• Damn Interesting: Project Babylon: Gerald Bull's Downfall
  "Bull nearly single-handedly resurrected the science of supergun artillery" <military>
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• David MacKay FRS Sustainable Energy - without the hot air: Contents
  "For anyone with influence on energy policy, whether in government, business or a campaign group, this book should be compulsory reading." Tony Juniper Former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth "At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining." Robert Sansom EDF Energy "The Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy." Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net "...a tour de force..." The Economist "... a cold blast of reality ... a must-read analysis..." Science magazine "...this year's must-read book..." The Guardian
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• Eric's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea: steampunk star wars
  Inspired by this neat little project, I decided I wanted to reimagine the Star Wars universe in a steampunk context. I know, whenever anyone reimagines anything, they either make it a) adult and edgy (99%) or b) steampunk (1%), so I'm not getting any originality points, but it's still a pretty exciting idea for me. Meaning I'll be bored of it in a week and start drawing dogs wearing hats or something.
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• Feature Design Your Own Desktop with KDE 4
  One of the best things about KDE 4, the newest release of the mainstream Linux desktop manager, is something it doesn't do—force you to adapt to its way of running a computer desktop. Sure, the desktop environment boasts new 3-D effects, a polished theme, and improved functionality. But what KDE 4 does best is give users the ability to almost completely re-design their desktops, putting their programs, icons, and useful widgets wherever they see fit, on as many desktops as they want, to create their ideal workspace. I spent some time exploring the features of the less-than-week-old system, the results of which are after the jump.
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• Glossary for Medieval Art and Architecture
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• Hanzi Smatter 一知半解: dedicated to the misuse of chinese characters in western culture
  Trendy Pro-Communism Purses
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• In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | By Chris Anderson | Wired Magazine
  Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, has a very good article in his magazine on the desktop manufacturing revolution. It's definitely worth the read and is complimentary with thinking being done on this blog re: resilient communities. Thus the new industrial organizational model. It’s built around small pieces, loosely joined. Companies are small, virtual, and informal. Most participants are not employees. They form and re-form on the fly, driven by ability and need rather than affiliation and obligation. It doesn’t matter who the best people work for; if the project is interesting enough, the best people will find it.
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  Note: chinese industrial piracy mountain fastness http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&num=100&newwindow=1&q=%22tommy+m%C3%B6ller+%22+schweden+-drag&lr=lang_de&aq=f&aqi=&oq=
• indi.ca » Google as Artificial Intelligence
  The way things are going, I think Google will be the first AI. That is, I think Google will become conscious. As a note, if I can have a conversation with something, I’ll consider it conscious. That’s the Turing Test for intelligence. Right now Google fails miserably. For example, I entered the terms Jesus will return and got: jesus will return to Kings Associated Press July End did did Nature build the worlds largest Sex personals site! I suppose nature can’t explain everything. I got an earlier response which was more relevant - it asked if Nature build the body and emotion, and said the brain was the most important invention … then it went on to mention the Quran and The Prophet by K
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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.
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• LLOYDIAN ASPECTS
  Here shall, in time, be a site which will I hope be of some genuine use to people who want to make ancient and medieval armour of various sorts. For the moment, I have just two sections. Choose, point, click.
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• MeFi: War in Spaaaaaaaacccccce!
  A practical discussion of weapons that would work in space and orbital combat.
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  Note: see also: http://www.netvouz.com/click/8277464559938495960?url=http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html
• national flags by colors - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics
  a collection of national flags as pie charts. each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the color on the respective flag. [link: shaheeilyas.com/flags]
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• No Tech Magazine: Bookbinding: a tutorial
  Step-by-step instructions. More tutorials can be found here, here and here.
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• potatoland.org
  four words solid net.flag waiting room black & white FEED p-Soup ©Bots RIOT shred landfill pulse dmachine heroes SPUD stolen [spaces] parallel
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• radicalcartography
  f we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where the decline of the Empire sees this map become frayed and finally ruined, a few shreds still discernible in the deserts — the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction, bearing witness to an Imperial pride and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, rather as an aging double ends up being confused with the real thing) — then this fable has come full circle for us, and now has nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra.
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• Road Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transparency Now!
  But the volume of data obscures more than it reveals; financial reporting has become so transparent as to be invisible. Answering what should be simple questions—how secure is my cash account? How much of my bank's capital is tied up in risky debt obligations?—often seems to require a legal degree, as well as countless hours to dig through thousands of pages of documents. Undoubtedly, the warning signs of our current crisis—and the next one!—lie somewhere in all those filings, but good luck finding them.
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• Severn Barrage Lagoons (pdf)
  Tidal lagoons in the Severn Estuary could both produce more electricity cheapier and be more environmtment friendly than a conventional barrage <economylogy>
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• Temple of the Seven Golden Camels
  Comic Strip Artist's Kit (Redux) learn how to sketch draw
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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?
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• 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
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