Campos Magnéticos

Hayao Miyazaki Interview

2007-08-26T22:22:00.000+01:00

If the original YMCA was weird...

2007-08-24T00:07:00.000+01:00

Reactable coolness!

2007-08-09T21:59:00.000+01:00

XMAL Deutschland

2007-07-14T03:06:00.000+01:00

Dead can Dance & Heavenly Bodies

2007-07-14T02:34:00.000+01:00

William S. Burroughs

2007-07-11T02:06:00.000+01:00

Who is the master who makes the grass green?

2007-07-08T00:19:00.000+01:00

Holy Mountain

2007-07-04T04:32:00.000+01:00

Original trailer for Alejandro Jodorowsky's classic psychedelic film, The Holy Mountain (1973)

And more Jodorowsky weirdness....

Miho Hatori: Barracuda

2007-06-10T23:39:00.000+01:00

Demo for Microsoft's Photosynth

2007-06-07T02:53:00.000+01:00

Ricardo Araujo Pereira no Homem Que Mordeu o Cão ao Vivo

2007-06-01T02:55:00.000+01:00

Google Maps Street View

2007-05-30T23:48:00.000+01:00

Jeff Buckley - Documentary From BBC

2007-05-26T03:04:00.000+01:00

Brava Dança dos Heróis

2007-05-25T20:58:00.000+01:00

David Bowie - StarMan

2007-05-23T02:12:00.000+01:00

BATMAN: DEFENDERS OF THE NIGHT

2007-04-26T12:16:00.000+01:00

Django Reinhardt

2007-04-23T15:10:00.000+01:00

Bukowski reading "The Secret of My Endurance"

2007-03-28T12:24:00.001+01:00

Lesbians

2007-03-04T00:39:00.000Z

Trailer for the upcoming movie Paprika

2007-02-03T08:29:00.000Z

Paprika (パプリカ, Papurika?) is a Japanese animated science fiction film, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel Paprika, about a female detective who investigates criminal cases by entering the dreams of her subjects.

THE CUMMING OF JIZZUS

2007-02-01T12:04:00.001Z

Warren Ellis... Eat this! Faith based porn to bring the word to the sinners.

Cinema Sewer presents: THE CUMMING OF JIZZUS.

The truth about Google Earth

2007-01-25T14:01:00.001Z

Cool new sci-fi anime series - Ergo Proxy

2007-01-25T00:31:00.000Z

Episode 1 available here.

Pérolas da televisão nacional

2007-01-24T08:44:00.001Z

Aron Ranen's Power & Control LSD in The Sixties

2007-01-23T18:16:00.000Z

The only tool you'll ever need...

2007-01-22T11:09:00.000Z

Leonard Cohen video clip - Stranger Song

2007-01-15T22:57:00.000Z

2007-01-13T00:22:00.000Z

links for 2007-01-12

Temple of the Seven Golden Camels: Comic Strip Artist's Kit (Redux)

the famous "Comic Strip Artist's Kit". It was created to help beginning comic artists deal with perspective problems and other drawing difficulties.

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Machine elf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(also known as fractal elves and self transforming machine elves) is a term coined by the writer and philosopher Terence McKenna to describe the entities that he claims one becomes aware of after having taken tryptamine based psychedelic drugs, especially

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2007-01-12T00:24:00.000Z

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Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse Audio CD

Here are excerpts from two of the six Norton Lectures that Jorge Luis Borges delivered at Harvard University in the fall of 1967 and spring of 1968. The recordings of these six lectures, only lately discovered in the Harvard University Archives, uniquely

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ZoomIn - On-Line Street Maps for Australia

ZoomIn lets you add your own places to the community map, create groups of places, upload photos and leave comments.

(tags: maps australia map travel gis googlemaps mashup geo geocoding web2.0)

2007-01-11T00:24:00.000Z

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Terapad.com - Beyond Blogging

Terapad.com does everything you'd like your personal blog or corporate site to do, and does it a lot better than what you currently have - all free of charge.

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2007-01-10T00:26:00.000Z

links for 2007-01-09

International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence

IJCAI is the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the main international gathering of researchers in AI.

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Download ArtzMania Vol 1 - for free at Spotbit.com Now!

Independent venture showcasing outstanding international creativity and culture. With blazing passion for design, it is the latest platform for Designer's Territory to inspire, express and share with fellow art enthusiast profiling diversified design.

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Welcome to Falling Oaks

A Web comic. When a young girl’s bunny mysteriously becomes monstrously large, the inhabitants of Falling Oaks begin to take it upon themselves to uncover the mystery for their own personal endeavors. As the mystery unfolds so does the veil concealing t

(tags: comics webcomic illustration)

Come the revolution, baby!

