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1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. by Susie Steiner (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying)

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I recently interviewed the founder of a new production company that specializes in video storytelling for small brands, rather than traditional advertising. Coudal Partners has been making these kinds of films to promote its own in-house brands for a while now, and their slam-dunk effectiveness is heartbreakingly apparent in their latest piece, Red Blooded. by John Pavlos (http://

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It makes me think of how in the Autobiography of Malcolm X published in 1968, the iconic activist wrote about why he dressed in tailored suits and ties: “In order to get something, you had to look like you already had something.” It looks like nearly 50 years later, the Occupy movement is trying to do the same thing in a modern way — on the web. by Colleen Taylor(http://gigaom.com/2012/02/02/

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Hi Ilka Guigova, Thank you for your interest in AI Class and congratulations to those who successfully graduated. We were totally amazed that over 23,000 students made it all the way to the end in a Stanford graduate-level class. Due to popular demand, we are teaching a follow-up class: AI for Robotics at www.udacity.com . Also due to popular demand, we now have a programming environment, so

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In January 2012, we sit again on the cusp of three grand technological transformations with the potential to rival that of the past century. All find their epicenters in America: big data, smart manufacturing and the wireless revolution. by Mark Mills and Julio Ottino (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203471004577140413041646048.html)

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Pink (or magenta, to use its official name) simply isn’t there. But if pink isn’t in the light spectrum, how come we can see it? by Liz Elliott (http://www.biotele.com/magenta.html)

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Here's the thing: Apple has to bring it to justify those premium prices. And it typically does, even when it is late to the game. The iPod wasn't the first music player, but it was the best; it was simple and wonderful. The iPhone was not the first smartphone, but it changed people's lives in a way that hadn't happened before; it was intuitive and powerful. The iPad was not the first of its kind,

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In Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., created a new religion, Bokononism. The holy scripture of Bokononism was the ever-growing "Books of Bokonon", written by Bokonon -- a British Episcopalian Negro from the island of Tobago whose real name was Lionel Boyd Johnson [ 48 ] -- as a way to distract the people of San Lorenzo from their pitiful lives. What is sacred to Bokononists? Not God; just one

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“Time is fluid here,” said the demon. He knew it was a demon the moment he saw it. He knew it, just as he knew the place was Hell. There was nothing else that either of them could have been. by (http://holdinghandswithhades.edublogs.org/seven-deadly-sins-part-7-the-others-by-neil-gaiman/)

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Here as an idea for stubborn creative designers: look around and find something that you really dislike, and keep changing it every day. Or, if you are really stubborn, for the next years to come. Crazy? Well, that's what Nicole Meyer committed to when she started the Branding 10,000 Lakes project. by Nicole Meyer(http://www.branding10000lakes.com/)

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SUM is a dazzling exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered–each presented as a vignette that offers us a stunning lens through which to see ourselves here and now. by (http://www.amazon.com/Sum-Forty-Afterlives-David-Eagleman/dp/0307377342)

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Google said Tuesday it will require users to allow the company to follow their activities across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a radical shift in strategy that is expected to invite greater scrutiny of its privacy and competitive practices. The information will enable Google to develop a fuller picture of how people use its growing empire of Web sites. Consumers will have no choice

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Tweets found by @qrush while wading through the eternal derpness of the 24 hour Wikipedia SOPA blackout. No more retweets here until the next blackout! by (https://twitter.com/herpderpedia)

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The alleged problem this time is that in the 21st century students and teachers are being forced to use an outmoded technology from 1950: the textbook. To be honest I was a little disappointed that the teacher in the video didn’t just go the whole hog and condemn the printed book itself as an outmoded technology from 1450. The solution involves Apple selling as many iPads as possible, and taking

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Tango in Harlem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGoj0jxd7PI Straight to number one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FefGrheOY Life is a beach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryalMzJhmO8 Would you...?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brPbF-cUTwE Mo' Horizons::Southern fried funky lovesong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bAeEA-ZdSk MMarinda and Solari::Show me love: http://www.myspace.com/

