There's nothing unusual about churches advertising Sunday services, but South Florida atheists are turning that idea on its head: Why not promote the belief that there is no God?
In "Digital Maoism", an original essay written for Edge, computer scientist and digital visionary Jaron Lanier finds fault with what he terms the new online collectivism. He cites as an example the Wikipedia, noting that "reading a Wikipedia entry is like reading the bible closely. There are faint traces of the voices of various anonymous authors and editors, though it is impossible to be sure".
Wookie is a project that creates open specifications and open source software for adding widgets to your applications. [able to do real-time updates too]
Fast and Easy online tool for mockup screens, UI web design and Wireframes for websites, web pages, desktop applications screens and interface designs. Tons of UI elements, Free webpage layout design templates and built-in collaboration and publishing of
File sharing and collaboration service Drop.io turned on real-time and chat features today for all users. Now any additions—e-mailed photos, uploaded files, and phoned-in voicemails—appear immediately for both logged in users and guests, and an integrated chat feature enables instant conversation for teams, website owners, and everyone in between.
The SDG Toolkit is a framework for designing single display groupware applications by managing multiple mice, keyboards, multiple cursors, and mouse/cursor orientation. SDGT is implemented as a .NET package.
Creatives worldwide contribute designs for your project: logo design, business card design, graphic design, website design, photography, illustration and writing.
"The truth is, when these folks protested at Stonewall 40 years ago, no one could have imagined that you or, for that matter, I would be standing here today."
Ambiently is a web discovery engine. While a search engine answers your query with a list of web links, a discovery engine provides you with relevant web links directly from any webpage you are on. These web links will lead you to webpages related to the page you are viewing, help you find more new information, and even surprise you with unexpected and useful web resources.
Two collaborative forms of organizing dominate discussion of open participation and production on the Internet: a crowdsourcing model based on micro-participation from many, unconnected individuals, and a virtual community model, based on strong connections among a committed set of connected members.
The Open Clip Art Library aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project must be placed into the Public Domain according to the Public Domain statement created by the Creative Commons. If you'd like to help out, please join the mailing list. Also, browse the archives to review the project's history.
People from around the world are invited to submit pictures, sounds, and text messages that they would want to send to other worlds. The project aims to foster a dialogue about what we should say to extraterrestrial intelligence, as well as whether or not we should be sending intentional messages.
Performs web page classification based only on its URL. MeURLin relies on mnemonic URLs to achieve its classification accuracy. It segments a URL into chunks and expands these segments and uses this information as evidence for classification.
Remixes, mashups, fan tributes and other creative work burgeoning in online video often use copyrighted material without permission or payment. When is it fair to do so? In many cases, creators can employ fair use, a key feature of copyright law.
Atlassian is a global software company that provides enterprise software solutions to the world's leading organisations. Our mission is to build a different kind of software company - one that listens to client needs, values innovation in development and solves customer problems with brilliant simplicity. Atlassian is the creator of the highly popular issue tracking, project management application JIRA.
La mayor parte de nuestra cultura forma parte del dominio público, de aquello que pertenece a todos. El lenguaje, las matemáticas, gran parte de las ciencias, los motivos literarios y artísticos, etc. son de dominio público.
La definición de persona no es un problema científico. Puede dilucidarse científicamente cuándo el embrión se implanta, cuántas células tiene aproximadamente en ese momento, cuándo el feto desarrolla un cerebro que puede experimentar dolor (puede leer más sobre eso aquí), cuándo hay pérdida total e irreversible de la actividad cerebral, etcétera.
The ClueWeb09 dataset was created by the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University to support research on information retrieval and related human language technologies. The dataset consists of 1 billion web pages, in ten languages, collected in January and February 2009. The dataset is used by several tracks of the TREC conference.
En "Open Arms" de Jonathan Kuniholm (IEEE Spectrum, Marzo del 2009), se describen una serie de iniciativas para prótesis para amputados usando métodos de conocimiento y software libre.
