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Science & Spirit Magazine: The Tongue Who Would Be King

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:05:14 GMT

"There are those who believe English could achieve what no other language has: global domination. But our linguistic history shows preeminence leads to resistance, then ruin—which means English should be looking over its shoulder."

Security Videos (various authors)

emmineb — Mon, 28 May 2007 09:57:42 GMT

A Penetration Attack Reconstructed.avi A Quick and Dirty Intro to Nessus using the Auditor Boot CD!.swf Adding Modules to a Slax or Backtrack Live CD from Windows.swf Airplay replay attack - no wireless client required.swf Anonym.OS LiveCD with build in Tor Onion routing and Privoxy.swf BackTrack LiveCD to HD Installation Instruction Video .swf Basic Nmap Usage!.swf Basic Tools for Wardriving!.swf Bluesnarfer attack tool demonstration.swf Bluesnarfing a Nokia 6310i hand set.avi Breaking WEP in 10 minutes.avi

Sententiae Latinae -- Latin Maxims

emmineb — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:43:30 GMT

Sentient Developments: Astrosociobiology article on Wikipedia deleted

emmineb — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:45:31 GMT

Astrosociobiology Astrosociobiology (also referred to as exosociobiology, extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), and xenosociology) is the speculative scientific study of extraterrestrial civilizations and their possible social characteristics and developmental tendencies. The field involves the convergence of astrobiology, sociobiology and evolutionary biology. Hypothesized comparisons between human civilizations and those of extraterrestrials are frequently posited, placing the human situation in the same context as other extraterrestrial intelligences. Whenever possible, astrosociobiologists describe only those social characteristics that are thought to be common (or highly probable) to all civilizations. Since no extraterrestrial civilizations have ever b

Simple Tools for Software Modeling OR- It's "Use the Simplest Tool" not "Use Simple Tools"

emmineb — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:54:02 GMT

One of the most commonly asked questions asked by developers is “What tool(s) should we use?” Although there are as many answers to this question as people asking it, I would like to provide a few words of advice to help guide you: “Use the simplest tools possible.” Why simple tools? Simple tools are easy to learn, easy to use, and very often easy to share with others. Yes, complex tools have their place, assuming they provide the best value for your investment in them, but never underestimate the effectiveness of simple tools either.<>

SoDoItYourself

emmineb — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 05:40:48 GMT

The Hard disk Speaker» Did you know you could build a speaker out of your old hard drive? Well as a matter of fact, a harddrive uses the same technology for its arm as a traditional loudspeaker. Just apply the right waveform and it will produce sound.

Sparth

emmineb — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:12:05 GMT

Welcome to Sparth construct, a site dedicated to the art of Sparth, an online portfolio composed of illustrations, concepts, and sketches. All informations concerning the artist can be found in the biography page below, where you will also have a complete bibliography, production lists, and press reviews. All artworks are available in the gallery section. Regular news and information updates are also available on the construct's blog. Have a good visit.

strange maps

emmineb — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:26:16 GMT

eccentric, exotic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, flaky, freaky, grotesque, kinky, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, strange, unusual, weird, eldritch, uncanny, unearthly, weird, rare maps

Sunrise

emmineb — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:07:00 GMT

sysprog.net/quotlang.html: Quotes about Computer Languages

emmineb — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:40:47 GMT

Technology Review: Physics arXiv blog Best Connectd Individuals Are Not the Most Influential Spreadrs in Social Networks 100202

emmineb — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:42:57 GMT

The study of social networks has thrown up more than a few surprises over the years. It's easy to imagine that because the links that form between various individuals in a society are not governed by any overarching rules, they must have a random structure. So the discovery in the 1980s that social networks are very different came as something of a surprise. In a social network, most nodes are not linked to each other but can easily be reached by a small number of steps. This is the so-called small worlds network.

Tele Atlas Map Insight

emmineb — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:57:08 GMT

Tele Atlas uses a unique approach to update our maps, including the latest mobile mapping technology, professional drivers and tens of thousands of data sources to provide you with the freshest, richest, and most accurate map data available.

ten tips for keeping your desk clean and tidy

emmineb — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:37:41 GMT

A messy desk is a sign of creativity and imagination. This is the excuse I gave myself for the mountain of papers, knickknacks, and San Pellegrino bottles normally piled on my desk at work. Truth is, I’m just lazy. When I started wasting more and more time looking for lost items instead of being a brilliant creative person, I knew I had to do something. I got my desk organized, and have been miraculously keeping it clean for the past three months. Here’s how: 1. Use a system to manage paper Most of the clutter on my desk is paper. In a recent post, I wrote about a system for organizing files on the computer. The same system can be modified to work with physical files:

Text Etc. - the craft and theory of poetry | MetaFilter

emmineb — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:54:27 GMT

Text Etc. is a sprawling, highly engaging, nearly obsessive look at the craft and theory of poetry, including sound patterning, fractal criticism, poetry heresies, brief, clear intros to theorists like Bakhtin, Lacan and Foucault, writing instruction and much more.

