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80,000 US Cancers from old nuclear testing: Text by Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. Quote: "An estimated 80,000 people who lived in or were born in the US between the years 1951 and 2000 will contract cancer as a result of the fallout caused by atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, according to an analysis of government studies by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. Well over 15,000 of these cases would be fatal. The most recent government study, a fact sheet, and official fallout maps are posted on the IEER web site www.ieer.org. The report and maps are also scheduled to be posted at the Centers for Disease Control web site, www.cdc.gov. The maps show cumulative fallout and county-by-county radiation dose and fallout patterns. These are proxies for geographic patterns of excess cancers that would be attributable to radiation."
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Center for Alternative Technology: This center demonstrates ways people, nature and technology can live together successfully. It's based at a 40-acre site in Powys, Wales, where the center demonstrates ecologically sound technologies.
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Urban Heat Islands Make Cities Greener: Some people think cities and nature don't mix, but a new NASA-funded study finds that concrete jungles create warmer conditions that cause plants to stay green longer each year, compared to surrounding rural areas.
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Places with strange names in the UK: Nuff said. Now browse.
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In Memoriam Francis Crick: DNA code-breaker dies at 88.
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A Tale Of Two Movies: Fahrenheit 9/11 vs Passion Of The Christ
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Jews and Druze: Quote: "The Druze provide a model of compromise and agreement for all the ethnic groups in the Middle East by keeping to themselves, preserving their own special identity, and earning and maintaining the respect and support of their neighbors. All other religious, linguistic, and ethnic groups, major and minor, powerful and weak, could be held in the esteem of all, protected and honored as are the Druze in their homeland in the Levant. The Druze of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria get along very well with their neighbors because nobody has ever been able to tell the Druze what to do. The Turks and the French exploited the people of the Levant, but they did not conquer the Druze. They kept them at arm's length, as do the governments in those countries today. There is something special about the Druze."
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Let them sing it for you: A sound art project by Eric Bünger. Info: "Through pop lyrics you learn to identify your own personal feelings of love, loneliness and joy with those of famous stars. Behind these public feelings there are often the desires of commercial powers such as record and film companies. Through "Let them sing it for you", you get the possibility of doing it the other way around. Instead of letting your vocabulary of feelings be dictated by famous voices, let the famous voices express your innermost thoughts. By typing in a text of any kind you can get it sung for you by some of the world's great-est pop stars. A database of sung words has been built up and is supposed to be gradually growing through the users' own interaction. If you find a word missing in our sound vocabulary, just tell us, and we will extract the word from a song of your choice, and add it to our database."
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Freak Waves Are No Tall Tale: Quote: "Massive waves up to 100 feet in height -- once thought to be extremely rare -- actually roam the oceans quite frequently and could threaten to overturn ships and oil rigs, a European Commission study has found."
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British journalist skewers a quarter century of fuzzy thinking: Quote: "Throw away that horoscope, leave your inner child unattended and put your stockbroker on hold. Francis Wheen would like to strip you of your illusions. Wheen's witty new book, Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons and the Erosion of Common Sense, takes on horoscopes, self-help books, New Age therapies, Reaganite "voodoo economics," the dot-com bubble and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales - all ingredients in what he sees as a tide of unreasoned sludge overtaking the world. (His book was originally published in England as How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions.)"
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Geocaching? Quote: "The sport where YOU are the search engine. A GPS device and a hunger for adventure are all you need for high tech treasure hunting. Here you can find the latest caches ind in this fun and exciting sport."
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Dentist Allegedly Injected Semen Into Patients' Mouths: Former employees of a dentist claim the man made female patients unwittingly swallow his semen during visits to his office.
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Linux Kernel Swear Counts: Statistic about the amount of swear words in the Linux kernel. Version 2.6.7 contains approximately 1300 craps, 450 fucks, 300 shits, and about 50 bastards. (via Tage im All)
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EWHO (First Viennese Consumer Keyboard Orchestra) performs 'Fargo' theme song
