• When North Korea Falls by Robert D. Kaplan
  The furor over Kim Jong Il’s missile tests and nuclear brinksmanship obscures the real threat: the prospect of North Korea’s catastrophic collapse. How the regime ends could determine the balance of power in Asia for decades. The likely winner? China
  The furor over Kim Jong Il’s missile tests and nuclear brinksmanship obscures the real threat: the prospect of North Korea’s catastrophic collapse. How the regime ends could determine the balance of power in Asia for decades. The likely winner? China
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  with china geostrategy military northkorea
• Text Etc. - the craft and theory of poetry | MetaFilter
  Text Etc. is a sprawling, highly engaging, nearly obsessive look at the craft and theory of poetry, including sound patterning, fractal criticism, poetry heresies, brief, clear intros to theorists like Bakhtin, Lacan and Foucault, writing instruction and much more.
  with script
• MetaFilter: Bendy Vert and Argent, a Tierce Argent, a Fusil Azure
  Make like a knight and generate your own simple heraldic shield. The venerable Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry can define the archaic blazoning terms that the Generator uses. If you'd prefer a more modern, more casual emblem, try the Official Seal Generator.
  with design graph
• Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit
  Common fallacies of logic and rhetoric
  with philosophy script
• Summer Readings Prof. Michael B. McElroy (last updated, December 2005)
  The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, by Pietra Rivoli ||The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright ||Freakonomics by Steven Levitt ||Stephen Dubner: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki ||Paul Blustein: The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF + And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of America. ||William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics ||Russell Roberts's The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism + The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance
  with biz book economylogy
• LaTeX A quick and dirty start
  with computer script
• USATODAY.com Honda brings small-jet dynamo to market Updated 9/26/2006
  GREENSBORO, N.C. — Honda (HMC), the Japanese giant that has given the USA motorcycles, cars, lawn mowers and weed whackers, puts its newest product on sale starting next month: a little $3 million business jet.
  with astronautics design economylogy travel
• The Atlantic Monthly | June 2001: 'Freedom of the Skies' by James Fallows
  Everyone knows about the horrors of modern air travel. What almost no one knows is how inventors, entrepreneurs, and government visionaries have teamed up to create new kinds of small planes that can take off from and land almost anywhere. "Escape From Airline Hell" the scenario might be called, and it's coming soon to an airport near you.
  Everyone knows about the horrors of modern air travel. What almost no one knows is how inventors, entrepreneurs, and government visionaries have teamed up to create new kinds of small planes that can take off from and land almost anywhere. "Escape From Airline Hell" the scenario might be called, and it's coming soon to an airport near you.
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  with astronautics biz economylogy travel
• Primidi
  Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends How new technologies are modifying our way of life
  How new technologies are modifying our way of life
  computer computing consultant high industry market nanotechnologies performance robotics space storage trends visualization web
  with blogs design economylogy evo evolution science
• SPACE.com -- Spaceport Singapore: One-Stop Shopping for the Future Space Tourist
  SINGAPORE -– An effort to build a suborbital spaceport destination to cater to space-hungry tourists and families is pushing forward in Singapore, where aviation authorities are developing a homegrown set of regulations for commercial spaceflight. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CCAS) is laying the groundwork here for the rules to govern flights out of Spaceport Singapore, a planned $115 million (SGD $191 million) project to offer suborbital spaceflights and a host of other experiences to adventure-seeking tourists.
  SINGAPORE -– An effort to build a suborbital spaceport destination to cater to space-hungry tourists and families is pushing forward in Singapore, where aviation authorities are developing a homegrown set of regulations for commercial spaceflight.
  adventures singapore space spaceport
  with astronautics biz economylogy travel
• Comics!
