- 10x10
10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris
10x10 ('ten by ten') is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. By Jonathan J. Harris / Number27
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by 3 users - 118 - Online Communities Map (Not For Navigation) « Strange Maps
Somewhat in the style of a treasure map, this ‘Map of Online Communities’ shows MySpace, Wikipedia, SecondLife and other user-generated phenomena now populating the internet. The geography is not as random as one could assume at first glance. Area and position are significant. Thus, each community’s geographic area represents its estimated size, and the ‘compass-shaped island’ gives clues as to what each quarter signifies: * North are more ‘practical’ communities, * South is for the ‘intellectuals’. * West lie the communities with a ‘real life’ connection, * East those with a focus on the web itself.
by 2 users - 1984 by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell. Searchable etext. Discuss with other readers.
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by 5 users - A Critic at Large: Booted: What really ails Italy? by Tim Parks April 11, 2011
Anniversaries are uplifting when you have something to celebrate. A couple on the edge of divorce do not rejoice that their wedding anniversary is around the corner. Something of the same uneasiness surrounded the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Italian state, on March 17th. As late as February, the government couldn’t decide whether the day should be declared a national holiday. The Northern League, a major party in the ruling coalition, complained about the loss of working hours; many of the League’s members have a separatist agenda and want to avoid a surge in national pride. The governor of South Tyrol
- Amazing Filtered Things
These photos were scanned by Alexander Kalion from original black and white photos of Soviet Era Russia. Province, early 1980s.
- Amazon.com: Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century: Books: Alex Steffen,Al Gore,Bruce Sterling
Worldchanging is poised to be the Whole Earth Catalog for this millennium. Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for building a better future lie all around us, Worldchanging is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to make a difference. Brought together by Alex Steffen, co-founder of the popular and award-winning web site Worldchanging.com, this team of top-notch writers includes Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity, Geekcorps founder Ethan Zuckerman, sustainable food expert Anna Lappé, and many others. Renowned designer Stefan Sagmeister brings his extraordinary talents to
Amazon.com: Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (9780810930957): Alex Steffen, Sagmeister Inc.: Books
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- Antoine Revoy: Animator, Illustrator and Graphic Artist
This site showcases the work of french artist and animator Antoine Revoy. Antoine studied animation and illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, USA. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film / Animation / Video in 1999, Antoine started his career as a graphic designer in Dublin, Ireland and in 2004 launched a design agency, Sigma Karma, in Paris, France. Born in Paris, Antoine was raised in Tokyo, Japan as well as Mexico City, Mexico and Barcelona, Spain and is fluent in five languages. Please feel free to e-mail Antoine, available for hire and freelance projects.
- Ask Zompist: Teacher! Leave those kids alone!
Dear <<Zompist>>, In a recent post to the ZBB thread "Prescriptivism, the French Academy, and reality" you made these provocative statements: Now, the smartest people teach themselves; but for everyone else, there's education. I tend to think this is a mistake— the classroom is one of the worst ways to learn, except for a small fraction of people. What makes learning in a classroom ineffective? How should we educate people instead? —Mike
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by 10 users - Blackwater: When Things Go Wrong (continued) (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)
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- BoingBoing: Jackson Pollock-a-sketch
In 2003, Miltos Manetas created used someone else's work to make a site with this fun Flash tool to create your own Jackson Pollock-esque "painting."
Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas, 2003, original flash animation by Michal Migurski
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by 6 users - Boyd's OODA Loop (PowerPoint)
orient observe decide act. this must be about the only military powerpoint in the world that's not totally meaningless.
- BUG.
Irresponsible Pictures Studio IRRESPONSIBLE PICTURES STUDIO My online gallery, showcasing some of my visual art and design works. Check out my labors of love. blip.GIF (846 bytes) Macro MACRO the official website of my music. blip.GIF (846 bytes) REVENGE! REVENGE! the subversive fashion label that I run with my friend Ryan. now available to order! (on a case-by-case basis) blip.GIF (846 bytes) Hex HEX my solo fashion design label, focusing on futuristic urban gear. blip.GIF (846 bytes) Same Hat! SAME HAT comedy, horror, and underground Japanese comics, adapted into English by Ryan and I. (846 bytes)Phonobaloon Website PHONOBALOON WEBSITE my Takako Minekawa fan site. blip.GIF (846 bytes) Evan's Purikura PURIKURA POWER A showcase for my purikura <<fashion>>
- Catching the Light
Astrophotography News and Notes <<photo>>
- Change Management
The management of change is an important imperative in many organizations.
