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"GENERATIONS of psychologists and philosophers have believed that babies and young children were basically defective adults — irrational, egocentric and unable to think logically…Even today, a cursory look at babies and young children leads many to conclude that there is not much going on."
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Map Gallery of Religion in the United States
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Archive for August, 2009
links for 2009-08-17
Monday, August 17th, 2009Some recent links about life and living in India
Monday, August 17th, 2009What Accounts for the Difference in Autorickshaw Driver Behavior in Mumbai and Delhi?
“According to law, autorickshaw drivers must only go by the meter reading that is reported after a commuter’s trip is finished. However in Delhi, there are hardly any autorickshaw drivers who go by this law, and instead they quote nefariously high prices. In Mumbai though, no matter what the time of the day or night, the drivers go by the meter.”
How to Cheat the Mumbai Train System
“…the commuter trains of Mumbai serve six million passengers daily but the system isn’t equipped to check everyone’s ticket…”
why delhi’s buses are so deadly: an economic analysis
“The Blueline [Delhi bus]’s grim numbers stem entirely from two perverse economic incentives: the driver’s salary is wholly dependent on how many fares he picks up, and each bus is in direct competition with every other bus on the route.”
Obituary: Gayatri Devi
Gayatri Devi, Indian princess turned politician, was renowned for her beauty and elegance: she was once listed by Vogue as one of the world’s 10 most beautiful women. At one point, in 1975 during Indira Gandhi’s state of emergency , she was jailed for allegedly violating the tax laws.
links for 2009-08-15
Saturday, August 15th, 2009-
"Keeping an eye on Dave Winer"
links for 2009-08-14
Friday, August 14th, 2009-
Transforming JSON data to other formats with a set of transformation rules written in JSON
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Video and full transcript of Douglas Crockford talking about the origins and future of JSON. "Good evening, I'm Doug Crockford of Yahoo! This is the JSON Saga, this is going to be the true story about JSON"
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I like the "Take on a 50/50 male/female keynote/tech talk challenge."
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"Popular topics: Maddie, Princess of Hearts, Stealing our jobs, Bloody Met Office"
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Long NYTimes article on the Beatles and Rock Band
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Python interpreter written in JavaScript. "Skulpt is an entirely in-browser implementation of Python. No preprocessing, plugins, or server-side support required, just write Python and push F5."
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MPs in the Media Mash-up — an interactive MP media appearance timeline, using data from the Guardian's Open Platform, the BBC's own RDF programme data, Talis's linked data and the Processing development environment.
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It's grouse season. Here's a recipe for roast grouse and creamed lentils.
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Can someone please explain to me if this is the same as, slightly different from or completely different from PubSubHubbub and RSScloud?
IE6 state of play linkage
Friday, August 14th, 2009A few links to recent IE6 coverage.
Digg the Blog: Much Ado About IE6
“This goes directly to why most folks use IE6: they don’t have a choice. Three out of four IE6 users on Digg said they can’t upgrade due to some technical or workplace reason…Giving them a message saying, ‘Hey! Upgrade!’ in this case is not only pointless; it’s sadistic.”
BBC News | Technology: Microsoft backs long life for IE6 [support will continue until 2014, four years beyond their original deadline]
“‘Friends do not let friends use IE6,’ said Amy Barzdukas, Microsoft’s general manager for Internet Explorer.
‘If you are in my social set and I have been to your house for dinner, you are not using IE6,’ she said. ‘But it is much more complicated when you move into a business setting.’”
blogs.msdn.com | IEBlog: The Engineering Point Of View
“The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product. We keep our commitments.”
MoD to stick with IE6 despite security concerns
“According to parliamentary written answers received by Labour MP Tom Watson, the majority of [government] departments still require staff to use IE6. Most have plans to upgrade to the more secure IE7, and some to IE8, but the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has no plans to change.”
Conclusion: IE6, at least in corporate environments, isn’t going away for a few years yet.
links for 2009-08-13
Thursday, August 13th, 2009-
"Now everybody’s competently growing tiny lettuces and dismal herbs in their window boxes and smugly claiming that as ‘food’, the logical next step seems to be keeping livestock: pigs and chickens and the like. Lately, this has manifested itself as an interest in bees. Everywhere I look, someone is writing about bees."
links for 2009-08-12
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009-
"The American Colonie has great Faith in Almighty GOD; yet is curiously quiet 'pon any Mention of healing the SICK"
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How Computer-Assisted Reporters Evolved into Programmer/Journalists
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"…we need your help to create an audio map of the world. We’re especially keen to preserve endangered sounds for future generations"
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"I have switched to a Google G1 "Dream" phone for a month. I feel like writing about it.
Default PATH variable setting on Mac OS X
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Just in case your “friend” deletes his PATH variable and screws up his Terminal, stick this in ~/.bash_profile :
export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
links for 2009-08-10
Monday, August 10th, 2009-
…or at least posts a message to the W3C HTML mailing list
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"With passclicks your normal textual passwords are replaced with a sequence of clicks on an image."
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"…dedicated to comparison screenshot reviews of often dodgy yet unavoidable DVD releases from the wide, weird and wonderful world of Hindi cinema"
links for 2009-08-08
Saturday, August 8th, 2009-
Useful, quick and easy walkthrough of writing a Python/Django app which interfaces with Twitter, and deploying it to Google AppEngine.