There's a new version of Processing targeting Android, and there will be a public "summit" of presentations about it in Chicago Oct1-3

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NREL has developed an innovative Air Conditioning concept that promises to cut electrical demand by up to 90 percent — and it works well in both Gulf Coast humidity and desert heat... Swamp coolers work well when the outside air is dry, as evaporating water carries away heat, cooling and moistening the air that is re-circulated into the house... He says that in Phoenix, where the annual monsoon and human activities like irrigation raise summertime humidity levels, there might be as many as six weeks each year where evaporative cooling won’t work... In building a prototype, the NREL researchers used a calcium chloride salt solution as a desiccant and relied on a technical breakthrough from a company that had found a way to keep tiny, corrosive desiccant droplets from leaking into the metal ductwork of the device... In modeling how the D E Vap system would perform in Phoenix, “we get on the order of 90 percent savings” in electrical demand, Judkoff says, when compared with a high-efficiency 18 SEER vapor compression air conditioner. The system sees a 50 percent power savings even in swampy Houston-like conditions, Judkoff says. While others have proposed somehow combining evaporative and desiccant cooling, Judkoff says NREL is the first to come up with a practical, cost-effective approach.

psychotic mass-murderer who ran China (more)

I'm going to be sloppy with population stats, rounding off as I see fit and not worrying about whether stats are from 1990 or 2000... (more)

Jon Stewart is having a Rally To Restore Sanity on Oct30.

Rich Burridge notes a variety of Language For Learning Programming options for kids (his son is almost 9), and describes his positive experience getting started with Scratch.

Learning Theory that people learn best by making things (D And D) (Stimulating Learning Projects) (Network Of Learning) (more)

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Anil Dash on the use of Multimedia Transclusion in the "new" Twitter web interface. He notes the O Embed standard, but doesn't know if Twitter is using it. (more)

one of the fathers of the Internet (more)

VisiCalc, Lotus, Interval Research (more)

HyperMedia/EBook authoring environment. (more)

one of the original creators of the MacOS (more)

Mark Guzidal (Squeak Smalltalk guy) and others at Georgia Tech redesigned the Computer Science department (College Education) around a "Threads" model, which seeks to provide Context to the Curriculum. For example, computational Model-ing deals with using computer science to represent natural and physical processes; intelligence deals with building "top to bottom models of human-level intelligence," and media involves systems "to exploit computing's abilities to provide creative outlets." There are a total of 28 possible combinations of threads that students may select... Then in their first year enrolled, students will also track themselves by "role," picking among master practitioners (programmers), entrepreneurs, innovators or communicators.

Mongrel-2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic Web Server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies. (more)

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Ian Piumarta and Kimberly Rose assembled a book PointsOfViewATributeToAlan Kay for Alan Kay's 70th birthday. Available as free EBook for all of us.

Computer Game designer. http://www.schellgames.com/ (more)