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- Chapter 11: Einstein, Kaluza-Klein And The Kleinbottle Universe
As a great deal of the controversy concerning the contemporary dilemma inherent in the sciences, the first part of this chapter deals with the strange reportage of Einstein’s last years, as far from being deluded or misguided, his own nagging intuitions concerning the nature of Ultimate Reality led to him to discard his own theories and turn instead to the work of Kaluza and Klein. His insights were astute, and yet even those who work within the area of String Theory, an orientation itself aligned with the later theories that Einstein was engaged with were somehow compelled to diminish Einstein and his more recent theories, adulating his earlier accomplishments and anchoring for the public a false impression of the state of contemporary physics.
Note: norse symbol (runes symbol alchemical astronomical) - Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day (U.S. Naval Observatory, Astronomical Applications Department)
<<astronomy>> You can obtain the times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, transits of the Sun and Moon, and the beginning and end of civil twilight, along with information on the Moon's phase by specifying the date and location in one of the two forms below and clicking on the "Get data" button at the end of the form. Use Form A for cities or towns in the U.S. or its territories. Use Form B for all other locations. Both forms are immediately below.
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Note: Sun or Moon Rise/Set Table for One Year: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.html - Cooking For Engineers
Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? This is the site to read!
Detailed instructions on food and cooking for those who like to ask not just How? but also Why?
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by 26 users - Courrier international
Courrier international est un hebdo d’actualité, publié à Paris. Il donne à lire, chaque semaine, le meilleur de la presse mondiale, traduite en français. Depuis sa création en novembre '90, CI a 1 300 journaux différents, depuis le New York Times jusqu’au Quotidien des Maldives, ou 25 000 journalistes cités. Grâce à l’apport de la “plus grande rédaction du monde”, Courrier international suit l’actualité mondiale, cherche à l’anticiper, et offre à ses lecteurs, par la confrontation des points de vue, une ouverture pertinente sur la complexité du monde.
- Covers is a blog dedicated to the appreciation of brilliant book cover design.
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by 2 users - Cryptome
[wikipedia:] Cryptome is a website hosted in the United States since 1996 by independent scholars[1] and architects John Young and Deborah Natsios[2] that functions as a repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance. According to the site: Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance—open, secret and classified documents—but not limited to those.[3] Cryptome hosted documents, consisting of over 54,000 files,[4] include suppressed photographs of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, lists of people believed to be MI6 agents
by 26 users - D-N-I review: Science, Strategy & War
Boyd’s answer, the Discourse, is a set of roughly 300 charts, and Osinga has set himself the task of guiding his readers through them. It is a formidable assignment. Boyd, you see, did not intend the briefings of the Discourse to be read on their own. For years, he would not give out copies until after the presentation, and it had to be the “whole brief or no brief.” It may seem obvious, but it was in briefing format not so much in tribute to Sun Tzu – although The Art of War is, like the Discourse, a set of bullet points – but simply because he didn’t feel that there were enough readers inside the Beltway to make it worthwhile.
- D-N-I: FMFM 1‑A Draft Manual on 4GW War
- Dark Roasted : American Supersonic Airliners: Race for a Dream
It all started in 1952 with small-scale studies of SST designs by Boeing, but things heated up significantly when in 1962 the governments of Britain and France decided to join efforts in the creation of a supersonic "Concorde" airplane. The intrepid Russians also came up with the Tu-144 (no less capable, but plagued by accidents). The American government nearly panicked and responded with its own program SCAT (Supersonic Commercial Air Transport) in 1963, which got endorsement from President Kennedy himself. The race for dominating supersonic airways was on. (At that time it was believed that all future commercial aircraft would be supersonic). The goal was to produce a commercial aircraft capable of carrying 250 passengers (twice as many as the Concorde) a
- Demo video for Spore, from the creator of The Sims/Sim City VideoSift
- Developing Expertise Notes
Developing Expertise Notes Contents Role of Deliberate Practice The Acquisition of Expert Performance The Acquisition of Medical Expertise Reasoning and Instruction in Medical Curricula Changing the Agency for Learning Field Study in SW Design Brooks on Great Designers Conceptualizations of Practice
- Dictionnaire de - moteur de recherche Français Japonais
Recherche avancée V1.0 Kanji/kana Français Romaji commentaires
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- Dictionnaire Français-Suédois / Svensk fransk
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- Drawings by Jacques Callot
1633 Miseries of War
A selection of drawings executed by the French engraver Jacques Callot
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- E-motional Design: Nazi Mech Attack in Pearl Harbour!!
