Article Title: TAKE 2: An alternative look at the day in sport

Excerpt: However, when said release is a collaboration between the Dream Syndicate%u2019s Steve Wynn and Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, Minus 5, R.E.M.), that%u2019s enough to pique the interest of any discerning fan of music. And, yes, baseball fans should be hooked, too.

Excerpt: The supergroup of sorts takes listeners down the ragged base paths of history on and off the diamond — often to some of the game’s trickier corners — to stellar effect on “Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails” (Yep Roc).

Article Title: Baseball Project swings for fences

Excerpt: "I always wanted to do a whole album of songs about baseball," McCaughey says. "I had told Steve that, and he had said, 'Me too.' And that happened a couple times and then (in New York) we actually remembered it. And then we wouldn't let each other forget it. And we went, 'Let's do it.'"

Excerpt: "The point was that we didn't have to be bound by any tradition, but it ended up that the songs we wrote were pretty factual," McCaughey explains. "Maybe we have a lot more respect for the game than we like to think, being the punk-rock, sarcastic guys that we are, but we ended up writing fairly truthful stuff.

Article Title: The Baseball Project on Letterman

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Article Title: PopMatters | Steve Wynn

Article Title: Possibly 4th Street: Steve Wynn

Excerpt: “So where do you want to do this thing?” I ask Wynn. As in, “Which of these many, many park benches would you like to perform on, under, in front of, or next to?” Because Riverside Park was Steve’s idea. “The dog run,” he says. “Over by the dog run?” “No, in the dog run,” he says. Which is just about the best idea I’ve heard in weeks.

Excerpt: "I live close to here," says Wynn. "Actually I thought of a lot of different places to do it, and I chose a friendly place, a place where I feel comfortable. And I wanted to do it down here because I come down to this park a lot, but my girlfriend, who's also my drummer, Linda, she said, 'Do it in the dog run.' Because we'll come down and we’ll stand at the fence and watch the dog run for hours. It's like watching Congress. There's a whole political scene in there. You don't even have to go to the movies. It’s all going on in there. And so I figured I would just throw myself into the mix.”

Article Title: Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense - New York Times

Excerpt: The projects aimed at creating Web 3.0 all take advantage of increasingly powerful computers that can quickly and completely scour the Web. “I call it the World Wide Database,” said Nova Spivack, the founder of a start-up firm whose technology detects relationships between nuggets of information by mining the World Wide Web. “We are going from a Web of connected documents to a Web of connected data.”

Excerpt: How such systems will be built, and how soon they will begin providing meaningful answers, is now a matter of vigorous debate both among academic researchers and commercial technologists. Some are focused on creating a vast new structure to supplant the existing Web; others are developing pragmatic tools that extract meaning from the existing Web. But all agree that if such systems emerge, they will instantly become more commercially valuable than today’s search engines, which return thousands or even millions of documents but as a rule do not answer questions directly.

Excerpt: “It’s a hot topic, and people haven’t realized this spooky thing about how much they are depending on A.I.,” said W. Daniel Hillis, a veteran artificial-intelligence researcher who founded Metaweb Technologies here last year. Like Radar Networks, Metaweb is still not publicly describing what its service or product will be, though the company’s Web site states that Metaweb intends to “build a better infrastructure for the Web.” “It is pretty clear that human knowledge is out there and more exposed to machines than it ever was before,” Mr. Hillis said.

Article Title: An Intro To The Semantic Web

Excerpt: The concept of the sematic web is a few years old now, but is only now really beginning to gain real-world traction. The idea is based upon the simple observation that the current web mainly consists of a network of human-readable documents, not computer-parsable data. Because of this, the web is extremely useful for humans to gather data and information, but not at all useful for computers. The sematic web seeks to overcome this limitation by promoting standards for information representation and exchange to create a “web of data”. Much in the same way that technical interchange standards like HTTP and HTML allowed the organic growth of the “web of documents”, new technical standards will provide a fertile ground for the growth of this “web of data”.

Excerpt: Radar Networks is one of a handful of companies that are focused on bringing “sematic web” technologies to market. Other players in the field include the startups Metaweb (developers of Freebase), Zephira, and Franz. There are also a variety of public/aceademic/opensource efforts, including SIMILE, Jena, and dbepdia. But there are heavyweights, too — players like Oracle are active in the space. The field is just emerging from its infancy, but many see a bright future ahead for the Semantic Web. We’ve seen what the Network Effect can do for document repositories, software development projects, and community building. Just imagine what it can do with the world’s collective knowledge!

Article Title: Tips for Web 3.0

Excerpt: I'd suggest there are two initial aims for most Web 3.0 systems: maximising visibility on release by getting as many people on-side and enthusiastic as possible; maximising utility on release by having ready-to-use applications in place. These two aims complement each other - more enthusiasm means a bigger pool of 3rd party developers to create cool applications, more utility means there's likely to be more enthusiasm.