The 50 Greatest Cartoons Ever: the List

emmineb — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:43:36 GMT

The 50 Greatest Cartoons Ever: the List - including links to the full-length videos of the corresponding toons on YouTube and Google, etc. Based on a twelve year-old-vote by the animation industry, which explains why there are no appearances by Cartman, Bart, or Fry.

The Bach Cantatas

emmineb — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:59:20 GMT

Here you can find the texts of all of J. S. Bach's vocal works. Original Texts (German) -- Cantatas sorted by BWV Number - sorted Thematically - sorted by Title - sorted by Movement Title -- Other Vocal Works - All Vocal Works - sorted by Title - sorted by Movement Title - sorted by Instrument -- Arias - sorted by Instrument - sorted by Voice Search Texts - Dutch Translations - French Translations - English Translations - Visit Z. Philip Ambrose's site Francis Browne's translations in interlinear format Other Translations Visit Aryeh Oron's site Notes Other Bach Sites

The Chess Master and the Computer By Garry Kasparov The New York Review of Books Volume 57, Number 2 · February 11, 2010

emmineb — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:04:17 GMT

In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the next, making my moves over a period of more than five hours. The four leading chess computer manufacturers had sent their top models, including eight named after me from the electronics firm Saitek. It illustrates the state of computer chess at the time that it didn't come as much of a surprise when I achieved a perfect 32–0 score, winning every game, although there was an uncomfortable moment.

The Cyberiad

emmineb — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:01:51 GMT

How The World Was Saved (a fragment of The Cyberiad) One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could create anything starting with n. When it was ready, he tried it out, ordering it to make needles, then nankeens and negligees, which it did, then nail the lot to narghiles filled with nepenthe and numerous other narcotics. The machine carried out his instructions to the letter. Still not completely sure of its ability, he had it produce, one after the other, nimbuses, noodles, nuclei, neutrons, naphtha, noses, nymphs, naiads, and natrium. 'This last it could not do, and Trurl, considerably irritated, demanded an explanation. "Never heard of it," said the machine.Trurl's Machine "What? But it's only sodium. You know, the meta

The Development of Life on Earth and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

emmineb — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:37:18 GMT

# Introduction # The world in a grain of sand or through the dish of a radiotelescope? # Anaximander and Epicurus: the boundless universe and plurality of worlds # Extraterrestrials?: Lucretius, Bruno, Fontenelle, Huygens and Voltaire # Science Fiction: H.G. Wells and other modern writers # The nature and origin of life on earth # The elements of life # Minor and trace elements # Molecules, monomers and polymers # The ability to reproduce: DNA and the genetic code

The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments

emmineb — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:32:53 GMT

What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? (2m57s)

The Gapminder World 2006, beta Search statistics through Google and watch it move with Gapminder

emmineb — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:30:58 GMT

Gapminder’s Trendalyzer software unveils the beauty of statistics by converting boring numbers into enjoyable interactive animations. Trendalyzer’s developers have left Gapminder to join Google in Mountain View, where Google intends to improve and scale up Trendalyzer, and make it freely available to those who seek access to statistics. The Stockholm-based Gapminder Foundation will continue to spearhead the use of new technology for data animations. The goal is to promote a fact-based worldview by bringing statistical story-telling to new levels. In collaboration with producers of accurate statistics that are eager to give the public free access to databases, Gapminder hopes to recruit and inspire many users of public statistics.

The Gaza Bombshell - Politics & Power: vanityfair.com

emmineb — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:19:39 GMT

After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.

The New York Review of Books: Shipping News

emmineb — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:32:14 GMT

Nobody knows exactly how many containers there are in the world, but estimates run as high as three hundred million. What we do know is that not so long ago, there were none. Shipping containers are a recent American invention. On the face of it not a world-shaking event, yet it could be called the beginning of a revolution in transportation.

The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan

emmineb — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:07 GMT

In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English students at the University of Toronto--and a coterie of academic admirers who followed his abstruse articles in small-circulation quarterlies. But then came two remarkable books-- "The Gutenberg Galaxy" (1962) and "Understanding Media" (1964)--and the graying professor from Canada's western hinterlands soon found himself characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the hottest academic property around." He has since won a world-wide following for his brilliant--and frequently baffling--theories about the impact of the media on man; and his name has entered the French language as mucluhanisme, a synonym for the world of pop culture.

