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Japanese Wikipedia
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were articles posted by several non-native-Japanese speakers. The major coverage in that time includes Japanese culture, Language, Geography, and programming related articles. In the same month, the translation into Japanese of the interface of Wikipedia sofware began. Before the end of year, pages about how to edit or about the GNU Free Documentation License were translated. In the middle of December, the number of registered users was about 10 and the number of articles was around 10. Coverage in Wired News Japanese edition In January 31, 2003, a Japanese online magazine, Wired News Japanese edition covered Wikipedia. It seems that it was the first time that Wikipedia was mentioned in the Japanese media. After that, the number of participants started to increase considerably and many pages about the Wikipedia project were
Jack Teagarden
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acted and played in the film "The Birth of the Blues". In 1946 Jack Teagarden joined Louis Armstrong's All Stars. Armstrong and Teagarden's work together shows a wonderful rapport between the musicians. In late 1951 Teagarden left to again lead his own band, then co-led a band with Earl Hines, then again with a group under his own name with whom he toured Asia in 1958 and 1959. Jack Teagarden continued playing until the night before he died in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana on January 15, 1964. External Links Teagarden Online A Tribute To Jack Teagarden
Jack Parsons
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California in 1941. He was also the sometime magickal partner of L. Ron Hubbard. The two participated in a ritual known as the "Babalon Working" which is famous in occult circles -- loosely, an attempt to summon a goddess and change the course of history. This relationship lasted until 1947, when Hubbard defrauded Parsons of a sum of money (and ran off with his wife). [1] [1] Jack Parsons died in 1952 in a laboratory explosion which is generally regarded as accidental. An extensive online library of his seminal writings regarding the Babalon Working has been maintained since 1997 at http://www.babalon.net. A crater on the dark side of the Moon has been named after him. External Links Sex and Rockets - The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter. Introduction
James H. Clark
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financial benefits of the Internet boom. Just as the Internet boom was about to completely bust, Clark got the urge to move on again. In 1998, Jim Clark got the idea of streamlining the insurance hassles and paperwork associated with the healthcare industry. He came up with the idea of a company that would help make access to more efficient healthcare easier. Although his original idea was a bit too ambitious, it did lead some inroads in administrative streamlining of medical records technology, but an Atlanta, Georgia startup company, WebMD, was already making inroads toward the same goal. Knowing that WebMD had financial backing from Microsoft, Clark decided to merge his newest startup, Healtheon, with the original WebMD to form the current WebMD Corporation. WebMD also provides a vast resource of
Jacques Derrida
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then reevaluates both essays at great length. Derrida's work has been controversial; many analytic philosophers and scientists disagree with his positions. The philosopher Christopher Norris has written several books which argue for Derrida's work's relevance to science and analytic philosophy. Another philosopher who accepts his work as valid is Richard Rorty. In 1992 twenty philosophers including W. V. Quine and Ruth Barcan Marcus signed a letter to the University of Cambridge to protest its controversial award of an honorary doctorate to Derrida, maintaining that his work "does not meet accepted standards of clarity and rigor" and describing his philosophy as being composed of "tricks and gimmicks similar to those of the Dadaists." Derrida has had a significant influence on in the humanities, especially in literary theory and literary criticism, some of
Jack London
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claim jumper; "The Law of Life," about an aging man abandoned by his tribe and left to die; and "Love of Life," about a desperate trek by a prospector across the Canadian taiga. "Moon Face" invites comparison with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." Jack London was a boxing fan and an avid amateur boxer himself. "A Piece of Steak" is an evocative tale about a match between a older boxer and a younger one. "The Mexican" combines boxing with a social theme, as a young Mexican endures an unfair fight and ethnic prejudice in order to earn money with which to aid the Mexican revolution. A surprising number of Jack London's stories would today be classified as science fiction. "The Unparalleled Invasion" describes bacteriological warfare against China. "Goliah" revolves around
January 10
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Lend-Lease is introduced into the United States Congress. 1946 - First General Assembly of the United Nations. 1957 - Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom. 1969 - After 147 years, the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post is published. 1971 - Masterpiece Theatre debuts on PBS. 1984 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations. 1989 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola. 1990 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. 1994 - Lorena Bobbitt goes on trial for severing the penis of her husband John (Manassas, Virginia). 2000 - America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history. Births 1769 - Michel Ney, a marshal
January 15
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Union launches Soyuz 5. 1970 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders. 1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya. 1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. 1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola. 1974 - Happy Days premiers on ABC. 1976 - Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison. 1992 - The Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia ceases to exist. Slovenia and Croatia gain independence. 1998 - The stalker of Howard Stern, Lance Carvin, is sentenced to 2 1/2 years for threatening to kill Stern and his family. 2001 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online (Wikipedia Day).
