Wednesday, 30 July 2008
CivicEvolution
CivicEvolutionCivicEvolution - Imagine the possibilities
"Imagine the possibilities"
Collaboration and decision making
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Top 11 TED talks
Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks | Video on TED.com
Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii RemoteHans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TED.com
Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seenKen Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?Jill Bolte Taylor's powerful stroke of insight | Video on TED.com
Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insightStephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe | Video on TED.com
Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universeCameron Sinclair on open-source architecture | Video on TED.com
Cameron Sinclair: TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to house the worldTony Robbins asks why we do what we do | Video on TED.com
Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do, and how we can do it betterHelen Fisher tells us why we love, cheat | Video on TED.com
Helen Fisher: The science of love, and the future of womenMatthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness | Video on TED.com
Matthieu Ricard: Habits of happinessRick Warren on a life of purpose | Video on TED.com
Rick Warren: Living a life of purposeDan Dennett's response to Rick Warren | Video on TED.com
Dan Dennett: A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren
Friday, 25 July 2008
Talks Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Jill Bolte Taylor's powerful stroke of insight | Video on TED.com
Talks Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Spieleentwickler - ein Job mit Arbeitsplatzgarantie
Spieleentwickler - ein Job mit Arbeitsplatzgarantie - Golem.de
Spielebranche sucht nach Talenten
Die Spiele-Branche boomt. In den Entwicklerbüros herrschen Arbeitsbedingungen fast wie zu Zeiten der New Economy, gutes Personal wird überall gesucht. Deshalb haben sich die Studios auf der Spieleentwickler-Konferenz Quo Vadis in Berlin dem Nachwuchs präsentiert.
Crytek, Electronic Arts, The Games Company, Exozet, Radon Labs und viele mehr - alle waren sie da und haben sich dem Nachwuchs auf der Spieleentwicklerkonferenz Quo Vadis vorgestellt. Alle haben Personalbedarf - so sehr, dass die Angebote fast paradiesisch klingen. Crytek aus Frankfurt am Main beispielsweise bietet eine Art bezahltes Praktikum von mindestens einem halben Jahr an, das nach Angaben von Personalerin Katrin Winkler zu 99 Prozent in eine Festanstellung übergeht. Das sogenannte Internship bietet Vergünstigungen wie Mittagessen, eine Mitgliedschaft im Fitness-Club, eine Monatsfahrkarte der öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel und die Unterkunft in der Firmen-WG. Alles kostenlos.
Monday, 21 July 2008
Ubisoft DRM snafu reminds us what's wrong with PC gaming
Ubisoft DRM snafu reminds us what's wrong with PC gaming
By Ben Kuchera | Published: July 20, 2008 - 10:05PM CT
The PC gaming industry likes to blame piracy for many of its ills, but it's clear that no one has found a cure-all for this particular disease. Various forms of DRM added to the retail versions of PC games are—at the very least—annoying for the gamer who bought a boxed or digital copy of a game. At the very worst, some methods of DRM can make the game unplayable. Ubisoft ran into such a glitch with the CD-check built into the PC version of Rainbow Six Vegas 2; users who downloaded the game from an official source didn't have a disc to pass the check, causing a new patch to break legally downloaded versions of the game. Ubisoft had a novel—not to mention cheap—way to fix this: a crack that allows the game to play without a disc in the drive. The issue? The crack came from the "warez" group Reloaded, with no attribution or notice that third-party code was used to fix the DRM issue.
64 Beautiful And Free Nature Brush Sets And Vectors
64 Beautiful And Free Nature Brush Sets And Vectors - Giant Design Pack
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Sunday, 20 July 2008
The Ultimate American Dollar Collapse
The Ultimate American Dollar Collapse
October 22, 2007 McAlvany ICA presents financial, political and geo-political information to aid investors in developing sound alternatives for their portfolios in uncertain times. Topics of discussion: U.S. Real-Estate Market, China, Middle East and a declining U.S. dollar.
Saturday, 19 July 2008
Zero Carbon House
Zero Carbon House > Project details
Project Aim
To pilot an approach to carbon-neutral living that can be replicated across the UK and elsewhere.
Objectives
1. To contruct a highly efficient, low embodied energy house on Unst, Shetland.
2. To install a low carbon energy system compromising two micro wind turbines, an electric car, an air to water heat pump, watery battery heat store, power store and control system.
3. To erect a high technology greenhouse for local food production.
4. To establish a viable business promoting low carbon living, supplying local, carbon-neutral food and managing an electric vechicle for community use.
5. To monitor performance of the energy system in real time, using students on placements staying in the house to experience zero carbon living, and expert consultants.
6. To disseminate the results of the project across Shetland, Scotland, UK and internationally through a variety of media including film, World Wide Web, talks and visits.
100 Things to do Before You Die
The Buried Life » About
The Buried Life is four regular guys on a mission to complete a list of “100 Things to do Before You Die” and to help and to encourage others to go after their own lists.
Relying on goodwill, guts and sheer determination Duncan, Ben, Dave and Jonnie travel the globe in a retro purple transit bus named Penelope and ask everyone they meet: ‘What do you want to do before you die?’ For every item they complete on their list, they help a stranger achieve one of their dreams.
Friday, 18 July 2008
Results Junkies
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What is Results Junkies?
Results Junkies is a blog by Paul Singh about doing what it takes to get ahead in life.
Great Moments in Physics
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Great Moments in Physics
The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen.
"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."
One student replied:
"You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."
This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case. The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics.
For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use.
On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:
"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer."
"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper."
"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqroot (l / g)."
"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up."
"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building."
"But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'."
The student was Niels Bohr, the only person from Denmark to win the Nobel prize for Physics.
So cool, i had to quote it completely. Stolen from http://www.short-funny-stories.com
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Why Germany lost the war
Why Germany lost the war
After 63 years of debate, Myself and my brother have reached a valid conslusion as to why Germany lost the war
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