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Groklaw - Oracle v. Google - Google's Expert Report and a Jury Issue
"An API implementation that uses only the necessary API components, but does not repeat the underlying implementation, is an “independent” implementation. A Ford and a Chevy are, in this sense, independent implementations of a car — while they both provide drivers with the same gas pedal and steering interface to the underlying functionality, Chevy engineers likely did not photocopy Ford blueprints in order to build the Chevy’s engine and steering mechanism. Similarly, the fact that virtually every modern computer application supports common keyboard commands like Ctl+C, Ctl+V, and Ctl+P does not prove that the programmers used each other’s implementation source code. Instead, they have each re-implemented the functionality in a way that makes sense for their circumstances, reusing only the “interface” of the keyboard commands."
law  apis  copyright  google  oracle  argument  interesting  reference  from delicious
september 2011 by earth2marsh
DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
"Pervasive wireless communication, he believes will "bring us back to behaviour patterns that were natural to us and destroy behaviour patterns that were brought about by the limitations of technology." We are natural villagers. For most of mankind’s history we have lived in very small communities in which we knew everybody and everybody knew us. But gradually there grew to be far too many of us, and our communities became too large and disparate for us to be able to feel a part of them, and our technologies were unequal to the task of drawing us together. But that is changing. Interactivity. Many-to-many communications. Pervasive networking. These are cumbersome new terms for elements in our lives so fundamental that, before we lost them, we didn’t even know to have names for them."
douglas_adams  essay  future  geek  humor  interesting  internet  media  sociology  society  technology  essays  culture 
july 2010 by earth2marsh
Magic numbers: A meeting of mathemagical tricksters - physics-math - 24 May 2010 - New Scientist
"Gary Foshee, a collector and designer of puzzles from Issaquah near Seattle walked to the lectern to present his talk. It consisted of the following three sentences: "I have two children. One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys?" The event was the Gathering for Gardner earlier this year, a convention held every two years in Atlanta, Georgia, uniting mathematicians, magicians and puzzle enthusiasts. The audience was silent as they pondered the question. "The first thing you think is 'What has Tuesday got to do with it?'" said Foshee, deadpan. "Well, it has everything to do with it." And then he stepped down from the stage."
math  interesting  gardner  martin_gardner  probability  boy  tuesday 
may 2010 by earth2marsh
Liu Bolin...The Invisible Man... - v1kram's posterous
"This guy paints himself... no trick photography ... no photoshop ...he just paints himself..."
photography  art  interesting  invisibility  man  invisible  artist  china  inspiration  images  painting  place  existence  reality 
november 2009 by earth2marsh
noticings : the game of noticing things around you
"What are noticings? Noticings are interesting things that you stumble across when out and about. For example: perplexing pavement markings, a discarded photo, and a ceramic space invader are all noticings. Players are awarded points for things like spotting the first thing in a neighbourhood, or noticing something every day for a week. How to play You play Noticings by uploading your photos to Flickr, tagged with 'noticings' and geotagged with where they were taken. We've got some instructions to help you out. Each turn is a day, and at 3pm GMT every day photos from the previous day are imported from Flickr and the scores calculated."
photography  flickr  social  community  games  noticing  geography  interesting  location  geotagging 
november 2009 by earth2marsh
Autological Words
"an autological word is a word that describes itself, and a heterological word is a word that does not describe itself. There are lots of examples of autological words below (the main point of this page); some examples of heterological words: 'long', 'French', 'tentacled'. The first puzzle to look at is: Is 'heterological' a heterological word?"
interesting  language  grammar  words  list  autological  meta 
october 2009 by earth2marsh
Dreyfus model of skill acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition postulates that when individuals acquire a skill through external instruction, they normally pass through five stages. This model, first proposed by Stuart Dreyfus and Hubert Dreyfus in 1980[1] proposes that the five stages of skill acquisition are: Novice, Advanced beginner, Competent, Proficient and Expert In the novice stage a person follows rules that are context free and feel no responsibility for anything other than following the rules. Competence develops when the number of rules becomes excessive so organizing principles need to be developed and information sorted by relevance. Competence is characterized by active decision making. Proficiency is shown in individuals who use intuition in decision making and develop their own rules to formulate plans."
experience  acquisition  practice  expertise  skill  skills  knowledge  psychology  interesting  development  model  expert 
september 2009 by earth2marsh
Flickr: Museum of Animal Perspectives (MAP)'s Photostream
"collects and displays wildlife imagery that has been captured using remote sensing cameras. Through the presentation and interpretation of this imagery, the MAP endeavors to expand the public's capacity to empathize with animals and plants. The videos that are featured on this Flickr Photostream are from the Museum of Animal Perspectives' Animal Borne Imaging Gallery."