2007-01-09T21:57:00.000Z

Steve Jobs finally announced the iPhone, a revolutionary phone/ipod/wrist-computer. It uses a touch screen with a new form of input control, runs OSX and many standard applications, and connects to the internet via WiFi. It has a camera, functions as a movie player, a music player, and can send emails and photos in the middle of a phone call.

2007-01-08T00:23:00.000Z

links for 2007-01-07

100 Greatest Guitar Solos - Tablature for the greatest guitar solos of all time

Featuring guitar tablature for the top 100 guitar solos ever.

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2007-01-07T00:22:00.000Z

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Theosophical Society in America

Theosophists consider that belief should be the result of individual study, experience, and insight, rather than mere acceptance of traditional ideas, and that it should rest on knowledge, not on assertion.

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Radio Liberty Home Page

Bringing you the Story behind the Story, the News behind the News. Hoping to convince you that reality is usually scoffed at and illusion is usually king, but in the battle for the survival of Western civilization it will be reality and not illusion or de

(tags: radio conspiracy alternative news online weird sci-fi)
read yourself RAW - Recommended By... NEIL GAIMAN

RECOMMENDED BY... NEIL GAIMAN

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La Jetee - French Sci-Fi Movie from 1962

2007-01-06T01:20:00.000Z

2007-01-06T00:24:00.000Z

links for 2007-01-05

RetroBlast! Retrogaming News - Designing Arcade Graphics Book - Free!

In 2000, Ari Feldman wrote a book called Designing Arcade Computer Game Graphics. It's long out of print, but Ari Feldman has allowed the book to be distributed electronically.

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Digital Clendening: Rare Text Images: Home Page

This exhibit displays hundreds of images from medical and natural history texts, most of which were printed before 1800.

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Paul McCartney On Drugs - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine)

A magical mystery tour...

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2007-01-05T00:25:00.000Z

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New Scientist Technology Blog: The stuff of dreams

A short list of fun materials - stuff that behaves a little bit outside the norm.

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2007-01-04T00:27:00.000Z

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The mathematics of cloaking

The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced "invisibility cloak" have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak's powers, enabling it to hide even actively radiating objects like a f

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Writers Dreamtools - Decades - 1650

History by dacades.

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O Show do Unas

2007-01-03T01:32:00.000Z

Esqueçam lá o Gato Fedorento, por ali não se têm visto ideias novas. Já o novo programa do Rui Unas consegue arrancar gargalhadas ao tipo mais carrancudo. Confesso que não sou grande fan das últimas coisas dele, mas os textos deste programa estão mesmo muito bons. E para os que não têm paciência de ver televisão, está tudo no YouTube...

2007-01-03T00:24:00.000Z

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Placeblogger | Blogging about places

Placeblogs are sometimes called "hyperlocal sites" because some of them focus on news events and items that cover a particular neighborhood in great detail -- and in particular, places that might be too physically small or sparsely populated to attract mu

(tags: community blogs blogging blog journalism reference collaboration web2.0 directory geo internet local)
MIDI Gadget

A MIDI controller shaped like a Hayden Duet Concertina.

(tags: music midi diy electronics instruments interface)

2007-01-02T00:20:00.000Z

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The Website at the End of the Universe

A science fiction community and weblog.

(tags: blog sci-fi community news science fiction writing)
The Red Planet

The Red Planet is a symbol of the blood of Christ, which represents the substitutionary Spiritual death of Jesus Christ on the Cross.

(tags: religion astronomy christianity funny mars sci-fi weird writing)
Dr. Kip Thorne, Caltech, Spacetime Warps and the Quantum: A Glimpse of the Future

A talk by Dr. Kip Thorne, Caltech.

(tags: physics quantum relativity lecture einstein audio science drawings astronomy space sci-fi weird)

2006-12-29T00:27:00.000Z

links for 2006-12-28

Image Mosaic Generator - Adelaider

Choose an image file to convert to a image mosaic.

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50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn't Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Edition

Tons of cool new discoveries wash ashore in the media tide each year.

(tags: Interesting 2006 facts science trivia cool amazing research futurism sci-fi)

2006-12-28T00:21:00.000Z

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Andy's Early Comics Archive

The Origin and Evolution of Modern Comic

(tags: comics archive history)

2006-12-27T00:23:00.000Z

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POWERCLIP.RU - 100% Векторной графики

Free vector graphics clipart.

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JonDesign's (Javascript) SmoothGallery: Mootools Mojo for Images | What is it ?

