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We just had the premiere of our first Take Five Training video, with popcorn.
Adoring Fan: “Will you autograph the DVD?”
Marina: “I don’t think so.”
Reporter: “Will you be starring in any more videos?”
Marina: “I don’t know, send the script to my agent.”
Here’s a bit of the intro:
"Entities are smarter than words," says Metaweb on their YouTube video.
Semantic web takes another step forward. This Metaweb video has a good explanation in layman’s terms about what an entity is. Uses the barcode analogy for unique IDs.
Also, check out this opinion from a Microsofter with ties to the IC, Lewis Shepherd. He calls it the “semantic war”… a “global web-scale war now gearing up between major computing powers Google and Microsoft, in a race for performance and innovation in semantically-enabled decision support.” Whoa.
Does a former drill sergeant make a good therapist? Check out this YouTube video.
Pardon this commercial, but it’s funny. Thanks to Delta Bravo Sierra for the pointer.
Alien plant life. What is it?
This so-called plant is clearly not of this world. It only blooms in the month of June. Soon the pods will hatch and…uh oh…maybe they already have. Deja vu Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Keep an eye out for the Pod People, people.
How did it get here, you ask? Well, spores get embedded in space shuttle tiles. The searing heat of re-entry activates them. When the shuttle returns to Cape Canaveral, they fall off, take root in the humid subtropical jungle called “Merritt Island”. The salty ground water is lifeblood to them. Their spines keep the wildlife away. Then–when you are asleep–they…well you know the story.
Alien plant strangles the state tree
Alien plan blooms
Lion cub chomps on somebody else's tail. From BBC's Big Cat Diary
Trying to make peace with my cell phone battery. This article about Li-Ion batteries helps. Did you know they like frequent partial charges? Cats gnawing on charger cables, not so much.
SIGNAL magazine June 2010
Tod Hagan, Modus Operandi Director ISR Software Solutions
Modus Operandi’s Tod Hagan is quoted in the article Googlizing Intelligence in AFCEA‘s June 2010 SIGNAL Magazine. In the article, Tod talks about how our natural language processing software improves precision and recall for an Air Force system that gives analysts the capability to search and filter HUMINT intelligence reports.
When I asked him about the project, he said, “We’re glad to have an opportunity to deliver something of immediate value to the warfighter. We’re proud of all who serve and have served our country.”
Mark Wallace, uber-geek blogger
If you are a semantic web geek, or just a wannabe, check out Mark’s blog, SemApps – Creating Semantic Applications. Seriously geeky. Seriously.
Just for reference, dark chocolate in the 60-75% range is my favorite
The one-eared product manager is taking bribes not to post photos from our Beach ‘Limpics event on Saturday. Fun organized by Play with a Purpose.
Dark chocolate always makes a good bribe, as do amazon.com gift certificates, and colorful art supplies.
What can a concerned citizen do about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Besides freak out, that is.
Oil swirls through the Gulf of Mexico. Photo from teamorca.org
I was pondering that when I got an email today from the nonprofit corp. Ocean Research and Conservation Foundation (ORCA) based in Ft. Pierce, Florida.
They have some ideas about modernizing disaster response. Quoting from the email…
“As we watch in horror and frustration as the worst oil spill in American history continues unchecked in the Gulf of Mexico, we at ORCA are more determined than ever to improve the way we respond to these disasters. One frustration is the lack of knowledge concerning where the oil is, where it is heading, and how close it is to impacting coastal estuaries and near shore environments with ecologically important ecosystems. Another hindrance is the mind-boggling number of toxicity tests that must be run so that the true impact of the spill can be documented and appropriate mitigation protocols applied. Toxicology labs are already overwhelmed with samples and the backlog is growing.”
Click the photo to go to their article and see their suggested call to action.
My name is Karen Dyson and I am a product manager at Modus Operandi. Help me to tune in by sharing your thoughts and opinions.
