Monthly Archives: November 2006

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Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact
go to Evoutionary Design and click on the video

The Blue Walrus – indie music for the masses � End of work update (Tori Amos, Yo Yo Ma, The Blow, Kid Koala)

November 30th, 2006
End of work update (Tori Amos, Yo Yo Ma, The Blow, Kid Koala)

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Population and Demographic Resources – refdesk.com
in sumn: everything is here, with links

I have read this book and it is both informative and well written]

American Scientist Online – On the Perils of Publishing

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution. David Quammen. 304 pp. W. W. Norton, 2006. $22.95.

Since the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, interest in Darwin’s life has waned and eventually waxed, especially after the publication in the last 20 years of his private notebooks and correspondence. Several excellent biographers have used these materials to inform us about the great scientist’s thought processes and to examine details of his everyday life.

Yet even with this new information, Darwin’s behavior is still puzzling. He ached for recognition from his scientific peers, but, as David Quammen suggests with his title—The Reluctant Mr. Darwin—Darwin postponed publishing the very theory he wanted recognition for discovering.

Natur im Bild
clicking on any photo at link brings up gallery of that photo (species or type)

(Fish Chris) Big Science Savant kim peek – Google Video
this savant is the guy the Rain Man (starring Dustin Hoffman) was based upon

Gallery – Greece – Blue Caves

all Domai girls

The Babes of Flickr |
scroll for nice looking girls…no nudity

Jean Pierre Dutilleux – The Zoe

In the state of Para, Northern Brazil, in one of the last still largely unexplored rainforests in the world, a new tribe, the Zoe, was recently contacted. They live between the Amazon River and the country of Surinam. The Zoe are part of the tupi linguistic group. Little is known about them. They are semi-nomadic hunters and gatherers. Their favorite prey is monkey, which is plentiful in the region. The Zoe’s hunting grounds cover an area of over one million acres. In such immensity, they don’t have a notion of territory. The Zoe say that land belongs to no one. Their sense of property applies only to their hunting trails. When they kill a monkey with young babies, they bring them back to the village, where they are treated like family pets; they are even given their own hammocks and they never get eaten

Discovery Channel :: News – Archaeology :: Maya Teased Ears Through Architecture

Some ancient civilizations may have had an ear — not just an eye — for architecture. Two recent studies suggest early builders intentionally added unusual, and often psychedelic, sound effects to their structures.

Some of the most striking examples are at the 1,100-year-old Maya Great Ball Court at Chichen Itza, Mexico, according to David Lubman, who will present findings at the upcoming Fourth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan in Hawaii.

Dickens’ London Page

Dickens applied his unique power of observation to the city in which he spent most of his life. He routinely walked the city streets, 10 or 20 miles at a time, and his descriptions of nineteenth century London allow readers to experience the sights, sounds, and smells of the old city. Fleet StreetThis ability to immerse the reader into time and place sets the perfect stage for Dickens to weave his fiction.

World Language Statistics and Facts

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Saint Nicholas ::: Discovering the Truth About Santa Claus

Advent through Epiphany – Traditions and symbols
From Advent to Epiphany: Traditions and Symbols
Overview of traditions and symbols associated with the Christian church
seasons of Advent and Christmas. Topics include advent calendars, candy
canes, Christmas cards, Christmas trees, crèches, fruitcake, mistletoe,
and poinsettias. From the United Methodist Church. Note: Links to some
sites are broken

NOVA Online | 18 Ways to Make a Baby
video too

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0606/feature2/images/ft_hdr.2.jpg

Mystery Mummy – Mystery of the Tattooed Mummy, Moche, Feature Article – National Geographic Magazine

Hanukkah Recipes and Cooking Tips at Epicurious.com

Welcome to the Beethoven-House Bonn!

all photos found here

Nude Photos of the Day – I gathered these from Babe Gala

The amazing history of pi

Pi (symbol)

has a long and interesting history!

Virginia’s Diplomats – Virginia Historical Society
Virginia’s Diplomats
Companion to a 2006 exhibit of objects, photos, and documents exploring
how “Virginians have played important roles representing America’s
interests abroad or supervising its foreign policy.” Topics include how
James Monroe of Virginia went to Paris to negotiate the purchase of New
Orleans with Napoleon Bonaparte, the Monroe Doctrine and manifest
destiny, and Civil War diplomacy. From the Virginia Historical Society.

After the Day of Infamy: ‘Man-on-the-Street’ Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor: Home Page

After the Day of Infamy: “Man-on-the-Street” Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from more than two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States. On December 8, 1941 (the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor), Alan Lomax, then “assistant in charge” of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center), sent a telegram to fieldworkers in ten different localities across the United States, asking them to collect “man-on-the-street” reactions of ordinary Americans to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent declaration of war by the United States. A second series of interviews, called “Dear Mr. President,” was recorded in January and February 1942. Both collections are included in this presentation. They feature a wide diversity of opinion concerning the war and other social and political issues of the day, such as racial prejudice and labor disputes. The result is a portrait of everyday life in America as the United States entered World War II.

