sj's Longest Now [v.1]

Boston will host Wikimania 2006.  Details to come.

…they’re planning for disaster by training the community to be more self-reliant (and going back to centuries-old roots in the process).  How did I miss this when it was first announced?

Care of a German-Korean collaboration. You can add items to a map layer,
have resulting content stored in the db associated with WP articles,
and have tags show up on the map with the article’s name. Then you can
add/remove these items by layer…)

Click on the map to see the layered world-map itself.

Replace Wikipedia with media or The Media and you’ll be all set.  Let’s rock.

Jan-Henrik Anderson’s brightly colored art depicting quarks and similarly-sized subatomic particles is a glory to behold.  Starting from the shared superstructure of a unit superquadric ellipsoid, he has built some magical things, and intends to continue in the same fashion.

Sometime after 11:50
last night, I received a pointer to a delightful paper on medieval
mathematics
of the RaLBaG. 
Two charming stories in one night, one
library staffer, and a Simonson!  Now the question is : did the
story about the internal circumfrence and external diameter come from
him directly, or from Nehemiah as suggested in the History of Pi?

Time for a hallowe’en recipe contest.

Lots of great advice and suggestions, for getting around housing
crunches, language barriers, and Cambridge/US/North-America founder
effects.  Also for coping with iCampus, ePublishing, press
accreditation, and design.  Special thanks to eGeorge, Beauty’s,
and Ilya’s extra dose of enthusiasm.  

IRC sadly failed us, largely because we had a single functioning
machine doing double-duty as shared whiteboard-display and IRC
monitoring, and we lost our connection before we left.  (Sorry, dk & tea)

Come to the Berkman Center tonight at 8pm to support and plan a local Wikimania bid for next summer.  The initial congress last summer in Frankfurt brought together 350 students, academics, entrepreneurs and other community members for 3 days of energetic collaboration.  It was a joyful and productive event.

Next summer, Berkman hopes to host the sequel.  Wikipedians in
town are meeting tonight to discuss what a conference in  Boston —
home to over 55 colleges and 150,000 students — would be
like.   Help us brainstorm about how the congress could take
advantage of what our city has to offer, how we could make this a great
experience for people from all over the world, and how it could enrich
local programs already in
progress. 

Some multilingual thoughts on a sunny day:  a UN history of massively parallel interpretation, and some old gathered advice on breaking into simultaneous interpreting.