From my daughter who is a senior in college, Dancing On Treadmills. When I was a kid, all we had was Twister!
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Nerdcast – Take 05: Tagging Twins Reprise
Welcome to Nerdcast – Take 05: The Tagging Twins Reprise
Earlier, in Nerdcast – Take 03, we determined that although Rafael Sidi and Puneet Gupta were NOT separated at birth, they are two forward thinking individuals who both play in the engineering knowledge management space. In this second installment of the Tagging Twins, I interview Rafael Sidi … VP of Web Publishing for Elsevier. A major focus of this podcast is his firm’s engineering research / tagging tool (eiVillage / Compendex).
- Nerdcast – Take 05: Rafael Sidi
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Follow this link to Rafael’s initial blog posting about the tagging feature release.
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It Was A Dark And Stormy Night
Crash! Bang! … a shot rang out!
Okay, I admit this beautiful prose is not original. Snoopy taught me everything I know. However, unlike Snoopy who never got one of his novels accepted for publication, you have 24 hours left to become part of the first Great American Wiki Novel (or Czech … or Chinese). Penguin Books has challenged the social network to write a novel, by wiki!
Even if you read this after March 7th, have some fun and visit the site. From an intellectual vantage point, this is an intriguing experiment. Here is the first paragraph:
Before the Fall
As always, with a word, it begins… The sound of clicking keys and the smell of wet fur fill the room. Möbius strips made from banana peels are scattered haphazardly across the floor. The chief monkey, careful not to slip and fall, ambles from desk to desk collecting papers before pasting them slowly and deliberately into a gigantic scrapbook. He scratches himself slowly, enjoying the sensation. If he had been able to read, as he once had been, he would have read something similar, or perhaps completely different, to the following…..
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Find X
This is really funny (answer from a math exam)! (via the Distant Librarian): Find X (maximize the graphic!). What could be better than a Pythagorean joke?!
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Skype Me!
I finally had an excuse to try Skype, and wow …
If you’re like me and you travel a lot, install Skype on your laptop. Using a web connection and an inexpensive headset (or USB phone), one may call anywhere in the world for rates which are amazingly low (as in free if you phone another computer). Here are two other rate examples (24×7):
- USA to Czech Republic: 2 cents per minute
- USA to any phone in the USA and Canada: $30 per year – unlimited calls
The quality was high, and full duplex. I now understand why college kids were plugging their USB phones into computers at the Krakow internet cafe last Fall. If lugging around a laptop is not your idea of fun, you could wi-fi enable a PDA and use it to read email and make phone calls from almost anywhere! Talk about a small, and inexpensive footprint …