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Did colonic irrigation kill Napoleon?
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Ghost in the Machine? "Weird shapes and symbols which were not even on the keyboard suddenly appeared." -- I'm sooo scared.
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A man digs a hole in his garden. He needs it to shoot things from. He finds a mouse. He feeds it to his cat. He finishes the hole. He puts his laptop and his gun into the hole. He finds a snake. He shoots the snake. He cuts off its head. He eats the snake. Then he has to move and leave the hole behind. What a pity.
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Cassini Sees Lightning on Saturn: Scientists hope the lightning will provide more insight into the atmosphere and wind velocities on the planet.
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First 'black' drug nears approval: Controversial study suggests treatment should factor in the patient's ethnic group. Quote: "A heart drug being tested in black patients is on course to become the first medicine approved for use in a specific ethnic group, challenging those scientists who believe that race is a bad basis for prescriptions."
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Dirty Dogs: Artist Ebon Lupus’ artistic specialty is painting artistic pictures of dogs defecating, urinating, licking their anuses or indulging in autofellatio.
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Why do traffic jams sometimes seem to appear out of nowhere? Benjamin Coifman, an assistant professor of civil engineering and electrical engineering at Ohio State University who studies traffic patterns, explains.
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If Aliens Exist 'We'll Know In 20 Years': California scientists say they need another two decades to finish analysing radio signals from 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.
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God, Suicide, and the Meaning of Life: The Filmed Philosophy of Woody Allen. Is comedy just a distraction? Mark Conard explores the director’s beliefs as seen in his characters in this excerpt from the forthcoming book, Woody Allen and Philosophy. A Metaphilm exclusive.
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Not with a bang but a ... gurgle? For years scientists have told us the universe was created by the Big Bang. But now an Edinburgh professor, who has spent years studying the evolution of the Earth, says the first sound made on the planet was more of a gurgle.
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Is 16th-Century Voynich Manuscript A Hoax? Article by Askold Krushelnycky. Intro: "The Voynich manuscript has consistently foiled powerful computers and some of the world's best cryptographers, who have never managed to decipher the 16th-century encoded book. But now, as RFE/RL reports, one scientist says the manuscript could be a sophisticated hoax."
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Rectal Impaction Following Enema with Concrete Mix
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Sniggle.net (the Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia) was born years ago with the filling yet informative title of Trolls, Hoaxes, Culture Jamming, Poetic Terrorism, Media Hacks, Frauds, Impostors, Spoofs, Counterfeits, Fakes, Pranks, Scams, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
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Einstein, Heisenberg, and Tipler (by John Walker)
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C-ship: Relativistic ray traced images: Quote: "Welcome aboard C-ship, exploring flight near the speed of light! C-ship helps you understand Einstein's theory of Special Relativity intuitively through the medium of computer-synthesised images."
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Being Nothing: George W. Bush as Presidential Simulacrum: Article by Carol V. Hamilton, published on ctheory. Intro: >In Jerzy Kozinsky's 1970 novel Being There, a character named Chance the Gardener, whose entire existence has been restricted to watching television shows and tending a walled garden, is suddenly thrust into the outside world. Here he acquires admirers who rename him Chauncey Gardiner, mistake his ignorance for profundity, and take his horticultural allusions for zenlike koans. His intellectual limitations and personal inadequacies become social and political virtues. At the end of the novel, the President's advisors gather to consider a candidate to replace the current vice-president. One of them suggests Chance. "Gardiner has no background," he declares. "And so he's not and cannot be objectionable to everyone! He's personable, well-spoken, and he comes across well on TV". Although Being There is over 30 years old, it is eerily pertinent to the current political scene. Only in one respect was Kozinski's prophecy too cautious. Writing during the reign of the uncharismatic, unphotogenic, yet canny and intelligent President Nixon, Koskinski was apparently unable to imagine Chance as a sitting president.<
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Alien in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies
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What are the physical and chemical changes that occur in fireworks? Paul Nicholas Worsey, professor of mining engineering at the University of Missouri at Rolla, teaches the only course in pyrotechnics for college credit in the U.S. He provides an answer.
