Can state governments deliver more services with constrained budgets? How can social media and collaborative software be used to engage citizens and lead to better policy decisions or investments? Can open government lead to better e-government? via Open Government in California: Connecting Citizens To eServices with Social Media | Gov 2.0.
-Tarot card readings -card of the day widget -save readings or share -multiple spreads to choose -open source this is the stable version of TarotBot beta and will not be updated as frequently, as a result there should be less bugs via TarotBot for Android. Best toy ever.
Some would prefer to define actions as requiring bodily movement (see behaviorism). The side effects of actions are considered by some to be part of the action; in an example from Anscombe’s manuscript Intention, pumping water can also be an instance of poisoning the inhabitants. This introduces a moral dimension to the discussion (see also [...]
(J. W. Dunne’s time theory, documented in his books An Experiment with Time and The Serial Universe, was the result of self-experimentation through close observation of his dreams and subsequent events that seemed to indicate a trend of precognition. Dunne concluded that time is not linear, as is commonly thought, but is instead a series [...]
To date, none of the suggested benefits have been proved to the satisfaction of the medical community. Would-be trepanners are left to their own devices in pursuit of such interests. via “I Drilled a Hole in My Head…” | Kook Science Resistance.
Imagine if every interface was open source. Any of us could modify the software we use every day. Unfortunately, we don’t have the source. Prefab realizes this vision using only the pixels of everyday interfaces. This video shows using Prefab to add new functionality to Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes, and Microsoft Windows Media Player. Prefab [...]
Speed is always the most important feature. Your service must be useful right away, not after an hour of set-up. Be playful — you can turn anything into a game. via 10 Golden Principles Of Successful Web Apps. there’s more to the post, and a video as well, but those 3 can really apply to [...]
MacPebbles put up the fence because he thought the next-door neighbor lady was spying on him. Then he took a can of black paint and sprayed pagan symbols on the side of the fence that she sees. To keep her from peeking in, he hung a tarp with more symbols above the fence … The [...]
Life expectancy worldwide has risen 20 years in the last 50 years – amazing!! This has meant that chronic disease (e.g., Alzheimers, Parkinsons) are now more prevalent and costly than sudden diseases (cancer, heart disease). David Bloom, professor of economics and demography at Harvard noted that, “If progress is built on capital and labor, the [...]
Engineered metamaterials enable remarkably small antennas.
We were told a UK hotel was once visited in person by a Travelzoo researcher before an offer was verified and on Monday the inside knowledge of a native New Yorker helped one deal through. For Travelzoo producing a diverse range of offers for the Top 20 is just as important as making sure those [...]
The method of adding and then polishing the text again for the final version seems to be effective. Funnily I, upon reading the ‘result’ (4), soon felt compelled to put the text in a certain order again, meaning to divide/fragment it, to give it my personal interpretation and structure, so maybe it is a process [...]
Self-described Radical Elemental Feminist Mary Daly has died. via R.I.P. Mary Daly | MetaFilter.
Scientists have successfully tested a system that translates brain waves into speech, raising the prospect that people left mute by stroke, Lou Gehrig's disease and other afflictions will one day be able to communicate by synthetic voice. via Device turns thoughts into speech – Innovation- msnbc.com.
First off, Mr Klug from San Mateo, California, was charged $3.99 for posting and handling. Mr Klug has posted on the Reddit website links to the Amazon site and confirmation of his purchase. One Reddit commentatator posted: 'This is going to end poorly, I can feel it.' 'Might be a good morning to buy Amazon [...]
When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they’ll read each others’ minds. At least, that’s the hope of Pentagon’s mad-science division Darpa, which launched a program to “allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals.” That’s on top of the $4 million the Army [...]
It’s fairly well known the iPhone was born from efforts to develop a touchscreen tablet computer that was simply miniaturized, using tech from FingerWorks, a touch interface company Apple bought. The NYT reported Apple’s been working on it since 2003, when they built several prototypes using a battery-slaying PowerPC processor. Our insider said that Apple’s [...]
