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The Dawning of the Age of the Structured Web

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMike at AI³ has posted a great in-depth article titled: Did You Blink? The Structured Web Just Arrived From the article: “DBpedia is the first and largest source of structured data on the Internet covering topics of general knowledge. You may have not yet heard of DBpedia, but you will. Its name derives from its…
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Housing Prices Rollercoaster

Reading Time: < 1 minuteInformation Aesthetics recently posted this great video that illustrates US home prices since 1890 as a rollercoaster ride!

The Role of Alpha and Consciousness

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just caught an interesting post on Mind Update (a side blog for the Transparent Corporation) titled: Brain Rhythms and Consciousness, and how Alpha may play a new role The article discusses how certain brainwave frequencies, like Gamma and Alpha, affect levels of consciousness.  Gamma frequencies have been typically associated with a more awakened state,…
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Infected Mushroom: Becoming Insane!

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCan Infected Mushroom get any better? These guys rock!

Polyphasic Sleep

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSteve Pavlina recently posted an interesting article recollecting his previous experience adjusting to a Polyphasic Sleep Cycle. “It’s been nearly a year since I terminated my polyphasic sleep experiment. If you didn’t follow that experiment, for 5-1/2 months (Oct 2005 – Apr 2006) I followed a pattern of sleeping about 20 minutes once every four…
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My New Blog on Zaadz

Reading Time: < 1 minuteApparently, I haven’t been busy enough on this blog. So, I decided to create a second blog (Inspire’s Blog on Zaadz)! I’ve been following Zaadz for some time and decided that I need to join the community, and start collaborating. For those of you who haven’t discovered Zaadz yet, here is the quick description: “….…
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Reactable: Tangible Music Visualization

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis video is pretty amazing. Find out more about Reactable here. “The reactable is a multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artefacts on the table surface and constructing different audio topologies in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or…
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Universcale

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNikon has released a nifty flash application called Universcale. From their website: “We are able to view all entities, from the microworld to the universe, from a single perspective. By setting them up against a scale, we are able to compare and understand things which cannot be physically compared. Today, using the electron microscope and…
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Where, O Where Did My iTunes Music Go?!?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo, I had looked at the clock and noticed it was already midnight. I thought to myself, “Before I go to bed, I’m going to buy a couple songs from the iTunes store that I was going to get earlier in the day”. I purchased the tracks without a hitch, was getting ready to close…
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A Call To Action: The Need For A Common Mind Map File Format

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhere We Are Call it a case of stating the obvious, but It seems like mind mapping has become more popular than ever. With the recent explosion of web-based mind mapping products (MindMeister, Mindomo, and others), there is going to be a great opportunity to bring mind maps to the masses. Mind mapping is not…
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