How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
Units of Measurement
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Units of Measurement
June 18, 2008
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Tags: control, measure, science, units
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links for 2008-06-07
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The Lifeboat Foundation was formed with the ethical premise that decreasing the likelihood of human extinction is the activity with the most positive utility on the planet today
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THE SECOND COMING — A MANIFESTO by David Gelernter – Everything is up for grabs. Everything will change. There is a magnificent sweep of intellectual landscape right in front of us.
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a nice citation and hommage to the sleeve and the ambiance
June 07, 2008
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Tags: article, computing, diffusion, digital, future, hommage, humanity, internet, lifestream, manifesto, music, organization, preservation, representation, research, scenario, science, technology, theory
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links for 2008-05-18
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The Culture is a fictional anarchist, socialistic, and utopian[1][2] society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks and described by him in several of his novels and shorter fictions.
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what has been listened on twitter today… the twitter mixtape
May 18, 2008
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Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, book, future, inspiration, music, politic, science, society, to_read, twitter
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links for 2008-05-01
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village is a label that distributes fonts by designers who already have and own shop – via Christian
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independent type label developing and distributing original typefaces
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unibody 8 is a pixel font by underware, and jan gerner, a german student made a arabic version out of it (without the knowledge of underware), and it was a success. via Christian
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While even Dr Badylak is not entirely sure how the powder works, it is believed that it kick-starts the body’s healing process. Made from dried pig’s bladder, it is packed with collagen, the protein that gives skin its strength and elasticity, and was
May 01, 2008
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Tags: arabic, body, characters, font, fonts, foundry, graphicdesign, health, medicine, plants, powder, science, shop, swiss, tissues, typography
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links for 2008-04-04
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ICD (Internal Cardio Defibrillator) and email – the always on connection to the doctor for patient using an icd or a pacemaker
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‘How to Solve It’ – a résumé of the G. Polya’s method to solve problems
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magCulture features news, observations, and opinion about magazine and newspaper design. It is edited by Jeremy Leslie, author of the books ‘magCulture’ and ‘Issues’.
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The first pulsar – CP 1919 – was observed in July 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, they dubbed their discovery LGM-1, for “little green men” (a comical name for intelligent beings of extraterrestrial origin).
April 04, 2008
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Tags: astronomy, blog, body, culture, editor, editorial_design, gtd, howto, icd, improvement, lifehacks, logic, magazine, math, medecine, publishing, reference, science, technology, typography, visual_culture, _solaar
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links for 2008-03-18
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Visor provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake.
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Problem: Some applications do about 90% of what I want.
Solution: Develop my own applications.
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A command line anywhere and everywhere (10.5)
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All things AppleScript(tags: applescript resources)
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encyclopedic collections of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined
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art & culture periodical; distributed both as a book and a magazine (depends where the barcode appears)
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the idea of a physical blog/reblog under the form of a Cabinet Of Curiosities
March 18, 2008
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Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, applescript, art, articles, biology, book, collection, culture, design, finder, framework, furniture, hack, interface, lifehacks, magazine, osx, philosophy, plugin, productivity, publish, resources, science, shell, software, tangible, terminal, tool, tools, wikipedia, writing, _curiosities
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links for 2008-03-16
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(tags: explosion photography)
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nice resource of Monospaced fonts for displaying code – I finally selected the Profont for my own use in TextWrangler, seems like an improved version Monaco.
March 16, 2008
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Tags: activism, analysis, author, brain, censor, code, coding, color, comparison, consciousness, content, cup, design, drawing, explosion, font, frame, future, geometry, GUI, history, icon, interface, mapping, network, noodle, photography, production, resource, science, talk, ted, time, tools, tradition, typography, web2.0
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