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Natural Fashion

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:56:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The art of the people of the Omo Valley

"This unique art (shot by Hans Silvester) of the African Surma and Mursi tribes of the Omo Valley. These nomadic people have no architecture or crafts with which to express their innate artistic sense. Instead, they use their bodies as canvases and adorning themselves with materials obtained from their surroundings such as flowers, leaves, grasses, berries and branches which seems endlessly inventive, and above all, fun"

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Hans Silvester
biographie

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Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa (Hardcover)

by Hans Silvester (Author)

£12.97 & eligible for Free UK delivery on orders over £15 with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

Before Photoshop

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:58:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Tricks of Advertising Photographs (Aug, 1931)

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Tricks of Advertising Photographs (Aug, 1931)

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IKEA instructions

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:42:13 GMT

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Dawkins and the 'fart of god'

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:20:45 GMT

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A rare glimpse into Richard Dawkins' inbox. His detractors really are a charming bunch

Richard Dawkins has made a few enemies in his time suggesting that cherished notions of a creator god or gods are so much brain-washing and delusion. His reward is the most amusing inbox in the world. Here he is reading us some of it during his recent series The Genius of Charles Darwin.

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A question science can't answer?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:49:55 GMT

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"Can anybody think of a question science can't answer?"

"Is there a God?" shot back a boy near the window.

"Good," said Mr. Campbell, an Anglican who attends church most Sundays. "Can't test it. Can't prove it, can't disprove it. It's not a question for science."

I despise that chicken-hearted answer. There are two reasonable ways to address that. One is to accept the usual open-ended, undefined vagueness of the god entity and point out that the reason it can't be answered is that it is a bad question — it's not even wrong. Science doesn't answer it, but then no discipline can, because it's a garbage question like "what color are invisible elephants?" If that's what window-boy intends with his petty little gotcha, he deserves to have the inanity of his idea disparaged.

The other approach

pin the question down. What god? What actions has it taken in the natural world? How does it influence us specifically? Then you can tackle that god with science by testing the purported effects it has

Tags: religion, science, atheism, god

Stellarium - planetarium on your computer

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:21:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Looks interesting enough to download!

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Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go. view screenshots

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Screenshots

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features

sky

default catalogue of over 600,000 stars

extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars

asterisms and illustrations of the constellations

constellations for ten different cultures

images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)

realistic Milky Way

very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset

the planets and their satellites

visualisation

equatorial and azimuthal grids

star twinkling

shooting stars

eclipse simulation

skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection

Tags: planetarium, galaxy, planets, stars, asteroids, sky, moon

Just one race - the Human race

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:20:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In Haiti all good people were black (whatever their skin colour)

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when it comes to subverting the racial order, there is no better example than Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first ruler of an independent Haiti

All Haitians, - Ayisyen yo - "shall hence forward be known only by the generic appellation of "Blacks." (See, Dessalines' 1805 Constitution).

Thus, in Dessalines' Haiti, "Black," is deracialized. We all now know that race is purely a social construct with no scientific grounds. The truth is there is just one race, the human race. But back at its creation, the country of Haiti was based on this truth.

those who fought for the abolishment of chattel slavery in Haiti and against colonialism, including the few whites that did fight on the side of the Africans, as "Blacks

a "Black" is a person (no matter his/her skin color

who stands for freedom, human dignity and against slavery, colonialism and imperialism. No ideal in this modern world so directly confronts and conquers the biological fatalism of white privilege

Moodstream

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:55:17 GMT

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The world's largest stock imagery company, Getty Images, this week released a new mashup that leans on the company's vast stock image and audio assets. The flash app called Moodstream draws on Getty's photo, video, and audio collections to create what the company calls a "powerful brainstorming tool designed to take you in inspiring, unexpected directions." The mashup debuted earlier this week at the Webby Award Film and Video Awards after party in New York.

Moodstream adjusts its output based on settings users input via sliders that describe their state of mind. Happy to Sad, Humorous to Serious, etc. Users can also control the type of transitions between image assets, the amount of color vs. black and white imagery, and the type of music. The app comes with 6 preset moods as well. Once you've entered your mood settings, the application delivers a steady stream of video clips and still images set to short snippets of music.

i needz capshun

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:33:15 GMT

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Don't forget the dashboard

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:30:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For those who haven't discovered it .