How To Do An Annual Financial Checkup

Are You On the Road to Financial Freedom or Do You Need to Make a U-Turn?
You may have had your annual physical exam and taken your car in for scheduled service this year, but what about your annual financial checkup?

Senses of Cinema

an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema

Moronland.net – Top 20 Unusual Homicides

20. Alex Mijtus, 36 years old, was killed by his wife, armed with a 20 inch long vibrator. Mrs Mijtus had had enough of her husband’s strange sex practices and one night during a prolonged period of “fun” she snapped, pushing all 20 inches of the vibrator into Alex’s anus until it ruptured several internal organs and caused severe bleeding.

Ex-spy’s poison on the Internet / $69 can get you a trace of the commonly used lethal industrial chemical

A screen grab from www.unitednuclear.com, a Web site that…

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It’s one of the deadliest imaginable poisons, a radioactive substance about 100 billion times as deadly as cyanide — and a Web site run by a physicist and flying saucer enthusiast offers to sell you a trace amount of it for $69 and send it via the U.S. Postal Service or UPS.

Mr. Skin – #1 Nude Celebrity Club
this is a video from a film starring Tom Cruise and his then wife Nicole Kidman. In this piece, she is partially nude and he fondles her breasts. Since at the time they were married, she as a major star seems to have no problem with this sort of thing…ah, time, mortality, divorce

MedlinePlus: Phobias
study of phobias. See link to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for assessment of latest therapy treatment that seems to get good results for a variety of psychological issues.

Naughty Sculptures

Hegre girl

Index of Medieval Medical Images (IMMI)

Encyclopedia of World Biography

Search the Encyclopedia of World Biography

Aliciante

手コキマシン「メンズソム」プレビュー
photos to explain its use…holiday gift, perhaps.

North America

The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page: Quotes on Patriotism

Powell’s Books – Review-a-Day – Mao’s Last Revolution by Roderick Macfarquhar, reviewed by The New Republic Online

by Roderick Macfarquhar

The Bloody Enigma
A Review by Andrew J. Nathan

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This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the start of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. According to a later Chinese Communist Party official, one hundred million people were killed, driven to suicide, beaten, convicted in “unjust, false, and erroneous cases,” “sent down,” or otherwise affected by what Chinese now call the “ten-year catastrophe.” Yet the anniversary was greeted by silence in China and abroad. At home, people are not allowed to commemorate Mao’s horrors, because the current leaders sustain their regime through the same internal secrecy and arbitrary repression that made the Cultural Revolution possible. Abroad, people think that China has changed so much that its old tragedies are no longer relevant. Besides, it is not polite to remind our trading partners of events that they wish to forget.

RedOrbit – Science – Study Finds that a Single Impact Killed the Dinosaurs

Data supports the single-impact theory in a controversial discussion

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The dinosaurs, along with the majority of all other animal species on Earth, went extinct approximately 65 million years ago. Some scientists have said that the impact of a large meteorite in the Yucatan Peninsula, in what is today Mexico, caused the mass extinction, while others argue that there must have been additional meteorite impacts or other stresses around the same time.

A new study provides compelling evidence that “one and only one impact” caused the mass extinction, according to a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher.

Planet typography • Online resources on typefaces and typography

typography
typographic art, news, ressources
typefaces
foundries, downloadable types
history of printing
biographies, regional monographies, p�riods
institutions
organisations, museums & exhibitions, libraries
calligraphy
latin calligraphers , arabic/hebrew, chinese/japanese
graphic design
books, miscelleanous

The Vault: The Bee Gees, Before They Got Really High – Idolator

The Vault: The Bee Gees, Before They Got Really High

beegees.jpgYou’ve no doubt already included 186 lbs. worth of box sets on your holiday wish-lists, but after listening to Bee Gees: The Studio Albums 1967-1968 non-stop over the holidays, we think you should squeeze in one more. Focusing on the Gibbs’ brothers pre-disco heyday, the six Studio discs veer from hippie-dippy psychedelia to wistful piano balladry to straight-up Brit-pop–and, as you can probably guess, there’s no shortage of stacked harmonies. Three stereo tracks from Horizontal

Viral Video Chart – Today’s Top 20 Viral Videos

Luc Vanhauw’s Photo Galleries at pbase.com
[at link, clicking on each photo brings up a gallery of that geographical location]

This “story” found here was not “complete” so I imposed a final photo for narrative closure.

The Writer’s Almanac from American Public Media

Poem: “Yes” by Catherine Doty, from Momentum. � Cavan Kerry Press. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)
[poem at link]

“Yes”

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A society in which older gal is sexier
Last week a 33-year-old reader asked me to investigate his curious attraction to older women – much older, in their 70s or 80s. Varicose veins turn him on, he said, and he’s a big fan of “granny porn.”