- Boing Boing 2006 Videos
- Erowid Online Books "PIHKAL" - #43 2C-T-7
Entry #43 2C-T-7 from PiHKAL by Alexander & Ann Shulgin.
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- Vintage Cultural Ephemera lives on via Flickr | MetaFilter
Fans of Vintage Cultural Ephemera Rejoice! Illustration and print design of the 1920s-30s Cold War Propaganda (on both sides) Illustration and print design of the forties Vintage cigarrette advertising Sheet Music of the 1800s - 1950s Out of print cookbooks 7-Up advertising (pre 1980s)
- GIMPShop dot Net
Welcome to GIMPShop dot Net. Your one-stop-shop for all the news, downloads, and tips for GIMPShop. GIMPShop is a free graphics editor for Mac, Linux, and Windows. It's easy to pick up and learn, especially if you already know Photoshop. Check back often for the latest!
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by 4 users - LanguageGuide - Foreign Language Vocabulary, Grammar, and Readings
LanguageGuide.org offers free sound integrated resources for learning languages. These resources are developed collaboratively with the help of volunteers. It is sponsored by Language Guide, a registered non-profit organization.l
Vocabulary Guides, Grammar Guides, and Readings for the world's major languages
by 4 users - The 50 Greatest Cartoons Ever: the List
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.
- These imponderables are here to encourage my students to think creatively and identify deep questions
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.
- Bruce Sterling: Defining the Centipede
"Centipedes" are covert conspiracies meant to drive politicians from power by creating moral panics. Centipedes have the same dynamics as modern terror-groups, but they exploit sexual scandal instead of bloody mayhem. Centipedes are a cheap, highly effective, low-risk, highly-mediated method of political destabilization. Centipedes are new phenomena because the barriers-to-entry in media have crashed. This means that subversive efforts formerly isolated and punished as libel, slander and whispering campaigns can swiftly take on avalanche proportions. While pretending to be about spontaneous indignation and moral values, centipedes are coolly calculated and all about power. The assymetrical advantage that enables a "centipede" is that the conspirators t
On Dec 15, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Pete Welsch wrote: Hello, My friends and I have been going back and forth on list for the last couple of days trying to figure out
Note: w2 w4 net - OldVersion.com: Old versions of software, nicely categorised
OldVersion.com is an archive of old versions of various programs.
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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.
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by 9 users - Space Spin: Spitzer picks up glow of Universe's first objects <<astronomy>>
New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected in a prior study originated from clumps of the very first objects of the Universe. The recent data indicate this patchy light is splattered across the entire sky and comes from clusters of bright, monstrous objects more than 13 billion light-years away. "We are pushing our telescopes to the limit and are tantalizingly close to getting a clear picture of the very first collections of objects," said Dr. Alexander Kashlinsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., lead author on two reports to appear in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. "Whatever these objects are, they are intrinsically incredibly bright and very different from anything in existe
- Ratatouille
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- Cours d'orthographe et de grammaire - RPG-Forum
- 12 Principles of Web Writing and Design
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- Cours d'orthographe et de grammaire - RPG-Forum
- Advice to a Board Game Designer, part 1, by Tom Vasel
- On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study. Rahimi & al, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science MIT
Abstract: Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We s
- xRez Extreme Resolution Photography Large Scale Panomaric Image Creation
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
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- Calligraphy
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.
- 1984 by George Orwell
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by 2 users (all private) - The World Clock
Time Zones
Current local time in cities and countries worldwide, in all time zones with DST accounted for. Links to each city with extensive info on time, weather forecast, Daylight Saving Time changes, sunrise, sunset and moon times and phases.
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by 118 users - Glossary for Medieval Art and Architecture
- TomDispatch - Mark Danner, How a War of Unbound Fantasies Happened
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
- The New York Review of Books: Conspicuous Proliferation: War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to
our revolutions in warfare since 1500 around which Max Boot chose to organize his book. It ends in a fog of acronyms for weapons still on the drawing boards, uncertainty about future military revolutions, and "The Danger of Too Much Change—and Too Little." In between Boot found many persuasive things to say about how changes in military technology and management affected the course of European and world history, illustrating each of his military revolutions with detailed accounts of three specific battles or campaigns.