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As the influential psychologist Hans Eysenck observed, introversion fosters creativity by “concentrating the mind on the tasks in hand, and preventing the dissipation of energy on social and sexual matters unrelated to work.” In other words, a person sitting quietly under a tree in the backyard, while everyone else is clinking glasses on the patio, is more likely to have an apple land on his head

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There is no room in this world for fear while programming. As a programmer, you have to be courageous, bold, fearless, and ruthless. If you can't bring yourself to remove legacy code because you may need it later, you've failed. Whenever I feel hesitation while programming, I make a mental note to seriously reconsider what I'm doing. If it makes me feel uncomfortable, there's a good chance I need

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To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves. by (http://www.edge.org/responses/what-is-your-favorite-deep-elegant-or-beautiful-explanation)

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This book is for Daddy. Daddy says a company is like a body. He also says other stuff. This book is about all that. by Sally (http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2494)

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Like myself, today's twentysomethings were raised to find our dreams and follow them. But it's a different world. And as the jobless generation grows up, we realize the grand betrayal of the false idols of passion. This philosophy no longer works for us, or at most, feels incomplete. So what do we do? I propose a different frame of reference: Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on

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From Infinity to Fibonacci, or what religious mythology has to do with the inner workings of field science. by Maria Popova (http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/12/12/best-science-books-2011/)

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On a quest to find the person who speaks the most languages on Earth, our correspondent encountered Emil Krebs, a German diplomat who knew, by some accounts, 65 of them—and happily swore in dozens. by Michael Erard (http://www.themorningnews.org/article/king-of-the-hyperpolyglots) See also: http://www.themorningnews.org/article/nicole-krauss http://www.themorningnews.org/article/

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She scrunched into a ball beneath the covers and wept. She could not be asked to remain in this apartment without him. Not after all this. He held within him too much of the contents of her life. But it was not a question. You cannot ask a freighter to turn back once it has begun to drift away. It is too immense. And as cumbersome as its parting may seem, its course is inevitable once set in

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Does the enhancement of human physical and intellectual capacities undermine virtue? by Ronald Bailey (http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-case-for-enhancing-people)

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These troubling trends play out most vividly in the drug industry. Although modern pharmaceuticals are supposed to represent the practical payoff of basic research, the R&D to discover a promising new compound now costs about 100 times more (in inflation-adjusted dollars) than it did in 1950. (It also takes nearly three times as long.) This trend shows no sign of letting up: Industry forecasts

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by (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2Fj3q4hRBKGKE&h=JAQH-tOHDAQGGAHhMCHXpAEKt2dq1FpjcgA9nYAr9AR5XzQ)

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This cute concept forces you to get up and do some Yo-Yo tricks to re-energize it because the battery drains out fast! by Shih-Chan Chiu (http://www.yankodesign.com/2011/12/13/im-yo-yo-over-this/)

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What is I C U Every day, tiny stories spring up from the Southern California maze of freeways and neighborhoods and into the "missed connections" section of Craigslist. Most don't have Hollywood endings, it's just hopeful residents trying to meet, reconnect, share moments in some way. For the lucky few, lives change. Every week, video-journalist Katy Newton tracks down the faces behind the posts.

