Posted by ungraspiness
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:10:00 GMT
(watch the complete interview)
’ Restoring the Promise of the World Wide Web “Commercial aspects of the web have diverted its potential. Firmage wants to untangle the web and inspire young minds,” concludes Doug Fabrizio about his interview with Joe for KUED’s Utah Now. ‘
A very optimistic(and a seemingly very much needed) attempt to bring the internet back in line with it’s original purpose and to lessen the outright commercialization of this important and quite recent breakthrough for us all. However I’m not quite certain how that implementation might pan out for such a project.
What if the web were more like PBS in some ways ?
(please come up with something more than suggesting that wikipedia fills this role already).
check out ManyOne Networks / Digital Universe
and more about the guy behind this, Joe Firmage
Readers may recall that there was some controversy around his personal beliefs that he made public back in 1998 shortly after getting very rich from a successful Silicon Valley startup called USWeb. This led to media types calling him the ‘Fox Mulder’ of Silicon Valley.
Posted in Software, Life, Philosophy, Science | Tags Internet, web
Posted by ungraspiness
Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:51:00 GMT
According to this telegraph article : “an Ipswich-based businessman invented a £190 bottle that makes foul-smelling water drinkable in seconds.”
That’s about US$380 over here. Each bottle can filter 4000 or 6000 liters without changing the filter.
Also the bottle can make fecal matter safe to drink because it filters anything longer than 15 nanometres. This means that bacteria which are smallest at 200 nanometres(filterable by conventional water filters) and even viruses which are usually smallest at 25 nanometers can be filtered.
If it matches the claims then it’s probably worth even more than that price.
Apparently this is similar technology to that used in high-quality Stillsuit production by the Fremen of Arrakis. Specifically how feces and urine are filtered in the thigh pads of the suits.
Posted in Life, Science | Tags water
Posted by ungraspiness
Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:12:00 GMT
An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission.
more here
According to some sources historically and symbolically Saturn is about limitation and boundaries and also strength. Along with this the hexagon has long been regarded as a perfect shape (not surprising seeing as 6 is the first perfect number ).
Also interesting is that 6 is the atomic number of carbon and apparently the day that God created man.
6 also is known to represent social consciousness—responsibility to others, adjustments, family, harmony, healing, counseling, teaching, education, truth, justice, domestic, reliability, tenacity, conservative, conscientiousness, and social balance.
We may be looking at society becoming stronger…
Posted in Science | Tags Astronomy, Saturn | no comments
Posted by ungraspiness
Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:50:00 GMT
“Perfuming is most unlike manufacture. And perfumers should be proud to assume our historic roles as enchanters, soul feeders, sacred pimps, and alchemists. ‘Marketing people’ are fine enough when it comes to peddling wares but let us remember always that it is the perfumer, the flowermaster, the guardian of the Blue Hour, who can charm the birds and the bees in the human spirit—and destroy its dinosaurs.” Scattered applause. Shocked murmurs. Nervous Laughter. Then, the white-on-white whirr of blank tape.
The end of Bunny’s speech at the Eighth International Congress of Aromatics from ‘Jitterbug Perfume’ by Tom Robbins.
Posted in Life, Philosophy, Science | Tags Fragrance, Memory, Smell
Posted by ungraspiness
Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:14:00 GMT
more…
Posted in Science | Tags NASA, Stardust | no comments
Posted by ungraspiness
Sat, 04 Mar 2006 02:23:00 GMT
While in Los Angeles last week, visited the Page museum.
Took this picture of a mammoth skeleton.
more here…
Posted in Life, Science | Tags Archaeology, Museum | no comments
Posted by ungraspiness
Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:59:00 GMT
“Don’t fight forces, use them.”
“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.”
“God is a verb, not a noun.”
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
more quotes
Posted in Philosophy, Science | Tags Bucky | no comments
Posted by ungraspiness
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:12:00 GMT
Sitting at home around 6:14pm when I felt a sizable shockwave in my apartment.
Last night when it happened the
Geophysics dept. of Univ. of Washington reported the center to be just under the Morrison bridge on the east side of the river where there's a freeway interchange. Today they
report it as being 2 miles away in Laurelhurst park.
Posted in Life, Science | Tags earthquake, portland | no comments
Posted by ungraspiness
Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:11:00 GMT
Netherlands: Student unearths Einstein paper BBC – August 21, 2005
The handwritten manuscript titled “Quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas” was dated December 1924.
Here’s the story
Posted in Philosophy, Science | Tags Einstein, Quantum, Theory | no comments
