- 118 - Online Communities Map (Not For Navigation) « Strange Maps
Somewhat in the style of a treasure map, this ‘Map of Online Communities’ shows MySpace, Wikipedia, SecondLife and other user-generated phenomena now populating the internet. The geography is not as random as one could assume at first glance. Area and position are significant. Thus, each community’s geographic area represents its estimated size, and the ‘compass-shaped island’ gives clues as to what each quarter signifies: * North are more ‘practical’ communities, * South is for the ‘intellectuals’. * West lie the communities with a ‘real life’ connection, * East those with a focus on the web itself.
in Public bookmarks by 2 users - Blackwater: When Things Go Wrong (continued) (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)
<<mercenary>> <<war crime>> <<fallujah>>
Breaking news, weather, sports and entertainment for Hampton Roads, Virginia - Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Newport News, Hampton, Williamsburg, and Outer Banks - from The Virginian-Pilot newspaper.
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in Public bookmarks - Boyd's OODA Loop (PowerPoint)
orient observe decide act. this must be about the only military powerpoint in the world that's not totally meaningless.
in Public bookmarks - Cryptome
[wikipedia:] Cryptome is a website hosted in the United States since 1996 by independent scholars[1] and architects John Young and Deborah Natsios[2] that functions as a repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance. According to the site: Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance—open, secret and classified documents—but not limited to those.[3] Cryptome hosted documents, consisting of over 54,000 files,[4] include suppressed photographs of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, lists of people believed to be MI6 agents
in Public bookmarks by 27 users - D-N-I review: Science, Strategy & War
Boyd’s answer, the Discourse, is a set of roughly 300 charts, and Osinga has set himself the task of guiding his readers through them. It is a formidable assignment. Boyd, you see, did not intend the briefings of the Discourse to be read on their own. For years, he would not give out copies until after the presentation, and it had to be the “whole brief or no brief.” It may seem obvious, but it was in briefing format not so much in tribute to Sun Tzu – although The Art of War is, like the Discourse, a set of bullet points – but simply because he didn’t feel that there were enough readers inside the Beltway to make it worthwhile.
in Public bookmarks - EagerEyes
Visualization and Visual Communication
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Note: ManyEyes - Feynman's Talk: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics
This transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gave on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was first published in the February 1960 issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science, which owns the copyright. It has been made available on the web at http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html with their kind permission. Information on the Feynman Prizes Links to pages on Feynman For an account of the talk and how people reacted to it, see chapter 4 of Nano! by Ed Regis, Little/Brown 1995. An excellent technical introduction to nanotechnology is Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation by K. Eric Drexler, Wiley 1992. I imagine expe
in Public bookmarks by 3 users (all private) - Foreign Policy: The State at Work photo essay
Running a poor country has never been a tougher job. Civil servants are asked to do the people’s work with very little, sometimes with nothing at all. They see to it that the job gets done—or grinds to a halt. Meet the bureaucrats. <photography>
in Public bookmarks - G A P M I N D E R: HOME
Search statistics through Google and watch it move with Gapminder
Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
in Public bookmarks - Global Guerrillas
THE ROLE OF CITIES - Within the context of emerging theories of system disruption, that are emerging as this war slowly ramps-up, cities play an entirely different role. As the events in Baghdad are proving daily, cities can be engineered to radiate instability rather than dampen it. This is accomplished through acts that leverage three attributes of modern cities. These include: * Extreme mobility and interconnectedness (ie, high rates of automobile and cell phone ownership). * Complete reliance on high volume infrastructure networks. * Complex and heterogeneous social networks that are held together under pressure. Blitzing the system The key to unlocking the disruptive potential of cities within this new form of warfare, is to attack key points (systempu
in Public bookmarks - Global Guerrillas: TERRORIST NETWORKS: Advanced Topics 070216
The media term "amorphous terrorist network" doesn't provide much for us to work with. That changes when you apply advanced network theory to the topic. A recent paper by the student Mitch Stripling called, "Embodying Terror Networks: How Direction Creates Structure" (PDF) is a great example of this. The paper starts with a strongly written review of how network theory has been applied to this topic. This review starts with the early work by Arquilla and Ronfeldt (Networks and Netwars) and their simplistic chain, star, and all-channel network topographies and continues to the highly connected hubs (which embodies both the vulnerability and resilience of this type of network topology) and power-law distributions of scale-free networks (for more, read the bri
in Public bookmarks - How to Virtualize Your Workforce - wikiHow
Enterprise Mobility: The ability for an enterprise to communicate with suppliers, partners, employees, assets, products, and customers irrespective of location. <<management>>
in Public bookmarks by 3 users - Iraq War Coalition Fatalities Flashed [Mesopotamia Macromedia]
Iraq War Coalition Fatalities is a chart of the US and coalition military fatalities that have occurred in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space. It is an ongoing project that is updated regularly, and will continue to go on as long as the war does. The animation runs at ten frames per second -one frame for each day- and a black dot indicates the geographic location that a coalition military fatality occurred. Each dot starts as a white flash and a larger red dot which fades to black over the span of 30 frames/day, and then slowly fades to grey over the span of the entire war. Accompanying the visual representation is a soft 'tic' sound for each fatality, the volume of which increases relative to the number of fatalities that
The Iraq War Coalition Fatalities Project is an interactive animated chart of US and coalition military fatalities that have occured in the war in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space.
