"Writing about emotional upheavals in our lives can improve physical and mental health. Although the scientific research surrounding the value of expressive writing is still in the early phases, there are some approaches to writing that have been found to be helpful."

Heat maps of cellular signal from crowd-sourced data gathered by an Android app.

"On its fiftieth anniversary, how should we think of the Second World War? What is its contemporary meaning? One possible meaning, reflected in every line of what follows, is obscured by that oddly minimizing term "conventional war." With our fears focused on nuclear destruction, we tend to be less mindful of just what conventional war between modern industrial powers is like. This article describes such war, in a stark, unromantic manner"

"Linda Stone coined the phrase "continuous partial attention" and has long been concerned about the psychological effects of computers and networked information systems. Now she's exploring the physiological effects too. In this conversation with Jon Udell, she explains what "email apnea" is, and discusses why and how we should learn to regulate our breathing when we work online."

"our focus is actually on what an "app" is in the information consumption context above. Indeed as we demonstrated in M3 it is little more than a query over an information space. In the case of M3 and the RDF/OWL graph view of information, a navigation between chunks of information. Indeed this is the basis of Facebook's social graph."

"Although it seems logical that the same process of increased productivity that has occurred during the modern ‘Control Revolution’ will continue during the creation of the “vast,automatic and invisible” ‘second economy’, the incompability of human cognition with near-fully automated systems suggests that it may only do so by taking on an increased risk of rare but catastrophic failure."

Preview media files while they download

the flip-flop (n.) the process of pushing a work of art or craft from the physical world to the digital world and back again—maybe more than once

"NetHogs is a small ‘net top’ tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process. NetHogs does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. If there’s suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and immediately see which PID is causing this. This makes it easy to indentify programs that have gone wild and are suddenly taking up your bandwidth."

When (not) to use SKOS

"EMC’s acquisitions and ambitions in information management are turning it into more than a storage vendor. The big question is how far its customers understand that change."

RT @cgingold: "Computers should not be called computers, but invocators."

Sandvik-Comorant machine tools

"An algebra of pictures is described that is sufficiently powerful to denote
the structure of a well-known Escher woodcut, Square Limit. A decomposition of the
picture that is reasonably faithful to Escher's original design is given. This illustrates
how a suitably chosen algebraic specication can be both a clear description and a
practical implementation method. It also allows us to address some of the criteria
that make a good algebraic description."

"The era of competing over technical specifications is over. Users want better experiences from devices, applications, websites, and the offline services they enable. It is no coincidence that interaction design is replacing technical prowess as the primary competency at startups."

"When Italians said good riddance to Silvio Berlusconi, it turned out that they were ready for more than just a political change. Since Mr. Berlusconi stepped down from his post as prime minister last year, returning to life as a media mogul, the digital era finally seems to have dawned in Italy."

RT @alexmilowski: My latest experiment: annotating images client-side with #rdfa

RT @charlesrandall: Richard Feynman on why it's so difficult to explain something to a layman from a position of knowledge. ...

"People tend to stream audio and video when they sit down,"

RT @dehora: RT @kellan: "The age of the password is over and never coming back " < this is a must read

We create tools and programs to help developers and authors create interactive pages that supplement video and audio with rich web content, allowing your creations to live and grow online.

Outlines a bunch of attacks at the ARP Layer 2 level.

John Backus: Function Level Programming and the FL Language (1987) thanks @devn for finding!

"Unlike packet sniffers that require you to reproduce network problems in order to analyze them, flow analysis lets you turn back time as you analyze your network. You'll learn how to use open source software to build a flow-based network awareness system and how to use network analysis and auditing to address problems and improve network reliability. You'll also learn how to use a flow analysis system; collect flow records; view, filter, and report flows; present flow records graphically; and use flow records to proactively improve your network."

Using automatic antialiasing when resizing vector graphics leaves a lot of important decisions up to computer graphics software. While the results are generally decent, they're not perfect. So, for important icons and logos– really, for all rasterized vector images–you should fit the pixels to the grid and ensure they are as sharp as possible.

Get motivated with streaks.

You just need to drag and drop in you and your friend's iTunes library files, and Mashduo will compare them.

"While I used to rely exclusively on event logs and similar log files, I can now go a level deeper with Event Tracing for Windows and get a lot more verbose data to help me solve whatever problem I’m troubleshooting. The commands to produce the traces and reports are very easy to use as well. Of course, you can find more command options and details online."

"there are several free tools available to troubleshoot application crashes and hangs. We saw how Dr. Watson, ADPlus, DebugDiag and ProcDump all provide the capability to capture a process dump. Then by using Windbg, you can analyze the dump and review the stack pattern of the current thread for a crash scenario, or the runaway thread as identified by ProcDump."

Wired Home Internet, Dedicated Cameras and Camcorders, Landline Phones, Booting Computers, Windowed Operating Systems, Hard Drives, Movie Theatres, The Mouse, 3D Glasses, Remote Controls, Desktops Computers, Phone Numbers, Prime-time Television, Fax Machines, Optical Discs.

"Entity resolution (aka deduplication, record linkage, coreference resolution) is a widely studied topic in databases, statistics and other areas of computer science, however, it is an understudied topic in the area of network analysis. In this class, we will survey the foundations for entity resolution, recent state-of-the-art research in entity resolution, work on entity resolution in network data and theoretical foundations for entity resolution."

Hover on nodes, segments. Scale has been increased by moving node land masses closer together.

"Frank Jacobs loves maps, but finds most atlases too predictable. He collects and comments on all kinds of intriguing maps—real, fictional, and what-if ones—and has been writing the Strange Maps blog since 2006"

"a network view of real-time flow between applications. We’re experimenting with ways to visualize this data, and using D3 we’ve produced SVG visualizations of transmitted and received data based on research"

"analyze either live packet streams or post-mortem packet dumps to extract PostgreSQL session information. It will track the client<->server communication and reveal information about client requests (queries, prepares, etc.) and various metadata and statistics."

In computer vision structure from motion refers to the process of finding the three-dimensional structure of an object by analyzing local motion signals over time. In Vision Science (visual perception), structure from motion (SfM), refers to the general phenomenon by which humans (and other animals) can recover 3-D structure from the projected 2D (retinal) motion field of a moving object.

"a conceptual framework of telephotogrammetry based on concepts such as telegeoprocessing, mobile photogrammetry, geomobility and web services. In order to be operational, telephotogrammetry requires a combination of four different facilities: imaging, positioning, networking and computing. It consists of a hand-held mobile mapping system ready to acquire, visualize and to transfer spatial information through the web. The system includes also specialized servers communicating with the hand-held device and devoted to store the data and perform intensive computation."

"In this paper we will analyze applications designed to facilitate storing and management of passwords on mobile platforms, such as Apple iOS and BlackBerry. We will specifically focus our attention on the security of data at rest. We will show that many password keeper apps fail to provide claimed level of protection."

In a small room in an enemy country, a small butterfly flutters about, relaying audio and video to a situation room somewhere in Israel • Israel Aerospace Industries is already at work developing this seemingly science fiction-like device.

Inspired by tslime.vim

most computer users are "driving faster and faster into the future, but steering only by looking in the rearview mirror"