A new Mootools 1.0 based javascript system to add great looking picture showcases and galleries to your websites in a few steps. Features carousel, fading and other cool stuff ! In one word: worth checking out, and a must have in your toolbox.

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Japan Stock Photography

A specialty resource for rights-managed imagery of traditional and contemporary Japan.

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Radiohead Live - OK Computer Tour

2006-12-25T13:07:00.000Z

2006-12-24T00:20:00.000Z

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2DArtist Magazine

A Downloadable PDF Magazine Concept Art, Digital & Matte Painting creatives around the globe. 2DArtist Magazine will focus on techniques, tutorials, interviews, articles, project overviews and galleries.

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2006-12-23T00:21:00.000Z

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Digressões

Blog da Syrin.

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plasq.com - Comic Life - Version 1.2

Award winning photo comic app, Comic Life.

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ComicStudio.net | マンガ・イラスト制作ツールの決定版コミックスタジオ

Comics creation software.

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Comic Book Creator:: Home

If you've been looking for a way to create your own comic, spice up your scrapbooking, or make your holiday photos pop, look no further! Comic Book Creator lets you drag and drop almost any digital image into professional layouts to create your own comic

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Mirrors. Photographs from the Arkansas State Prison 1915-1937.

Mirrors. Photographs from the Arkansas State Prison 1915-1937. found and printed by Bruce Jackson

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Welcome to Historic Photo Archive home page,vintage,photos,photographs,stock,photography

Vintage photo archive.

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New Wave Photos by Philippe Carly

Collection of concert and candid photos of popular and not so popular "rock", "new wave" and "punk" groups from the 70s, 80s and 00s.

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2006-12-22T00:25:00.000Z

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Moving Through Matter with Buckaroo Banzai

When scientific methods and theories are imaginatively, yet plausibly portrayed in a science fiction film, the result is not only entertaining for the audience, but can be equally stimulating for the scientist.

(tags: physics science geek movies film essay sci-fi quantum)

2006-12-21T00:23:00.000Z

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The AKA Blues Connection

A researcher, looking for the historical figure who inspired the legend about the black badman known as Stagger Lee, uncovered a newspaper story which reported that a man named Lee Shelton, also known as Stag Lee, shot another man named William Lyons in a

(tags: music stagger lee folk blues article research)
Riff-O-Matic

Learn How To Play Killer Riffs On The Guitar.

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2006-12-19T00:22:00.000Z

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geoTorrent.org free Geospatial dataset distribution air photo satellite shape files GIS

geoTorrent.org is a relatively new BitTorrent website that’s distributing, what it claims to be legal, Satellite images and geospatial data.

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Obscurantist: Carlos Allende

Allende extensively annotated Jessup’s book The Case for UFOs with weird commentary about time travel, electromagnetic forces and moving ships around. The Office of Naval Research even took the trouble to re-print this annotated version, which is known

(tags: weird ufospdf download weirdshit sci-fi)

2006-12-18T00:23:00.000Z

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OddPeak - 10 Most Bizarre People on Earth

Weirdshit!!!

(tags: people bizarre freaks funny weird freak sci-fi lists)

2006-12-17T00:24:00.000Z

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BibliOdyssey

A site devoted to rare old books and materia obscura.

(tags: art Illustration blog design blogs books weird sci-fi occult steampunk vintage)
Odyssey, the Fantasy Writing Workshop

Since its inception in 1996, Odyssey has quickly become one of the most highly respected workshops for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.

(tags: writing fantasy fiction sci-fi workshop)
ComicNe.ws - The Comic News Tracker for Comic Books and Online Comics /

It's Like Digg...for Comics!

(tags: comic community digg entertainment news web2.0 comics)

BBC's Parallel Universes

2006-12-15T10:41:00.000Z

Great documentary from 2002 featuring Dr. Michio Kaku.

2006-12-15T00:29:00.000Z

links for 2006-12-14

eFanzines.com

science fiction fanzines on-line.

(tags: zines fandom infosources book online sci-fi)
Save The BookStore :: Save The World

the Lorem Ipsum Used Book Club.

(tags: books eco used club bookclub)
Comic Vine - Browse Hero

Encyclopedia of comic book heroes.

(tags: comics reference database comic heroes characters art wiki)
How To Evolve A Note Taking Methodology « L. S. Russell

Description of a workable note taking methodology.

(tags: lifehacks moleskine notes college howto lifehack writing science)

2006-12-14T00:23:00.000Z

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The Rules of Photography

What makes a picture interesting? How do you go about taking these pictures? How do you use the things you learned in the last article to your advantage when trying to take a beautiful photograph? That’s what this segment is going to be all about.