The Style Press

emmineb — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:10:04 GMT

Frequently updated newsfeed about fashion, design, art, culture, architecture, lifestyle, and music <>

The TeX showcase

emmineb — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:09:52 GMT

This is the TeX showcase, edited by Gerben Wierda. It contains examples of what you can do with TeX, the typesetting engine from Donald Knuth, world famous mathematician, computer scientist and above all well known for TeX. I will try to keep this showcase small. For remarks on submissions, see at the end of this document. In this showcase, you will not only find examples of material prepared with TeX proper, but also with macro packages like LaTeX, ConTeXt and with related programs like METAPOST. And though TeX is a typesetting language, you will find graphics and even an MPEG movie.

The Washington Monthly: Peak Oil Series

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:01:29 GMT

Excellent starting point foe all things peak oil

These imponderables are here to encourage my students to think creatively and identify deep questions

emmineb — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:13:45 GMT

Collecting "imponderables" or interesting unanswered questions is one of my hobbies and I list a bunch of questions here. I decided to put them on this web site to encourage students to think creatively and identify deep questions. But anyone is welcome to enjoy them. I know the answer to some of them, but many are open questions to have fun with. Maybe some can never be answered. The questions are also here to encourage interdisciplinary thinking. The most exciting scientific problems in the century following 2001 will require a multidisciplinary approach. A challenge: If you email me a really elegant answer or discussion to any of these questions, I will display your contribution on this page.

TomDispatch - Mark Danner, How a War of Unbound Fantasies Happened

emmineb — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:31:29 GMT

In the ruined city of Fallujah, its pale tan buildings pulverized by Marine artillery in the two great assaults of this long war (the aborted attack of March 2004 and then the bloody, triumphant al-Fajr (The Dawn) campaign of the following November), behind the lines of giant sandbags and concrete T-walls and barbed wire that surrounded the tiny beleaguered American outpost there, I sat in my body armor and Kevlar helmet and thought of George F. Kennan. Not the grand old man of American diplomacy, the ninety-eight-year-old Father of Containment who, listening to the war drums beat from a Washington nursing home in the fall of 2002, had uttered the prophetic words above. I was thinking of an earlier Kennan, the brilliant and ambitious young diplomat who duri

TomDispatch - Proliferation Wars in the Intelligence Community

emmineb — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:05:09 GMT

touchgraph amazon browser (data visualization & visual idesign - nformation aesthetics)

emmineb — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:10:44 GMT

an interactive network visualization that aims to reveal the intricate network structure within purchase pattern recommendations. users can explore related books or albums, see how similar items form clusters around common subjects, & discover how the clusters themselves are connected within the information space. it seems the visual information design & interactive features have been dramatically enhanced since their first google browser version about 2 years ago.

TrueCrypt: Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux

emmineb — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:23:13 GMT

Main Features: * Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. * Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive. * Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent. * Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password: 1) Hidden volume (steganography – more information may be found here). 2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data). * Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish. Mode of operation: LRW. Further information regarding features of the software may be found in the documentation.

Twenty Eight Articles: Fundamentals of Company-level Counterinsurgency (pdf)

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:41:42 GMT

UDES

emmineb — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:40:25 GMT

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Ultimate Flash Face v0.42b

emmineb — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:58:20 GMT

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Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times

emmineb — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:19:32 GMT

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. [...] add a couple more details to flesh out the advice. Like: A little meat won’t kill you, though it’s better approached as a side dish than as a main. And you’re much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. That’s what I mean by the recommendation to eat “food.” Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.

VANITY FAIR : The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed (Craig Unger)

emmineb — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:47:21 GMT

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Warfighting, War fighting, Battle Labs, Battlelabs, Joint, Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force, Military, Employment

emmineb — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:51:12 GMT

Welcome to Burnt Out Punks

emmineb — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:23:10 GMT

Why is open acess so succesfull? Stigrmegic organisation & the economics of information

emmineb — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:52:51 GMT

0612071.pdf (application/pdf Object)

wikipedia: Codex Seraphinianus

emmineb — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:18:56 GMT

The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978.[1] The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, an incomprehensible (at least for us) alphabetic writing.

wikipedia: Voynich manuscript

emmineb — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:15:54 GMT

The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book with incomprehensible contents. It is thought to have been written between approximately 1450 and 1520 by an unknown author in an unidentified script and language. Over its recorded existence, the Voynich manuscript has been the object of intense study by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including some top American and British codebreakers of World War II fame (all of whom failed to decrypt a single word). This string of failures has turned the Voynich manuscript into a famous subject of historical cryptology, but it has also given weight to the theory that the book is simply an elaborate hoax — a meaningless sequence of arbitrary symbols.

