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Sailing to Byzantium

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:34:36 GMT

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An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

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O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.

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Persian Music

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:45:24 GMT

clipped by: arifsali

Clip Source: www.radiodarvish.com

This site and webcast is dedicated to the Persian traditional music fans.
Music crosses language boundaries and brings people closer to one another.

Tags: persian, iran, music

RADIO DARVISH - Persian Traditional Music

Thu, 31 May 2007 22:29:04 GMT

clipped by: gzyra

Clip Source: www.radiodarvish.com

RADIO DARVISH
PERSIAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC

This site and webcast is dedicated to the Persian traditional music fans.
Music crosses language boundaries and brings people closer to one another.

[ Listen: (DSL / Cable) or Modem | Play List

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Original Alice

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:29:25 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.bl.uk

THE ORIGINAL ALICE

Written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll

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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground - Introduction

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This manuscript - one of the British Library's best - loved treasures - is the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician.

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Chapter one

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and where is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations? So she was considering in her own mind, (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid,) whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain was worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

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Tags: literature, alice, lewis carroll, wonderland, alice's adventures underground

Parenthood is not a synonym to blood connection!

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:46:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I think it is an important research, genetic similarity does not yield a priori an advantage in the quality of parenthood and education. It is rather the human involved. i think it holds to mothers as well.

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Biological Fathers Not Necessarily The Best, Social Dads Parent Well Too

A large number of U.S. children live or will live with a “social father,” a man who is married to or cohabiting with the child’s mother, but is not the biological father.

Researchers found that married social fathers exhibited equivalent or higher quality parenting behaviors than married and cohabiting biological fathers.

Married social fathers were more engaged with children, took on more shared responsibility in parenting, and were more trusted by mothers to take care of children.

Analyses and regression results from interviews with mothers revealed that they perceived married social fathers to be engaged in relatively high quality parenting practices with the five-year-old children. Most notably, social fathers exhibited significantly higher levels of cooperation in parenting than biological fathers.

Tags: sociology, family

Would you like to know your gender?

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:17:02 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: i like it, mainly because i believe that through observations of patterns one may discover many things...
BTW i am 84% male and 16% female (or was it the other way around ?-)-- try it.

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Using your browser URL history to estimate gender

One of the things that I always wanted to do but never got around to was to analyze a user’s browsing history to estimate age and gender. Of course the idea is definitely not new, in fact Xerox (of all companies??) has a patent on the whole process and I’m certain plenty of networks already do something of the sort… but what the heck, let’s have some fun!

So what I did is I modified the SocialHistory JS so that it polled the browser to find out which of the Quantcast top 10k sites were visited. I then apply the ratio of male to female users for each site and with some basic math determine a guestimate of your gender. The math is really quite simple, I just take:

1 / (1 + r_1 * r_2 * … * r_n)
where p_i is the ratio of men-to-women for the specific site. For example, if you had been to two sites that had a 2-1 ratio of men to women, the probability of you being female would be:
1 / (1 + 2 * 2) = 1/5 = 20%

Important World Event! Please Consider Watching, Thanks.

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:10:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Argentina's Economic Collapse
Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%. Central to the collapse was the implementation of neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations. Many of Argentina's assets and resources were shamefully plundered. Its financial system was even used for money laundering by Citibank, Credit Suisse, and JP Morgan. The net result was massive wealth transfers and the impoverishment of society which culminated in many deaths due to oppression and malnutrition.

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Argentina's Economic Collapse - Part 2 of 12

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Argentina's Economic Collapse - Part 3 of 12

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Argentina's Economic Collapse - Part 4 of 12

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Argentina's Economic Collapse - Part 5 of 12

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Argentina's Economic Collapse - Part 6 of 12

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Argentina's Economic Collapse - Part 7 of 12

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Argentina's Economic Collapse - Part 8 of 12

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Argentina's Economic Collapse - Part 10 of 12

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Argentina's Economic Collapse - Part 11 of 12

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Argentina's Economic Collapse - Part 12 of 12

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Pink Floyd---Animals

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:11:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Relevant lyrics for today....and good music ,too!!

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Animals

Animals is a concept album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 23 January 1977 in the UK and on 2 February 1977 in the U.S.

The album proved a success in the United Kingdom, where it reached #2 in the era of punk music. It was also a success in the U.S., reaching #3 on the Billboard album charts (#1 and #2 were Hotel California by The Eagles, and the soundtrack to the Barbara Streisand film A Star Is Born). However, it was on the American charts for only six months even though it has continued to sell solidly, to the extent of its having gone quadruple platinum, according to the RIAA.

