- In Defense of Piracy - WSJ.com by LAWRENCE LESSIG professor of law at Stanford Law School, and co-founder
In early February 2007, Stephanie Lenz's 13-month-old son started dancing. Pushing a walker across her kitchen floor, Holden Lenz started moving to the distinctive beat of a song by Prince, "Let's Go Crazy." He had heard the song before. The beat had obviously stuck. So when Holden heard the song again, he did what any sensible 13-month-old would do -- he accepted Prince's invitation and went "crazy" to the beat. Holden's mom grabbed her camcorder and, for 29 seconds, captured the priceless image of Holden dancing, with the barely discernible Prince playing on a CD player somewhere in the background.
in Public bookmarks - MetaFilter - Soviet Era Art
Metafilter's own Fake, Dan Reetz, recently spent several months in the former Soviet Union; while there he managed to round up this great selection of Soviet Movie posters from 1921-1973, as well as this interesting 1952 set of food drawings from the government produced book "Tasty & Healthy Eating." Finally, bonus content for anyone jonesing for more soviet content, this Russian Winnie the Pooh cartoon from the 1970s is fantastic.
in Public bookmarks - Psychology of Cyberspace - Article Index
Listed below is a list of links to all the articles and pages in the hypertext book (web site) The Psychology of Cyberspace.The articles are arranged chronologically, with the most recently written or revised ones appearing near the top. The most recent date of the article, its version number, and its approximate size are indicated. Unless otherwise stated, the author of the article is John Suler, Ph.D. There also is a subject index and search engine for this book. Links on this page will produce a new window placed on top of this window.
in Public bookmarks - Reuter's pictures of the year 2007
in Public bookmarks - The Long Wave
in Public bookmarks - The once and future e-book on reading in the digital age - Ars Technica By John Siracusa |
A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books. I was pitched headfirst into the world of e-books in 2002 when I took a job with Palm Digital Media. The company, originally called Peanut Press, was founded in 1998 with a simple plan: publish books in electronic form. As it turns out, that simple plan leads directly into a technological, economic, and political hornet's nest. But thanks to some good initial decisions (more on those later), little Peanut Press did pretty well for itself in those first few years, eventually having a legitimate claim to its self-declared title of "the world's largest e-book store."
in Public bookmarks - YouTube - 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
in Public bookmarks - 6 ways to find reusable media
You need an image for that brochure you're designing, and you need it now. Put your hands in the air and step away from the cheesy clipart, mister. Thanks to organizations like Creative Commons, licenses like the GNU Free Documentation License, and the public domain, there are tons of photos, songs, movies and documents freely available for you to download and republish without fear of the copyright police.
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Note: http://www.allposters.com/-st/Gill-Andre-Posters_c72393_.htm - Cynical-C
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth" - Lillian Hellman
in Public bookmarks - How to Learn Morse Code
Morse Code was first used in the 1840s, and even after more than 160 years, it is still used today, especially by amateur radio operators. In 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse developed this code, which can be sent quickly over the telegraph. It's also useful for emergency signaling (SOS) with a radio, mirror, or flashlight, and even for people with severe disabilities to communicate. Plus, you can probably communicate faster with Morse code than you can with SMS text messaging![1] In order to master Morse code, however, you need to approach it like a new language. Here's how to get started.
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in Public bookmarks - Live Plasma: Visualize movie and music connections (flash)
alternative: pandora.com
in Public bookmarks by 20 users - LiveLeak.com: Gravity Wave [8 seconds]
Time-Lapse of gravity wave action from the Tama, Iowa KCCI-TV webcam on 6 May 2007 A gravity wave is a vertical wave. The best example I can think of in describing what a gravity wave looks like is to think of a rock being thrown into a pond. Ripples or circles migrate from the point the rock hits the water. An up and down motion is created. With increasing distance from the point where the rock hit the water, the waves becomes less defined (the waves are dampening). Now let's look at what a gravity wave is in the atmosphere. To start a gravity wave, a TRIGGER mechanism must cause the air to be displaced in the vertical. Examples of trigger mechanisms that produce gravity waves are mountains and thunderstorm updrafts. To generate a gravity wave, the air mus
in Public bookmarks - 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.
in Public bookmarks - Newseum
Today's Front Pages | Gallery View of daily front pages of 555 papers in 55 countries
in Public bookmarks - OEDb: The Best Online Research Apps/Sites You've Never Heard Of: ---------------------------
Artcyclopedia. BioMedCentral Digital History. FindArticles.com. INFOMINE. Internet History Sourcebooks. Internet Public Library. Intute. Librarians Internet Index. Library of Congress. Perseus Digital Library. Project Gutenberg. Research Guide for Students. U.S. Government Manual.
Try out these research sites and applications you may be unfamiliar with the next time you're writing a research paper.
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in Public bookmarks - The End of Alone - The Boston Globe By Neil Swidey | February 8, 2009
At our desk, on the road, or on a remote beach, the world is a tap away. It's so cool. And yet it's not. What we lose with our constant connectedness. Don't get me wrong. I love technology. It's magical how it makes the world closer, and more immediate. Take, for instance, the real-time way we learned about the plane that skidded off a Denver runway and burst into flames in December. One of the passengers on Continental Flight 1404 used Twitter to share everything from his initial profanity- and typo-laced reaction to making it out of the fiery jet ("Holy [bleeping bleep] I wasbjust in a plane crash!") to his lament that the airline wasn't providing drinks to the survivors who'd been penned into the airport lounge ("You have your wits scared out of you, dra
in Public bookmarks - Why Public Denials May Only Fuel Conspiracy Theories By JOHN ALLEN PAULOS abcnews nov 2007
First the biases. Three Common Psychological Biases 1. The "availability heuristic" is the pronounced tendency of people to view any story through the lens of a superficially similar story that comes easily to mind or is psychologically available. For this reason, much of politics revolves around strengthening this tendency by keeping a preferred narrative uppermost in people's minds. It doesn't take too keen a political instinct, for example, to realize that some politicians' incessant invoking of 9/11 is an effort to keep it psychologically available, to help it color every aspect of the political agenda.
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