WIKISKY.ORG

emmineb — Thu, 03 May 2007 11:20:39 GMT

# What is this site about? Our on-line system is a detailed sky map. We generate the map automatically using our database with the positions and basic characteristics of space objects. You can get more details from Getting Started. # Could I see the real photographies of the sky? Yes. A Click on SDSS button at the left upper corner (SDSS) generates a real high resolution Sky Survey image of the area that you have been browsing. Another way to look at different sky images is to go to Astro Photo. # What is SDSS? Simply put, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is the most ambitious astronomical survey ever undertaken. When completed, it will provide detailed optical images covering more than a quarter of the sky, and a 3-dimensional map of about a million gal

Wired 14.12: Me Translate Pretty One Day

emmineb — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:36:16 GMT

Spanish to English? French to Russian? Computers haven't been up to the task. But a New York firm with an ingenious algorithm and a really big dictionary is finally cracking the code. With Carbonell on board, the new company set about building its Spanish system. Soon, however, Abir's peripatetic invention habits created conflicts. Klein, Carbonell, and the developers feared the company was losing focus. "Eli is a mad genius," Carbonell says. "Both of those words apply. Some of his ideas are totally bogus. And some of his ideas are brilliant. Eli himself can't always tell the two apart." Abir, determined to build a larger AI "brain" that would tackle not just MT but other problems, took little interest in the day-to-day engineering. Eventually he left the

WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: What Happens When Things Get Free?

emmineb — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:07:28 GMT

Chris Anderson - Mr. Long Tail, editor of Wired Magazine - makes a great decision here at Pop!tech: assuming that everyone in the audience has either read The Long Tail or knows the argument, he gives a different talk: “What Happens When Things Get Free?” (It covers much of the same ground as the book, but draws a different narrative through many of the same examples.) He starts with a photo of Dr. Carver Mead. Mead started thinking about what happens as semiconductors get cheap to the point where they’re free. The answer is, “you should waste them.” This insight led to VLSI - Very Large Scale Integration - chips that included thousands of transitors, not just single ones.

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emmineb — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:06:54 GMT

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xRez Extreme Resolution Photography Large Scale Panomaric Image Creation

emmineb — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:37:41 GMT

xRez is a consortium of digital artists committed to exploring new creative opportunites made available by the advent of extremely high-resolution gigapixel digital photography. We believe this is clearly the next revolution in photography, allowing photographic experiences with a deeper level of fidelity and impact than previously seen. Further, by combining powerful 3d tools and techniques appropriated from the visual effects field, possibilites arise of new imagery and animation that are truly novel and unprecedented. Applications of these new techniques can range from experiencing stunningly large prints in fine art gallery installations, pr

YouTube: "To me, the Danish language has collapsed into, meaningless, guttural sounds"

emmineb — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:15:46 GMT

Tur att det är textat på norska!

YouTube: Marble adding machine in wood

emmineb — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:05:40 GMT

Matthias Wandel's astounding wooding calculatory enigma. A woodworker turns his talents to binary mathematics via a cunning series of cats-eyes, clinkers and rounders. Plus many other marbled wonders: Woodgears.ca <>

"The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race" by Jared Diamond

emmineb — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:51:37 GMT

How do you show that the lives of people 10,000 years ago got better when they abandoned hunting and gathering for farming? Until recently, archaeologists had to resort to indirect tests, whose results (surprisingly) failed to support the progressivist view. Here's one example of an indirect test: Are twentieth century hunter-gatherers really worse off than farmers? Scattered throughout the world, several dozen groups of so- called primitive people, like the Kalahari Bushmen, continue to support themselves that way. It turns out that these people have plenty of leisure time, sleep a good deal, and work less hard than their farming neighbors. For instance, the average time devoted each week to obtaining food is only twelve to nineteen hours for one group

10MinuteMail.com: This e-mail adress will self-destruct in 10 minutes

emmineb — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:29:05 GMT

Welcome to 10 Minute Mail. By clicking on the link below, you will be given a temporary e-mail address. Any e-mails sent to that address will show up automatically on the web page. You can read them, click on links, and even reply to them. The e-mail address will expire after 10 minutes. Why would you use this? Maybe you want to sign up for a site which requires that you provide an e-mail address to send a validation e-mail to. And maybe you don't want to give up your real e-mail address and end up on a bunch of spam lists. This is nice and disposable. And it's free. Enjoy! Get my 10 Minute Mail e-mail address.

26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong

emmineb — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:30:19 GMT

A cognitive bias is something that our minds commonly do to distort our own view of reality. Here are the 26 most studied and widely accepted cognitive biases. 1. Bandwagon effect - the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink, herd behaviour, and manias. Carl Jung pioneered the idea of the collective unconscious which is considered by Jungian psychologists to be responsible for this cognitive bias. 2. Bias blind spot - the tendency not to compensate for one’s own cognitive biases. 3. Choice-supportive bias - the tendency to remember one’s choices as better than they actually were.