photography  video  flickr  animals  museum  perspective  nature  cameras  videos  interesting  animal  pov 
september 2009 by earth2marsh
Artificial Owl
"The most fascinating abandoned man-made creations + Their story & location"
photography  interesting  history  googleearth  places  design  inspiration  abandoned  landscape  architecture  travel  !to_see 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
scraplab : my last day at headshift
"I have no expectation of what happens next, but here’s a manifesto. Being interesting is as important as being useful. Making things that delight and inspire is as important as creating value. Old systems are crumbling; the best you can do is be nimble, smart and make some trouble. We’re on the cusp of a few things that I want to be part of. The web-of-things, post-digital, and all that stuff. The geographic web and the mobile phone as a superpower. And maybe efforts avoid ending the 21st century as we started the 10th. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’m not particularly good at talking, writing or thinking out-loud about these issues. Certainly not as good as some of my friends. But I do seem to be able to make things, and that seems like a valuable skill."
manifesto  creativity  interesting  work 
march 2009 by earth2marsh
'We're All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence'
"This image is 100 meters long. There are 178 people in the picture, all shot in the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer of 2007."
via:ajpik  art  photography  design  interface  project  interactive  panorama  interesting  inspiration  photographer  people  death 
january 2009 by earth2marsh
Free Public WiFi SSID at WLAN Book.com
At one time or another someone connected to a real ad-hoc WiFi network that had the SSID “Free Public WiFi”. They added this network to their preferred network list. They then traveled to a location where this WiFi SSID didn’t exist..." thanks Windo
wifi  viral  windows  wireless  interesting  mobile  network  security  tips  configuration 
april 2008 by earth2marsh
Technology Review: 10 Emerging Technologies 2008
"presents our list of the 10 technologies that we think are most likely to change the way we live."
technology  trends  innovation  science  2008  interesting 
march 2008 by earth2marsh
Toddler Behavior - Parenting - Communication - Kids - Tara Parker-Pope - New York Times
"[use] short phrases with lots of repetition, and reflecting the child’s emotions in your tone and facial expressions. And, most awkward, it means repeating the very words the child is using, over and over again."
parenting  psychology  toddlers  interesting  Children  communication  nytimes  harveykarp 
february 2008 by earth2marsh
mySociety » Travel-time maps
cool interactive maps overlaying travel time and real estate prices in london
art  commuting  maps  visualization  transport  design  london  travel  cool  housing  realestate  interactive  interesting 
january 2008 by earth2marsh
(mt) Media Temple - (gs) Grid-Service
The (gs) Grid-Service's on-demand scalability means you'll always be ready for intense bursts of traffic and the growing audience resulting from your online success.
hosting  grid  server  ruby  rails  webhosting  interesting  webhost 
august 2007 by earth2marsh
Top 10: Life's greatest inventions - 09 April 2005 - New Scientist
1. Multicellularity 2. The eye 3. The brain 4. Language 5. Photosynthesis 6. Sex 7. Death 8. Parasitism 9. Superorganism 10. Symbiosis
science  evolution  biology  interesting  life  history  innovation  brain  cooperation  death  energy  invention  vision 
august 2007 by earth2marsh
Long Now: Views: Essays
I hesitated. "I'm sad because you're going to die." "Yeah," he sighed, "that bugs me sometimes too. But not so much as you think." And after a few more steps, "When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you k
feynman  science  computing  computer  interesting  life  explanation  simplify  ca  cellularautomata 
july 2007 by earth2marsh
The Curious Stall: 30 Days: “Outsourcing,” The American Perspective (Part 1 of 2)
Maybe as Americans watch Indians embrace the consumer revolution, we can learn something about ourselves and the role of consumerism in our own lives.
economy  capitalism  interesting  outsourcing  jobs  politics  society  Culture  India 
june 2007 by earth2marsh
Nothing To See Here
a collaborative guide to some of the world's lesser-signposted places to go - attractions that may not be all that attractive; coastal towns they forgot to close down; high streets that haven't been homogenised; oddities and one-offs.
travel  guide  culture  unusual  interesting  places  world 
june 2007 by earth2marsh
Very cool illusion
follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, all the
illusion  interesting  optical  brain  vision 
may 2007 by earth2marsh
Frans Lanting | LIFE A Journey Through Time
Frans Lanting and his wife Chris Eckstrom set out in search of “time capsules,” places on the present Earth where he could find and photograph all the ancient stages of life. A two-year project expanded to seven years.
photography  evolution  design  Nature  timeline  interesting  lsi  environment  slideshow  resource  Teaching  interactive 
april 2007 by earth2marsh
YouTube - Real Estate Roller Coaster
Brilliant animation of a roller coaster riding the ups and downs of housing prices controlled for inflation 1800s-2007
realestate  animation  housing  home  interesting  prices 
april 2007 by earth2marsh
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Framing Science -- Nisbet and Mooney 316 (5821): 56 -- Science
Frames organize central ideas, defining a controversy to resonate with core values and assumptions. Frames pare down complex issues by giving some aspects greater emphasis. They allow citizens to rapidly identify why an issue matters, who might be respons
academic  article  communication  culture  framing  interesting  science 
april 2007 by earth2marsh
Coding Horror: Software Development as a Collaborative Game
Software development is a "game", a game of speed and cooperation within your team, in competition against other teams. It is a game against time, and a game for mind-share.
software  development  programming  efficiency  fun  interesting 
march 2007 by earth2marsh
CSSFly - Edit websites on the fly!
