The American Scientist: An endangered species?

Politicians are freaking out about competition from China and India, especially when the drastic drop in American scientists and engineers being produced by the nation’s universities is considered. But is the situation quite as bleak as everyone seems to think? Re-analyzed data paints a much prettier picture…

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June 30, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?

Semantic Web + Wikipedia’s Ontoworld = Ultimate Answer Machine

Here is an intereseting article

The Semantic Web (or Web 3.0) promises to “organize the world’s information” in a dramatically more logical way than Google can ever achieve with their current engine design. This is specially true from the point of view of machine comprehension as opposed to human comprehension.The Semantic Web requires the use of a declarative ontological language like OWL to produce domain-specific ontologies that machines can use to reason about information and make new conclusions, not simply match keywords.
However, the Semantic Web, which is still in a development phase where researchers are trying to define the best and most usable design models, would require the participation of thousands of knowledgeable people over time to produce those domain-specific ontologies necessary for its functioning.

Living with web-based software

Lifehacker explains how new web-based aplications are becoming more part of day-to-day life..

More and more web applications offer the features and functionality of desktop software every day. Over the past several months, I’ve been moving my work to Web-based software applications as much as possible. My favorites include Google Calendar, Writely, Bloglines, Blinksale, Delicious, Ta-Da Lists and Flickr. While many users may balk at leaving their familiar world of desktop software, the benefits of secure storage, sharing files and accessibility make managing your data with hosted web apps a smart move for a lot of people.

Tallest Building In India

India will soon be a home to the world’s tallest building. At 2,222 feet, the World Centre of Vedic Learning will be more than 700 feet taller than Petronas Towers in Kaula Lampur, the current record holder. 1,111 feet is its base, it will be many times larger in mass than any existing tall building. It will have more than 30 million sq.ft. of liveable space on 160 floors.

The site of the building is 50 kilometers Northeast of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, in Brahmasthan, or the exact centre point, of India
. Source : IndiaToday
Although “The Burj Dubai tower will stand 800 metres tall - just 5 metres shy of half a mile - once completed in 2008.”

June 28, 2006 | Filed Under india | Leave a Comment

The Next Gen Of Cars

The GM Hy-wire, appropriately named for its technology, incorporates the features first envisioned in the AUTOnomy concept vehicle at the 2002 North American International Auto Show in Detroit and the Geneva Motor Show. Hy-wire was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show last year.
“ The fact that we developed Hy-wire as a driveable concept vehicle in just eight months (from its introduction in Detroit) shows our commitment to this technology and the speed at which we are progressing,” said Rick Wagoner, GM’s president and CEO.
via : http://www.sagags.com/

June 28, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Todo.txt

todo.sh is a powerful shell script that adds to, edits, sorts and searches your todo.txt file from the command line. Mark items as complete and archive them into a done.txt file with todo.sh as well.

http://todotxt.com/

See todo.sh in action here:

June 27, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Million Dollar Stuff…

Million Dollar Building : http://www.sandberg.nl:16080/artvertising/
This a project inspired from Million Dollar Homepage.

About Million Dollar Homepage :
The Washington Post has a feature on Alex Tew, the twenty-one-year-old creator of the Million Dollar Homepage. Tew sold 10-by-10 pixel advertising tiles on the page for $100 each. When the eBay auction for the last of the page’s real estate ends tomorrow at 1:42 pm EST, Tew will have earned much more than $1 million.

The phenomenon he created has been hailed by some as a genre-changing concept in online marketing — otherwise an advertising badlands of spam, banner ads and pop-ups. Others say it’s a brilliant, one-time marketing aberration that will never be replicated.

June 23, 2006 | Filed Under image | Leave a Comment

10 Top Goofs Interns Make

Internships are becoming more important as an entrypoint to the working world. Here are the top mistakes interns make, and how to avoid them.

Think working late makes you look dedicated? Your boss might just be wondering why you can’t get your work done on time. Or is your air of confidence coming off as cockiness instead? We asked top recruiters and former interns for the low-down on the top intern mistakes — and got their advice on how to avoid them.

India Awakens

Fueled by high-octane growth, the world’s largest democracy is becoming a global power. Why the world will never be the same
Even if you have never gone to India–never wrapped your food in a piping-hot naan or had your eyeballs singed by a Bollywood spectacular–there is a good chance you encounter some piece of it every day of your life. It might be the place you call (although you don’t know it) if your luggage is lost on a connecting flight, or the guys to whom your company has outsourced its data processing. Every night, young radiologists in Bangalore read CT scans e-mailed to them by emergency-room doctors in the U.S. Few modern Americans are surprised to find that their dentist or lawyer is of Indian origin, or are shocked to hear how vital Indians have been to California’s high-tech industry. In ways big and small, Indians are changing the world.

Rendr : CSS-HTML rendering tool

Rendr is a live CSS and HTML rendering tool. It displays what the page would look like as you type, making it great for rapid testing of page designs .
You can also install it as firefox extension using greasemonkey . Here is the script.
Read More here : http://gregtaff.com/rendar2.html

June 14, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment