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Monday, January 31, 2005

The New Yorker: Fact

"THE COMING WARS by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
What the Pentagon can now do in secret."

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OOOPS

Here are some precious links I mistakenly posted on another blog
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/28/1106850104196.html

the great jeannie lewis

http://www.thegov.com.au/gigs/2005/2005_02.htm

Some articles on Gestalt Psychology
http://www.ittheory.com/lewin.htm

http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/gestalt.html

http://www.ittheory.com/lewin.htm

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Sex, IQ & ET: How We Got Big Brains

they are sexy of course, a survival trait

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

The Sydney Morning Herald: Fashion

"Lacroix The look of luxe from Christian Lacroix.
Click on a thumbnail image to enlarge it"

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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

http://www.madeyouthink.org/

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Greg Egan's Home Page: "I am a science fiction author and computer programmer. This site contains information, illustrations and applets to supplement some of my work, along with:
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Who cares.//

creeeaytiv speling

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http://oddiophile.com/taggregator/index.php?tag=metafilter: "Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog / Moving to Cleveland

Metafilter | Top 150 tags"

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Monday, January 24, 2005

let's test again like we did last summer
let's test again like we did last year

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great, now i can publish by email. Clever blogger.

By Blogger Rob, at 4:52 pm  

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I have been editing blogger and found this email posting facility.

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Bunny suicides

really sick
poor little bunnies
but you do know how they feel sometimes...

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Blogging, Journalism & Credibility

"Lots to digest from the Blogging Journalism & Credibility conference.� Check out the Bloglines aggregator and Dave�s aggregator of people blogging it, a del.icio.us link feed, transcripts and audiofiles from the conference, and the IRC chat transcripts as well. Not everything�s posted yet, but will be soon."

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Mommy, I'm Hungry


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Sunday, January 23, 2005

what's in rebecca's pocket?

today

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Saturday, January 22, 2005

Nick Nicholas

"Nick Nicholas' Home Page" one more multicultural manic larrikin. ;)

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ZNet |Electoral Politics | 2004 Elections by Noam Chomsky

"2004 Elections - by Noam Chomsky November 29, 2004
The elections of November 2004 have received a great deal of discussion, with exultation in some quarters, despair in others, and general lamentation about a 'divided nation.' They are likely to have policy consequences, particularly harmful to the public in the domestic arena, and to the world with regard to the 'transformation of the military,' which has led some prominent strategic analysts to warn of 'ultimate doom' and to hope that US militarism and aggressiveness will be countered by a coalition of peace-loving states, led by � China! (John Steinbruner and Nancy Gallagher, Daedalus). We have come to a pretty pass when such words are expressed in the most respectable and sober journals. It is also worth noting how deep is the despair of the authors over the state of American democracy. Whether or not the assessment is merited is for activists to determine."

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Anti-Chomsky: English

"Why I do not like Noam Chomsky"
Comments by a linguist on his methodology and rhetoric.

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CNN.com - Poll: Nation split on Bush as uniter or�divider - Jan 19, 2005

"(CNN) -- On the eve of President Bush's inauguration, a poll shows the nation is split over whether he has united or divided the nation, but a majority believe his inauguration festivities should be toned down because of the war"

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Monday, January 17, 2005

The Sydney Morning Herald: "Aceh: moment of impact"

"A series of photographs taken by Bedu Saini on Boxing Day as the tsunami hit�Banda Aceh. The images were made available on January 15 after the photographer's misplaced camera was returned to him."

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Daily Kos :: Zephyr's miscalculation

"As one poster noted, it's a target-rich environment out there. ..."

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Wired News: Monster Fueled by Caffeine

"Delicious Monster is the Mac software company behind the hit Delicious Library, a program for cataloging collections of books, movies and games. The software is selling like hot cakes and has garnered rave reviews and awards, yet the company's headquarters is a Seattle coffee house."

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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Cockeyed.com presents: How Much Is Inside?

"Throughout the ages, man has pondered the question, 'How much is inside?'
With a few extra bucks, and a decent spot on the internet, we at cockeyed.com expose these long-hidden truths."

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Announcing ... iProduct

feel special

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WebCams

a big collection in real time

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OpenTopia

search directory and open resources

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NASA - Get Ready for the Largest Demolition Derby on the Planet
Scientists say Slow-Motion Collision Near Antarctic Research Station Imminent

"It is an event so large that the best seat in the house is in space: a massive iceberg is on a collision course with a floating glacier near the McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica. NASA satellites have witnessed the 100-mile-long B-15A iceberg moving steadily towards the Drygalski Ice Tongue. Though the iceberg's pace has slowed in recent days, NASA scientists expect a collision to occur no later than January 15, 2005."

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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Lightning Struck Itself

"OH MY GOD IT'S YOU!!
Yesterday afternoon in Bourke St Mall I was out and about with my lovely friend Leia; I was wearing white short-shorts, a brown singlet, flat sandals, a big, blue floppy straw hat and my mega Jacqueline Susann sunnies. Two girls passed in front of us and one of them put her hand over her mouth and started squealing 'oh my God!' Her pal quickly pulled her away, shooshing her; turns out she thought I was... Sienna Miller!"

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Northcote Knob

"From between the mighty Merri and Darebin Creeks, under the shadow of Rucker's Hill, in Australia's cultural heartland the mighty Melba, a journal of politics, culture, partially reconstructed maleness and beer. Comments welcome!"

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The Woolamaloo Gazette

" Shortly before Christmas, in the spirit of that season, my manager at Waterstone�s asked me to come into the office. Within a few, short moments I was told that for comments I had posted on this web site I was now subject to an enquiry to determine if I should face a disciplinary hearing for �gross misconduct� because I had �brought the company into disrepute�. I was informed (more than once) that this could cause my dismissal. I was suspended on pay and escorted from the premises of the bookstore I had worked in for eleven years.
Because of the holidays the disciplinary hearing was not held until yesterday, Wednesday 5th. I could not really talk about it here while the process was ongoing � I am now free to discuss what happened for the brutally simple reason that Waterstone�s dismissed me from my job yesterday."

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

The Bloggers' Rights Blog

"The following is not a bill meant to become a law. That will never happen... this is an internet bill to force companies to evaluate their policies and think before they make stupid decisions! If they choose not to abide by the bill, then they risk being blacklisted by bloggers everywhere! "

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Boing Boing: More Googleable unsecured webcams

"Following up on yesterday's post about how to sniff out publicly-viewable webcams (whose operators may not be fully aware that said webcams are publicly viewable), Boing Boing reader George Hotelling says:
Did you know there's a whole site dedicated to finding interesting stuff via Google? Link, and check out or the 'ihackstuff.com' site."

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Monday, January 10, 2005

Many-to-Many: folksonomies controlled vocabularies

", and speculation about what might happen if they are paired with controlled vocabularies.

�it�s easy to say that the social networkers have figured out what the librarians haven�t: a way to make metadata work in widely distributed and heretofore disconnected content collections.

Easy, but wrong: folksonomies are clearly compelling, supporting a serendipitous form of browsing that can be quite useful. But they don�t support searching and other types of browsing nearly as well as tags from controlled vocabularies applied by professionals. Folksonomies aren�t likely to organically arrive at preferred terms for concepts, or even evolve synonymous clusters. They�re highly unlikely to develop beyond flat lists and accrue the broader and narrower term relationships that we see in thesauri."

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Saturday, January 08, 2005

freeculture.org: an international student movement


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Six Apart Guide to Combatting Comment Spam


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Mena's Corner: Current Mood: Optimistic

"Who is Six Apart?
Since I'm certain that a great number of LiveJournalers will be visiting this site for the first time, I want to give a little background about Six Apart. Much like Danga, Six Apart was started by people who really just wanted to create a cool tool and not necessarily a company"

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Sims 2 hacks spread like viruses | The Register

"Players of Electronic Arts' enormously popular simulated life game are complaining that their artfully-crafted homes and mansions are beginning to resemble the Twilight Zone, thanks to an artifact of the game's design that causes hacks to spread like viruses from user to unwitting user."

