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Free Concerts from l'Ancienne Belgique

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:17:55 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: I just discovered the 'Ancienne Belgique' - one of the most famous concert halls in Belgium - puts some of its concerts freely & fully available online.

I clipped a few bands (mostly Belgian) I know are good, but there's lots more at the site (208 for now).

Have fun, I know I will!

Clip Source: www.abconcerts.be

Ancienne Belgique

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Zucchini Drive

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Kris De Bruyne

Kris De Bruyne - Deel 2

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Absynthe Minded

Flip Kowlier

Jef Neve Trio

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Sweet Coffee

Gorki Plays 'gorky'

Yevgueni - Boterhammen In Het Park 2007

Vive La FÊte

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Zita Swoon

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The Van Jets

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Kamagurka - Echt Gebeurd

Flat Earth Society

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Nailpin

Think Of One

Venus In Flames

Tags: music, concert, video, free, ab, ancienne belgique, list, belgium

Project 10 to the 100: Submit your World Changing Ideas to Google

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:52:36 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: Deadline for the project: 20th October 2008

Clip Source: www.project10tothe100.com

Project 10¹⁰⁰

Project 10¹⁰⁰ is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

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1. Send us your idea by October 20th.
Simply fill out the submission form giving us the gist of your idea. You can supplement your proposal with a 30-second video.

3. We'll help bring these ideas to life.
We're committing $10 million to implement these projects, and our goal is to help as many people as possible. So remember, money may provide a jumpstart, but the idea is the thing.

FAQ

Submit your idea

Tags: google, idea, project, world

The Great RIP in the Sky, Shine On, Wish You Were Here

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:11:29 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: 5 of my favorite songs from Pink Floyd in honor of the death of Richard Wright (keyboard).
One of the most amazing bands of the last century.

The Great Gig in the Sky
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Wish You Were Here
Dogs of War
One of These Days

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Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky

[Video]

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Shine on your crazy diamond

[Video]

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Wish you were here

[Video]

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Dogs Of War

[Video]

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[Video]

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Remember when you were young,
You shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes,
Like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire
Of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,

Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon,
You cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night,
And exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome
With random precision,
Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

Tags: pink floyd, richard wright, youtube, music, video, amazing

Creator of the Web concerned on Spreading Disinformation on the Web

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:03:28 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Warning sounded on web's future

The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web.

he was increasingly worried about the way the web has been used to spread disinformation.

Sir Tim told BBC News that there needed to be new systems that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources.

I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways".

Sir Tim spoke to the BBC to publicise the launch of his World Wide Web Foundation which aims to improve the web's accessibility.

Alongside this role it will aim to make it easier for people to get online.

The Web Foundation will also explore ways to make the web more mobile-phone friendly.

will also look at how the benefits of the web can be taken to those who cannot read or write.

will also look at concerns that the web has become less democratic, and its use influenced too much by large corporations and vested interests.

Tags: tim berners-lee, web, internet, www, science, knowledge, future

Mapping Donations in 2008 Presidential Elections

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:11:31 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: the visualization shows how Obama's donations mainly originate from the $1 to $100 bracket, while McCain's donations come from the $500 to $1000 bracket of donators.
&
... how much internet contributions have helped the Obama campaign, assuming the smaller amounts were made online.

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mapping donations in 2008 presidential elections

the visualization shows how Obama's donations mainly originate from the $1 to $100 bracket, while McCain's donations come from the $500 to $1000 bracket of donators.

a visual representation of (a sample of) over 1.4 million rows of data originating from the Federal Election Commission, aiming to reveal donations & examine any patterns in the type of donations given. the middle circles the total amounts for both candidates. the black lines on the outside of the circle are names of each donator. the circle segments are brackets of donation amounts, ranging from $1 to over $,1000. the size of each bracket represents the percentage amount that bracket constitutes in a candidate's total donations.

[link: pitchinteractive.com]

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Probably more significant: this shows how much internet contributions have helped the Obama campaign, assuming the smaller amounts were made online.

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Tags: visualization, politics, donations, money, financial, democracy, obama, mccain

The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:07:03 GMT

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Clip Source: yupnet.org

This is a collaborative experiment

through which readers can engage with the text, with Jonathan Zittrain, and with each other.

this book shows how to develop new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively, participate in solutions, and become true “netizens.”