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Specters of capital: Hong Kong cinema in a border/less world: Article by Kin-Yan Szeto. Quote: "In the 1990s, Hollywood saw an inflow of Hong Kong film stars such as Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-Fat, and Michelle Yeoh; filmmakers including John Woo, Tsui Hark, Stanley Tong, Ronnie Yu, and Kirk Wong; and martial arts choreographers including Yeun Woo-Ping and Corey Yeun. In the international art-house film scene, the reputation of Hong Kong filmmakers makes viewers familiar with names like Wong Kar-Wai, Stanley Kwan, Ann Hui and Fruit Chan. At the same time Hong Kong itself is undergoing an unprecedented process of decolonization and forming a perhaps more unified national identity. However, the very term “national identity” is contested since Hong Kong is being legally and culturally absorbed into the PRC while many of its people have strong lingering feelings that Hong Kong is and should continue to be a very separate society, distinct linguistically, culturally and—for many—politically from the mainland. Thus Hong Kong cinema becomes an interesting way to examine the disjunctures that Hong Kong represents culturally and politically, especially in light of the end of British colonial rule."
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It Was Like a Witch Hunt: The Guardian reports that in October last year the remote Scottish island of Lewis was torn apart by allegations of ritual child abuse.
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The Newsmap: I quote Metacr8: "The Newsmap is every info junky's wet dream. Book mark it now."
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Ebert, Robots and Word: The Metaphilm editor cites Roger Ebert's 'I Robot' review: "As for the robots, they function like the giant insects in Starship Troopers, as video game targets. You can't even be mad at them, since they're only programs. Although, come to think of it, you can be mad at programs; Microsoft Word has inspired me to rage far beyond anything these robots engender." Hear, hear.
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Monster raindrops delight experts: Paul Rincon (BBC) reports that scientists have observed the biggest raindrops recorded on Earth - which may be a whopping 1 cm in size.
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Plankton Cool Off With Own Clouds: Phytoplankton may be small, but that doesn't mean they can't do big things -- like change the weather to suit their needs.
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Hawking loses major bet on black hole: Associated Press reports that after almost 30 years of arguing that a black hole swallows up everything that falls into it, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking backpedaled Thursday. In doing so, he lost one of the most famous bets in recent scientific history.
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Chess Champion attacked by the Japanese immigration authorities: "The World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer has been viciously attacked brutalized seriously injured and very nearly killed when he was illegally detained and arrested by the Japanese immigration authorities at Narita international airport in Tokyo Japan. [...] He urgently requests at immediate offer of political asylum from a friendly third country. Any country wishing to offer Bobby Fischer political asylum should do so immediately at the following address: Miyoko Watai Japan Chess Association, Nishikamata 8-2-1-220, Tokyo 144-0051, Japan Tel & Fax: 81-3-3735-3675 E-mail: info_at_jca-chess.com This is a matter of life and death for Bobby. Thank you!"
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Teleport lifts quantum computing: Quote: "A leading candidate architecture for quantum computing -- trapped ions -- has received a significant boost with a pair of teleportation experiments that show is possible to reliably and readily shuttle information within a quantum computer. The experiments, from the University of Innsbruck in Austria and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have also advanced the practice of teleportation. Each team transported the states of charged atoms and showed that it is possible to do so on demand. Previous teleportation experiments used photons and were probabilistic, meaning each attempt had only a certain probability of succeeding. The method allows quantum bits, or qubits, to be stored before and after teleportation so that quantum computers can process information, move it to a different part of the computer and then process it further. A leading candidate architecture for quantum computing -- trapped ions -- has received a significant boost with a pair of teleportation experiments that show is possible to reliably and readily shuttle information within a quantum computer."
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1557: A Space Odyssey: Article by Jerry Saltz.
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Man vs. machine: David Kupfer, an independent psychologist who has a doctorate in clinical psychology, did a study about phones and technophobia.
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Pulp Fiction - Existentialist Counterpoint: Michael Gose (metaphilm) takes exception to Mark Conard’s conclusions about Pulp Fiction, suggesting that just as there is no transcendence, there is no transformation—and that Tarantino distorts even the philosophies he espouses.
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monochrom blog update // We activated the comments.