  Calvin & Hobbes, Dilbert, Robotman, Fokke & Sukke, The Boondocks, + lot more
  with fun graph
• Great Circle Mapper
  # Introduction # Flight Paths # Locations # Flight Ranges # ETOPS # About the Maps # Great Circle Calculations
  Displays a map on which the great circle path for one or more routes is plotted and calculates the distance along each route. Ranges from one or more locations may also be plotted, along with go/no-go areas for ETOPS operations at various rule times.
  air calculator cartography circle display distance etops flight geodesic geodesy great map mapper maps mileag miles path route
  with astronautics map travel utils by 4 users
• Maps, Weather, and Airports of the World
  temperature precipitation cloud cover meteo meteorology climate
  with astronautics map science travel utils by 4 users
• When North Korea Fails by Robert D. Kaplan
  with geostrategy mecf
• Los Angeles Times - No One Dares to Help
  BAGHDAD — On a recent Sunday, I was buying groceries in my beloved Amariya neighborhood in western Baghdad when I heard the sound of an AK-47 for about three seconds. It was close but not very close, so I continued shopping. As I took a right turn on Munadhama Street, I saw a man lying on the ground in a small pool of blood. He wasn't dead. The idea of stopping to help or to take him to a hospital crossed my mind, but I didn't dare. Cars passed without stopping. Pedestrians and shop owners kept doing what they were doing, pretending nothing had happened.
  with mecf media mesopotamia
• Last Freeware version tweak tools
  jv16 Powertools, RegCleaner, PowerArchiver, PopCorn
  Last Freeware version: jv16 Powertools, RegCleaner, PowerArchiver, REAPER
  downloads free freeware last software version
  with computer by 8 users
• Ties to GOP Trumped Know-How Among Staff Sent to Rebuild Iraq By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
  Adapted from "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," by Rajiv Chandrasekaran After the fall of Saddam Hussein's government in April 2003, the opportunity to participate in the U.S.-led effort to reconstruct Iraq attracted all manner of Americans - restless professionals, Arabic-speaking academics, development specialists and war-zone adventurers. But before they could go to Baghdad, they had to [...] To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political [...] What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration. [...] Two people who sought jobs with the U.S. occupation authority said they were even asked their views on Roe v. Wade .
  Washington Post coverage of the American occupation of Iraq, the country's path to democracy and tensions between Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
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  with geostrategy mecf mesopotamia usa
• Downsizing, or, Cannibalism in the Cars, by Mark Twain
  
  bysshe cannibalism congress education management parliament percy politicians procedure senate shelley
  with ebook
• data visualization & visual design
  information aesthetics
  with blogs design by 14 users
• D-N-I: FMFM 1‑A Draft Manual on 4GW War
  with military usa w4
• McAffee SiteAdvisor Spyware Quiz - March 2006
  McAffee SiteAdvisor offers quizzes to test users’ skills about sites that might lead to spam and spyware.
  SiteAdvisor - Spyware quiz tests how well you can spot Web sites which distribute spyware.
  adware quiz siteadvisor spyware test
  with computer gaming net
• iTulip.com Retrospective 2006 + ka poom theory
  "Here's the grade on Ka-Poom 1999 based on what happened since then with a revised Ka-Poom prediction below. On predicting the timing, length and extent of the deflationary or "Ka" part of the cycle, I'll give myself an "A." It started from the middle of 2000 and ended in the middle of 2002, as predicted. Inflation during 2001 averaged 1.6% for the year as shown in the updated 2006 graph below and it hit bottom at -3.3% in October 2001 as shown in the 1999 original above. Here's where reality and the prediction diverged."
  Looking back on iTulip.com since 1998
  with biz economylogy
• MetaFilter Military History links
  Whether you are looking for Soviet War Photos or some free monographs, this incredible collection of military history links should be your first stop.
  with history map military
• The New York Review of Books: Shipping News
  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.
  with biz book economylogy
• Internet Archive Feature Films
  Archive.org has a large number of movies with expired copyrights for download
  with history videofilm by 6 users
• University of Bath - Empathic Painting
  Interactive stylization using observed emotional state
  Empathic Painting: A digital painting that reacts in real-time to the perceived emotional state of the viewer
  empathic facs non-photorealistic npr painterly painting rendering segmentation
  with art science
• MetaFilter: Pirates' Rule
  The Golden Age of Piracy [video/audio] in the Atlantic peaked as the War of Spanish Succession ended. Piracy was a natural progression for the privateers [2] and buccaneers who had lost their sanctioned prey, and faced little resistance due to a lack of strong government in the majority of the American Colonies. Meanwhile captured naval seamen and slaves often willingly joined with pirates, or fled brutal treatment for the egalitarianism of piracy. This motley crew of motives were united in pirate democracy, laid down in a pirate code, preparing the way for democracy in the United States. But as the popularity of pirate life and pirate utopias grew strong, they became a pest to be mercilessly crushed by colonial opposition and the British navy.
