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Photos of the Earth and Moon - From Other Worlds

Sat, 10 May 2008 06:16:36 GMT

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We're familiar with the close-up images of Earth captured by orbital satellites and astronauts on the International Space Station. But here are a few pictures of the Earth and Moon captured at a distance, while passing around the Moon, or orbiting distant Saturn. In the words of Carl Sagan, "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

Since Sagan commented on Voyager 1's image of Earth, several more pics of the Earth and Moon have been captured that really put our tiny spot in the Universe into perspective

Voyager 1 - the Pale Blue Dot

This image, captured by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft on February 14, 1990, is the one Sagan was talking about

Cassini - the Earth from Saturn

a tiny blue-white dot.

there's Earth, seen from a distance of 1.4 billion km

Mars Express - the Earth and Moon from Mars

Opportunity Rover - the Earth from the Surface of Mars

Some Very Interesting Free Books

Sat, 10 May 2008 02:03:57 GMT

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Clip Source: books.google.com

Plan of the Creation; Or, Other Worlds, and who Inhabit Them

Charles Louis Hequembourg

The Soul in Nature

Hans Christian Ørsted, Leonard Horner, Joanna B. Horner

Essays on the Spirit of the Inductive Philosophy, the Unity of ...

Baden Powell

The Stars and the Angels, Or The Natural History of the Universe ...

Two New Worlds I. The Infra-world II.

Edmund Edward Fournier d'Albe

The World Machine

Carl Snyder

The Earliest Cosmologies

William Fairfield Warren

The Basic Outline of Universology

Stephen Pearl Andrews

Glimpses of the Cosmos

Lester Frank Ward

Man's Place in the Universe

Alfred Russel Wallace

Rational Cosmology

Laurens Perseus Hickok

The Unity of Nature

George Douglas Campbell Argyll

Metaphysic

Hermann Lotze

A few simple rhymes and three essays on the structure of the universe.

Charles McGregor

The Living Universe

Henry Truro Bray

The Wilderness of Worlds

George Wilkinson Morehouse

Cosmos and Diacosmos

Denton Jaques Snider

The Story of Creation

Edward Clodd

Tags: free books, literature, reading, other worlds, creation, knowledge, old

Magazine Mentality: the Victorian Clipmarks?

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:13:51 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: The site has the contents and articles from the magazine. For some reason it reminds me a bit of Clipmarks! In any case, I am sure there is a wealth of information there to be shared.

Clip Source: www.history.rochester.edu

The Penny Magazine, published every Saturday, was aimed at the working class. It was part of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge's program for liberal reform. for its reader, however, it was a source of information on subjects of general interest: everyday things like tea and coffee, well-known places in England, a series on animals and birds of Britain, descriptions of prsent-day manufacturing, even an American alaman and a serial of a personal account of an immigrant's problems. Poetry was published, too, and there are several illustrations in each issue.

Clip Source: www.history.rochester.edu

Valley of Meran.

Butter.

Curious Fashion and Anecdote.

Goats as Wet-nurses.

Expediency of measuring distances from a Common Centre in London.

Galilee of Durham Cathedral and Tomb of Venerable Bede.

The Great Eagle.

Mineral Kingdom - Section XLI. Mercury or Quicksilver.

Custom of sitting uncovered in Churches.

THE PENNY MAGAZINE
No. 211 - July 18, 1835
Table of Contents

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Dead Man Walking

Wed, 07 May 2008 08:56:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The Dead Man Walking" is reprinted from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses. Thomas Hardy. London: Macmillan and Co. 1909.

Clip Source: www.poetry-archive.com

THE DEAD MAN WALKING

Thomas Hardy

HEY hail me as one living,
But don't they know
That I have died of late years,
Untombed although?

I am but a shape that stands here,
A pulseless mould,
A pale past picture, screening
Ashes gone cold.

Not at a minute's warning,
Not in a loud hour,
For me ceased Time's enchantments
In hall and bower.

There was no tragic transit,
No catch of breath,
When silent seasons inched me
On to this death ....

-- A Troubadour-youth I rambled
With Life for lyre,
The beats of being raging
In me like fire.

But when I practised eyeing
The goal of men,
It iced me, and I perished
A little then.

When passed my friend, my kinsfolk,
Through the Last Door,
And left me standing bleakly,
I died yet more;

And when my Love's heart kindled
In hate of me,
Wherefore I knew not, died I
One more degree.

And if when I died fully
I cannot say,
And changed into the corpse-thing
I am to-day,

Yet is it that, though whiling
The time somehow
In walking, talking, smiling,
I live not now.

