zecg's Bookmarks About "interesting"

LOST

"A mixture of online game/street art/social network, Lost is a community of people connected through links written down and left in random places all over the world."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 lost · game · fun · social · six_degrees · network · web · meatspace · interesting

http://www.lost.eu/about.php?keyword=idea - cached - mail it - history

the electric sheep screen-saver

"Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 3D · computer · free · distributed_computing · philipkdick · visual · visualization · web2.0 · software · linux · windows · osx · screensaver · interesting · internet · macosx · mathematics · fractal

http://www.electricsheep.org/ - cached - mail it - history

Handwritten kanji recognition

Ben Bullock's hand-written kanji interface

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 kanji · reference · 日本語 · writing · interesting · language · japanese

http://kanji.sljfaq.org/draw.html - cached - mail it - history

Tim May, The Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto and Modern Cryptofinance

"In reality, pirates are altruists that prevent black-market information economies from forming." / "In a sense, we are all pirates. This is in the nature of our relationship with information."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history_of_computing · IT · economy · cryptography · intel · riaa · piracy · intellectual_property · software · finance · cryptofinance · interesting

http://www.thenewfreedom.net/wp/2008/01/04/tim-may-the-crypto-anarchist-manifesto-and-modern-cryptofinance/ - cached - mail it - history

O'Reilly Radar > Supernova 2005: Attention

"With continuous partial attention we keep the top level item in focus and scan the periphery in case something more important emerges."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 continuous_partial_attention · psychology · anthropology · philosophy · cognition · collaboration · internet · lifestyle · market · media · mind · network · organization · productivity · social · social_software · web · technology · culture · future · for:mandrak · for:to_mi · for:ognjen · email · geek · history · interesting · article

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/06/supernova_2005_2.html - cached - mail it - history

The World of Tomorrow - New York Times

"People will want artists to return them to certain periods. They will suffer what I call hyper-nostalgia as they look back to a time when people talked robustly about ideas like democracy."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 prediction · predictions · new_york · history · future · 100_years_from_now · nytimes · science · art · economics · interesting · for:mandrak · nyc

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/nyregion/thecity/30year.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=thecity&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin - cached - mail it - history

Exploring JPEG

"This is a functional, if limited, JPEG decoder. It only decodes grayscale, 8-bit images and is overly sensitive to the options used. I thought that people might like to learn a little about the JPEG standard."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 haskell · programming · jpg · format · image · interesting · huffman · dct · png

http://www.imperialviolet.org/binary/jpeg/? - cached - mail it - history

Travolta’s pilot assistant almost ready to go

“Initially when we hook up this brain to a flight simulator, it doesn’t know how to control the aircraft,” "The computational property is actually an emergent property of hundreds or thousands of neurons cooperating to produce the processing power o

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 article · biotech · brain · complexity · interesting · reference · science · technology · for:mandrak

http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/travoltas-pilot-assistant-almost-ready-to-go/ - cached - mail it - history

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard

"...you cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 animation · capitalism · commerce · consumerism · ecology · economy · environment · food · government · interesting · politics · sustainability · video · waste · world · activism · consumption · stuff · for:mandrak

http://www.storyofstuff.com/ - cached - mail it - history

Charles Darwin: Religious belief

"I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble to us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 article · atheism · biography · christianity · darwin · essay · evolution · history · interesting · philosophy · quotes · religion · science · society · for:mandrak

http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/library/cd_relig.htm - cached - mail it - history

Yingzi

"I've attempted in this sketch to lay out, by analogy, the nature and structure of the Chinese writing system."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 chinese · language · kanji · english · japanese · interesting · linguistics

http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm? - cached - mail it - history

The Right Brain vs Left Brain | The Daily Telegraph

"The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?"

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 psychology · test · brain · interesting · neurology · neuroscience · mind

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html - cached - mail it - history

The Translator's Responsibility

"Thus the 'young woman' in Hebrew metamorphosed into a 'virgin' in Greek—and she has remained a virgin ever since in translations across the world. The notion of 'virgin birth' was born, thanks to a mistranslation."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 translation · linguistics · book · books · publishing · essay · interesting

http://accurapid.com/journal/18review.htm - cached - mail it - history

Full Disclosure: World's most powerful supercomputer goes online (fwd)

"This doesn't seem to have received much attention, but the world's most powerful supercomputer entered operation recently."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 technology · botnet · security · news · supercomputer · perspective · interesting · hacking · globalization

