I have just started using the Chrome Radio Player and search as I may, I was unable to find a single source for the streaming urls of Australian radio stations. I have found them and here is the result of my research. You can plug these URLs into your streaming player. — Enjoy
Australian Radio Streaming URLs
Visual metaphors assist busy readers, learners
See this in the news:
Announcing the availability of the first implementation of the Knowledge Ferret open source project.
The knowledgeferret.com adds a compelling visual metaphor to the document reader to help busy readers to make sense of large and complicated documents. The Productivity Commissions recent report into the Not-For-Profit sector in Australia is being used as a test of this technology.
The “Knowledge Ferret” is David’s third exploration of adding visual metaphor to large documents. The first was the Visual PMBOK(r) Guide – jospar.com and the second earlier work was for NSW Health’s Protocols and Procedures for Aged Care Assessment
In the “Knowledge Ferret” the visual metaphor is formed by the index on the left hand side of the document. It shows the topic that is currently in focus and the context of this topic. While the user can’t ever see all the topics in a document at one time, if ever a topic is visible, it is always in the same place in relation to all other topics. This means that as the user interacts and explores the document they are simultaneously building a mental map of the whole document.
While a user is reading a topic, the most similar topics in the rest of the document are highlighted in blue. These blue sections are like a ‘radar’ view into the rest of the document and makes connections between the current topic and other topics, possibly many chapters apart.
The search box returns its results using the same dynamic index using green highlighting. The search function is not designed to be exhaustive, but rather to guide the user to the top seven topics that most closely relate to the search term.
The “Most Read” link just under the search box highlights the most frequently read topics in a dark orange colour.
Using the “Share / Save” link, users may comment on via twitter, facebook and a dozen other social media sites about any topic in the document.
Golf Zero
Some keen golfers face a time when they can enjoy a walk around a golf course, but are not able to swing a golf club like they used to. A golfer’s swing could be interrupted due to injury, sickness or due to natural aging processes.
Should an inability to swing stop a golfer from enjoying the course? No. “Golf Zero” could be an answer. Here is an idea. Let “Golf Zero” be a zero swing game of golf that uses a small compressed air powered cannon to fire a golf ball when on the fairway, and a curved pipe for putting.
The fairway cannon fits onto a golf buggy in place of a bag of golf clubs and the Golf Zero golfer controls it using a wirelessly linked iPhone App that includes the course layout. The golfer chooses which stick to emulate, either an iron or wood plus a variable swing.
On the putting green, the golfer drops a golf ball down a curved pipe that is pointed towards the flag.
The combination of a small air powered cannon on the fairway and a curved pipe on the green may provide a way for golfers who have lost their swing to stay the course!
Knowledge Ferret
A novel way of applying adult learning and human-centric design principles to the presentation of large bodies of knowledge.
Visual PMBOK(r) Guide
A unique service to help learners to see, explore and master the knowledge contained in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®Guide) Fourth Edition.
Ambi Language
Ambi, A programming language created by David from Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) arithmetic and an extensible RPN Calculator hosted in the browser.
The Sun API
An Excel plug-in that calculates high accuracy solar values according the methods given in the book “Astronomical Algorithms” by Jean Meeus.
