Planurile urbanistice pentru Capitala pot fi clasificate, in acest moment, astfel : conglomerate de idei indraznete, stiluri arhitectonice variate si visuri legate de un oras modern. Dezvoltatorii construiesc in toate colturile orasului si surprize apar la orice pas pentru ca, mai nou, se observa o tendinta de dezvoltare pe inaltime. Vom putea privi, in cativa ani, orasul de sus, de foarte sus? Desi ultimele proiecte finalizate nu pot fi clasificate drept zgarie-nori, ele reprezinta, in acest moment, un element de noutate in peisajul bucurestean, pentru ca depasesc media de inaltime a cladirilor deja existente. Asadar, chiar daca nu vor ajunge sa zgarie norii, au zgariat deja imaginatia si curiozitatea bucurestenilor, care le asociaza ideii de lux si de marire.

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So you like Real Time Strategy games and want to find new games previously unknown to you, but potentially worth playing? The first thing you should do then is look for a list or index of items in the topic. But, what games are worth buying next? How will you choose from this list? The “TELL ME WHAT TO CHOOSE!” method will assist you in doing just that!

After compiling the topic list, you must now make a list of websites containing plenty information on the topic. A simple Google search can give you relevant URLs. Or you could use Technorati to find the top blogs and news sites of specified categories. To easily harvest all the URLs from Google (or URLs from text bodies) follow these steps:

• Query Google for your keyword (select 10, 20, 50 or 100 results per page, depending on how many URLs you would like to analyze)
• Copy the page source of the site
• Paste the copied source into the Harvester
• Specify harvesting preferences and harvest
• Harvest

Now you have a list of websites (here the URLs I used) that can potentially provide information about the items in your topic list. What the “TELL ME WHAT TO CHOOSE!” method will do is basically check how many times each item in your topic list is found by Google within each URL in your websites list. This is what you do now to start automating advice for your decisions:

• Run the Google Scraper tool
• Copy the websites list and paste it into the top form. Be sure that every URL is on a separate line.
• Copy the topic list and paste it in the bottom form. Be sure that every item is on a separate line and preferably between brackets (e.g. “Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos”)
• De-select the “only query discrete sites” checkbox
• Name your results file for archiving
• Scrape Google

Now you wait till the tool is done scraping. How long it takes will depend on the size of your 2 lists. When finished, the scraping tool provides a nice overview of the amount that the items in your topic list are found within the URLs of your websites list. According to these crowd-sourced / Google-sourced results you can now finally CHOOSE!

Tagcloud real time strategy games

Tagcloud real time strategy games alphabetically

PLAY THOSE GAMES ON TOP TO SEE WHAT IS SO GREAT ABOUT THEM!
Or
PLAY THOSE GAMES IN THE BOTTOM TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH THEY REALLY SUCK!

Vi taler så meget om, at vi skal nedbringe udledningen af CO2 drastisk for at forhindre en katastrofal global opvarmning… – måske er det rigtigt… – måske er det ikke rigtigt?!

Nu ser det (måske) ud til, at risikoen tværtimod er en global afkøling…

Hvad skal man efterhånden tro på???

Læs denne spændende artikel fra videnskab.dk: Hvornår falder temperaturen?

Også DMI har en artikel om problematikken: Solen blev så stille

Se solpletudviklingen på billdet herunder:

Solpletaktiviteten i 2001 (til venstre) og i 2009 (til højre)

Tomorrow I lead 25 TV executives through an all-day brand workshop in Dubai  at the DMI studios.

We’ve never met, but already I know this: they’re managers, directors, art directors, and producers. They’re young, creative, opinionated, curious, and ambitious.They’ll be shy at first, and open up as the day goes on. We will laugh and disagree, we may have misunderstandings.

By the end of the day, they will amaze me.

We spend a lot of time preparing our workshops:  pulling examples, creating exercises, and laying out the concepts that make brands work.

But the miracle always happens in the team work. When the language of the day isn’t job titles or meetings. It’s ideas. When people jump in and try things out. When they don’t fear failure.

What will amaze me tomorrow? I can’t wait to find out.