Excerpt: As a rule of thumb for any decisions, favour what's best for the Web. The success of a Web 3.0 system will be dependent on the progress of the Web. While there may be features in your system which provide the exact same functionality for the exact same market as features of competing systems, at this point in time, cooperation is the best strategy. It's pioneering time, there's a huge amount of land available, no need to grab.

Excerpt: Standards are the conventions that allow this stuff to work. Ignore them and you're doomed. There's nothing inherently wrong with proprietary formats and protocols, but the ROI is at best linear. Think of the bean counters. Follow established specs and your beans turn into magic beanstalks.

Article Title: Interior Design - Tips & Techniques

Excerpt: 1. What exactly will you be doing in the room or group of rooms that are being considered? If more than one activity is going to take place, what is the primary activity? List other priorities in order of importance.

2. How does this room or group of rooms interact with other rooms in the structure? Basically, is this room or group of rooms at the center of the structure or off to one side? The location of the room or group of rooms can have a profound impact on its final design.

3. How do you envision the traffic pattern in this room or group of rooms? This is extremely important. Don't forget, just as you often have hallways connecting rooms, you also have 'interior hallways' within rooms connecting parts of the room. You never want to block one of those 'hallways' inside a room. The traffic pattern in the entire structure should also be studied. For example, will normal household traffic enter and exit in this new 'space'? Or, will traffic travel through this room or group of rooms into another part of the house? All of these aspects must be considered.

4. How will this room or group of rooms be lighted? Will it be primarily natural light during daytime hours? How will nighttime lighting be balanced with daytime needs?

5. How will mechanical needs of this room, group of rooms, or other rooms affect this area? Remember, mechanical systems (heating/air conditioning ducts & pipes and plumbing pipes) often require specialized placement. They are not easy to relocate. It is often impractical to relocate these systems due to extreme financial costs.

6. Have you taken into consideration the sound qualities of the room? If sound will be generated in the room, how will it affect other rooms in the house? If the room will have a sound system within it, have the speakers been installed in the proper locations? Have the acoustic properties of other materials within the room been studied for compatibility?

7. Are you taking advantage of natural outdoor vistas in your interior scheme? If the room or group of rooms has a mountain or ocean view, or a view of a simple well-landscaped patio, take advantage of it. Orient the space to the view, or bring the view into the space.

8. Do you want the room or group of rooms to convey a feeling? Do you want people to feel a certain way when in the room? If so, plan accordingly. For example, if you want a wide open feeling, consider light colors, high ceilings, etc.

Article Title: Long-term project will reduce tainted water in Ariz., Calif.

Excerpt: By 2013, work crews will have ripped apart every residential street in this city of 55,000 people, dug trenches through the front yard of nearly every home, buried more than 400 miles of pipe and decommissioned almost every septic tank within a 25-mile radius.

Excerpt: Worried about declining water quality, bad publicity from polluted beaches and the threat of a state-imposed building ban, Lake Havasu City decided in 2001 to build a central sewer system. Voters approved the $463 million price tag and work is nearly finished on the fourth year of an 11-year project that will let Lake Havasu give up the dubious title of largest U.S. city without sewer service.

Excerpt: Lake Havasu City's rapid growth during the 1990s underscored the need for sewer service. But for many, the real wake-up call arrived on a miserably hot June afternoon in 1994. Temperatures had been climbing steadily for days and on June 29 seared the city with a 128-degree high, a mark that still stands as the hottest day on record in Arizona.

That same day, the city manager closed all the city beaches along the lake's eastern shore after routine water samples found fecal-coliform levels 17 times higher than the allowable amount. The beaches remained closed for days, then weeks, as officials tried to pin down the cause of the contamination. An early suspect was seepage from the thousands of septic tanks uphill from the lakeshore.

Article Title: Radia Perlman speaks out on being stuck with IP, new life for spanning tree and her answer to data security: the ephemerizer - Network World

Excerpt: Recently a recruiter for a company sent me e-mail saying "We are particularly interested in you as a female thought leader." I didn't reply, because I wasn't interested in a job, but I fantasized replying: "Thank you for your interest. Although my credentials as a thought leader are impeccable, I must warn you that I am not that qualified as a female. I can't walk in heels, I have no clothing sense, and I'm not particularly decorative. What aspects of being female are important for this position?"

Article Title: The Ups and Downs of Steve Wynn

Excerpt: %u201CSo much of what I love in music is interplay and communication and instinct and things that happen on the spur of the moment%u2014all those things work better when you know who you%u2019re playing with,%u201D Wynn said.