This. Is. So. Depressing. 如果关心每一个生命，每一个个体，这些频繁发生的非正常死亡的个案只会是一次又一次激发起我们的同情和愤怒，而不是慢慢的变得视若无睹。如果没有感觉，没有愤怒，我们就要反省自己，人性里面缺失了什麽。 Amen. Bonus video: Linkin Park - What I’ve Done

如上图所示，是个标准的Flash播放窗口，里面的视频虽然是动画作品，但仍然是标准的视频，内容是HP的什么一体机广告。可以想像，不久的将来，Adsense就会变得跟Youtube一样了。再加上Google新收购的Doubleclick，说不好就要大做高级的品牌形象类的广告了。

Google了一下，这不是第一次。

这些天有点忙，白天网络又不爽，午休时间就改为看片了，断断续续看了3周多，把现有的18集Heroes给看完了。该剧秉承美剧英雄对抗黑老大的惊天大阴谋的一贯思路，这方面不算创新，但是种类超能力也就是特异功能看得还算比较爽，总结一下，可以在不爽的时候想像一下你如何拥有其中一项时会有多爽

1，自愈能力，身体上的任何伤口都会自动愈合
2，读心，能听到别人正在想的事，但别人可以用你不懂的外语思考
3，飞行，想飞就飞
4，隐身，突然间就消失了
5，分身，也许是人格分裂，但有时也会真实地存在两个人
6，看到未来的事，然后能画下来
7，顺风耳，听到数十公里外的任何声音
8，核爆人，身体具有放射性，随时搞出核爆
9，直接同机器交谈，让ATM机器给钱
10，记忆，能记住任何东西，学什么都是过目不忘，过耳不忘
11，穿墙，任何实在的物质都可以自由穿行，也可以隐藏在其他物体中
12，可以直接接收无线电信号，并用大脑连通电脑
13，读取记忆，在他看来大脑中的记忆就跟一条虫子差不多，可以抓出来，所以也能清洗记忆，也能干扰他人大脑的功能
14，幻象，可以做出任何幻象，变身成任何人
15，熔化金属
16，时空扭曲，可以停止时间，可以跑到未来，也可以瞬时移动
17，学习，任何有功能的人靠近他，他都能直接学会这项特异功能
18，洞悉，看任何特异功能人的大脑就能明白其中的道理，并学会这一功能
19，意念移物，意念控制，包括控制其他人
20，玩火，随手就能冒出火来
21，做梦，进入他人梦境，为人指点迷津
22，说服

其中有几项很厉害，如果能扭曲时空，再加上穿墙隐身说服力，我简直想跑到德州说服这家服务商再加点流量。

非常简单：一次PowerPoint陈述，应该只有10页幻灯片，持续时间不超过20分钟，字体不小于30磅。

原文地址：第三集 大爷今年八十四

当阿基米德进入知天命之年，阿波罗尼奥斯¹还是个不知天高地厚的小伙子。他虽然在数学上表现得才华横溢，但与前者岁数上25年的差距使得他在阿基米德面前还是略显浮躁轻狂。有那么一天，阿波罗尼奥斯向长者炫耀自己已经完全掌握了大数的奥妙，言下之意是从阿基米德这学不到什么东西了。阿基米德听完他的“豪言”以后又好气又好笑，决定弄个题目折腾下这个小兔崽子，于是他说：

啊，朋友，如果你真的智慧过人，那么就来算算群牛的数目吧。它们蒙受太阳神的眷顾，自由的在广袤的西西里平原吃草。按毛色它们被分成4组：白、黑、棕、花，每种牛又分公、母。在公牛中，白牛数多于棕牛数，多出之数相当于全体黑牛数的1/2+1/3；黑牛数多于棕牛数，多出之数相当于全体花牛数的1/4+1/5；花牛数多于棕牛数，多出之数相当于全体白牛数的1/6+1/7；在母牛中，白牛数是全体黑牛数的1/3+1/4；黑牛数是全体花牛数的1/4+1/5；花牛数是全体棕牛数的1/5+1/6；棕牛数是全体白牛数的1/6+1/7。试问这帮牛有多少头？

