Friday, January 29, 2010

10 More Must-have Google Chrome Extensions


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Google Wave Notifier provides quick access to your Google Wave account and displays the number of unread waves you have.

LastPass is a password manager that remembers your usernames and passwords, and lets you add notes about each account, too. It also imports databases from many of the password manager apps available today.

GMail Checker displays the number of new emails in your GMail account.

RSS Subscription Extension is one of the most handy extensions you’ll see — you’re able to subscribe to any site













Read more: http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/01/25/10-more-must-have-google-chrome-extensions

A 2050 Tourist Map Of The Picadilly Line In London


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What will London look like at mid-century? According to this futuristic London Undergroundmap, it will be full of geothermal plants and algae factories that double as housing towers. Plus Tripods and giant mushrooms. We've got the full map below.

Artist Nils Norman created this map for future tourists in London as part of the Picadilly Line's 100th anniversary, and it was featured recently on Strange Maps. Strange Maps offers a thorough account of how the city has changed in 40 years, and explains (in part): [...]



Read more: http://io9.com/5453432/a-2050-tourist-map-of-the-picadilly-line-in-london

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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Welcome to the OS OpenSpace API


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The OS OpenSpace API is free to access and lets developers create amazing web applications and online projects with Ordnance Survey maps.

But OS OpenSpace API is not just for developers.

Although the API uses JavaScript to make web pages more interactive, anyone can create an application by following our sample code and tutorials.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Mirror Neurons and Magical EFT Therapy Bears



Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a form of alternative therapy that
purports to manipulate the body's energy field by tapping on acupuncture points while a specific traumatic memory is focused on, in order to alleviate a psychological problem. Critics have described the theory behind EFT as pseudoscientific and have suggested that any utility stems from its more traditional cognitive components, such as the placebo effect, distraction from negative thoughts, rather than from manipulation of meridians.
EFT, a form of Thought Field Therapy (TFT), has been thoroughly debunked as pseudoscience by the Skeptical Inquirer:
Can We Really Tap Our Problems Away?

. . .EFT is very similar to TFT, except that it employs one simplified and ubiquitous tapping procedure instead of applying different algorithms to treat different problems. On his Web site, [Gary] Craig1 asserts that Callahan’s reliance on differing algorithms is unnecessary because he has witnessed TFT therapists tap in the wrong order or apply the wrong algorithm to the particular problem and still obtain improvements. Craig’s anecdotal evidence appears to contradict Callahan’s anecdotal evidence. Furthermore, Craig extends his tapping therapy far beyond the realm of mental health, reporting testimonials from individuals who claim to have successfully used EFT to treat everything from autism to warts and various other medical problems with positive results...

A scientifically minded investigator would have then taken Craig’s observations a step further and tested a completely "placebo” algorithm which did not tap on any supposed energy meridians to see if it produced similar results. However, Craig reports that he has never carried out this simple experiment nor does he know of anyone who has. Furthermore, Craig speculates that a placebo algorithm may be impossible because tapping anywhere on the body will affect the body’s energy meridians. This position conveniently renders Craig’s theory unfalsifiable and therefore outside the realm of science.
EFT therapists can act as surrogates, tapping on themselves to cure the problems of others. But even more fun than that, why use yourself as a surrogate when you can tap on a cute magical teddy bear? Really and truly? According to Craig:
It is easily explainable in spiritual terms (we are all connected) and through the findings of quantum physics.
But it would behoove him to read a physics textbook, as well as the Skeptic's Dictionary: "This is the golden rule for New Age quacks: when in doubt, quote Einstein and mention quantum physics... What Gary forgets to tell us is that the so-called subtle energy of acupuncture has nothing in common with the energy in E=mc2. When you unblock that kind of energy you get nuclear weapons or power, not miraculous health cures."

EFT therapists have also resorted to those trendy media favorites -- mirror neurons! -- to explain their quackery:

HOW CAN THE BEARS WORK?

Perhaps one explanation is Mirror Neurons.

It's been shown in scientific experiments that when one animal is doing something such as eating a banana, another animal who is merely watching will have the same neurons lighting up in their brains as the animal who is doing the activity.

