World Technology Award 2011

Last night, Peter Madsen and I had a great time at the UN building at the World Technology Award 2011. As written in my previous blog post Copenhagen Suborbitals were nominated in the category “Space Corporate” together with fellow nominees: Canadian Space Agency, GeoEye, Sierra Nevada Corporation and SpaceX.

World Technology Award 2011

Backlink: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/world-technology-award-2011/

Predictive Analytics World London - One Month To Go!

One month before Predictive Analytics World London (30 Nov - 1 Dec) - meet the top experts and learn from latest case studies. Register now and save! Bigger savings when you bring a colleague.

Predictive Analytics World London - one month to go!

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What's The Fastest Car In The World?

There are plenty of fast cars on the road, but when you're searching for the fastest of the fast, don't bother looking at the car dealership on the corner. This car takes top speed to a whole new level.

What's the fastest car in the world?

Backlink: http://feeds.howstuffworks.com/~r/DailyStuff/~3/egnf4PCcIYM/fastest-car-in-the-world.htm

1 Week Until Predictive Analytics World October 2011 In New York

Register by Friday Oct 14 and Save $200. Can't Miss Events: Everyday Analytics Keynote with Tom Davenport; Building Watson – Deep QA Project; The Biggest Predictive Analytics Competitions for $Millions, and more.

1 week until Predictive Analytics World October 2011 in New York

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Ibm Now No. 2 In World Tech Value

Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp. passed Microsoft Corp. to become the world’s second-most valuable technology company, a reflection of industry changes including the shift away from the personal computer.

IBM Now No. 2 in World Tech Value

Backlink: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-30/ibm-tops-microsoft-to-be-second-most-valuable-in-technology.html

World Looks For Reassurance That The Fed Will Take Steps

Global markets are anxiously awaiting a speech on Friday by Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, in hopes that he will signal that the Fed will act.

World Looks for Reassurance That the Fed Will Take Steps

Backlink: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=bd9cf14848c1146a811eb41847ddd621

Fukushima Workers Face “nightmarish World Of High Radiation, Difficult Terrain”

[video link] UK's Channel Four has a news feature out on the plight of the 3,000 workers currently being bussed into the Fukushima Daiichi plant on behalf of some 600 subcontractor companies tasked with securing and cleaning up the nuclear … Continue reading →

World Briefing | The Americas; Mexico: Tense Moment On Border

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WORLD BRIEFING | THE AMERICAS; Mexico: Tense Moment On Border

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World History Timeline

This visualization of world history, with time and location as the major axes, is one of the simplest but best I've seen. By rendering empires in space and time, the relationships between some of the major social and cultural forces to shape the modern world are made clear and intuitive. With every history book, or historical novel I read, I ask myself - why don't they provide this map?

World History Timeline

Backlink: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DataMining/~3/2iA72UABNBI/world-history-timeline.html

World History Timeline

This visualization of world history, with time and location as the major axes, is one of the simplest but best I've seen. By rendering empires in space and time, the relationships between some of the major social and cultural forces to shape the modern world are made clear and intuitive. With every history book, or historical novel I read, I ask myself - why don't they provide this map?

World History Timeline

Backlink: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DataMining/~3/2iA72UABNBI/world-history-timeline.html

Forge World Suggestions

New page: Me and a friend of mine down in the community have been forging endlessly just having fun among other things and we think it's time we raised some requests for an improved forge world. …

New page

Me and a friend of mine down in the community have been forging endlessly just having fun among other things and we think it's time we raised some requests for an improved forge world.

Here's a list of things we want:





1. More Forge space. Having plenty of water and open air is nice, but we need some more purely flat terrain, preferably having all of the biomes.





2. More Forge pieces, as in a bigger budget or a larger amount of pieces to work with. Also we would like Forge pieces that are designed to look like furniture (don't ask me).





3. The ability to set time and weather. I know it's a stretch, but just if you can.





4. Lower the kill boundaries for water covered areas to let us build submerged areas and maps. We would like to express a greater deal of creativity.





5. The ability to create streets without layering pieces (what I mean is presets like "Four Way Intersection" and "Left/Right Corner" and "Strait") so we can design cities and preset ways to get there for a better gaming experience.





6. The ability to create flyable Pelicans and bring back the Elephant for transport and different game play scenarios.





7. More Caves (not my request). Give us some more places to explore.



8. Bring back the old vehicles and some new ones like the Pelican, the Elephant, The Chopper, the AA Wraith, and the Prowler.