CSSFly is a web 2.0 tool for easy editing websites direct and in real-time in your browser. Simply edit the (X)HTML-code and the external Style-Sheet files : what you code is what you get!
css  webdesign  tools  design  development  javascript  bookmarklet  interesting 
march 2007 by earth2marsh
BlogTalkRadio
host your own talk show online. Receive live callers, interview guests, and broadcast to an unlimited number of listeners
radio  podcast  audio  blog  blogging  Tools  interesting  interview 
february 2007 by earth2marsh
The most interesting Wikipedia meta-article you'll ever read
articles you would not expect to find in a standard encyclopedia. articles containing some form of juxtaposition that most people would find unusual.
meta  wikipedia  interesting  odd  unusual  wiki  cool 
january 2007 by earth2marsh
Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait, Chris Jordan
ooks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumptio
photography  art  consumerism  illustration  images  interesting  culture  Visualization  artist 
january 2007 by earth2marsh
Rolling Stone : Pork's Dirty Secret: The nation's top hog producer is also one of America's worst polluters
America's top pork producer churns out a sea of waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in EPA history. Welcome to the dark side of the other white meat.
food  pork  interesting  article  meat  environment  industry  sustainability  agriculture  processing  farming 
december 2006 by earth2marsh
APS Observer - The Myth of Prodigy and Why it Matters
Judging from his boyish appearance and his voracious curiosity, it’s easy to imagine Malcolm Gladwell as some sort of child prodigy. And he was. But not the way you imagined.
gladwell  psychology  education  learning  children  interesting  article 
october 2006 by earth2marsh
Economist.com
applying such negative representations to the problem of protecting sensitive data
database  security  interesting  article 
october 2006 by earth2marsh
Wired 14.07: What Kind of Genius Are You?
blo Picasso did this copy of a Raphael drawing when he was 17 years old,” the professor told the students. “What have you people done lately?” It’s a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday. It surfaces
genius  creativity  psychology  innovation  interesting  article  !to_read 
july 2006 by earth2marsh
Seed: No Longer a Mind of Our Own
New research is blurring the species boundary, forcing us to rethink what it is to be human.
psychology  biology  animals  interesting  cognition  mind 
june 2006 by earth2marsh
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
maps  interesting  geography  trends  visualization  cool  global 
march 2006 by earth2marsh
BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | South West Wales | Town's secret Star Wars history
A relatively long time ago, in a west Wales town not too far away... arguably the most famous spaceship in the universe was created.
history  starwars  interesting  article 
march 2006 by earth2marsh
Welcome to BalloonHat.com
In 1996, Addi Somekh and Charlie Eckert began traveling to different places in the world to make balloon hats for people and take photos of them. The goal was to show people all over the world laughing and having fun, and to emphasize the fact that all hu
photography  balloons  travel  hats  happiness  interesting  culture 
march 2006 by earth2marsh
The Speed of Gravity
Recognition of a faster-than-lightspeed propagation of gravity, as indicated by all existing experimental evidence, may be the key to taking conventional physics to the next plateau
gravity  interesting 
february 2006 by earth2marsh
#1 Song on This Date in History
What was the #1 song in the U.S.A. the day you were born? The day you graduated from high school? The day you were married?
music  fun  clever  birthdays  interesting 
february 2006 by earth2marsh
PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" » Archive » Serendipity: The art of finding
they decided to re-discover their home country Germany, after having lived and worked in Japan for about 5 years.
travel  article  interesting  culture 
february 2006 by earth2marsh
Copy Protection Robs The Future
Copy protection will break the chain of formal and informal archivists who are necessary to the long-term preservation of creative works.
DRM  future  interesting 
february 2006 by earth2marsh
Benford's Law -- From MathWorld
A phenomenological law also called the first digit law, first digit phenomenon, or leading digit phenomenon.
math  Statistics  interesting  numbers 
february 2006 by earth2marsh
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | A genius explains
Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he does it.
Interesting  psychology  math  autism  savant  synesthesia 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
The Peekaboo Paradox
The strange secrets of humor, fear and a guy who makes big money making little people laugh
culture  article  interesting 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
Tricks of the Trade
I am asking visitors to this site to submit their Tricks of the Trade, and encourage anyone they know with a nifty occupational secret to do likewise.
tricks  interesting  hacks  useful 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
Grande Reportagem “Flags” campaign | Programmers' Tools
This led the creative team to the concept “Meet the world” and to the idea of using flags of different nations as vehicles to transmit it. In each case, the colours that appear on various national flags were used to symbolise a social or political iss
flags  design  statistics  interesting  cool  education 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
Figure drawing sketch animation
Watch as an artist "draws" the figure of a woman.
Art  flash  Drawing  cool  sketch  interesting 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
Diamonds, De Beers, CSO
An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign
diamonds  capitalism  culture  interesting 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
The Sect of Homokaasu - The Rasterbator
The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size.
graphics  photo  cool  photography  art  tools  printing  interesting 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006
What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?
science  essays  !to_read  interesting  ideas  future 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
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