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Aug/0520.html - cached - mail it - history

"Pravda" means both "truth" and "justice"

"Every time the word "pravda" comes to my mind, I am exhilarated by its stunning beauty. Such a word is not, apparently, to be found in any [other?] European language. Apparently, it is only in Russian that "truth" and "justice" are called by the same wor

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 pravda · russian · language · linguistics · history · russia · interesting

http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/pravda-istina-e.html - cached - mail it - history

So You Think You Have a Power Law — Well Isn't That Special? | Three-Toed Sloth

"Abusing linear regression makes the baby Gauss cry. Fitting a line to your log-log plot by least squares is a bad idea."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 statistics · power_law · regression · distribution · goodness-of-fit · scale · psychology · sociology · reference · interesting

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/2007/06/15/ - cached - mail it - history

Wronger Than Wrong: Scientific American on string theory (2006)

"In some extreme cases, this theory that culture shapes the way science is conducted is right. In the mid-19th century, physicians discovered that slaves suffered from drapetomania, or the uncontrollable urge to escape from slavery..."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 article · creationism · debate · evolution · interesting · philosophy · review · science · theory · logic · citanka

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=13&articleID=00028C98-6F5C-152E-A9F183414B7F0000 - cached - mail it - history

JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 anthropology · earth · education · reference · society · visualization · maps · mapping · history · SCIENCE · mankind · evolution · interesting · genetics · biology

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/ - cached - mail it - history

flickrvision (beta)

Flickr geotagged images in real-time on a map

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 flickr · photos · 写真 · interesting · AJAX · web_2.0 · tools · visualization · photographs · photography · mashup · map · cartography · gallery · geotagging

http://flickrvision.com/ - cached - mail it - history

Does God Play Dice? - Professor Stephen Hawking

"Many scientists are like Einstein, in that they have a deep emotional attachment to determinism. Unlike Einstein, they have accepted the reduction in our ability to predict, that quantum theory brought about."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 lecture · hawking · quantum_physics · interesting · determinism · history · einstein · black_holes

http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/dice2.html - cached - mail it - history

LRB | Jerry Fodor : Look!

"Consilience is an epistemological thesis: roughly, it says that all knowledge reduces to basic science. This would appear to be very different from the metaphysical thesis that all the facts supervene on the facts of basic science."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 philosophy · science · consilience · essay · interesting · for:mandrak

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n21/fodo01_.html - cached - mail it - history

Christian Science Monitor Blog | Verbal Energy Archive May, 2007

"I've just been looking over a couple of other such charts, and I find that the hierarchy they list goes like this: Opinion :: size :: age :: shape :: color :: origin :: material :: purpose."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 linguistics · language · english · interesting

http://weblogs.csmonitor.com/verbal_energy/2007/05/index.html - cached - mail it - history

Get It In Writing: Non-Profit Guerrilla Advertisements

Non-Profit Guerilla Advertising

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 activism · advertising · image · images · photos · marketing · interesting · 写真

http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/05/non-profit-guerrilla-advertisements.html - cached - mail it - history

The last confession of E. Howard Hunt: US government/CIA team murdered JFK

Who killed JFK?

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 jfk · politics · crime · interesting · cia · kennedy

http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=126&a=1565 - cached - mail it - history

Nikon | Universcale

A nice flash comparison of sizes, from galaxies to smallest known particles.

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 flash · visualization · science · size · universe · comparison · interesting · 面白い

http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/index_f.htm - cached - mail it - history

The universe is a string-net liquid - fundamentals - 15 March 2007 - New Scientist

"Normally, electrons prefer to line up so that their spins are in the opposite direction to that of their immediate neighbours, but in a triangle this is impossible . Wen and Levin's model shows that such a system would be a string-net liquid."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 article · interesting · physics · science · Herbertsmithite · matter · string-net · liquid

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19325954.200 - cached - mail it - history

FT.com / Home UK / UK - Youth and war, a deadly duo

"In Mr Heinsohn's view, when 15 to 29-year-olds make up more than 30 per cent of the population, violence tends to happen; when large percentages are under 15, violence is often imminent."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 demographics · politics · society · history · war · sociology · violence · population · interesting · books · for:ognjen

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/652fa2f6-9d2a-11db-8ec6-0000779e2340.html - cached - mail it - history

THE FLAW IN ALL AUTO-FOCUSING CAMERAS (an article from 1985)