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- EagerEyes
Visualization and Visual Communication
Note: ManyEyes - Eric S. Raymond: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to ask questions in a way more likely to get you a satisfactory answer. Now that use of open source has become widespread, you can often get as good answers from other, more experienced users as from hackers. This is a Good Thing; users tend to be just a little bit more tolerant of the kind of failures newbies often have. Still, treating experienced users like hackers in the ways we recommend here will generally be the most effective way to get useful answers out of them, too. The first thing to understand is that hackers actually like hard problems and
by 2 users - Feynman's Talk: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics
This transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gave on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was first published in the February 1960 issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science, which owns the copyright. It has been made available on the web at http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html with their kind permission. Information on the Feynman Prizes Links to pages on Feynman For an account of the talk and how people reacted to it, see chapter 4 of Nano! by Ed Regis, Little/Brown 1995. An excellent technical introduction to nanotechnology is Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation by K. Eric Drexler, Wiley 1992. I imagine expe
by 3 users (all private) - FON
FON is the largest WiFi community in the world. Our members share their wireless Internet access at home and, in return, enjoy free WiFi wherever they find another Fonero’s Access Point. It all started as a simple idea. Why should you pay for Internet access on the go when you have already paid for it at home? Exactly, you shouldn’t. So we decided to help create a community of people who get more out of their connection through sharing. As the world of WiFi is growing, you can do more and more for free. For example soon we will launch the Skype FON - a cool WiFi handset that lets you make free Internet calls from any FON Access Point.
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- Foreign Policy: The State at Work photo essay
Running a poor country has never been a tougher job. Civil servants are asked to do the people’s work with very little, sometimes with nothing at all. They see to it that the job gets done—or grinds to a halt. Meet the bureaucrats. <photography>
- FreeComputerBooks.com Free Computer Books, Tutorials & Lecture Notes
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A huge collection of Free Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials. Very well categorized. Equipped with a pattern search engine.
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by 29 users - Fringe Browser
Welcome to the Fringe. This is an area of free information, things that some may find interesting, amusing, and/or dangerous.
- G A P M I N D E R: HOME
Search statistics through Google and watch it move with Gapminder
Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
- Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit || kuro5hin.org
- Global Guerrillas
THE ROLE OF CITIES - Within the context of emerging theories of system disruption, that are emerging as this war slowly ramps-up, cities play an entirely different role. As the events in Baghdad are proving daily, cities can be engineered to radiate instability rather than dampen it. This is accomplished through acts that leverage three attributes of modern cities. These include: * Extreme mobility and interconnectedness (ie, high rates of automobile and cell phone ownership). * Complete reliance on high volume infrastructure networks. * Complex and heterogeneous social networks that are held together under pressure. Blitzing the system The key to unlocking the disruptive potential of cities within this new form of warfare, is to attack key points (systempu
- Global Guerrillas: TERRORIST NETWORKS: Advanced Topics 070216
The media term "amorphous terrorist network" doesn't provide much for us to work with. That changes when you apply advanced network theory to the topic. A recent paper by the student Mitch Stripling called, "Embodying Terror Networks: How Direction Creates Structure" (PDF) is a great example of this. The paper starts with a strongly written review of how network theory has been applied to this topic. This review starts with the early work by Arquilla and Ronfeldt (Networks and Netwars) and their simplistic chain, star, and all-channel network topographies and continues to the highly connected hubs (which embodies both the vulnerability and resilience of this type of network topology) and power-law distributions of scale-free networks (for more, read the bri
- Great Circle Mapper
# Introduction # Flight Paths # Locations # Flight Ranges # ETOPS # About the Maps # Great Circle Calculations
Displays a map on which the great circle path for one or more routes is plotted and calculates the distance along each route. Ranges from one or more locations may also be plotted, along with go/no-go areas for ETOPS operations at various rule times.