Preview of an article by William H. McNeill from The New York Review of Books, December 21, 2006
- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
In a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin.
- Export.gov
The European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection went into effect in October, 1998, and would prohibit the transfer of personal data to non-European Union nations that do not meet the European “adequacy” standard for privacy protection. While the United States and the European Union share the goal of enhancing privacy protection for their citizens, the United States takes a different approach to privacy from that taken by the European Union. In order to bridge these different privacy approaches and provide a streamlined means for U.S. organizations to comply with the Directive, the U.S. Department of Commerce in consultation with the European Commission developed a "Safe Harbor" framework and this Web site to provide the informatio
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by 2 users (all private) - NCSE Resource: Islamic Scientific Creationism: A New Challenge in Turkey (by Ümit Sayin & Aykut Kence)
At the time that "Creation Science: A Successful Export?" was published in RNCSE (Matsumura 1998), there was an notable debate among intellectuals, scientists, lay people and fundamentalist Islamists concerning Islamic scientific creationism in Turkey. Since the early 1990s, the Science Research Foundation (Bilim Arastirma Vakfi, or BAV) has undertaken a new mission of spreading an Islamic version of scientific creationism in Turkey, the ideology of which was mainly imported from the US. However, it was not until late 1998 that many scientists and academics, as well as Turkish science institutions, such as TUBITAK (the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council) and TUBA (the Turkish Academy of Sciences), protested the pseudoscience of BAV and publis
- MAKE: Blog: Hacking in Iraq, Interview with Jake Appelbaum
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- MAKE: Blog: Hacking in Iraq, Interview with Jake Appelbaum
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- arstechnica.com: Fun with Knoppix : Page 1
- Wired 14.12: Me Translate Pretty One Day
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
- mgrier's WebLog There's data and then there's metadata...
However for all the groovyness that was win.ini, it was also a nightmare. People didn't edit it correctly and installation programs didn't modify it correctly. A setup that actually had an uninstaller was not that common and one that could edit win.ini to remove itself without commonly corrupting win.ini was even rarer. So then someone (I'm sorry, I don't know who and I'm not sure if they're a hero or a villian) invented a simple tree-structured namespace (very similar to the tree structured namespaces of naming services in vogue around the same time) with a semi-decent API around not only reading it but also writing it called the registry. The registry started to house two important kinds of meta-data: configuration an
People like to think a lot about programs in terms of code. It's what we focus on. conditional statements, looping constructs, interface design and implementation, etc. It's really where almost all the research has been focused and it's arguably the most
- Iraq War Coalition Fatalities Flashed [Mesopotamia Macromedia]
Iraq War Coalition Fatalities is a chart of the US and coalition military fatalities that have occurred in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space. It is an ongoing project that is updated regularly, and will continue to go on as long as the war does. The animation runs at ten frames per second -one frame for each day- and a black dot indicates the geographic location that a coalition military fatality occurred. Each dot starts as a white flash and a larger red dot which fades to black over the span of 30 frames/day, and then slowly fades to grey over the span of the entire war. Accompanying the visual representation is a soft 'tic' sound for each fatality, the volume of which increases relative to the number of fatalities that
The Iraq War Coalition Fatalities Project is an interactive animated chart of US and coalition military fatalities that have occured in the war in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space.
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- Na Healaíonaí an Chogaidh Éireannach
Modern Shillelagh Training (Cleachtadh Sail-Éílle Nua-aimseartha) I get many questions from readers about the state of modern Irish stick-fighting. People who are new to the whole concept often want to know more about modern practitioners. Many people write looking for ways to learn shillelagh fighting today, and it can be a bit confusing to figure out what this is all about. Given the many frauds found in Asian martial arts some write asking if this is even legitimate or for real. Those interested in training in Irish stick-fighting today have several options open to them depending on what it is they are trying to achieve, and their philosophies about reaching these goals<<ireland>>
- LifeClever
How to cure traffic jams» <<stigmergy>> <<cellular automata>> <<management>> The strategy is to simply maintain a large space in front of you instead of instinctively speeding up to close any gaps. It’s counter-intuitive, but according to his own experiments, it works. Here’s what he says: Traffic jams on highways are often triggered where two lanes must merge into one. Lanes of cars cannot merge if there are no large gaps between cars. Therefore, drivers who create large gaps between cars will ease this type of traffic jam.