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Daydreaming Good for Us

Tue, 06 May 2008 21:00:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UF3Y1k2Q6g

and if you can remember The Monkees,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRr-sNlddRo

Clip Source: www.cosmosmagazine.com

Our minds may wander during boring tasks because daydreaming is actually the brain's normal state, rather than a pointless distraction, according to a new U.S. study.

The researchers, reporting their findings today in the U.S. journal, Science, found that daydreaming could be the result of the brain mulling over important - but not immediately relevant - issues when the external environment ceases to pose interesting and engaging problems.

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According to Mason, the most important question is why our brains evolved to wander at all. His team suggests that perhaps it keeps our brains aroused during mundane tasks, or simply that our brains may wander because they can.

"In a sense these thoughts reflect an amazing capacity on our part to multi-task," said Mason. "It is as if we have a sense of how much [attention] we have 'left over' and allocate these resources to working out some problem or anticipating what we have to do in the near future."

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Sigmund Freud: a birthday salutation

Tue, 06 May 2008 12:38:29 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.psychologytoday.com

My own approach to psychotherapy, developed over three decades of clinical practice, can best be described as existential depth psychology: a (for some, unlikely) fusion of existential psychology (especially that of my former mentor, existential psychoanalyst Rollo May) and the psychodynamic depth psychology (Tiefenpsychologie) of Freud, Jung, Adler, Rank, et al. While I would consider myself theoretically and practically more a Jungian than Freudian psychologist, Freud's writings influenced me profoundly from a very young age. As a somewhat intellectually precocious child, I started reading Freud

It was Sigmund Freud's fascinating, flowing, lucid and penetrating prose that inspired me to later pursue a career as a psychotherapist, following brief flirtations with medicine, art, acupuncture, and more enduringly, music in my teens.

his now famous couch

Sigmund Freud's "psychoanalysis" is the seminal fount from which all modern psychotherapy more or less springs.

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Eternalism, Nihilism: new forms, old superstition

Tue, 06 May 2008 09:47:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: <<<Throughout the Buddha's long period of teaching the Dhamma to His followers, He actively discouraged speculative arguments. During the 5th century B.C. India was a veritable hive of intellectual activity where scholars, yogis, philosophers, kings and even ordinary householders were constantly engaged in the philosophical arguments pertaining to human existence. Some of these were either ridiculously trivial or totally irrelevant. Some people wasted valuable time arguing at great length about all manner of subjects. They were far more concerned about proving their powers in mental gymnastics than seeking genuine solutions to the problems that beset humanity.>>>

Clip Source: zencomp.com

To develop Right View or Perfect View, we must first be aware of two views which are considered imperfect or wrong.

The first view is eternalism. This doctrine or belief is concerned with eternal life or with eternal things. Before the Buddha's time, it was taught that there is an abiding entity which could exist forever, and that man can live the eternal life by preserving the eternal soul in order to be in union with Supreme Being. In Buddhism, this teaching is called sassata ditthi ----the view of eternalists. Such views still exist even in the modern world owing to man's craving for eternity.

The second false view is nihilism or the view held by the nihilists who claim that there is no life after death.

The teaching of kamma is enough to prove that the Buddha did not teach annihilation after death; Buddhism accepts 'survival' not in the sense of an eternal soul, but in the sense of a renewed becoming.

Tags: eternalism, nihilism, buddhism

People like Us: the Quirkyalone

Mon, 05 May 2008 21:40:28 GMT

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Clip Source: www.quirkyalone.net

I am, perhaps, what you might call deeply single. Almost never ever in a relationship. Until recently, I wondered whether there might be something weird about me

Emily Dickinson: quirky and alone, but not quirkyalone. We are sociable people.

f Jung was right, that people are different in fundamental ways that drive them from within, then the quirkyalone is simply to be added to the pantheon of personality types assembled over the 20th century

I. Only now, when the idea of marrying at age 20 has become thoroughly passé, are we quirkyalones emerging in greater numbers.

We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit singledom as our natural resting state.

For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. We want a miracle. Out of millions, we have to find the one who will understand.

Quirkyalones have vibrators.

when one quirkyalone finds another, oooh la la. The earth quakes.

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Outstanding Nudes

Mon, 05 May 2008 12:15:12 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Please see site for credits. It takes a while to load but there are hundreds pf astounding images.

Clip Source: xupacabras.weblog.com.pt

Fotos de Laurence Demaison

Tags: photography, nudes

A sad, sweet poem out of America: Robert Frank

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:03:10 GMT

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Clip Source: updatecenter.britannica.com

Clip Source: web.mit.edu

n 1955, the Swiss photographer Robert Frank traveled throughout the United States by car and returned with a bleak portrait of what the American road had to offer. As Kerouac writes in his introduction, Frank's photographs had "sucked a sad, sweet, poem out of America," a sadness found in the forlorn looks of dime store waitresses, funeral attendees, and human faces rendered unrecognizable in the glare of jukeboxes. The slightly offset angles and the blurred focus of many of the photographs suggest the nervousness and dislocation of the people they capture. Frank dispels any romantic notions of the lingering pioneer spirit of America by presenting a landscape of people and places absent of hope and promise.