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by 4 users - hodie mihi, cras tibi
Definition of hodie mihi, cras tibi
- How I’d Sink American Vogue
Picture this: Anna Wintour has resigned. The sheer effort of keeping an immaculate bob and an unfeasibly large pair of sunglasses in place 24 hours a day has finally taken its toll. In a move that has shocked the fashion industry, American Vogue has appointed as her successor graphic-designer-turned-artist Scott King. For his first issue in charge, King decides that Vogue should have an anti-war theme. Oh, and it should also be free…
- How to find latitude and longitude - Google - Lifehacker
javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter())); The always helpful Tech-Recipes has come up with an ingenius way to find latitude and longitude values for any location using Google Maps. You'll first need to look up an address (duh), but this trick only works if the address is centered (it's centered by default). So, moving the map around will not make this work. When the address you want to find latitude and longitude for is dead center, copy and paste this code into your browser bar: javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
by 4 users - How to Virtualize Your Workforce - wikiHow
Enterprise Mobility: The ability for an enterprise to communicate with suppliers, partners, employees, assets, products, and customers irrespective of location. <<management>>
by 3 users - How to Write More Clearly, Think More Clearly, and Learn Complex Material More Easily
Michael A. Covington Artificial Intelligence Center The University of Georgia. (Html slide presentation)
by 3 users - How to Write Screenplays. Badly.
Outrageously offensive parody of screenwriting advice from Jeremy Slater and Dan Whitehead.
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- http://www.speedtest.net/
http://www.speedtest.net/
Test your Internet connection bandwidth to locations around the world with this interactive broadband speed test
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Note: http://www.bredbandskollen.se/ http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?more=1 - icekin's Site N' Blog - bSearch for the Ideal Social Bookmarking Service
I finally got around to completing my ideas on social bookmarking in writing. I tried over twelve popular services to see which one would meet my needs best. I have not described much about how to use a social bookmarking service since the actual methods of usage can vary based on which service you pick. In general though, always try searching for tags that best describe your topic. Also see this article on searching to learn how to find information anywhere on the internet.
- Inflight Safety - Summary
I first entered the aviation industry in 1983 when I joined British Airways as Cabin Crew. During my induction course, I was taught safety drills and procedures and basic surival principles, subjects which were refreshed annually thereafter. I flew for seven years on both shorthaul and longhaul routes, on Tridents, TriStars (L10-11s) and Boeing 737s, 747s & 757s. In all that time, on all those aircraft, I never had anything even remotely approaching an emergency - but I was always prepared, just in case!
- Internet Archive: Details: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042)
An audio recording made on November 18, 1978, at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana immediately preceding and during the mass suicide or murder of over 900 members of the cult.
by 3 users - Iraq War Coalition Fatalities Flashed [Mesopotamia Macromedia]
Iraq War Coalition Fatalities is a chart of the US and coalition military fatalities that have occurred in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space. It is an ongoing project that is updated regularly, and will continue to go on as long as the war does. The animation runs at ten frames per second -one frame for each day- and a black dot indicates the geographic location that a coalition military fatality occurred. Each dot starts as a white flash and a larger red dot which fades to black over the span of 30 frames/day, and then slowly fades to grey over the span of the entire war. Accompanying the visual representation is a soft 'tic' sound for each fatality, the volume of which increases relative to the number of fatalities that
The Iraq War Coalition Fatalities Project is an interactive animated chart of US and coalition military fatalities that have occured in the war in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space.
