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Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies at Technovelgy.com

Explore the inventions, technology and ideas of science fiction writers at Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!) - over 2,045 are available. Use the Timeline of Science Fiction Invention or the alphabetic Glossary of Science Fiction Technology to see them all, look for the category that interests you, or browse by favorite author / book. Browse more than 3,300 Science Fiction in the News articles.

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september 2011 by vielmetti

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In-N-Out Secret Menu - Davis Wiki
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march 2011 by vielmetti

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Heavens-Above Home Page
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january 2011 by vielmetti

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The Rhubarb Compendium, Table of contents

Rhubarb is an wonderful plant, with many uses and application. a rhubarb plantSince June 1994 these web pages have been available to anyone interested in gaining an understanding and appreciation of this fine vegetable. This compendium is a collection of rhubarb information from many sources. Some of the information is from world wide web pages or postings to various news groups (rec.gardens, rec.food.cooking, rec.food.recipes), some is from my own personal rhubarb growing experience, and some has been directly contributed by friends, associates, and visitors to The Rhubarb Compendium.

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june 2009 by vielmetti

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Changes at Google Scholar: A Conversation With Anurag Acharya

In its own quiet way, Google Scholar has become a major force in scholarly communication. For many researchers, faculty, and students, it is the first search tool used, challenging the popularity and utility of veteran databases licensed—often at considerable cost—by academic and corporate libraries. Yet announcements about changes in the constantly evolving service seem to occur rarely and with little ballyhoo. For example, did you know that Google Scholar has launched its own digitization project, separate from the high-profile Google Book Search mass digitization? Or what about the new Key Author feature? Or the expansion into non-English languages and non-U.S./Western European content? A conversation with Anurag Acharya, the designer and missionary behind Google Scholar, helped us catch up on the latest developments.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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LED Moonlight DIY by Fabio Iannelli

After spending a considerable amount of time online doing all sorts of research on moonlights, I realized that if I wanted a moonlight, I wanted it to act as real moonlight, not just bluish light on my tank at night time. Over the years I like many others set up cheap-o moonlights with 15W blue party bulbs you can get at you local convenience store. I kept that setup for about 2 weeks about 2 years ago. My fish acted restless during that time and seeing it was the only thing that had changed, I went back to what it was like originally, just pitch black at night.
Some of what I have noticed since setting it all up: greater polyp extension at night, increased night activity, shrimp spawn and molt more frequently, mushrooms have gotten VERY big very fast, and obviously all corals look different, especially zooanthids. I have the lights set up on a timer, to come on about an hour before my halides turn off(10PM), and stay on till about 4AM.

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Calculate distance and bearing between two Latitude/Longitude points using Haversine formula in JavaScript

The Haversine formula ‘remains particularly well-conditioned for numerical computation even at small distances’ – unlike calculations based on the spherical law of cosines. (It was published by R W Sinnott in Sky and Telescope, 1984, though has been known about for much longer; the ‘half-versed-sine’ is (1-cosθ)/2, or sin²(θ/2) – don’t ask, I’m not a mathematician).

In fact, when Sinnott devised the Haversine formula, computational precision was limited. Nowadays, JavaScript (and most modern computers) use IEEE 754 64-bit floating-point numbers, which provide 15 significant figures of precision. With this precision, the simple spherical law of cosines formula gives well-conditioned results down to distances as small as around 1 metre. In view of this it is probably worth, in most situations, using either the simpler law of cosines or the more accurate ellipsoidal Vincenty formula in preference to Haversine! (See notes below on the limitations in accuracy of the spherical model).

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Haversine formula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The haversine formula is an equation important in navigation, giving great-circle distances between two points on a sphere from their longitudes and latitudes. It is a special case of a more general formula in spherical trigonometry, the law of haversines, relating the sides and angles of spherical "triangles".

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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ann arbor leaf pickup

Do not rake leaves into the street earlier than the weekend preceeding the scheduled street leaf pickup day. Properties on street bike lanes must store leaves on the extension until the day before the scheduled pickup day, when the leaves may be raked into the street. Please leave one foot of open space between the curb and leaf pile to prevent flooding.

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Unicode Character 'SNOWMAN' (U+2603)

"snowy weather"

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october 2008 by vielmetti

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Efficient Markets Hypothesis: History

Around this time, Leonard Jimmie Savage, who had discovered Bachelier’s 1914 publication in the Chicago or Yale library sent half a dozen “blue ditto” postcards to colleagues, asking “does any one of you know him?” Paul Samuelson was one of the recipients. He couldn't find the book in the MIT library, but he did discover a copy of Bachelier’s Ph.D. thesis.