Baby Talk Beginnings: Infant pacification may have led to the origins of language.
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Fabulous optical illusion: Quote: "If you take a look at the following picture, let me tell you ... it is not animated. Your eyes are making it move. To test this, stare at one spot for a couple seconds and everything will stop moving. Or look at the black center of each circle and it will stop moving. But move your eyes to the next black center and the previous will move after you take your eyes away from it.... Weird."
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The Lighter Side of Trach Life: Holy shit! I quote: "Below are some funny pictures of tracheal cannulas. Most of them use the Montgomery cannula. WARNING: This stuff is not to be taken seriously." I repeat: Holy shit!!
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The Cold War's Classified Skyhook Program: Classified high-altitude, long-duration flights of huge Skyhook balloons, which often returned their secret payloads to the surface, began in 1947 and continued for several decades. This secret Cold War program was the likely progenitor of many key aspects of UFO mythology.
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Humans May Surpass Other Natural Forces As Earth Movers: "Think of large earth moving projects: highway interchanges, coal mines or Boston's Big Dig. According to Roger LeBaron Hooke, a University of Maine scientist, such activities have propelled humans into becoming arguably the most potent force in shaping the planet, surpassing rivers, wind and other natural phenomena. He finds this achievement troubling, and other scientists are taking note."
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Is Fahrenheit 9/11 a stupid white movie: Quote: "The claim that Fahrenheit 9/11 is a conservative movie may strike some as ludicrous. But the film endorses one of the central lies that Americans tell themselves, that the US military fights for our freedom. This construction of the military as a defensive force obscures the harsh reality that the military is used to project US power around the world to ensure dominance, not to defend anyone's freedom, at home or abroad."
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Lake Vostok map forces exploration rethink: Quote: "Plans to drill into Lake Vostok, an underground Antarctic lake thought to have been isolated for 20 million years, could be revised after researchers revealed that it may contain two distinct ecosystems."
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New monochrom content // We know apocalypses: My saturday afternoon thoughts on chance, sex and apocalypses.
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Satanic cheerleaders to hire
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A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America: Michael Barkun's book reviewed by Katje Richstatter. Quote: >First off, let's clarify what Michael Barkun is talking about here. Despite the sweeping title, this analysis is concerned with what the author calls "Improvisational Millenialism," a subset of conspiracy theories that are not based on religious or secular cannons, but are instead "bricolages" culled together from disparate, unrelated, and sometimes contradictory elements into superconspiracies.<
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Disease Cards provided by the Centers for Disease Control. Need something to occupy your kids' time on long vacation drives this summer? Print out a set of infectious disease cards -- for kids! Available are Anthrax, Avian Flu, Cryptosporidiosis, Cyclosporiasis, Ebola, Ecoli O157:H7 Infection, Hantavirus, Hepatitis B, HIV, Lyme Disease, Meningitis, Rabies, Recreational Water Illness, Salmonellosis, and Staph Infection cards.
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Talking tombstones bear messages from the grave: Quote: "The dead could soon be speaking from the grave if an American inventor's plan becomes reality. Robert Barrows, of Burlingame, California has filed a patent application for a video-equipped tombstone that will display a video message from the grave's occupant."
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Fossil findings blur picture of art's birth: Who created the earliest artwork?
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Make your own Pirate Radio Station with an iPod
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Boffins gather to dissect urban myths: Urban legend conference in Wales. Info: "Did you hear that a couple of teenagers, parked on a deserted road, were almost attacked by a hook-handed psychopath? Or that crop circles were created by UFOs? Or that in late summer 2001, an Arabic man who was helped out at a petrol station in gratitude warned the helpful motorist ‘this September, stay out of New York City’? These are all urban legends, or ‘urban myths’, and have been circulated by word-of-mouth and by print & broadcast media for generations – a modern form of folklore. Between 21-24 July, folklorists from around the world will be descending on the Welsh resort town of Aberystwyth for their annual conference."