Japan
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from north to south are Hokkaido, Tohoku region, Hokuriku region, Kanto region, Chubu region, Kinki region (commonly called Kansai), Chugoku region, Shikoku region, Kyushu region, and Okinawa, the main island in Ryukyu retto. Economy Main article: Economy of Japan Government-industry cooperation, a strong work ethic, mastery of high technology, and a comparatively small defense allocation (1% of GDP) have helped Japan advance with extraordinary rapidity to the rank of second largest economy power in the world only next to the US. Notable characteristics of the economy include the working together of manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors in closely-knit groups called keiretsu; the powerful enterprise unions and shunto; and the guarantee of lifetime employment for a substantial portion of the urban labour force. Most of the these features are now eroding, however, and
J.C.R. Licklider
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modern computer interaction concepts and the development of time-sharing and the modern Internet. Licklider was also a colleague of Douglas Engelbart, who was head of the Stanford Research Institute and its highly influential OnLine System. In 1950, Licklider moved from Harvard University to MIT where he got his first credible computing experiences. He worked on a Cold War project known as SAGE designed to create computer-based air defense systems. In 1960, Licklider wrote his famous paper Man-Computer Symbiosis, which outlined the need for simpler interaction between computers and computer users. Licklider, although credited as the creator of AI and cybernetics, wasn't actually thinking that men would be replaced by computer-based beings. The earliest ideas of a global computer network were formulated by Licklider at MIT in August 1962 in a series
J. Michael Straczynski
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books, including Midnight Nation (Top Cow Productions) and Rising Stars (Top Cow), both of which he created, and The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel Comics). In 2003 he was hired by Marvel to reboot the Squadron Supreme characters in a new series entitled Supreme Power. Upcoming Marvel comic book work reportedly will include a Doctor Strange miniseries. Other work Straczynski has also written the book The Complete Book of Scriptwriting, often used as a text in introductory sreenwriting courses, and now in its third edition. In the book Straczynski cites Mignon McLaughlin: "Anyone can write. The trouble with writers is that they can't do anything else." Throughout the book it becomes clear that he perceives himself as one of these hopeless writers. Trivia The asteroid 8379 Straczynki, discovered in 1992 at the Kitt
Kyodo
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have about 50 million subscribers. The subdivision Kyodo News International founded in 1982 is located in Rockefeller Center, New York. Their online newspaper is multilingual in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), and English.
Kuniyoshi
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1836) Stories of Wise and Virtuous Women (c. 1841-1842) Fifty-Three Parallels for the Tokaido (1843-1845) (with Hiroshige and Toyokuni III) Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety (1843-1846) Mirror of the Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety (1844-1846) Six Crystal Rivers (1847-1848) Twenty-Four Chinese Paragons of Filial Piety (c. 1848) Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido (1852) Portraits of Samurai of True Loyalty (1852) Further Reading B. W. Robinson, Kuniyoshi (Victoria and Albert, London, 1961) B. W. Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints (Cornell University, Ithaca, 1982) contains the definitive listing of his prints Robert Schaap, Timothy T. Clark, Matthi Forrer, Inagaki Shin'ichi, Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints By Kuniyoshi 1797-1861 (Hotei, Leiden, 1998) is now the definitive work on him Merlin C. Dailey, David Stansbury, Utagawa Kuniyoshi: An Exhibition of the Work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Korean Air
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flight, on the Anchorage to Kimpo segment. All 269 people on board were killed. The civilian airliner went hundreds of miles off course and passed over restricted Siberian territory. The event was denounced by the US Reagan administration as a deliberate and wanton act of murder by an "evil empire". Its safety record rates a “B", the second highest grade possible, according to Air Rankings Online (see rankings at Airline Rankings).