  with geostrategy history
• Former President Carter To Be Tried For Peace Crimes | The Onion
  America's Finest News Source
  GENEVA—Legal proceedings against the former U.S. president for alleged crimes against inhumanity began Monday.
  crime for house the war white
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• ReliefWeb
  ReliefWeb is the world’s leading on-line gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. An independent vehicle of information, designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian community in effective delivery of emergency assistance, it provides timely, reliable and relevant information as events unfold, while emphasizing the coverage of "forgotten emergencies" at the same time.
  with economylogy geostrategy map neareast
  Note: west bank maps
• Maim That Tune: Detune your head
  "Are you plagued by Stuck Tune Syndrome? Do you have a song stuck in your head you just can't get out? Take heart friend, for your suffering is over. The Maimograph Machine, through complex analysis and calculation, will find an even catchier tune to counter-act the one you already have."
  with audio evo psy
• Ship-shape and Bristol fashion
  meaning and origin <lingua>
  Ship shape and Bristol fashion - meaning and origin of this phrase.
  english etymology idioms language phrases sayings
  with script
• MeFi: War in Spaaaaaaaacccccce!
  A practical discussion of weapons that would work in space and orbital combat.
  with art astronautics design gaming geostrategy military
  Note: see also: http://www.netvouz.com/click/8277464559938495960?url=http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html
• Atomic Rocket Space War: Weapons
  So You Wanna Build A Rocket?
  with art astronautics design gaming geostrategy military
  Note: see also: http://www.netvouz.com/click/2627294911800513484?url=http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/53382
• Blackwater: When Things Go Wrong (continued) (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)
  <<mercenary>> <<war crime>> <<fallujah>>
  Breaking news, weather, sports and entertainment for Hampton Roads, Virginia - Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Newport News, Hampton, Williamsburg, and Outer Banks - from The Virginian-Pilot newspaper.
  and beach breaking chesapeake entertainment for hampton newport news norfolk portsmouth roads sports suffolk virginia weather
  with economylogy geostrategy mecf mesopotamia military usa w4
• Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science
  A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity <mathematics> <cellular automata>
  with science
• The New York Review of Books: Making It New By Charles Simic
  As late as 1920, Marcel Duchamp said he didn't know what Dada was. The accounts of the original participants in Zurich are conflicting; there is even uncertainty about where the name came from. Whatever its origin, the word, which in several Slavic languages sounds like an emphatic declaration of agreement ("yes, yes"), quickly became as popular as a brand name: a one-word manifesto guaranteed either to amuse or to irritate.
  Preview of an article by Charles Simic from The New York Review of Books, August 10, 2006
  with art linglang
• MetaFilter: Index of Medieval Medical Images
  <<medicine>> Index of Medieval Medical Images Searchable collection of medieval illustrations (to the year 1500); the thumbnails can be viewed at varying magnifications. There are many more interesting online repositories devoted to the history of medical illustration--both medieval and early modern--including Historical Anatomies on the Web, Anatomia, Seeing is Believing, and Medieval Manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine
  with art evo evolution graph history science
• Mixing Memory: The Cognitive Science of Art: Beauty and the Brain
  with art psy science
• Third Reich Art
  with art history
• What's Wrong With Copy Protection John Gilmore, 16 February 2001
  Ron Rivest asked me, "I think it would be illuminating to hear your views on the differences between the Intel/IBM content-protection proposals and existing practices for content protection in the TV scrambling domain. The devil's advocate position against your position would be: if the customer is willing to buy extra, or special, hardware to allow him to view protected content, what is wrong with that?"
  with geostrategy p2p by 2 users
• MAGIC DICE - or NON TRANSITIVE DICE
  An amusing new game to trick and baffle your friends, based on a recent discovery made at Stanford University, USA. These so-called 'Non Transitive Dice' (Magic Dice) demonstrate a probability that violates common sense and traps the unwary.