阿波罗尼奥斯光看完题目就晕菜了。不料阿基米德还觉得太便宜这小子，于是又加了两行代码升级。他心怀不轨的继续打击阿波罗尼奥斯：啊，朋友，你就算解出上述问题，还称不上精通大数。要知道太阳神无所不能，他把白公牛与黑公牛放牧在正方形的牧场，而把花公牛和棕公牛在正三角形草原放牧²。这你要是都搞得定，那你可真是个专家了。

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原作者：Daniel Pudles 原载：The Economist 杂志，2007年3月22日 原文链接：http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8881446 Google这个世界最大搜索公司不停地扫描图书，虽然不知何人，也无法分辨在...

data visualization for the masses: a new real-time monitor that will help cut greenhouse gas emissions & the amount of energy wasted by appliances being left on standby is now proposed to be freely distributed in UK households.

the MorePower device aims to give people more information about their energy consumption by displaying the cost of energy & carbon emissions over time & for each device. "the visual language is designed to let non-expert users quickly & easily understand the messy world of energy-use without becoming boring energy geeks."

will people be truly able to make sense of them?

see also eco-visualization & patterns of energy use & power-aware cord & standby visualization & power socket bar chart & wattson energy display.

[link: moreassociates.com & bbc.co.uk & bbc.co.uk|via engadget.com]

a real-time application that visualizes historical tick data from the TAQ database, an extremely large, multi-dimensional dataset containing every public trade for a specific asset. the application displays second-by-second ticks for multiple assets faster than real-time, as a navigable, fully 3D trading environment.

the X-axis denotes time in seconds, the Y-axis (or the width of the ribbon) is a logarithmic scale of the volume, the Z-axis shows price, while the color of the ribbon represents the tick-by-tick price change.

see also stock market spheres & light sculpture & ticker garden & skirt & money map & planetarium.

[link: lineplot.com & lineplot.com (movie) lineplot.com (thesis PDF)]

今天早上咨询了一下CERNET用户服务部：如何加入教育网的免费地址列表？ 请通知你的服务商，让IDC和cernet联系申请加入（走服务器网段加入免费列表申请流程）： 联系人 010 - 62603429 杨小姐。 注： 1 我的机器就在国内（不通过国际光缆），北京 电信通机房主机托管1台； 2 开通了以后如何检查： CERNIC免费IP查询；

Does 60.195.249.163 belong to CERNET "free" IP list? No. 60.195.249.163 不在免费之列. 60.195.249.163 is NOT in free IP list.

《复杂》导读

作者：米歇尔.沃尔德洛普 翻译：陈玲

出版：三联书店

《复杂》这本书的出版可以说给中国的学术界打开了一扇窗子，让我们真正的了解了国外的复杂性科学。有人称《复杂》这本书是复杂性科学的“圣经”我看也一点不为过。《复杂》类似于纪实小说，读起来轻松愉快，然而这也许会让不熟悉的人摸不到头脑，因为单单从每一章的标题根本读不出来这一张所要讲述的主要内容。事实上，《复杂》叙述的学术内容涵盖了经济、生命、计算机、物理、哲学等等多门学科、多个层面。我再次做一个总结，方便大家阅读，并在相应的章节找到自己最想要的东西。

1、爱尔兰的英雄
主要叙述阿瑟（Brian Arthur）的故事，包括他的报酬递增率，以及新经济学上的一些洞见，还有对新古典经济学关于最优化经济人的质疑。当然文中也介绍了他的一些个人经历和科研成果。从这章你会体会到一场革命即将来临，这是一个非常好的复杂科学的切入点。如果你感兴趣的领域是经济学，并同样感受到新古典经济学的不足之处，那么这章一定要看。

2、老师倒戈
主要叙述考温、盖尔曼这些权威的物理学家、诺贝尔奖获得者是如何萌发研究跨学科的想法并筹建圣塔菲研究所的。其中包括了这些专家对自己以前研究方法的质疑，他们称新兴的方法为复杂系统方法。文中还介绍了一些物理学的知识。如果你对物理学感兴趣，建议看这章。

3、造物主的秘密

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Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search & User Experience, and Jeff Bartelma, Product Manager, Google Product Search (the product formerly known as Froogle :) )

Today, we're making some changes to how we help users find things to buy. You may be familiar with our product Froogle (a pun on "frugal"). Froogle offers a lot of great functionality and has helped many users find things to buy over the years, but the name caused confusion for some because it doesn't clearly describe what the product does.

