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Photo Essay: Examining X-Ray

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:16:28 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: (may need to scroll over to the right to see the entire image) -------In his new book, photographer Nick Veasey creates inside-out images of the everyday and the bizarre. Using a lead-lined studio he shoots his subjects, then composes and embellishes the images on a computer.

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Take My Hand
Parent and child (and teddy bear) take a stroll.

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Toys and Tunes
A teddy and an MP3 player.

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Food for Thought
The wiry veins of this bunch of grapes form a unique pattern.

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Made for Walking
This image illustrates how a woman's shoe (left) contorts the bones of the foot and ankle and throws the weight onto the big toe joint, while a man's boot leaves the foot in a natural position.

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Take Flight
A Boeing 777 jet is serviced in a hangar at Logan Airport, Boston.

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Survival of the Fittest

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Creature of the Night

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Hold (Very) Tight Please

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Natural Beauty

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Office Life
Over 100 separate x-rays make up this picture.

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Suits You, Sir

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Around the Horn

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Out of the Game
This football player, complete with protection, is about to receive treatment

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One for the Road?
Our man's had quite enough for the evening.

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Watch the Birdie

The photographer at work, in full protective gear with night-vision goggles.

Taken from X-Ray by Nick Veasey, published by Goodman (an imprint of Carlton Books) from April 7th.

Tags: photography

Let's build a volcano

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:14:17 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: I think I'll do this with my daughter this summer. It is pretty fun to watch.

There are many interesting things on this site. It even tells you how to make berry ink and quill pens!

Clip Source: www.versatilevinegar.org

How to build a volcano:
First, make the “cone” of the volcano. Mix 6 cups flour, 2 cups salt, 4 tablespoons cooking oil and 2 cups of water. The resulting mixture should be smooth and firm (more water may be added if needed). Stand a soda bottle in a baking pan and mold the dough around it into a volcano shape. Do not cover the hole or drop dough into it. Fill the bottle most of the way full with warm water and a bit of red food color (can be done before sculpting if you do not take so long that the water gets cold). Add 6 drops of detergent to the bottle contents. Add 2 tablespoons baking soda to the liquid. Slowly pour vinegar into the bottle. Watch out – eruption time!

Berry Ink & Quill Pens

Tags: science, volcano, vinegar

GlassGiant: Make your custom blog images

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:28:18 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: A really fun site; you can design your own gadgets/gizmos/graphics to place on your blog or to send to friends. I loved the neon sign generator and the custom snowglobes.

Clip Source: www.glassgiant.com

Make Pictures

St. Patrick's Day
Show some Irish spirit with the St. Patrick's Day button maker!

Easter Eggs
Decorate your own Easter Eggs with your picture or message.

Jumbotron
Put your picture and message on a Jumbotron!

Custom Snowglobes
Put your picture into a custom snowglobe!

Chocolate Bar
Make your own Chocolate Bar!

Rocket
Put your name on a rocket ship!

Back to School
Put your own back-to-school message on the chalkboard!

Keyboard Mods
Want to trick out your system? Make your own keyboard!

Hollywood Sign
Make your own Hollywood Sign!

Giant Cookies
Make a personalized round- or heart-shaped giant cookie and ice it with your message!

Jack 'o Lantern
Like those silhouette pumpkin carvings? Make your own!

Neon Sign UPDATED!
Make your own neon sign! Choose from lots of colors and backgrounds!

Lightning Messages
Spell out a message in lightning bolts.

Romance Novel Cover
Turn your picture into a Harlequin-like romance novel cover!

Family Guy Chart
Make your own Family Guy IQ test result chart.

Tags: images, gizmos, fun, easter eggs, neon signs, snowglobes, graphics, free tools, web, internet

Black - the new black

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:50:54 GMT

clipped by: Fast T friend

Clip Source: b-l-a-c-k-o-p.com

BlackenedPixels [Free Download]

BlackenedPixels is a variation of the "basic black" screensaver concept. Not only does it turn your screen black, but it also powers down all the displays to keep the room cool and dark. G5 owners will appreciate this one even more, considering the heat their hardware already brings down on them. Unless they live in Canada, Alaska or great mother Russia.

