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"Form follows computation" captures a present phenomenon: Methodical overspill of programming is giving rise to a distinct aesthetic sensibility.

Meaning shifts as connotations change over time and reading becomes an act of writing if the connotations are purposefully reformulated. Accordingly, deducing meaning from the author's intention is an intentional fallacy [Wimsatt, Beardsley]. Followed to the extreme, context is everything.

Nine super powers made real by modern technology. Advances in bionics, transportation, and other technologies have put comic book superheroes a little closer to reality. This collection of videos looks at a few ways we can achieve “super powers”. Link -via Reddit

Hello Kitty Business Card in Gold $85 Hello Kitty business card with a thin layer of 1 grams of pure gold on it.

The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a language for defining and instantiating Web ontologies.[1] An OWL ontology may include descriptions of classes, along with their related properties and instances. OWL is designed for use by applications that need to process the content of information instead of just presenting information to humans. It facilitates greater machine interpretability of Web content than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema (RDF-S) by providing additional vocabulary along with a formal semantics. OWL is based on earlier languages OIL and DAML+OIL, and is now a W3C recommendation.

The name of Gary Willis might sound familiar to any person, but with mentioning the name of his formal fusion jazz group Tribal Tech we can be sure that not only the jazz freaks and the fanatic bassplayers will get a heartattack by running over the line up of the first day in the jazz tent.

Productivity Keep track of your time with the Emergent Task Tracker, online edition Designer David Seah's previously mentioned Emergent Task Planner, which we featured as a downloadable PDF, is now available (with a few small tweaks) in a web-based Flash application called the Emergent Task Timer. The idea: type in your pressing to-dos for the day, then fill in a circle for every 15 minutes you spend on each task. At the end of the day, you can print it out to keep an eye on what you've been doing. The Emergent Task Timer will chime every 15 minutes to remind you to fill in a circle, so you've got no excuse not to keep it updated. Not only is this a terrific tool for tracking your time, but it's also a smart way to keep focused on productive endeavors. Thanks Tim!

Excel Excel tip: Instant in-cell graphs The Juice Analytics blog has a clever little Excel trick that creates a bar graph inside cells using the repeat (REPT) function. REPT looks like this: =REPT(text,number_of_times) For instance, REPT("X",10) gives you "XXXXXXXXXX". For in-cell bar charts, the trick is to repeat a single bar "|". When formatted in 8 point Arial font, single bars look like bar graphs.

To highlight a body of text, select the text and click Diigo on the toolbar or in the right-click menu. If this page has not been previously bookmarked yet, the system will ask you to bookmark first, so that both the highlight and this page will be bookmarked simultaneously. For any page already bookmarked, highlight will show up instantaneously when you click Diigo. A highlight is only viewable to its owner on the original page, and is NOT viewable to the public on the original page unless there are public Sticky Notes associated with it. (This is designed to reduce graffiti on the original webpage) On the Diigo website, all highlights will be shown as clippings along with the bookmarks.  If a bookmark is public, so will be its associated clippings. (This is designed to maximize information sharing) Use the floating menu over highlight to delete it or to add sticky notes. If the floating menu is disabled (in Options), simply left-click it to add sticky, and right-click to delete it.

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