Kozmo.com
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Kozmo.com Kozmo.com was a venture-capital driven online company that promised free one-hour delivery of anything from DVDs to Starbucks coffee. It was founded by young investment bankers, Joseph Park and Yong Kang in March 1998 in New York City. The company is often referred to as an example of the dot-com excess. Kozmo promoted an incredible business model; it promised to deliver small goods free of charge. The company raised about $280 million including $60 million from Amazon.com. The business model had been criticized and in fact, the company failed soon after the collapse of dot-com bubble, laying off its staff of 1,100 employees and shutting down in April 2001. As of February 2000, it operated in San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, New York, Washington and Los Angeles. Its headquarters were located
Kollel
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donations. This has been known at times to cause a great deal of resentment from the Israeli public at large, garnering criticism from the Modern Orthodox, non-Orthodox and secular Jewish community. Yeshiva students who learn in kollel sometimes go on to become Rabbis, Poskim (decisors of Jewish law), or teachers. Links Orthodox Kollels in the USA List of Kollels in the USA Jewish Learning in the Diaspora - List of places to learn A liberal Jewish Kollel in Ontario, Canada A Reform Jewish Kollel for liberal Jews Conservative Judaism's online adult-ed program Torah.org Orthodox Jewish internet education - Learn what they learn in the Kollels Books "The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry" William B. Helmreich, KTAV Publishing House; ISBN 0881256412; Augmented edition (February 2000) "The way
Kleene algebra
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language. Then A forms a Kleene algebra. In fact, this is a "free" Kleene algebra in the sense that any equation among regular expressions follows from the Kleene algebra axioms and is therefore valid in every Kleene algebra. Again let Σ be an alphabet. Let A be the set of all regular languages over Σ (or the set of all context-free languages over Σ; or the set of all recursive languages over Σ; or the set of all languages over Σ). Then the union (written as +) and the concatenation (written as ·) of two elements of A again belong to A, and so does the Kleene star operation applied to any element of A. We obtain a Kleene algebra A with 0 being the empty set and 1 being the
Kinsey Reports
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Reisman, Kinsey Institute director John Bancroft stated: The data on children in tables 31-34 of Kinsey's Sexual Behavior of the Human Male came largely from the journal of one adult "omniphile", who had illegal sexual interaction with these children. The man's journal started in 1917, long before the Kinsey Reports. Kinsey explicitly pointed out that the data came from the journals of adults who had such illegal sexual contacts, but he granted his source anonymity. Kinsey did never have any sexual interaction with children, nor did he employ others to do so. He interviewed children in the presence of their parents. See also Judith A. Reisman, Family Research Council, RSVPAmerica. Other attacks by these and other organisations and people have centred on the sex life and motives of Kinsey himself, see
King Crimson
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of Fripp's first choices had he known Levin was available. King Crimson had its bassist. During this time, Fripp called up guitarist Adrian Belew, who was on tour with the Talking Heads. Fripp had never worked with another guitarist in the same band, so the decision to seek a second guitarist was highly indicative of Fripp's desire to create a sound completely unlike King Crimson. Belew, for his part, was flattered. He would join immediately following his tour with the Talking Heads. During rehearsals and initial recorded sessions in 1981, Fripp began suspecting that this new band really was King Crimson, despite his decision to call it Discipline. The other members concurred, and so King Crimson was re-born. A trilogy of albums was released by the group: Discipline, Beat, and Three
Kevin & Kell
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(and named after) Kevin Kindle (a rabbit) and his wife, Kell Dewclaw (a wolf), and their family. Kevin & Kell is not the oldest comic strip on the Internet, but is the first strip syndicated online. It began as a feature on CompuServe before moving onto Bill's website at http://reuben.org/~holbrook. It is now a feature on AOL's ToonVille service. and has two other websites dedicated to it - Herdthinners, Inc. and Kevin & Kell The backstory: Two lonely people - he was divorced, she was widowed - met in an online chatroom and fell in love. He discovered that she was a wolf. She discoverd that he was a rabbit. They married and started what could best be described as a mixed family. Kevin, Kell, and the most of other major
Kennett Bros
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New Zealand Mountain Bike Rides, a national guidebook, which became a best seller. They have produced new editions every three years since then. In 1995 Paul launched the Mountain Bike New Zealand Web, the online home for most New Zealand mountain bikers. In 1997 they co-organised a round of the UCI World Mountain Bike Cup in Wellington. In 1998 they started building the Wellington City Council owned Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park, which recently received a national recreation award and a national conservation award. External Links: Official website Mountain Bike New Zealand Web World Mountain Bike Cup Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park