Tags: future, internet, book, collaboration, free, social, network, community, ebook, literature

No Time to Think (As We May)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:46:52 GMT

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No Time to Think

[Video]

March, 5 2008

Vannevar Bush's 1945 article, "As We May Think," has been much celebrated as a central inspiration for the development of hypertext and the World Wide Web. Less attention, however, has been paid to Bush's motivation for imagining a new generation of information technologies; it was his hope that more powerful tools, by automating the routine aspects of information processing, would leave researchers and other professionals more time for creative thought. But now, more than sixty years later, it seems clear that the opposite has happened, that the use of the new technologies has contributed to an accelerated mode of working and living that leaves us less to think, not more. In this talk I will explore how this state of affairs has come about and what we can do about it.

Tags: david levy, levy, vannevar bush, thinking, creativity, knowledge, technology, science, video, google

Open Sourcing Creativity

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:25:05 GMT

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Clip Source: lifedev.net

Open Sourcing Your Creativity

Creativity is something that’s not easily contained. In fact, it’s contagious. When creative people start putting their heads together, some amazing things happen. It’s a rare occasion when an incredible idea is solely created by one person.

99% of the time the problem isn’t someone stealing your idea, it’s you not actually doing it. So what better way to put an idea into motion than having more people help?

Instead of using traditional methods like emailing ideas back and forth, try using one of the many online collaboration apps

The important thing to remember is that the sharing of ideas is quick, is a low-barrier of entry for other collaborators, and is easy to share.

Realize you can’t do everything on your own

Allow for the free exchange of ideas

Trust other people

Pretty soon you’ll have people questioning every aspect of your idea. This is a necessary and healthy aspect of collaboration

Tags: opensource, open source, creativity, free, collaboration, idea, ideas, internet

The George Orwell Diaries

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:59:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Published real-time in blog format with a 70 year lag.
http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/

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THE ORWELL PRIZE

In association with the Orwell Trust, Political Quarterly and Media Standards Trust

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The Orwell Prize, Britain’s pre-eminent prize for political writing, is publishing George Orwell’s diaries as a blog. From 9th August 2008, Orwell’s domestic and political diaries (from 9th August 1938 until October 1942) will be posted in real-time, exactly 70 years after the entries were written.

The diaries are exactly as Orwell wrote them.

For more information, click here.

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Though as prolific as any blogger (his collected writings occupy some 20 volumes), Orwell, who died in 1950, never had the chance to spontaneously publish his thoughts to a waiting public. Now — with some lag time — they are being made available that way at orwelldiaries.wordpress.com.

Tags: george orwell, diary, politics, news, history, literature, writer

The Science of Magic: Turning Tricks into Research

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:59:42 GMT

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Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

The Science of Magic

There is a fascinating review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience this month about the cognitive science of magic tricks

The article attempts to list and describe in neuroscientific terms the techniques that magicians use to trick their audiences. The authors break down these into "visual illusions (after-images), optical illusions ('smoke and mirrors'), cognitive illusions (inattentional blindness), special effects (explosions, fake gunshots, et cetera), and secret devices and mechanical artifacts (gimmicks)." The use of visual illusions to study perception is certainly nothing new, but the emphasis on cognitive illusions -- illusions that trick higher order perceptions like attention and judgment -- is novel.

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research

Box 1 | Pickpockets pick your brain

Table 1 | Types of conjuring effects^*

Box 3 | Magic techniques in the choice-blindness paradigm

Tags: science, magic, cognition, illusion, article, visual, neuroscience

Westerners focus on the eyes, East Asians on the nose

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:52:54 GMT

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Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

Westerners focus on the eyes, East Asians on the nose

In the image below, the red areas show where the Westerners fixed their stares, while the blue areas were preferred by the east Asians.

Why the difference?

It could be that it's impolite in East Asian cultures to make direct or prolonged eye contact, and focusing on the centre of the face is simply a way of avoiding a social faux-pas. The second and more interesting theory, is that these strategies reflect general differences in the way that Westerners and East Asians view the world around them.

Some psychologists have suggested that Westerners view the world in an analytic way, by focusing on key features, while East Asians have a more holistic perspective where an object's context is just as important as its parts.

