links for 2007-10-24

• Stolen laptop has employees' data -- OrlandoSentinel.com
  Administaff Inc., which provides temporary employees for small- and medium-sized businesses including in Central Florida, is warning 159,000 current and former workers that their personal data may be compromised because of a stolen laptop.
  (tags: administaff credit identify-theft)
• WordPress › Contact Form 7 « WordPress Plugins
  Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
  (tags: form mail forms plugin wordpress captcha recaptcha akismet spam via:bkerr)
• City Council: Golf courses won't be sold - Latest from the Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
  Trying to squash rumors by citizens afraid the city may sell parkland, the Ann Arbor City Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday that the city's two golf courses can't be sold for private development and will remain in the parks system as open s
  (tags: annarbor michigan golf city-council a2snooze)
• Libraries Decline Offers to Place Books on Google and Microsoft Search
  WebmasterWorld members are cheering for the libraries.
  (tags: google googlebooks library libraries massdig msft goog)
• Libraries Don't Like Restrictions For Online Book Scanning Schemes
  "I think this is great news, and in the spirit of libraries. A commercial business person may walk into any library and browse any book. Why should Big-G or M$ get to convert such a freedom of information into their own revenue stream?"
  (tags: webmasterworld library libraries superpatron microsoft google goog msft massdig)
• Details of hijacked 24/7 ad server emerge
  Hackers have hijacked a server operated by Internet advertising company 24/7 Real Media Inc. and are using it to seed legitimate Web sites with ads carrying attack code, Symantec Corp. said Friday.
  (tags: infosec hackers ad advertising security 24-7-real-media)
• Google Switches to Its Own Translation System
  we feed the computer with billions of words of text, both monolingual text in the target language, and aligned text consisting of examples of human translations between the languages. We then apply statistical learning techniques to build a translation mo
  (tags: google translation computational-linguistics franz-och systran)
• Ann Arbor-Howell rail project won't get grant - Latest from the Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
  A coalition of groups trying to start a commuter rail service between Ann Arbor and Howell has been denied a $1 million federal grant that the group was seeking to help initiate the service.
  (tags: annarbor howell rail transporation railroad wally funding not-funded light-rail-rocks michigan)
• Dexter village president to step down - Latest from the Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
  In an emotion-charged announcement Monday night, Dexter Village President Jim Seta resigned, saying he wanted to focus on other important priorities in his life - family and increased job responsibilities.
  (tags: dexter michigan jim-seta work-life-balance)
• Wordie: Pyrogeography
  Biogeographer and remote sensing specialist Stephen Yool runs the Pyrogeography Research Laboratory (PRL). The PRL specializes in the biogeography of wildfire-pyrogegraphy, to coin a term.
  (tags: fire wildfire pyrogeography biogeography wordie stephen-yool)
• Nate Ritter community, entrepreneurship and business strategy
  nate is twittering san diego fire updates - here's his blog with maps etc
  (tags: pyrogeography fire map blog twitter sandiego california sandiegofire)
• Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides
  20 slides, 20 seconds per slide; a talk about signage from Daniel Pink for Wired Magazine
  (tags: daniel-pink semiotics pecha-kucha community content design digital emotion powerpoint presentation presentations sign slides social video videos wired youtube)
• WBBM 780 - More Details Of Chicago Marathon Emergency Response Meltdown Told
  The CBS 2 Investigators have learned maps to guide ambulances around marathon road closures were not immediately available. Dispatchers were heard over the radio shouting "We need maps! We have no maps down here!"
  (tags: chicago marathon emergency-communications collapse meltdown failure maps paleogeography)
• This American Life : Mapping. Episode 110
  Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way—by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses.
  (tags: audio cartography geography map maps radio geo neogeography)
• Secretary | Franklin Meadows
  Starting a book club in the neighborhood – Brynne Yahr is contact person
  (tags: superpatron books book-club neighborhood brynne-yahr)
• AADL Launches Macy’s Museum Adventure Pass Program October 25th | Ann Arbor District Library
  Free admission to 25 SE Michigan museums and historical centers with Macy's Museum Adventure Pass!
  (tags: michigan museum library superpatron macy's annarbor aadl)
• corprewland :: LOLcat Wasteland
  f teh river running, why not moving? / INVISIBLE WIND. / nymphoz gone. / river has trash no more.
  (tags: lolcat poetry funny sad awesome via:bkerr t-s-eliot lolpoetry)
• Neck pain articles, support groups, and resources
  neck pain information on medhelp.org
  (tags: neck neck-pain pain medhelp medicine)
• What is an Avatar
  The Avatara, or incarnation of Godhead, descends from the kingdom of God for [creating and maintaining the] material manifestation.
  (tags: avatar avatara)
• Wordie: Scanning bee
  mass digitization, one scanner at a time
  (tags: scanning-bee scanning digitization archive crowdsourcing preservation)
• arbcamp - Terraminds micro search
  terraminds searches twitter and puts the results into an rss feed; here's the search query for arbcamp.
