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A View from Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” October 20, 2014

Source: Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”

REVEAL.JS

THE HTML PRESENTATION FRAMEWORK

Source: reveal.js – The HTML Presentation Framework
 
Cool tool for browser based presentations
 

This is a lot of words about one project in one American city, but it does carry a broader lesson.

It’s relatively easy to look at an example of a foreign country that is doing something well — whether that’s Germany in using apprenticeships to connect young people to meaningful blue-collar work, Finland in supporting new parents, or Paris in building subway tunnels — and say that we ought to do it too. Certainly providing people with quality public services costs money, but the United States is a very rich country, and finding the money for something worthwhile is never impossible.

But this kind of discussion too often elides the real practical difficulties in implementing big domestic policies like those, and the ways in which the US system is uniquely bad and inefficient about doing so. Between the Second Avenue Subway, the $10.2 billion East Side Access tunnel for the LIRR, and the $4 billion World Trade Center PATH station, the New York City region is in fact spending a lot of money on upgrading its mass transit system. The money is simply not going to generate as much transit service as a comparable amount of spending would in Paris or Copenhagen, because New York’s institutions don’t seem up to the task of spending it as effectively. Improving is both possible and desirable, but it would take actual time and skill and effort.

Source: NYC’s brand new subway is the most expensive in the world — that’s a problem – Vox

Ditto is an extension to the standard windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items at a later time. Ditto allows you to save any type of information that can be put on the clipboard, text, images, html, custom formats, …..

Features

Easy to use interface

Search and paste previous copy entries

Keep multiple computer’s clipboards in sync

Data is encrypted when sent over the network

Accessed from tray icon or global hot key

Select entry by double click, enter key or drag drop

Paste into any window that excepts standard copy/paste entries

Display thumbnail of copied images in list

Full Unicode support(display foreign characters)

UTF-8 support for language files(create language files in any language)

Uses sqlite database (www.sqlite.org)

Source: Ditto clipboard manager

Save and restore the positions of icons. DesktopOK is a small but effective solution for user that have to change the screen resolution often.# Features:

# Save your favorite icon locations for each screen resolution.

# Each user can then have his own arrangement.

# Automatically hide and display desktop icons

# Minimises to tray area for easy access.

# Easily minimize all of the windows on your screen

# Launch at Windows startup.

# Autosave the Desktop Icon Layout

# Change Language

# Multilingual

# Portable

Source: DesktopOK 4.51 Save and restore the desktop icon positions.

Perhaps I’m projecting my prejudices. But an impressive body of psychological research seems to support these feelings. It suggests that materialism, a trait that can afflict both rich and poor, and which the researchers define as “a value system that is preoccupied with possessions and the social image they project”, is both socially destructive and self-destructive. It smashes the happiness and peace of mind of those who succumb to it. It’s associated with anxiety, depression and broken relationships

Source: Materialism: a system that eats us from the inside out | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian

The Mass had just started when Kimberly had to go to the bathroom. She took Kristine Joy with her and left her two other children, ages 16 and 15, inside the church.Two shots suddenly rang out, followed by a few more. Kristine Joy immediately fell to the ground.According to police, motorcycle-riding gunmen were targeting village watchman Allan Fernandez, 37. But stray bullets found their way to Kristine Joy and another churchgoer, Rowena Flores. The bullet went through Kristine Joy’s chest, almost piercing her heart.

Source: ‘I told her to fight, but all she could say was mama, mama’ | Inquirer News