This will be my place on the web.
From Caitlin: I was trying to text that my cat Butch would not get out of my car.
Stephen calls on the Colbert Nation to send in more suggestions for the direction of his Super PAC, in addition to more money.
I don't care what his next movie is about. I'll pay to go see it.
I notice who's doing the interview: Libertarians. Screw 'em.
Read the comments on this post...Zou het de naderende start van de Tour de France zijn, is het zomer die er aankomt of gewoon een combinatie van die twee?
We krijgen de laatste tijd weer veel vragen over de beschikbaarheid van de NOS ringtones en dan met name de NOS deuntjes rondom Radio Tour de France.
Vol trots kunnen we melden dat de Ringtones weer voor iedereen beschikbaar zijn.
Hier kun je ze al vast beluisteren:
x Tune Radio Tour de France
x Tourflits
x Finishtune Tour de France
x Tune Langs de Lijn
x (oude) leadermuziek Studio Sport
x Begintune Radio 1 Journaal
x Eindtune Radio 1 Journaal
x Begintune Met het Oog op Morgen
x Leader Jeugdjournaal
x Toeter Tour de France
De mp3 tunes zijn direct te downloaden naar je mobiele telefoon door deze pagina in de browser van je mobiele telefoon op te zoeken. De URL is: http://app.nos.nl/ringtones/index.html
Update: Een aantal mensen vraagt zich af hoe ringtones op de iPhone moeten worden gezet. Instructies staan o.a. hier besproken.
Veel plezier er mee!
The "wisdom of the crowd" has become a bit of a pop cliché, but it's backed up by real-world evidence. When groups of people are asked to provide estimates of obscure information, the median value of their answers will often be remarkably close to the right one, even though many of their answers are laughably wrong. But crowds rarely act in the absence of social influences, and some researchers in Zurich have now shown that providing individuals information about what their fellow crowd-members are thinking is enough to wipe out the crowd's wisdom.
As the authors of the paper point out, the wisdom of a crowd is actually a statistical phenomenon. Many people have some very rough sense of a given value—in this case, things like the length of Switzerland's border with Italy or its murder rate—but don't know the precise figure. As long as their answers are just as likely to be above or below the actual value, the mis-estimations should cancel each other out. "The wisdom of crowds effect works if estimation errors of individuals are large but unbiased such that they cancel each other out," as the authors put it. That places the mean of the answers somewhere in the neighborhood of the correct one. In some cases, the crowd will actually do better than a group of experts.
The authors, however, realized that most decision making takes place in a social environment—people talk among themselves, compare answers, and get various forms of feedback. So, they decided to test how these processes might influence the wisdom of a crowd. To do so, they asked a panel of a dozen people the same question five times, allowing the participants to change their answer each time. To make sure the answers were serious attempts at getting it right, financial rewards were offered based on the accuracy of the guesses.
NASA’s space shuttle Discovery is queued up for its final mission Thursday Feb. 24 at 4:50 p.m. Eastern time, but you don’t need to race to the Space Coast to catch the action.
Thanks to the magic of the internet (and taxpayer dollars), you can watch Discovery and the two other final shuttle flights this year in high-definition, for free.
If space agency technobabble isn’t your thing, worry not: A handful of space-obsessed videocasters rip the NASA TV feed and provide their own user-friendly live shows.
Below are three of the best internet streams able to cater to any flavor of space geek. To watch future space shuttle and other missions, bookmark this page and check NASA’s TV schedule (PDF) and launch schedule.
Hosted by super-fans of space, Benjamin and Cariann Higginbotham, Spacevidcast is perhaps the most street-friendly source of live mission commentary available.
The duo reads and responds to chatroom banter during their coverage, making for an engaging, but sometimes noisy, experience. This year, Spacevidcast plans to take video call-in questions from readers using Vokle.
When CNN gave veteran space journalist Miles O’Brien the boot in December 2008, he joined Spaceflight Now’s webcasting team.
O’Brien brings high-profile guests onto the show to help with mission commentary, including former astronauts and NASA mission managers. Expect a mix of traditional journalism and humor geared toward space enthusiasts.
Since its inception, NASA has a long tradition of providing live mission commentary. Unfortunately, NASA TV first timers can find the government-sponsored feed a tough multimedia pill to swallow.
For purists who have learned the cryptic language associated with human spaceflight, however, it’s the stream to watch.
Image: Space shuttle Discovery is lugged out to launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on January 17, 1997. (NASA) [high-resolution version available]
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For Teh Lulz of the Day: Mark you calendar, bookmark this webcam: If all goes according to plan, on May 13th @ 7:30 PM, by the pay phones on 46th & Broadway, there will either be a pissed-off pack of angry OkCupid members looking for love in all the wrong places, or the inaugural get-together of the greatest group of BFFs 4chan has ever inadvertently assembled.
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