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Slow global warming, install white roofs

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:08:07 GMT

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If the 100 biggest cities in the world installed white roofs and changed their pavement to more reflective materials -- say, concrete instead of asphalt-based material -- the global cooling effect would be massive, according to data released Tuesday at California's annual Climate Change Research Conference in Sacramento.

Since 2005, the Golden State has required that flat commercial structures have white roofs. Next year, new and retrofitted residential and commercial buildings, with both flat and sloped roofs, will have to install heat-reflecting roofing, as part of an energy-efficient building code.

But the state has yet to pass any rules to encourage cooler pavement on its roads, which are largely coated with heat-absorbing asphalt, a cheap byproduct of oil refining.

Globally, roofs account for 25% of the surface of most cities, and pavement accounts for about 35%.

installing cool roofs and pavements would offset more than 10 years of emissions growth

Tags: global warming, roofs, climate change

1st law of Asimov

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:20:48 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
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Issac Asimov, widely regarded as the spiritual father of science fiction, outlined three rules that all robots in his future worlds must obey. The most important two were: a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; and a robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law."
“Most robots today can only work safely if segregated from humans, or if they move very slowly. The trade-off between safety and performance is the name of the game in physical human-machine interactions.”

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Do No Harm To Humans: Real-life Robots Obey Asimov’s Laws

European researchers have developed technology enabling robots to obey Asimov’s golden rules of robotics: to do no harm to humans and to obey them.

prototype Variable Stiffness Actuator (VSA). Just as human and animal muscles move in opposite directions to move limbs, the VSA achieves simultaneous control of the robot arm by using two motors antagonistically

its structure is ‘soft’ when the robot moves fast and can collide with humans, and it becomes ‘hard’, or tensed, when performing tasks requiring precision

like humans, relies on ‘proprioception’ to determine the relative position of neighbouring components using special sensors. Such ‘self-awareness’ enables the robot to react promptly to collisions or crashes and resume safe operations.

future of robotics is not to do something shockingly complex, but to do even simple things in a way that is safe

thus making human-robot coexistence possible

Tags: robotics, human

10 Golden Dating Rules for the Perfect First Date

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:11:23 GMT

clipped by: AScomputer
clipper's remarks: Is it your first date? You’re maybe wondering how to make a perfect impression and make everything perfect. It’s not as hard as it may seem to be, all you have to do is plan every detail and relax.

Here are 10 successful rules to help you for the perfect first date:

Clip Source: www.egodevelopment.com

10 Golden Dating Rules for the Perfect First Date

Is it your first date? You’re maybe wondering how to make a perfect impression and make everything perfect. It’s not as hard as it may seem to be, all you have to do is plan every detail and relax.

Here are 10 successful rules to help you for the perfect first date:

Dating Rule #1. Your first priority in a relationship

Dating Rule #2. Do have fun when dating.

Dating Rule #3. Appear confident.

Dating Rule #4. Men Did the Asking.

Dating Rule #5. Don’t open your heart and soul early on.

Dating Rule #6. Be a Strong Negotiator.

Dating Rule #7. A Gentleman Always Paid.

Dating Rule #8. Communicate Well and Clearly.

Dating Rule #9. No sex.

Dating Rule #10. A Date Was Only a Date.

Tags: date, dating

Client Accountability

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:43:53 GMT

clipped by: Lara Nieberding
clipper's remarks: because we care

Clip Source: adayva.blogspot.com

Tough Love & Accountability, or Four Golden Rules for working with your Virtual Assistant

Golden Rule #1 ~ Pay Your Bill

This is a matter of ethics, of respect, and of honor for the value brought to you and your business.

Golden Rule #2 ~ Respect Procedures

If you do not have time to follow the rules, this does not bode well for the partnership.

Golden Rule #3 ~ You are a Client, not an Employer

If you need someone solely dedicated to you and on call or under supervision, you probably need an employee.

Golden Rule #4 ~ Communication, Communication, Communication

Clients must be active collaborators and communicators.

Tags: virtual assistant, virtual professional, client, business

Rules for dating my daughter 1

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:29:21 GMT

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Clip Source: www.singleplus.dk

Rule Three: I have no doubt the you are a popular fellow, with many oppurtunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my daughter, you will continue to date no one but her until she is through with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

Rule Four: As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not fidget and complain. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup -- a process that can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there why don't you do something useful, like change the oil in my car?

