CmapTools - Registration

CmapTools - Registration

Brit shows in US

Seen an inflow of British shows and ideas in the US in recent months. American Idol (actually this is a lot older), The Office, The Sketch Show and Hell's Kitchen. What else is coming through?

Beginner Solution to the Rubik's Cube

Beginner Solution to the Rubik's Cube

In addition, design cubiing algorithms by assuming that you can see the cube from all sides. Assuming more than one person are solving the cube (very interesting idea!). How would they communicate and coordinate? Can you create an algorithm where no players communicate? Maybe software agents are best equipped to design such an algorithm.

Chicken

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Dunnoh. But she did get a ticket for jaywalking.

Website

A website that translates your name in all living human languages. And gives you the result as a gif. Characters would be a pain.

National Treasure

Solving clues on NT got me thinking. What if you create a similar clue solving game entirely on the web. You solve a puzzle and end up in another site that gives more puzzles etc. The puzzles need to be of varying nature to be interesting.

SCPD - Donald E. Knuth

Donald Knuth's lectures online. Gotto check them out.

Abi-Station

Abi-Station

Portrait Illustration Maker - Let's make an original icon!!

Portrait Illustration Maker - Let's make an original icon!!

Adwords Next Step

The next step for ad words is to serve graphics ads based on keywords.

Dictionary

Google toolbar should have dictionary meanings when a word is hovered upon. If they can get translation, they can get a dictionary.

The Dvorak Keyboard -- a Primer

The Dvorak Keyboard -- a Primer: "emphasis on typist comfort, high productivity and ease of learning "

In addition, think of creating a parser that goes through source codes of C++ and Java or something and then using the philosophy of Dvorak's design, suggests a keyboard layout. What letters occur most frequently?

The Gluetrain Manifesto -- The Cluetrain Manifesto is Roadkill!

The Gluetrain Manifesto -- The Cluetrain Manifesto is Roadkill!

the cluetrain manifesto

the cluetrain manifesto

Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System � plone.org

Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System � plone.org

Amazon.com: Books: The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual

Amazon.com: Books: The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual

Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System � plone.org

Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System � plone.org

Real time hyperlink

User is reading a site. Sees a word she likes. Right click->hyperlink, an event triggers.
This event searches the entire site for the word. Shows the results on the side.
You have now created real time hyperlink.

Potomac River Running Store

Potomac River Running Store

Humans vs. NDS

Humans have something NDS don't. Humans as a unit can create newer alternatives and thoughts that ants can't.
Hence humans are generative, while ants are trial-and-error-retentive.
This is a great strength of humans!

Non linear dynamic systems mistake

So far I have trying to fit a human organization into the framework of a non-human non-linear dynamic model (e.g. ants).

Instead of fitting humans into the ant model, I need to think about the strengths of human beings and fit those strengths into a model of its own, which may or may not borrow the good qualities of non-human non-linear dynamic systems.

MS Access Add-on

MS Access add-on to find dupes and other stuff.

Google Guide: Help with Searching

Google Guide: Help with Searching

Evolution vs. Design

Why assume that there can only be evolution or intelligent design? Granted, evolution by definition means self-propelling system that designs itself onwards.
Can't you design the 'self-propelling system that designs itself' process? I think designing such a process is more genius than the end-product.

Frameworks for programming

You can program with algorithm design in mind or with creating software agents that themselves create software. Can you think of more way to program?

Wal-Mart teams with Netflix on DVD rentals - May. 19, 2005

Blockbuster is probably fucked. But it may try to hookup with Amazon? What value though?

Helmet

A scooter helmet with small openable wind channels on the side. Open it, you get air, close it, you don't get air on the head.

MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW Home

MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW Home

Google Maps Improvement Ideas

- Ability to change path to destination. Drag the direction highlights and drag them across different routes. And also see the effect on distance.

- Realtime traffic data imposed on the map. The map gives the best routes. For maps that would be used in a couple of days or so, give best path recommendation based on historical data.

- Highlight area with x-miles radius. What cities are within 30 miles radius of my work?

- Add train, bus and airline schedules on top.

Avoiding manipulation

A lot of worldy evil can be avoided and lot of people can avoid being manipulated if they keep their eyes on the bottom line. Too many people get distracted into rhetoric, form over substance and other 'noises' that are anything but the bottom line.

Types of Books

All books have effects that can be summarized in the following categories.

1- You learn new facts.
2- You learn new skill.
3- You develop a new perception.

(3) is most significant. Perception refers to the alteration or creation of schemas in the brain, the significant schemas. The base schemas through which we view reality.

Hermann Goring

Nazi war criminal:
"Goring: Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. "

Project: Visual Learning

An online software that allows you to create visual representation of knowledge, like mind maps and allows you to drill down in a subject for deeper information, with links, notes etc.

US: The Breast Cancer Money-Go-Roundby Lynn Landes, AlternetOctober 23rd, 2002

They're good girls and boys. Racing for the cure. Crying for the cameras. Sharing their pain. Wearing that crown of thorns like a halo. Nice folks. And aren't they "better people" for just having "survived" breast cancer?
Or ... are they being played for suckers? Conned by a clever marketing strategy that makes heroes out of victims, and saints out of sinners. Racing for the cure, but running from the cause.