Un famoso violinista cae en coma. La sociedad de amantes de la música determina en base a registros médicos, que tú, y sólo tú, puedes salvar la vida del violinista, si te mantienes conectado a él durante nueve meses.
What an embarrassment from the country whose level-headed response to the Blitz was "Keep Calm and Carry On" -- how has that sensible motto been replaced with "When in trouble or in doubt/Run in circles scream and shout"?
La lucha entre especies en la tierra está, por el momento, resuelta. En la búsqueda evolutiva por nuevas y mejores formas de sobrevivir y multiplicarnos, hemos dado con una adaptación potente y general. Nuestros cerebros son capaces de
A commission led by three former Latin American heads of state has called the 30-year U.S. "war on drugs" in Latin America a failure and urged a drastic change in policy.
La Declaración de los Derechos Humanos en el Islam redactada por un grupo de líderes del Islam, sigue más de cerca la ley islámica o Sharia. Comienza estipulando lo obvio, es decir que "Todos los seres humanos forman una familia cuyos miembros están unidos en su subordinación a Alá, y en ser descendendientes de Adán". La declaración fue adoptada en el año 1990 por 45 estados de la Organización de la Conferencia Islámica.
We create and distribute original Science is Culture content that communicates science's fast-changing place in our culture to an international audience. Our mission is to help nurture a science-savvy global citizenry by increasing public interest in science and public understanding of science.
When a pig named Pig discovers a magic box able to make twenty-seven copies of anything you throw in it, his life is turned upside down with excitement
Ten theories that were once believed to be true - but are now debunked. Science fills us all with great wonder and it has done so for generations, but there have been an incredibly number of "scientific discoveries" which were later found to be completely false.
Economists worry that large budget deficits will burden future generations. But strong fiscal expansion would actually enhance the economy’s long-run prospects.
El Vaticano es contrario a la propuesta, que presentará en breve Francia ante la ONU, en nombre de los 25 países de la Unión Europea, para despenalizar la homosexualidad en el mundo. El arzobispo Celestino Migliore, representante de la Santa Sede ante las Naciones Unidas, afirmó ayer desde Nueva York que "una declaración política de ese tipo crearía nuevas e implacables discriminaciones", y, a la vez, "pondría en la picota a los países que no consideran matrimonio las uniones homosexuales". "Si se aprobara", atacó Migliore, "esos países serían presionados".
Chopra: I think Mr. Obama has a real opportunity here, but a challenging opportunity, a creative opportunity. Get rid of the phrase "war on terrorism." Ask for a creative solution in which we all participate. Because it's an oxymoron. It's an oxymoron, Larry, a war on war, a war on terrorism.
"Probablemente no hay dios, así que deja de preocuparte y disfruta de la vida". Este eslogan lucirá en los autobuses de Londres a mediados de enero. Se trata de la primera campaña ateísta en Reino Unido financiada con donaciones de contribuyentes anónimos. Y ha sido un éxito. Preveían recaudar 5.500 libras (6.500 euros) y en tan sólo dos días reunieron 10 veces más. No es algo aislado. Esta semana se ha puesto en marcha una iniciativa similar en Washington. Los ensayos que arremeten contra la religión se convierten en superventas y, en España, aumentan las solicitudes de apostasía. Parece que la hora de los no creyentes ha llegado. ¿Está el ateísmo tomando una nueva conciencia más activa en la sociedad?
The art of the con is as old as civilization, employing the skills of deception, misdirection, and the psychology of human greed and the desire to get someth...
Máster en Buscadores. Formación de postgrado en Biblioteconomía, Documentación y Archivos digitales. Máster y Diploma dirigido a los profesionales más innovadores de la Biblioteconomía, la Información y la Documentación electrónica. Orientado también a investigadores y a responsables de proyectos de I+D en el campo de la Información y la Documentación en las empresas y en el sector público. De interés para todo profesional de la información (documentalista, informático, archivero, diseñador web, arquitecto de la información, comunicólogo o periodista digital) que esté involucrado en la sociedad de la información
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