What’s your best workshop experience?

Havadaki nem ile sıcaklık (hissettiğimiz sıcaklık) arasındaki ilişki, özellikle sıcak yaz aylarında gündemimizde olan bir konu. Sizlerin de bildiği gibi, havadaki nem düzeyindeki artış, beraberinde hissedilen sıcaklığı da arttırıyor. Bu artışın mertebesinden ise genel olarak pek bahsedilmiyor. Bu konuda bildiğimiz ve biz İzmir’lilerin sık sık dile getirdiği konu, “hava sıcaklığının İzmir’de 35 °C ve Diyarbakır’da 40°C olduğu bir günde biz İzmir’lilerin çok bunaldığı ama Diyarbakır’lıların o derece yüksek bir sıcaklık hissetmediği”dir. Bu durum aslında iki ilimizin havasındaki nem düzeyleri arasındaki farktan kaynaklanıyor.

Peki gerçekte nem düzeyi hissedilen sıcaklığı ne kadar arttırıyor?

Bu soruma, Devlet Meteoroloji İşleri web sitesinin en yüksek sıcaklıklar sayfasında yanıt bulabildim. Sayfada konuyu teknik olarak çok iyi ortaya koyan bir grafik yer alıyor. Ben de grafiği paylaşmak istedim.

Not: Resme tıklayarak grafiğin tam boyuna ulaşabilirsiniz.

Grafikte açıkca görüldüğü gibi, nem düzeyi artışının bizim hissettiğimiz sıcaklık üzerindeki etkisi oldukça fazla. Örneğin hava sıcaklığı 35 °C iken nem düzeyi %10 ise hissedilen sıcaklık 32 °C, nem düzeyi %30 iken 35 °C ve nem düzeyi %80 iken 57 °C oluyor.

Daydreams is the local hippie store at Drake. They have great clothing (I bought a Beatles’ onesie for a baby shower), cheap jewelry, incense, oils, disc golf frisbees, and all the tobacco smoking accessories and flavors you could ever need. The people that work there are really friendly and are great to just hang out and talk with. While the store is small, there is tons of interesting stuff to look at in there.

Daydreams is located at 2326 University Ave, near Drake University, and are open Monday through Saturday 11am to 7pm and Sundays from 12pm to 5pm.

For more information, click here or call (515) 274-2799

I would like to make a few comments about the DMI arctic temperature data.  I made the numeric version of this data available yesterday by digitizing the yearly graphs available from DMI.  I have had a chance to look at the data and draw some initial conclusions.

Anthony Watts, who I have the greatest respect for, presented an animation of the 52 yearly DMI Arctic temperature plots form 1958 to 2009.  He said “See if you can spot the temperature spikes or the “…cooling trend reversed in the mid-1990s.”  His animation appears below…

Anthony Watts' animation of DMI temperature plots.

Moriarty's animation of 10 year composites of DMI Arctic temperature graphs.

September 1st temperature as a function of year.

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October 16th temperature as a function of year.

Arctic temperature trends for each day of the year.

Arctic temperature trend vs. day of the year for all data from 1958 to 2009.

Today is the day!! Season 5 of The Office comes out on dvd!  I just took a trip to Best Buy and got the gift pack, for only $41.99!  Seriously, it’s one hell of a deal!  Here is a quick product plug for B.B.  It comes with, not only, the dvd, but a Schrute Farms tee, a beet stress ball, a mouse pad, a magnet, and a door hanger.  Ok, so, all of this is great, but I am just really excited for my new workout tee.

One last word on The Office…OH, three last words. 1.  Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, Friday nights.  They are going to start airing the original version of the Office, with Ricky Gervais.  & it is blindingly hilarious  2.  The season premiere of The Office is Thursday, Sept. 17 on NBC.  3.  Check out http://www.dundermifflininfinity.com/  Here you can join a branch, meet other Office fans, and play games to win prizes.  DMI 3.0 will be up and running after the season premiere of the show.

I am providing the DMI arctic temperature data in numerical format as a public service.  This data is available in graphical format at the DMI Centre for Ocean and Ice,  but I could not figure out a simple  way to get the numerical data that was used to make the graphs.  So I have extracted it from the graphs myself.