(tags: photography howto tips reference design article photo camera art photos tutorial guide)
Arduino

Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a development environment for writing Arduino software. The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, itself built on Processing.

(tags: processing sound art digital opensource hardware diy)

2006-12-11T00:22:00.000Z

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Open Culture: iTunes - Foreign Language Lesson Podcast Collection

If you search for podcasts that will help you learn foreign languages, just visit OpenCulture's iTunes Foreign Languages page. The list provided will probably keep you busy for a good long while.

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2006-12-09T00:22:00.000Z

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Home Wrecker

Home wrecker has a huge collection of DIY music articles and schematics...

(tags: articles audio bass effects electronic electronics guitar hardware make schematics music sound DIY)

8 bit - a documentary about art and video games

2006-12-03T01:52:00.000Z

The Unseen Beatles

2006-12-03T01:46:00.000Z

Fascinating documentary chronicling The Beatles last live tour ever, using never-before-seen footage, and how it influenced rock touring forever.

2006-12-03T00:22:00.000Z

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How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

Famous essay by Philip K. Dick, 1978

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www.logotypes.ru

A comprehensive list of nearly 5000 corporate logos in Illustrator format that can be downloaded for free: "All logos are available in Adobe Illustrator format and are compressed by ZIP."

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Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos | iStockphoto.com

iStockphoto® is the world's preeminent collection of member-generated royalty-free images, at the world's best prices. There are no subscription fees or extra costs. Just the best Stock Photography, Vector illustrations, and Flash files online, at prices

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2006-11-29T00:21:00.000Z

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Education: Fundamentals of Composition Part One

How To Make Pictures.

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Book Assembly

Step-by-step binding instructions for using a particular method of making a square bound book.

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Taming Light

Setup and painting techniques for digital painting.

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High dynamic range imaging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In computer graphics and cinematography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allow a far greater dynamic range of exposures (i.e. a large difference between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intent

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Pay No Mind & Crystal Clear

2006-11-28T13:57:00.000Z

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The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Book reviews.

(tags: reviews fantasy fiction writing sci-fi magazine)

2006-11-23T00:32:00.000Z

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2007 Text Mining workshop/competition held in conjunction with SDM

This year's program includes an Anomaly Detection/Text Mining competition sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center. The competition is open to all SDM07 attendees. Winners will receive cash prizes and an invitation to present their work at the workshop.

(tags: conference contest prize textmining science research mining)

2006-11-22T00:37:00.000Z

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Local Search Series

All articles written to date in Search Engine Watch's series about local searching.

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DCD - American Dreaming & Fatal Impact

2006-11-19T15:47:00.000Z

2006-11-16T00:30:00.000Z

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Synthesizer DIY pages

Wow, huge collection of DIY synth circuit diagrams from René Schmitz!

(tags: electronics music diy synthesizers schematics synth synths sound circuits retro)

2006-11-14T00:30:00.000Z

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Europarl Parallel Corpus

Europarl: A Multilingual Corpus for Evaluation of Machine Translation

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JRC-ACQUIS Multilingual Parallel Corpus V2.2

This is the download page of Version 2.2 of the aligned multilingual corpus JRC-ACQUIS . The dataset contains resources for the following languages: Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian,

(tags: machine translation ir research science corpus resource download parallel)
Gutenkarte » Book Catalog

Gutenkarte is a geographic text browser, intended to help readers explore the spatial component of classic works of literature. Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to MetaCarta's GeoParser API, which extrac

(tags: maps literature books geography Visualization history mashup opensource metacarta reference software location map mapping geocoding geo googlemaps hacking)
Welcome to Confabb: The Conference Community

Confabb (confabb.com) combines an aggregate database of major conferences, conventions, and trade shows sorted by industry with social networking tools designed to empower conference attendees to improve their overall experience.

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CSA Images

Featuring some of the freshest, most compelling rights managed images available, Mod Art runs from minimalist modern to vernacular baroque.

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History of Science: Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert: aus einem alten Mscpt. Zum erstenmal ans Licht gestellt: erstes -[drittes] Heft: Gallery

18th century book titled Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert (Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians from the 16th and 17th Centuries.) The University of Wisconsin Digital Library scanned and posted the entire tome, rich with

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Sub Rosa Magazine

Sub Rosa is a full magazine, in PDF form, which is available online for free. It's focused on magick and the occult.

(tags: magazine magick history science occult supernatural esoteric ezine pdf weird)

2006-11-12T00:27:00.000Z

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The ultimate webdesign usability checklist at Not Usable

This checklist with 88 questions is a must read for every webdesigner who cares about usability.

