Palantir

AUTHORS: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, reports the NYT, the “publisher of authors including Philip Roth, Jonathan Safran Foer, Günter Grass and J. R. R. Tolkien, has temporarily suspended acquisitions of new manuscripts.” Spotter  

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Facebook's Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting  —  A group of Facebook engineers - Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford - have created a small project called Palantir at a Facebook Hackathon event.  The project is named after...  

Project Palantir ... a Facebook visualisation shows how users communicate with each other around the world / news.com.au Facebook video shows messages sent around the world Visualisation the result of a ...  

The name is likely a reference to the palantir of Orthanc from the Lord of the Rings. (Or for the slightly less Tolkien-adept, "that big eyeball thing that ...  

By Andrew Ramadge, Technology Reporter November 24, 2008 12:15pm Project Palantir ... an internal Facebook application shows how users communicate with each ...  

The model, named Palantir, utilitizes information from the "social graph" to show the frequency of different types of interactions on the social network by ...  

Stephen writes: The Tolkien treasures discovered in Poole, Dorset England go on Display on the 15th November at Hazael Design, unit 12 Mill Lane Wimborne. The Lord Mayor to open the launch at 11am. See the postcard written to J R R Tolkien discovered laying behind a fireplace for 40 years. Also...  

A group of Facebook engineers - Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford - have created a small project called Palantir at a Facebook Hackathon event. The project is named after The palantír of Orthanc, a crystal ball-like object from The Lord Of The Rings (yep, they’re nerds). Anyway, it’s...  

From message board member visualweasel: It’s a little ways off yet, but Chris Vaccaro asked me if I could help spread the word on the Tolkien conference at the University of Vermont next April. I’ve attended this conference for the past three years and I can highly recommend it. Here’s the Call...  

A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald discusses how the love of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works has spawned generations of fans who are now avid collectors of all things Tolkien. The continuing fascination has only increased after Peter Jackson’s release of “Lord Of The Rings” in 2001 and the...  

J.R.R. Tolkien once told C.S. Lewis, "Christianity works on us like any other myth, with the difference that it is actually true." What Tolkien didn't tell Lewis was that myths also make the best movies .  

The project is named after The palantír of Orthanc, a crystal ball-like object from The Lord Of The Rings (yep, they’re nerds). Anyway, it’sa video of the ...  

A demolition man stripping a fireplace from the former home of "The Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien stumbled across a postcard to the writer dated 1968, and hopes to sell it for a small fortune.  

Nathan Schempp, under the direction of his father Dave Schempp, wraps lights around the fir tree in front of De Soto City Hall. ...  

By Dominador Maphilindo O. Carrillo IT TOOK JRR Tolkien 12 years to complete his three-book magnum opus, "The Lord of the Rings" (LOTR). ...