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100 Unbelievably Useful Reference Sites You’ve Never Heard Of

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:39:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Impressive list of resources.
Go to site as it is impossible to clip more than a small portion.

Clip Source: www.teachingtips.com

100 Unbelievably Useful Reference Sites You’ve Never Heard Of

Dictionaries and More

OneLook: This no-frills online dictionary lets you look up basic definitions, related words, phrases and more. You can even customize your experience with different searches.

RhymeZone: Type in a word to find rhyming words, synonyms, definitions, Shakespeare references and more.

Strange and Unusual References: Head to this site to look up all-vowel words, magic words, magic archetypes, how to identify unicorns and other odd material.

freedict.com: This online translator can find words in Dutch, Afrikaans, Russian, Portugese, Swedish, Japanese, Hungarian and more.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: Search through topics like technology, American history, literature in English, proverbs and more to become a more "active citizen in our multicultural democracy."

Calll for Lasting Tribute to Bush

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:27:03 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A San Francisco group says a fitting tribute to President George W Bush would be to name a sewage plant after him.

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The group, calling itself the Presidential Memorial Committee of San Francisco, wants the issue voted on at this November's election.

"It's important to remember our leaders in the right historical context," said petition organiser Brian McConnell.

The Republican Party thinks the plan stinks, and it will fight the measure.

"In President Bush's case, we think that we will be cleaning up a substantial mess for the next 10 or 20 years," said Mr McConnell.

"The sewage treatment facility's job is to clean up a mess, so we think it's a fitting tribute."

Oceanside could become Bush's Bay Area memorial

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A Gleam of Sufi Hope in the Darkness

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:34:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: <<<Another belief he shares with Sufism is the idea that God, humanity and the natural world are all linked, and might even be part of a single entity, a sort of cosmic trinity. This idea has practical consequences. For example, it suggests that a believer will love and respect humanity and the natural world as they would God. It also means that no one should be seen as an outsider.>>>
Who today represents a Christian counterpart?

Clip Source: www.prospect-magazine.co.uk

The Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, winner of our intellectuals poll, is the modern face of the Sufi Ottoman tradition. At home with globalisation and PR, and fascinated by science, he also influences Turkish politics through links to the ruling AK party

Is it possible to be a true religious believer and at the same time enjoy good relations with people of other faiths or none? Moreover, can you remain open to new ideas and new ways of thinking?

He promotes an open brand of Islamic thought and, like the Iran-born Islamic philosophers Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Abdolkarim Soroush, he is preoccupied with modern science

Unusually for a pious intellectual, he and his movement are at home with technology, markets and multinational business, and especially with modern communications

Sufism is integral to Ottoman as well as wider Islamic history, and in spite of attempts at repression, it remains popular and powerful in many Muslim countries

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Singularity of the Apocalypse

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:21:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Goodbye Dubai.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

London Society is the world's oldest association of Earth scientists, founded in 1807, and its Commission acts as a college of cardinals in the adjudication of the geological time-scale.

To the question "Are we now living in the Anthropocene?" the 21 members of the Commission unanimously answer "yes." They adduce robust evidence that the Holocene epoch -- the interglacial span of unusually stable climate that has allowed the rapid evolution of agriculture and urban civilization -- has ended and that the Earth has entered "a stratigraphic interval without close parallel in the last several million years."

the current ruthless competition between energy and food markets, amplified by international speculation in commodities and agricultural land, is only a modest portent of the chaos that could soon grow exponentially from the convergence of resource depletion, intractable inequality, and climate change.

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Roasted Garlic Potato Soup

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:45:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Roast the garlic with the potatoes for better flavor.

Clip Source: allrecipes.com

6 baking potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 inch pieces

2 tablespoons olive oil, divided

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

1 onion, chopped

6 cloves garlic, peeled

3 cups chicken broth

1 cup water

1 cup whole milk

salt to taste

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).

Place potatoes in a shallow roasting pan and drizzle with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Sprinkle with pepper; stir to coat. Bake for 25 minutes, or until potatoes are browned. Reserve 1 cup of roasted potatoes.

In a 3 quart saucepan heat remaining oil; saute onions for 5 minutes. Add potatoes and garlic and stir in broth and water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 20 minutes.

Spoon half of broth mixture into a blender; blend until nearly smooth. Repeat with remaining mixture; return all to pot. Stir in milk and season with salt to taste. Ladle into bowls and top with reserved roasted potatoes.

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What Happens if you Reject Jesus

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:23:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The God of love, eh?

Clip Source: www.apuritansmind.com

HELL is for those who hate Christ, those who are unbelievers, fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners, - none of them shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor. 6:9)

Tags: christianity

Horror Movies, Literature and News. Enter if you DARE.

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:07:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I should see some pops on this one

Clip Source: www.movieplex.org

HellTown Population: Dead

Horror Movies, Literature and News. Enter if you DARE.

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Don't be afraid. We don't bite......HARD!