Amadeus World Time Zone Calculator

emmineb — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:16:42 GMT

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Amazon.com: Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization: Books: John Robb

emmineb — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:27:01 GMT

As Brave New War explains, system disruption lies at the heart of the agenda. Instead of symbolic, or deadly attacks, we should be on the lookout for economically devastating attacks. Our enemy will be looking for gaps in the system where a small, cheap action--say, on an oil pipeline--will generate a tremendous return. It may not even make the evening news, except as a report on spiraling gas prices. Because of the open source nature of the enemy, they don't all need to be smart. In fact, none of them need to be smart. They'll just keep trying random acts until one really works, and then they'll all copy it. That doesn't take genius, just flexibility. Is this all just theoretical? No, it's exactly what we're seeing in Iraq, as their IEDs improve, their tar

American Scientist Online; The Semicolon Wars

emmineb — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:26:32 GMT

If you want to be a thorough-going world traveler, you need to learn 6,912 ways to say "Where is the toilet, please?" That's the number of languages known to be spoken by the peoples of planet Earth, according to Ethnologue.com. If you want to be the complete polyglot programmer, you also have quite a challenge ahead of you, learning all the ways to say: printf("hello, world\n") ;

An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare - washingtonpost.com

emmineb — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:24:48 GMT

In today's Washington Post, a former interrogator working with the US government in Iraq, Eric Fair, shares some of his disturbing memories: A man with no face stares at me from the corner of a room. He pleads for help, but I'm afraid to move. He begins to cry. It is a pitiful sound, and it sickens me. He screams, but as I awaken, I realize the screams are mine. That dream, along with a host of other nightmares, has plagued me since my return from Iraq in the summer of 2004. Though the man in this particular nightmare has no face, I know who he is. I assisted in his interrogation at a detention facility in Fallujah. I was one of two civilian interrogators

Armoured cats & mice

emmineb — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:02:11 GMT

Q. Where did you get the idea to build armour for cats and mice?At the time that I made my first armour mouse and cat, by 1985 I had completed seven full suits of armour for people.I had been studying the history of armour for many years and had an extensive collection of books on the subject. At ...morethe same time, I was just in my second year at the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD), majoring in the jewellery design program. In truth, I made a suit of armour for a cat first. I did it as a project for a sculpture class. It turns out that my tendency for exploring opposites came into play at this point.

Art.com

emmineb — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:29:39 GMT

* Fine Art * Decorative Art * Vintage Art * Photography Subjects * Scenic * Botanical * Places * People * Abstract * Animals * World Culture * Music * Sports * Architecture * Transportation * Movies more... Artists * Adams * Dali * Monet * O'Keeffe * Picasso * Van Gogh * Warhol more... Collections * Limited Editions * Canvas Art * Tapestries * Emerging Artist

ArtMam Art in Internet»

emmineb — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:50:15 GMT

A great collection of links to Asian art sites We are currently gathering a collection of links, Orientations readers, and indeed all Asian art enthusiasts, will find most useful. Our goal is to be able to present a collection of sites each focusing on a various Asian-art related topic. Category Directory: » Directories Region Region: » Hong Kong http://www.orientations.com.hk/link.htm » A.F.T.R.A. "The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists."

at-Largely

emmineb — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:31:53 GMT

by Larisa Alexandrovna: For journalists and others who like examining the landscape of investigative reporting.

Atlas of the Human Journey - The Genographic Project

emmineb — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:35:15 GMT

a geographical & "genographical" world map illustrating when & where ancient humans moved around the world, as a visual explanation about the appearance & frequency of genetic markers in modern people. the interactive application also acts as the basis of depicting your personal ancient ancestors & genetic lineage around the world through the ages, after sending back your own DNA sample.

Atomic Rocket Space War: Weapons

emmineb — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:07:34 GMT

So You Wanna Build A Rocket?

BBC NEWS: Middle East | Iraqis use internet to survive war

emmineb — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:29:23 GMT

Google is playing an unlikely role in the Iraq war. Its online satellite map of the world, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad. As the communal bloodshed has worsened, some Iraqis have set up advice websites to help others avoid the death squads. One tip - on the Iraq League site, one of the best known - is for people to draw up maps of their local area using Google Earth's detailed imagery of Baghdad so they can work out escape routes and routes to block. It's another example of the central role technology plays in the conflict - with the widespread use of mobile phones, satellite television as well as the internet - by all sides and for many purposes.

