http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb?feed=rss&page=tagcloud&pg=15 emmineb's bookmarks on Netvouz http://www.10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html 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. emmineb Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:29:05 GMT http://www.healthbolt.net/2007/02/14/26-reasons-what-you-think-is-right-is-wrong/ 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. emmineb Tue, 29 May 2007 15:30:19 GMT http://www.amadeus.net/home/worldtime/en/wt_en.htm# gmt cet est pacific daylight saving emmineb Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:16:42 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-War-Terrorism-Globalization/dp/0471780790/sr=11-1/qid=1162992274/ref=sr_11_1/102-4085570-1457716 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 emmineb Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:27:01 GMT http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51982/page/1?&print=yes 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") ; emmineb Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:26:32 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020801680_pf.html 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 emmineb Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:24:48 GMT http://jeffdeboer.com/Galleries/CatsandMice/tabid/77/moduleid/433/viewkey/photo/photoid/120/Default.aspx 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. emmineb Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:02:11 GMT http://eu.art.com/asp/default-asp/_/posters.htm?ui=741A354A97C34DDEA2525C1B6C6F27F2 * 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 emmineb Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:29:39 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.atlargely.com/ by Larisa Alexandrovna: For journalists and others who like examining the landscape of investigative reporting. emmineb Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:31:53 GMT