"If the lens is focused so that the focal-plane is exactly on the pupil of that eye, the whole picture will take on a quality called "plasticity", the apparent depth-of-field will be greater, and there will be less impression of graininess."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 photography · photographs · interesting · technique · for:mandrak

http://www.anstendig.org/AutofocusFlaw.html - cached - mail it - history

tiffinbites™... real indian food in an instant

"Forbes awarded the humble dabba-wallahs a 6 Sigma performance rating, a term used in quality assurance if the percentage of correctness is 99.9999999 or more."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 lunch · tiffin · india · society · bicycle · interesting

http://www.tiffinbites.com/about/tb.htm - cached - mail it - history

AlterNet: DrugReporter: Confessions of an eBay Opium Addict

"Per instructions, I boiled some water and slurred the mix around until it poured out in a pale yellow oil. I added some lemon and forced it down. Thirty minutes later, I was a poppy plant floating in the vase of my own body."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 addiction · essay · story · ebay · society · article · drug · drugs · politics · interesting · good_writing

http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21673/ - cached - mail it - history

Porno Marketing

"Pornomarketing is a unique and enriching chance to anonymously associate your own brand to highly viral content."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 marketing · fun · interesting · satire · weird

http://www.pornomarketing.com/main.html - cached - mail it - history

8-Circuit Model of Consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Leary claims that this model explained the social conflict in the 1960s, where the mainstream with circuit 4 active and characterized as tribal moralists by Leary, clashed with the counter-culturists, said to be those with circuit 5 active..."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 leary · psychedelics · drugs · theory · interesting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Circuits_of_Consciousness - cached - mail it - history

What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

"Some foods have significantly more calories than others but what does the difference actually look like. Each of the photographs below represents 200 calories of the particular type of food; the images are sorted from low to high calorie density."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 food · health · reference · interesting · photographs · 写真 · 食べ物

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-200-calories-look-like.htm - cached - mail it - history

Giles Bowkett: A Tale of Two Startups

"The irony is, the biggest disruptive innovation that ever came from the Internet could in fact be open source software, and the old industry it destroys will probably be venture capital."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 internet · business · interesting · vc · venture_capital · software · startups · entrepreneurship · opinion

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2006/12/tale-of-two-startups.html - cached - mail it - history

eXile - Issue #253 - War Nerd - Why I Hate WW II - By Gary Brecher

"Stalin he won because his brand of fascism was actually way more ruthless and bloody and effective than Hitler's smalltime snobbery, and because Stalin had the whole US industrial machine backing him."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 geek · funny · ww2 · war · history · opinion · interesting · fascism · brecher

http://www.exile.ru/2006-December-15/war_nerd.html - cached - mail it - history

How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web's Haystack

"As we'll see, the trick is to ask the web itself to rank the importance of pages."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 google · pagerank · technology · reference · interesting

http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/pagerank.html - cached - mail it - history

Make Create: Google Backdoor

Changing useragent to Googlebot, very clever.

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 google · hack · useragent · firefox · internet · interesting · useful · web

http://makecreate.blogspot.com/2006/10/secret-backdoor-to-many-websites.html - cached - mail it - history

Swivel

"Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 AJAX · web2.0 · web · visualization · data · geek · graph · fun · science · resource · reference · statistics · storage · sharing · interesting · internet · economics · ideas · information · trends · tools

http://www.swivel.com/ - cached - mail it - history

Cube of Space: Psychological Space: The Metapsychology of the Cube of Space: The Dimensions of Consciousness & the Structure of Human Experience: The Total Experience of What's Happening

"The directions of the Cube are psycho-spatial and symbolic and represent centers or spheres of emotional consciousness which leave their imprint on our neurology, our cognitive processing, our symbolic thought and expression, and our experience."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 weird · interesting · philosophy · psychology · language · metapsychology

http://www.psyche.com/psyche/cube/cube_metapsychology.html - cached - mail it - history

Wee planets - a photoset on Flickr

"All these pictures are 360° panoramas projected to look like small planets."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 photography · photos · photographs · 写真 · interesting · 面白い

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadl/sets/72157594279945875/ - cached - mail it - history

Turkeys! - a photoset on Flickr

"Turkeys, as drawn by Penn undergrads in Psychology 1 at the end of their midterm exam. 9 hungry folks drew a cooked Butterball turkey 5 had their turkey saying "eat me!" ... but 6 had the turkey protest "don't eat me!""