BBC: Health | Drugs may boost your brain power

emmineb — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:33:21 GMT

Dramatic effect Dr Danielle Turner, of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Cambridge University, tested the drug out on 60 healthy volunteers. If, in the future, there are cognition tablets for exams and I wasn't happy for my children to take them, would I be disadvantaging them against those children that actually take them? Respondent to Academy of Medical Sciences study It did not just keep them awake. She found that the effects on their brains were much more dramatic. "We tested them two hours after they had taken a single dose of Modafinil and found quite strong improvements in performance, particularly when things got difficult," she said. "That was interesting - as problems got harder, their performance seemed to improve. With Modafinil the

Boing Boing: Artnatomy facial expression learning tool

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:05:18 GMT

The Flash interface enables you to visually explore how the movements of specific muscles contort our faces into emotional expressions <> <>

Brian's BitTorrent FAQ and Guide

emmineb — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:19:56 GMT

How do I create a new torrent (share a file I have with others)?

BYTLANAS.SE

emmineb — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:00:40 GMT

Med digitala medel kan man dela med sig av sina verk, dokumentationer av foto/ljud/film eller rent digitala verk, nästan gratis. Vi tror att sådana här utbyten gagnar konstscenen och öppnar upp för ett mindre bajsnödigt klimat. Därför har vi skapat Bytlanas, ett fint forum där ett utbyte kan ske konstnärer emellan och mellan konstnärer och publik. Bytlanas ordnar bytesträffar dit folk kommer för att byta till sig digitaliserad konst och lämna sin egen i utbyte. Materialet lagras i våra datorer och görs tillgängligt för nedladdning här på sidan i form av Bytlanas Mixtape, en rykande färsk konstsamling i digitalformat.

Calligraphy

emmineb — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:52:49 GMT

Easier - Calligraphy is the art of making beautiful or elegant handwriting. It is a fine art of skilled penmanship. Harder - The word calligraphy literally means beautiful writing. Before the invention of the printing press some 500 years ago, it was the way books were made. Each copy was handwritten out by a scribe working in a scriptorium. The hand writing was done with quill and ink onto materials like vellum or parchment. The lettering style applied was one of the period bookhands like rustic, carolingian, blackletter, etc. Today, there are three main types or styles of calligraphy: (1) Western or Roman, (2) Arabic, and (3) Chinese or Oriental. This project focuses mainly on Western calligraphy with a glimpse at the other two styles.

Calligraphy Supplies

emmineb — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:55:19 GMT

Nibs and Holders

Citation Tacite - Dicocitations

emmineb — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:42:50 GMT

Tacitus - Dicocitations <>

Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet - Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source

emmineb — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:24:50 GMT

NEC@Shirky.com -- Networks, Economics, and Culture NEC is a mix of essays written for the list, essays written for other outlets, drafts of ideas I’m pursuing, and reader commentary (re-printed only with permission, of course). The list will be very low volume, with an approximately twice-monthly frequency, and the contents will also be archived on shirky.com. <>

Co-evolution of neocortex size, group size and language in humans

emmineb — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:13:10 GMT

Keywords Neocortical size, group size, humans, language, Macchiavellian Intelligence Abstract Group size is a function of relative neocortical volume in nonhuman primates. Extrapolation from this regression equation yields a predicted group size for modern humans very similar to that of certain hunter-gatherer and traditional horticulturalist societies. Groups of similar size are also found in other large-scale forms of contemporary and historical society. Among primates, the cohesion of groups is maintained by social grooming; the time devoted to social grooming is linearly related to group size among the Old World monkeys and apes. To maintain the stability of the large groups characteristic of humans by grooming alone would place intolerable demands on t

Color Schemer: Online Color Scheme Generator

emmineb — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:48:16 GMT

Enter an RGB or HEX value, or click on the Color Palette below

Commercial Telegraphic Code Books

emmineb — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:10:01 GMT

Code books were used in the era of telegraphs (from 1845 until well into the second half of the 20th century) to shorten telegrams, which were paid for by the word. These books, arranged like dictionaries, would list many useful phrases or even sentences, each with its corresponding code word. One sent the code words, and the recipient of the telegram would have to look up their meanings in his copy of the code book. This could save quite a bit of money on intercontinental telegrams, since the price per word on undersea cable connections was very high. (The word cable means both the actual telegraph cable layed on the ocean bed, and to a cablegram sent over via the ``submarine telegraph,'' and then, as a verb, to send a cablegram, as in ``the arrest warrant

Convert Latitude / Longitude in Degrees/Minutes/Seconds to/from Decimal (FCC) USA

emmineb — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:56:39 GMT

This utility permits the user to convert latitude and longitude between decimal degrees and degrees, minutes, and seconds. For convenience, a link is included to the National Geodetic Survey's NADCON program, which allows conversions between the NAD83 / WGS84 coordinate system and the older NAD27 coordinate system. NAD27 coordinates are presently used for broadcast authorizations and applications. This utility requires that Javascript be enabled to perform the calculations. The older non-Javascript version remains available.

