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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Highly detailed 3D printing in NY
Monday, March 24, 2014
More efficient recycling with 3D printing
We generate so much plastic waste today that it has become a serious environmental problem. Some of us do put aside our plastic bottles for recycling, but even that endeavour requires energy consumption just to get the plastic to a recycling centre. Even more energy is needed for the actual recycling. There is a better way to reuse the plastic, and 3D printing makes it possible.Read more in
3D Printing Plastic — Distributed Recyling and Distributing the Benefits
Joshua Pearce holds a DremelFuge chuck made from shredded plastic milk jugs. |
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
3D printing at MAD
My first-hand account of the 3D exhibit at MAD
Living in New York is wonderful for a number of reasons, but high on my list is access to so many great museums. Not only do we have world-famous museums, like the Met and the MoMA, but we have small, specialized museums that offer unique exhibits focused on innovations in art and technology. The Museum of Art and Design’s Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital, on view through until July 6th, is definitely worth a visit for anyone interested in digital design and production.
Read more in http://3dprintingindustry.com/2014/03/17/3d-printing-review-mad-exhibition/
Related: http://writewaypro.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-moma-goes-mobile.html
Living in New York is wonderful for a number of reasons, but high on my list is access to so many great museums. Not only do we have world-famous museums, like the Met and the MoMA, but we have small, specialized museums that offer unique exhibits focused on innovations in art and technology. The Museum of Art and Design’s Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital, on view through until July 6th, is definitely worth a visit for anyone interested in digital design and production.
Read more in http://3dprintingindustry.com/2014/03/17/3d-printing-review-mad-exhibition/
Related: http://writewaypro.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-moma-goes-mobile.html
Monday, February 24, 2014
How am I tweeting?
NewTwitterAnalytics offers answers. Almost every business has a Twitter account, but many fail to take full advantage of Twitter's many add-on tools. What's holding them back?
Perhaps it's just a matter of not knowing how to measure their impact and figure out how the tools contribute to their goals. Twitter solves that problem with its new Analytics for Twitter Cards service. Read more in
Perhaps it's just a matter of not knowing how to measure their impact and figure out how the tools contribute to their goals. Twitter solves that problem with its new Analytics for Twitter Cards service. Read more in
Twitter Analytics Puts Cards on the Table
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
British slang
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I've picked up some British slang just from context. So this wasn't all new to me, though there were a few surprises, particularly the compilers' own perception of of American usage, perhaps that's due to limited exposure to some friends who are not familiar with all expressions.
What could have been left out
I never thought of DIY as a British term; it's one Americans use regularly.
Also most Americans (apparently, excluding the friends of the compiler) understand that "piece of cake" means that something is easy, though some, for some reason prefer the term "cake walk." You could also say "easy as pie" here, though I don't know if they would get the gist of that over the pond. . We also say "haggle" and are not too likely to say"dicker."
Also Americans tend to say "excuse me" both for things like burping and to suggest that someone move out of their way far more often than "pardon me," so the distinctions the list presents are not exactly accurate.
Oh, and some of us do use the -ly ending for adverbs, thank you very much!
What could have been included
terms like "brill" is mentioned in passing, though it doesn't have its own entry. It could have been included because the word "brilliant" does have different connotation in British usage than in American usage. Over here, people use it primarily to mean really smart but not as the equivalent of "terrific."
Other regional differences?
Perhaps it has something to do with focusing on strictly English slang rather than some that may extend to other parts of the UK. Here's the entry on "cracking" -"If something is cracking, it means it is the best. Usually said without pronouncing the last "G". If a girl is cracking it means she is stunning." From what I recall there's another slang meaning for "crack," though that may be more strictly speaking Irish usage. It appeared several times in a novel I once read and clearly meant talk, chat, of the variety one expects to have in a pub.
Still it's an entertaining read.
Photoshop in 3D
We may not yet have the Star Trek "replicator," but we're coming pretty close to wonders with recent advances in 3D printing. It's no wonder that Adobe sees this as the right time to introduce 3D printing capabilities to its Creative Cloud."
No longer limited to hobbyists printing out plastic shapes, 3D printing can now be used to produce ceramics and metals, increasing its functionality for engineers as well as artists. TheCES show in early January had 28 exhibitors for 3D printing. This past October, Gartner predicted rapid growth for 3D printers, anticipating that this year "spending will increase 62 percent, reaching $669 million, with enterprise spending of $536 million and consumer spending of $133 million."
That's a substantial enough amount to attract the likes of Adobe, which announced its foray into the 3D printing industry on January 16 with the new release of Photoshop CC.
Read more in
No longer limited to hobbyists printing out plastic shapes, 3D printing can now be used to produce ceramics and metals, increasing its functionality for engineers as well as artists. TheCES show in early January had 28 exhibitors for 3D printing. This past October, Gartner predicted rapid growth for 3D printers, anticipating that this year "spending will increase 62 percent, reaching $669 million, with enterprise spending of $536 million and consumer spending of $133 million."
That's a substantial enough amount to attract the likes of Adobe, which announced its foray into the 3D printing industry on January 16 with the new release of Photoshop CC.