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- John Maynard Keynes - Wikiquote
- John R. Boyd: Organic Design for Command and Control - May 1987
<<management>> <<belisarius>> 1. This title provokes a couple of questions * Why the focus on C & C? * What do we mean by "organic design"? 2. Failures The past few years have seen the fiascoes associated with the Nifty-Nugget and Proud Spirit C & C exercises, together with the real world fiascoes epitomized by the evacuation of Saigon, Desert I, and others. Response The institutional response for overcoming these fiascoes is: more and better sensors, more communications, more and better computers, more and better display devices, more satellites, more and better fusion centers, etc.--all tied into one giant fully informed, fully capable C&C system. This way of thinki
Extracts from the late Col John R. Boyd's briefing on command and control.
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- John Robb
Skating to where the puck will be...
- JULIA FULLERTON-BATTEN
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by 2 users - La tentation du Tout
Alors existe-t-il un moyen de quadriller le territoire à la fois plus complètement, plus précisément et avec moins d’efforts. La réponse est oui. Comment ? Grâce à certains outils et services d’ores et déjà disponibles qui permettent de ne plus rien perdre d’une session de surf et, plus globalement, de tout ce que l’on fait sur le web et qui, une fois réduit à sa plus simple expression, se trouve être une suite de clics (clickstream). Des clics comme autant de pas vers un objectif, pas en avant, de côté, de géant, en arrière parfois, mais pas qui tracent inexorablement des pistes inédites dans le web, nouveaux chemins qui se voient attribuer la valeur qu’on accorde à toute « carte au trésor »<<management>>
- Le BaRBeRy v 1.0: Dictionnaire CoRHuPOP (Cognitivo-Rapo-Humoristico-Poético-Oulipo-Psychanalytique)
L'idée de la barberysation (décomposition monophonématique) m'est venue en 1995 en écoutant MC Solaar, un matin à 6h tandis que je me rendais au fort de mon service militaire. En 2001, Olivier Gillet, une des personnes les plus talentueuses que j'aie jamais rencontrée, a développé pour moi cette première version. C'est à lui que revient la fabuleuse idée de la visualisation en paon, trouvée en regardant le plafond de la Samaritaine. La version 2 doit, par exemple, ajouter une dimension sémantique (dictionnaire de synonymes hiérarchisé, thesaurus) à la simple grille phonético-orthographique de la v1.
- Le secret de la ratatouille de catherine
Marmiton.org a été réalisé par des internautes gastronomes désireux de mettre à disposition de tous des recettes à titre gratuit, dans la plus pure tradition de l'Internet. Le casting Conception, développement Cold Fusion et HTML, textes, animation, référencement, validations et lasagnes maison : Christophe Duhamel Partenariats, communication, consensus et émincé de volaille: Anne-Laure Vincent Moteur de recherche, back office, développement avancé, expertise technique et columbo de poulet : Olivier Aboilard Réalisation de la base initiale, validations, modération et barbecue bourguignon : Jean-Bernard Verot Direction artistique et crumble au chocolat : Peggy Nille
Note: English version available - Leslie's Artgallery: Women in Art by Eggman913
La vidéo "Women in Art", réalisée par l'énigmatique créateur Eggman913 dans le Missouri aux Etats-Unis, est une hymne impressionnante consacrée à l'histoire de l'art à travers l'image de la femme. La musique est celle de Yo-Yo Ma jouant la Sarabande de la Suite pour Violoncelle n° 1 de Bach.
- Lessons From the Science of Nothing At All
Where I come from we make things from nothing - from dreams and fantasies. The laws of physics don't apply. Our products weigh zero. We've explored just about every product development approach there is - extreme or otherwise: waterfall, iterative, rapid prototyping, community development, and mobs. Imagine this: Dionysus has deleted all the software on the planet - what's going to happen? You won't be able to surf the Web, send email, make and run spreadsheets, use word processors, and download music. No more anonymously available dirty pictures, no more mapping services, no more reading newspapers from around the world, no more computer and video games, no more pocket organizers, no more modern warfare, governments will come to a halt. Well, that's not so
- LifeClever
How to cure traffic jams» <<stigmergy>> <<cellular automata>> <<management>> The strategy is to simply maintain a large space in front of you instead of instinctively speeding up to close any gaps. It’s counter-intuitive, but according to his own experiments, it works. Here’s what he says: Traffic jams on highways are often triggered where two lanes must merge into one. Lanes of cars cannot merge if there are no large gaps between cars. Therefore, drivers who create large gaps between cars will ease this type of traffic jam.
