http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb?feed=rss&hitsPerPage=100&pg=3 emmineb's bookmarks on Netvouz http://phydeaux3.blogspot.com/2006/09/code-for-beta-blogger-label-cloud.html Due to overwhelming demand (ok, it was one person) I've gone ahead and wrote up the code and explanations on how to setup and use the highly desireable Label Cloud for New Blogger. Because everyone wants a tag cloud for Blogger. I think everything is correct there, but if you try to set it up and run into any problems I blame Avatar. :-) I've set the page up off-site since I don't feel like mucking with code in the Blogger post editor at the moment. And if you have any questions feel free to ask. Pay close attention to the BACKUP YOUR TEMPLATE before proceding notice. Here's the link to the setup and instructions... New Blogger Tag Cloud / Label Cloud Setup and Instructions One thing I might add, the cloud is done with javascript so it will only display whe emmineb Thu, 24 May 2007 11:00:25 GMT http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=se&lc=sv&ver=4000&template=ps1&zone=ps&lm=ps1&pid=10205 Program, installation och inställningar Nerladdning av program Nerladdning av program * Sony Ericssons uppdateringstjänst * Hämta inställningar via SMS direkt till telefonen och börja använda mobilt Internet . Mobilt Internet (WAP) Hämta inställningar via SMS direkt till telefonen och börja använda e-post på telefonen E-post Hämta inställningar via SMS direkt till telefonen och börja använda bildmeddelanden Interaktiva presentationer som ökar din kunskap Tips och tricks Hur du skapar en trådlös anslutning mellan din telefon och ett Bluetooth®-tillbehör Kombineringsanvisningar * Snabbguider som hjälper dig börja använda de funktioner som ger produkten mervärde Användarhandböcker emmineb Thu, 24 May 2007 08:44:54 GMT http://web.archive.org/web/20051104204853/http://www2.umassd.edu/swpi/DesignInCS/expertise.html#6 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 emmineb Tue, 15 May 2007 12:41:31 GMT http://www.maninthedark.com/ move man with mouse emmineb Tue, 15 May 2007 10:22:11 GMT http://www.holyjuan.com/2007/05/10-attributes-of-really-lazy-people.html 10 Attributes of Really Lazy People emmineb Thu, 10 May 2007 13:53:55 GMT http://www.cameraontheroad.com/index.php?p=193 emmineb Wed, 09 May 2007 19:52:55 GMT http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/ Listed below is a list of links to all the articles and pages in the hypertext book (web site) The Psychology of Cyberspace.The articles are arranged chronologically, with the most recently written or revised ones appearing near the top. The most recent date of the article, its version number, and its approximate size are indicated. Unless otherwise stated, the author of the article is John Suler, Ph.D. There also is a subject index and search engine for this book. Links on this page will produce a new window placed on top of this window. emmineb Wed, 09 May 2007 19:31:35 GMT http://www.languageisavirus.com/ # Cut Up Machine # Slice-n-Dice # Exquisite Cadavulator # Madlib PoemPopular # Magnetic Poetry # Automatic Poetry Generator # Text Collage # Haiku-a-Tron # Poem Engine # Translator # Random Line Generator # Character Name Generator # Title-o-Matic # SlashPoem # Creative Writing Prompts emmineb Wed, 09 May 2007 09:11:19 GMT http://www.flickr.com/photos/jl-incrowd/sets/72157600188341501/show/ Angry young men, wayward and wanton women, troubled youth, and just plain trouble. Exposés exposed, coming of age in a bygone age. A batch published in the late '50's through to the mid-'70's. '- - Now finally in paperback!' '- - Soon to be a major motion picture!' '- - Read the book that shocked a nation!' emmineb Wed, 09 May 2007 07:06:18 GMT http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2006/polishposters/ POLISH MOVIE POSTERS EAST EUROPE TAKES ON CLASSIC FILMS ARE MINDBLOWING While most movie posters in the United States pretty much showcase the standard corporate style imagery to hawk the film, the fine folks in Poland have a brilliant dramatic license when marketing Hollywood's finest in their country, resulting in some of the most brilliantly surreal and amazing pieces of movie artwork ever created. Some of them are obvious, some seem to be crazy nonsequiters that have nothing to do with the original picture, while others seem to change the focus of the movie altogether. Weekend At Bernies now looks more like a horror film, and Polish poster for The Terror of Mechagodzilla looks as if it was animated by the folks that made Yellow Submarine. Enjoy this emmineb Wed, 09 May 2007 06:36:46 GMT http://www.metafilter.com/60827/Soviet-Era-Art Metafilter's own Fake, Dan Reetz, recently spent several months in the former Soviet Union; while there he managed to round up this great selection of Soviet Movie posters from 1921-1973, as well as this interesting 1952 set of food drawings from the government produced book "Tasty & Healthy Eating." Finally, bonus content for anyone jonesing for more soviet content, this Russian Winnie the Pooh cartoon from the 1970s is fantastic. emmineb Mon, 07 May 2007 20:46:01 GMT http://www.cinema-obscura.com/coforums/register.php The primary focus of this site is not simply to provide filesharing infrastructure; it is to build a cohesive community capable of sustaining a collective digital archive of rare, unusual, classic, and fringe culture artifacts. As archivists, we seek out and ensure the survival of exceptional media which is either in the public domain, or is not being marketed for whatever reason. As a community, we share a wide variety of cultural touchstones with each other both for relaxation and for greater contextual understanding of the rarities we value highest. In plain language, our main goal is to collect and preserve weird stuff, and if we do technically violate a copyright now and then it's because on the side we're doing what people in every community do: hangi emmineb Mon, 07 May 2007 09:26:49 GMT http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/defense_budget_tutorial.htm 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 emmineb Mon, 07 May 2007 09:23:20 GMT http://manalang.com/archives/ # !mobiledesktop # %s # 2005 # adobe # advice # aggregator # airplane # ajax # algorithms # amazon # amusing # apache # api # apollo # apple # architecture # art # atom # auto # b&w # baby # background # backup # bandwidth # battery # beer # bestof # blogging # blogs # bone # bookmarking # bookmarklet # bookmarklets # bookmarks # books # bpel # browser # bugtracking # business # business2.0 # cabletv # caching # camera # cancer # capture # career # cell # charting # chat # cheatsheet # cherrypy # christmas # cisco # cms # code # color # comet # comic # comparison # complementary # compression # computers # computerscience # computing # conference # congress # cooking # coupon # coupons # cpu # cryonics # css # database # deals # del.icio.us # delicious # de emmineb Mon, 07 May 2007 07:25:09 GMT http://people.msoe.edu/~tritt/sf/europa.life.html Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, appears to be one of the few places that we might find extraterrestrial life in our solar system (the others being Mars and Titan, a moon of Saturn). What makes Europa such an attractive place to look for life is the possibility that it has liquid water and volcanic activity. Liquid water is essential for life on earth and is the most probable solvent for life elsewhere. Volcanic activity provides some of the heat necessary to keep the water on Europa from freezing and could provide important dissolved chemicals needed by living organisms. The surface of Europa is covered with ice. NASA's Galileo space probe has recently sent back a number of high quality images of Europa's surface. These images hint at a layer of liquid emmineb Mon, 07 May 2007 06:41:45 GMT http://forevergreat.yculblog.com/ emmineb Mon, 07 May 2007 06:33:15 GMT http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/ "Never before have two pieces of bread been simultaneously placed on the ground directly opposite each other on the globe, thus making an EARTH SANDWICH. The fact that the earth has never been a sandwich is probably why things are so f*cked up." emmineb Sun, 06 May 2007 16:12:27 GMT http://tutorialstuff.com/ emmineb Sun, 06 May 2007 14:51:54 GMT http://www.livescience.com/animalworld//060629_ant_pedometers.html They glued stilt-like extensions to the legs of some ants to lengthen stride. The researchers shortened other ants' stride length by cutting off the critters' feet and lower legs, reducing their legs to stumps. By manipulating the ants' stride lengths, the researchers could determine whether the insects were using an odometer-like mechanism to measure the distance, or counting off steps with an internal pedometer. The ants on stilts took the right number of steps, but because of their increased stride length, marched past their goal. Stump-legged ants, meanwhile, fell short of the goal. emmineb Thu, 03 May 2007 11:46:55 GMT http://www.metafilter.com/60833/Flash-meditations Agents - one of many Flash experiments and projects by Sébastien Chevrel. emmineb Thu, 03 May 2007 11:37:43 GMT http://www.wikisky.org/?ra=15.324308100000003&de=-7.722066000000016&zoom=12&locale=SV&show_grid=1&show_constellation_lines=1&show_constellation_boundaries=1&show_const_names=0&show_galaxies=1&show_box=1&box_ra=15.324308100000003&box_de=-7.722066&box_width=50&box_height=50 # 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 emmineb Thu, 03 May 2007 11:20:39 GMT http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/05/33-rules-to-boost-your-productivity/ # Nuke it! The most efficient way to get through a task is to delete it. If it doesn’t need to be done, get it off your to do list. # Daily goals. Without a clear focus, it’s too easy to succumb to distractions. Set targets for each day in advance. Decide what you’ll do; then do it. # Worst first. To defeat procrastination learn to tackle your most unpleasant task first thing in the morning instead of delaying it until later in the day. This small victory will set the tone for a very productive day. # Peak times. Identify your peak cycles of productivity, and schedule your most important tasks for those times. Work on minor tasks during your non-peak times. emmineb Thu, 03 May 2007 11:19:39 GMT http://www.kahlil.org/prophet.html Comprehensive site about Kahlil Gibran. emmineb Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:59:12 GMT http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0445.html <<comic>> emmineb Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:18:27 GMT http://chibi.nekrozin.com/index.php?strip_id=133 <<comic>> <<strip>> emmineb Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:06:42 GMT http://www.waygate.com/ SCIENCE, SPECULATION, SECULARISM emmineb Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:18:46 GMT http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/better_gmail_1.html Paul Kedrosky pointed to Lifehacker's Better Gmail. I hope Paul won't mind if I just reprint his entire Better Gmail is Gmail 2.0 post here, since it says it all, elegantly and forcefully: Gina at Lifehacker has created the #1 most important tool any Gmail user needs. It's an add-in, called Better Gmail, combining all the major Greasemonkey hacks for Firefox-based Gmail users, and it turns Gmail from indispensable into ... really indispensable. I'm already using most of the pieces as discrete Greasemonkey hacks, but bundling them all like this is a work of genius. Just install it. Now. Lifehacker also has a good tutorial on using the