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2006-11-10T00:32:00.000Z

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Music Instrument Learning Software for Music Teachers and Students

Called In the Chair, the application encourages music students and budding guitar heroes to play along with real musicians by syncing scrolling sheet music with a prerecorded video of a band playing the song.

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Put The Lights On The Tree

2006-11-09T23:15:00.000Z

Music Video for Sufjan Stevens' "Put The Lights On The Tree," animated by Tom Eaton. Starring the Michigan Militia, the Swans, the Illinoisemakers, Sufjan Stevens, and Grandma.

2006-11-08T00:35:00.000Z

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We Met The Space People by Helen Mitchell - Free eBook

In the 1950s, two sisters named Helen and Betty Mitchell claimed to have met humanoid creatures from outer space in a St. Louis, Missouri coffee shop. We Met the Space People, written in 1959, is their account of the visitation. Judging by the book cover,

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Thelema Texts

These are texts relating to the philosophy of Thelema, many of them written by the occultist Aleister Crowley who founded the organization A.'. A.'. (Argentium Astrum -- the Silver Star) as well as others by members of the OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis -- Ord

(tags: crowley esoteric occult weird sci-fi thelema)

2006-11-07T00:36:00.000Z

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How my program passed the Turing Test

One of the funniest experiments ever performed in computer science .. it is a small milestone in human history to have produced a machine that can do this.

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United States Patent Application: 0060248046

A suggested query execution plan is used as a constraint on a guided optimization process such that all execution plans that do not conform to the suggested execution plan are eliminated as possible alternatives. If the guided optimization process success

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
United States Patent Application: 0060248057

A search mechanism is evaluated or a relevance model checked using session level and result level diagnostics based on user behavior during a search session with respect to queries entered and user responses to result lists. Tracking occurs of when conten

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
United States Patent Application: 0060248044

An implementation of a technology, described herein, for relevance-feedback, content-based image retrieval minimizes the number of iterations for user feedback regarding the semantic relevance of exemplary images while maximizing the resulting relevance o

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United States Patent Application: 0060248068

A method for determining semantic correlation between an input query and stored queries based on their temporal correlation. Embodiments include a formal calculation of a correlation coefficient between an input query and stored queries. Alternate embodim

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
United States Patent Application: 0060248066

A system and method are provided for optimizing a set of search results typically produced in response to a query. The method may include detecting whether two or more results access equivalent content and selecting a single user-preferred result from the

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
United States Patent Application: 0060248094

A system and method for analysis of portfolios of documents is presented. The portfolios may comprise patent-related documents, academic articles, product literature, or any other textual material. In one aspect of the invention, a user-defined classifica

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United States Patent Application: 0060248055

A system and method for analysis of portfolios of documents is presented. The portfolios may comprise patent-related documents, academic articles, product literature, or any other textual material. In one aspect of the invention, a user-defined classifica

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United States Patent Application: 0060195440

A unique system and method that facilitates improving the ranking of items is provided. The system and method involve re-ranking decreasing subsets of high ranked items in separate stages. In particular, a basic ranking component can rank a set of items.

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United States Patent Application: 0060248049

A method of processing information is provided. The method includes collecting text strings of definition candidates from a data source. The definition candidates are ranked based on the text strings.

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
United States Patent Application: 0060248072

A system and method are provided for improving a user search experience by identifying spam results in a result set produced in response to a query. The system may include a user interface spam feedback mechanism for allowing a user to indicate that a giv

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
Media on 'Second Attention'

Second Attention hosts an inspiring collection of free video and audio lectures by psychedelic pioneers Alan Watts, Terence McKenna, and bOING bOING patron saints Robert Anton Wilson and Timothy Leary.

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2006-11-06T00:30:00.000Z

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Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress (1745)

When Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good!

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2006-11-05T00:26:00.000Z

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Damn Interesting » The Birth of a Language

Languages are thoroughly organic entities. Each one is complex and versatile, constantly shifting according to the needs of those who use it. When social, political or environmental changes create a gap in a language, its individual speakers use creativit

(tags: language research sci-fi interesting science linguistics education communication languages school story society)
Easy Design, générateur de graphisme

The part that I find hillarious is that you can also ask it to build you a poster in the style of John Maeda or the French design superstars M/M Paris. For an untrained eye, I’m sure it’s pretty damn close! There is also « Easy Swisse » (LOL), and a

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Vincent - A short film by Tim Burton

2006-11-03T02:39:00.000Z

Got it from Escalla (who in turn had recieved the reference from Aurélia)... this one is great, thanks to the both for sharing!

2006-11-03T00:34:00.000Z

links for 2006-11-02

50 Tools that can Increase your Writing Skills - by Dumb Little Man

So without delay, here is a list of a whopping 50 articles that we should all read (yes, I said we because my writing tends to lack in a few dozen areas!)

