A Calendrical Proposal by The Lost Wizard

"It occurs to me that in the forseeable future humankind will have colonies on other planets in the solar system. These planets will obviously have need of different calendars than are presently in use on the earth. This is necessitated by the fact that they have different day lenghts and substantially different year lengths. With the explosion of different calendars this provides, there becomes some need of a standard interplanetary calendar for scientific and commercial purposes. Most fiction writers just use the gregorian calendar that much of the human population of the earth uses. However, there is no particular need for the interplanetary calendar to be based on any particular local calendar. In fact, it is probably better if it isn't. The rest of this document includes a proposal for such a calendar."

http://lost.l-w.ca/theoretical/calendar.txt

From the valleys to Venice

"He can't get over the landscape, he says. He's been in Snowdonia, where he walked up the unstable slate heaps of Dinorwic quarry - "I'd hear clink, clink, clink all the way up the mountain." It's been a moving, sometime upsetting experience, and he's exhausted by it. Wales in the early 1960s, he remembers, was somewhere you had to leave: "The place scared me; it was going nowhere.""

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/12/john-cale-venice-biennale-velvet-welsh-pavilion

"Wales provides an astonishingly rich lyrical and romantic, as well as political and social, context for artists to work within. This project resonates with the poetic, bardic tradition that underpins the cultural history of Wales, and has at its heart Cale's own personal relationship with the Welsh language and issues surrounding communication. "

http://www.veneziasi.it/content/view/?id=2182&Itemid=418&lang=en


http://www.veneziasi.it/content/view/?id=2174&Itemid=321&lang=en

Sculpture Carved 35,000 Years Ago Might be World's Oldest According to Archaeologists

"The sculpture of a woman made of ivory was presented today by German archaeologists in Tuebingen, Germany. The figure, found in 2008 in a cave in Schelklingen, is supposedly the world's oldest reproduction of a human with an estimated age of at least 35,000 years."

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30830

Add Photos to Gmail Messages

"Gmail added inserting images as a Labs feature. After enabling the feature, you'll notice a new photo icon when you compose a message using the rich editor. You can insert images from your computer and images published online, by typing their addresses."

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/04/add-photos-to-gmail-message.html

Google Calendar Adds Tasks

"Now you can manage your tasks from Google Calendar. There are two ways to view your tasks in Google Calendar: in the right sidebar, where you can also manage your tasks, and as a built-in calendar."

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/05/google-calendar-adds-tasks.html

Google Squared

"Google Squared, the service that automatically generates lists of entities and associated attributes, is now live. "Google Squared is a new way of organizing information on the Web to make it more useful and structured," explains Google.

For example, if you search for [African countries], Google Squared generates a list of countries, then it finds attributes that should be appropriate when you describe a country (capital, currency, image/map) and it tries to find values for the attributes. Google Squared shows only the first 7 results, but you can always add new results and even new attributes. Clicking on the first blank column, Google Squared suggests 5 new columns: area, religion, language, GDP and Internet users."

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-squared-live.html


http://www.google.com/squared