Re: [FRIAM] An Open Letter to Steve Guerin

2011-06-29 Thread Russell Standish
These things were known as Royal Flushes downunder :). Urban Dictionary doesn't seem to know the term in that sense, though... On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:25:03PM -0600, Douglas Roberts wrote: Oh, I'm fairly certain at least *one* friamer has had first-hand experience with swirling:

[FRIAM] Rossi Energy Catalyzer: Scientific Communication and Ethics Issues, Steven B. Krivit, Senior Editor, New Energy Times: Rich Murray 2011.06.28

2011-06-29 Thread Rich Murray
Rossi Energy Catalyzer: Scientific Communication and Ethics Issues, Steven B. Krivit, Senior Editor, New Energy Times: Rich Murray 2011.06.28 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.htm Tuesday, June 28, 2011 [at end of each long page, click on Older Posts]

[FRIAM] iClarified - Apple News - Google Launches a Social Network: Google+

2011-06-29 Thread Owen Densmore
Can anyone make sense of Google+? http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=15826 I'm starting to get confused about social media. Personally I don't really care a whole lot what all of us are doing every minute of the day, but with all the activity, I sense I may be missing the point.

[FRIAM] Predictive Analytics World for Government Conference Announcement

2011-06-29 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
Perhaps of interest to some in this group: http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/gov/2011/ Robert Cordingley cirrillian.com http://cirrillian.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] iClarified - Apple News - Google Launches a Social Network: Google+

2011-06-29 Thread Roger Critchlow
http://xkcd.com/ On the one hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch. On the other hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch! -- rec -- On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Can anyone make sense of Google+?

[FRIAM] Spin Doktors, and the Bathtub Vortex

2011-06-29 Thread plissaman
    The “Bathtub Vortex” has been much studied, by good hydrodynamicists and   others, like me.   It is a fine example of the Navier-Stokes Equations in their full glory, and can be solved (more or less) by techniques of Computational Fluid Dymanics (CFD).   Turbulence, that often

[FRIAM] Fwd: Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices - Your Sample Chapters!

2011-06-29 Thread Owen Densmore
I downloaded this website/webapp book from sitepoint, a publisher I've been using quite a bit lately. They hold out hope for a modestly converged mobile world .. without iPhone vs Android divisions. As far as I can see, this is the web designers dilemma, and they have an interesting approach:

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] iClarified - Apple News - Google Launches a Social Network: Google+

2011-06-29 Thread Victoria Hughes
Speaking of which: A pie chart of what happens on line in 60 seconds: 60 Seconds - Things That Happen On Internet Every Sixty Seconds [Infographic] Search engine Google serves more that 694,445 queries 6,600+ pictures are uploaded on Flickr 600 videos are uploaded on YouTube videos,

Re: [FRIAM] Spin Doktors, and the Bathtub Vortex

2011-06-29 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Dear Peter, There HAS to be SOME lesson for us handwavers. If one charts the pressure-relative rate of flow as one allows and disturbs the formation of sink-vortices, does one see increases and decreases? Ok, so let me try and go empirical on you. I put a measured amount of

Re: [FRIAM] iClarified - Apple News - Google Launches a Social Network: Google+

2011-06-29 Thread Alfredo Covaleda
Hola I have read a couple of articles where some researchers conclude that Internet is used to make public the private things and allows to establish non-deep and non-strong relations with many people (quantity not quality in relations). Probably Internet is the space where each human tries to be

Re: [FRIAM] iClarified - Apple News - Google Launches a Social Network: Google+

2011-06-29 Thread Owen Densmore
Looking at the Google+ articles, it does sound like Wave was. Maybe second time is a charm! However, having just started using Gmail in ernest, I was surprised just how far behind I was in G-Tech. There are a LOT of good pieces there. In particular, I downloaded the Video Chat plugin which

[FRIAM] symmetry breaking

2011-06-29 Thread Nicholas Thompson
In an offline conversation about my open letter, somebody asked me what symmetry breaking was; Here was my answer. Symmetry breaking is Guerin/Kaufman talk. Something like this: Just before Benard cells form, the fluid is symmetrical horizontally (Kaufman/Guerin talk for uniform), although

[FRIAM] Gmail warnings?

2011-06-29 Thread Owen Densmore
Is anyone else seeing warning in email in the Gmail web interface which look like: [image: TextEdit001.png] It apparently is caused by gmail from addresses not having an authorization header entry that gmail presumes should be there. If others are seeing it, we could try to fix it. --

Re: [FRIAM] some of what I've been up to

2011-06-29 Thread Rich Murray
That was great humor! Time to get a factory in China to produce car stickers: I don't want my sister to shop at WalMart -- I don't want me to shop at WalMart. Set up website for people to invent similar beats to win discounts to use at the competitors that treat female people equally, and let