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- Boing Boing: Fox commits copyright fraud
Fox has invented a new copyright law: the right to control who links to clips of your work. They're sending takedown notices to websites that link to supposedly infringing clips on YouTube:
- Ask Zompist: Teacher! Leave those kids alone!
Dear <<Zompist>>, In a recent post to the ZBB thread "Prescriptivism, the French Academy, and reality" you made these provocative statements: Now, the smartest people teach themselves; but for everyone else, there's education. I tend to think this is a mistake— the classroom is one of the worst ways to learn, except for a small fraction of people. What makes learning in a classroom ineffective? How should we educate people instead? —Mike
- Nihongo o Narau - Japanese Grammar
This page is not meant to be comprehensive. It is merely a brief summary of a few points about Japanese grammar that beginners might find useful. If you have no clue about Japanese grammar, this is the place to start.
- BBC: Snow leopard fitted with GPS tag
For the first time, a team has fitted a snow leopard with a Global Positioning System (GPS) collar to track the secretive creature's movements. The 35kg (75lb) female was captured on the Purdum Mali ridge in Pakistan. Thanks to their solitary nature, the steep, rocky terrain they inhabit, and their twilight activity, snow leopards are extremely difficult to study, says Ashley Spearing, who is about to join the research team out in the Chitral Gol National Park in the Pakistan-Afghanistan borders.
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- SAW: Street Art Workers
Based in the U.S., SAW is a network of printmakers, stencil artists, graffiti writers and designers who use the streets for art and activism. We are taking back our cities and towns from the businessmen, cops and politicians who define public space for their own benefit. As a volunteer-run group, we make street art for political campaigns and post each other´s work across North America. Since 2001, our projects have talked about prisons (2002), the mass media (2003) and utopian ideas for the future (2004). Our art is a creative tool for social change. We support community organizing by making and distributing high-profile publicity across North America.
- SoDoItYourself
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.
- CNET News.com: 'Second Life' faces threat to its virtual economy
Groups of Second Life content creators were gathering digitally Tuesday to protest the dissemination of a program they worry could badly damage the virtual world's nascent economy. The controversy gathered steam Monday when Linden Lab, which publishes Second Life, posted a blog alerting residents of the virtual world to the existence of a program or bot called CopyBot, which allows someone to copy any object in Second Life. That includes goods such as clothing that people purchase for their in-world avatars, and even the virtual PCs that computer giant Dell announced Tuesday it is going to sell in the digital world.
- Maps - All The Worlds Maps - A Compilation of Each Nation's Maps - Including Cities
International Real Estate, Expatriate resources, Resources for Americans fleeing America, Search the largest expatriate database of embassies, international jobs & offshore financial services web sites.
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- Netvouz blog - This is the official Netvouz blog
by 9 users - Welcome to Burnt Out Punks
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by 10 users - sysprog.net/quotlang.html: Quotes about Computer Languages
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- The Joel Test 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel on Software
The Joel Test 1. Do you use source control? 2. Can you make a build in one step? 3. Do you make daily builds? 4. Do you have a bug database? 5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code? 6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule? 7. Do you have a spec? 8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions? 9. Do you use the best tools money can buy? 10. Do you have testers? 11. Do new candidates write code during their interview? 12. Do you do hallway usability testing?
by 6 users - Simple Tools for Software Modeling OR- It's "Use the Simplest Tool" not "Use Simple Tools"
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.<<management>>
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- Create PDF Online free, PDF API, PDF .NET Server, Consulting
PDF Online is a set of free web-based PDF creation and conversion services, powered by our powerful PDF Development Toolkit (works with C++, ASP, .NET, Java, etc).
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- Is Design Dead?