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Introduction to Goat Harnesses

Sun, 04 May 2008 09:21:24 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: A few links to educational resources for utilising a goat. Even those unfortunate not to own a goat may join in the rewarding hobby of collecting goat harnesses and related accessories.

Clip Source: whinny.org

Clip Source: www.marnasmenagerie.com

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Clip Source: www.workinggoats.com

Clip Source: www.goattracksmagazine.com

Photo courtesy of Carole Contreras and The
American Harness Goat Association.

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Training and working a goat in harness is an activity that is educational, challenging and very rewarding.

Many possibilities have been suggested for the using of harness goats.

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UK Voters Wake Up and tell "New Labour' to F@*K Off

Sat, 03 May 2008 06:41:03 GMT

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Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

It's over. There was nothing constructive in the voters' message. These elections were not an invitation to change. They were a big two-fingered salute, a raspberry, a pressing of the de-trousered national buttocks to the window of the polling station.

the judgment that takes only two words to deliver, one of which I shall avoid in print.

let us say “push off”

Prepare yourself then for a great barrage of phrasemaking that will involve the endless repetition, in no particular order, of the following thoughts, typically conjoined with Gordon Brown's name:

wake-up call

message from the electorate

take it on the chin

listen to voters

learn lessons

heed concerns

need for change

get back in touch

sharpen up the act

show contrition

find a new narrative

feel their pain

show humility

understand more

blitz of initiatives

sense of purpose

simpler messages

sharpen the argument

clearer sense of direction

relaunch/refocus/rediscover/

redefine/repair/refresh/reshuffle/rethink/renew

begin fightback

Tags: 'new labour'

May Day Massacre

Sat, 03 May 2008 06:33:24 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: May Day, aka Labour Day. The absurd specatacle of a Labour Prime Minister, a LABOUR prime minister, shrugging off the 'difficult economic circumstances' facing the losers from his ten year gambling spree. Even now he has the audacity to prop up the private profits of banks with taxpayers' money.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Boris Johnson sealed a nightmarish first electoral test for Gordon Brown, surging to a hugely symbolic victory for the Conservatives in London.

Mr Brown suffered humilation across the country as the party lost an astonishing 331 seats. It was Labour’s worst election night for 40 years, leaving its local government and campaigning base severely weakened and ministers fearing for their survival at the next general election.

Councillors were left almost defenceless in the face of the 10p tax row and economic worries. Labour finished third overall, with just 24 per cent of the vote. The Conservatives secured 44 per cent on an evening of unbridled triumph and the Liberal Democrats 25 per cent.

The Tories gained 256 seats and the Liberal Democrats 34

Mr Brown blamed “difficult economic circumstances”.

Meltdown for Labour as UK Right Surges

Sat, 03 May 2008 06:02:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If there is any good news for the Left in the UK it is that there has never been a better time to speak out for a new party that displays decency, an ethical foreign policy and a genuine commitment to those disenfranchised by the savage redistribution of wealth to the rich.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

It threatens to be a slow death, as Labour decays steadily towards defeat in 2010. That, at least, is what plenty in the party fear after a horror show of a performance in local elections across England and Wales.

This was more than the traditional bloody nose administered by a restless electorate halfway through a parliament. That much was clear from the sheer scale of the punch.

Labour did not just trail the Tories, as they had done in previous council contests. They were 20 points behind.

many of those that Labour would think of as its core voters abandoned the party. Angry over the abolition of the 10p tax rate, too many were ready to stay home or even break the habit of a lifetime and vote Conservative. One phone-in show yesterday had ex-Labour supporters queuing up to denounce their party - and its leader - for no longer seeming to know what they are for.

Labour is about to enter the twilight.

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45 Photo Editing Tutorials for Photoshop

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:12:22 GMT

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Clip Source: vandelaydesign.com

45 Photo Editing Tutorials for Photoshop

If you’re looking to improve a website by using Photoshop to enhance a photo to make it clearer, more interesting, or more exciting, here are 45 of the best tutorials to show you some of the possibilities.

Telling stories with shadows

Photoshop matte painting

Creating drama with a soft spotlight

Softer background effect

Old fashioned, hand-tinted effect

Ghosting an image

Enhance your image with selective color adjustments

Creating a vector composite effect from a photo

Create an illustrated look from a photograph

Sparkling hot girl in Photoshop

Beautiful lady effect

How to break sunlight through the clouds