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OK, that's decided - I'm becoming a Christian

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:27:28 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: Indeed.

"Religion is the opium of the people" (Marx)

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:21:38 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: A brilliant demonstration that shows that religion is, literally, the opium of the people

Clip Source: today.reuters.com

Cocaine smuggled in Virgin Mary statues

Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:12 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two men suspected of helping smuggle cocaine to New York from Mexico inside statues of the Virgin Mary were arrested Thursday, U.S. authorities said.

Peter Matheis, 52, and Rafael Serrano, 36, both Mexican nationals, were indicted in New York and Houston respectively on money-laundering and narcotics charges along with six others arrested previously in the United States, the Drug Enforcement Administration said.

Five 3-foot-tall statues of the Virgin Mary, filled with 242 pounds of cocaine, were seized in a Brooklyn warehouse as part of the police operation.

The drug ring used the statues to smuggle cocaine worth millions of dollars, FBI agent John Gilbride said in a statement.

The DEA said the investigation was continuing in Mexico.

Lawyers for the defendants could not be immediately reached for comment.

Tags: fun, odd, religion, drug, cocaine

ALEXA - Looks interesting

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:36:32 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: New service from Amazon. Apparently a meta searc engine, that allows you to define your own search engine.

Clip Source: websearch.alexa.com

What is the Alexa Web Search Platform?

The Alexa Web Search Platform provides public access to the vast web crawl collected by Alexa Internet. Users can search and process billions of documents -- even create their own search engines -- using Alexa's search and publication tools. Alexa provides compute and storage resources that allow users to quickly process and store large amounts of web data. Users can view the results of their processes interactively, transfer the results to their home machine, or publish them as a new web service. Take a Tour

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User Guide

FAQs

Price Guide

Tags: alexa, amazon, search, search engine, web

Portable Firefox - never get far from your computer without it!

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:25:40 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: You install it on a USB key, and you can run it from everywhere. With your bookmarks, cookies, setup, extensions, themes, everything!

That is great.

Clip Source: portableapps.com

Portable Firefox

your browser, your way... in your pocket

Portable Firefox is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, thanks to the PortableApps launcher bundled in Portable Firefox, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go. Learn more about Mozilla Firefox...

Tags: firefox, portable, app, usb

Tab Mix Plus - Another cool Fox extension

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:26:27 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: Nice little features related to tabbed browsing in Firefox.

Clip Source: addons.mozilla.org

Tab Mix Plus

Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.

Requires: Firefox: 1.0 - 1.6a1

Install Now (266 KB File)

Tags: firefox, extension, tabs, tab, browser

Believers, please read that - and let's discuss it

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:27:37 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: Let's begin another discussion from scratch, shall we ? If we can, let's try not to bark or yell at eachother and be reasonable. I know we can do it.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

"The map is not the territory" is also an underlying principle used in neuro-linguistic programming, where it is used to signify that individual people in fact do not in general have access to absolute knowledge of reality, but in fact only have access to a set of beliefs they have built up over time, about reality. So it is considered important to be aware that people's beliefs about reality and their awareness of things (the "map") are not reality itself or everything they could be aware of ("the territory"). The originators of NLP have been explicit that they owe this insight to General Semantics. (Main article: Principles of NLP)

Tags: general semantics, map/terrirory relationship, relativity, beliefs

If only that worked for Clipmarks...

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:15:38 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: Some people could find uses of that (including myself)

Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Device tells you if you're boring
MIT Media Lab researchers are building a device to help autistic people determine if they're boring or annoying the person they're talking to. The "emotional social intelligence prosthetic device" is a camera that clips on eyeglasses and feeds images to a small computer that uses image recognition software to characterize emotions. If the listener doesn't seem to be engaged, the device vibrates to alert the wearer. Progress on the device will be presented at the International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks next week at MIT. From New Scientist:

(Researcher Rana El Kaliouby's) program is based on a machine-learning algorithm that she trained by showing it more than 100 8-second video clips of actors expressing particular emotions. The software picks out movements of the eyebrows, lips and nose, and tracks head movements such as tilting, nodding and shaking, which it then associates with the emotion the actor was showing. When presented with fresh video clips, the software gets people's emotions right 90 per cent of the time when the clips are of actors, and 64 per cent of the time on footage of ordinary people...