(tags: writing tips language english Tools literature skill tricks productivity essay resources)

2006-11-02T00:30:00.000Z

links for 2006-11-01

FLiP On-line

Para facilitar o acesso à tecnologia FLiP, a Priberam disponibiliza, em serviço gratuito on-line, o corrector ortográfico e o corrector sintáctico, tanto para português europeu quanto para português do Brasil. A partir da janela disponível no ecrã

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Arabic Maqam World

Maqam World is a non-commercial, educational web site dedicated to helping musicians understand the maqam or modal system used in classical Arabic music. Maqam World attempts to simplify the subject for the Arabic music beginner, while trying hard to rema

(tags: music arabic)
[cs/0412098] Automatic Meaning Discovery Using Google

We have found a method to automatically extract the meaning of words and phrases from the world-wide-web using Google page counts.

(tags: google AI research automatic nlp papers semanticweb science)
Telegraph | Entertainment | How to be funny

Why are comedians such good liars? How hard do they work on their jokes? And how important is... timing? Jimmy Carr and Lucy Greeves explain the rules.

(tags: funny humor psychology comedy howto creativity diy reference advice writing)
Apoio à Apresentação de Comunicações em Congressos Internacionais - FLAD :: FUNDAÇÃO LUSO AMERICANA

Este programa de bolsas individuais tem como objectivo a internacionalização da produção científica portuguesa, a transferência de tecnologias e a promoção dos contactos internacionais dos académicos e investigadores portugueses.

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Data visualization tools for Linux

Applications for graphical visualization of data on Linux® are varied, from simple 2-D plots to 3-D surfaces, scientific graphics programming, and graphical simulation. Luckily, there are many open source possibilities, including gnuplot, GNU Octave, Sci

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National Novel Writing Month - National Novel Writing Month

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

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2006-11-01T00:31:00.000Z

links for 2006-10-31

yet2.com - yet2.com offers scientists and researchers the opportunity to unearth critical technologies. Here, we unearth yet2.com Inc.

yet2.com's mission is to help you identify and capture the full value of your intellectual assets.

(tags: collaboration innovation science business vector-e)

2006-10-31T00:35:00.000Z

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Astounding - Analog

Covers from these classic sci-fi magazines.

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2006-10-28T01:28:00.000+01:00

links for 2006-10-27

webkuehn.de - Homepage of Stefan Kühn - Geocoordinates from Wikipedia for Google Earth

In the free Software Google Earth is it possible to use own data and to connect this with a website. In the free enzyklopedia Wikipedia some Wikipedian support the WikiProject Geographical coordinates, where they include coordinates in the articles. I use

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A film by Toshio Matsumoto - for the damaged right eye

2006-10-28T00:23:00.000+01:00

2006-10-27T01:33:00.000+01:00

links for 2006-10-26

Scar Stuff: Forrest J. Ackerman and Frank Coe "Music For Robots" (Science Fiction Records, MFR-1001A, 1964)

This is some great great stuff -- vinyl pops and clicks included!

(tags: music mp3 retro audio robots history mp3s)
Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in coin flipping

Could a simple coin toss -- used routinely to decide which team gets the ball, for instance -- actually be rigged?

(tags: math mathematics coin flipping news weird)
netpd about

netpd is a project based on the software puredata. its intention is to create an environment for electronic musicians and give them the opportunity to jam with each other in realtime, connected over the internet or a LAN.

(tags: music net internet collaborative tool experimental)
.·`¯¯`·.__.·`¯ Blip Festival 2006 NYC NOV 30 - DEC 3 ¯`·.__.·`¯¯`·.

THE TANK and 8BITPEOPLES are pleased to present the Blip Festival, a four-day celebration of over 30 international artists exploring the untapped potential of low-bit videogame consoles and home computers used as creative tools.

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2006-10-26T01:35:00.000+01:00

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JOCR

GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License.

(tags: java ocr programming graphics scanning text tools utilities library recognition)

2006-10-24T01:34:00.000+01:00

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Pulp Italian sf magazine covers

Check out this incredible gallery of over 1500 Italian pulp science fiction magazine covers, spanning 1952 to the present day.

(tags: design sci-fi art retro vintage pulp cover magazine magazines graphics illustration)
Computer Gaming World magazine

Welcome to the official online archive of Computer Gaming World magazine, where you can read and download digitized versions* of the first 100 issues of the magazine, beginning with the first issue in November 1981, and then see covers of all the rest of

(tags: games magazine gaming free pdf archive computer videogames videogame 80s computers download gallery retro game)
Tutorials | Photoshop Lab

Lots of Photoshop tutorials.