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Science popularisation through television documentary: A study of the work of British wildlife filmmaker David Attenborough: Intro: "In the current television panorama, effective audiovisual communication of scientific contents is one of the most difficult jobs television producers and writers can have, as they must face both intrinsic difficulties of science communication and those of the medium. This might be one of the reasons why, in many countries, science popularisation does not come to programming schedules very often, in spite of the increasingly important role that science is playing in contemporary society. To turn science into good television, it must jump that considerable gap which stands between science and common knowledge. Science attempts to settle a conjoint of systematic ideas, with a logical structure; whereas, very often, common knowledge is non-systematic and based on statements which avoid pure logical rationality. Therefore, when science attempts to reach large audiences, it is necessary to overcome the distance between both types of knowledge, by means of a task of drawing together, which can be achieved either by scientists or professional communicators."
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The (Funky) Creature Question: I also post my question here.
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The Decalogue: On the Threshold of Plato’s Cave. Metaphilm exclusive: "In this pre-publication excerpt from his new book on enigmatic master director Krzysztof Kieślowski, Dr. Joe Kickasola gives an overview of the Decalogue and an in-depth reading of Decalogue II."
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Cereal entrepreneurs: There's big money in creating crop circles.
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Metroblog Vienna is online: Finally! And I'm proud to be involved.
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High-temperature Lab-on-a-chip Can Get Hotter Than Surface Of Venus: Quote: >Engineers have created a miniature hotplate that can reach temperatures above 1100°C (2012°F), self-contained within a "laboratory" no bigger than a child's shoe.<
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Halloween Costumes for Kids Who Use Wheelchairs
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Haunted by rebel Dean for 40 years: Psychic Monica Pearson claims she was haunted by the ghost of James Dean for 40 years - until she eventually told him to leave.
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New monochrom content // About Work: Patricia Futterer translated my conversation with Berlin/Germany-based researcher Hans-Joachim Rieseberg. Rieseberg proposes that the basic concepts of all great political groups are stuck in the dilemma of late agricultural times... and in religion. A nice interview about work, water cycles and our future.
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Croquet: That's interesting. Quote: "Croquet is a combination of computer software and network architecture that supports deep collaboration and resource sharing among large numbers of users within the context of a large-scale distributed information system. Along with its ability to deliver compelling 3D visualization and simulations, the Croquet system's components are designed with a focus on enabling massively multi-user peer-to-peer collaboration and communication. Croquet software is totally open and totally free. Croquet's treatment of distributed computation assumes a truly large scale distributed computing platform, consisting of heterogeneous computing devices distributed throughout a planet-scale communications network. Applications are expected to span machines and involve many users. In contrast with the more traditional architectures we grew up with, Croquet incorporates replication of computation (both objects and activity), and the idea of active shared subspaces in its basic interpreter model. More traditional distributed systems replicate data, but try very hard not to replicate computation. But, it is often easier and more efficient to send the computation to the data, rather than the other way round. Consequently, Croquet is defined so that replication of computations is just as easy as replication of data. It is impossible to convey what the Croquet system does without first describing its various components and the ways they interrelate. In its simplest form, Croquet is a complete development and delivery platform that enables people to carry out highly collaborative work. It is an infinitely scalable architecture that can serve as a basis for delivering a scalable, persistent, and extensible interface to network-delivered resources, tools for knowledge management, and deep social presence. The resulting 3D wide-area environment makes it possible for large numbers of people to enjoy shared telepresence, shared authorship of complex spaces and their contents, and shared access to network-deliverable information resources." (via Tage im All)