extension. A really interesting side note: as Better Gmail is a firefox extension, it's not available for IE users. I emmineb Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:04:18 GMT http://ironthorn.blogspot.com/2007/01/lsningen-p-gtan-om-de-mrkliga.html The 4-1-1: Regular bike riding just too lame? Mom and Dad making you wear helmets and flashers when you go out at night? What a bone! New Year's Eve is the perfect opportunity to show your skill as a bike rider and a responsible young adult. Make way, Lance Armstrong – this kid doesn't need to hide behind steroids or cancer to make a role model of himself! What You'll Need: You and your friends each need a bicycle, as well as a bunch of black clothing. If you choose to wear pads that's fine, but remember: Knee and elbow pads constrict movement, and since black absorbs every color in the spectrum it deflects pavement pretty well. Winning and safety go hand-in-hand, but the smartest kids know science is just as important! Diz-rections: Ste emmineb Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:40:45 GMT http://www.sumerian.org/sumlinks.htm ABZU - Mesopotamian Study Resources Akkadian Language (Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (site at UCLA) Press Release Describing the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Mesopotamian Year Names Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary project The Penn Parsed Corpus of Sumerian project The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts Babylonian Mathematics History Topics in Babylonian Mathematics Babylonian Astronomy/Astrology Software Program Bibliography of Mesopotamian Astronomy and Astrology A Review of the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries (slow to load) Musical Theory in the Ancient World-the Mesopotamian Precursors of Pythagoras History of Mesopotamian Measures Eisenbraun's - So emmineb Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:49:11 GMT http://ericpoulton.blogspot.com/search/label/steampunk%20star%20wars 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. emmineb Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:18:03 GMT http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html 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 emmineb Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:25:57 GMT http://www.purplehell.com/riddletools/alchemy.htm#seas Alchemy refers to both an early form of the investigation of nature and an early philosophical and spiritual discipline. They both combine elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art. It has been practiced in Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Persia, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in Muslim civilization, and then in Europe up to the 19th century in a complex network of schools and philosophical systems spanning at least 2500 years. Today the discipline is still active but is of interest mainly to historians of science and philosophy, and for its mystic, esoteric, and artistic aspects. Alchemy was one of the main precursors of modern sciences, and many substances and processes of anc emmineb Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:22:42 GMT http://members.aol.com/wergames/ahptrprn.htm <<management>> emmineb Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:17:49 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6558871.stm 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 emmineb Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:33:21 GMT http://antoine.revoy.net/ 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. emmineb Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:11:08 GMT http://www.garytaxali.com/portfolio1/portfolio1_03.php "The work of Gary Taxali takes a basically juvenile bibliophilic impulse - doodling in the leaves of borrowed books - to a more artistically sophisticated level. The books he appropriates aren't the precious kind one sees fashioned into delicate, romantic assemblage works but the thick, hardy sort that fill high school libraries and suffer the consequent abuse. He arranges their covers and pages in grids of varying sizes and embellished these grids with an entertaining cast of cartoonish characters, random words and phrases, and icons of one sort and another. There (sic) is an appealing sense of play, drawn from childhood but supported by a mature iconographic sensibility." emmineb Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:43:04 GMT http://indi.ca/2004/05/google-becomes-conscious-google-as-artificial-intelligence/ 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 emmineb Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:02:53 GMT http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml?gclid=CKi-lMOztYsCFT4GQgodqWmJ3A Ship weather reports and track maps are based on data reported via the World Meteorological Organization's Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS). Additional reports come from the YOTREPS network of cruising yachts. Quality control evaluations for VOS ships are available at http://www.meteo.shom.fr/vos-monitoring/ Additional weather data comes from the NOAA Forecast System Laboratory's MADIS database. Tide predictions are provided by a heavily modified version of David Flater's program Xtide. Maps are produced using the University of Minnesota Mapserver, with datasets derived from the NIMA VMAP-0 layers, popularly known as the Digital Chart of the World. Maps are written in PHP/Mapscript. Hurricane data comes from NRL Monterey emmineb Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:00:53 GMT http://amazingfiltered.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2007-04-09T12%3A24%3A00%2B04%3A00&max-results=1 These photos were scanned by Alexander Kalion from original black and white photos of Soviet Era Russia. Province, early 1980s. emmineb Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:58:14 GMT http://www.sparth.