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Our very own Good (Bwahahaha) Doctor brings you the Best of the Worst Horror Movies ever made both old and new. So grab some crackers and be ready to spread the cheese on heavy. (Whine optional)

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Tags: horror movies, literature, news, enter if you dare, helltown, movieplex

Beautiful Black And White Photography

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:45:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.smashingmagazine.com

Beautiful Black-And-White-Photography

Island Paradise

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:52:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: see you there.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Ever dreamt of sleeping on a Greek beach for the summer, sitting round a fire listening to scratchy rock' n' roll under a starry sky? You're not 40 years too late. Ben Mallalieu finds a tiny island where the 1960s never quite came to an end

Gavdos is a small dot on the map 50km south of Crete; it is the southernmost of all the Greek islands and possibly the southernmost point of Europe if you don't count the Canaries. Its permanent indigenous population is around 35 with a similar number of "outsiders" from the rest of Greece and Europe. It has no hotels and fewer than 100 apartment beds for tourists, so most of the 1,000 or so summer migrants sleep on the beaches or under the trees,

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

people have blended into the landscape to become almost invisible, with lean bodies the colour of the sand. Close to, they look like ancient Greeks but with longer dreadlocks

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Gavdos is 200 miles from Athens - it is closer to Africa in fact

Today is now. Tomorrow never comes.

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Continental Philosophy

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:20:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.continental-philosophy.org

Continental Philosophy

A Bulletin Board for Continental Philosophy, History of Philosophy and More…

Black and White Body Bits

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:44:46 GMT

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Clip Source: 2photo.ru

10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:34:22 GMT

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Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

Although the brain-computer metaphor has served cognitive psychology well, research in cognitive neuroscience has revealed many important differences between brains and computers. Appreciating these differences may be crucial to understanding the mechanisms of neural information processing, and ultimately for the creation of artificial intelligence. Below, I review the most important of these differences (and the consequences to cognitive psychology of failing to recognize them): similar ground is covered in this excellent (though lengthy) lecture.

Difference # 1: Brains are analogue; computers are digital

Difference # 2: The brain uses content-addressable memory

Difference # 3: The brain is a massively parallel machine; computers are modular and serial

Difference # 4: Processing speed is not fixed in the brain; there is no system clock

Difference # 5 - Short-term memory is not like RAM

Difference # 6: No hardware/software distinction can be made with respect to the brain or mind

Tags: computers, brains, metaphors

Crossed (evolutionary) signals?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:43:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Animals depend on tyrosine phosphorylation to conduct a number of important communications between their cells, including immune system responses, hormone system stimulation and other crucial functions. These phospho-tyrosine signaling pathways utilize a three-part system of molecular components to make these communications possible.

Clip Source: www.physorg.com

What do humans and single-celled choanoflagellates have in common? More than you'd think.

New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins that cells in more complex organisms, including humans, use to communicate with each other.

According to a paper published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, these findings help confirm choanoflagellates' role as an evolutionary link between single-celled and multi-celled organisms.

They also contend that these insights into the organism's genome may mean that the proteins used to help cells communicate may have other roles as well.

By analyzing the recently-sequenced choanoflagellate genome, the researchers discovered another similarity between choanoflagellates and most metazoans--their genetic code caries the markers of three types of molecules that cells use to achieve phospho-tyrosine signaling proteins.

Tags: evolution, dna, cell signalling

Shift Happens

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:54:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.slideshare.net

This is a stylization of a slideshow originally created by Karl Fi more

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Wonderful Kurt Vonnegut Interview

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:25:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well worth the whole read...I loved Vonnegut.

Clip Source: cathy-edgett.livejournal.com

As war against Iraq looms, I asked Vonnegut, a reader and supporter of this magazine, to weigh in. Vonnegut is an American socialist in the tradition of Eugene Victor Debs, a fellow Hoosier whom he likes to quote: “As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I am of it. As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

—Joel Bleifuss

You have lived through World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Reagan wars, Desert Storm, the Balkan wars and now this coming war in Iraq. What has changed, and what has remained the same?

even somebody as old as I am, which is 80, only just got here. There were already all these games going on when I got here. … An apt motto for any polity anywhere, to put on its state seal or currency or whatever, might be this quotation from the late baseball manager Casey Stengel, who was addressing a team of losing professional athletes: “Can’t anybody here play this game?”

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100 Unbelievably Useful Reference Sites You’ve Never Heard Of

100 Unbelievably Useful Reference Sites You’ve Never Heard Of

Calll for Lasting Tribute to Bush

A Gleam of Sufi Hope in the Darkness

Singularity of the Apocalypse

Roasted Garlic Potato Soup

What Happens if you Reject Jesus

Horror Movies, Literature and News. Enter if you DARE.

HellTown Population: Dead

Beautiful Black And White Photography

Beautiful Black-And-White-Photography

Island Paradise

Continental Philosophy

Continental Philosophy

A Bulletin Board for Continental Philosophy, History of Philosophy and More…

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