Here it is, for the entire set of DMI images from 1958 to the present.  You must go through a slightly convoluted procedure to use it.  First, open this word document.   Then, select all the text and copy it.  Finally, paste it into a spreadsheet.

The left column gives the day of the year.  Notice that the days are given in half day increments.  The top row shows the year, and each column represents the temperature data for the coresponding year.

You can now plot, average, and compare trends to your heart’s content.

Explanation of Data Handling

This data was acquired by copying all of the yearly graphs from DMI and writing image handling code in LabView to extract the temperature data.  The 365 days of data in each graph is distributed through 518 columns of pixels, so about 1.4 columns of pixels per day.  I decided to interpolate the data to half days.  Since leap years and non-leap years both consisted of 518 columns,  I have treated all years as 365.25 days.

All of the data suffers from the uncertainties of my extraction process.  So if anybody sees problems with the data please feel free to post your observations as comments here.

I will be showing some results of my analysis in subsequent posts.

Sample comparison:

Here is the image from DMI for the year 2008, followed by a plot of my version of the data for 2008.

DMI Arctic temperature graph for 2008

2008 Arctic data as extracted from DMI image

Das kann heiter werden: Während Intel der festen Meinung ist, dass die alten Chipset-Lizenzen an Nvidia nicht für die nächste Prozessorgeneration gelten, soll Nvidia nach Meldungen aus Asien ungerührt die Herstellung neuer Produkte für Nehalem-Prozessoren vorbereiten.

Das riecht richtig nach Ärger.

Bereits im Februar nämlich hat Intel diese Angelegenheit vor Gericht gebracht; eine Entscheidung steht allerdings noch aus. Was Nvidia wohl nicht weiter schert: Offenbar ist bereits ein MCP99-Chipset in der Mache, der Nehalem-Prozessoren und die DMI (Direct Media Interface)-Technologie von Intel unterstützt.

Vor allem DMI aber möchte Intel hüten wie seinen Augapfel – ob das gelingt wie geplant, wird man nun sehen.

Intel jedenfalls gibt sich gelassen und verkündet, man erwarte, dass die Gerichte den Streit entscheiden werden, bevor neue Produkte auf den Markt kommen – ob Nvidia mit der Markteinführung seines Chipsets wirklich wartet, ist jedoch unklar. [dieter]

[via CNET News]

Neuer Flyer, Zeitungswerbung und die Website von Ebner-Anhaenger.de wurde aktualisiert. Schaut doch mal vorbei – dort findet Ihr jetzt auch viele Infos zum erweiterten Service zur Anhänger-Reparatur, Instandsetzung und Zubehör für Trailer.

ebner-anhaenger.de

Nachrichten in “Echtzeit” empfangen und selbst verbreiten ist heute Stand der Technik.
Auch hier biete ich auf meiner Seite an, aktuelle Kurzmeldungen rund um Webdesign, Fotografie, Umweltschutz und andere Themen zu “empfangen”.

Die letzten 3 Meldungen finden Sie ab sofort hier auf der Startseite unter “Aktuelle Kurzmeldungen” – vorausgesetzt Sie haben sich kostenlos bei Twitter registriert. (sonst steht da nichts
Auch für die Fotofreunde-Ingolstadt steht dieser Service damit zur Verfügung.
(Diese Meldungen werden übrigens auch automatisch in FaceBook übernommen…
Hier die direkten Links:

• Harald Schirmer: http://twitter.com/haraldschirmer
• Fotofreunde-Ingolstadt: http://twitter.com/fotofreunde

Der Fotoshop ist jetzt wieder mit neuen Funktionen und Updates erreichbar – viel Spass beim Stöbern und Bestellen und sorry für die kurze “Unterbrechung” – Fotoshop FotoSchirmer

Design management Journal
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http://centroidhub.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/00111pet10.pdf

I’ve come closer to know/understanding what I want to do with my future. My two biggest interests have lately shown themselves to be administrative /office / secretary work and politics.

I wonder how I can put this knowledge together with my social work studies? 

Kisses to all!