Archive for November, 2009

Frindle
Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Frindle ['frindl] n., a writing device, usually a ballpoint pen.[3] It is now a real word; it means pen or writing device in English.
via Frindle – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

What an ideal search engine might be like:
Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Scope: The ideal engine would be able to search every document on the Internet
Speed: Results would be available immediately
Currency: All the information would be kept completely up-to-date
Recall: We could always find every document relevant to our query
Precision: There would be no irrelevant documents in our result set
Ranking: The most relevant results would come first, and [...]

Social Media Today | Research shows how much we love a blamestorm
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

According to Science Daily, two academics conducted four different experiements, “and found that publicly blaming others dramatically increases the likelihood that the practice will become viral.”In one example, participants read about California Governor Schwarzenegger blaming special interest groups for the failure of a special election that cost $250. The ones who did so [...]

Overdue library books returned half century later – Nation AP – MiamiHerald.com
Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Camelback High School librarian Georgette Bordine says the two Audubon Society books checked out in 1959 and the money order were sent by someone who wanted to remain anonymous.
Bordine says the letter explained that the borrower's family moved to another state and the books were mistakenly packed.
The letter said the money order was to cover [...]

Cymatics
Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Harold Cabezas (haroldcabezas) ’s status on Thursday, 03-Sep-09 15 … – “Sound Does Have Form…It Can Affect Matter And Cause Form Within Matter.” – Evan Grant on Cymatics-TED Video http://post.ly/3rkN. Attachments. http://haroldcabezas.posterous.com/sound-does-have-formit-can-affect-matter-and …
Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics (TED) « Urban … – Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics (TED). This entry was [...]

Cymatics Used To Create Dolphin Alphabet | Journal of Cymatics
Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Using high definition audio recordings of dolphins, the research team, headed by English acoustics engineer and cymatics researcher, John Stuart Reid, and Florida-based dolphin researcher, Jack Kassewitz, has been able to use cymatics to image the imprint that a dolphin sound makes in water.
They have used cymatics to create “reproducible patterns that are expected to [...]

Imagine Your Reality , Archive » Social media strategy for my website and web presence
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Video is an underused resource in social media, but its increasingly going to become relevant as people use it to create information videos, video blogs, or comedic video entries. I’m planning on making more videos, because I know they provide a level of interactivity that people will want more of as time goes on. After [...]

Neuromarketing: What the Human Brain Means to Your Campaign
Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Neuromarketing companies fall into three broad categories based on technique:
fMRI scanning: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanners, weighing in at about 32 tons and costing about $3 million each, measure the level of blood flow to various regions of the brain, showing researchers where the action is.
The ability to provide location-based brain mapping is the primary [...]