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06 October 2007

My Dots for Friday, October 05, 2007

Rememble gives you a place to store all of “your digital bits and pieces” on a timeline that you can share with friends and family. They call it a “washing line” and it can be used to store text, pictures, videos, and audio clips. You can share each piece of your digital life with whomever you choose and upload content right from your mobile phone.

[tags: timeline, sharing]

The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book with incomprehensible contents. It is thought to have been written between approximately 1450 and 1520 by an unknown author in an unidentified script and language.

[tags: history]

The Techmeme Leaderboard lists the sources most frequently posted to Techmeme.

This particular version corresponds to the 30-day period ending October 5, 2007.

[tags: techmeme]

The stone spheres of Costa Rica are a collection of over three hundred Petrospheres in the Diquis Delta and on Isla del Caño of Costa Rica. Know

[tags: Costa Rica, Stone spheres, history, myths]

Remplaçante de la célébrissime 307 qui s’est vendue à trois millions d’exemplaires, la Peugeot 308 est arrivée. Ses nouveaux moteurs conçus en partenariat avec BMW et la qualité de ses finitions lui confèrent une efficacité toute germanique sans pour autant renier une élégance et un style bien français.

[tags: automotive, Peugeot 308]

Quoted: Gateway on Thursday announced the XHD3000, a 30-inch widescreen monitor that the company is touting as the world's first "quad-HD" display capable of rendering 2560x1600 pixels. But that's just the beginning.

[tags: monitor, hardware, gateway]

Quoted: VoIP provider Jajah publicly announced on Wednesday that it had successfully developed and had begun placing "buttons" to launch its software on eBay. A day later, the buttons began disappearing. Protectionism or a violation of eBay's EULA? It depends on which side you're on.

[tags: ebay, voip, skype, jajah]

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05 October 2007

My Dots for Thursday, October 04, 2007

When it's your job to protect your family's health, you need every advantage. Imagine if you had a way to collect, store, and share the health information critical to your family's well-being.

[tags: health, microsoft]

Erik Prince, the founder and chairman of Blackwater USA, testified the before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform amid a public firestorm over the role of private military firms operating in Iraq and a string of probes into Blackwater's conduct. We play excerpts of the hearing and speak with Jeremy Scahill, author of "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army."

Quoted: This gallery software makes web albums of your digital images. JAlbum aims to be the easiest to use and most powerful tool in this category - and free!

[tags: software, photo album, photos]

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04 October 2007

My Dots for Wednesday, October 03, 2007

This is a list of currently active autonomist and secessionist movements around the world.

Entries on this list meet two criteria: they are active movements with living, active members, and they are seeking greater autonomy or freedom for a geographical region (as opposed to personal autonomy). What is and is not considered to be an autonomy and secessionist movement is, of course, contentious.

[tags: Secessionists]

Quoted: Secessionists meeting in Tennessee

[tags: Secessionists, Vermont]

Quoted: EBay admits overpaying for the Internet phone company Skype

[tags: skype, eBay]

Quoted: Apple CEO Steve Jobs and friends (well, flunkies) recently showed off the best new features of the updated Mac OS X

[tags: apple, leopard, os x, imac]

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03 October 2007

My Dots for Tuesday, October 02, 2007

LRC researchers have developed a Scattered Photon Extraction (SPETM) method to improve the light output and efficacy of white LEDs. The SPE method combines optimally shaped optics and placement of the phosphor away from the die. This configuration allows light traveling back toward the die to escape through the sides of the optics, generating 30 to 60 percent more light output (lumens) and luminous efficacy (lumens per watt of electricity) than typical white LEDs. At low operating currents, the new SPE LEDs are able to achieve an efficacy of more than 80 lumens per watt (lm/W). The industry’s goal is to achieve 150 lm/W by 2012. Moreover, moving the phosphor layer improves LED life.

[tags: LED]

Quoted: White LED (light emitting diode) lamps consume less than a quarter of the electricity that fluorescent lighting does, and the lamps last about ten times as long.

[tags: LED]

An LED is usually a small area source, often with extra optics added to the chip that shapes its radiation pattern.[1] The color of the emitted light depends on the composition and condition of the semiconducting material used, and can be infrared, visible, or near-ultraviolet. An LED can be used as a regular household light source.

[tags: LED]

Quoted: In this VideoNation report, Naomi Klein explains how after 9/11 the Bush Administration launched a new security economy, driven by the notion of an endless war against an undefined evil.

Greenspan's new autobiography sheds light on what motivates hard-right political leaders to apply brutal economic shock therapy.

One woman delves deep into the causes of the anorexia that nearly killed her. But of one thing she's sure -- it had nothing to do with 'size 0' models.

[tags: health]

Quoted: Outsourcing the war to private military contractors such as Blackwater has shattered the United States' moral authority and its ability to win the nation's wars -- including Iraq.

[tags: Blackwater]

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02 October 2007

My Dots for Monday, October 01, 2007

I am glad to announce that EuropeanStartups have gathered readers across 48 countries World wide after only 5 days of existence. The only continent without EuropeanStartups readers is Central America. In these 5 days we already reached 55 unique readers, 100 visits, and 500 page views per day! I sincerely hope that the audience will grow at the same or better pace in order to spread the word about European startups, technology, investors, and professionals which deserve much more attention due to some amazing work they endorse in their every day business!

[tags: Europe, startups]

Vectus was founded in February 2005 and forms part of POSCO, the most profitable steel maker in the world. Vectus is one of POSCO's endeavors to new business development and aims to deliver the most advanced intelligent transport and logistics system in full line with the needs of customers. Vectus is primarily based in the U.K. and Korea , but has chosen to locate its test activities of the PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) system – also called Pod cars – in Uppsala , Sweden .

[tags: sweden, automotive, transport]

Quoted: eBay has finally acknowledged what has been obvious to the rest of the world for at least three quarters: the Skype acquisition gamble has failed. ...

[tags: skype, eBay]

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30 September 2007

My Dots for Saturday, September 29, 2007

Quoted: TED Talks Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.

[tags: technology, photosynth, microsoft]

The Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest - and, we hope, most exciting - way to view photos on a computer. Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next.

[tags: microsoft, photography, photosynth]

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