Reference: PLoS ONE doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003022

Update: Want a different take on this story? Check out Scicurious's excellent work at Neurotic Physiology.

Tags: science, face, western, asian, looking, gazing, culture

Intel's Research on Shape-Shifting Human-Computer Interfaces

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:15:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailytech.com

Intel Research Projects Narrow Gap Between Humans and Robots

Intel's Jason Rattner gave the keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2008 and shed some light on projects Intel researchers are working on. Rattner said that Intel's research labs are attempting to make significant changes in the human-machine interface.

One example of how Intel is looking at changing the human-computer interface is with computer systems that can be physically altered by the user depending on how the user needs the device to function.

Intel researchers are looking at methods to make tiny micro-robots -- called catoms -- that could be built into materials able to change shape at the will of the user. Using catoms Intel reports that the case, keyboard, and display of a computer would be able to change from an earpiece when used as a phone, to a large and flat screen and keyboard for web surfing.

The catoms would be less than a millimeter across and would combine computational and mechanical components.

Tags: intel, technology, human-computer interface, input device, catoms, nanotechnology

Simulacra & Simulations (by Jean Baudrillard, 1983)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:57:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Full Text @ Source

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Jean Baudrillard

Simulations

1983

The Precession of Simulacra . . . . . . . 1

The Orders of Simulacra . . . . . . . . . 81

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Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007) (IPA: [ʒɑ̃ bo.dʁi.jaʁ]^[2]) was a French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.

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Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation in French) is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard that discusses the interaction between reality, symbols and society.

Tags: baudrillard, cyberspace, history, future, literature, toread, philosophy, society, simulations, simulacra

Man-Computer Symbiosis (by JCR Licklider, 1960)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:47:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Full Text @ Source

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Man-Computer Symbiosis

J. C. R. Licklider
IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics,
volume HFE-1, pages 4-11, March 1960

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Man-Computer Symbiosis by J C R Licklider (01 Mar 1960)

Article URL: http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Secondary/Licklider.pdf

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Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" was an American computer scientist, considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history. ^[1]

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"Man-Computer Symbiosis" is a key speculative paper published in 1960 by psychologist/computer scientist J.C.R. Licklider, which envisions that mutually-interdependent, "living together", tightly-coupled human brains and computing machines would prove to complement each other's strengths to a high degree:

In Licklider's vision, many of the pure artificial intelligence systems envisioned at the time by over-optimistic researchers would prove unnecessary.

Tags: licklider, cyberspace, history, future, literature, toread, technology, symbiosis, cybernetics, computers

Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing, 1950)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:15:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Full Text @ Source

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COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE

By A. M. Turing

Turing, A.M. (1950). Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, 59, 433-460.

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"

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Alan Turing

is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. Turing provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine. With the Turing test, he made a significant and characteristically provocative contribution to the debate regarding artificial intelligence:

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Computing Machinery and Intelligence, written by Alan Turing and published in 1950 in Mind, is a seminal paper on the topic of artificial intelligence in which the concept of what is now known as the Turing test was introduced to a wide audience.

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Alan Turing's papers

full listing

Mechanical Intelligence has everything related to electronic computing and to Artificial Intelligence

Pure Mathematics

Morphogenesis

Mathematical Logic

Tags: turing, cyberspace, history, future, literature, toread, technology, computing, computers, ai

Clipmarks | Djiezes's clips

Free Concerts from l'Ancienne Belgique

Project 10 to the 100: Submit your World Changing Ideas to Google

Project 10100

The Great RIP in the Sky, Shine On, Wish You Were Here

Creator of the Web concerned on Spreading Disinformation on the Web

Warning sounded on web's future

Mapping Donations in 2008 Presidential Elections

The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It

Table of Contents

No Time to Think (As We May)

Open Sourcing Creativity

The George Orwell Diaries

The Science of Magic: Turning Tricks into Research

Westerners focus on the eyes, East Asians on the nose

Intel's Research on Shape-Shifting Human-Computer Interfaces

Simulacra & Simulations (by Jean Baudrillard, 1983)

Jean Baudrillard

Simulations

Man-Computer Symbiosis (by JCR Licklider, 1960)

Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing, 1950)

Alan Turing

Alan Turing's papers

Project 10¹⁰⁰