So we're renaming Froogle as Google Product Search. We're taking the opportunity to refocus the user experience on providing the most comprehensive, relevant results in a clean, simple, easy-to-use UI. We're also excited about how Google Checkout can help searchers have a fast and secure purchase experience, so the new interface makes it easier to buy with Checkout.

One thing we didn't change is the wide variety of items you can find with Product Search. Perhaps you're looking for a toaster, a wireless router, or an apple slicer. Or maybe you're in the market for a Lego watch (like Jeff's) or a new longboard (go for Flashback wheels). We hope this update makes it easier to find whatever you're looking to buy.

Engadget中文名版的中文名发布了，名字是征集出来的，叫“瘾科技”。支持一下ICEBIN～～

David Churbuck's recent post imploring bloggers to publish full feeds reminded me that I've been meaning to comment on this for a while. It's a subject I speak on regularly at SES, and some of the recommendations I make are not the same ones you see made on a number of blogs.

First of all, I think the primary justification often given for partial feeds - that it will drive higher clickthroughs back to the publisher's site - is off-base. As people subscribe to feeds, they subscribe to more feeds. And that means they're consuming more content, which means that each click out of the feed reader is taking the reader away from more content. In other words, feed reading is consumption-oriented, not transactionally focused. We've seen no evidence that excerpts on their own drive higher clickthroughs.

Secondly, the reason many larger publishers give for trying to steer traffic back to the site is that they can make money on the site. Guess what? You can monetize feeds as well - giving you the option of deciding where and how you want to monetize your audience, instead of assuming that the feed's sole purpose is to drive traffic back to your site (which is a dubious proposition anyway).

I did an interview on Monday where the podcaster asked me how to make feeds "stickier". What he was actually asking was how to get readers more engaged with feed content: how can feeds be made more interactive? A lot of the thinking behind FeedFlare was that we needed a way to give publishers tools to increase the likelihood that readers would in fact engage. Clicking through to read a copy of the post they just read is unlikely to drive a lot of click activity. But clicking through to read the comments will. Bookmarking the post at del.icio.us will drive further activity, as will voting for the post at Digg. (And in those latter examples, they'll both increase secondary traffic growth, by building awareness of your content at those sites.) In other words, adding opportunities for the readers to do things other than just read a copy of the post goes a long way to increasing the probability that the readers will actually do something.

Too few publishers take advantage of the next logical step: building their own FeedFlare units to direct attention to other parts of the publisher's site. If you publish archives by category, why not give readers the ability to browse more articles like the one they just read by going to the category archive? Promoting an event? Do what the folks at TechPresident are doing and include a link to the event with every post:

That link gets seen by everyone subscribed to the feed, dramatically increasing the visibility of the Personal Democracy Forum event (disclosure: I'm speaking at PdF, and FeedBurner's a sponsor). Creating this FeedFlare takes less than five minutes, and it's then something you can share with anyone else who wants to support the event. (I won't go into all the variations here, but creating FeedFlares for fundraising, micro-sites for a specific function, etc., all make a ton of sense. You get the idea.) At this point, the feed is not just a way of distributing content, but is equally about driving awareness and delivering actions - just not all focused exclusively on the individual post.

There's another angle to publishing full feeds that doesn't get a lot of attention: the value of links contained in the posts themselves. Sites like TechMeme do a great job of finding links between blog posts and giving heavily-linked posts more visibility. Aggregators can (but often don't) use these links in interesting ways. Three years ago, I wrote about my favorite feature of my preferred aggregator at the time (SharpReader) - threaded RSS. I would absolutely love to see this feature implemented in Google Reader, where I could navigate through my subscriptions by seeing what links the posts had in common... it would add tremendous value to the interface, and expose connections between posts that are otherwise all but impossible to glean from casual browsing.

FeedDemon fans will be happy to see that Nick Bradbury has added a pretty slick feature to the latest FeedDemon beta called "Popular Topics". Here's a screen shot from FeedDemon 2.5, showing one of the most-linked-to posts across my 200 subscriptions:

In addition, FeedDemon also shows you the most linked-to posts across the NewsGator Online user base, which is a great way to leverage the NewsGator community to surface interesting content you might not otherwise see.

My personal wishlist aside, the value of the full post is that it exposes the links between the posts in the feed and other posts out on the web. These links are sometimes (and, I predict, increasingly will be) leveraged by other services and applications, which can generate additional exposure for your content. Which is sort of why you're publishing a feed in the first place, right?