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  Nicholas Carr's Blog
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• Royal Academy of Arts Collection - Inspiration - British Art and Architecture - Anatomical Crucifixion (James Legg).
  This gruesome figure was cast from the corpse of a murderer, taken straight from the gallows to be nailed to a cross and flayed in order to settle an artistic debate. Three Royal Academicians - the sculptor Thomas Banks and painters Sir Benjamin West and Richard Cosway - conducted this experiment to prove their belief that most depictions of the Crucifixion were anatomically incorrect. In 1801 the three artists approached the eminent surgeon, Joseph Constantine Carpue, for his help in finding a suitable subject. The only corpses available for dissection at this time were those of executed criminals but, on October 2nd, an opportunity arose when Carpue was called to Chelsea Hospital. One of the captains, named James Legg, had been arguing with a fellow pensi
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• Rupert Murdoch’s Tabloid Culture
  The New Yorker
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• Schneier on Security
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• Scrap Files Can Tear You Up
  What if there were a type of file that could hide its nature from you; might appear to be any file type, and when clicked with your mouse, could run as a program -- potentially as a hostile program -- when you least expected? Such a file type does exist. Presently, most Windows users don't know of its existence. But let's start at the beginning, shall we? The Beginning Starting back in the days of Windows 3.1 (around 1992 I believe), Microsoft introduced an old idea under a new name: Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). Complex in its details, OLE is simple in concept. It allows the inclusion of data from one type of file or document, within another; and it allows multiple applications on the same desktop to share information.
  Files using the extensions .SHS and .SHB may be executable, and because Windows hides their extensions, may appear to be something they're not. OLE objects in documents can be similarly hazardous.
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• Scribd
  The best way to define Scribd would be to call it a Youtube for documents. It is an online document library where users can search, browse, rate, upload, and share all kind of documents: jokes, facts, stories, document templates, presentations, and even amazon bestsellers.
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• See how your climate could be transformed if carbon emissions continue to rise.
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• Self-Illustrating phenomena - Pat Hanrahan Standford
  What is a self-illustrating phenomenon? A self-illustrating phenomenon is an image that is generated automatically as a result of an experiment. More importantly, it is an image that exposes the phenomenon behind the observation. It often represents an answer to a question. Here is an example. Ernst Chladni, a musician and amateur scientist, found a way to make visible the vibrations caused by sound waves. He covered metal and wooden plates with sand and ran a violin bow against them. When the plate vibrates, sand collects at the stationary nodes, having been shaken from the moving regions. These nodes are the zero-crossings of the standing wave that produces the sound. Being a musician, he was interested in the theory of sounds and he used the tools at his
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  Note: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~hanrahan/
• Ship-shape and Bristol fashion
  meaning and origin <lingua>
  Ship shape and Bristol fashion - meaning and origin of this phrase.
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• Signs and Symbols: Wire Mother, Smiley Face and Phaneroscopic Science. by Richard Flavin
  Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) worked for thirty-two years at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and taught logic for five years at the Department of Mathematics at the Johns Hopkins University. Both positions came to an end due to budget cutbacks and Peirce spent the last twenty-five years of his life struggling to support himself. At mid-life, Peirce began to publish on ‘Pragmatism’ (Peirce 1905; Peirce 1931-1958; vol. 5), by suggesting that “...all the followers of science are animated by a cheerful hope that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they apply it (Peirce 1878; p. 299).” In support of science as constructing hypotheses, deriving consequences from these
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• Simplistic's Movie Links
  Looks for whole movies on the internet by finding parts & piecing together (per Lifehacker)
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• Slate: Who Is Grady Harp? Amazon's Top Reviewers and the fate of the literary amateur By Garth Risk Hallberg Jan 22 2008 7:33
  Full disclosure: It was late at night, in a fit of furtive self-Googling, that I discovered the first Amazon customer review of my debut book of fiction. "Superb," wrote Grady Harp of Los Angeles. "Fascinating ... addictive." Not to mention "profound." Such extravagance should have aroused suspicion, but I was too busy basking in the glow of a five-star rave to worry about the finer points of Harp's style. Sure, he'd spelled my name wrong, but hadn't he also judged me "a sensitive observer of human foibles"? Only when I noticed the "Top 10 Reviewer" tag did I wonder whether Grady Harp was more than just a satisfied customer. After a brief e-mail exchange, my publicist confirmed that she'd solicited Grady Harp's review.
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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.
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• 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
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• Stain Removal - School of Fibre Science and Technology
  * Never use very hot water for washing stained garments as this often sets the stains and makes them very difficult or impossible to remove. * Some stains are more easily removed by washing if they are soaked first in cold water, e.g. mud and blood stains, and the brown stain from shoe inner soles. * The use of chemicals is required for removing certain stains. Carry out this treatment before washing. Remove all traces of the chemical. * To apply a stain removing agent to fabric, place a fold of clean rag underneath the stain so that any surplus moisture is absorbed. * To prevent a ring forming around the stain, work from the outside of the stain, in an uneven circular shape, towards the centre, dabbing it very lightly with a pad of clean r
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• Standard Web Standards ·
  Building the web, the standards way! CSS, XHTML, Accessibility, Usability, AJAX, Web 2.0, Adobe
  Building the web, the standards way! CSS, XHTML, Accessibility, Usability, AJAX, Web 2.0, Adobe
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• StatCounter Free invisible Web tracker, Hit counter and Web stats
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• 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
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• Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science
  A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity <mathematics> <cellular automata>
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• Steve Bannon: This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America
  It’s nearing midnight as Steve Bannon pushes past the bluegrass band in his living room and through a crowd of Republican congressmen, political operatives, and a few stray Duck Dynasty cast members. He’s trying to make his way back to the SiriusXM Patriot radio show, broadcasting live from a cramped corner of the 14-room townhouse he occupies a stone’s throw from the Supreme Court. It’s late February, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is in full swing, and Bannon, as usual, is the whirlwind at the center of the action.
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