For many that come briefly into contact with Extreme Programming, it seems that XP calls for the death of software design. Not just is much design activity ridiculed as "Big Up Front Design", but such design techniques as the UML, flexible frameworks, and even patterns are de-emphasized or downright ignored. In fact XP involves a lot of design, but does it in a different way than established software processes. XP has rejuvenated the notion of evolutionary design with practices that allow evolution to become a viable design strategy. It also provides new challenges and skills as designers need to learn how to do a simple design, how to use refactoring to keep a design clean, and how to use patterns in an evolutionary style.
by 2 users - rodcorp: London Tube Map with Walklines: sometimes it's quicker to walk
* tube map with 500m walklines dotted in (warning: it's a large 429k gif file, pdf to follow possibly. Nb: our photo album constrains the size of the picture, so click the big versions of these pictures if you want to see them full size); big version here. The dense knots are Euston-Warren Street-Gt Portland St in Bloomsbury and Bank-Cannon St-Mansion House-St Paul's in the city. And these are interesting places to walk anyway. * And here's the same with the tube map faded out slightly, so you see the walklines more easily. (232k gif); big version here. * And indeed it might be interesting, for arty folk, to see the walklines without the original tube map behind it. They look like un-named constellations (20k gif); big version here. * The origin
by 2 users - Temple of the Seven Golden Camels
Comic Strip Artist's Kit (Redux) learn how to sketch draw
- THE SECRET LIVES OF NUMBERS
- G2P Beta
Using Google to locate MP3s <<search>>
by 17 users - Open Source Web Design
Open Source Web Design is a place to download free web designs and share yours with others. We help make the internet a prettier place. Download and upload free web designs.
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by 116 users - earth invaders
art, popart, architecture, movies, technology, craft, recycle
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- Co-evolution of neocortex size, group size and language in humans
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
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by 8 users - The Free Fall Research Page
Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips by David Carkeet
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- Change Management
The management of change is an important imperative in many organizations.
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How do I create a new torrent (share a file I have with others)?
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- Wordorigins.org
Wordorigins.org is devoted to the origins of words and phrases, or as a linguist would put it, to etymology. Etymology is the study of word origins. (It is not the study of insects; that is entomology.) Where words come from is a fascinating subject, full of folklore and historical lessons. Often, popular tales of a word's origin arise. Sometimes these are true; more often they are not. While it can be disappointing when a neat little tale turns out to be untrue, almost invariably the true origin is just as interesting.
A site devoted to the origins of words and slang phrases
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- Imagination Cubed - Interesting way to quickly and easily draw things. You can also send and save them.
by 7 users - Wired 12.10 (Oct 2004): The Long Tail
This is not just a virtue of online booksellers; it is an example of an entirely new economic model for the media and entertainment industries, one that is just beginning to show its power. Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it in service after service, from DVDs at Netflix to music videos on Yahoo! Launch to songs in the iTunes Music Store and Rhapsody. People are going deep into the catalog, down the long, long list of available titles, far past what's available at Blockbuster Video, Tower Records, and Barnes & Noble. And the more they find, the more they like. As they wander further from the beaten path, they discover their taste is not as mainstream as they thought (or as they had been led to belie
by 4 users - Information about machine translation, controlled language, translation standards.
You will find information about machine translation and translation software. In addition, you will find information about books about machine translation, controlled languages and translation standards.
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- Pastel: deception in the Invasion of Japan
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Combined Arms Research Library.
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- Amazon.com: Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization: Books: John Robb
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
Amazon.com: Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization (9780471780793): John Robb, James Fallows: Books
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- Amazon.com: Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century: Books: Alex Steffen,Al Gore,Bruce Sterling
Worldchanging is poised to be the Whole Earth Catalog for this millennium. Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for building a better future lie all around us, Worldchanging is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to make a difference. Brought together by Alex Steffen, co-founder of the popular and award-winning web site Worldchanging.com, this team of top-notch writers includes Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity, Geekcorps founder Ethan Zuckerman, sustainable food expert Anna Lappé, and many others. Renowned designer Stefan Sagmeister brings his extraordinary talents to
Amazon.com: Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (9780810930957): Alex Steffen, Sagmeister Inc.: Books
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- Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Developed and used over two years by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote it. It lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly. Django focuses on automating as muc
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
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by 23 users - Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), Network Centric Warfare (NCW) & Effect Based Operations (EBO)
<<management>> IWS - The Information Warfare Site is an online resource that aims to stimulate debate about a range of subjects from information security to information operations and e-commerce. It is the aim of the site to develop a special emphasis on offensive and defensive information operations. IWS first went online in December 1999. Since its launch it has undergone a complete redesign and many key texts have been added. In adherence to its founding principles IWS has developed several mailing lists to enable a more interactive debate.
