Month: June 2006

reading notes (0612)

Weiran4 Comments
这段时间真好，早上和晚上都有可以保证的空间，让我抽空读读书。
 
Experience a 50" widescreen…Anywhere…Anytime
http://ezgear4u.com/ezvision.html
Though the price can buy you a decent 21" LCD, it’s something used to be in fiction.
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Make Amazing Movies Online, free and easy
http://www.jumpcut.com
I just tried it out. Really great and easy to use. Make your movie look professional.
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《受欢迎的个性》
提升共鸣的能力：
1。吸收他人不同的人生经验，进而丰富自己的知识
2。藉由阅读来获得知识
3。懂得关心别人
4。懂得尊敬他人
5。具有接受他人缺点的雅量
6。率真地表达自己的情绪
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《在中国谁能过上好日子？》
从瓶子的blog上面读到的，觉得整个价值观比较值得参考，很多地方有见地。不过瓶子的blog是不转载的，有兴趣读全文的，这里有个连接：
 
以下是一些摘录：
。。。想一想白雪公主和7个善良的小矮人混了这么长时间，但是她最后嫁给了谁？再想一想为什么灰姑娘不好好坐在厨房削土豆皮，而是排除万难去争取到王宫里跳舞的虚荣？有谁在少女时代梦想自己的白马王子时，希望他穷困潦倒——上无片瓦下无力锥之地，双亲卧病在床另有兄弟数头无人抚养？嫁人又不是扶危济贫，如果要扶危济贫索性像特丽莎修女那样，终生不嫁，坚持生活在穷人中间，为他们奔走呼号，那不是更彻底？！说老实话，至今也没有什么有说服力的证据使我完全相信，作为一个女人嫁给有钱人会比嫁给穷人更糟糕。
“有钱花，有人爱，有事做这大概就算好日子了吧？”
。。。当然我得承认过好日子就要让人看见，否则不是相当于衣锦夜行，有什么意思？问题在于不要把自己搞得太累了。如果是强撑着，那就跟好日子完全背道而驰了。再说上午在香港吃早茶，下午到台湾喝么么茶，黄昏的时候到纽约看百老汇演出，你觉得是耍猴还是过日子？
。。。后来读了经济学，才知道我说的是“恩格尔系数”，什么叫恩格尔系数？说白了就是一个人用于维持生存的钱(主要是吃饭钱)占总收入的比例。比如我一天赚10元钱，但是9元用来吃饭，那么我的“恩格尔系数”就是0.9。什么叫“好日子”，“好日子”就是把自己的恩格尔系数降下来，最好降到可以忽略不计。
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The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments

reading notes (0609~0611)

Weiran2 Comments

Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers!
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3612046

Info never too much, while answers never too accurate. Only the community liked online resource center has the people to answer questions. Google Answers lost here. Some how integrated between Google Search and Google Answer could be helpful, I guess. $$$ should be spent on where the eyeballs focus at.

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Thin Client, Dumb Terminal is coming back?
http://www.youos.com

Guys from MIT, Caltech, and Stanford. It’s always my dream to fantasize the dumb terminal some day in the future. Just all the I/O’s on my desk, i.e., keyboard, mouse, monitor and a couple gadgets, nothing more.

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《受欢迎的个性》

。。。因为人类真正需要的是一种无私（to be with）的努力，而不是自私（to have）的努力。我们所努力的目标，不是要让自己成为有钱人或有名的人，而是希望成为可以和别人心灵相通，可以一同携手用心去感受生存的喜悦与价值的人。人的一生不管是活了九十年或一百年，“to be with”的目标才是人类寻求自我改造的重点。

。。。每个人都有各种不同的习惯，在时间的运用上也不例外。所以当你感觉自己“很忙”时，就应该见识一下自己运用时间的方法是否不当，并确认自己是否具有正确的时间观念，这些都是很重要的。

reading notes (long time ago ~ 0608)

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Google is doing MS Office Live things?

Let’s see what Google has done,
Gmail
http://mail.google.com/
Writely
http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowWelcome.htm
Calendar
http://calendar.google.com/
Spreadsheets
http://spreadsheets.google.com/
Clever move, even you search "spreadsheets" on Google, you cannot see results about Google Spreadsheets. Such a low-profile approach, is quite threatening to its competitors. But still a very long way to go. If you had a chance to take a look at MS Office 2007, you’ll understand why it took 4+ years to upgrade from Office 2k3. Fine arts take time.

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Muni Adds 56 New Hybrid Buses To Fleet

http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_153200131.html
Though it’s half million each, but the amount of money saved for recovering from the pollution is huge.

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Super Battery

http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218392803
Recharge in seconds, and no capacity loss. Use the concept of capacitors and nanotubes. But still years to wait before they are out to the market.

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Automakers face inventory woes

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/06/07/282365/Automakers_face_inventory_woes.htm
其他配套设施一定要跟上，要不，停车、路费、汽油、保险和维修，任何一样都会成为绊脚石。

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Early ‘Invisibility Cloak’ Could Be 18 Months Away

http://cbs4.com/topstories/topstories_story_145164351.html
This one is more "real" and more "scientific" than the one I read about one year ago from Japanese. No reflection and no shadow.

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Entertainment.com Coupon Book

http://www.entertainment.com/discount
Some business idea Kenneth and I were thinking about a few years ago, with minor difference.

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Residential Wi-Fi Sharing Made Easy

http://swing.cs.uiuc.edu/projects/perm/
ISPs got more things to worry about now.

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Gyrobike

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~gyrobike/
It just like the Gyroscope, taking advantage of the moment of inertia. Thinking of buying one for my nephew. 🙂

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The St@ndby Office, A Portable Cubicle

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/04/28/the-standby-office-a-portable-cubicle/
For a window seat? First come first served…haha

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myFeedz Makes News Social

http://myfeedz.com/
It has the same insight of my uncle’s site. But it’s been months, still in private beta.