Ken McVay
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be poorly presented and claims that were vague at best. He also opposed the idea of censoring and suppressing the revisionists, as authorities and experts on hate groups often did. A former United States Marine and retired service station manager, McVay found that he had an ample amount of spare time to dedicate to researching and transcribing historical documents, so that they could be made available online to counter the arguments of the revisionists. In various interviews, he has stated his belief that of the many reasons for the revisionists to oppose him and despise him, one of the most frustrating to them is the fact that their arguments have been so thoroughly debunked by a man who is not Jewish, has not professed to be a world-class scholar, and who
Keweenaw County, Michigan
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As of 2000, the population is 2,301. Its county seat is Eagle River6. The Keweenaw Liberty Library is an online library containing links to legal documents and public records it deems to be "on issues important to" Keweenaw County, Michigan and its constituent townships as well as the Keweenaw County Road Commission, which serves as the road commission for the county. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Geography 2 Demographics 3 Cities and towns 4
Kevin Mitnick
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than found in Takedown or most other media today. The film is the winner of the Audience Award for Documentaries at the 2002 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. As a hacker, Mitnick is best known for his use of social engineering. He wrote a book on this subject after leaving prison but before returning to the Internet: The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security. It was published in October 2002. The first chapter of the book was omitted by the publisher. It gives some details of his own "career" and his grievances against hacker-journalist John Markoff. The chapter has since been made available elsewhere. External Links Free Kevin, The Official Kevin Mitnick Site, home of the Free Kevin movement. Freedom Downtime, the 2600 documentary. Takedown
Keyword
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operations whereas in others these are library routines. A keyword is a featured word of a technical article. Some publications specify a fixed set of keywords from which those for a particular article should be chosen. Keywords are a feature of the ISP America Online; which allow one to bypass URLs. References FOLDOC
Velvet worm
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As a result, all known species require a humid environment to avoid desiccation. Modern Onychophores are predators that are able to immobilize animals several times their own size with a gluey substance that they eject from glands in their head. They can immobilize targets up to 30cm away. Onychophores are thought to be closely related to the arthropods. Possible marine Onychopores are known from the Lower Cambrian -- Aysheaia, Hallucigenia -- and possibly the late Pre-Cambrian -- Xenusion. A single fossil Terrestrial genus, is known from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois, and some Tertiary specimens are reported to be known from Caribbean island amber. Refer to: palaeos.com Onychophora online peripatus.gen.nz
Katherine Young
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made the fateful decision to take a 12-week-long computer class offered at her retirement home. By the end of these sessions, she was logging on, and the centenarian decided to become an activist for the cause of encouraging seniors to use the Net. A Pew Internet & American Life Project study showed that only 18% of Americans 65 and older get online, as opposed to 58% of the American population as a whole. Five years later, on her 102nd birthday, she became a celebrity for being the oldest person to surf the Net. She was feted with numerous birthday emails and an emailed sonogram of her great-grandson, who was eventually born in August 2003. She studies Chinese genealogy on Google, and researches roses (having been Rose Club president for 16 years).
Kagerou
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Kagerou Kagerou by Fireball is an online comic which refers to itself as an "Electric Manga," in the sense that it follows freeform panel arrangement and has an ongoing story, in the style of many paper manga. It is illustrated in vibrant colors, and tells a fantasy story about a teen with Multiple personality disorder who is pulled from his home on earth into a magical realm of gods and monsters. External Links http://www.electric-manga.com/
Karen Davis
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director of United Poultry Concerns. UPC hompage: http://www.upc-online.org/
Kaypro Computer
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operating system as well. However, Kaypro had difficulty continuing its early success, and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 1990. In June 1992, Kaypro filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and in 1995, its remaining assets were sold for $2.7 million. The Kaypro name briefly re-emerged as an online vendor of PCs early in the first decade of the 21st century. The resurgence was short-lived. Andy Kay re-emerged with a second company, called Kay Computers, utilizing a similar sales strategy.
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