http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb?feed=rss&page=tagcloud&pg=11 emmineb's bookmarks on Netvouz http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24748/?a=f The study of social networks has thrown up more than a few surprises over the years. It's easy to imagine that because the links that form between various individuals in a society are not governed by any overarching rules, they must have a random structure. So the discovery in the 1980s that social networks are very different came as something of a surprise. In a social network, most nodes are not linked to each other but can easily be reached by a small number of steps. This is the so-called small worlds network. emmineb Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:42:57 GMT http://www.teleatlas.com/MapInsight/index.htm Tele Atlas uses a unique approach to update our maps, including the latest mobile mapping technology, professional drivers and tens of thousands of data sources to provide you with the freshest, richest, and most accurate map data available. emmineb Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:57:08 GMT http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/21/10-tips-for-keeping-your-desk-clean-and-tidy A messy desk is a sign of creativity and imagination. This is the excuse I gave myself for the mountain of papers, knickknacks, and San Pellegrino bottles normally piled on my desk at work. Truth is, I’m just lazy. When I started wasting more and more time looking for lost items instead of being a brilliant creative person, I knew I had to do something. I got my desk organized, and have been miraculously keeping it clean for the past three months. Here’s how: 1. Use a system to manage paper Most of the clutter on my desk is paper. In a recent post, I wrote about a system for organizing files on the computer. The same system can be modified to work with physical files: emmineb Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:37:41 GMT http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/55323 Text Etc. is a sprawling, highly engaging, nearly obsessive look at the craft and theory of poetry, including sound patterning, fractal criticism, poetry heresies, brief, clear intros to theorists like Bakhtin, Lacan and Foucault, writing instruction and much more. emmineb Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:54:27 GMT http://cityrag.blogs.com/main/2006/12/the_50_greatest.html The 50 Greatest Cartoons Ever: the List - including links to the full-length videos of the corresponding toons on YouTube and Google, etc. Based on a twelve year-old-vote by the animation industry, which explains why there are no appearances by Cartman, Bart, or Fry. emmineb Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:43:36 GMT http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~wfb/bach.html Here you can find the texts of all of J. S. Bach's vocal works. Original Texts (German) -- Cantatas sorted by BWV Number - sorted Thematically - sorted by Title - sorted by Movement Title -- Other Vocal Works - All Vocal Works - sorted by Title - sorted by Movement Title - sorted by Instrument -- Arias - sorted by Instrument - sorted by Voice Search Texts - Dutch Translations - French Translations - English Translations - Visit Z. Philip Ambrose's site Francis Browne's translations in interlinear format Other Translations Visit Aryeh Oron's site Notes Other Bach Sites emmineb Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:59:20 GMT http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23592 In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the next, making my moves over a period of more than five hours. The four leading chess computer manufacturers had sent their top models, including eight named after me from the electronics firm Saitek. It illustrates the state of computer chess at the time that it didn't come as much of a surprise when I achieved a perfect 32–0 score, winning every game, although there was an uncomfortable moment. emmineb Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:04:17 GMT http://www.lem.pl/cyberiadinfo/english/dziela/cyberiada/cyberiadapl.htm#2 How The World Was Saved (a fragment of The Cyberiad) One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could create anything starting with n. When it was ready, he tried it out, ordering it to make needles, then nankeens and negligees, which it did, then nail the lot to narghiles filled with nepenthe and numerous other narcotics. The machine carried out his instructions to the letter. Still not completely sure of its ability, he had it produce, one after the other, nimbuses, noodles, nuclei, neutrons, naphtha, noses, nymphs, naiads, and natrium. 'This last it could not do, and Trurl, considerably irritated, demanded an explanation. "Never heard of it," said the machine.Trurl's Machine "What? But it's only sodium. You know, the meta emmineb Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:01:51 GMT http://web.archive.org/web/20061209232530/www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/sfseti/contents.html # Introduction # The world in a grain of sand or through the dish of a radiotelescope? # Anaximander and Epicurus: the boundless universe and plurality of worlds # Extraterrestrials?: Lucretius, Bruno, Fontenelle, Huygens and Voltaire # Science Fiction: H.G. Wells and other modern writers # The nature and origin of life on earth # The elements of life # Minor and trace elements # Molecules, monomers and polymers # The ability to reproduce: DNA and the genetic code emmineb Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:37:18 GMT http://eepybird.com/dcm1.html What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? (2m57s) emmineb Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:32:53 GMT