Think Before You Poke

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:12:53 GMT

clipped by: Elizabeth Woyke
clipper's remarks: Debrett's, the UK's "modern authority on all matters etiquette, taste and achievement," has issued advice on how to behave on social networking sites. Obvious, yes, but also sensible.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Debrett's "golden rules" for polite social networking are:

You don't have to make friends with people you don’t know. It’s not a competition to see how many friends you can get. Think before you poke.

Always wait 24 hours before accepting or removing someone as a friend. The delay will help you gather your thoughts.

Birthdays, engagements and weddings are not "virtual" events. Always send birthday cards or call your friends when there’s important news.

Consider your friends' feelings before posting pictures. Put yourself in their shoes before uploading.

Think carefully about your profile picture. If you don't want to see it in your local newspaper, don't put it online.

Tags: facebook, myspace, manners

Golden Rules For Living

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:12:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Clipped this before but I can't find it and neither can clipsearch

Clip Source: www.appleseeds.org

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If you open it, close it.

If you turn it on, turn it off.

If you unlock it, lock it up.

If you break it, admit it.

If you can't fix it, call in someone who can.

If you borrow it, return it.

If you value it, take care of it.

If you make a mess, clean it up.

If you move it, put it back.

If it belongs to someone else, get permission to use it.

If you don't know how to operate it, leave it alone.

If it's none of your business, don't ask questions.

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Tags: golden rules for living, life, golden rules, appleseeds

15 golden rules for Web 2.0

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:36:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In this article, we will describe the key principles and main reasons why you should or should not opt for a Web 2.0 initiative. Large organisations are getting increasingly interested in launching 2.0 initiatives. To a certain extent, we can relate that to the fact that an increasing number of success stories are relayed by the press and that most of them are related to impressive buzz marketing operations, which are seemingly easy to replicate. The entire world is full of the concept of Web 2.0, so the idea is often not to miss the opportunity to do something about it. All of this is very tempting and hard to resist. However, companies should never launch 2.0 websites just for the sake of it.

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In this article, we will describe the key principles and main reasons why you should or should not opt for a Web 2.0 initiative. Large organisations are getting increasingly interested in launching 2.0 initiatives. To a certain extent, we can relate that to the fact that an increasing number of success stories are relayed by the press and that most of them are related to impressive buzz marketing operations, which are seemingly easy to replicate. The entire world is full of the concept of Web 2.0, so the idea is often not to miss the opportunity to do something about it. All of this is very tempting and hard to resist. However, companies should never launch 2.0 websites just for the sake of it.

Tags: best practices, business, community marketing, crm, customer managed relationships, marketing, social strategy, strategy, web 2.0, saastream

10 golden rules for starting with open source

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:34:35 GMT

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Clip Source: schlitt.info

10 golden rules for starting with open source

Are you new to open source? Or if not, do you still remember, what it was like, as you first started with open source? I recently tried to remember these days... back in 2001, when I started playing around with PEAR and shortly after that started to work on my own packages for PEAR...

I'm quite sure, I violated at least 9 of the 10 rules I will try to write down here, which you should know about and which you should take to the heart, if you want to be a part of the open source community. At least, you should keep these rules in mind, if you want to join the PHP community, but I am quite sure, it applies to any other community out there, too.

Tags: open source, development

10 golden rules for running an open source project

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:33:57 GMT

clipped by: ylodi

Clip Source: greg.chiaraquartet.net

10 golden rules for running an open source project

What surprises me in retrospect is that I didn't really recognize the point where I crossed the line from simply contributing to an open source project to when I started running it. The fact is, when you don't have the karma (to borrow Toby's definition), nobody cares if you make a little joke here or there. Once you are a representative of a project, what you say and do matters, and things can get blown all out of proportion. So, here are a few rules for people "with the karma" that I've learned.

Tags: open source, development

Protect Bristol Bay, Alaska from Dirty Gold!

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:10:19 GMT

clipped by: urbanlife
clipper's remarks: 5 of the nation's leading jewelry retailers support the protection of Alaska's Bristol Bay from large-scale metals mining.

A Canadian mining corporation wants to create one of North America’s largest open pit gold-copper mines, the proposed Pebble Mine, in the headwaters of Bristol Bay: a pit 2.5 miles wide and a toxic lagoon almost 20 square miles.

The "No Dirty Gold" campaign lists the "Golden Rules" for responsible mining: basic standards to insure gold is not produced at the expense of communities, the workers, and the environment

The hard-rock mining industry is the single largest source of toxic releases in the US and this industry has caused enormous damage to rivers and fisheries around the world.

Native villages of Bristol Bay harvest fish and game to support their lifestyle.