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=47 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. emmineb Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:12:05 GMT http://www.lukechueh.com/ "... our art teacher claimed that anime wasn't real art, and neither was yours." emmineb Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:05:35 GMT http://catalogue.artmam.com/en/categ-Art_in_Internet-30.html 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." emmineb Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:50:15 GMT http://www.tomballhatchet.com/hamstershredder.html Tom Ballhatchet emmineb Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:45:56 GMT http://www.physorg.com/news95575580.html An IBM scientist holds a thinned wafer of silicon computer circuits, which is ready for bonding to another circuit wafer, where IBM's advanced "through-silicon via" process will connect the wafers together by etching thousands of holes through each layer and filling them with metal to create 3-D integrated stacked chips. The IBM breakthrough can shorten wire lengths inside chips up to 1000 times and allow for hundreds more pathways for data to flow among different functions on a chip. This technique will extend Moore's Law beyond its expected limits, paving the way for a new breed of smaller, faster and lower power chips. Credit: IBM IBM today announced a breakthrough chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that paves the way for three-dimen emmineb Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:45:04 GMT http://eye.kddi.com/content.html With the contribution photograph, they are the contents which make a certain visual, but. Clicking, when it chooses one photograph, that it starts flowing as an animated picture. From k tie and being able to contribute from PC, it corresponds to also [burogupatsu]. What they are the challenge contents. emmineb Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:18:21 GMT http://viceland.com/issues/v9n10/htdocs/beaten.php Don’t be a victim. If some huge fucking Coke machine of a guy tries to attack you, grab his right arm with the forefinger of your left hand, then twist it behind his back and kick in the back of his knees from behind. If he has a knife, use your elbows as side fists and smash his temples at 45 degrees until his pupils dilate. If he gets you into some kind of a headlock, then sit down on one knee so that he’s forced to sit on your lap and then implode his kidneys using the heel of your left palm against your right forearm… blah blah “nose bone into his brain” yadda yadda yadda. Yeah, right. If a huge fucking Coke machine of a guy tries to attack you, that’s it. You’re dead. emmineb Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:09:26 GMT http://www.gladwell.com/1998/1998_02_02_a_pima.htm The Pima are famous now--famous for being fatter than any other group in the world, with the exception only of the Nauru islanders of the West Pacific. Among those over thirty- five on the reservation, the rate of diabetes, the disease most closely associated with obesity, is fifty per cent, eight times the national average and a figure unmatched in medical history. It is not unheard of in Sacaton for adults to weigh five hundred pounds, for teen-agers to be suffering from diabetes, or for relatively young men and women to be already disabled by the disease--to be blind, to have lost a limb, to be confined to a wheelchair, or to be dependent on kidney dialysis. emmineb Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:04:51 GMT http://www.lem.pl/cyberiadinfo/english/dziela/cyberiada/cyberiadapl.htm#2 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 emmineb Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:01:51 GMT http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Tiramisu 1. Place the mascarpone cheese in a bowl. 2. Enlarge Whisk in the sugar, vanilla and kahlua., being sure to always stir in the same direction 3. Enlarge Whisk in a cup of whipped cream and 4 tbsps of flaked chocolate. 4. Enlarge Place the coffee in a mug and mix with hot water. Take 4 short glasses and break sponge fingers in to the bottom and brush with coffee. 5. Enlarge Place some of the tiramasu mixture on top. 6. Enlarge Add another layer of sponge fingers and another layer of tiramasu mixture. 7. Enlarge Top with whipped cream and grated chocolate. Tips * Try adding a splash of rum to the coffee before spreading it on the sponge fingers. emmineb Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:03:11 GMT http://math.arizona.edu/~mcleman/CoolNumbers/CoolNumbers.html <<mathematics>> This is an attempt to give a count-down of the top ten coolest numbers. Let's first concede that this is a highly subjective ordering -- one person's 14.38 is another's $ \frac{\pi^2}{6}$ . The astute (or probably simply ``awake'') reader will notice, for example, a definite bias toward numbers interesting to a number theorist in the below list. (On the other hand, who better to gauge the coolness of numbers than a number-theorist...) But who knows? Maybe I can be convinced that I've left something out, or that my ordering should be switched in some cases. But let's first set down some ground rules. What's in the list? What makes a number cool? I think a word that sums up the key characteristic of cool numbers is ``canonicality.'' emmineb Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:50:42 GMT http://www.robertkelleyphd.com/12-tone.htm <<mathematics>> The essential part of this essay to read in order to understand the purpose of the Set Analyzer is The Basics of Atonal Theory. The essential parts of this essay to read in order to understand the purpose of the Matrix Generator are