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Genghis Khan DNA test is offered: A restaurant is offering free DNA tests in bid to find descendants of infamous Mongolian conqueror Genghis Khan. (via Metroblog London)
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Fresh Cassini Pictures Show Majesty Of Saturn's Rings: Quote: "The first pictures taken by the Cassini spacecraft after it began orbiting Saturn show breathtaking detail of Saturn's rings, and other science measurements reveal that Saturn's magnetic field pulsed in size as Cassini approached the planet."
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Fainting Goats: Quote: "Fainting goats are a slightly smaller version of the standard goat, who, believe it or not, thanks to a genetic condition called myotonia congenita, actually seem to faint when they are startled. “This breed has several names – the most common are Myotonic, Tennessee Fainting, Nervous, and Scare goats. The names refer specifically to myotonia congenita, a condition in which the muscle cells experience prolonged contraction when the goat is startled. The transitory stiffness associated with these contractions can cause the goat to stop moving, stiffen, and even fall down. This is not a true faint, but a muscular phenomenon unrelated to the nervous system. The actual degree of stiffness may vary widely from goat to goat and is based on a number of factors, including age, species purity, and degree of fright."
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US lawmakers request UN observers for November 2 presidential election: Quote: "Several members of the House of Representatives have requested the United Nations to send observers to monitor the November 2 US presidential election to avoid a contentious vote like in 2000, when the outcome was decided by Florida." (via Tage im All)
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Infiltration: Quote: "Infiltration offers a mix of the practice and theory of urban exploration in areas not designed for public usage. This site is the online companion of the paper zine about going places you're not supposed to go."
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Fruit Fly Fight Club: Researchers bet on fruit fly fights to expose underlying biology of aggression. Quote: "These are some of the results from a study of 75 fruit-fly fights staged at a neurobiology laboratory at Harvard Medical School (HMS) in Boston, Mass, USA. In the half-hour fights, the fruit flies averaged 27 encounters of about 11 seconds each. Each scuffle moved so fast the researcher-referees needed slow-motion instant replay to score the fights. Harvard University undergraduates Selby Chen and Ann Yeelin Lee scored about 9,000 individual moves in 2,000 skirmishes. In case of doubt or disagreement, HMS neurobiology professor Edward Kravitz determined the final score."
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Fnord! Installing ksetispy (a KDE utility that monitors the progress of the SETI@home client, and displays all kinds of information about the work unit(s) being processed) and reading the compiler message:
root 31317 0.0 0.2 4324 1120 pts/1 S+ 04:34 0:00 /bin/sh -c set fnord $MAKEFLAGS; amf=$2; dot_seen=no; target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; list='ksetispy po doc xml pics '; for subdir in $list; do echo "Making $target in $subdir"; if test "$subdir" = "."; then dot_seen=yes; local_target="$target-am"; else local_target="$target"; fi; (cd $subdir && make $local_target) || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; done; if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then make "$target-am" || exit 1; fi; test -z "$fail"
We all new it. (via Tage im All)
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Bento boxes? Bento boxes!
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Waterboy is a self contained liquid-suspension environment. The unit is designed to support one individual submerged in a warm distilled liquid bath. Respirator and audio communication technology are added to allow longer submersion times.
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From the world's oldest mouse: Quote: "I'm lying in my cage half amused, half depressed, mulling over my new title as world's oldest mouse. I turned four this April. In your world, that means about 136. That's right: ancient. Even my doctor, Richard Miller, a pathologist here at the University of Michigan Geriatrics Center, is amazed at my longevity. Naturally, the PR folks want to capitalize on my death-defying existence, so they have nicknamed me Yoda. Certainly catchier than my given lab name, D053, but look or speak like Yoda I do not."
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Midnight at the Oasis: Article by Michael Griffin. Intro: "The three Al Qa'ida terrorists, who escaped over the wall of the Oasis Resort compound early on the morning of 30 May, clearly had no desire to die as martyrs, however relaxed they may have been at slaughtering 22 mainly Asian oil workers during a macabre, 25-hour killing spree in the Saudi Arabian oil centre at Al-Khobar."
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Soviet Unterzoegersdorf / Sector 2 / The Adventure Game

