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Dropbox

Dropbox

What a handy new service!

I saw the article: Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Google, tried it and believe that this is a very handy tool. Give it a try!

Wordle: Technology Lunch

 

Technology Lunch in Shepherdstown,WV

An occasional meeting of technology fans, geeks and others for lunch and discussion of the current state of technology. Open to all of good cheer.

Wordle on the Web

So, Will Wordle be used on the web...?

Wordle

What a handy fun "toy". I just had to try it!

Created with Wordle  Some other versions I have made in a PDF

XFN - XHTML Friends Network

XFN 1.1 relationships meta data profile

As described in HTML4 Meta data profiles.

rel

HTML4 definition of the 'rel' attribute. Here are some additional values, each of which can be used or omitted in any combination (unless otherwise noted, and except where prohibited by law) and their meanings, symmetry, transitivity and inverse if any. Please see the XFN home page for more information about XFN.

friendship (pick at most one)

contact

Someone you know how to get in touch with. Often symmetric.

acquaintance

Someone who you have exchanged greetings and not much (if any) more — maybe a short conversation or two. Often symmetric.

friend

Someone you are a friend to. A compatriot, buddy, home(boy|girl) that you know. Often symmetric.

physical

met

Someone who you have actually met in person. Symmetric.

professional

co-worker

Someone a person works with, or works at the same organization as. Symmetric. Usually transitive.

colleague

Someone in the same field of study/activity. Symmetric. Often transitive.

geographical (pick at most one)

co-resident

Someone you share a street address with. Symmetric and transitive.

neighbor

Someone who lives nearby, perhaps only at an adjacent street address or doorway. Symmetric. Often transitive.

family (pick at most one)

child

A person's genetic offspring, or someone that a person has adopted and takes care of. Inverse is parent.

parent

Inverse of child.

sibling

Someone a person shares a parent with. Symmetric. Usually transitive.

spouse

Someone you are married to. Symmetric. Not transitive.

kin

A relative, someone you consider part of your extended family. Symmetric and typically transitive.

romantic

muse

Someone who brings you inspiration. No inverse.

crush

Someone you have a crush on. No inverse.

date

Someone you are dating. Symmetric. Not transitive.

sweetheart

Someone with whom you are intimate and at least somewhat committed, typically exclusively. Symmetric. Not transitive.

identity

me

A link to yourself at a different URL. Exclusive of all other XFN values. Required symmetric. There is an implicit "me" relation from the contents of a directory to the directory itself.

Xhtml Friends Network

XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their <a href> tags, e.g.:

<a href="http://jeff.example.org" rel="friend met">...

The 5 Best Free Tools For Making Slick Infographics | Fast Company

Quoted from http://www.fastcompany.com/1749649/5-infographics-tools-for-business?partner=rss:

The 5 Best Free Tools For Making Slick Infographics | Fast Company

The 5 Best Free Tools For Making Slick Infographics

BY Amber MacTue Apr 26, 2011

• Hohli
• Many Eyes (IBM)
• Google Public Data Explorer
• Wordle
• Visual.ly

jisc

 

JISC Digital Media - Still images, moving images and sound advice

This is a good site for information and resources on digital and imaging issues.

I believe that this site is related to TASI, Technical Advisory Service for Images ; which I can't find anymore.

The desktop images from TASI are very useful.

1. 1024 desktop Image
2. 1280 desktop Image

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Paid Advertisement

While looking at the CSS Formatter and Optimiser site I was treated to this paid advertisment.
I dislike this when it is used on TV; to take control of my screen and push unwanted information at me.
Even more so, when it is used on the web.

Cats Adore, Manipulate Women : Discovery News

Quoted from http://news.discovery.com/animals/cats-humans-pets-relationships-110224.html:

Cats Adore, Manipulate Women : Discovery News

Cats Adore, Manipulate Women

Cats attach to humans, and particularly women, as social partners, and it's not just for the sake of obtaining food.

By Jennifer Viegas
Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:15 AM ET

• Relationships between cats and their owners mirror human bonds, especially when the owner is a woman.
• Cats hold some control over when they are fed and handled, functioning very similar to human children in some households.
• While the age, sex and personality of owners affect these relationships, the sex of the cat doesn't seem to matter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although there are isolated instances of non-human animals, such as gorillas, bonding with other species, it seems to be mostly unique for humans to engage in social relationships with other animals.

The bond between cats and their owners turns out to be far more intense than imagined, especially for cat aficionado women and their affection reciprocating felines, suggests a new study.

Cats attach to humans, and particularly women, as social partners, and it's not just for the sake of obtaining food, according to the new research, which has been accepted for publication in the journal Behavioural Processes.

How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker

Quoted from http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/02/14/110214crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all:

How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker

And, if it was ever thus, how did it ever get to be thus in the first place? The digital world is new, and the real gains and losses of the Internet era are to be found not in altered neurons or empathy tests but in the small changes in mood, life, manners, feelings it creates—in the texture of the age. There is, for instance, a simple, spooky sense in which the Internet is just a loud and unlimited library in which we now live—as if one went to sleep every night in the college stacks, surrounded by pamphlets and polemics and possibilities. There is the sociology section, the science section, old sheet music and menus, and you can go to the periodicals room anytime and read old issues of the New Statesman. (And you can whisper loudly to a friend in the next carrel to get the hockey scores.) To see that that is so is at least to drain some of the melodrama from the subject. It is odd and new to be living in the library; but there isn’t anything odd and new about the library.