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“Ultimately we aim to bring something like the experience of Google Maps or Google Earth to time series data…”
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must be seen to be believed, really. The eloquence of the ears alone…
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Combovers, bell bottoms, high-heel boots
The early 1970s were magical:
And some Paco de Lucia
sometime in the 1970s:
…and from the Carlos Saura Flamenco flick:
Give the drummer some
and then direct your attention to Bill Frisell’s take on an Old Chestnut:
Doink doink doink diddle
A Jonathan Richman song for the season, via good old WFMU: Rockin’ Shopping Center
…you always learn a little…
…doink doink doink diddle
(see a fuller version of the lyrics, with “doit doit doit” where I hear “doink doink doink”)
links for 2007-11-28
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(in a year or two this will probably develop into something spectacular)
Stephen Downes, yet again
I continue to marvel at the continuing evolution of Stephen’s style in presentations, both his Web presence(s) and his conference stuff. Recent case in point: A Kaleidoscope of Futures: Reflections on the Reality of Virtual Learning, video-with-slides from a late-October presentation. The video is an hour, perhaps more than one needs if Stephen’s schtick is already familiar (though he’s different every time), but what a wonderful way to distribute content…
Oh yeah
Peter Brantley (over at O’Reilly Radar) points in the direction of Joe Esposito, who wrote a piece on The Processed Book in 2003 (in First Monday) and updated it in 2005, and more recently says this that’s right on the ummmm money:
Business is not about making people happy. Business is about making capital happy. This is why Apple has a proprietary format for the iPod and why Amazon is attempting to lock users into its broad ecosystem. The Kindle is not a device. It is a component of a system.
Some new ancestors
A trip to a local antique mall produced a small haul. Admire this one
and see half a dozen more.
Spelt correctly
For any who might doubt the accuracy of yesterday’s spelling:
(Congersman Frog, from Pogo Election Extra, 1960 pg. 58)