Every calendar's days are numbered.
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. - Charles Darwin Never trust a thin chef. - Anonymous The art of photography is to make that which seems unbeautiful, beautiful. -Jennifer Barton To a leg of a heron
Adding a long shank
Of a pheasant.
- Basho games people play or you are an eggnog. Bawdy limericks are vocal graffiti - Judith Economos June 30, 2005 in Humor | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 29, 2005
Sustainable energy source could solve Bermuda Triangle riddle
Are methane-producing bacteria the explanation of the Bermuda Triangle mystery?
June 29, 2005 in Tech/Science | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Fakes, Frauds, and Fake Fakers
Some counterfeiters try to enter the “soul and mind of the artist.” Some delight in the chemistry of baking paint and creating wormholes. Some start with real pictures and then “restore” them until they look as if they’re by a different artist. From ancient vases to conceptual art—if someone made it, someone else has tried to bamboozle the world with a copy
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June 29, 2005 in Art | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 28, 2005
Haute couture
A new aeroplane has been designed entirely in virtual reality.
June 28, 2005 in Tech/Science | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Intelligent Carpet Directs Robot Vacuum
An "intelligent carpet" that tells robotic vacuum cleaners where to go, and can even direct the robot to spots it might have missed.
June 28, 2005 in Tech/Science | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
'Teleporting' over the internet
Computer scientists in the US are developing a system which would allow people to 'teleport a solid 3D recreation of themselves over the internet. And it's based on the animation of "Wallace and Gromit".
June 28, 2005 in Tech/Science | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 27, 2005
100 Milestone Documents
100 Milestone Documents. High-quality viewable and downloadable documents of American History, from 1776 to 1965. Of course the usual suspects are available, but you can also see \ items like the Patent for the Cotton Gin (1794) and the Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868). Also downloadable PDFs, transcripts, and background information on each document.
June 27, 2005 in History | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 26, 2005
Why can't US do if Brazil can?
40% of the automotive sold fuel in brazil is ethanol, and brazil should be totally energy independent in five years. If they can do it, why not the US?
June 26, 2005 in Reality | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Brazilian doctors uncover 'Michelangelo code'
Move over Da Vinci Code.
Two Brazilian doctors and amateur art lovers believe they have uncovered a secret lesson on human anatomy hidden by Renaissance artist Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel's ceiling.
Completed nearly 500 years ago, the brightly colored frescoes painted on the
Vatican's famous sanctuary are considered some of the world's greatest works of art. They depict Biblical scenes such as the "Creation of Adam" in which God reaches out to touch Adam's finger.
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June 26, 2005 in Art, History | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 25, 2005
Thus Spake Mathematica...
This might be the only time in your life you get to hear this because the finance industry survives soley on large-scale ignorance, so listen very closely. There is NO housing bubble in the US. NEVER invest in actively managed funds. Financial lamers do better than financial jocks (and almost everyone else). .
Sadly however most of you won't have the mathematical knowledge to differentiate the advice backed by several Nobel laureates and world-renowned academics from the "advice" of any of the thousands of horny little evangelists spruking their financial "theories" for profit or fame.
June 25, 2005 in Reality | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 24, 2005
A new twist on an old myth
Watch and hear Sita singing the blues, by Nina Paley in Sitayana.
June 24, 2005 in Art, Fun, History | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Books online
For all Alistair Maclean fans you can read his books online here.
June 24, 2005 in Books, Fun, Info | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Robots run amok at hospital
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Waldo, a robot that delivers medicines at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, went berserk.
"Waldo shot past the pharmacy and barged uninvited into the examination room in the radiation oncology department, where -- according to an anonymous caller -- a doctor was examining a cancer patient," the paper's columnists wrote. "According to the caller, Waldo wouldn't leave, and the startled doctor and patient felt obliged to flee the room."
Many believe that robots will be used to perform dangerous or menial tasks in the future. But that's what people thought in the "Planet of the Apes" movies and look what happened there.
June 24, 2005 in Info | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 23, 2005
food and more food
Do not read this on an empty stomach.... A comprehensive site of anything and everything you ever wanted to know about foooooood! like say history of cheese, or food funnies
June 23, 2005 in Food and Drink | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
A Year In Food
For all those food lovers, A Year In Food is a comprehensive site about eating (good) food out. One of my favorites I found from here - "Tangra Masala". Check out and see if your favorite restaurant is listed or not.
June 23, 2005 in Food and Drink | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Say Cheese
If you are a cheesy person you will love cheesesupply.com They have over 700 cheeses to choose from, plus cheese kits, knives, boards, fondue pots, melters, cheese making supplies, and many other cheese accessories!
June 23, 2005 in Food and Drink | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 22, 2005
Photoshop 911
Photoshop 911 is the reader response division of Photoshop Tips & Tricks. These blog will answer all your questions and give you plenty of new tricks and hints.
June 22, 2005 in Art, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Photospot
A photo blog about learning Photography using Digital Camera! Check out it is a place to share tips, tricks, techniques, tutorials, ideas, experiments and experience related digital photography, including digital cameras, image processing software and photography in general.
June 22, 2005 in Photography | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 21, 2005
Manish Rami - Haiku
A haiku is a short Japanese poem. It usually consists of three lines, often with 5, 7 and 5 syllables in each line (though I never follow the 5, 7, and 5 rule and write in free form.) A haiku is very attentive to time (of the year) and place. The time part is often depicted with a seasonal reference called “kigo” e.g. deep autumn, sudden summer shower, images of rice seedlings, plum blossoms, spring and summer migrant birds, their chirps and warbles etc. - often a haiku will violate this rule. There is also an implicit Buddhist reflection on nature. It demands accurate and original images - mostly from common life. The two most famous poets (in my opinion) are Matsuo Basho, and Kobayashi Issa.
