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Google is calling for ideas to help the world, to be submitted by October 20th.
Voting among 20 semifinalists will begin in January.
Google will put up $10 million US to help bring these ideas to fruition.
The criteria, copied from Google's site, where more info is available, are:
Criteria:
Reach: How many people would this idea affect?
Depth: How deeply are people impacted? How urgent is the need?
Attainability: Can this idea be implemented within a year or two?
Efficiency: How simple and cost-effective is your idea?
Longevity: How long will the idea's impact last?
[marked-for-expiry]
Google's call for ideas
http://www.cnn.com/....project/index.html
[theircompetitor, Sep 24 2008]
Actual site for submision
http://www.project1...e100.com/index.html
[theircompetitor, Sep 24 2008]
Google closed for submissions?
continuedDiscussions.com
[pashute, Mar 27 2011]
[link]
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//"These ideas can be big or small, technology-driven or brilliantly simple -- but they need to have impact,"// |
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I nominate "Vegetable Peeler Exchange Program" for our site's submission. |
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I'm going for Anatomically Correct Campus for both health and education :) |
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I'm going to submit my "Extra hour in bed for people born in the winter" - this would benefit about half the world's population. |
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hmm... "Air Chariot" and "Flavoured Exhaust" from my collection.
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Moles. Everyone has a lawn, everyone hates moles. |
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A device to kill moles painlessly could probably be developed
within the budget. |
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Heck, with that amount of money you could even make it
painless for the moles as well. |
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Capital punishment for use of "impact" as a verb. It would
affect the entire Anglosphere, so, high score for Reach. It
would affect certain people very deeply indeed (about six
feet deeply). And as for Urgency, well res ipsa loquitur,
doesn't it? |
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Was it Iris Murdoch who received a reply from her tutor when she had just gone up to Oxford for the first time, “You may have arrived in Oxford, but the verb ‘to contact’ has not”? |
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Was that not her son, Rupert? |
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//"impact" as a verb// both n. & v. were backformations from the adjective "impacted". |
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So, was there originally a "leveraged"? |
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Yes, just after Archimedes said "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth." |
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[FT] Are you familiar with the technical meaning of
"impacted" in gastroenterology? It means full of ...
something we don't mention in polite society. |
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// something we don't mention in polite society. // |
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That was courtesy of dictionary.com ... "coprolites" ? |
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I see your dictionary.com and raise you my _Oxford
Dictionary of English Etymology_, which says impact (n.) is
from Latin, with no intervening backformation. |
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Fossilised animal dung; dense, dessicated human excrement. |
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Like we said, Peter Mandelson. |
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// no intervening backformation // |
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Oh, not Peter Mandelson then; that implies abstention from uphill gardening. |
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and I'll call your bluff on the "(n.)" bit. |
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"An impact" .. noun. "To impact" - verb. |
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Stand pat or draw, it's yours to choose. |
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\textbf{impact} striking of one body on another. XVIII. f.
\emph{impact-,} pp. stem of L. \emph{impingere}
\textsc{impinge,} after \textsc{contact.} |
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It's a physical book, not online, so quoting it is all I can do for
you. In fairness, it appears that, although there was no
backformation, the verb did predate the noun, albeit the
Latin verb predated the English noun. |
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[FT], you have the choice of swords or pistols. Both of you, please nominate your seconds. |
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Shorter [8th_of_7]: "Let's you & him fight." |
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The "backformation" seems not well substantiated, and though the usage is obviously straight from the equus' mouth, there is a note somewhere else on the web that the original usage in English was to describe an "impacted" tooth: perhaps the first *documented* usage. |
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