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- LiveLeak.com: Extremely strange but cool jumping spider mating behaviour
Marked as: Featured A male jumping spider (Salticidae) is trying very very hard to excite a female jumping spider. He taps, he scrapes, he turns and twists...he stops!...quite funky! Make sure you turn up the volume on your speakers...the sounds are half the act!
- Luke Chuey
"... our art teacher claimed that anime wasn't real art, and neither was yours."
by 2 users - Making the sky searchable
In other words, their computer program will make night sky searchable. The team is organizing and mixing images coming from astronomical databases with images coming from 'all kinds of cameras, amateur telescopes, large ground-based telescopes, and space telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope.' This specialized search engine is still in beta-version, but is available to both professional and amateur astronomers.
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- manalang.com » Archives
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- Mapping and Distance Tools
Measure distances on maps. Quick start: A course is the shortest line between two points. Move the map cursor to the desired start point and click there; or use the find box. Then, move to the next point and click again; or use the find box again. Continue choosing points until done. Pan and zoom the map if necessary to find each point. A circle is a line around a point. Choose the circle's center by clicking on the map; or use the find box. Move the cursor away from the center the desired distance, and click again; or, use the find box.
- MathTrek Ancient Islamic Penrose Tiles By Julie J. Rehmeyer
When Peter J. Lu traveled to Uzbekistan, he had no idea of the mathematical journey that he was about to embark on as well. The Harvard graduate student in physics was fascinated by the beautiful and intricate geometric "girih" patterns on the 800-year-old buildings there, and he wanted to know how ancient artisans had created them. He discovered more than just a clever construction method. He also found an entirely unexpected level of mathematical sophistication in the designs, pointing at mathematical ideas that weren't formally developed until hundreds of years later. Lu's determination to find out took him on a journey through hundreds of photographs of Islamic architecture in the libraries at Harvard—and now it's landed him an article in Science.
- Mefi: Confessions of a Book Pirate
Confessions of a Book Pirate NY Times Arts Beat: Report Finds 9 Million Illegal Downloads of E-Books Attributor Blog: Online Book Piracy Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $3 Billion posted by brundlefly (105 comments total) 13 users marked this as a favorite
Note: http://www.themillions.com/2010/01/the-great-book-purge-of-2010.html - MetaFilter Military History links
Whether you are looking for Soviet War Photos or some free monographs, this incredible collection of military history links should be your first stop.
- MetaFilter: Art of Science
Art of Science* 2006 'images, videos and sounds—produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science.' Previously* on MeFi. (*links)
- MetaFilter: Bendy Vert and Argent, a Tierce Argent, a Fusil Azure
Make like a knight and generate your own simple heraldic shield. The venerable Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry can define the archaic blazoning terms that the Generator uses. If you'd prefer a more modern, more casual emblem, try the Official Seal Generator.
- MetaFilter: Deviation*; a Machinima* film hits the mainstream festival circuit. (previous* forays* into* Machinima*)
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- MetaFilter: Index of Medieval Medical Images
<<medicine>> Index of Medieval Medical Images Searchable collection of medieval illustrations (to the year 1500); the thumbnails can be viewed at varying magnifications. There are many more interesting online repositories devoted to the history of medical illustration--both medieval and early modern--including Historical Anatomies on the Web, Anatomia, Seeing is Believing, and Medieval Manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine
- MetaFilter: What did one ghost say to the other?
Get A-Life - an interesting read on artificial life and evolutionary computation, from the game of life (playable applet), through core wars, tierra and on to genetic programming. This approach has recently borne fruit to genetic programming pioneer and inventor of the scratchcard, John Koza, who last year patented his invention machine, actually a 1000 machine beowulf cluster running his software, which has itself created several inventions which have been granted patents. [See also: BBC Biotopia artificial life experiment, another odd BBC evolution game, Artificial Life Possibilities: A Star Trek Perspective] <evolution>
- Mike Lin's Home Page
Applications Playlist Assist for iTunes Utility Software CrossHair Startup Control Panel StartupMonitor MCL Clipomatic SMP Seesaw Fun Stuff Other Software by Mike Lin Help and Support Firefox with Google Toolbar
by 2 users - Miyamoto Musashi - A Book of Five Rings
by 2 users - MP3 Converter Downloads and Reviews
MP3 converter software downloads and reviews. Search for over 145 tools to convert MP3 to WAV, WAV to MP3, and MP3 to CD. One of the largest MP3 converter software directories on the Internet.