The Twelve-Tone Method, and The Matrix. Combinatoriality is discussed under Advanced Techniques. The essential part of this essay to read in order to understand the purpose of the Contour Analyzer is Contour Analysis. However, I recommend reading the entire document, especially if you aren't familiar with twentieth-century music. Easy Navigation of this Document: * The Basics of Atonal Theory 1. Pitch Class Equivalence 2. Pitch-Class Set Equivalence 3. Finding a Set's Prime Form emmineb Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:24:05 GMT http://www.thedirectorsbureau.com/media/archive/GM_GoldenCage.mov emmineb Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:49:19 GMT http://www.bkent.net/catalogsource.htm Data and Reality, 1stBooks (excerpts) (1998) A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory (1983) Employee Was A Subtype Of Person (1988) About Time (1992) The Essence of Time (1993) The Null Wars: Much Ado About Something (1990) Nulls Again (1992) My Height: A Model For Numeric Information (1992) Foundations of a Theory of Measurement (1994) William Kent, Stephanie Leichner Janowski, Bruce Hamilton, Dan Hepner, "Measurement Data (Archive Report)" , April 1996. [135 pp]. (The introduction is provocative, and you might also browse some of the other sections.) The Many Forms of a Single Fact (1989) The Leading Edge of Database Technology (1989) What is an Object? (1989) The Breakdown of the Information Model in Multi-Database Systems (1991 emmineb Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:35:18 GMT http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/knowitall/ * How can a computer accumulate a massive body of knowledge? * What will Web search engines look like in ten years? To address these questions, the KnowItAll project has been developing a variety of domain-independent systems that extract information from the Web in an autonomous, scalable manner. The KnowItAll project has been sponsored in part by federal research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. Demos: * TextRunner: TextRunner searches 77,652,885 tuples extracted on the topic of nutrition, and sorts the results by probability. * Opine: Opine is a review mining system which uses KnowItAll-type techniques in order to extract product features and customer opinions from product reviews. * KnowItAll emmineb Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:27:35 GMT http://speculation.org/garrick/kill-9.html <<linux>> It has come to my attention that there is a great wave of people out there that think using 'kill -9' on everything is a great idea. Who are these people and how did they acquire such an insidious habit? I wish I knew. Signals There exists in Unix a thing called a signal. There are many types of signals that are sent to processes for a great variety of reasons. When a process receives a signal, it may ignore it or catch the signal and execute a "signal handler". This is called "trapping" a signal. Untrapped signals have a default action, which are basicly "do nothing" or "exit". There are two signals that are untrappable, "SIGKILL" and "SIGSTOP". There is a command line utility called 'kill' that simply sends a signal to a process. 'kill -signal p emmineb Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:24:07 GMT http://www.worldmapper.org/ This website contains a large collection of maps (and associated information) that we are in the process of generating. Each map relates to a particular subject. Click on the 'Thumbnail Index' which gives thumbnail previews of the maps, 'Map Categories' which is classified to see the choice, or a new option 'A-Z Map Index', and view a map and associated information. There is also a Site Map and Help page. Coverage The maps and data files cover 200 territories, mainly United Nation Member States plus a few others to include at least 99.95% of the world's population. For a map identifying them see the labelled territory map, and for a cartogram giving them all equal prominence see Appendix A (Areas Included). Further details about their names are given in Tec emmineb Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:34:27 GMT http://maps.bpl.org/ The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library is a public private partnership launched in 2004 to preserve and provide free public access to the Boston Public Library's historically significant collection of 200,000 maps and 5,000 atlases. Our goal is to maximize the educational potential of these antique and contemporary maps of the World, United States, and New England. This website will enable visitors to explore, in-depth, the Map Center's cartographic treasures and related educational programs. emmineb Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:32:38 GMT http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/lh-top-10-musthave-firefox-extensions-246127.php If ever a software application was built to be more than itself, it's Mozilla Firefox. Over the past 2 years we've tried, loved and posted dozens of feature-adding extensions for our favorite web browser. But today we have the master, grand daddy list of 10 must-haves. Narrowing the huge field of available add-ons down to the ten best was quite a challenge. Your Firefox extension choices have everything to do with your needs, but the ten add-ons you'll find in the following pages are highly-evolved, robust and have proven their usefulness over and over. emmineb Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:31:00 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ This is awesome! No need to pick a command like strech, scale, tilt, modify or rotate; it's just simple gestures... So Bill, you gonna post a response vid? BTW, do you know where I can get one these? he kept saying that there is no interface, what a lie, the MULTI-TOUCH