Bristol Bay is also home to populations of moose, seal, walrus, grizzly, brown, and black bear, beaver, wolverine, bald eagle, caribou, beluga and killer whale, wolves, and more!

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The Pebble Mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed could threaten the world's largest sockeye salmon run, and five prominent jewelry retailers are voicing their opposition.

Clip Source: www.nodirtygold.org

The proposed Pebble gold-copper mine threatens the fisheries and livelihood of people in the Bristol Bay area.

Clip Source: www.thedailygreen.com

Tiffany & Co., Ben Bridge Jeweler, Helzberg Diamonds, Fortunoff, and Leber Jeweler, Inc. – signed the Bristol Bay Protection Pledge

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Dirty? Gold mines produce 76 tons of waste for every ounce of gold

waste includes toxic and hazardous wastes, notably mercury

If developed, the Pebble Mine could produce $300 billion worth of gold

but it would produce 12 billion tons of waste that would cover 10 square miles

the No Dirty Gold campaign to use only those mines that adhere to sufficiently high standards for environmental protection and worker safety

Clip Source: www.nodirtygold.org

Alaska's Pebble mine

violate the Golden Rules

Clip Source: www.nodirtygold.org

which are social, human rights, and environmental criteria for more responsible mining of gold and other precious metals

Clip Source: www.sportsmansalliance4ak.org

Tags: no dirty gold, bristol bay, mining, alaska, fish, waste, golden rules

New York Review of books article on blogging as a genre

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:40:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nybooks.com

A growing stack of books has pondered the effects of blogs and bloggers on culture (We've Got Blog and Against the Machine), on democracy (Republic .com 2.0), on politics (Blogwars), on privacy (The Future of Reputation), on media (Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation and We're All Journalists Now), on professionalism (The Cult of the Amateur), on business (Naked Conversations), and on all of the above (Blog!). But what about the effect of blogs on language?

Are they a new literary genre? Do they have their own conceits, forms, and rules? Do they have an essence?

Bloggers are golden when they're at the bottom of the heap, kicking up. Give them a salary, a book contract, or a press credential, though, and it just isn't the same.

Why? When you write for pay, you worry about lawsuits, sentence structure, and word choice. You worry about your boss, your publisher, your mother, and your superego looking over your shoulder. And that's no way to blog.

Caught by Gorilla's -- In Zoo and in the Jungle

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:01:46 GMT

clipped by: rj3sp

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Gorilla Escapes From Dutch Zoo, Attacks Random People

May 18: Escaped gorilla Bokito roams angrily among the picnic tables at the Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A 400-pound gorilla escaped from its enclosure and ran amok in a Rotterdam zoo Friday, biting one woman, dragging her around and causing scenes of panic among dozens of families before being subdued, zoo officials said.

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Caught on camera, the terrifying moment a gorilla dragged a tourist off into the jungle

He weighs more than 30 stone and is nearly 6ft tall. Built like a brick outhouse, he could probably crush your skull in his hand.

So the important thing to remember when you're invited into a silverback gorilla's backyard is just who's the boss. Oh, yes. And don't look him in the eye unless you want to start a fight.

These were the golden rules that a hapless tourist might have forgotten when he encountered the biggest and strongest primate on Earth on its home territory in Rwanda.

Tags: gorilla

Videos on Lomography

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:05:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Lomo

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Golden Rules of Lomography

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Tags: lomo, photography, lomography, art, culture, russia, camera, vienna, documentary, video

Semper Saturnalia agunt (they are always celebrating Saturnalia) - About the Roman winter holiday

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:20:29 GMT

clipped by: Johanna_G
clipper's remarks: Laura Gibbs: Latin Via Proverbs - 4000 Proverbs, Mottoes and Sayings for Students of Latin

Clip Source: proverbs.bestlatin.net

You will find the saying in Petronius's Satyricon. There's also a similar, more pessimistic saying from Seneca: non semper Saturnalia erunt, "It will not always be Saturnalia-time." In other words: party-time will come to an end, sooner or later. Some people, of course, are on a kind of permanent vacation; semper Saturnalia agunt, as in today's saying.

The Roman festival of Saturnalia is connected with Saturn, the Roman god of the harvest and of agriculture. We preserve his name today in the weekday "Saturday" (Latin dies Saturni), the only one of the days of the week to have kept its Roman name in English. Saturn supposedly ruled the world during the "Golden Age" of complete peace and perfect prosperity.

The festival of Saturnalia was originally celebrated on December 17, but it later extended into a week-long festival due to its enormous popularity with the Roman people. During the Saturnalia, many of the typical social rules were reversed

Tags: latin proverbs, saturnalia, roman culture