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by 2 users (all private) - NCSE Resource: Islamic Scientific Creationism: A New Challenge in Turkey (by Ümit Sayin & Aykut Kence)
At the time that "Creation Science: A Successful Export?" was published in RNCSE (Matsumura 1998), there was an notable debate among intellectuals, scientists, lay people and fundamentalist Islamists concerning Islamic scientific creationism in Turkey. Since the early 1990s, the Science Research Foundation (Bilim Arastirma Vakfi, or BAV) has undertaken a new mission of spreading an Islamic version of scientific creationism in Turkey, the ideology of which was mainly imported from the US. However, it was not until late 1998 that many scientists and academics, as well as Turkish science institutions, such as TUBITAK (the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council) and TUBA (the Turkish Academy of Sciences), protested the pseudoscience of BAV and publis
- Netvouz blog - This is the official Netvouz blog
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by 24 users - Obsidian Wings: Wiki THIS
Glenn Reynolds laments that he's been wiki'ed with a truly bizarre Wikipedia entry on Instapundit. "WIKIPEDIA, and its trustworthiness, has become a topic of considerable discussion," he writes. Indeed, it should be -- this whole Wiki-thang has been a bit Arthur 2 (i.e., "on the rocks") for a while. Eugene Volokh and Orin Kerr have been quite right in their criticisms (even though it seems that Volokh's Wikipedia entry is at least tentatively grounded in fact.) Moreover, adding to the confusion and potential for bias is the fact that you're able to write your own entry. The entry on LGF, for instance, was written by LGF's own Charles Johnson. [see Seigenthaler]
- Obsolete Skills
# ADA Programming # Adjusting rabbit ears on top of a TV -still in use # Adjusting a television's horizontal and vertical holds # Adjusting a television's color and hue adjustments # Adjusting the dwell angle on the spark distributor of an engine # Adjusting the levels and song layout for recording to audio tape
by 2 users - Omniglot: writing systems and languages of the world
A guide to alphabets and languages, with useful foreign phrases, tips on learning languages, language-related links, multilingual texts, and much more
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by 11 users - On the Psychology of Military Incompetence: Books: Norman F. Dixon
"Everyone who manages anyone should be required to read this book. By focussing on the military Dixon has written a book crammed with examples that show the drastic consequences of incompetence. In management situations it's seldom a matter of life and death (despite the way some bosses act) but the consequences are still there: demotivated, under-utilised, confused and stressed staff. So if you're the boss and this sounds familiar you should read this book and learn it's lessons."
On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence (Pimlico): Amazon.co.uk: Norman F Dixon, M Dixon: 9780712658898: Books
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Note: The best ever explanation of 'military intelligence', Reviewer: A reader - pastebin - collaborative debugging tool
A pastebin, also known as a nopaste, is a web application which allows its users to upload snippets of text, usually samples of source code, for public viewing. It is very popular in IRC channels where pasting large amounts of text is considered bad etiquette. A vast number of pastebins exist on the Internet, suiting a number of different needs and provided features tailored towards the crowd they focus on most.
by 2 users - PERMANENT Asteroid mining, space colonies, commercialization
P rojects to E mploy R esources of the M oon and A steroids N ear E arth in the N ear T erm G o a l s We mean business!Don't expensively launch from Earth, use construction materials already in space.Build valuable, profitable products and habitats in orbit (not send back to Earth).Non-governmental, commercial, faster, cheaper large scale space development. O r g a n i z a t i o n PERMANENT is an introductory guide for all, a reference source for experts and a news site on space resources. We link to known, quality websites, stockpile technical resources of third parties not on the web, and help them publish on the web.