sensor is an interface! (Also the Google Earth-like program had a GUI bar at the top) But aside from that little thing, three words sum it all up: I want that! Meh! There clearly is an interface. A) One does get a closer look a t a photograph by rubbing it. It may be simple but its far from natural. B) In the Google Earth style app there were BUTTONS! There is OBVIOUSLY still an interface. Having to learn a huge list of gestures will make it little better than an ancient CLI system. emmineb Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:44:50 GMT http://www.pc-help.org/security/scrap.htm What if there were a type of file that could hide its nature from you; might appear to be any file type, and when clicked with your mouse, could run as a program -- potentially as a hostile program -- when you least expected? Such a file type does exist. Presently, most Windows users don't know of its existence. But let's start at the beginning, shall we? The Beginning Starting back in the days of Windows 3.1 (around 1992 I believe), Microsoft introduced an old idea under a new name: Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). Complex in its details, OLE is simple in concept. It allows the inclusion of data from one type of file or document, within another; and it allows multiple applications on the same desktop to share information. emmineb Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:12:18 GMT http://qntm.org/destroy Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world. Fools. The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy. This is not a guide for wusses whose aim is merely to wipe out humanity. emmineb Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:23:05 GMT http://www.truecrypt.org/ 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. emmineb Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:23:13 GMT http://www.samurai.com/5rings/ emmineb Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:04:10 GMT http://www.blendernation.com/2007/03/18/how-to-write-a-good-tutorial/ A few weeks ago I posted an article called 'How to Produce a Good Video Tutorial' in which I summed up a few things that you should keep in mind when creating, well, a video tutorial. If you're more interested in working on written material, then check out this checklist on kingtuts.blogspot.com. From the site: Tutorials can be on almost any subject. All a tutorial does is teach someone something new. Tutorials can be on how to create a cool gadget, how to program in a certain language, how to set up a feature for a web page, how to ride a horse, how to meet girls, or anything else that someone might want to learn. This is a guide to writing good tutorials (ones that will get accepted on this site.) Writing a good tutorial is easy and fun as long as emmineb Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:18:51 GMT http://www.teleatlas.com/MapInsight/index.htm 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. emmineb Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:57:08 GMT http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html Enter an RGB or HEX value, or click on the Color Palette below emmineb Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:48:16 GMT http://www.woordenboek.eu/ Hoe werkt woordenboek.eu? Stap 1. Kies een taal om vanuit of naar te vertalen Kies een taal op de homepage van www.woordenboek.eu. - Een vlag van een land houdt in dat de taal veel wordt gebruikt en tevens vanuit het Nederlands is te vertalen. - Een transparante vlag geeft alleen de vertaalmogelijkheid aan (Nederlands of Engels woordenboek). Stap 2. Voer een woord in U kunt het woord in het Nederlands, Engels of in de geselecteerde taal invoeren (naast het zoekicoon). Klik vervolgens op enter op uw toetsenbord. Extra mogelijkheden bij stap 2 Sommige talen beschikken over een woordenboek met illustraties en een woordenboek voor minimaal dataverkeer. Extra zoekopties bij stap 2 - 'begin' Alle woorden die met de zoekopdracht beginnen, worden opgezocht. emmineb Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:10:41 GMT http://vixy.net/ Online FLV Converter : Download online videos direct to PC / iPod / PSP. It's free! emmineb Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:29:01 GMT http://internet.org/ emmineb Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:35:16 GMT http://www.shirky.com/ 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. <<management>> emmineb Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:24:50 GMT http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/02/10/how_to_send_large_files.htm Private P2P file sharing tools like Grouper, TrustyFiles or even Groove, QNext and several others are possible solutions, but they are not as popular or as easy to adopt for users needing to send a large file on an occasional basis. Thankfully, several vendors have recognized the need for a Web-based file exchange service to answer this market demand, and offer products ranging from bare-bones file uploading services (targeted mostly to individuals and home users) to fully customizable secure online file storage and distribution systems. If you have experience with these and other vendors (we're adding more — there's a lot of them!), please share them in the comments section. emmineb Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:03:41 GMT http://wikileaks.org/faq-en What is Wikileaks.org? Why "wikify" leaking? Wikileaks is an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. It combines the protection and anonymity of cutting-edge cryptographic technologies with the transparency and simplicity of a wiki interface. emmineb Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:29:51 GMT http://www.synthesist.net/writing/onleavingms.html ...Exciting new networked applications are being written. Time is not