Corbis: photography, rights, assignment, motion.

emmineb — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:19:35 GMT

<> Corbis is a world leader in digital media. By providing the industry's richest array of digital image licensing, rights services, artist representation and media management, Corbis enables creative innovation for advertising, corporate marketing and editorial clients. Corbis is headquartered in Seattle, with 20 offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

Damn Interesting: Project Babylon: Gerald Bull's Downfall

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:00:27 GMT

"Bull nearly single-handedly resurrected the science of supergun artillery"

David MacKay FRS Sustainable Energy - without the hot air: Contents

emmineb — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:31:01 GMT

"For anyone with influence on energy policy, whether in government, business or a campaign group, this book should be compulsory reading." Tony Juniper Former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth "At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining." Robert Sansom EDF Energy "The Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy." Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net "...a tour de force..." The Economist "... a cold blast of reality ... a must-read analysis..." Science magazine "...this year's must-read book..." The Guardian

Defense Budget Tutorial # - What is the Actual Size of the 2006 Defense Budget? By Winslow Wheeler

emmineb — Mon, 07 May 2007 09:23:20 GMT

Having observed, and in past years participated in, the obscuration of just how much the United States actually spends for defense, this author believes it would assist the debate over the defense budget in this country by identifying its actual size. The “defense spending” bill enacted in December had the title, “Making appropriations to the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006 and for other purposes.” It was a little heavy on those “other purposes” [2] and it did not comprise all the money the Defense Department received and will receive for 2006

Dream Anatomy: Gallery

emmineb — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:10:28 GMT

The interior of our bodies is hidden to us. What happens beneath the skin is mysterious, fearful, amazing. In antiquity, the body's internal structure was the subject of speculation, fantasy, and some study, but there were few efforts to represent it in pictures. The invention of the printing press in the 15th century-and the cascade of print technologies that followed-helped to inspire a new spectacular science of anatomy, and new spectacular visions of the body. Anatomical imagery proliferated, detailed and informative but also whimsical, surreal, beautiful, and grotesque — a dream anatomy that reveals as much about the outer world as it does the inner self.<>

Edward Tufte: Posters and Graph Paper Napoleon's March

emmineb — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:11:50 GMT

<> <> Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon's army in the Russian campaign of 1812. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the thick band shows the size of the army at each position. The path of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in the bitterly cold winter is depicted by the dark lower band, which is tied to temperature and time scales. Exquisitely printed in two colors on fine archival paper, 22” by 15

Eric's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea: steampunk star wars

emmineb — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:18:03 GMT

Inspired by this neat little project, I decided I wanted to reimagine the Star Wars universe in a steampunk context. I know, whenever anyone reimagines anything, they either make it a) adult and edgy (99%) or b) steampunk (1%), so I'm not getting any originality points, but it's still a pretty exciting idea for me. Meaning I'll be bored of it in a week and start drawing dogs wearing hats or something.

Exquisite anatomy: the art of medical models | MetaFilter

emmineb — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:59:11 GMT

Historical anatomy models were a marriage of art and science. From about the 13th to the 19th centuries, exquisite wax models were the state of the art. Florence's La Specola anatomical wax museum houses the works of master artists, such as Ercole Lelli, Anna Morandi, and Clemente Susini. The later years of wax models tended towards the grotesque: moulage and depictions of pathological conditions and physical anomalies. Due to the labor required and delicacy of wax models, papier-mâché became the favored production method in the 19th century, partly due to the ability to dissect the models. Over time, models became more stylized to protect the delicate sensibilities of the public. Today, models are again shocking the public with extreme realism.

Feature Design Your Own Desktop with KDE 4

emmineb — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:21:06 GMT

One of the best things about KDE 4, the newest release of the mainstream Linux desktop manager, is something it doesn't do—force you to adapt to its way of running a computer desktop. Sure, the desktop environment boasts new 3-D effects, a polished theme, and improved functionality. But what KDE 4 does best is give users the ability to almost completely re-design their desktops, putting their programs, icons, and useful widgets wherever they see fit, on as many desktops as they want, to create their ideal workspace. I spent some time exploring the features of the less-than-week-old system, the results of which are after the jump.

Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:44:47 GMT

From Tesla Motors to the “Patriot Hack” Martin Eberhard on Protecting Your Privacy Online

emmineb — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:17:18 GMT

Nursing the best dark brew I’ve ever had, I moved from a great article on free global phone calls to another on the language of gang signs, ultimately landing on a column signed not with an anonymous pseudonym but by Martin Eberhard, co-founder of Tesla Motors. It was so interesting, in fact, that I reached out to Martin after my bear-rich Pacific Northwest roadtrip and asked for permission to reprint his article here. He graciously agreed. This article is broken up into four sections, which I titled: The Patriot Hack - From China’s Firewall to Lockpicking (15%) The Political and Technical Landscape (60%) Strategies to Protect Your Privacy (10%) The “Haystack” Call to Action (15%)