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By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow. by Larry Hardesty (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html)

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Dr. Mike Evans is founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael's Hospital. by (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUaInS6HIGo&feature=player_embedded)

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It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the choices,

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by Jon Rafman (http://9-eyes.com/) See Also: IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View

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What happened in Stafford's work was that he was talking about organization and how things organize themselves in this new way. And there was one sentence in the book which I think I still remember, he said 'instead of trying to organize it in full detail, you organize it only somewhat and you then rely on the dynamics of the system to take you in the direction you want to go.' And this became

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What is it like to circle the Earth? Every 90 minutes, astronauts aboard the International Space Station experience just that. Recently, crew members took a series of light-sensitive videos looking down at night that have been digitally fused to produce the above time-lapse video. Many wonders of the land and sky are visible in the eighteen sequences, including red aurora above green aurora,

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As the 120-ton space shuttle sits surrounded by almost 4 million pounds of rocket fuel, exhaling noxious fumes, visibly impatient to defy gravity, its on-board computers take command... But how much work the software does is not what makes it remarkable. What makes it remarkable is how well the software works. This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free.

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The challenge of designing a personal computer that “the rest of us” would not only buy, but fall crazy in love with, however, required input from the kind of people who might some day be convinced to try using a Mac. Fittingly, one of the team’s most auspicious early hires was a young artist herself: Susan Kare. by Steve Silberman (http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/11/22/

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No Talk, All Action. Launch a Startup in 54 hours. Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate and inspire individuals, teams and communities. Come share ideas, form teams and launch startups. by (http://www.tippett.me/)

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Unemployment represents a crisis of imagination, a failure to figure out how to make potential workers productive in the modern economy. The people who make creative leaps to solve that problem are entrepreneurs. If we want to bring America’s jobs back, our governments—federal, state, and local—need to tear down barriers to entrepreneurship, create a fertile field for start-up businesses, and

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Born in denmark 1978. I write and direct television shows for kids. I have a set of twins and not much time for anything. But when I have time I draw monsterdrawings on post-it notes... it is a little window into a different world, made on office supplies. by Don Kenn (http://johnkenn.blogspot.com/)

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Panoramic photography creates fascinating images. Very wide angle images are closer to the human field of view than conventional pictures. If seen through a panoramic viewer they let us experience a location as if we were there. Panoramic image stitching can create panoramas from pictures taken one after another. Unfortunately, acquiring the images takes a lot of time and moving objects may cause

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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. Schlegel

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In 2010 Mr Robin Lawrance Runing in the City of Ottawa Election for the Officer of MAYOR and I did not win at this time and I put out $500.00 and this time was not good for Mr Robin Lawrance. So I am in Election for the Office of MAYOR in the City of Vancouver BC. on November 19th, 2011 and I Mr Robin Lawrance will win this Election and be Come your new MAYOR on November 19th, 2011. At this Time

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http://thedoghousediaries.com/3175

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A research project at Microsoft Research Cambridge has brought forth a prototype called Holodesk, which lets you manipulate virtual objects with your hand. You literally "get your hands on" the virtual display. According to the official description from its creators, there is at work a "novel real-time algorithm for representing hands and other physical objects" allowing physically realistic

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All public speakers could learn something from this—if only how modest their own demands are. Co-founder of free software movement will happily address your meeting, so long as every last detail is exactly how he wants it [The Browser] by (https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2011-October/007647.html)

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The world's population is expected to hit seven billion in the next few weeks. After growing very slowly for most of human history, the number of people on Earth has more than doubled in the last 50 years. Where do you fit into this story of human life? by (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515)

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This young woodturner can be found plying his trade in the medina of old Marrakech. With just one tool (a skew chisel) he turns a chess piece on a bow lathe that would have been a familiar sight in ancient Greece or the Pharaoh,s Egypt. by (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnv0DAR_gWA&feature=player_embedded#!)

