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May 15, 2008 Hot Trends
Terror attacks on places of worships in India
Wed, 14 May 2008 21:21:59 PDT
The trend of bombing places of worship started with Sankat Mochan temple of Varanasi in 2006. Hanuman temple of Jaipur was attacked on Tuesday, busiest day for the temple. Six attacks since March 2006 have targeted 4 Mosques, 2 temple and a graveyard killing at least 78 people and injuring hundreds. May 13, 2008: S
When to Join the Bandwagon and When to Keep Your Distance
Wed, 14 May 2008 21:28:49 PDT
Differentiating between potentially successful and possibly hazardous web trends can be tough, but can also play a key role in your site’s success (or failure).
The consistently wrong chronicles
Wed, 14 May 2008 22:33:33 PDT
...or, how to perform the most elementary null hypothesis significance tests. Roger Pielke has been saying some truly bizarre and nonsensical things recently. The pick of the bunch IMO is this post. The underlying question is: Are the models consistent with the observations over the last 8 years? So Roger takes the ensemble of model outputs (8 year trend as analysed in this RC post), and then plots some observational estimates (about which more later), which clearly lie well inside the 95% ran
Barcamp Delhi 4 is happening!
Wed, 14 May 2008 22:42:27 PDT
Barcamp Delhi 4 is happening! Tags: barcamp, delhi 1 Comment After being postponed atleast a couple of times, Barcamp Delhi 4 is finally happening. For the uninitiated Barcamp is an un-conference where people come in for various reasons (freebies, free wi-fi included). Those who are willing to present/speak on a topic add their names in the wiki and they are allocated a time slot to present. BarCamp is the place where talented geeks and entrepreneurs meet to discuss, learn and shar
The Cowboy’s Guide to Doing Business
Wed, 14 May 2008 22:52:57 PDT
The American cowboy has long been a source of myth and legend, stemming from the perception of the Old West. Their way of doing business is comparable to independent entrepreneurs who want to make in it the world and from their example there will be something to learn for your venture. Though movies have portrayed cowboys differently from what their real purpose is, what is common with the silver screen and with reality is that cowboys value personal honesty and integrity. Being honest with y
Evergreen Civil Engineering Field
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:11:37 PDT
It is admission time in India for undergraduate engineering courses now. If trends of the last year are taken to be an indication, the computer science and electronics branches of engineering are going to have maximum demand. The traditional engineering branches like Mechanical and Civil Engineering could be branches with least rush. In many engineering colleges they are abolishing seats allocated to Civil and Mechanical Engineering and replacing it with Computer Science, Electronics and IT bran
Delicious Dozen Links: Brought to You by the Letter 'B'
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:13:28 PDT
B is for BACON: 1. French Fry-Coated Bacon on a Stick – because French fries on a mere hot dog is for cardiovascular chumps 2. Cheese-stuffed Bacon-Wrapped Beer-Battered Hot Dogs - best line: "grossest part was feeling the hot dog get plumper as it filled" (original concept from Stuff magazine) 3. Whopper with Cheese and 15 Orders of Extra Bacon – that's an extra nine dollars. 4. Bacon-infused Bourbon and The Scoop on Bacon Vodka - within days of one another, bacons get liquor baths 5. Tac
Fashion and style Cannes Film Festival 2008
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:14:55 PDT
The stars put on their most glamorous gowns for a most popular and biggest internetional film festival called Cannes as Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman stole the show, but what Julianne Moore wore was criminal. Flounces, ruffles and clever draping in pale pastel palettes were popular trends on the red carpet at the 61st Cannes...