  (tags: terraminds twitter search own-page-one arbcamp)
• Twitter / Adam C. Engst: Bought 20 books at the Tomp...
  "Bought 20 books at the Tompkins County Friends of the Library Book Sale for $8.50. They may sell 300,000 books all told in 9 days."
  (tags: superpatron library friends-of-the-library tompkins-county newyork ithaca gorges)
• Brand Autopsy
  blog about branding
  (tags: advertising blog blogging blogroll blogs marketing brand)
• Have a GSM phone and GrandCentral? Here’s how to simplify your voicemail.
  With a simple code, you can initiate conditional call forwarding on your GSM phone and choose where to send calls….
  (tags: gsm grandcentral phone voicemail)
• macosxhints.com - Change the iPhone's conditional forwarding numbers
  Using standard GSM codes, you can change the numbers for conditional forwarding, such as forward if no answer, forward if busy, forward if out of reach.
  (tags: cellphone gsm iphone mail phone voice grandcentral)
• GSM Features
  The following are standard GSM codes and procedures, so they aren't anything "Top Secret" here. Just the same, you might find this information extremely valuable.
  (tags: cellphone cell cellular gsm hacks howto voip iphone)
• In Development: GrandMaemo - Internet Tablet Talk Forums
  I took about an hour today and pieced together a Python GrandCentral command-line app that can also be used as an API.
  (tags: python grandcentral voip phone api hacks)
• Drug-resistant staph infection confirmed in Howell student - Latest from the Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
  A case of the drug-resistant staph infection known as MRSA was confirmed Tuesday in a student at Howell High School.
  (tags: mrsa staph superbug howell howell-high-school michigan)
• Pittsburgh Libraries Amazon Linky
  The Amazon Pittsburgh Libraries Linky is a Greasemonkey script that inserts status information from the Allegheny County Library catalog into book listings from Amazon.com.
  (tags: howto pittsburgh library linky library-lookup pennsylvania go-steelers superpatron greasemonkey amazon book books)
• Report: 7 Out Of 10 Americans Experience 'Search Engine Fatigue'
  this makes me wonder why people keep typing when they could just PICK UP THE PHONE and talk to a human being some time
  (tags: google statistics search toread)
• Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
  The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and
  (tags: city cert collaboration community crowdsourcing disaster earthquake emergency fire local logistics planning preparedness)
• CERT - CERT for state - Michigan
  Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) coordinators for Michigan
  (tags: michigan emergency community community_indicators community_informatics)
• LinkedIn: John Hogan
  (tags: spark a2spark marketingroundtable linkedin)
• Turning leads to sales
  Through this treatment determination process, a marketer prioritizes his resources against the leads with the greatest likelihood to close.
  (tags: a2spark urban-science marketing preso)
• How TACODA hopes to track the brain
  TACODA Systems, the behavioral advertising company. As I mentioned in the previous post, they're trying to hook up Web surfers to a brain scanners.
  (tags: tacoda brain advertising ad marketing)
• The Autumn of the Multitaskers
  Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity
  (tags: continuouspartialattention gtd lifehacks multitasking productivity psychology spark)
• Design Critique: Products for People
  Tim interviews Mike Beasley, President of the Usability Professionals Association Michigan chapter, about the upcoming World Usability Day 2007.
  (tags: mike-beasley upa usability ux world-usability-day podcast michigan)
• In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind - New York Times
  mindfulness as “not hitting someone in the mouth.”
  (tags: 2007 attention children classroom education mindfulness nyt oakland teaching)
• Back to Basics in Transportation Planning | Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
  Re-envision single-use zoning: We also must shift planning regulations that treat schools, grocery stores, affordable housing and shops as undesirable neighbors. The misguided logic of current zoning codes calls for locating these amenities as far away fr
  (tags: planning space transportation)
• Joho the Blog: Berkman lunch: Aaron Swartz on Open Library
  The basic idea is to give each page a Web page that collects all the information about that book. Books have never had "a first class place on the web." They've been distributed across publishers' Web sites, etc.
  (tags: archive book crowdsourcing books via:jessamyn superpatron libraries library open wiki)
• TwitterWhere Tweets by Location: Ann Arbor, MI 48104 US
  twitterwhere is a geolocal feed for twitter (rss and xml). this bookmark shows traffic on twitter within 5 miles of Ann Arbor, MI.
  (tags: geo twitter twitterwhere locative neogeography search feed browse xml)
• librarian.net » Blog Archive » Open Library, really open. Aaron Swartz discusses.
  We’ve talked with them at a high level and they won’t give us any information. Too bad since they’re a non-profit. Library records are not copyrightable. OCLC contractually binds libraries.
  (tags: library book-finding-systems open-library aaron-swartz via:jessamyn oclc superpatron)

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