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Data Sharing

NOAA Maps Shows Honshu Tsunami Wave Heights Around the Globe

15 March 2011
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How can you display wave height in a meaningful way, particularly when a tsunami strikes after a major earthquake?
NOAA researchers and staff took the maximum predicted wave heights from buoys positioned in the Pacific as the Honshu Tsunami spread across the Pacific on March 11, 2011. Using that data, they created the dramatic images [...]

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Current-Generation Supercomputers — How Fast Is Fast? Can We Build Next-Generation Supercomputers That Are As Proportionally Fast?

4 March 2011
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Will we see advances in microprocessor speed during the next decade similar to what we saw in the past two decades? If so, how?
Researchers at DARPA asked this question, or, rather, asked: “What sort of technologies would engineers need by 2015 to build a supercomputer capable of executing a quintillion (1018) mathematical operations per [...]

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Debtris (Visualization of Debt)

23 February 2011
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How does the cost of the Iraq War compare to US credit card debt? What about the worldwide costs of the financial crises from the late 2000s to the present? How do those costs compare to African nations’ debts?
Information is Beautiful provides those answers and more in his first animation, entitled “Debtris“. I have embedded [...]

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CBS News Examines the Internet and Our Right to Privacy

21 February 2011
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What if you are asked to resign your position because of a complaint about photos you posted to Facebook that you thought were private and for friends only — but weren’t? What if in the pictures you are perfectly sober, but simply posing with two glasses of alcohol, and reference a site that has a [...]

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Test Your Digital Footprint

18 February 2011
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You may be aware of your carbon footprint, but do you know the size of your digital footprint? Would you like to know how much digital exhaust you leave behind during your normal daily activities?
The Discovery Channel has created a tool called Your Digital Footprint that measures “how much information about your daily life [...]

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Americans’ Valentine’s Day Plans via Social Networking Sites

14 February 2011
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Are you honest about your relationships status on social networking sites? Do you display the name of your significant other on your site? How have you spent this past Valentine’s weekend? How will you spend today? Did you buy or do you plan to buy a gift for your significant other?
These questions and [...]

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Bridgestone “Reply All” Super Bowl XLV Commercial

11 February 2011

Loved it #2.

Because you know you’ve done it, and you know you’d have done what he did if you could’ve.

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Linked Open Data: the Promises an the Pitfalls…Where Are We and Why Isn’t There Broader Adoption?

8 February 2011
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This post is for those of you who are interested in Linked Open Data.
The following is from an announcement sent out via email by Diane Goldenberg-Hart of CNI on 7 February 2011.

A new video from CNI’s 2010 fall membership meeting is now available from CNI’s video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni). [...]

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Motorola “Hoodies” Super Bowl XLV Commercial

7 February 2011

Loved it.

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The Mechanics of Moving — A Guide to Avoiding Injuries and Damaged Possessions

2 February 2011
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How many times have you moved from one house or apartment to another in your lifetime? Do you think you know what it takes to move objects, pets, and people? I’ve moved plenty of times in my lifetime, but I am eager to hear of any information that can help me tame the moving beast. [...]

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