Some seasonal haiku in North Dakota by Manish Rami
Snow settles.
On the boughs, on the bushes…
On my boots!
This first snow…
Sweet frosting
On a huge cake!
Frozen dewdrop ornaments
On Pine needles -
Merry Christmas
This Christmas -
I fought my cold
With Fudges, Chocolates, and Biscotti.
Horizontal snow
Framed in my window.
The heater shivers!
Sitting on the bough…
Some snow
Awaits a gust
Few snowflakes
With the aid of a gust
Seek flight again!
Spring snow on bough
Asks dried leaves…
“When do you fall!”
Oh how wide is this sidewalk!
The snow
Has all melted.
Gently falling leaves.
In my yard…
A pile in a flash
Blossoms gone, leaves too…
This tall thin denuded tree
Oh how beautiful!
Peek-a-boo!
Says a bud
To the Spring.
Raindrops on eaves…
Sliding and taking turns
To jump to earth.
Lapping lake waters…
Tranquility
Enhanced!
June 21, 2005 in Art | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
June 20, 2005
My Days Are Numbered
I'm addicted to a Japanese logic puzzle. You will be, too.
Sudoku is a logic puzzle. You fill numbers into a grid, using deduction (or, failing that, plain old trial and error). Each row and column must contain the digits 1 through 9, with each digit used only once. The best way to understand is probably to visit Sudoku.com, where there are clear explanations and some sample games. It's incredibly easy to learn.
June 20, 2005 in Fun, Games | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
makes computers think about the consequences
Researchers at the US, along with teams from the UK, France, Germany and Japan have come up with a new programming language which allows a computer to think through the consequences of an action before executing it.
Developed the international team led by scientists at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with what they call a 'process specification language software' which is more mundanely known as ISO 18629.
A traditional programming language consists of a series of instructions which, as any programmer faced with buggy code knows, will be followed slavishly whether the consequences are those intended or not.
The ISO 18629 language is different. Built around developments in artificial intelligence it allows the computer to analyse an instruction and make decisions based on its 'meaning' and 'context'.
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June 20, 2005 in Tech/Science | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 12, 2005
Thoughts to ponder
OUR CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.
TEN COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a Courthouse? You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery", and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians! It creates a hostile work environment!
COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington, and they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give them all a cow.
And last but not least .
George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart .
"Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars. O.J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama bin Laden too, but they take the one woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and haul her Butt off to jail."
June 12, 2005 in Reality | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
June 11, 2005
ARE YOU A CARROT, AN EGG, OR A COFFEE BEAN?
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In the first,she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me, what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," the daughter replied.
Mother brought daughter closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. Mother then asked daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, Mother asked daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity -- BOILING WATER -- but each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard and unrelenting. However after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But, after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however, after they were in the boiling water they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" Mother asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond?
Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean? Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity, do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength? Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and a hardened heart? Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hours are the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate to another level? How do you handle adversity?
ARE YOU A CARROT, AN EGG, OR A COFFEE BEAN?
June 11, 2005 in Reality | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
June 10, 2005
huh?
Does anyone really know what they're doing? At Huh Corp, not only are they clueless about business, they come out and say so. This parody site riffs on corporate America's obsession with nonsensical buzz words by giving visitors a fake consulting company that dares to tell the truth. Huh Corp's strategy: "Convince clients that we do stuff they can't do themselves." Their philosophy on customer service: "Client satisfaction is always our first priority. Well...actually...maybe something like third or fourth." But wait, what do you get for your money? "Snazzy binders that look nice on big, round meeting tables." Granted, we don't know much about "global awareness paradigms," but that sounds like a good deal to us
June 10, 2005 in Humor | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 09, 2005
The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
God we love limericks. 'There was a young man from Pawtucket, who's-" No wait, how about this? "There once was a girl from Balmoral-" Uh, scratch that. Wait, wait:
Limericks ought to be bawdy,
Failing that, their puns should be naughty.
They’re the absolute worst
Of all kinds of verse,
And their charms are often quite gaudy. - Judith Economos
June 9, 2005 in Fun, Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 05, 2005
ceo
(This one got to me.)
A company, feeling it was time for a shakeup, hires a new CEO. This new boss was determined to rid the company of all slackers. On a tour of the facilities, the CEO notices a guy leaning on a wall. The CEO walks up to the guy and asks, "And how much money do you make a week?"
A little surprised, the young fellow looks at him and replies, "I make $300.00 a week. Why?"
The CEO then hands the guy $1,200 in cash and screams, "Here's four weeks' pay, now GET OUT and don't come back!" Feeling pretty good about his first firing, the CEO looks around the room and asks, "Does anyone want to tell me what that goof-off did here?"
With a sheepish grin, one of the other workers mutters, "Pizza delivery guy from Domino's."
June 5, 2005 in Humor | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
June 04, 2005
0wned
You got owned ... an entertaining study of life's little mishaps on video. Some you've seen, some you may not have. (wmv)
June 4, 2005 in Fun | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 03, 2005
Suicide hotline only open from 9 to 5
Canadian suicide hotline stops its 24 hour service and adopts a 9-to-5 format. Apparently, people only feel like killing themselves at work.
June 3, 2005 in Reality | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 02, 2005
a Better Brain
11 Steps to a Better Brain Funny, reading forSV is not on the list.
June 2, 2005 in Tech/Science | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 01, 2005
But what about Clerks, Mallrats???
Time Mag's 100 All Time Best Flicks Compiled by their OWN critics, of course. Hence no Kevin Smith masterpieces mentioned. The List also fails to mention some of the most popular movies of all time. It can't be right if it doesn't include the Wizard of Oz.
June 1, 2005 in Fun | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