(tags: tutorials tutorial webdesign graphics Photoshop howto photography web2.0 illustration effects art resource resources reference)
Manga Revolution Drawing & Painting Tutorials

Manga Revolution.com is your premeir source for learning how to draw using digital and traditional methods of all types. From digital painting, to drawing anime, we're an online resource aimed at helping you learn and grow.

(tags: drawing art tutorial manga illustration reference japanese tutorials tips graphic painting anime artwork comic comics digital lessons)
t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m : ASCII-O-Matic

ASCII Art Generator.

(tags: ASCII Fun image cool flash design Art typography visualization graphic graphics software)
» Toshio Matsumoto - Experimental Film Works

Graduated from Tokyo University in 1955. A pioneer of avant-garde documentary, experimental film, multimedia, and video art in Japan.

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2006-10-19T01:34:00.000+01:00

links for 2006-10-18

Cyberfret.com: Guitar Techniques

Free online guitar lessons.

(tags: guitar music lessons tutorial techniques)
The Best Dreamcast Games For Today: The Top Titles That Still Matter : Retro Gaming with racketboy

A list of games that are still relevant in today's gaming market because of their unique gameplay that has not been improved upon on other consoles.

(tags: dreamcast games retro sega videogames gaming video)

2006-10-17T01:34:00.000+01:00

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Flying Saucers From Hell

Ufology often seems to come down to a choice between extraterrestrial visitors and some as yet unknown natural phenomenon but, as Dr David Clarke reveals, a now largely forgotten counter-theory was of infiltration by demons from the fiery pits of Hades.

(tags: ufo christianity culture religion books sci-fi weird)
c64animation.com

Glorious 8bit computer game graphics vault C64 Animation

(tags: c64 animation retro art design geek graphics videogames vintage computing cool database games gaming game 8-bit image pixel)

2006-10-16T01:35:00.000+01:00

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M O D I S T I

Modisti is an online directory with information with regard to experimental music, it's performers and enthusiats, thru lists promotion activities such as concerts, festivals, etc., as well as record releases.

(tags: music experimental audio creativecommons sound downloads mp3s free artists)
tomsrtbt home page

The most GNU/Linux on 1 floppy disk.

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2006-10-15T01:32:00.000+01:00

links for 2006-10-14

Robotics Institute: Neural Network-Based Face Detection

We present a neural networkbased face detection system. A retinally connected neural network examines small windows of an image, and decides whether each window contains a face.

(tags: face detection image retrieval ir science research)
TV Links - Cowboy Bebop

The famous anime series about a group of space travelling bounty hunters in 2071. 'Cowboy Bebop is strongly influenced by American culture, especially the jazz movements of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Nearly all of its action sequences, from space battles

(tags: video tv anime animation cowboy cartoons flash downloads media cartoon streaming)
The Interactive Way To Go

Here, you can surely learn to play Go because you can actually play.

(tags: go games tutorial howto boardgames game learning)
Game/Computer Magazine Scans - 1982/83 - a photoset on Flickr

The title says it all.

(tags: games retro advertising history gaming magazine videogames vintage videogame video 80s computer flickr graphics scans)
Bolt Member happyfcekilla's Video: Watch, Post, Comment, and Share with Friends

Includes: Clerks 2, Dazed and Confused, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Fearless, Ghost In The Shell, Harold and Kumar, Labyrinth, The Lost Boys, Miami Vice, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Scanner Darkly, Sin City, Superman Returns, V for Vendetta, X-Men 3,

(tags: movies video online videos cinema)
Geonames Ontology - Semantic Web

The Geonames Ontology makes it possible to add geospatial semantic information to the Word Wide Web.

(tags: geo semweb rdf geonames ontology owl)
Mindswap Homepage

Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab Semantic Web Agents Project.

(tags: semanticweb ontology rdf semantic research socialsoftware software computing computer social socialnetworking webservices academic technology semweb)

Blade Runner Documentary

2006-10-14T03:12:00.000+01:00

2006-10-13T01:34:00.000+01:00

links for 2006-10-12

Shelfari

The problem with our large bookshelves is that they are buried in our home where only a subset of people can see what we have read. Now with Shelfari you can show off that book collection to your friends and the world!

(tags: books social web2.0 sharing book personal socialsoftware socialnetworking literature library collaboration networking)
Google News Archive Search

News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.

(tags: history news search)
Public Military Manuals

PDF files with Public Military Manuals.

(tags: pdf manual howto army military)

2006-10-12T01:33:00.000+01:00

links for 2006-10-11

Blogmusik

Free Internet virtual ipod for Music Albums.