FullTorrent.net - Search and find more torrents

emmineb — Mon, 28 May 2007 09:41:02 GMT

Firefox plugin: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=fulltorrent&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes&submitform=Search

Gallery

emmineb — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:41:20 GMT

Curvature Flow Starfish Melting Matisse Golden Lamination on the Hexagonal Torus Anosov slice More percolation(Julia Fish) Sierpinski carpet limit set Apollonian movie Cantor set and foliations Napoleon map Mandelbrot zoom movie

Glossary for Medieval Art and Architecture

emmineb — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:06:45 GMT

GM_GoldenCage.mov (video/quicktime Object)

emmineb — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:49:19 GMT

Hanzi Smatter 一知半解: dedicated to the misuse of chinese characters in western culture

emmineb — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:10:53 GMT

Trendy Pro-Communism Purses

How to Know When Ice is Safe - WikiHow

emmineb — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:23:24 GMT

# Recognize that determining the safety of ice is dependent on a combination of factors, not on one factor alone. Ice safety is determined by assessing the following factors together: * Appearance of the ice - its color, texture and features * Thickness of the ice - there are recommended thicknesses for different uses, which are set out below * External temperature over a period of time and on the day * Snow coverage * Depth of water under ice * Size of water body * Chemical composition of water - whether water is fresh or salty * Local climate fluctuations * Extent of ice

How To Look Like A UNIX Guru Terence Parr http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt

emmineb — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:25:43 GMT

Terence Parr Last updated: August 30, 2006 UNIX is an extremely popular platform for deploying server software partly because of its security and stability, but also because it has a rich set of command line and scripting tools. Programmers use these tools for manipulating the file system, processing log files, and generally automating as much as possible. If you want to be a serious server developer, you will need to have a certain facility with a number of UNIX tools; about 15. You will start to see similarities among them, particularly regular expressions, and soon you will feel very comfortable. Combining the simple commands, you can build very powerful tools very quickly--much faster than you could build the equivalent functionality in C or Java, for e

How to Test if a Plant Is Edible - wikiHow

emmineb — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:18:31 GMT

Drastic times call for drastic measures. If you ever find yourself stranded in the wilderness for several months without food, you're going to have to figure out how to feed yourself. You can survive for at least a month with nothing but water, you will lose about 20 lbs. However, this is not a suggested fad diet, once you start eating again, you will probably put most of the weight back on. If you're well prepared and knowledgeable about the area, you should have no problem finding edible plants, but if you are near death, and can't otherwise positively identify a safe plant to eat, follow these guidelines to test for edibility.

Hundreds of music videos from the 80's online

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:38:55 GMT

In Defense of Piracy - WSJ.com by LAWRENCE LESSIG professor of law at Stanford Law School, and co-founder

emmineb — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:39:55 GMT

In early February 2007, Stephanie Lenz's 13-month-old son started dancing. Pushing a walker across her kitchen floor, Holden Lenz started moving to the distinctive beat of a song by Prince, "Let's Go Crazy." He had heard the song before. The beat had obviously stuck. So when Holden heard the song again, he did what any sensible 13-month-old would do -- he accepted Prince's invitation and went "crazy" to the beat. Holden's mom grabbed her camcorder and, for 29 seconds, captured the priceless image of Holden dancing, with the barely discernible Prince playing on a CD player somewhere in the background.

In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | By Chris Anderson | Wired Magazine

emmineb — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:15:32 GMT

Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, has a very good article in his magazine on the desktop manufacturing revolution. It's definitely worth the read and is complimentary with thinking being done on this blog re: resilient communities. Thus the new industrial organizational model. It’s built around small pieces, loosely joined. Companies are small, virtual, and informal. Most participants are not employees. They form and re-form on the fly, driven by ability and need rather than affiliation and obligation. It doesn’t matter who the best people work for; if the project is interesting enough, the best people will find it.

In which World War 2 army you should have fought?

emmineb — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:41:20 GMT

You scored as Finland. Your army is the army of Finland. You prefer to win your enemy by your wit rather than superior weapons. Enemy will have a hard time against your small but effective force.

indi.ca » Google as Artificial Intelligence

emmineb — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:02:53 GMT

The way things are going, I think Google will be the first AI. That is, I think Google will become conscious. As a note, if I can have a conversation with something, I’ll consider it conscious. That’s the Turing Test for intelligence. Right now Google fails miserably. For example, I entered the terms Jesus will return and got: jesus will return to Kings Associated Press July End did did Nature build the worlds largest Sex personals site! I suppose nature can’t explain everything. I got an earlier response which was more relevant - it asked if Nature build the body and emotion, and said the brain was the most important invention … then it went on to mention the Quran and The Prophet by K

Information about machine translation, controlled language, translation standards.

emmineb — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:32:39 GMT