standing still. Microsoft must survive and prosper by learning from the open source software movement and by borrowing from and improving its techniques. Open source software is as large and powerful a wave as the Internet was, and is rapidly accreting into a legitimate alternative to Windows. It can and should be harnessed. To avoid dire consequences, Microsoft should favor an approach that tolerates and embraces the diversity of the open source approach, especially when network-based integration is involved. There are many clever and motivated people out there, who have many different reasons to avoid buying directly into a Microsoft proprietary stack. Microsoft must employ diplomacy to emmineb Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:36:57 GMT http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/timelines/tl001.html Timelines presents selected resources (web links) about the art and archaeology of ancient civilizations, including: Egypt, Greece and Rome, Asia, and the Middle East. My companion website, Old Stones, presents original material (images and text) about the same topics. Timelines pages are organized by civilization and period. This arrangement allows convenient access to particular areas of interest, and facilitates the synchronic and diachronic study of art history. Each page deals with a particular place and time in art history, providing text links to relevant information and image links to particular objects. <<archaeology>> emmineb Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:01:17 GMT http://www.library.yale.edu/musiclib/webres.htm Addresses African-American Music American Music Analysis Archives and Special Collections Awards Band Music Bibliography Biography Blues Calendar Canadian Music Choruses Chronologies Competitions Composers Computer Music Contests Contemporary Music Copyright Country Music Dance Dissertations Early Music Electronic Lists and Discussion Groups Festivals Film Music Grammar and Writing - Guides Hymns Iconography Instruments Jazz Jewish Music Latin-American Music Libraries and Schools of Music Library Use - Guides Lyrics Music and Technology Music in Fiction Music Theory Musicals Musicology Opera Organizations Periodicals Popular Music Prizes Pronunciation Publishers Radio Music Rock Sacred Music Schools of Music Scores Online Sheet Music Collections Songs Sou emmineb Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:57:47 GMT http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012778 The punchline to an old cartoon is "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog," but these days, that's no longer true. It's easier than ever for the government, Web sites and private businesses to track exactly what you do online, know where you've visited, and build up comprehensive profiles about your likes, dislikes and private habits. And with the federal government increasingly demanding online records from sites such as Google and others, your online privacy is even more endangered. But you don't need to be a victim. There are things you can do to keep your surfing habits anonymous and protect your online privacy. So read on to find out how to keep your privacy to yourself when you use the Internet, without spending a penny. What they know about you emmineb Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:14:15 GMT http://www.belisarius.com/modern_business_strategy/boyd/organic_design/organic_design_frameset.htm <<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 emmineb Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:39:30 GMT http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php The binary number system (aka base 2) represents values using two symbols, typically 0 and 1. Computers call these bits. A bit is either off (0) or on (1). When arranged in sets of 8 bits (1 byte) 256 values can be represented (0-255). emmineb Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:24:18 GMT http://www.wikihow.com/Know-When-Ice-is-Safe # 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 emmineb Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:23:24 GMT http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, mashups and tools being influenced by Google Maps. emmineb Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:51:47 GMT http://www.cs.usfca.edu/%7Eparrt/course/601/lectures/unix.util.html 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 emmineb Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:25:43 GMT http://www.hanzismatter.com/2005/03/trendy-pro-communism-purses.html Trendy Pro-Communism Purses emmineb Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:10:53 GMT http://bytlanas.se/ emmineb Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:31:28 GMT http://www.flicka.org/gotflash.html She's a model and she's looking good I'd like to take her home that's understood She plays hard to get, she smiles from time to time It only takes a camera to change her mind She's going out tonight but drinking just champagne And she has been checking nearly all the men She's playing her game and you can hear them say She is looking good, for beauty we will pay She's posing for consumer products now and then For every camera she gives the best she can I saw her on the cover of a magazine Now she's a big success, I want to meet her again <<photoshop>> emmineb Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:02:44 GMT http://www.mvdbase.com/ As both a music and movie fan, it only was natural for me to develop a passion for music videos. Through the years, I have gathered a huge database covering over 33000 music videos (as of May 15, 2004). As an aspiring director and writer, I tend to look beyond their promotional aspect to find and appreciate their creative qualities. This "young" medium (it only really picked up in the early 80's) is still in its growing stage, gaining more power, momentum and respect with each passing day. When I started mvdbase.com in 1998 (at the time called VideoZone), there were only very few music video resources on the Web. This has changed drastically now, although some data can still be difficult to find. One of my goals with this site was (and still is) to help the emmineb Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:59:01 GMT http://www.cjvlang.com/Spicks/thegap.html#japanese An omnipresent aspect of Japanese life is the proliferation of signs and announcements for the convenience or instruction of the general public, delivered in a rigidly defined form of polite language. 