May 2012
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In third grade: Learn cursive, you will use it for the rest of your life
Middle School: Write in cursive if you want, but make sure it's readable
High School: Please don't write in cursive
College: If you do not type it I will not grade your paper
Job Applications: Please print
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Anonymous asked: HiI'm realy appreciate your clip "A little look around LHC". We like to subtitle the clip in italian and to spread it for a divulgative (AND NO-PROFIT) aim. There is a copyright on it, or could we use free?Best regards-- Romeo Bassoli - Communication officeIstituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare - Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics piazza Caprettari 70, 00168 Roma-Italy,
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TCS Mesh Networking @ UC Davis: Darin's Computer... →
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The following is directly from Darin regarding the aforementioned Desktop/Laptop ad-hoc network:
I’ve been working with two computers: The Desktop, and The Laptop.
The mesh network needs two things:
1) An ad-hoc wireless network, which gets the computers’ wireless cards talking to…
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BABEL Working!
One of the many projects I’m working on is a mesh network group study. We’re making some headway into a model network.
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Darin got Babel to work with an ad-hoc network. Apparently creating the network from his desktop worked better than originating the network with his laptop.
We’re meeting Friday to try installing OpenWRT and Babel on a pair of WRT54G’s to see if we can...
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When Obama endorsed marriage equality...
whenobamaendorsed:
… I was like:
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April 2012
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graficzny:
HTML5[!!!] video of the Pixel Mould Machine in action via Julian Bond’s Vimeo page.
Design graduate Julian Bond of the Royal College of Art has created a moulding machine to produce vases, each with its own unique design. Called Pixel Mould, the machine produces vessels using a single mould made up of over 1300 individual plaster sticks. The sticks can be individually reconfigured...
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feltonfuckfest:
youhavethatrumble:
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING WITH ME.
PERFECT ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN IS PERFECT.
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Domain Registration
My tumblog is a subdomain of my personal “portal” webpage (This blog is http://tumble.kerbavaz.com, my portal is http://www.kerbavaz.com).
If you’d like to have a custom tumblr URL, the instructions are here.
If you want to buy a domain, I’d like to recommend Hover, which is a subsidiary of Tucows. Unlike GoDaddy, Hover is not owned by a chauvinist, it doesn’t have...
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How We Will Read: Clay Shirky
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This post is part of “How We Will Read,” an interview series exploring the future of books from the perspectives of publishers, writers, and intellectuals. Read our kickoff post with Steven Johnson here. And check out our new homepage, a captivating new way to explore Findings.
This week, we were extremely honored to speak to Internet intellectual Clay Shirky, writer, teacher, and...
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JE SAIS. J'AI. JE VOIS.: Stale airport air and... →
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Stale airport air and overpriced airport burgers and we’re leaving paradise, I guess, which is not the worst thing that could happen.
Every night here, my subconscious throws me disturbing loops - and I keep falling asleep with the lights on, waking up with a shudder in the wee hours of the…
This woman can write.
March 2012
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TED Talk
Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod
Yup makes sense to me.
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The world’s largest and most resilient BitTorrent site plans to redefine “cloud...
– Via US News.
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In which I question the University.
In reading Stacy Schiff’s New Yorker piece on Wikipedia, I was most intrigued by the falsification of Wikipedia contributor Essjay’s credentials. Essjay, an upper level contributor and editor on the popular online encyclopedia assumed a false academic identity to seem more credible. In the world of Wikipedia however, Essjay’s credibility was contingent on his community contributions, not his...