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sylvia Web BrainStormer

"Sylvia Web BrainStorming is a web service that allows you to run focused BrainStorming sessions with up to 100 people anywhere in the world."

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Guardian Unlimited | It works ...!

"When Clint Witchalls booked his children in for a Korean therapy called Brain Respiration, he couldn't believe the results"

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Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Estonia: If It Works, You Can Break It

"Fantastic story on entrepreneurship and technology in Estonia in Forbes by Joshua Levine.� 'If the Internet was reborn as a country, it would be Estonia,' said a UNDP administrator.� This quote from Linnar Viik sums it up nicely: 'People like to say, don't touch things that work, but Estonians like to look behind the thing and wonder whether there's anything we can change about it. In Estonia you might say, if it works, you can break it.'"

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Betterhumans > "Sleep on it" Works

"Dreams appear a kind of treatment for resolving problems"

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Flickr: Forums: FlickrIdeas: Idea for photo sharing with non account holding friends/family

"As you can tell, I feel strongly about this, having used a Flickr pro account for some months now.
1. There are many friends and family I will not subject to my creating an account for them without their prior permission. They find it an offensive invasion and I was embarrassed the first time I unwittingly did this. (Sub point, change the wording on the Flickr bit of an invite so my friends are not presented with a fait accompli)
2. The current process of creating a group is aweful for those of us with more to do than play with our computers, ie with any sort of life. Copying three email addresses at a time, three words at a time from my email address book, is unnecessarily tedious. I dont have the time to do it nearly as much as I wish to share photos. I am much more likely to introduce friends to lovely Flickr if I can send an URL and password of a private set to an existing email address book group, of eg twenty who attended a function.
3. I will not make public photos of many people, especially in a set and some of them just don't want an existing account so an URL to a public set is not good enough.
4. Having to sign them up again for a new group each time I publish photos for a unique event is redundant rude and inefficient.

I know that an url and password enabling access to a specific private set would suit me and the communities I serve very well.
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Friday, January 07, 2005

Flickr: The In Numerical Order Pool


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Special's photosets on Flickr

great eye. Recommend these photos

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Tuesday, January 04, 2005

A Bigger Crane

"An unfortunate parking accident in Galway, Ireland sends a small white hatchback into the cold bay waters of Roundstone. What happens next is the exciting part. Makes you wonder if any of these guys ever had the right tools for the job."

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Monday, January 03, 2005

The New York Times >... Asia's Deadly Waves: The Impact on India


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Kekus Digital - Panorama Tools for OS X

"�See the great things people are doing with PTMac while visiting some of the UNESCO World Heritage sites and other senic spots around the globe. The World Wide Panorama (WWP) project organized over one-hundred photographers in 32 countries to focus their cameras on the UNESCO sites during the June 2004 solstice. Many of their 360-degree Quicktime panoramas offer a glimpse into some of the world's most ancient and precious sites from Japan's Himeji Castle (17th century) to the Grand Canyon. Click on the WWP logo below to see these great places."

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Times Square at New Year's Eve - New Year Celebration in New York United States of America - QTVR panorama from panoramas.dk

"The last 2 years Panoramas.dk has featured fullscreen 360 degree QTVR panoramas created by Jook Leung, from the famous New Year celebration at Times Square. They have become famous on the web seen by more than 400.000 visitors."

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Cassini-Huygens: Multimedia-Images


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THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 1, Ch. 4, Mineral Deficiency And Toxicity

"Selenium deficiency is rare among humans, even in New Zealand and Finland, where selenium intake is 30 to 50 �g/day, compared with 100 to 250 �g/day in the USA and Canada. In China, where selenium intake averages 10 to 15 �g/day, selenium deficiency occurs in association with"

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Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Selenium

"Selenium is a trace mineral that is essential to good health but required only in small amounts ..."

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Sunday, January 02, 2005


Staredown
Originally uploaded by polyglot.


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