'Mind the Gap' is no exception. When a Japanese announcement to 'Mind the Gap' comes over the PA system, it goes like this: 電車とホームとの間が広く空いておりますので、足元にご注意ください。 Densha to hōmu to no aida ga hiroku aite orimasu no de, ashimoto ni go-chūi kudasai. 'As there is a wide space between the train and the platform, please watch your step' emmineb Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:55:11 GMT http://www.webnow.com/lbtphotos Larry Bustercrab Taylor photography gallery only offers here brief bio info. His photographic work can be viewed at his www.webshots.com site by clicking links on this page. In brief, his photographic subjects range from cityscapes of stockholm, london, malta & more; human portraits and animal portraits, landscapes, sunsets, lakes, flowers, fruit & vegetable stalls at markets; birds, mostly photo-like art - to free desktop wallpaper, free e-cards. three of his albums - cars & flowers - are received a day feature (4th dec 2002,10th feb 2003,& july 2006) at webshots.com - something for car & flower lovers! visit lbt photography! emmineb Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:50:35 GMT http://obsidian.sktyler.com/tools/writer/sample.php This writing sample analyzer takes a sample of your writing and then calculates the number of sentences, words, and characters in your sample. As it's calculating these statistics it makes estimates as to how many syllables are present in each word. Using these numbers, it then calculates the Flesch Reading Ease, Fog Scale Level, and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, which are three of the most common readability algorithms. Simply supply a sample of your writing up to 5,000 characters and then click "Analyze." emmineb Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:32:00 GMT http://www.googlewhack.com/tally.pl emmineb Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:31:11 GMT http://cynical-c.com/ "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth" - Lillian Hellman emmineb Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:41:50 GMT http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html 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 emmineb Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:35:01 GMT http://eagereyes.org/ emmineb Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:32:00 GMT http://www.radicalcartography.net/?resources f we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where the decline of the Empire sees this map become frayed and finally ruined, a few shreds still discernible in the deserts — the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction, bearing witness to an Imperial pride and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, rather as an aging double ends up being confused with the real thing) — then this fable has come full circle for us, and now has nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra. emmineb Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:27:54 GMT http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ eccentric, exotic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, flaky, freaky, grotesque, kinky, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, strange, unusual, weird, eldritch, uncanny, unearthly, weird, rare maps emmineb Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:26:16 GMT http://www.pixsy.com/ emmineb Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:48:41 GMT http://www.123rf.com/faq.php 1. What is stock photography? 2. What is Royalty-Free? 3. What are the differences between Royalty-Free and Rights-Managed? 4. Why subscribe to 123rf.com? 5. How often do you add new content? 6. How many pictures can I download? 7. Can I use these images for my clients? 8. What is 'C' and 'S' below the thumbnail image? emmineb Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:38:36 GMT http://thinkature.com/ Thinkature brings the richness of in-person, visual communication to the web by placing instant messaging inside a visual workspace. Use it as a collaboration environment, a meeting room, a personal web-based whiteboard, or something entirely new. Shared workspaces in seconds With Thinkature, you can create a collaborative workspace and invite coworkers, friends, and colleagues to join you in just seconds. Once inside your workspace, you can communicate by chatting, drawing, creating cards, and adding content from around the Internet. It's all synchronous, too - no need to hit reload or get an editing lock. emmineb Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:13:48 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6357129.stm 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. emmineb Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:29:23 GMT http://platformwars.blogspot.com/2006/07/tcpip-vs-dollar.html 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. emmineb Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:49:15 GMT http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2007/02/terrorist_netwo.html 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 emmineb Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:02:12 GMT