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“What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.” ― Terry Pratchett, Eric by (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLjCfe6e_pg)

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Among developers, McCarthy may be best known as the inventor of Lisp, which he devised in 1958 while at MIT and published in the seminal work "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I.” Lisp was originally developed for AI applications, but was quickly adopted by the industry, gained enormous popularity among developers, and is still in use today as

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Let me introduce you to the seedy underbelly of the iPhone, a world where not all is as it seems and certainly not all is as it should be. by (http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/10/secret-ios-business-what-you-dont-know.html)

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When viewing LCD monitors from an oblique angle, it is not uncommon to witness a dramatic color shift. Occasionally, this can appear as a total color inversion. This is primarily caused by a polarization asymmetry, where light rays passing through the pixel matrix at oblique angles are influenced by the relative orientation of the liquid crystal (see paper for more details). by (http://

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The bullshit generator is bullshit. I saw the same stuff 10 years ago. —anonymous by (http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html)

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The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York's Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere (see photo). But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power. It combines the mathematics

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Село Врабча се намира в планината Гребен, гранична между България и Сърбия. Отстои на 70 км от София и на 10 км от Трън. Малък водопад и прекрасно място за разходка се намират вляво от пътя, непосредствено преди селото по пътя от Трън. by Wikipedia (http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%87%D0%B0) http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=136837 http://

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A New Way To Fund & Follow Creativity by (http://www.kickstarter.com/) See Also: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshharker/crania-anatomica-filigre-me-to-you?ref=discover_pop http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251588730/kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space

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This fundamental investment vs. expenditure mindset changes everything. You think of education as fundamentally a quality problem. The average person thinks of education as fundamentally a cost problem. by Avichal (http://avichal.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/why-education-startups-do-not-succeed/)

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The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security

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Sofia Kovalevskaya, Emmy Noether and Ada Lovelace are just three of the many famous female mathematicians you should know. by (http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/10/five-historic-female-mathematicians-you-should-know/)

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Hypertext fiction is in a tough place now. Born into a world that wasn’t quite ready for it, and encumbered with lousy technology and user-hostile interface design, it got a bad reputation, at least outside of specialized reading circles. At the same time, it’s impossibly hard to create, one of the only modes of fiction I know of which is more demanding than the novel. (And then add to that the

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In the last nine months of planning the Contact Summit, I’ve come across a range of projects and initiatives building toward the “Next Net.” Though they vary in their stages of development and specific implementations, they fall under the common themes of enabling peer-to-peer communication and exchange, protecting personal freedom and privacy, and giving people more control over their data and

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With the move to ICD-10, the one code for suturing an artery will become 195 codes, designating every single artery, among other variables, according to OptumInsight, a unit of UnitedHealth Group Inc. A single code for a badly healed fracture could now translate to 2,595 different codes, the firm calculates. Each signals information including what bone was broken, as well as which side of the

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Yet one big question remains: why should quantum logic fit human behaviour? Peter Bruza at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, suggests the reason is to do with our finite brain being overwhelmed by the complexity of the environment yet having to take action long before it can calculate its way to the certainty demanded by classical logic. Quantum logic may be more

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Looking homeward in its long journey to Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft offered up this rare view of our home planet with its moon. The spacecraft was some six million miles (nearly 10 million kilometers) from Earth when it took this photo on August 26, 2011. From this distance, oceans, land, clouds, and ice blend into a blur of light, a mere dot against the vastness of space. Even fainter and

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When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No”

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Up until now, transactional memory research has mostly focused on software-based implementations. Real processors don't actually support transactional memory, so it has to be emulated in some way. Some schemes make use of virtual machines to do this—there are transactional memory modifications for the .NET and Java virtual machines, for example—others use native code, and require programmers to

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Overall, we believe that the changes we want to see in the world are only possible if we invest time in people. Changes won’t result from giving things away, they won’t result from throwing more money at a problem, and they won’t happen by rushing to reach more and more places without committing the time to create high quality impacts. We are just as impatient as the rest of the people looking

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On ancient maps Dragons were drawn to symbolize the unknown, and to travel beyond the familiar world was to go "where there be dragons." There are people who live their lives for adventure, exploration and knowledge - people who are willing to venture into the unknown for the sake of discovery. For those people, we offer incredible experiences. We hope you are one of them. Where do you want to go

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.titanic { float: none; } by Louis Lazaris (http://www.impressivewebs.com/css-in-real-life/)