  with gaming
• DN - Kultur - I var mans mun
  Är man språkforskare känner man till bonobon (dvärgschimpansen) Kanzi. Han är en celebritet i den komparativa språkforskningens värld, och primatforskarens Sue Savage-Rumbaughs skötebarn. Vad jag vet finns ingen bonobo eller schimpans som nått i närheten av Kanzis prestationsförmåga i handhavandet av "lexigram" (symboliska tecken) och att förstå talat språk. Vid ett tillfälle när han var i en vattenbassäng blev han tillfrågad: "Kan du hämta några grapefrukter och kasta dem i bassängen?"
  Är man språkforskare känner man till bonobon (dvärgschimpansen) Kanzi. Han är en celebritet i den komparativa språkforskningens värld, och primatforskarens Sue Savage-Rumbaughs skötebarn. Vad jag vet finns ingen bonobo eller schimpans som nått i n&aum
  kultur nöje
  with evo evolution linglang scandinavia science script
• Foreign Policy: The State at Work photo essay
  Running a poor country has never been a tougher job. Civil servants are asked to do the people’s work with very little, sometimes with nothing at all. They see to it that the job gets done—or grinds to a halt. Meet the bureaucrats. <photography>
  with art geostrategy graph
• MetaFilter: Suction is the female of movement and pressure is the male of movement.
  "Lawsonomy is the knowledge of Life and everything pertaining thereto." The collected works of Alfred Lawson - professional baseball player, aviation pioneer, economist, scientist, theologist, and philosopher - are available to all. [more inside]
  with philosophy script
• The Atlantic Monthly | December 2004 : Will Iran Be Next? by James Fallows
  Soldiers, spies, and diplomats conduct a classic Pentagon war game—with sobering results
  Soldiers, spies, and diplomats conduct a classic Pentagon war game—with sobering results
  games iran nuclear war
  with geostrategy iran mecf military usa
• musiclens
  MusicLens enables users to find pieces of music using very vaguely described criteria, such as loudness (perceived volume), mood or purpose. The search or recommendations query can be enhanced or limited by adjusting the ten control sliders
  with audio evo evolution net w2 by 2 users
• How to Write Screenplays. Badly.
  
  Outrageously offensive parody of screenwriting advice from Jeremy Slater and Dan Whitehead.
  badly blog dan how humor jeremy movies rapebear screenplays screenwriting scripts slaters whitehead write
  with art blogs fun script videofilm
• Omniglot: writing systems and languages of the world
  
  A guide to alphabets and languages, with useful foreign phrases, tips on learning languages, language-related links, multilingual texts, and much more
  abjads abuguida alphabet encoding glyph h language multilingual script syllabaries syllabary syllabics systems writing written
  with linglang script by 11 users
• MetaFilter: A pre-war blues blog
  Honey, where you been so long? A music blog featuring almost daily links to mp3s of pre-war blues musicians. Previously mentioned in-thread here and here.
  with audio
• Non-Errors: Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English.
  Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English.
  with script by 5 users
• Thesis #14: Complex societies are subject to diminishing returns. (The Anthropik Network)
  
  Joseph Tainter's 1988 The Collapse of Complex Societies remains the definitive work in the field of collapse. Tainter reviews other explanations of collapse--including economics, invasion and environmental problems--and finds them all insufficient. While these factors certainly play their roles, these are also the very same stressors that complexity is supposed to deal with. Thus,
  bureaucracy collapse complexity culture diminishing marginal research returns science technology warfare
  with economylogy
• BBC NEWS: UK | Lawrence of Arabia's Mid-East map on show
  <<middle east>> <<iraq>> <<sykes-picot>> <<kurdistan>> <<syria>> <<wwi>> <<turkey>> <<ottoman>>
  bbc british foreign international news online service world
  with britain france geostrategy history map mecf mesopotamia
• MeFi: Illustrations by Ben Tolman
  Ink drawings by Ben Tolman: Huge, intricate, somewhat NSFW. There may be an issue with the side frame not scrolling in Firefox; if this is the case, click here, here, here, and here to see the galleries
  with art
• Visible Earth: Home
  
  NASA's Visible Earth catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet
  with astronautics economylogy map science utils by 13 users
• KeepVid clone in Spanish
  
  Descarga y guarda videos directamente de Youtube, Google, Metacafe, Música y mas. Sólo copiar y pegar.