The economic implications of power
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:21:27 PDT
I was in a meeting with Cisco yesterday where they talked of the work they are doing with respect to greening the network in the data centre. Basically, they said, you can increase the efficiency of a data centre by decreasing the number of ports that each server uses. With virtualisation on the rise, that is apparently a big concern. The newest switches apparently take 10 watts of power on each side of the cable to run. Add that up over thousands of ports and you can see the point. Actually,
linkfest 05/15/08: Stare Decisis^2, Whaling, and VCs
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:23:46 PDT
Some eclectic reading for those of you in the mood for some thought-provoking non-news-driven stuff: Should stare decisis doctrine apply to U.S. Supreme Court's doctrine of stare decisis? (SSRN) Top ten tech trends, according to VCs, plus some amusing riffing on Steve Jurvetson's opacity (Savitz) 19th century whaling as a model for oil depletion and price volatility (TOD)
Top 10 tech trends: The boomer Internet, smart phones and more
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:33:33 PDT
The Churchill Club of Silicon Valley just wrapped up one of its most anticipated events: the Annual Top Ten Tech Trends Debate. Five well-known and opinionated venture capitalists weighed-in on the million-dollar question: What trends will take flight and what trends will fizzle out in the months ahead? (The VCs are pictured, from left to right: Steve Jurvetson, Vinod Khosla, Josh Kopelman, Roger McNamee, Joe Schoendorf.) The audience of around 300 people was asked whether it agreed or disa
Climate Scientists Agree on Warming, Disagree on Dangers, and Don’t Trust the Media’s Coverage of Climate Change
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:33:39 PDT
A slight majority (54%) believe the warming measured over the last 100 years is not “within the range of natural temperature fluctuation.” A slight majority (56%) see at least a 50-50 chance that global temperatures will rise two degrees Celsius or more during the next 50 to 100 years. (The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cites this increase as the point beyond which additional warming would produce major environmental disruptions.) Based on current trends, 41% of sc
Global Guerilla's on Why use the Thermodynamic Crisis as a Framework?
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:36:10 PDT
JOURNAL: Why use the Thermodynamic Crisis as a framework? Posted: 14 May 2008 11:49 AM CDT As many of you already know, a large part of what I do is to provide people with useful frameworks for thinking through difficult or complex problems. To the extent that these frameworks get you thinking (even if you disagree with me, which is encouraged), they are a success. The benefit of using the "Thermodynamic Crisis" as a framework is that it is a relatively complete and simple explanation for many o
'Been Keeping My Mouth Shut' since I felt what was happening would be obvious to most.....
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:46:16 PDT
But guess what? It's not. People, that's people who say they are 'progressive' or liberal, have been expressing the most ignorant ideas about what's going on in this Dem Primary. Sorry about that word 'ignorant' but hey...the show fits...wear it. Here with commentary by me is eriposte to...well... Tell a story. You do like a story don't you? It's Ain't Over Yet by eriposte Having been rather busy last week, I'm a bit behind on blogging. I thought the best way to catch up and comment on
Future Education
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:57:28 PDT
Today being my 40th birthday, time is somewhat precious to me and mine. I don’t relish the idea of spending any more of my forty-something than I have to on this degree, so I have set a very ambitious goal to be done with my doctoral dissertation in a year. Even as I map out the short-term projects and paper deadlines to put me on that aggressive pace, a larger question looms: What happens next? One of the attractions of an Informatics degree in a new program is the ability to apply it to acad
Bohol Provincial Tourism Council
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:57:36 PDT
With the phenomenal growth of tourism (predominantly nature and culture-based tourism) in the Province of Bohol, it is important to sustain the socio-economic gains of this trend for the province in order to foster not only increase in tourist arrivals and/or their continued patronage,
The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:59:08 PDT
Web 2.0 has brought many wonderful innovations and ideas to the Internet. We can no longer imagine the web without a social dimension, and we can no longer imagine an online world that is read-only - it is now a read/write web full of user-generated content. But there is another fairly recent innovation, which might have just as profound implications. We're speaking of the contextual user interface. Even five years ago we lived in the boxed world of Windows-dominated UIs. There were standard
What I bookmarked today
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:59:45 PDT
What Would Madison Avenue Do? Marketing to Teens - 5/1/2008 - School Library Journal Whether you work for Nike or in a library, it’s tough to attract an audience. And that’s where smart marketing can make all the difference. Even though libraries don’t have millions of dollars to spend on slick Madison Avenue ad campaigns to entice today’s teens, you do have access to the media that kids love, and that’s a great place to start. Tags: teens, marketing Worlds In Motion - YNK, PayByCash Offer
Clickbank Merchandise
Hot News | Hot Trends | Trends | Current News
Wed, 14 May 2008 21:21:59 PDT
The trend of bombing places of worship started with Sankat Mochan temple of Varanasi in 2006. Hanuman temple of Jaipur was attacked on Tuesday, busiest day for the temple. Six attacks since March 2006 have targeted 4 Mosques, 2 temple and a graveyard killing at least 78 people and injuring hundreds. May 13, 2008: S
When to Join the Bandwagon and When to Keep Your Distance
Wed, 14 May 2008 21:28:49 PDT
Differentiating between potentially successful and possibly hazardous web trends can be tough, but can also play a key role in your site’s success (or failure).