IWS is an online resource that aims to stimulate debate about a range of subjects from information security to information operations and e-commerce.
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- Welcome to MusicBrainz!
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections. Find out more in the introduction.
by 20 users - icekin's Site N' Blog - bSearch for the Ideal Social Bookmarking Service
I finally got around to completing my ideas on social bookmarking in writing. I tried over twelve popular services to see which one would meet my needs best. I have not described much about how to use a social bookmarking service since the actual methods of usage can vary based on which service you pick. In general though, always try searching for tags that best describe your topic. Also see this article on searching to learn how to find information anywhere on the internet.
- How to Write More Clearly, Think More Clearly, and Learn Complex Material More Easily
Michael A. Covington Artificial Intelligence Center The University of Georgia. (Html slide presentation)
by 3 users - Gateway: Why Operation Sealion Wouldn't Work
The Second World War has always been a favorite stomping ground of alternate historians, especially the writers of alternate history novels. Probably the most popular single alternate history in the western world is one where the Nazis win the war. In order to accomplish this, the creators of many timelines utilize Operation Sealion, a German plan in 1940 for the invasion of Britain. Unfortunately, what most don't realize is that Sealion was nothing more than a pipe dream - utterly unworkable in any alternate history at all similar to the history we are familiar with. In this essay, I will examine the various reasons why Operation Sealion would not work, and could not be made to work (without _extremely_ large changes) in an alternate timeline. Check out my
- Operation Sealion I do not say they cannot come, only that they cannot come by Sealion
One of the more common suggestions that crop up at all-too regular intervals goes along the lines of: "If Hitler hadn't switched from bombing airfields to bombing cities, then Operation Sealion would have worked." Unfortunately for these suggestions, the plan for Sealion was perhaps the most flawed plan in the history of modern warfare. Getting it to a workable state requires so many changes that an author's artistic license would be revoked. What follows is an analysis of Sealion in OTL
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- WELCOME TO EXIT MUNDI
A COLLECTION OF END-OF-WORLD SCENARIOS
by 4 users - Ars Technica
DNA Computing - Page 1 - (4/2000)
Ars Technica. Power users and the tools they love, without computing religion. Oh yeah, did we mention we are unassailable computing enthusiasts.
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- Edward Tufte: Posters and Graph Paper Napoleon's March
<<statistic>> <<mathematic>> 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
Edward Tufte home page for books, posters, sculpture, fine art and one-day course: Presenting Data and Information
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- Military Leadership - Recent
Leadership and the military are practically inseparable. Military leadership and leadership development are foundational concepts for Army personnel. It permeates military culture beginning with every recruit learning the leadership-oriented Warrior Ethos to the leader development programs offered to the Army’s general officers. It is no surprise, then, that SSI conducts research on military leadership, leadership development, and the military culture. Dr. Leonard Wong is our military leadership specialist.
- WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: What Happens When Things Get Free?
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.
- Meanings and origins of sayings and phrases
List of sayings | English sayings | Idiom definitions | Idiom examples | Idiom origins | List of idioms | Idiom dictionary | Meaning of idioms
An archive of the meanings and origins of thousands of phrases, sayings and idioms.
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by 13 users - FreeComputerBooks.com Free Computer Books, Tutorials & Lecture Notes
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by 29 users - How Many of Me - How many have your name?
There are 299,968,595 people in the United States of America. The U.S. Census Bureau statistics tell us that there are at least 88,799 different last names and 5,163 different first names in common use in the United States. Some names are more common than others. There are 49,535 people named John Smith in the United States. There are 1,048 people named James Bond, 113 people named Harry Potter , 503 people named George Bush, and 31 people named Emily Dickinson. However, Johnny Cash (39 people) songs aside there are, statistically speaking, no boys named Sue. What about you? How many people share your name? Enter it and find out how many of you there are.