Note: http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2000/08/disasteroids.html http://killerasteroidproject.org/neo_followup_project.htm - Phone hacking, News International and operational disaster for News Corp by Guy Rundle | Crikey | 7 July 2011
Back in the day, the analogue and offline day, when a plenitude of images did not circulate, one of the most vital jobs in the newspaper industry was that of the “picture-snatcher”?—?the reporter, often a cub/cadet, who would accompany a senior colleague to the house of a grieving widow whose family member had just been trampled by a horse/died of dropsy/ etc, and, while the bereaved was being engaged in conversation, snatch a picture of the decedent from the mantelpiece, and then sprint back to the office with it.
- Pistoleros.se
Om Pistoleros Vi är tre kvalificerade systemutvecklare som utvecklar webbsidor och applikationer. Vi utför också arbete på konsultbasis. Vi har också erfarenhet av avancerad systemutveckling och webdesign i yrkeslivet. Vi erbjuder webblösningar som kan vara allt från en enkel presentation av innehavaren eller företaget till komplexa företagssajter med full script- och databasfunktionalitet. Vi arbetar strukturerat och strävar efter att allt vi producerar inte bara ska fungera och se bra ut, utan även vara väldokumenterat och användarvänligt. Vi tar alltid fram en detaljerad kravspecifikation där vi tillsammans med kunden kommer överens om hur produkten ska se ut och fungera. Vi vill alltid kun
- Planarity.net: The Planarity Game
- Platform Wars: TCP/IP vs. the Dollar
Donna Bogatin : � Social Web or Business Web: where is the money? Naturally, people are fascinated by this question of "where's the money?" But it's the wrong question. The more interesting one is "why the money"? And it's still gonna take us a long time to get our heads around that. But that's what we're all gonna be asking at some point. The more effective the internet and the web are at helping us communicate and co-ordinate, the less money will be involved. Because ultimately the economy is a communication network and money is its protocol The network is not the means to the end of money.
Note: OTHER POST ON http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/johnrobb/2007/02/open_source_eco.html#comments - PressThink: Retreat from Empiricism: On Ron Suskind's Scoop
Even realism has an obligation to be realistic. — George Packer. [...]Which is a perfect example of what Bill Keller and others at the New York Times call an intellectual scoop. (“When you can look at all the dots everyone can look at, and be the first to connect them in a meaningful and convincing way…”) Over the last three years, and ever since the adventure in Iraq began, Americans have seen spectacular failures of intelligence, spectacular collapses in the press, spectacular breakdowns in the reality-checks built into government, including the evaporation of oversight in Congress, and the by-passing of the National Security Council, which was created to prevent exactly these events.
- Primidi
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends How new technologies are modifying our way of life
How new technologies are modifying our way of life
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- Ratatouille
Recette de cuisine par Michel Zani -
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- ReliefWeb
ReliefWeb is the world’s leading on-line gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. An independent vehicle of information, designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian community in effective delivery of emergency assistance, it provides timely, reliable and relevant information as events unfold, while emphasizing the coverage of "forgotten emergencies" at the same time.
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* tube map with 500m walklines dotted in (warning: it's a large 429k gif file, pdf to follow possibly. Nb: our photo album constrains the size of the picture, so click the big versions of these pictures if you want to see them full size); big version here. The dense knots are Euston-Warren Street-Gt Portland St in Bloomsbury and Bank-Cannon St-Mansion House-St Paul's in the city. And these are interesting places to walk anyway. * And here's the same with the tube map faded out slightly, so you see the walklines more easily. (232k gif); big version here. * And indeed it might be interesting, for arty folk, to see the walklines without the original tube map behind it. They look like un-named constellations (20k gif); big version here. * The origin
by 2 users - RomeReborn1.0
digital model
Rome Reborn: A digital model of ancient Rome.
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by 2 users - Saturn Sounds Spooky
You know those sci-fi movies where the score is meant to be "eldritch", "eerie", "ethereal", "uncanny", "freaky" or whatnot? Well, Saturn really does sounds like that, in a way no musician could hope to compose. Listen to what Cassini heard on its way and around Saturn: Day 207 (10 seconds) Day 324 (73 seconds) Day 1268 (28 seconds) Day 517 (11 seconds) Day 542 (10 seconds) For pictures and info for each tune, check here: day 207, day 324, day 1268, day 517, day 542.
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