Likewise, in tests done with acupuncture, when needles are being inserted into points on one person, the same points are lighting up on a person who is only observing. In the case of the Magical Bears, we might conclude that when you are tapping on the bear, as you tap, your points would be lighting up as well.

hat tip: AA

Everyone knows what mirror neurons are, those darlings of the pop neuroscience world. First observed in the ventral premotor area F5 of macaque monkeys, mirror neurons increase their rate of firing when the animal performs an action, and when the animal watches someone else perform the action (Rizzolati et al, 1996). These "monkey see, monkey do" neurons have taken on a life far beyond their originally postulated role in imitation. However, not everyone believes that mirror neurons can account for all aspects of human language, culture, and social cognition -- from empathy to altruism to autism to aesthetics to
certain listeners' misattribution of anger in the music of avant garde jazz saxophonists (Gridley & Hoff, 2006)
-- as explained by Alison Gopnik [see also The Neurocritic, Mixing Memory, Neurofuture, et al.]:
The idea that these particular cells might underlie a fundamental human impulse [altruism] reflects the emergence of a new scientific myth. Like a traditional myth, it captures intuitions about the human condition through vivid metaphors.
As long-time readers might know, mirror neurons have been a popular topic of ridicule throughout the entire four year history of this blog. For your celebratory reading pleasure, here's The Neurocritic's mirror neuron œuvre:

Neuromarketing and "the Super Bowl Brain Scans"

Neurofeedback in Autism

Spindle Neurons: The Next New Thing?

An "Endophenotype" For Sexual Orientation?

Mirror Neurons Control The Universe

Mirror Neurons in Primary Motor Cortex?

Mirror Neurons Control Hard-ons?

Waves of Mu

Spanner or Sex Object?

I Feel Your Pain, I REALLY Do: Synaesthesia for Another's Pain


Footnote

1 "Gary Craig is not a licensed health professional and offers EFT as an ordained minister and as a personal performance coach. Please consult qualified health practitioners regarding your use of EFT."


Twitticism: "Mirror neurons can explain everything. We can all go home now."

Tegnefilm om cloud computing


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Det er baggrunden for at Rene Løhde, ansvarlig for Microsofts Azure-platform i Danmark, har lavet en pædagogisk tegnefilm om cloud computing og relaterede begreber. [...]



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Mapping Now: Dynamic Realtime Maps and Other Pictures


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Maps are never pefect representations of reality, and increasingly they’re out of date before they’re finished. Complicating matters, mapping of live phenomena (geospatial or otherwise) is becoming more and more prevelant, and even expected. Looking back to earlier representations of movement can help us figure out how to represent the fluid spaces that mapping is moving in to. From Launch Pad, O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, Burlingame, CA.

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Read more: http://www.educationgis.com/2010/01/mapping-now-dynamic-realtime-maps-and.html

Spejlverdener på nettet


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Harddisken uge 4, 2010: Spejlverdener på nettet

Skrevet af: Anders Høeg Nissen, 15:53 27. januar 2010

kort_danmark2Hør udsendelsen

På mange måder er vi med korttjenester, online billedarkiver og så videre godt igang med at lave en slags parallelunivers – ikke en virtuel verden som World of Warcraft-spillene eller 3D-universer som Second Life, men en spejlverden af information der i en eller anden grad er knyttet sommen med geografiske data om steder, firmaer, bygninger og mennesker i den fysiske verden.

Harddisken ser i denne uge nærmere på disse kort og informationslag. Man kan høre mere om Kort og Matrikelstyrelsens højdemodel af Danmark, komme med på tur i den tyske online-verden Twinity, der har bygget 3D-modeller af blandt andet Berlin og London, og så kan man høre mere om Googles strategi og planer for korttjenester, med fokus på mobilerne.

Bagefter fortæller gadgetkongen Nikolaj Sonne om iPhone-programmer der har gjort både hans skiferier og hans nattesøvn nemmere, og bagefter er der it-nyheder, denne gang med opfølgning på historien om konflikten mellem Google og Kina.

Til sidst tager vi til München, hvor Danmark har et af sine såkaldte Innovations-centre – handels-forposter der skal sætte fokus på at skabe samarbejder mellem dansk, teknologisk knowhow og firmaer i de lande centrene ligger.

LINKS:

David Gelernter’s Mirror Worlds – intro hos Google Books

Twinity – virkelige, virtuelle onlinebyer

Danmarks Højdemodel hos Kort og Matrikelstyrelsen

Google Earth

Google Maps

InnovationCenter Denmark i München


Read more: http://www.dr.dk/php/drmu/wpmu/harddisken/blog/2010/01/27/harddisken-uge-4-2010-spejlverdener-pa-nettet/