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 art · education · flickr · turkey · drawing · psychology · penn · interesting · 面白い

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3e/sets/72157594386595920/ - cached - mail it - history

Polygon Worlds - Bringing Space down to Earth

"Gravity3D simulates the gravitational interaction between galaxies as they collide. It uses the gravity equation F=G*M1*M2/R^2 and assumes that orbiting stars have negligible mass compared to the parent stars/black holes."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 gravity · galaxy · galaxies · space · astronomy · astrophysics · software · interesting · science

http://www.adrian.lark.btinternet.co.uk/PWGravity3D.htm - cached - mail it - history

TEDTalks (audio, video)

"Each week, we'll release a new talk, in audio and video, to download or watch online. For best effect, plan to listen to at least three, start to finish. They have a cumulative effect..." I recommend Dawkins and Gladwell (as video) to start it off...

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 ted · lecture · interesting · video · audio · podcast · economics · psychology · physics · religion · education · internet · future · for:marcell · for:mestwina · for:dpavlin · for:ognjen

http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/index.cfm?flashEnabled=1 - cached - mail it - history

The Chronicle: 11/17/2006: The Social Responsibility in Teaching Sociobiology

"Exhortations to extreme selflessness are easy to parody, as not only unrealistic but also paradoxically self-serving insofar as the exhorter is likely to benefit at the expense of the one exhorted."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 article · biology · society · education · essay · ethics · evolution · genetics · interesting · morality · philosophy · psychology · Sociobiology · science · for:mandrak

http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=xm3c4mgmb8b6fhkn54zhzwxfcgbzpjdl - cached - mail it - history

25 Greatest Science Books of All-Time - Discover Magazine - science news articles online technology magazine articles 25 Greatest Science Books of All-Time

Darwin takes the medal.

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 discover · books · education · interesting · learning · literature · science · reference · review · reading

http://www.discover.com/issues/dec-06/features/25-greatest-science-books/ - cached - mail it - history

PRACTICAL LINGUIST / Unique language sounds bar learning : The Language Connection : Features : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

"One big reason why Japanese and English speakers have difficulty learning each other's languages is that they cannot hear them. Our neural mechanisms are beautifully tuned to catch the sounds of our native languages..."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 日本語 · japanese · english · linguistics · pronounciation · interesting · language · psychology · research

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/language/20061117TDY14003.htm - cached - mail it - history

Google engEDU - Google Video

A whole bunch of Google engEDU lectures

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 google · computers · hacking · interesting · learning · network · presentation · reference · lecture · to_watch · Education · tutorial · technology · science

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Google+engEDU - cached - mail it - history

Deconstructing a 'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Trojan

Some insightful graphs

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 spam · internet · security · sysadmin · interesting

http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,l=&s=25954&a=194164,00.asp - cached - mail it - history

The Key Role of Impurities in Ancient Damascus Steel Blades

"Recently, however, research has established strong evidence supporting the theory that the distinct surface patterns on these blades result from a carbide-banding phenomenon produced by the microsegregation of minor amounts..."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · technology · wootz · sword · swords · metallurgy · steel · interesting · 面白い · damascus

http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9809/Verhoeven-9809.html - cached - mail it - history

Cheney’s Revenge

[converted to Unicode] "Cheney knows that the story about a â€œDemocratic sweepâ€‽ is utter nonsense. He knows who operates the voting machines and how get the results he wants. The normal procedures for rigging the election were simply put on ho

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 military · neocons · news · politics · war · america · cheney · bush · interesting · middle_east · system:badutf8

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15582.htm - cached - mail it - history

The New Yorker: PRINTABLES

"If you think of insurance as producing wasteful consumption of medical services, then the fact that there are forty-five million Americans without health insurance is no longer an immediate cause for alarm."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 analysis · essay · government · health · america · interesting · medicine · politics · poverty · economics · society · economy · healthcare · insurance

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050829fa_fact - cached - mail it - history

UK report: knowledge should be public good first, private right second

"Furthermore, the authors believe that making knowledge a social good first will actually foster increased innovation and therefore more money for UK businesses."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 article · copyright · europe · interesting · law · news · patents · politics · public · social · society · UK · britain · cc · intellectual_property

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061102-8133.html - cached - mail it - history

US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag

The themes of American presidents' speeches, through history

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 america · politics · tagcloud · history · interactive · interesting · 面白い · speech

http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/ - cached - mail it - history

Uêba - Making Shoes in China

A photographic essay of sorts from a Chinese factory which makes shoes for Nike.

