May 31, 2012
Google Now Searches JavaScript

Notice that the JavaScript has to be executed on the Google servers running the Googlebot. This has led to speculation of whether or not it might be possible to include JavaScript on a site that could use the Google cloud to compute something. For example, imagine that you set up a JavaScript program to compute the n-digits of Pi, or a BitCoin miner, and had the result formed into a custom URL - which the Googlebot would then try to access as part of its crawl. By looking at, say, the query part of the URL you might be able to get back a useful result.

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“ Tech industry experts are saying that tech jobs with desktop support in the Information Technology department will be declining sharply thanks to cloud computing. Why is this happening? A large majority of companies and government agencies will rely on the cloud for more than half of their IT services by 2020, according to Gartner’s 2011 CIO Agenda Survey.

IT Desktop Support To Be Wiped Out Thanks To Cloud Computing

In my experience, how much support is needed is all about what systems they’re using.  It goes, from highest to lowest need for support:  

100% Windows environment (weekly issues) ->

Mac Environment (issues every 1-2 months, but they tend to relate to the network more than the macs) ->

Google Apps on whatever environment (issues every 2-3 months, usually relating to a new feature or change Google makes)

Of course, that doesn’t include setup.  For Mac, the users can set most of it up themselves.  Network takes a few hours to do it right, but that’s the same for any setup.  For Google, it does take at least 10-20 hours to tune the install properly and get the users set up in an environment they can instantly use (not including the mail migration time).  For Windows, the installs just never seem to end.  But that’s me.  Props to the Windows gurus out there.  Super impressive.

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May 25, 2012
“ Start a tweet with @wheatherbot and say a location. I’ll tell you when it will start or stop raining in the next hour. I’m powered by the Dark Sky API.

(Wheather Bot (wheatherbot) on Twitter

Next the twilio integration…. 

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“Flowers,” collage, 1970Joe Brainard (Joe Brainard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

“Flowers,” collage, 1970
Joe Brainard (Joe Brainard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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May 24, 2012
Dear Community Advocate, Building on past successes, Troy, New York is proud to be hosting the first annual New York State Neighborhood Revitalization Conference. Please hold the date and share this email with policy makers, organizers and active citizens in your community. Where: Russell Sage College, Troy, NY When: Friday and Saturday, September 21st and 22nd Mission: The purpose of our conference is to bring together neighborhood activists, educators, business people, and elected officials to share successes and develop strategies to maintain healthy and vibrant neighborhoods throughout Upstate New York. As residents and businesspeople, we believe that the strength of our past and our diversity in people, cultures, and businesses, will enable us to make our neighborhoods destinations to live, work, and visit.   For More Information and updates, visit our website at http://nyneighborhoods.org Was this email forwarded to you? To get further information directly, please sign up here.Scroll down for some previews of what to expect: Keynote: James Howard Kunstler: Esteemed author and scholar of neighborhood development, James Howard Kunstler has agreed to deliver the Friday evening Keynote address. For more information, visit his website here.  (via Save the Date, Invite Your Neighborhood Leaders)

Dear Community Advocate,

Building on past successes, Troy, New York is proud to be hosting the first annual New York State Neighborhood Revitalization Conference. Please hold the date and share this email with policy makers, organizers and active citizens in your community.

Where: Russell Sage College, Troy, NY

When: Friday and Saturday, September 21st and 22nd

Mission: The purpose of our conference is to bring together neighborhood activists, educators, business people, and elected officials to share successes and develop strategies to maintain healthy and vibrant neighborhoods throughout Upstate New York. As residents and businesspeople, we believe that the strength of our past and our diversity in people, cultures, and businesses, will enable us to make our neighborhoods destinations to live, work, and visit.


 

For More Information and updates, visit our website at http://nyneighborhoods.org

Was this email forwarded to you? To get further information directly, please sign up here.

Scroll down for some previews of what to expect:

James Howard Kunstler

Keynote:

James Howard Kunstler: Esteemed author and scholar of neighborhood development, James Howard Kunstler has agreed to deliver the Friday evening Keynote address. For more information, visit his website here.

 (via Save the Date, Invite Your Neighborhood Leaders)

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Waveclock converts music to MIDI Clock real-time, tracking music similarly as humans do. It is based on psychoacoustically motivated algorithm by Anssi Klapuri &AL. It listens to any audio input and produces MIDI clock. Unlike anything out there, it is capable of maintaining tight phase accuracy in relation to the input signal, making it very well suited for real-time visual applications. Features Turns music into MIDI Clock as it plays. Compatible with tons of software and hardware. (Anything with MIDI Beat Clock input) NEW!! A new Snail-Rabbit switch to optimize between slow, medium or fast music NEW!! Silence detection feature that stops ticking when no music is present. (via Wavesum makes machines understand music.)

Waveclock converts music to MIDI Clock real-time, tracking music similarly as humans do. It is based on psychoacoustically motivated algorithm by Anssi Klapuri &AL. It listens to any audio input and produces MIDI clock. Unlike anything out there, it is capable of maintaining tight phase accuracy in relation to the input signal, making it very well suited for real-time visual applications. Features Turns music into MIDI Clock as it plays. Compatible with tons of software and hardware. (Anything with MIDI Beat Clock input) NEW!! A new Snail-Rabbit switch to optimize between slow, medium or fast music NEW!! Silence detection feature that stops ticking when no music is present. (via Wavesum makes machines understand music.)

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Game of Phones 19 (by Carter Rosenberg)

Best one yet, imo.

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May 23, 2012
“ 3. Use fun strategies to encourage team members to help each other. Norton tells of one experiment where salespeople were given $20 bonus money and told they had to spend on another team member. Those teams sold more than other groups that were told to spend the $20 on themselves.

Harvard Professor Discovers A Cool Secret To Making Employees Feel Like They’ve Got More Time - Business Insider

Very interesting article.

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May 22, 2012
(via Google)

(via Google)

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May 17, 2012
“ That’s why I can say with confidence that rich people don’t create jobs, nor do businesses, large or small. What does lead to more employment is the feedback loop between customers and businesses. And only consumers can set in motion a virtuous cycle that allows companies to survive and thrive and business owners to hire. An ordinary middle-class consumer is far more of a job creator than I ever have been or ever will be.
Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer - Bloomberg
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“ In a capitalist economy, the true job creators are consumers, the middle class. And taxing the rich to make investments that grow the middle class, is the single smartest thing we can do for the middle class, the poor and the rich.
Nick Hanauer - The Inequality Speech That TED Won’t Show You - Restoration Roundtable
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May 16, 2012

(via FRACT | An Indie Adventure Game by Phosfiend Systems)

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May 10, 2012
(via Psychology Book Covers by Penguin » ISO50 Blog – The Blog of Scott Hansen (Tycho / ISO50)) the psychotic == best title for a non-fiction book ever.

(via Psychology Book Covers by Penguin » ISO50 Blog – The Blog of Scott Hansen (Tycho / ISO50))

the psychotic == best title for a non-fiction book ever.

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“ This effect is partly responsible for the everyday observation in the macroscopic world that two solid objects cannot be in the same place in the same time.

Pauli exclusion principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That may be my favorite line from wikipedia ever.

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(via Color charge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Clearly this should have been called Rock-Paper-Scissors charge….

(via Color charge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Clearly this should have been called Rock-Paper-Scissors charge….

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