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Part 2: Adventures in Tagging and Interface design

The AppRocket Model

I found a "desktop accelerator" type utility through del.icio.us called "AppRocket". It's just a little bar that docks itself to the top of your screen. You enter a few characters and it drops down list of terms that match. The set it searches is configurable, but includes all your files, your start menu items and bookmarks. It also has special items like "Google" which let you search from that little bar. It also has a memory of terms you've entered and scrolled down the list to reach; it brings these to the top during subsequent searches.

CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.

CORRECT: The image pokes fun at the Senator.
INCORRECT: The photoshop pokes fun at the Senator.

CORRECT: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Adobe® Photoshopped.

MILWAUKEE - An airport worker loading baggage in Milwaukee got locked inside the cargo hold of an airplane that flew to Philadelphia.

The worker was “a little stressed” but uninjured after the unscheduled flight, a spokeswoman for Midwest Airlines said Friday.

The "unsigned" memo isn't composed of real "talking points," nor is it in standard format for memo operating procedure. No reporter has been able to offer evidence of its authenticity. As further proof to suggest the memo may be fake, the title says that it's tied to S.529, a bill concerning a US anti-doping agency, not Terri. There may be an explanation for all of this, but as [Power Line] says, "the burden now is clearly on ABC and the Washington Post to explain why they are not the victims of a hoax."

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Yesterday's NY Times offers clues to possible origins: "As tensions festered among Republicans, Democratic aides passed out an unsigned one-page memorandum that they said had been distributed to Senate Republicans".

“I was walking through the Dallas airport with some colleagues and one of them recognized two of the same protestors we had seen outside the event in Albuquerque. We had some extra time, so we decided to talk to them. They were very polite and explained to us they had just come from protesting an event nearby. One of them very quickly identified themselves as professional protestors.”

“Not that they just liked to protest, but that they actually got paid by liberal interest groups to travel the country protesting."

"I have two (bulletproof vehicles), one in New York, one in LA, and it was about 100 grand each,

"I'm actually disappointed though: Nobody's shot me. I spent a lot of money on that s**t!"

It's true that treeviews are appropriate for a few specialized situations. A HR diagram of managers and employees, for example. In my experience, however, trees get horribly abused. The canonical example of unnecessary tree use is in email clients.

Part 1: Tags and Trees

Tags and Searches

"Tags", to put it mildly, are the new hotness on the web. The most popular social web services such use "tags" (or "labels" or "keywords") as a quick way for user categorization of information, and in most cases they work quite nicely. Plug in a tag like "Seattle" into del.icio.us or flickr and you will get a mish-mash of links and pictures related to the city with the world's first Starbucks. More sophisticated systems will let you include multiple tags to find content and suggest related tags that can be incorporated in a search. Tags are most useful when you know what you want and simply need to locate something quickly from a lengthy list. After all -- search engines specialize in automatically creating tags or keywords from existing content.

Draper has a family and works full time as an administrative file clerk at Minnesota State University. His all-consuming passion, however, is the continued non-existence of a city pool.

LAKE CITY - A 19-year-old Lake City man who died early Saturday inflicted two stab wounds to his own chest, police say.

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Police believe Seward's actions were an attempt to get a neighbor in trouble.

Seward and the neighbor had an argument over the whereabouts of a bottle of alcohol during which Seward confronted the man with a knife, Bosscher said. Both men returned to their separate apartments.

Seward then called 911 at 1:22 a.m. from his apartment and said the neighbor had stabbed him. During the call, the dispatcher said Seward was relatively calm but as the conversation continues, he began screaming and asking for immediate help. Seward's girlfriend, Jennifer Bittell, who lives at the residence, could be heard screaming in the background and asking Seward why he had done this.

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Comedian Jeff Jena defines a Libertarian as a Democrat who wants to own a gun, or a Republican who wants to smoke pot. A TV newsmagazine producer named Kristina explains a Libertarian as a Republican with bad manners. And for New York writer Bill Huhn "a Libertarian is a libertine-arian."