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 china · 中国 · nike · shoes · photographs · photos · 写真 · factory · interesting · 面白い

http://ueba.net/hosted_pages/Making-Shoes-in-China-20061026 - cached - mail it - history

Grok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 grok · linguistics · language · wikipedia · wiki · definition · dictionary · etymology · interesting · geek

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok - cached - mail it - history

Getting Real

A book by 37signals (known for Basecamp) on web software development and team management.

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 software · development · management · organization · documentation · business · web2.0 · web_2.0 · web · interesting · productivity · 37signals · technology · startup

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php - cached - mail it - history

Boriska—boy from Mars - Pravda.Ru

"Logs were cracking, night's fog enveloped the area and the immense dark sky with myriads of brightly lit stars seemed to conceal some sort of a mystery."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 sf · literature · interesting

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/12257_Martian.html - cached - mail it - history

Saying 'No' to an Executable Internet

The author is completely wrong when he says that Windows did not have any security until 2000. Windows NT was designed from the outset to obtain Orange book B2 certification. It would take a huge amount of work to get Linux to meet that criteria.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 interesting · slashdot · IT · linux · windows · internet

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=177135&cid=14699834 - cached - mail it - history

Evolutionary Timeline

Evolutionary Timeline: from first life-forms to homo sapiens

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 evolution · nature · history · reference · interesting · visualization

http://andabien.com/html/words/evolution-px.htm - cached - mail it - history

Art MoCo: "The World"

"Wilde painstakingly cuts various shapes out of paper money from around the world to form collages with economic and political undertones and overlays."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 art · collage · money · 面白い · interesting

http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/002478.php - cached - mail it - history

Chizumatic - Too many words about The Matrix

"What we hear in the first movie about using humans as a power source is nonsense; humans consume energy, they don't produce it. The reality is that the captive humans in the Matrix exist so that the Machines have something to do."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 matrix · interesting · 面白い · discussion · theory · film

http://denbeste.nu/Chizumatic/tmw/TheMatrix.shtml - cached - mail it - history

Jason Salavon - Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades

"The photographs in this suite are the result of mean averaging every Playboy centerfold foldout for the four decades beginning Jan. 1960 through Dec. 1999. This tracks, en masse, the evolution of this form of portraiture."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 art · digital · interesting · media · visualization

http://salavon.com/PlayboyDecades/PlayboyDecades.shtml - cached - mail it - history

フォトギャラリー | 首都圏外郭放水路インフォメーション

Some very impressive photos of a storm water drainage system from Japan...

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 日本 · images · interesting · 面白い · photographs · 写真 · architecture · japan

http://www.g-cans.jp/intro/07photo/index.html - cached - mail it - history

How to Meditate

"Cultivating constructive thoughts is the purpose of the transforming meditations found in the Buddhist tradition. This is a profound spiritual practice you can enjoy throughout the day, not just while seated in meditation."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 brain · buddhism · fun · health · interesting · medicine · psychology · tips · meditation · howto · tutorial

http://www.how-to-meditate.org/ - cached - mail it - history

The Deep Sky Frontier

A: This page is 9 quadrillion pixels wide by 9 quadrillion pixels tall. Thus it contains 8.1 nonillion of pixels.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 interesting · 面白い · astronomy

http://www.deepskyfrontier.com/ - cached - mail it - history

Discovery Channel :: News :: Study: Sperm Have Sense of Smell

"Sperm cells possess olfactory receptor proteins; Some sperm cells can find ovarian scents even when the scents are diluted 100,000 times."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 sperm · smell · biology · reproduction · interesting

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060612/sperm_hea.html - cached - mail it - history

Gene Expression: 10 questions for Steven Pinker

"The normal version of the FOXP2 gene gives a boost in a variety of measures of fluency and grammatical complexity to its speakers, and it or similar mutations could have been part of a suite of adaptations that led to our subspecies' success."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 genetics · psychology · interview · interesting · 面白い

http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2006/07/10-questions-for-steven-pinker.php - cached - mail it - history

Roots of human family tree are shallow - Yahoo! News

"That means everybody on Earth descends from somebody who was around as recently as the reign of Tutankhamen, maybe even during the Golden Age of ancient Greece."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 article · evolution · genetics · history · nature · statistics · science · ancestors · family · genealogy · interesting · 面白い