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5 Insanely Small And Inhabited Private Islands

8-21-2008

by hitchhiker08

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" Wowie! "

Belly Dancer

8-20-2008

by JULIE PENKOVA

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" secrets!!
do you love art?
Enjoy....
With love from
London.....England....xxx "

her hat was old

Today 12:54 AM

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mm pool armpit cereal, just what i want!

Yesterday 5:29 AM

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Engineer becomes successful artist after stroke rewires his brain

8-21-2008

by missjackson

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" Desperately looking for something to relieve his boredom but with little strength to perform everyday tasks, he picked up a pencil and started doodling on paper.

'I just started pencilling these abstract patterns,' he "

The Large Hadron Collider - Best pics yet

Yesterday 4:45 PM

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" This really is SOME machine! "

Maps of War

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:21:30 GMT

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Maps-of-War presents a special list of the best
multimedia war maps from the world wide web.

Play-by-play history of WWII from the invasion of Poland in September 1939 to the unconditional surrender of Germany in May 1945.

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Simplistic, yet effective, animations of the major battles of the Pacific Theatre. The animation of The Battle for Iwo Jima comes highly recommended; this map portrays the lead-up and the invasion of the island including the locations where Medal of Honor recipients earned their decorations.

> The Battle for Iwo Jima

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Detailed summary of the crisis in Darfur including key facts, timelines, and an interactive country map.

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Iraq

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The beating heart of nebula W5

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:46:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Oh my!

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Holy frak! Check out this new image from Spitzer Space Telescope:

(Click to hugely embiggen)

W5 is a nebula, a giant cloud of gas roughly 6000 light years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It’s enormous, spanning about 2 x 1.5 degrees of the sky (15 times the size of the full Moon on the sky), and is actively cranking out stars. The valentine-shape is actually an enormous cavern, a hollow carved out of the gas by the winds and fierce ultraviolet light flooding out from massive young stars in its… well, its heart. It’s like these stars are blowing a vast bubble in the middle of the cloud.

The stars doing the work can be seen in the image; the bright blue ones are the culprits. Mind you, this is an infrared false-color image; blue is not really blue, it’s actually light at 3.6 microns, more than four times the wavelength of visible light.

Magritte

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:56:09 GMT

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"If the spectator finds that my paintings are a kind of defiance of 'common sense', he realises something obvious. I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense." René Magritte.

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Magritte worked as an assistant designer in a wallpaper factory, and was a poster and advertisement designer until 1926 when a contract with Galerie la Centaure in Brussels made it possible for him to paint full-time. In 1926, Magritte produced his first surreal painting, The Lost Jockey (Le jockey perdu)

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My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, "What does that mean?". It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

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"La Trahison des Images" ("The Treachery of Images")

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Diary of his mother's death

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:55:20 GMT

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5.30pm: Dad is bent over the toilet bowl with a brush in his hand and a scowl on his face. I walk up to him. "Shall I give you a hand?" Dad begins to snigger, abandoning any attempt to make sense of the situation. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our backs to Mum, who paces around the landing with a newly fitted catheter in her hand.

The catheter has been put in by nurse Marianne to enable our GP, who will be with us in half an hour, to give Mum a lethal injection. But instead of having a moment of peace with us, as Marianne suggested, Mum demands that we clean the toilets. Both upstairs and downstairs.

My brother, Maarten, is sitting on the edge of the bath, staring out of the bathroom window.

"Imagine," he mutters. "Her last hour, spent like this."

This is the Netherlands, where voluntary euthanasia is permitted, as well as physician-assisted suicide. This is the day my mother has chosen to die, and the toilets need to be spotless.

Clipmarks | JohnWaterman's clips

Natural Fashion

Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa (Hardcover)

Before Photoshop

Tricks of Advertising Photographs (Aug, 1931)

IKEA instructions

Dawkins and the 'fart of god'

A rare glimpse into Richard Dawkins' inbox. His detractors really are a charming bunch

A question science can't answer?

Stellarium - planetarium on your computer

Stellarium

Screenshots

features

sky

visualisation

Just one race - the Human race

Moodstream

i needz capshun

Don't forget the dashboard

Maps of War

The beating heart of nebula W5

Magritte

Diary of his mother's death

Three months earlier