9. Give us the option to make cities and towns by giving us streets.



10. Give vehicles the ability to match the terrain. For example: Desert Camo Elephant and Frost-bitten Banshee



11. Give us normal vehicles like forklifts and trucks to give it a more realistic feel.



12. Give us the option of “ambient life”. Let us have the choice of there being specific animals for each biome, including underwater things like fish and coral reefs.



13. We need to be able to change a piece's colour entirely. No more steel blue maps with little highlights of colour.



14. Give us the ability to fight underwater if wanted.





Please consider this request from the community. We look forward from hearing back on our ideas.



P.S. If you could make it a DLC, I'd pay (almost) anything to get it.



-jkidrock13, wdblack, lucentword484, and the creepy people in the bunker under my back yard-

Forge World Suggestions

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Advertising: Selling the World on Russia (Leaving Out the Spies)

Adore Creative and other Western agencies work closely with the inner circle of Russia’s government — a blending of “Mad Men” and Kremlin apparatchiks.

Advertising: Selling the World on Russia (Leaving Out the Spies)

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Battle of the Flood-controlled Shield World

Descent:

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	[[File:ShieldWorldOpening.png|thumb|250px|The ''Spirit of Fire'' being pulled into the Shield World.]]		[[File:ShieldWorldOpening.png|thumb|250px|The ''Spirit of Fire'' being pulled into the Shield World.]]
-	After destroying the Proto-Gravemind, the ''Spirit of Fire's'' A.I [[Serina]] located Anders' signal, which was apparently in the middle of an ocean. While the ''Spirit'' was hovering over the sea, the doors of a huge submerged entry into the planet opened and several [[Foreunner]] [[Sentinel]]s flew out. The ''Spirit of Fire'' became locked into a powerful docking mechanism and inevitably began a controlled 'fall' into the rift.'''Halo Wars''' ''cutscene [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0dXxJaGbPM&feature=player_embedded "Open Sesame Part Two"]''	+	After destroying the Proto-Gravemind, the ''Spirit of Fire's'' A.I [[Serina]] located Anders' signal, which was apparently in the middle of an ocean. While the ''Spirit'' was hovering over the sea, the doors of a huge submerged entry into the planet opened and several [[Foreunner|Forerunner]] [[Sentinel]]s flew out. The ''Spirit of Fire'' became locked into a powerful docking mechanism and inevitably began a controlled 'fall' into the rift.'''Halo Wars''' ''cutscene [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0dXxJaGbPM&feature=player_embedded "Open Sesame Part Two"]''
	The remaining UNSC forces on the Shield World's surface had less than twenty minutes to fight their way past hundreds of Flood forms before being airlifted back to the ''Spirit of Fire''. [[Flood Swarms]] made air support almost useless, forcing the Marines to use large numbers of [[Wolverine]]s to clear the air before tanks and infantry could clear landing zones of Flood growths. They managed to slow down the ''Spirit of Fire's'' descent by disabling Forerunner pylon towers powering the docking system with [[Gremlin Combat Support Vehicle]]s, giving them a little longer. After evacuating [[Alpha Platoon]] and [[Bravo Platoon]], the team had to escort [[Charlie Platoon]] back to the firebase for extraction after their [[Dropship 77-Troop Carrier|Pelican]] was forced to abort its run. After extracting all UNSC forces, the firebase was abandoned to the Flood and the ''Spirit of Fire'' began her descent.'''Halo Wars''' ''level, {{Levelname|Shield World}}'''''Halo Wars''' ''cutscene [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKbH5aXZgbw&feature=player_embedded "Descent"]''		The remaining UNSC forces on the Shield World's surface had less than twenty minutes to fight their way past hundreds of Flood forms before being airlifted back to the ''Spirit of Fire''. [[Flood Swarms]] made air support almost useless, forcing the Marines to use large numbers of [[Wolverine]]s to clear the air before tanks and infantry could clear landing zones of Flood growths. They managed to slow down the ''Spirit of Fire's'' descent by disabling Forerunner pylon towers powering the docking system with [[Gremlin Combat Support Vehicle]]s, giving them a little longer. After evacuating [[Alpha Platoon]] and [[Bravo Platoon]], the team had to escort [[Charlie Platoon]] back to the firebase for extraction after their [[Dropship 77-Troop Carrier|Pelican]] was forced to abort its run. After extracting all UNSC forces, the firebase was abandoned to the Flood and the ''Spirit of Fire'' began her descent.'''Halo Wars''' ''level, {{Levelname|Shield World}}'''''Halo Wars''' ''cutscene [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKbH5aXZgbw&feature=player_embedded "Descent"]''