The consistently wrong chronicles
Wed, 14 May 2008 22:33:33 PDT
...or, how to perform the most elementary null hypothesis significance tests. Roger Pielke has been saying some truly bizarre and nonsensical things recently. The pick of the bunch IMO is this post. The underlying question is: Are the models consistent with the observations over the last 8 years? So Roger takes the ensemble of model outputs (8 year trend as analysed in this RC post), and then plots some observational estimates (about which more later), which clearly lie well inside the 95% ran
Barcamp Delhi 4 is happening!
Wed, 14 May 2008 22:42:27 PDT
Barcamp Delhi 4 is happening! Tags: barcamp, delhi 1 Comment After being postponed atleast a couple of times, Barcamp Delhi 4 is finally happening. For the uninitiated Barcamp is an un-conference where people come in for various reasons (freebies, free wi-fi included). Those who are willing to present/speak on a topic add their names in the wiki and they are allocated a time slot to present. BarCamp is the place where talented geeks and entrepreneurs meet to discuss, learn and shar
The Cowboy’s Guide to Doing Business
Wed, 14 May 2008 22:52:57 PDT
The American cowboy has long been a source of myth and legend, stemming from the perception of the Old West. Their way of doing business is comparable to independent entrepreneurs who want to make in it the world and from their example there will be something to learn for your venture. Though movies have portrayed cowboys differently from what their real purpose is, what is common with the silver screen and with reality is that cowboys value personal honesty and integrity. Being honest with y
Evergreen Civil Engineering Field
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:11:37 PDT
It is admission time in India for undergraduate engineering courses now. If trends of the last year are taken to be an indication, the computer science and electronics branches of engineering are going to have maximum demand. The traditional engineering branches like Mechanical and Civil Engineering could be branches with least rush. In many engineering colleges they are abolishing seats allocated to Civil and Mechanical Engineering and replacing it with Computer Science, Electronics and IT bran
Delicious Dozen Links: Brought to You by the Letter 'B'
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:13:28 PDT
B is for BACON: 1. French Fry-Coated Bacon on a Stick – because French fries on a mere hot dog is for cardiovascular chumps 2. Cheese-stuffed Bacon-Wrapped Beer-Battered Hot Dogs - best line: "grossest part was feeling the hot dog get plumper as it filled" (original concept from Stuff magazine) 3. Whopper with Cheese and 15 Orders of Extra Bacon – that's an extra nine dollars. 4. Bacon-infused Bourbon and The Scoop on Bacon Vodka - within days of one another, bacons get liquor baths 5. Tac
Fashion and style Cannes Film Festival 2008
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:14:55 PDT
The stars put on their most glamorous gowns for a most popular and biggest internetional film festival called Cannes as Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman stole the show, but what Julianne Moore wore was criminal. Flounces, ruffles and clever draping in pale pastel palettes were popular trends on the red carpet at the 61st Cannes...
