In today?s class of Math Monkey Welcome to the Jungle, we had pirate day! First we began with a really tricky pirate treasure map puzzle. Our little math monkey?s had to add two-digit numbers together to solve the puzzle. Then we got out our Gali Mala stick and we took turns adding a two-digit numbe...
Your Brain As a MapCareful. Next thing you know Google will be wanting to map this. New Zealand designers have created a New Brainland Map that maps out the brain's neural regions. Interesting. I'm afraid mine these days would look more like those pirate maps of yore. Via BoingBoing...Read the full post from Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2Tags: Culture, Fun Stuff
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Visualize Your Facebook Social Network with Friend WheelWhile the early Facebook widgets have been fairly primitive, some of the more recent offerings are showing promise. No, I'm not talking about Pirates vs. Ninjas. A simple widget that I just installed is Friend Wheel. Friend Wheel creates a simple visual map of the relationships between y...Read the full post from Content MattersTags: Technology, Visualization, Social Networks, web 2.0, Widget, Widgets, facebook, friend wheel
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Book Review: Asian Trade and the European Influence in the Indonesian Archipelago between 1500 and 1630M.A.P. (Marie Antoinette Petronella) Meilink-RoelofszThe Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962, 471 pages M.A.P. (Marie Antoinette Petronella) Meilink-Roelofsz is an oft-overlooked historian and archivist of European expansion, and perhaps her greatest contribution to the field was her inventory of the Arch...Read the full post from historymikeTags: Book Reviews
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Parse freetext postal addresses to structured form for geocoding to KML?Parse freetext postal addresses to structured form for geocoding to KML? I have a bunch of contact information (harvested from a very user-unfriendly aetna docfind website) that I want to plot on a google map. Naturally, the info is unstructured. If I want to use batchgeocode.com I need to get it in...Read the full post from Ask MetaFilterTags: Programming, python, Perl, Ruby, geocoding, parser, kml
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[Dumbass] "I don't know if that's something pirates do, if they burn the map after finding the treasure or something"Salt Lake Tribune...Read the full post from Fark.com
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Return to Lilliput, Second RunningReturn to Lilliput, revised rules After plugging up a few holes in the rules and working out a few inconsistencies, I ran Return to Lilliput again for TriaDCon on Sunday. I only had two players (running two pirates each). I made the map smaller and narrower, and increased the ratio of resources to p...Read the full post from . Tags: game, Game Design, Miniatures, Return to Lilliput
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