In the UK, the British Phonographic Industry awarded the album Gold (100,000 units) in 1977. It has yet to achieve Platinum.

The Whole History of Dmegivern's Clipmarks Comments

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:02:50 GMT

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All my Clipmarks Comments

what I am trying to stress is that even if I eventually made it to the indebted middle class, I am not okay from the journey. I am traumatized. Poverty harmed me deeply. It broke up my family. It put me into foster care, and led to dozens of stressful moves. It provided me with a first-hand seat to the ridicule of the poor; I carry in diaries... in memories... a lifelong record of anti-poor and anti-welfare comments hurled at me.

"I disagree. I grew up in the household of mentally ill people who went untreated. It led to us going to foster care, long-term poverty, neglect, and sometimes mistreatment. I take my meds religiously because I never want to endanger my family in the same way. They may not work for everyone, but they have been wonderful for me. My brother who committed suicide in 1996 at the age of 23 never wanted to take meds either. I think people are too cavalier about dismissing their importance for real mental illness."

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Afghanistan in pictures

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:35:47 GMT

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This girl looks happy here, but expectations are that as she grows, her burn scars won't, which could prove fatal. There is no hospital in Uruzgan, one of the poorest provinces in Afghanistan

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the royal palace of Dar-ul-Aman

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the faces of the future law enforcers of Afghanistan, members of the Afghan National Auxiliary Police

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a bike is a luxury item

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Afghanistan is a country of children and young people: 44% of the population is under 14. They now have better prospects because they can go to school again

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A girls' school in Uruzgan. Under the Taliban regime girls were banned from attending school. That has changed although some are still not used to the idea

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Security is also important for schools

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he swimming pool

never contained water

the Taliban pushed blindfolded criminals and homosexuals from the top diving board

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40% of the population is unemployed

7 Myths of Crowd Psychology

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:07:08 GMT

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"The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile"

~Benito Mussolini

Here are the seven myths about crowds that Schweingruber and Wohlstein identify, in order of how frequently they appear in introductory sociology textbooks.

1. Crowds are spontaneous

The most common myth about crowds is that they are spontaneous, or worse, that they are hotbeds of violence, with complete chaos only a few ill-judged jostles away.

Research into crowd violence does not support this.

2. Crowds are suggestible

The idea that people in crowds have heightened suggestibility is also a relatively common myth. People are said to copy each other, looking for a leader, being open to others' suggestion about how they should behave, perhaps resulting from a lack of social structure.

3. Crowds are irrational

4. Crowds increase anonymity

5. Crowds are emotional

6. Crowds are unanimous

7. Crowds are destructive

Tags: psychology, mass, crowd, behavior

The Landscape Vortex: Spectacular Earth and Culture Dialogs

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:45:20 GMT

clipped by: lekahe

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The Landscape Vortex: Spectacular Earth and Culture Dialogs

Robert Smithson: from Spiral Jetty to Amarillo Ramp

D.A.ST: 100,000 Square Meters of Desert Breath

Crop Circles: From Bower and Chorley to The Circlemakers

Tags: art, environment, masterpieces, review

The Finger: An Imaginary Landscape of Hebrew Letters

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:42:34 GMT

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The Finger: An Imaginary Landscape of Hebrew Letters

Despite being The Finger a creation of an Israeli typographic artist, logo and type designer, despite the fact it clearly corresponds with ancient Jewish culture - Rang magazine, an Iranian ezine for graphic designers, could not have avoid it and recently published a follow up story about it (screenshot below). Well, yes, art is meant to be borderless but not always is.

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Tags: art, israel, literature, photography

The Role of Meaning in Human Thinking

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:50:56 GMT

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The creation of meaning to interpret and communicate perceived phenomena is a fundamental trait of human intelligence. This article explains some major ways in which this is achieved, focusing on language and the perception of embodiment. It examines the representational aspects of natural language, which account for the ambiguity of linguistic signs, and describes how these manifest in metaphor, connotation and emotive expression. The article argues that the human propensity to create meaning lies largely in this representational ambiguity, which underlies all forms of symbolism. However, the ambiguity of natural language has a paradoxical side, since it is also at fault in many shortcomings of human communication, such as misunderstanding and prejudicial stereotyping. This article argues that any attempt to emulate human ways of thinking, for example in Artificial Intelligence research, should take this paradoxical factor into account.

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Life in Yellow

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:29:34 GMT

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