The economic implications of power
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:21:27 PDT
I was in a meeting with Cisco yesterday where they talked of the work they are doing with respect to greening the network in the data centre. Basically, they said, you can increase the efficiency of a data centre by decreasing the number of ports that each server uses. With virtualisation on the rise, that is apparently a big concern. The newest switches apparently take 10 watts of power on each side of the cable to run. Add that up over thousands of ports and you can see the point. Actually,
linkfest 05/15/08: Stare Decisis^2, Whaling, and VCs
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:23:46 PDT
Some eclectic reading for those of you in the mood for some thought-provoking non-news-driven stuff: Should stare decisis doctrine apply to U.S. Supreme Court's doctrine of stare decisis? (SSRN) Top ten tech trends, according to VCs, plus some amusing riffing on Steve Jurvetson's opacity (Savitz) 19th century whaling as a model for oil depletion and price volatility (TOD)
Top 10 tech trends: The boomer Internet, smart phones and more
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:33:33 PDT
The Churchill Club of Silicon Valley just wrapped up one of its most anticipated events: the Annual Top Ten Tech Trends Debate. Five well-known and opinionated venture capitalists weighed-in on the million-dollar question: What trends will take flight and what trends will fizzle out in the months ahead? (The VCs are pictured, from left to right: Steve Jurvetson, Vinod Khosla, Josh Kopelman, Roger McNamee, Joe Schoendorf.) The audience of around 300 people was asked whether it agreed or disa
Climate Scientists Agree on Warming, Disagree on Dangers, and Don’t Trust the Media’s Coverage of Climate Change
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:33:39 PDT
A slight majority (54%) believe the warming measured over the last 100 years is not “within the range of natural temperature fluctuation.” A slight majority (56%) see at least a 50-50 chance that global temperatures will rise two degrees Celsius or more during the next 50 to 100 years. (The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cites this increase as the point beyond which additional warming would produce major environmental disruptions.) Based on current trends, 41% of sc
Global Guerilla's on Why use the Thermodynamic Crisis as a Framework?
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:36:10 PDT
JOURNAL: Why use the Thermodynamic Crisis as a framework? Posted: 14 May 2008 11:49 AM CDT As many of you already know, a large part of what I do is to provide people with useful frameworks for thinking through difficult or complex problems. To the extent that these frameworks get you thinking (even if you disagree with me, which is encouraged), they are a success. The benefit of using the "Thermodynamic Crisis" as a framework is that it is a relatively complete and simple explanation for many o
'Been Keeping My Mouth Shut' since I felt what was happening would be obvious to most.....
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:46:16 PDT
But guess what? It's not. People, that's people who say they are 'progressive' or liberal, have been expressing the most ignorant ideas about what's going on in this Dem Primary. Sorry about that word 'ignorant' but hey...the show fits...wear it. Here with commentary by me is eriposte to...well... Tell a story. You do like a story don't you? It's Ain't Over Yet by eriposte Having been rather busy last week, I'm a bit behind on blogging. I thought the best way to catch up and comment on
Future Education
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:57:28 PDT
Today being my 40th birthday, time is somewhat precious to me and mine. I don’t relish the idea of spending any more of my forty-something than I have to on this degree, so I have set a very ambitious goal to be done with my doctoral dissertation in a year. Even as I map out the short-term projects and paper deadlines to put me on that aggressive pace, a larger question looms: What happens next? One of the attractions of an Informatics degree in a new program is the ability to apply it to acad
Bohol Provincial Tourism Council
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:57:36 PDT
With the phenomenal growth of tourism (predominantly nature and culture-based tourism) in the Province of Bohol, it is important to sustain the socio-economic gains of this trend for the province in order to foster not only increase in tourist arrivals and/or their continued patronage,
The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:59:08 PDT
Web 2.0 has brought many wonderful innovations and ideas to the Internet. We can no longer imagine the web without a social dimension, and we can no longer imagine an online world that is read-only - it is now a read/write web full of user-generated content. But there is another fairly recent innovation, which might have just as profound implications. We're speaking of the contextual user interface. Even five years ago we lived in the boxed world of Windows-dominated UIs. There were standard
What I bookmarked today
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:59:45 PDT
What Would Madison Avenue Do? Marketing to Teens - 5/1/2008 - School Library Journal Whether you work for Nike or in a library, it’s tough to attract an audience. And that’s where smart marketing can make all the difference. Even though libraries don’t have millions of dollars to spend on slick Madison Avenue ad campaigns to entice today’s teens, you do have access to the media that kids love, and that’s a great place to start. Tags: teens, marketing Worlds In Motion - YNK, PayByCash Offer
Clickbank Merchandise
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