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_sc/brotherhood_of_man - cached - mail it - history

stamen: vox delicii

And the algorithm seemed to change fairly often - one week we'd see alot of sports names, the next political names, seemingly based on a variety of different circumstances that didn't seem to fit into any pattern.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 interesting · 面白い · statistics · visualization · google · del.icio.us · technology · information · geek · folksonomies · culture · computers · web2.0

http://news.stamen.com/vox/ - cached - mail it - history

AOL Keyword Searches

"AOL has released search data to the public. This includes over 20 million search queries from 658,000 of AOL's users."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 database · search · AOL · interesting · 面白い

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Damn Interesting » Evolving Universes

"Thus, our universe which has complexity and is therefore very successful at creating black holes/new universes is spawning universes that also have complexity, and will pass that trait onto their progeny … much like evolution."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 physics · science · space · interesting · 面白い

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Neatorama » Blog Archive » Six Horrifying Parasites.

"Filaria often lodge in the body’s lymphatic system, where they can inflict any number of torturous symptoms, not the least which involves carting your genitals off to the elephantiasis clinic in a wheelbarrow."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 parasites · animals · biology · interesting · 面白い

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The Hive Mind Discovers Aliens | MetaFilter

"Diamond estimates that, at any given time, our galaxy has 1 to 2 civilization with radio technology. They are likely to be so far apart that by the time Planet A's message reaches Planet B, both civilizations have imploded."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 mefi · discussion · intelligent_life · universe · physics · interesting · for:mandrak

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Edge: IN THE NEWS

"The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 edge · magazine · science · interesting · 面白い

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Cargo cult - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The problem was that the women believed the abaci themselves were magical, and that they would be protected from pregnancy by moving a white bead into the place of the red bead before intercourse."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 cults · culture · history · information · interesting · religion · wikipedia · cult

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Las Vegas City Life

"This is commercial equipment," Arnold says. "It's not art. These are old, tired street whores that belong out in the alley with their legs in the air and their slots open, ready to make money. That's what they do. They don't sit in somebody's rec room."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 games · pinball · history · interesting

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One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence.

"One Sentence is about telling your story, briefly. Insignificant stories, everyday stories, or turning-point-in-your-life stories, boiled down to their bare essentials."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 writing · literature · short · story · stories · sentence · interesting · blog · collaboration · communitiy · fun

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Time Cube

"A Belief Matrix pulls a 1 day world over your eyes, while the real Cubic World has 4 simultaneous days in 1 Earth rotation."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 language · philosophy · religion · schizophrenia · interesting · education · reference · physics · science · theory · time · weird

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Death and Taxes: 2007 by *mibi on deviantART

2007 version of the popular visualization of how the American tax dollars are spent.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 information · interesting · money · reference · taxes · visualization · america · fascism

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Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | The threat is from those who accept climate change, not those who deny it

"If the biosphere is wrecked, it will be destroyed by nice, well-meaning, cosmopolitan people who accept the case for cutting emissions, but who won't change by one iota the way they live."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 ecology · monbiot · globalwarming · environment · climate · politics · essay · guardian · earth · interesting · biosphere

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Big Spanish Castle

A remarkable optical illusion.

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 optical_illusion · optical · illusion · photography · color · image · interesting · for:mandrak

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E.W. Dijkstra Archive: On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (EWD 1036)

"One must consider one's own past, the experiences collected, and the habits formed in it as an unfortunate accident of history, and one has to approach the radical novelty with a blank mind"

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 computer · computers · education · geek · history · interesting · philosophy · science · software · writing · advocacy

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whitney music box var. 0 - chromatic - 48 tines

"a musical realization of the motion graphics of john whitney as described in his book 'digital harmony'"

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 visualization · music · flash · interesting · 面白い · fun · graphics · animation · cool · harmonics · for:mestwina · for:marcell · for:jklindzic · for:mandrak · for:giovannina_coccola · for:dpavlin · mathematics

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India: Hole-in-the-Wall

""To test his ideas, Mitra launched something he calls "the hole in the wall experiment." He took a PC connected to a high-speed data connection and imbedded it in a concrete wall next to NIIT's headquarters in the south end of New Delhi."

by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 children · computer · computers · education · interesting · internet · learning · poverty · psychology · reference · society · technology · india · culture

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