(tags: Music mp3 streaming Free ipod online Blog social webapp flash radio podcast aggregator ajax)
GMAN: FlickrDown

Batch download of flickr photos.

(tags: flickr software tools download photography photos tool images application backup)
MATSYS

Starting from a single sheet of paper, the students are asked to construct a number of models using techniques such as folding, bending, and cutting that transform the sheet into a 3 dimensional structure cabable of new structural performances.

(tags: architecture art blog research student system)
Origami Tessellations

Eric Gjerde's musings on origami, tessellations, geometry, design, and art

(tags: origami art paper geometry design tessellation blog cool mathematics papercraft)
Sculptures

In the mid 1980's, dissatisfied with the origami world's twin obsessions of complexity and literal representation, I began to experiment widely with technical and philosophical alternatives to folding paper as a model making activity. I wanted to make peo

(tags: papercraft art origami sculptures blog)

2006-10-11T01:33:00.000+01:00

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Thephildickian.com

Specializing in Philip K Dick, Science Fiction, and Radical Movement.

(tags: pkd sci-fi zine)
dataisnature.com

Dataisnature is a weblog of personal and recreational research containing information and links covering the following topics - Robot Art, Algorithmic and Procedural Art, Computational Aesthetics, Glitch Aesthetics, Vj’ing, Video Art, Computational Arch

(tags: art blog design visualization generative technology blogs digital computer computers computing fractal computation fractals graphics algorithm algorithms processing mathematics math maths multimedia)
CheapGeek- How to Clean a Dirty Old Printer

Here's how to clean an old laser printer, to bring it back to life...

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Polar Rose -

Polar Rose uses unique face recognition technology to help search and find pictures of people, whether in your individual web album or across the web. We're picking up where traditional text search engines simply can't go!

(tags: search photography recognition face images web2.0 web photo photos technology tagging social)
reg:exp: GPS + Google Maps Mash-up in 42 lines of code

Here is a quick and dirty hack to perform mobile GPS-referenced Google Map searches on your laptop (e.g., where's the next coffee shop around here?).

(tags: googlemaps google gps python programming Maps software web2.0 mapping computer mashup mobile)
Home - voxforge.org

VoxForge was set up to collect transcribed speech for use with Open Source Speech Recognition Engines.

(tags: speech recognition voice opensource learning machine computer free science research)

2006-10-09T01:28:00.000+01:00

links for 2006-10-08

COMMIX - Comics written just the way you want.

Easy tool for making comics.

(tags: comics art fun design tools cool web illustration webcomic illustrator web2.0 webapp drawing diy strips strip tool)
stuntkid.com

GirlMaker! Design a girl because it is fun.

(tags: cool flash toys web design illustration tool)
Acapela Group - Interactive Demo

A demo of text-to-speech technology.

(tags: text-to-speech language speech audio tts voice tools webservices webdev web2.0 demo technology)

Amazing physics

2006-10-08T20:58:00.000+01:00

2006-10-08T01:29:00.000+01:00

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8 BIT - home

A documentary about art and video games.

(tags: art documentary 8bit game film videogames movie films movies digital computer)
A Student's Guide to Startups

An essay by Paul Graham.

(tags: startup entrepreneurship PaulGraham business tips howto entrepreneur essay student article)
Slang of the 1920

The twenties were the first decade to emphasize youth culture over the older generations, and the flapper sub-culture had a tremendous influence on main stream America; many new words and phrases were coined by these liberated women. Many of these are sti

(tags: culture language humor reference dictionary words languages speech slang cool retro)
Undeniable Facts: Undeniable Friday: The Teleporting Cat Trick- a fact a day

This is a truly astounding illusion which you can use to bewilder your friends.

(tags: interesting video trick magic)
Kick Ass Classical - Classical Music's Top 100 Greatest Hits

Here's a targeted list of the 100 most popular Classical Music pieces, with [ LISTEN ] links directly to the "hook" - the most recognizable part of the piece - so you can decide if you like it (or even know it!) before you go buy the CD or mp3. Now go get

(tags: music classical lists mp3 reference classic classics)
Limbo Game

Could this be the next Another World?

(tags: games design video art game videogames videogame animation flash retro gaming)
Jack's Harmonica Page

Harmonica Lessons and Songbook.

(tags: harmonica howto music tutorial reference)

2006-10-06T01:37:00.000+01:00

links for 2006-10-05

X-RATED - Adult movie posters of the 60s and 70s

Collection of x-rated movies posters from the 60s and 70s.

(tags: design art posters porn movies sex film 60s 70s advertising humor history graphics vintage)