our model is not quite so Shakespearean as other high-end HBO fare. We’re stealing instead from an earlier, less-traveled construct—the Greeks…” (interview by Nick Hornby)
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Linear B;Ancient numeric systems;Alphabetic and syllabic scripts/symbols;Brahmic scripts;Cuneiform and other ancient scripts;Egyptian/Maya/Micmac hieroglyphs;Aztec pictograms;Recently-devised scripts;Large Asian scripts;Proto-Elamite;Notational systems
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“For kids it has become an identity-shaping and psyche-changing object,” Ms. Turkle said. “No one creates a new technology really understanding how it will be used or how it can change a society.”
links for 2008-03-10
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“The family agreed to try to live as a Chicagoan would have, say, 50 years ago. We would eat what was grown here, what was made here, or what could be reasonably transported here. In other words, if our grandparents regularly ate it, we could.”
History Quiz
Here’s a quiz for you: what historic event yielded the reaction described below? I’ve removed only a little bit of text to avoid a dead giveaway.
The news zipped through telegraph and telephone wires to cities around the country. Impromptu celebrations erupted everywhere, but most especially in [redacted]. In [redacted], tugboat captains opened their sirens, and employees at factories and fire departments responded with every whistle, siren, and bell they could find. A snarled maze of people, cars, and horses filled downtown streets as motorists braked to a halt and laid on their horns. Workers streamed out of offices and shops and onto the sidewalks and streets, cheering, singing and clapping. Some stayed put and tossed a blizzard of confetti on the celebration below. The unemployed standing in line at a relief station on the city’s northwest side applauded and cheered. Local radio stations interrupted their regular programming to carry impromptu speeches and songs. The 250 women playing cards at the Eagles club abandoned their tables to clap and sing.
links for 2008-03-09
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“THINK Africa. Now think cocktails. Now admit you just pulled a muscle. “It’s kind of a clean map,” said Marcus Samuelsson, the chef best known for his work at Aquavit in New York.”
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“Today we will look at some of the symbols that appear in Unicode not to make it easier for other cultures to express themselves, but…. well…. who knows?”
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Welcome to ArborWiki, a hyperlocal collection of information about Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti,
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“Welcome to Chicagopedia. This is a collectively-edited information resource for metropolitan Chicago. Wikis rely upon the efforts of contributors to develop a robust store of knowledge, moderated by a few volunteers.”
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“No, I think we’re 80% done with the surface (laughs). The sum of human knowledge is a finite thing, right? It’s growing, but it’s finite.”