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is demanding that systems integrator Science Applications International Corporation reimburse more than US$600 million it was paid in connection with the troubled CityTime software project, a long-running effort to overhaul the city's payroll system. by Chris Kanaracus, Network World (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/063011-nyc-mayor-demands-600m-refund.html)

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When he began taking photographs in November 2007 for his Persona diptych series, Jason Travis set out to catch up with old friends, learn more about new friends, and, most significantly, to capture a portion of their lives in terms of what each individual considered essential enough to carry around with them everyday. by Jason Travis (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasontravis/sets/

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Climbing is different to other gravity assisted sports like snow boarding or skydiving. With those the impulse to stop is removed by the speed of your descent. With climbing it is a process that requires you to constantly make the move, to travel upwards. Climbing is a deeper commitment by The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/picturegalleries/8715942/

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Artificial Intelligence (http://www.ai-class.com/) Introduction To Machine Learning (http://www.ml-class.com/) Introduction To Databases (http://www.db-class.com/)

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There is a fundamental problem with patents in the United States. It is us. by Nilay Patel (http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/)

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"This is an imaginary story. But then, aren't they all?" - Alan Moore, Superman: Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow? ...As hard as it may be to look at a long-running quasi-epic and admit, "You know, this was awesome, but I'm bored - let's start over and do it differently," there's probably no better way to take a regular old good story and elevate it to the realm of timeless myth. by Alex

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by xkcd (http://xkcd.com/936/)

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The year 2011 marks Marshall McLuhan’s 100th birthday. For more than half a century, his thoughts have been hotly debated, discussed, and interpreted in myriad ways. Yet very few people have actually heard McLuhan speak. They have not had the opportunity to see and hear him explain what he meant by his best-known sayings, “The medium is the message,” “global village,” and others.by (http://

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Living in San Francisco since January, I’ve interviewed around two hundred startups and there’s only two, out of two hundred, I think are game changers. Now, don’t get me wrong, Silicon Valley is an incredibly inspiring place to be. Everyone is doing something amazing and trying to change the world, but in reality much of the technology being built here is not changing the world at all, it’s

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Invisibility cloaks are the result of physicists' newfound ability to distort electromagnetic fields in extreme ways. The idea is steer light around a volume of space so that anything inside this region is essentially invisible.by The Technology Review (http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/)

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Over the past four years Murdoch's U.S.-based News Corp. has made money on income taxes. Having earned $10.4 billion in profits, News Corp. would have been expected to pay $3.6 billion at the 35 percent corporate tax rate. Instead, it actually collected $4.8 billion in income tax refunds, all or nearly all from the U.S. government.by David Cay Johnston (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/12/

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by БАССЕС (http://befsa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4669)

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What seems to be a debate about linguistics and AI is actually a debate about the future of knowledge and science. Is human understanding necessary for making successful predictions? If the answer is “no,” and the best way to make predictions is by churning mountains of data through powerful algorithms, the role of the scientist may fundamentally change forever. by Kevin Gold, Tor (http://

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"I think it is a big revolution in genome engineering," says Kristala Jones Prather, a bioengineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is not part of Church's collaboration. "You don't have to already know what the answer is. You can manipulate multiple things at a time, and let the cell find a solution for you."by Jo Marchant, New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/

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Content farms, which have flourished on the Web in the past 18 months, are massive news sites that use headlines, keywords and other tricks to lure Web-users into looking at ads. These sites confound and embarrass Google by gaming its ranking system. As a business proposition, they once seemed exciting. Last year, The Economist admiringly described Associated Content and Demand Media as cleverly

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by MIT (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/)

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Series of annual radio lectures on significant contemporary issues, delivered by leading figures from the relevant fieldsby BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9)

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http://cdn.hipsterrunoff.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/800/322904014.jpghttp://cdn.hipsterrunoff.com/2011/06/have-we-reached-era-post-ironic-riot.html