We wanted it, and we figured you might too. Developed by our underpaid team of former soviet mathematics professors in Moscow.

Tags: power, saving, environment, black, screen

Fantastic Online Exhibitions from the Smithsonian

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:52:29 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: much more at the site

Clip Source: www.asia.si.edu

Wine, Worship & Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani

spectacular gold, silver, ceramic vessels, jewelry, Greek bronze sculpture, Greek and Colchian coins, and Greek glassware. Together these objects provide a rich and informative view of the ancient land of Colchis and its principal sanctuary city, Vani, a town in the Imereti region of western Georgia.

Learn more in the online exhibition

Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott

Learn more in the online exhibition

Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Learn more in the online exhibition

East of Eden: Gardens in Asian Art

Visit the East of Eden online exhibition

In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000

Visit the In the Beginning online exhibition

Perspectives: Simryn Gill

Visit the Simryn Gill online exhibition

Facing East: Portraits from Asia

Visit the Facing East interactive

Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History

Visit the Sugimoto interactive

Imperial Costumes from Ottoman Turkey

William Blake

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:19:33 GMT

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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Exuberance is beauty.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

William Blake

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees

Tags: william blake

Online Alternatives to Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Text/Graphic editing

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:56:45 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: I believe these are all free web tools. Over the past few months, Mashable.com has posted this information in chunks, so I summarized and combined it all into one clip.

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Buzzword -

J2E.com -

Peepel.com -

Solodox.com -

TheOpenDoc.com -

ThinkFree.com -

Writeboard -

Zoho Writer -

Preezo.com -

PresentationEngine.com -

Vcasmo.com -

Zoho Show -

BadBlue.com -

Blist.com -

EditGrid.com -

eXxprssoCorp.com -

Google Docs -

InputWebWizard.com -

JotSpot -

Numbler.com -

NumSum.com -

Peepel.com -

Sheetster.com -

Simple Spreadsheet -

ThinkFreeDocs.com -

Zoho Sheet -

Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor -

Editez -

FCKeditor.com -

Jtageditor -

MonkeyTex.com -

Pote.com -

TypeIt.org -

XMG Image -

Phixr -

Pixenate -

pixer.us -

Cellsea -

Graphita -

For a more extensive list of online image editors, see 90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources.

Forget Photoshop: 15 Online Graphics Generators

Tags: spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, graphics, text editors

Uplifting, thrilling, life-enhancing

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:43:10 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: Great stuff from Dawkins

Clip Source: richarddawkins.net

Science can be uplifting, thrilling, life-enhancing. Originally broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 in 1996, Break the Science Barrier follows the Oxford Biologist Richard Dawkins as he meets with people who have experienced the wonders of science first-hand. We meet the astronomer who first discovered pulsars, the geneticist who invented DNA fingerprinting, a scientist who discovered a protein that causes cancer, and others. Dawkins interviews famous admirers of science such as Douglas Adams and David Attenborough, and asks them why science means so much to them. We also see how dangerous ignorance of science can be in classrooms, courts, and beyond

Watch it free online!
Part 1: YouTube (Pt 1, Pt 2) | Quicktime | Google Video
Part 2: YouTube (Pt 1, Pt 2) | Quicktime | Google Video

Part 3: YouTube (Pt 1, Pt 2) | Quicktime | Google Video

Dawkins encourages viewers to contrast

ancient superstitions with the power and beauty of our scientific achievements and understanding

Hello, lover

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:21:49 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: NotMartha made bacon curls! Bacon: the pretty you can eat.

See source for how to.

Clip Source: www.notmartha.org

Tags: bacon, salty crispy lover, pretty as a pig

Forget PowerPoint - Online Presentation Applications

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:50:18 GMT

clipped by: Fast T friend

Clip Source: mashable.com

Presentation software portion of the Ajax13 office suite. Works with Firefox 1.5 and higher, free, and can import & export from PowerPoint and OpenOffice.