Climate Training Camp

Krach der Roboter: Hello World!

Slacking is killing the DIY industry (T-Shirt)

Carefully Selected Moments / CD, LP

Freedom is a whore of a word (T-Shirt)

#fullboycott

International Year of Polytheism 2007

Santa Claus Vs. Christkindl: A Mobster Battle

Could It Be (Video clip)

Pot Tin God

Hacking the Spaces

Kiki and Bubu and The Shift / Short film

Kiki and Bubu and The Privilege / Short film

Kiki and Bubu and The Self / Short film

Kiki and Bubu and The Good Plan / Short film

Kiki and Bubu and The Feelings / Short film / Short film

Sculpture Mobs

Nazi Petting Zoo / Short film

The Great Firewall of China

KPMG / Short film

The BRAICIN / Short film

Soviet Unterzoegersdorf / Sector 1 / The Adventure Game

I was a copyright infringement in a previous life (T-Shirt)

Brave New Pong

Leben ist LARPen e.V.

One Minute / Short film

Firing Squad Euro2008 Intervention

RFID Song

A tribute to Honzo

Lessig ist lässig

I can count every star in the heavens above -- The image of computers in popular music

All Tomorrow's Condensations / Puppet show

Bye Bye / Short film

Revaluation

PC/DC patch

Proto-Melodic Comment Squad

myfacespace.com

The Redro Loitzl Story / Short film

Hax0rcise SCO

Law and Second Order (T-Shirt)

They really kicked you out of the Situationist International?

Death Special: Falco

Applicant Fisch / Short film

When I was asked to write about new economy

Taugshow #6

Taugshow #7

Taugshow #9

Taugshow #10

Taugshow #11

Taugshow #14

Taugshow #15

Campfire at Will

Arse Elektronika 2007, 2008, 2009 etc.

The Void's Foaming Ebb / Short film

Remoting Future

When you / Short film

Elf

Free Bariumnitrate

Toyps / Typing Errors

ARAD-II Miami Beach Crisis

The Charcoal Burner / Short film

Digital Culture In Brazil

Hegemonchhichi

Nation of Zombia

Lonely Planet Guide action

CSI Oven Cloth

Dept. of Applied Office Arts

Farewell to Overhead

Google Buttplug

Fieldrecording in Sankt Wechselberg / Short film

Dark Dune Spots

Campaign For The Abolition Of Personal Pronouns

Zeigerpointer

Space Tourism

In the Head of the Gardener

Entertainment (Unterhaltung) / Short film

Cthulhu Goatse

Nicholas Negroponte Memorial Cable

Coke Light Art Edition 06

Experience the Experience! (West Coast USA/Canada Tour 2005)

April 23

Overhead Cumshot

Irark / Short film

Wart

Instant Blitz Copy Fight

A Patriotic Fireman

A Micro Graphic Novel Project

Noise and Talk

The Exhilarator

H&M

SUZOeG Training / Short film

The Flower Currency

Gastro-Art/Gastrokunst

A Holiday in Soviet Unterzoegersdorf

How does the Internet work?

Paraflows 2006 and up

Special Forces

Coca Cola

About Work

Turing Train Terminal

Me / Short Film

Massive Multiplayer Thumb-Wrestling Network

Doormat

Some Code To Die For

The Year Wrap-up

Soviet Unterzoegersdorf Metroblogging

Project Mendel

Display, Retry, Fail

Manifesto of Ignorantism

Actionfilm

Towers of Hanoi

Heisenberg

Opto-Hedonism

Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere

Milk

Mobutobe

Brandmarker

We know apocalypses

452 x 157 cm² global durability

A Good Haul

Blattoptera / Art for Cockroaches

Minus 24x

Gladiator / Short Film

Eden

An attempt to emulate an attempt

Paschal Duct-Taping

Laptop Crochetication

Russka

Somewhere in the 1930s

Soul Sale

The Department for Criticism against Globalisation

Dot Smoke

Georg Paul Thomann

Nurgel Staring

War On

Let's network it out

Nude

Mackerel Fiddlers

Whales

Disney vs. Chrusov / Short film

Bulk Mail

Easter Celebrations

Mouse Over Matter

Condolence for a Crab

Force Sting

Turning Threshold Countries Into Plows

System

A Noise

A. C. A.

Hopping Overland

Achy Breaky Heart Campaign

Hermeneutic Imperative III

Holy Water / Franchise

Roböxotica // Festival for Cocktail-Robotics

Spears

Engine Hood Cookies

Ikea

The Watch

Creative Industry 2003

This World

Cracked Foundation For The Fine Arts

Sometimes I feel

Fit with INRI

Growing Money

Catapulting Wireless Devices

Buried Alive

Illegal Space Race

Magnetism Party

Brick of Coke

1 Baud

Scrota Contra Vota

Direct Intervention Engine

Oh my God, they use a history which repeats itself! (T-Shirt)

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