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  with net utils videofilm by 3 users (all private)
• KeepVid: keepvid.com
  Download videos from Google Video, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion!
  Download and save videos directly from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, Putfile and more. Simply copy and paste.
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  with net utils videofilm by 122 users
• vcdquality.com: VCD Quality torrents
  with p2p videofilm
• Anti-Americanism: A Clinical Study
  Apparently yes. Google the words anti-Americanism, Jim Crow and you get a paltry 390 hits. Substitute Jacques Chirac for Jim Crow and you rake in a much healthier 5,210 hits. Trade the French president for intellectuals and up you soar to 14,000. Paul Johnson understands: "Anti-Americanism is the prevailing disease of intellectuals today," avers the historian, who, leaving Osama off the hook, proceeds to aim his fire at effete gaggles of Gauloises-puffing café intellectuals. What gives?
  with geostrategy
• IP Enforcement Directive 2: European Community goes criminal
  Analysis of the IP Enforcement Directive text (IPRED2) proposed by the European Commission on 2 May 2006. The Commission bulldozes through criminal law, completely mixes up infringement and organised crime and at the same time manages to exceed its legislative competence.
  with cryptography net p2p
• TIM HARFORD The Poker Machine
  Bluff, deception and mind-reading are unpromising subjects for a mathematician to study, but if anyone could do it, it was von Neumann. His biographer, William Poundstone, says his ostentatious feats of calculation were notorious. At Princeton after the war - where he arguably outshone his campus colleague, Albert Einstein - von Neumann helped to design the fastest computer in the world, then demonstrated that he was faster. Nobody was surprised. His colleagues joked that he was a demigod who, having studied humans intensively, was able to imitate them perfectly. To tackle poker, von Neumann had to break new ground. There had long been analyses of games of chance using probability theory. Then there are games such as chess, which are strictly logical - albe
  with gaming
• Light Blue Touchpaper » Ignoring the “Great Firewall of China”
  It turns out [caveat: in the specific cases we’ve closely examined, YMMV] that the keyword detection is not actually being done in large routers on the borders of the Chinese networks, but in nearby subsidiary machines. When these machines detect the keyword, they do not actually prevent the packet containing the keyword from passing through the main router (this would be horribly complicated to achieve and still allow the router to run at the necessary speed). Instead, these subsiduary machines generate a series of TCP reset packets, which are sent to each end of the connection. When the resets arrive, the end-points assume they are genuine requests from the other end to close the connection — and obey. Hence the censorship occurs.
  with china geostrategy net
• Stealth radar system sees through trees, walls undetected
  The radar scatters a very low-intensity signal across a wide range of frequencies, so a TV or radio tuned to any one frequency would interpret the radar signal as a very weak form of static. "It doesn't interfere because it has a bandwidth that is thousands of times broader than the signals it might otherwise interfere with," Walton said.
  PhysOrg news: Stealth radar system sees through trees, walls -- undetected
  radar research science sees stealth system technology through trees undetected walls
  with design science
• Digital History: Trailers of Historically Significant Films: (In alphabetical order)
  
  Digital History enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.
  american civil documents facts historical history information military mus primary slavery sources speeches technology war wwii
  with art history videofilm
• Oklo: Natural Nuclear Reactors - Fact Sheet
  It came as a great surprise to most [...] that nature had beaten humans to the punch by creating the world’s first nuclear reactors. Indeed, he argued, nature had a two-billion-year head start. Fifteen natural fission reactors have been found in three different ore deposits at the Oklo mine in Gabon, West Africa. These are collectively known as the Oklo Fossil Reactors.
  with economylogy evo evolution science
• YouTube A Terrifying Message from Al Gore
  "An Inconvenient Truth" trailer featuring Bender from Futurama; Bender is awesome! (1m23s)
  YouTube är en plats där du kan upptäcka, titta på, lägga upp och dela videoklipp.
