June 2012
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“From: christopher lopez coyoinu at gmail.com
Date: Fri Jun 29 04:15:24...”
– DEFCON 20 “FAIL” Panel Waffle Project
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Brandon Bowersox-Johnson is an Alderman for the... →
The City Council establishes laws for citizen welfare, determines policies that govern providing municipal services and approves certain Mayoral appointments.
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Brandon Bowersox-Johnson is VP of Technology at... →
Pixo provides information technology and creative services to high-achieving clientele from its headquarters in downtown Urbana, Illinois. Since its inception in 1998, Pixo has partnered artists with engineers to deliver top-quality solutions and has served as a trusted partner for government, education, and nonprofit clients, bringing their visions to life online.
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Guest on TechKnowLedge Thursday, June 28 --...
UC2B has a lot happening right now — What we plan to cover includes, but is not limited to:
Background about UC2B - a community-owned fiber optic broadband provider
Construction Update - what is happening building fiber around C-U
Residents Signing Up - what is available now in eligible neighborhoods
Open Access - what that means about publicly-owned fiber where multiple providers offer...
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TechKnowLedge →
News and views from the Maker and Hacker world with host Stewart Dickson. Thursday mornings from 8 to 9 on WRFU-LP FM 104.5 Urbana, Illinois.
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Mitch Altman | Hackers on a Train 2012 Tour →
When I put out the call for hackerspaces interested in being part of the Tour route, I got 40 requests! Unfortunately, I can only stop at a fraction of these way cool spaces in the 45 days of my train ticket. I chose the spaces by the constraints of my schedule, and Amtrak’s routing and scheduling. I was able to fit 17 hackerspaces into the Tour.
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Google Sky →
Traveling to the stars has never been easier
To help you explore the far reaches of our universe, we have teamed up with astronomers at some of the largest observatories in the world to bring you a new view of the sky. Using Google Maps this tool provides an exciting way to browse and explore the universe. You can find the positions of the planets and constellations on the sky and even...
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Thomas Ashcraft | Heliotown: Transient Luminous... →
Here are sample movies of sprites, elves and other transient luminous event captures of the past weeks. I have recorded over two hundred specimens since March 30, 2012…. I am also accumulating an extensive data set of Mesospheric Gravity Waves.
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OPAL (Object Oriented Parallel Accelerator... →
OPAL (Object Oriented Parallel Accelerator Library) is a tool for charged-particle optic calculations in large accelerator structures and beam lines including 3D space charge. OPAL is built from first principles as a parallel application, OPAL admits simulations of any scale: on the laptop and up to the largest High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters available today. Simulations, in particular...
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Ritchie's illustrated catalogue of philosophical... →
RITCHIE'S
CATALOGUE
OF
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
ALLICII ALENDO.
E. S. RITCHIE & SONS,
No. 149 TREMONT STREET,
BOSTON.
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Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials →
John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book 2:
Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mixt Confus’dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th’ Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more Worlds, Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend Stood on the brink of...
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TheHeart.org | HeartWire: Echo [Cardiogram]... →
An echocardiography system that conveniently slips into a coat pocket might seem a natural for cardiologists: a readily available window into the heart and how it’s functioning, far more informative and flashy than the venerable stethoscope. And some of the first published outpatient data comparing the iPhone-sized devices to more familiar “lab-sized” systems showcase their...
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NPR The People's Pharmacy | A Doctor in Your... →
Cardiologist Eric Topol talks about how new digital technologies will change the nature of medicine by providing better, more personalized information to guide prescriptions. Such individualized treatments could even save money eventually.
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Touring the SouthWest June 9 - 17
On Thursday, June 14, I will likely be traveling from Salt Lake City, UT to Dallas, TX by way of Santa Fe, NM. So I won’t be in the WRFU studio from 8-9 am to do “TechKnowLedge”.
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MakerSpace Urbana Home Page and Wiki →
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MakerSpace Urbana Facebook Group →
125 members strong — Join us! Keep abreast of updates and news from Urbana Illinois’s own HackerSpace.
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MakerSpace Urbana on Twitter →
Follow us!
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MakerSpace Urbana E-Mail Discussion List →
Join the discussion! MailTo: imc-makerspace@lists.chambana.net Get updates from the MakerSpace Urbana. Subscribe — It’s free! Or browse the archives
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The Global Hackerspaces E-Mail Discussion List →
Join the discussion! MailTo: discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org Subscribe — It’s free! Or browse the archives.
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“The local sphere of telecommunications systems and services deployment and...”
– http://www.1st-mile.com
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“Hello Kopimists,
We’d like to welcome a new Church to the Kopimist...”
– First United Church of Kopimism, US 