A Java based presentation tool that allows you to create online and then download to your system to save it.

You can share them with the public and allow them to be voted on.

easy sharing with clients and colleagues.

budget for little bit higher-end needs. Provides templates for speedy creation.

a completely free presentation editor that generates the slides as web pages so they can even be edited in an HTML editor if you choose.

desktop editor. Results can be published or embedded.

online alternative to Office. The service is free and offers 1 GB of online storage.

te browser and then share it with anyone by just sending them a link.

formats, video, audio, photos and more.

such as collaboration, but you also get the chance to embed your shows in blogs or present long distance to a client.

Tags: presentation, powerpoint, others

Why do men shave?

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:59:43 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth
clipper's remarks: >> Alexander the Great never lost a battle, not to the Persians or to anyone else. But he did order his men shaved so that their beards could not be grabbed in battle. Same for the Romans.

Yet you find many men who support a beard and I am sure there are a variety of reasons for that too, but I am not getting into that right now. I must admit though that a beard or a moustache alone on some men look very graceful.

Now its your turn to talk, why do you shave guys? <<

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Why Do Men Shave?

Men have been shaving forever. Cavemen probably shaved with stone knives, and there’s some suggestion that they may even have trimmed their hair with fire. Beards can be uncomfortable, and they easily get nasty because they trap food.

But why is it that, for a majority of men, all facial hair must be removed? There certainly isn’t any health reason to shave it off. Why would we spend the time and money to go through this ritual each and every day?

Among the many reasons I found while doing some research men began shaving in Stone Age times were:

- To reduce the breeding grounds for lice, fleas and small rodents.
- To eliminate the beard as a place for an enemy to hang on during combat.
- To make it easier to eat.
- Superstition associated a heavily bearded man with old age and death, in addition to the superstitious belief of spirits which entered the body through hairs on the head.

“The word “barber” comes from the Latin word “barba,” meaning beard.

Sharia Law in UK "Unavoidable"

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:00:47 GMT

clipped by: dulios

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Sharia law in UK is 'unavoidable'

The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK "seems unavoidable".

Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to "face up to the fact" that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.

Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion.

Tags: uk, sharia, archbishop of canterbury

Abraham Lincoln on religion

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:46:16 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: Two lesser-known pieces of writing from Lincoln that give some hints about his religious beliefs. Lincoln was notoriously cagey about his religious commitments -- he never attended church regluarly, nor did he ever make a public proclamation of faith.

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Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity

To the Voters of the Seventh Congressional District.

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Meditation on the Divine Will

Washington, D.C.
September, 1862

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party -- and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose. I am almost ready to say that this is probably true -- that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet. By his mere great power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And, having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.

Tags: religion, christianity, history, america, primary_source, post:facebook(clip)

Churchill a Myth?

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:38:53 GMT

clipped by: Kelika

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Quarter of Brits think Churchill was myth: poll

LONDON (AFP) - Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.

The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart was a myth.

And 23 percent thought World War II prime minister Churchill was made up. The same percentage thought Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale did not actually exist.

Three percent thought Charles Dickens, one of Britain's most famous writers, is a work of fiction himself.

Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi and Battle of Waterloo victor the Duke of Wellington also appeared in the top 10 of people thought to be myths.

Meanwhile, 58 percent thought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Holmes actually existed; 33 percent thought the same of W. E. Johns' fictional pilot and adventurer Biggles.

From Miner to Artist: Jack Vettriano

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:11:53 GMT

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Born in Methil in the Levenmouth area of Fife in 1951, Jack Vettriano spent the early years working in the local coal mines. His talent in painting was self taught and he only became a full time painter at the age of 37. His success has been recognised by the award of an OBE and his financial rewards have been reflected in a large rise in painting prices, many now fetching tens of thousands of pounds. Perhaps one of his most memorable images has been the Singing Butler that was sold for a record breaking price for a Scottish Artist in 2004

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