Archive for the ‘About the Internet and the Web’ Category
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
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friendbo is a University of Washington research deployment to help people socially share the semi-private parts of their lives on the Internet. Rather than manage whitelists, blacklists, accounts and passwords, our users guard content with secret questions that only subgroups of their friends can answer. This is more intuitive, scalable, social, and fun than access control lists, providing an infrastructure that allows people to share more of their lives online.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Hiotly tipped Brooklyn headline trio blend Cure-ish bass lines and Joy Division-styled guitars to moodily groovy,
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Psychedelic shoegazers A Place To Bury Strangers, of New York New York, have been affectionately labelled as the city’s loudest band by local reviewers. And noisy they are, but it’s definitely good noise.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
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ASK GOOGLE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY
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A story has a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped-up ending. Whether told around a campfire, read from a book, or played on a DVD, a story goes from point A to B and then C. It follows a trajectory, a Freytag Pyramid—perhaps the line of a human life or the stages of the hero’s journey. A story is told by one person or by a creative team to an audience that is usually quiet, even receptive. Or at least that’s what a story used to be, and that’s how a story used to be told. Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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There were some really loud performances during KEXP’s live broadcast from Gibson Showroom during the 2008 CMJ Music Marathon — from bands like All The Saints, Johnny Foreigner, and Freshkills — but undoubtedly the loudest of all came from A Place to Bury Strangers, a group whose extreme decibel level had even caused the NYC police to shut down a CMJ club show earlier in the week!
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Eschewing any notions of revolution in favour of evolution, A Place To Bury Strangers have moved the scuzzed-up possibilities of 21st century rock’n’roll to where it should be – louder, brasher and with the ability to upset firmly in place. The album largely succeeds because of its honesty.
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“Screaming out of New York City at a million decibels an hour, A Place To Bury Strangers trade in unrelenting bursts of feedback, elliptical basslines and clinically brutal drum fills.” That’s how Rock Sound describes APTBS latest opus (which has finally been given a UK release through Rocket Girl) in this month’s issue and gives them 9/10 for it. Not bad, eh
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
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With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically — that only computers can.
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Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.
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In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
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In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
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In the same way that a circle turns into a solid sphere, an ellipse can become a solid “ellipsoid”.
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In the same way that a circle turns into a solid sphere, an ellipse can become a solid “ellipsoid”.
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And the U.K. is A Place To Bury Strangers as the band tours the islands come late November / December. November 29 is Birmingham at Barfly, November 30 is Glasgow at Nice ‘N’ Sleazy and December 1 is Belfast at The Limelight. Other cities include Manchester, Cardiff, Leeds and London.
Tags: a place to bury Strangers, aptbs, surface area
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
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Wondering how to evaluate a newly found website for trustworthiness and credibility? Is there a pragmatic and reliable way to do it?
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How do you organize the content of a new web site or blog? Do you really need to spend specific time ahead of launching to organize the content sections and hierarchy of your web site? Can’t one simply identify the key content categories of his future site and be done with it?
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Subtle changes in driving habits can produce significant benefits, such
as saving money at the gas pump and reducing CO2 emissions. Here are best practices for green driving:
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Cholesterol is a soft, waxy substance found in all parts of the body. Your body makes some cholesterol, and some cholesterol comes from the food you eat.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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They’re everywhere, from mainstream acts like Coldplay and Interpol, to indie favourites Deerhunter and No Age, to leftfield experimenters A Sunny Day in Glasgow and A Place To Bury Strangers,
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But shoegaze has since outlived its derogatory origins, in the process becoming a commonplace genre classification … , as well as comparatively new acts still floating beneath the mainstream’s radar, such as Film School, A Place to Bury Strangers,
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Linktionary is an on-line dictionary that includes extensive links to help you further your network research and training.
Tags: aptbs, glossary
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
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These materials are accessible through the Library of Congress Online Catalog and are served to researchers in the following reading rooms of the Library
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Over 2,500 Glossary Links
Tags: glossary, loc, research
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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One of my favorite new bands on Important Records, A Place to Bury Strangers, have received a third pressing on vinyl for their debut self-titled release, which has become increasingly popular.
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Events are the beating heart of any JavaScript application. On this page I give an overview of what event handling is, what its problems are and how to write proper cross-browser scripts. I will also provide pages with the gory details of event handling.
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If you’re into adding a little JavaScript interactivity to your web pages you may have heard of JavaScript event delegation and thought it was one of those convoluted design patterns only hardcore JavaScript programmers worry about.
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
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This guide is intended to help people who are just getting started on the Internet learn their way around. Think of us as a friendly service station that gives out free road maps.
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This is an overview of W3C materials related to Addressing.
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Internet Subject Directories
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In a meta-search engine,you submit keywords in its search box,and it transmits your search simultaneously to several individual search engines and their databases of web pages. Within a few seconds,you get back results from all the search engines queried.
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FindLaw’s searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893
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Tags: glossary, health, legal, medical, search engines, uri, w3c
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A Place to Bury Strangers & JavaScript Events links for 2008-07-23
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, aptbs, events, javascript
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