Read more in
3D Printing From Adobe's Cloud
Monday, February 3, 2014
Oh the places you'll go and the stories your can can tell about htem
The main problem with the current state of in-car, location-based services is that they aren't required to notify consumers. It's possible that some motorists are completely unaware of who uses their location data, and how. Also, for four out of the six automakers, customers do not have the option to request that their historical data be erased. (The "right to be forgotten" is included in the EU’s data protection laws and recommended by the GAO.) Read more in
In-Car Tracking: We Know Where You've Been
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
3D printing brings the stars to the blind
Discussions of big data often touch on the challenge of visualization. An even greater challenge, though, is rendering the data into something that is comprehensible to people who have to use senses other than sight.
3D printing brings the stars to the visually impaired by rendering Hubble's images into tactile form.
Read more in
3D printing brings the stars to the visually impaired by rendering Hubble's images into tactile form.
Read more in
Reaching for the Stars With 3D Printing
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Keeping your identity
Clones, robots, alien shapeshifters, or disembodied consciousness take over people's identities in shows such as Star Trek and Doctor Who. They can then take over the lives of the people they've duplicated, particularly when they have access to their memories. How can anyone defend himself when he can't tell friend from foe?
In real life, most of us don't fear having someone else show up in person claiming to be us. But we are concerned about identity theft. Our digital world makes it all too easy for the bad guys to hack into personal information posted online, as well as financial information that we can think is secure. The cost of identity theft can be huge when hackers get access to our credit cards, debit cards, and bank accounts.
Read more in Your Personal Online Guardian
Monday, January 6, 2014
Cellphone tracking: a matter of protection or loss of privacy?
With the right equipment, anyone can trace where we are through our phones. Whether and how this technology is used has been a source of controversy for years.
One of the latest flare-ups is police use of Stingrays. In this context, it's not a type of fish but the brand name of an International Mobile Subscriber Identity tracking device.
Read more in
Cellphone Tracking: Protection vs. Privacy
Glassdoor
Glassdoor, once known primarily as a site for salary information and an insider's peek into corporate culture, has grown by building up its job search features, putting it squarely in competition with the better-known LinkedIn. That could be good news for job seekers and employees who want salary bumps or better benefits.
Read more here:IIn Glassdoor vs. LinkedIn, Employees Win |
Monday, December 16, 2013
Written in the meta-data
Is it possible to identify an individual’s romantic partner on the basis of his/her social networks alone? That’s the question Jon Kleinberg, a computer scientist at Cornell University and Eric Bakstrom, a senior engineer from Facebook, teamed up to answer. After analyzing millions of Facebook data points, they came up with an affirmative response in Romantic Partnerships and the Dispersion of Social Ties: A Network Analysis of Relationship Status on Facebook -- they assert the answer is yes with a 60% probability.
Read more in Your Romantic Attachments as Predicted by Metadata
Read more in Your Romantic Attachments as Predicted by Metadata
Monday, December 2, 2013
Students on camera -- not for security
We have technology that can use cCameras in Class: Insight vs. Privacy
ameras in the classroom for analysis of lessons. What do you think? Learn more about the concept of EngageSense in
ameras in the classroom for analysis of lessons. What do you think? Learn more about the concept of EngageSense in
Sunday, December 1, 2013
the use of @ and # before Twitter
Grawlixes, AKA obscenicons are the short strings of symbols that take the place of profanity. It seems positively quaint in today's world when just about everything is considered fit for print, though you may still see it on rare occasion. I was reminded of the device recently when I read The Pigman. (I checked it out of the library after seeing it among the books on display at the New York Public Library's The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter).
The 1968 novel has two narrators, and the teen boy says that to abstain from using curse words, he will type “@#$%” or“3@#$%.” I'm not certain I've ever seen the use of grawlixes in books before, though I have seen the oblique reference, something along the lines of "He called her something I cannot repeat," that you can find in a book lie The Forsyte Sage or the dashes following a letter like "d___ " that you can find in books by the Brontes.
I have the impression that language in print really loosened up in the 1990s, and this fits with what I found in a 2000 article about the shifting standard for newspapers: "He spent 10 years at the San Antonio Express-News, where he watched 'damn' go from being bleeped out to containing dashes to being fully spelled out. "
BTW If you want to hear grawlixes in a song, there is one here:
Related post http://writewaypro.blogspot.com/2013/08/blame-ship-logs-for-this-word.html
The 1968 novel has two narrators, and the teen boy says that to abstain from using curse words, he will type “@#$%” or“3@#$%.” I'm not certain I've ever seen the use of grawlixes in books before, though I have seen the oblique reference, something along the lines of "He called her something I cannot repeat," that you can find in a book lie The Forsyte Sage or the dashes following a letter like "d___ " that you can find in books by the Brontes.
I have the impression that language in print really loosened up in the 1990s, and this fits with what I found in a 2000 article about the shifting standard for newspapers: "He spent 10 years at the San Antonio Express-News, where he watched 'damn' go from being bleeped out to containing dashes to being fully spelled out. "
BTW If you want to hear grawlixes in a song, there is one here:
Related post http://writewaypro.blogspot.com/2013/08/blame-ship-logs-for-this-word.html
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