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Yale Law student Angus Dwyer at a recent gathering of New York conservatives: "a cheapskate who can't keep his pants zipped."

Annan calls for treaty outlawing terrorism

MADRID, Spain - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Thursday for a world treaty on terrorism that would outlaw attacks targeting civilians...

"The right to resist occupation ... cannot include the right to deliberately kill or maim civilians," Annan told the conference on democracy, terrorism and security. The United Nations, he said, must proclaim "loud and clear that terrorism can never be accepted or justified in any cause whatsoever."

Nazi Germany tested a crude nuclear device in March 1945, killing hundreds of people in a massive explosion in southeastern Germany, a German researcher claims in a new book published Monday.

That the Nazis conducted nuclear experiments has been known for decades, but "Hitler's Bomb", by Berlin academic Rainer Karlsch, suggests they may have been closer to building an atomic weapon for military use than previously believed.

The German device probably was a 2-ton cylinder containing enriched uranium, he said. The amount of uranium was so small that the conventional explosives used to trigger the device did not set off a vastly more destructive nuclear chain reaction, he said.

That would mesh with a graphic account Karlsch said he found in Soviet military archives, apparently based on information from a German informant, that the blast felled trees within a radius of about 1,640 feet to 1,968 feet.

The analysis should have been unexceptionable. Anyone who has fled a cluster of men at a party debating the fine points of flat-screen televisions can appreciate that fewer women than men might choose engineering, even in the absence of arbitrary barriers. (As one female social scientist noted in Science Magazine, "Reinventing the curriculum will not make me more interested in learning how my dishwasher works.") To what degree these and other differences originate in biology must be determined by research, not fatwa. History tells us that how much we want to believe a proposition is not a reliable guide as to whether it is true.

By December 2004, most of Perl 6 has been specified as a series of Synopses. Although not considered final, it is now stable enough to be implemented. Many of the Synopses are based on Larry's Apocalypses. Sometimes the design team releases Exegeses, which explain the meaning of Apocalypses. Pugs adheres to the Synopses, referring to Apocalypses or Exegeses when a Synopsis is unclear or imprecise.

The major/minor version numbers of Pugs converges to 2*p; each significant digit in the minor version represents a milestone. The third digit is incremented for each release. The current milestones are:

• 6.0: Initial release.
  
• 6.2: Basic IO and control flow elements; mutable variables; assignment.
  
• 6.28: Classes and traits.
  
• 6.283: Rules and Grammars.
  
• 6.2831: Role composition and other runtime features.
  
• 6.28318: Macros.
  
• 6.283185: Port Pugs to Perl 6, if needed.
  

Somehow, a mutant form of trance evolved from Epic drenched itself in the breakdown-build-anthem formula and senselessly driven it to new, insane levels of assinine. In doing so, it stopped becoming trance. Some songs have ridiculously long and drawn out breakdowns, lasting well over 3 minutes or almost half the length of the entire fucking track. Each new release tries to outdo last week's hit anthem, reaching higher and higher, making the genre louder, fuller, and more exalted and grandiose. Good god, does this ever suck. The way megatrance producers shamelessly cash in on a particular sound is insulting sometimes. How can anyone take this trite, derivative garbage seriously? What the hell is this, anyway? It's bombastic melodrama; a pompous, over-the-top, monstrously grotesque caricature of what trance used to be. The final betrayal. Trance is dead.

A middle-aged man comes to my desk and gives me a surname. I look it up, but there's only one entry for that surname and the name next to it is 'Valerie'. How do I explain this to him? I suppose Valerie could be a male first name in some parts of Eastern Europe, but the man doesn't sound Eastern European, and he certainly doesn't look Eastern European, so I have a slightly closer look and SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP YOU'RE A WOMAN!

"Oh, we wouldn't want to bother the U.S. government—they've got more than enough on their plate as it is," Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said. "Most of the potholes on I-90 are less than four feet wide. We get by just fine. I wouldn't want anyone all the way over there in Washington to be worrying about little ol' us."

You'll have an identity crisis when you find out your life is just another Internet rumor.