Most of the well-financed breast cancer organizations make little or no mention of the non-genetic causes of breast cancer. Go to their websites. Read their literature. These organizations don't focus on the environmental and pharmacological causes of this epidemic because it's a dank dark alley that leads right to their corporate sponsors.
"National Breast Cancer Awareness Month was established by Zeneca, a bioscience company with sales of $8.62 billion in 1997. Forty-nine percent of Zeneca's 1997 profits came from pesticides and other industrial chemicals, and 49 percent were from pharmaceutical sales, one-third (about $1.4 billion's worth) of which were cancer treatment drugs," says the Green Guide, a publication of the Green Guide Institute.

Zeneca also makes Tamoxifen, "a known carcinogen" according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). After only a few years of exposure, Tamoxifen can actually cause breast cancer, says a 1999 study from Duke University. "There is strong evidence of Tamoxifen's toxicity, including high risks of uterine, gastrointestinal and fatal liver cancer," reports The Cancer Information Network, adding that The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial (BCPT) conducted by the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) "found that women taking Tamoxifen had more than twice the chance of developing uterine cancer compared with women on placebo."

General Electric is a huge global conglomerate that provides all kinds of products and services. GE also owns health clinics that use GE equipment that can expose patients to different types of radiation. GE makes ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and mammography machines a known cause of breast cancer in younger women. In addition, there are 91 nuclear power plants based on the GE design operating in 11 countries, says GE on its website. Nuclear power plants are a known source of radiation leakage.

Radiation is a "complete carcinogen" says Dr. Peter Montegue, in his 1997 5-part series, "The Truth About Breast Cancer." Montegue writes, "Very few things have the ability to initiate cancer AND promote it AND make it progress. Things that can do this are called "complete carcinogens." By analyzing 50 years of U.S. National Cancer Institute data, Dr. Jay Gould, director of the Radiation and Public Health Project, Inc., says, "of the 3,000-odd counties in the United States, women living in about 1,300 nuclear counties (located within 100 miles of a two studies, admitted Dr. Bob Spirtas, of the National Institute of Child Health and Development (part of NIH), in a conversation with this writer. A woman's risk for breast cancer is 16 percent higher at the time she is taking oral contraceptives or HRT and for five years after she stops, at which point the risk is three percent or "statistically insignificant," said Dr. Spirtas.

Well, that certainly wasn't the message conveyed by the NIH, which seemed to give oral contraceptives a clean bill of health. reactor) are at the greatest risk of dying of breast cancer." GE is also a contributor to many efforts to "battle" breast cancer.

Other corporations, such as Rhone-Poulec, Rohm & Hass, Eli Lilly Novartis, American Cyanamid and Dupont, have also profiteered from both sides of this manufactured epidemic.

In addition to these duplicitous industries and their heavily financed non-profit partners-in-deception, is the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its cozy relationship to (and increasing financial reliance on) business and industry through organizations like the Centers for Disease Control Foundation, are a blatant conflict of interest. Not surprisingly, the NIH website for breast cancer research is very similar to research funded by the top breast cancer organizations... it's all about detection, cures, and genetics. Of the 14 areas of research listed, only two studies relate to the links between breast cancer and non-genetic influences. And those studies dismiss the notion of any connection.
The NIH studies are grossly misleading.

On June 26, 2002, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC, part of NIH) issued a news release that said, "Study Finds No Association Between Oral Contraceptive Use and Breast Cancer For Women 35 and Over." Actually the study did not include women older than 65 or younger than 35, which raises the question, "Why not?" What also makes this study hard to swallow are the results of the study on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) two weeks later. On July 9, 2002 (and after more than forty years of widespread use) the NIH announced that HRT (low dose estrogen plus progestin), can cause an increase in heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, and ... breast cancer.

So, are we to believe that the low dose estrogen-progestin combination is okay for contraception, but not for menopause?

Actually, there was no difference between the outcome of those.

The NIH has also come to the rescue of the chemical industry. On May 15, 2001, the NIH announced, "DDT, PCBs Not Linked to Higher Rates of Breast Cancer, an Analysis of Five Northeast Studies Concludes." However, the highly regarded authors of Our Stolen Future point out that most studies are flawed, "The problem is that DDE and the commonly-studied most persistent PCBs act as an anti-androgen and anti-estrogens, respectively, not estrogens. Findings that indicate these contaminants are not associated with breast cancer risk are completely irrelevant to the hypothesis that xenoestrogens may induce breast cancer."

It's pretty clear. We're firing blanks in this "war against breast cancer." While industries release toxic chemicals, unsafe drugs, and radiation, they also fund government agencies and large non-profits who provide effective "cover" for their devastating activities.

I call it the Breast Cancer Money-Go-Round.

Google should power expedia?

Places like expedia are slower than google. Why doesn't good sell a custom software to giants like expedia that can produce faster results? That way, expedia could focus on the core business.

Shit! Google as an Application Service Providor?? Now that's a thought.

CPU's with Software Holding

A CPU casing with a side pocket to hold software. Upto 10 e.g. Or a strapping holder that can fit on any CPU.