There are millions of people in the United States. How many people have your name?
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by 2 users (all private) - The Long Tail - Why the future of business is selling less of more
Wired editor Anderson declares the death of "common culture"—and insists that it's for the best. Why don't we all watch the same TV shows, like we used to? Because not long ago, "we had fewer alternatives to compete for our screen attention," he writes. Smash hits have existed largely because of scarcity: with a finite number of bookstore shelves and theaters and Wal-Mart CD racks, "it's only sensible to fill them with the titles that will sell best." Today, Web sites and online retailers offer seemingly infinite inventory, and the result is the "shattering of the mainstream into a zillion different cultural shards." These "countless niches" are market opportunities for those who cast a wide net and de-emphasize the
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- Global Guerrillas
THE ROLE OF CITIES - Within the context of emerging theories of system disruption, that are emerging as this war slowly ramps-up, cities play an entirely different role. As the events in Baghdad are proving daily, cities can be engineered to radiate instability rather than dampen it. This is accomplished through acts that leverage three attributes of modern cities. These include: * Extreme mobility and interconnectedness (ie, high rates of automobile and cell phone ownership). * Complete reliance on high volume infrastructure networks. * Complex and heterogeneous social networks that are held together under pressure. Blitzing the system The key to unlocking the disruptive potential of cities within this new form of warfare, is to attack key points (systempu
- On the Psychology of Military Incompetence: Books: Norman F. Dixon
"Everyone who manages anyone should be required to read this book. By focussing on the military Dixon has written a book crammed with examples that show the drastic consequences of incompetence. In management situations it's seldom a matter of life and death (despite the way some bosses act) but the consequences are still there: demotivated, under-utilised, confused and stressed staff. So if you're the boss and this sounds familiar you should read this book and learn it's lessons."
On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence (Pimlico): Amazon.co.uk: Norman F Dixon, M Dixon: 9780712658898: Books
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Meditation: Getting Started
How to relax the Buddhist way. A few basic exercises on focusing your attention.
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- Smedley Butler on Interventionism
Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC: War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers.
- WorldChanging - Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future
An online publication covering tools, models, and ideas for building a better future.
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by 53 users - dazibao
Big-character posters (Traditional Chinese 大字報, Simplified Chinese 大字报, pinyin dàzìbào, literally "big-character journal") are handwritten, wall-mounted posters using large-sized Chinese characters, used as a means of protest, propaganda, and popular communication. They have been used in China since imperial times, but became more common when literacy rates rose after the 1911 revolution. They have also incorporated limited-circulation newspapers, excerpted press articles, and pamphlets intended for public display.
- Cooking For Engineers
Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? This is the site to read!
Detailed instructions on food and cooking for those who like to ask not just How? but also Why?
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by 26 users - Pistoleros.se
Om Pistoleros Vi är tre kvalificerade systemutvecklare som utvecklar webbsidor och applikationer. Vi utför också arbete på konsultbasis. Vi har också erfarenhet av avancerad systemutveckling och webdesign i yrkeslivet. Vi erbjuder webblösningar som kan vara allt från en enkel presentation av innehavaren eller företaget till komplexa företagssajter med full script- och databasfunktionalitet. Vi arbetar strukturerat och strävar efter att allt vi producerar inte bara ska fungera och se bra ut, utan även vara väldokumenterat och användarvänligt. Vi tar alltid fram en detaljerad kravspecifikation där vi tillsammans med kunden kommer överens om hur produkten ska se ut och fungera. Vi vill alltid kun
- John Paul Vann as a Metaphor for U.S. Involvement in Vietnam, p. 2 of 7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vann
Harry Kreisler interviews Neil Sheehan on covering the Vietnam War; November 1988
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- The Art of Measurement The Agonist
I want to talk a bit about management measurement. I’ve spent a number of years now in a good sized multinational, and I’ve watched management trying to gain control through measurement. And mostly I’ve watched as they’ve gained the wrong sort of control; as they’ve crystallized behaviour in ways that lose more from employees than they gain.
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