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in Public bookmarks - John Maynard Keynes - Wikiquote
in Public bookmarks - LifeClever
How to cure traffic jams» <<stigmergy>> <<cellular automata>> <<management>> The strategy is to simply maintain a large space in front of you instead of instinctively speeding up to close any gaps. It’s counter-intuitive, but according to his own experiments, it works. Here’s what he says: Traffic jams on highways are often triggered where two lanes must merge into one. Lanes of cars cannot merge if there are no large gaps between cars. Therefore, drivers who create large gaps between cars will ease this type of traffic jam.
Tips for design and life
in Public bookmarks - Mapping and Distance Tools
Measure distances on maps. Quick start: A course is the shortest line between two points. Move the map cursor to the desired start point and click there; or use the find box. Then, move to the next point and click again; or use the find box again. Continue choosing points until done. Pan and zoom the map if necessary to find each point. A circle is a line around a point. Choose the circle's center by clicking on the map; or use the find box. Move the cursor away from the center the desired distance, and click again; or, use the find box.
in Public bookmarks - Miyamoto Musashi - A Book of Five Rings
in Public bookmarks by 2 users - NCSE Resource: Islamic Scientific Creationism: A New Challenge in Turkey (by Ümit Sayin & Aykut Kence)
At the time that "Creation Science: A Successful Export?" was published in RNCSE (Matsumura 1998), there was an notable debate among intellectuals, scientists, lay people and fundamentalist Islamists concerning Islamic scientific creationism in Turkey. Since the early 1990s, the Science Research Foundation (Bilim Arastirma Vakfi, or BAV) has undertaken a new mission of spreading an Islamic version of scientific creationism in Turkey, the ideology of which was mainly imported from the US. However, it was not until late 1998 that many scientists and academics, as well as Turkish science institutions, such as TUBITAK (the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council) and TUBA (the Turkish Academy of Sciences), protested the pseudoscience of BAV and publis
in Public bookmarks - PERMANENT Asteroid mining, space colonies, commercialization
P rojects to E mploy R esources of the M oon and A steroids N ear E arth in the N ear T erm G o a l s We mean business!Don't expensively launch from Earth, use construction materials already in space.Build valuable, profitable products and habitats in orbit (not send back to Earth).Non-governmental, commercial, faster, cheaper large scale space development. O r g a n i z a t i o n PERMANENT is an introductory guide for all, a reference source for experts and a news site on space resources. We link to known, quality websites, stockpile technical resources of third parties not on the web, and help them publish on the web.
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Note: http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2000/08/disasteroids.html http://killerasteroidproject.org/neo_followup_project.htm - Phone hacking, News International and operational disaster for News Corp by Guy Rundle | Crikey | 7 July 2011
Back in the day, the analogue and offline day, when a plenitude of images did not circulate, one of the most vital jobs in the newspaper industry was that of the “picture-snatcher”?—?the reporter, often a cub/cadet, who would accompany a senior colleague to the house of a grieving widow whose family member had just been trampled by a horse/died of dropsy/ etc, and, while the bereaved was being engaged in conversation, snatch a picture of the decedent from the mantelpiece, and then sprint back to the office with it.
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