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Dear 16-Year-Old Me is a quietly wrenching public service announcement in which a handful of cancer survivors, family members, and physicians speak directly to the camera about their experience with the disease. Produced by the small Toronto outpost of Evidently, which calls itself a content creation agency, it has been seen more than 1.7 million times since being posted in early May.(http://

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Olmsted fought against distracting elements. He constantly simplified the scene, clearing and planting to clarify the “leading motive” of the natural site. Though he often faced criticism from those who found his style too rough and unkempt, Olmsted was as proud of what he didn’t do as what he did do. Thirty years after he helped to design Central Park, he observed to his ex-partner, Calvert Vaux

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Daniel Kish has no eyes. He lost them to cancer at just 13 months of age, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from watching him. The 44-year-old happily walks round cities, goes for hikes, rides mountain bikes, plays basketball, and teaches other blind youngsters to do the same. by (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/05/25/the-brain-on-sonar-%E2%80%93-

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Mathematics is not about answers, it's about processes. Let me give a series of parables to try to get to the root of the misconceptions and to try to illuminate what mathematics IS all about. by Dr. Robert H. Lewis, Fordham University (http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/mathematics_departme/what_math/index.asp)

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Theories deal with the world on its own terms, absolutely. Models are metaphors, relative descriptions of the object of their attention that compare it to something similar already better understood via theories. Models are reductions in dimensionality that always simplify and sweep dirt under the rug. Theories tell you what something is. Models tell you merely what something is partially like.by

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To touch someone's heart with design.by Jonathan Yuen (http://www.jonathanyuen.com/main.html)

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Not that all instances of these words are dubious, but I do find I that whenever I need to make use of them, there’s a good chance I’m being at least a little presumptuous, simple-minded, or sneaky. They raise a similar red flag when I hear or read them too. They aren’t “bad” words, but they do lend themselves to a certain kind of self-deception. They often hint at more going on.by David (http://

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To say that some lives are better or worse than others – or that a life is better or worse than it might otherwise have been – is obviously to make a comparative claim. It says nothing about whether any lives are good enough to count as good lives or bad enough to count as bad ones. Most people, however, do make the further claim that there are both good and bad lives. In contrast to the

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He has survived 17 motorbike accidents, a quintuple heart bypass and a plane crash. He makes four or five films a year, and has done so for four decades. Lately he's cut back his drinking to fewer than six bottles of wine a day.by James Mottram (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-big-cheese-the-crazy-life-of-grard-depardieu-2275521.html)

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Adobe Illustrator is an indispensable designing tool but at the same time very difficult to master. Having a high quality set of Illustrator brushes always come in handy and always make the designers work a bit easier.by Illustrator (http://www.noupe.com/illustrator/a-huge-compilation-of-80-free-illustrator-brush-sets.html)

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Remember when your heart sank just a little when you realized the Pink Panther movie wasn’t a cartoon?A compendium and leading web resource of film and television title design from around the world. We honor the artists who design excellent title sequences. We discuss and display their work with a desire to foster more of it, via stills and video links, interviews, creator notes, and user

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As servers become more powerful, more kilowatts are needed to run and cool them. Data centers worldwide now consume more energy annually than Sweden.by David Vellante (http://wikibon.org/blog/inside-ten-of-the-worlds-largest-data-centers/)

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The 311 system has proved useful not just at detecting reliable patterns but also at providing insights when the normal patterns are disrupted. Clusters of calls about food-borne illness or sanitary problems from the same restaurant now trigger a rapid response from the city’s health department. And during emergencies, callers help provide real-time insight into what’s really happening. “When [

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Facebook on Thursday launched an initiative it calls the Open Compute Project, an effort to share the specs and designs of the custom servers in its data center in Prineville, Ore. In other words, Facebook is going to open source its hardware designs just like the software industry largely has.by Larry Dignan, ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/

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