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october 2008 by vielmetti

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Create a Bootable Ubuntu USB Flash Drive the Easy Way :: the How-To Geek

I was able to boot all the way into the desktop in about 35 seconds using the flash drive… way faster than using the regular live cd.

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september 2008 by vielmetti

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Google Transit Feed Specification - Google Transit Feed Specification - Google Code

specs for transit maps

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september 2008 by vielmetti

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Lisa Gold: Research Maven

blog from someone who does research for fiction and non-fiction writers; notably different POV from the typical reference-librarian approach.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Democracy Now! | 50 Years After the CIA's First Overthrow of a Democratically Elected Foreign Government We Take a Look at the 1953 US Backed Coup in Iran

After nationalizing the oil industry Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the CIA and British intelligence. We speak with Stephen Kinzer author of All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup And The Roots of Middle East Terror and Baruch College professor Ervand Abrahamian. [Includes transcript]

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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The Cornell Note-Taking System

Forty years ago, Walter Pauk (1989) developed what is known as the Cornell notetaking technique to help Cornell University students better organize their notes. Today, Pauk's notetaking technique is probably the most widely used system throughout the United States.

Pauk outlines six steps in the Cornell notetaking system:

Record
Reduce (or question)
Recite
Reflect
Review
Recapitulate
Sample

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Introduction to Social Network Methods: Table of Contents

This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of formal approaches to the analysis of social networks. The text relies heavily on the work of Freeman, Borgatti, and Everett (the authors of the UCINET software package). The materials here, and their organization, were also very strongly influenced by the text of Wasserman and Faust, and by a graduate seminar conducted by Professor Phillip Bonacich at UCLA. Many other users have also made very helpful comments and suggestions based on the first version. Errors and omissions, of course, are the responsibility of the authors.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Iconclass Official Home Page

Iconclass is a subject-specific classification system; it is a hierarchically ordered collection of definitions of objects, persons, events and abstract ideas that can be the subject of an image. Art historians, researchers and curators use it to describe, classify and examine the subject of images represented in various media such as paintings, drawings and photographs.

Numerous institutions across the world use Iconclass to describe and classify their collections in a standardized manner. In turn, users ranging from art historians to museum visitors use Iconclass to search and retrieve images from these collections. And as a research tool, Iconclass is also used to identify the significance of entire scenes or individual elements represented within an image.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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A Simple Book Repair Manual / Dartmouth

(we end up fixing some set of books that get damaged by our kids so that they go back into circulation at the library right away)

Finally, in-house book repair should not be seen as a solution to book damage. We know that a certain percentage of our collection will wear out each year. An element of an effective book repair operation should be an examination of the causes that generate repairs. While some causes, such as the absence of environmental controls, may be impossible to change, increasing staff and users' awareness of how books should be handled will aid in decreasing the number of books needing repairs. A responsible conservation operation should be run in tandem with a program to increase public and staff awareness of the need for responsible general collections book handling.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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OneGeology - Making Geological Map Data for the Earth Accessible

OneGeology is an international initiative of the geological surveys of the world and a flagship project of the 'International Year of Planet Earth'. Its aim is to create dynamic geological map data of the world available via the web.

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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First Excuse For A Long Letter

A wise exlibran challenged me to identify who was first to excuse himself for the length of a letter because he didn't have time to write a short one.

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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FLCDataCenter.com

database of wages for immigrants hired under H1B visas - national salary survey database. many details, much data.

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (DUETs)

The Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (DUETs) has been established in the UK to publish uncertainties that cannot currently be answered by referring to reliable up-to-date systematic reviews of existing research evidence

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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Environmental Capital - WSJ.com

Daily analysis of the business of the environment by The Wall Street Journal.

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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Paul Romer's Stanford Web Page: Selected Publications

Increasingly, emphasis is shifting to the notion that it is ideas, not
objects, that poor countries lack. The knowledge needed to provide citizens of the
poorest countries with a vastly improved standard of living already exists in the
advanced coun

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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FlowerDust.net | Anne Jackson » Blog Archive » how twitter saves lives

log of twitter during an oklahoma tornado - twitter as emergency communications network.

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april 2008 by vielmetti

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Installing Wordpress Locally Using MAMP

Installing MAMP and running Wordpress locally on your Mac is a simple task, however I was unable to find any good documentation while I was attempting to do it for the first time which made it seem really difficult.