Battle of the Flood-controlled Shield World

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Talk:Forge World

Installation?:

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	::"How about this: Bungie didn't even care which instalation it is because this multiplayer map is meant just for Forge and is not cannon. [[User:FatalSnipe117|'''Que''']] [[Special:Contributions/FatalSnipe117|'''Sera''']], [[User talk:FatalSnipe117|'''Sera''']]" <-- This. QFT -- [[User talk:The Storm 59|The Storm 59]] 04:09, August 12, 2010 (UTC)		::"How about this: Bungie didn't even care which instalation it is because this multiplayer map is meant just for Forge and is not cannon. [[User:FatalSnipe117|'''Que''']] [[Special:Contributions/FatalSnipe117|'''Sera''']], [[User talk:FatalSnipe117|'''Sera''']]" <-- This. QFT -- [[User talk:The Storm 59|The Storm 59]] 04:09, August 12, 2010 (UTC)
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		+	::well, we know for sure it doesnt take place on:
		+	::installation 00,
		+	::01 (desert w/ limited atmosphere),
		+	::02 (water based),
		+	::03 (volcanic surface),
		+	::04B (hasnt been built yet),
		+	::06 (moon like rocks),
		+	::07 (flood like/desert terrain).
		+	::so that means it has to take place on either 04A or 05. [[User talk:Contrarytoreason|Contrarytoreason]] 07:40, December 26, 2010 (UTC)
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Talk:Forge World

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Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan: "What a Wonderful World"

Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan: "What a Wonderful World" - Boing Boing

Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan: "What a Wonderful World"

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Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan: "It's A Wonderful World"

Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan: "It's A Wonderful World" - Boing Boing

Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan: "It's A Wonderful World"

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Harry Belafonte's lost, post-apocalyptic screen debut: "The World, the Flesh and the Devil"

Dwiff sez, "Harry Belafonte's screen debut may be of interest to the boingboingeratti - a precursor to The Quiet Earth in many ways - in which Harry Belafonte walks through haunting vistas of a depopulated New York searching for some signs that he is not the last man on Earth following a nuclear disaster. And like The Quiet Earth, he first discovers a woman, and then a man... Anyway, the film is finally out on DVD in a very nice remastered edition - has not looked this good in years."

Harry Belafonte's lost, post-apocalyptic screen debut: "The World, the Flesh and the Devil"

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Human rights organizations around the world condemn Wikileaks censorship

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Katitza Rodriguez has rounded up the responses of many human rights organizations around the world to the commercial and governmental attacks on Wikileaks. It coincides with EFF's new Say No to Online Censorship campaign.

• On December 10, International Human Rights Day, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights addressed this issue in her statement: "While it is unclear whether these individual measures taken by private actors directly infringe on states' human rights obligations to ensure respect of the right to freedom of expression, taken as a whole they could be interpreted as an attempt to censure the publication of information thus potentially violating Wikileaks' right to freedom of expression."

• Amnesty International ~ "Freedom of expression is an internationally recognized human right that limits the power of the state to prohibit the receipt and publication of information. The burden is on the state to demonstrate that any restriction is both necessary and proportionate, and does not jeopardize the right to freedom of expression itself."

• Human Rights First ~ "This issue transcends the particulars of the Wikileaks case. No matter what you think of Julian Assange, anyone who cares about Internet freedom should be concerned that in its zeal to cripple Wikileaks, governments and companies are taking steps in this case that pose a threat to fundamental rights."

• Reporter without Borders ~ "We stress that any restriction on the freedom to disseminate this body of documents will affect the entire press, which has given detailed coverage to the information made available by Wikileaks, with five leading international newspapers actively cooperating in preparing it for publication."

Human Rights Organizations Worldwide Decry Attacks on Freedom of Expression

 

• 2600 Magazine condemns DDoS attacks against Wikileaks censors ...
• MPAA: ACTA's censoring firewalls will help governments avoid ...
• Wikileaks.de domain-owner's house raided over publication of ...
• Wikileaks 'ousted' from Amazon - Boing Boing
• Wikileaks reveals secret blacklist behind proposed Great Firewall ...

Human rights organizations around the world condemn Wikileaks censorship

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World Trade Organization Upholds American Tariffs on Tires From China

The Obama administration said the tariffs had helped domestic producers increase production, preserve jobs and consider new investments.

World Trade Organization Upholds American Tariffs on Tires From China

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World map of lightning strikes

See that dark purple spot of heavy activity in North America? That's more or less centered over where I grew up. God, I miss thunderstorms.

World map of lightning strikes

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