  dela delning delta enkelt gratis hitta söka underhållning upptäcka videoklipp visa överföra
  with economylogy videofilm
• That's 2 shillings and sixpence in old money | MetaFilter
  Ever wondered what old amounts of money would be worth today? Or what you could buy with your current salary if you went back 200, 400, or 600 years? Now you can find out with a tool that converts English currency from 1270 onwards into today's prices. Based on Treasury records, it tells you that Mr Darcy's £10,000 a year would now be worth nearly £350,000, or that your house would only have to be worth the equivalent of £500 now to qualify for the vote after 1832.
  with britain economylogy history
• G A P M I N D E R: HOME
  Search statistics through Google and watch it move with Gapminder
  Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
  with art economylogy geostrategy graph net science
• HyperCam
  HyperCam captures the action from your Windows screen and saves it to AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file. Sound from your system microphone is also recorded.
  HyperCam 1.6 captures the action from your Windows 9x or NT screen and saves it to AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file. Sound from your system microphone is also recorded.
  avi capture game hypercam mpeg recording screen screencam
  with computer utils videofilm by 2 users
• Why Sealion is not an option for Hitler to win the war
  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. <history>
  alt.history.what-if alternate alternative history operation sealion soc.history.what-if war what-if world
  with history military
• Boing Boing: Amazing "Mad Max" vehicles in Iraq
  "There's a soldier in Iraq who's been posting some crazy pictures of American SUVs and pickup trucks that have been modified by civilian security contractors for use as gun trucks. They're insane, in a 'Mad Max at the Wal-Mart parking lot' kind of way."
  with design mesopotamia military usa w4
• viaduct de millau
  bad ass looking bridge <architecture>
  with design
• Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos
  with audio videofilm by 4 users
• VANITY FAIR : The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed (Craig Unger)
  iraq niger yellowcake uranium sismi plame ledeen p2 disinforamtion cutout dgse kwiatkowski rocco martino
  with geostrategy italy mecf mesopotamia military niger usa
• The Gapminder World 2006, beta Search statistics through Google and watch it move with Gapminder
  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.
  with art design flash geostrategy graph science
• How to Mask Your IP and Use Country Restricted Services
  A warning from our reader, Mark: ”Whoever runs that proxy can see all your internet communications - including MSN conversations and any passwords that are not encrypted! Use this at your own risk and do not transmit any sensitive data through the proxy unless you know and fully trust the person who runs it!”
  with computer cryptography net
• TomDispatch - Proliferation Wars in the Intelligence Community
  with geostrategy mecf military usa w4
• ProCon.org: Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues
  <rhetoric>
  Pros and cons of controversial issues. Read pro and con arguments for and against topics such as medical marijuana, euthanasia, prostitution, and more
  and con cons controversial critical death debate euthanasia issues marijuana medical penalty pro pros thinking topics
  with geostrategy philosophy by 7 users
• Ugnsbakade rotfrukter med skinka och fetasås
  with food
  Note: vegetarian
• http://www.buildyourmemory.com/index.php mnenomics: how to
  
  mnemonics
  develop improve learn learning memory mnemonics study
  with psy script
• Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like
  Visual map of: Authors=>Literature-Map Movies=>Gnovies.com Music=>Gnoosic.com
  An artificial intelligence system learning about the outer world. Teach gnod about the relations between the things out there.
  and bandpromotion ideas musicpromotion promotion searchengine site thoughts web
  with audio evo evolution net script videofilm w2 by 18 users
• Photo Retouching - Skin
  Hoe to retouch skin in photoshop
  Tutorial Blog - » Photo Retouching - Skin
  blog photo photoshop retouching skin tutorial tutorials
  with art by 3 users
• The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments
  What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? (2m57s)
  It's a hysterical and spectacular mentos powered video of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas, brought to you by the mad scientists at EepyBird.com.
  bellagio buckfield coke diet-coke fountain fritz funny maine mentos nucleation science stephen video viral
  with fun videofilm
• BoingBoing: Jackson Pollock-a-sketch
  In 2003, Miltos Manetas created used someone else's work to make a site with this fun Flash tool to create your own Jackson Pollock-esque "painting."
  Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas, 2003, original flash animation by Michal Migurski
  jackson manetas miltos pollock
  with art flash by 6 users
• BoingBoing: Document Shredding scissors -- five-scissor blades on one handle
  These Japanese shredding scissors are a nice, low-tech way to discard of docs at your desk.
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  aegbg anzt apple canon cd-r epson icvbso icvbv mac nec obo oki ssl tvc tvcpi vbso vbv windows zlat zleb åàè êmì ú.x üóí
  with design
• Jorge Luis Borges: The Library of Babel
  with ebook
• "Engines of Creation" by Eric Drexler available in free electronic format
  "...Many authors start to realize that the danger of obsolescence by obscurity is greater to them that the perceived loss of royalties, and they put their books online, sooner or later after publication. Cory Doctorow is one of those..." <<nanotechnology>>
  with ebook script system:unfiled
• I don't care if Monday's blue....
  Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living, But the child that works hard on the Sabbath Day, is blithe and bonny, good and gay. <calendar> <week>
  with science
• How to Photograph Sunrises and Sunsets
  
  How to Photograph Sunrises and Sunsets
  advice camera digital photography school tips
  with art
• MetaFilter: Art of Science
  Art of Science* 2006 'images, videos and sounds—produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science.' Previously* on MeFi. (*links)
  with art audio science videofilm
• Million Authors Project
  with script by 2 users
• Articles and information on Writing from Writing247.com
  with script
• http://skickafilen.se/
  Upload a file (up to 2GB) to someone, who downloads it by clicking the link in a mail sent to her.
  Send large files easily!
  with net p2p w2
• Carl Zimmer: Did DNA Come From Viruses? Science, May 11, 2006
  Scientists who deal in the history of life have never been quite sure what to do with viruses. One measure of their uncertainty is the Tree of Life Web Project, a collective effort to record everything known about the relationships of living and extinct species. The first page of its Web site--entitled "Life on Earth"--shows the broadest view: From a single root come three branches representing the domains of life (www.tolweb.org
  with economylogy evo evolution science
  Note: more: The New York Times Book Review calls Carl Zimmer "as fine a science essayist as we have
• YouTube - Cam from the TPB bust
  
  Cam from the The Pirate Bay bust, notice how the cams are covered by police.
  bay bust cam pirate the thepiratebay tpb
  with cryptography economylogy geostrategy media p2p videofilm w2 w4
• Charles S. Peirce, "Logic of Events" (1898)
  We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For not means other than, and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility -- boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom. <philosophy>
  with philosophy psy script
• Popurls
  popurls.com: popular urls to the latest web buzz
  popurls® is the mother of news aggregators, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet | by thomas marban
  with net by 130 users
• Subtopia: a field guide to military urbanism
  blog <<architecture>>
  with art design military
• Drawings by Jacques Callot
  1633 Miseries of War
  A selection of drawings executed by the French engraver Jacques Callot
  callot display etchings goya image rembrandt
  with art graph history
• Space.com: Giant Crater Found: Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever
  An apparent crater as big as Ohio has been found in Antarctica. Scientists think it was carved by a space rock that caused the greatest mass extinction on Earth, 250 million years ago.
  An apparent crater as big as Ohio has been found in Antarctica. Scientists think it was carved by a space rock that caused the greatest mass extinction on Earth, 250 million years ago.
  antartica crater dinosaurs extinction ohio
  with science
• MetaFilter: What did one ghost say to the other?
  Get A-Life - an interesting read on artificial life and evolutionary computation, from the game of life (playable applet), through core wars, tierra and on to genetic programming. This approach has recently borne fruit to genetic programming pioneer and inventor of the scratchcard, John Koza, who last year patented his invention machine, actually a 1000 machine beowulf cluster running his software, which has itself created several inventions which have been granted patents. [See also: BBC Biotopia artificial life experiment, another odd BBC evolution game, Artificial Life Possibilities: A Star Trek Perspective] <evolution>
  with computer economylogy evo evolution science

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