http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb?feed=rss&page=tagcloud&pg=12 emmineb's bookmarks on Netvouz http://tools.google.com/gapminder/#ssn=20$majorMode=chart$ds;path=data;type=swf$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=t;st=t;nsl=t;se=t$ts;max=2005;min=1960;sp=6;ti=2004$inc_c;gid=1004;by=grp$inc_s;iid=SP.POP.TOTL;by=ind$inc_x;iid=NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD;by=ind$inc_y;iid=MS.MIL.XPND.ZS;by=ind$map_x;scale=log;dataMin=466;dataMax=64299;sma=485;smi=55$map_y;scale=lin;dataMin=0;dataMax=147;sma=57;smi=387$map_s;scale=sqrt;dataMin=15000;dataMax=1296157000;sma=50;smi=5$inds=USA_tHy,,,, 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. emmineb Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:30:58 GMT http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaza200804?printable=true&currentPage=all 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. emmineb Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:19:39 GMT http://agonist.org/sean_paul_kelley/20060806/big_boxes#comment 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. emmineb Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:32:14 GMT http://www.digitallantern.net/mcluhan/mcluhanplayboy.htm 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. emmineb Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:07 GMT http://www.thestylepress.net/ Frequently updated newsfeed about fashion, design, art, culture, architecture, lifestyle, and music <<photo>> emmineb Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:10:04 GMT http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/ 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. emmineb Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:09:52 GMT http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_06/006421.php Excellent starting point foe all things peak oil emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:01:29 GMT http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/imponderables.htm 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. emmineb Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:13:45 GMT http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=142383 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 emmineb Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:31:29 GMT http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=87452 emmineb Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:05:09 GMT