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february 2008 by vielmetti

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The Shifted Librarian » Browsing the Virtual New Bookshelf

Allen County Public Library has a cool way to browse its “new books” section online. Superpatron Ed Vielmetti first coded a “wall of books” a couple of years ago, and Mike Cunningham wrote a book cover browser for the 2006 Talis Mashing up the Lib

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january 2008 by vielmetti

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Caring.com: Helping you help your parents

eldercare site (in the style of babycenter)

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december 2007 by vielmetti

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Restatement of the Law, Second, Torts, § 652

One who intentionally intrudes, physically or otherwise, upon the solitude or seclusion of another or his private affairs or concerns, is subject to liability to the other for invasion of his privacy, if the intrusion would be highly offensive to a reason

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november 2007 by vielmetti

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All About Apples | Apple Varieties - Listings with description parentage, origin, season

Below you will find the most complete apple variety listing on the web. Our Apple Variety listings includes edible apples and crab apples that have been planted in significant numbers in the United States

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november 2007 by vielmetti

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Mappa.Mundi Magazine - Memory Palaces

carl malamud on the art of memory

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november 2007 by vielmetti

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Luminus Devices - LED lighting innovation

Luminus Devices, Inc. develops and manufactures high performance solid state light sources for a variety of illumination applications.

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november 2007 by vielmetti

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Live Blogging: SMX Social Media - Micro Communities

your embedded microreporter reports on a conference on small community sites

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october 2007 by vielmetti

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Mark Eyles Research Website

on ambient games, where the moves you make are tied to your real-world physical activity, and there is no game play per se; two papers on the site

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october 2007 by vielmetti

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Mycology Resources: Mushrooms | Cornell Mycology

Resources to help you identify, eat, grow and fall in love with mushrooms

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september 2007 by vielmetti

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Remember The Milk - Services / Remember The Milk for Twitter

You can interact with Remember The Milk via direct messages on Twitter. To add a task to your account, just send your rtm friend a direct message with the name of the task. You can also send one of the commands listed below to do more with your tasks.

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september 2007 by vielmetti

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Good Things - Jane Grigson - University of Nebraska Press

This book is delightful. It has what I always think of as ‘quality.’ It is literally a gastronomic curiosity, and delicious to read, and very titillating as well.”—M. F. K. Fisher

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september 2007 by vielmetti

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How to Grow a Pineapple Top Indoors

Pineapple is one of the world's most unique and exotic tropical fruits, yet it is possible to grow it in a temperate zone under controlled conditions; with the most difficult part of the process just getting it rooted. Although you may not be able to grow

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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Storm Prediction Center

awesome weather map meta-information and predictions + storm reports + damage reports

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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FOR A FEW DAYS MORE

how to write a screenplay, in screenplay format

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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Mactracker

detailed searchable specifications on every mac ever made.

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles

Search marketers and reputation management professionals should know that there are legitimate ways to correct errors in Wikipedia. Knowing the right way to fix things is even more important now that Wikipedia results frequently appear in the top listings

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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Putting people first » Web special on factors that make a city great

“Our mission for this issue is a simple one - we want to improve the urban experience. It’s a tricky enough task for forward-thinking local governments to tackle, let alone a media brand, but we’ve been thinking about this theme since our launch and

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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Metropolitan Library System | Kendall College Library

Reference questions cover all aspects of food and wine. A food history class will come to the library looking for information on the history of cocoa or the origins of chili. Other students might be interested in baking science and need more informati

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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A reading list for English majors

By way of clarification, then, it should be made clear that the list bears no resemblance whatever to the actual English major at Rutgers. Indeed, the list contains a great number of works and authors that are not currently taught at Rutgers at either the

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History

The Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke's Special Collection Library acquires and preserves printed material and collections of textual and multimedia resources and makes them available to researchers around the world. Throug

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may 2007 by vielmetti

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Social Software Building Blocks / nForm / Customer Insight, Strategy, Design and Development

social software uxagons! must dig into this.

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april 2007 by vielmetti

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Schedule: Transit Windsor

for your international short haul transportation needs; includes the tunnel bus

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april 2007 by vielmetti

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Authoratory: find an expert in any field

crunches through pubmed to find the expertise; compare, for a moment, with social search.

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april 2007 by vielmetti

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Adam Stiles » Painless Switch from TypePad to WordPress

Any process with more than a dozen steps is hardly painless; this looks helpful.

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april 2007 by vielmetti

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The Library of Congress - Chronicling America

All of the newspapers digitized through the National Digital Newspaper
Program will be available through here (at this point it is only
newspapers from 6 states from 1900-1910). The NDNP is a long term
program with all states (including Michigan) event

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april 2007 by vielmetti

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One Picture, 1,000 Tags - New York Times

“We would never say a work is mostly red, or instills a sense of ennui, or features a dog playing poker,” agreed Bruce Wyman, director of new technologies for the Denver Art Museum. “Tagging gives us a set of eyes we don’t have.”