Getting the software to work is only the first step, (researcher Rosalind) Picard warns. In its existing form it makes heavy demands on computing power, so it may need to be pared down to work on a standard hand-held computer. Other challenges include finding a high-resolution digital camera that can be worn comfortably, and training people with autism to look at the faces of those they are conversing with so that the camera picks up their expressions.

Link

posted by David Pescovitz at 02:08:27 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments

Tags: boring, device, gadget, boing boing

Flickr Clock

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:02:43 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: This thing is awesome. Unfiortunately I can't clip it properly, but open the source to see it.

Clip Source: www.quasimondo.com

Clockr uses random digit images from Flickr to display the current time.
Click on a number to change the image, doubleclick it to view the full image. Use the mouse wheel to cycle through.
In case you see a message box from Flash: The Flickr image urls will be stored locally and only be refreshed

every three days - this will save some bandwidth and will speed up the start-up time.

I want to thank Ben Dolman very much for helping me to create the Clockr Screensaver for Windows that you can download here.

Clockr by Mario Klingemann / Quasimondo / RSS Feed

Flash Flickr API access with Flashr by Kelvin Luck.

See this page in white / black - My other works that use Flickr: Flickeur | Tagnautica

Tags: fun, flickr, clock

Intellectual property's worst excesses

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:00:06 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks:

MICROSOFT UK held a contest for the best film on "intellectual property theft"; finalists had to sign away "all intellectual property rights" on "terms acceptable to Microsoft."

Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Mother Jones mag - "Intellectual property"'s worst excesses
Mother Jones, a left-wing magazine, has published a Harpers-Index-style guide to copyright's worst excesses; it's notable that this week both they and their ideological opponents at the libertarian Cato Institute have both published material supporting the copyfight. It's truly a nonpartisan fight:

A DAY AFTER Senator Orrin Hatch said "destroying their machines" might be the only way to stop illegal downloaders, unlicensed software was discovered on his website.
BILL GATES had the 11-million-image Bettmann Archive buried 220 feet underground. Archivists can access only the 2% that was first digitized.
AMONG THE 16,000 people thus far sued for sharing music files was a 65-year-old woman who, though she didn't own downloading software, was accused of sharing 2,000 songs, including Trick Daddy's "I'm a Thug." She was sued for up to $150,000 per song.
MICROSOFT UK held a contest for the best film on "intellectual property theft"; finalists had to sign away "all intellectual property rights" on "terms acceptable to Microsoft."

Link (Thanks, Dave!)

posted by Cory Doctorow at 07:56:43 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments

Tags: intellectual property, freedom, politics, digital, law, bill, microsoft

Atheism explained to kids

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:43:57 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: The Santa Claus comparison.

Clip Source: www.atheistempire.com

Tags: atheism, santa claus, calvin & hobbes

Distrust of Atheists - funny way to say it

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:41:10 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: Morals are relative.

Clip Source: www.atheistempire.com

Tags: atheism, distrust, morals

Some more Bill O'Reilly funniness

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:47:45 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: Check out those videos. This guy is a living advertisement against republicans.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Bill O'Reilly goes on the attack

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O'Reilly Bullies a Mother

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Jeremy Glick vs Bill O'Reilly

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Bill O'Reilly Attacks Everyone

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Bill OReilly Fatwa

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Tags: bill o'reilly, neocon, republicans, fox, funny, ridiculous

PayPal goes Mobile

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:06:24 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: Pay with your mobile phone. Interesting.

Clip Source: www.paypal.com

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Tags: paypal, mobile

Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:19:46 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: It should be an honor to be hated by Christians.

Clip Source: powell.newsvine.com

Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority

This is what reasoned people who reject superstition are up against.

From a telephone sampling of more than 2,000 households, university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in “sharing their vision of American society.” Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry.

To be honest, I find it much easier to trust someone who's moral views are rooted in the world around him than people who base their views entirely on books written by primitive peoples at least a thousand years ago who themselves would be seen as moral savages by modern civilization.

And I suppose it's fortunate I already have a fiance, since it sounds like it'd be pretty hard for me to find another one.

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Tags: atheism, distrust, minority, us

Google Mars

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:44:26 GMT

clipped by: Guillaume
clipper's remarks: Beautiful, cool, useless. That's great.
Use it to find the best spot to install your new restaurant before everyone else does.

Clip Source: www.google.com

Image Credit: NASA / JPL / GSFC / Arizona State University - Terms of Use

Elevation

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Tags: google, maps, mars