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A new Futuristic Art project in the K21st blog

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:34:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ".The project will expose and promote futuristic art works and artists who are involved in futuristic art."

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K21st Futuristic Art Project

We are happy to introduce to our readers a new Futuristic Art project we are starting here in the K21st blog.

The project will expose and promote futuristic art works and artists who are involved in futuristic art. With this project we hope to encourage a synergy between the arts and sciences, and to promote an aesthetic style of futuristic thought

The future that is coming upon us all promises to be more exciting and indeed more extravagant that we can imagine

It is obvious that our old conceptions of what is beautiful and the aesthetics of intelligence amplification are the hallmarks of the arising posthuman

beauty is the catalyzing agent of our conscious reflective processes

Beauty is a special kind of disturbance that awakens and expands consciousness

As to our posthumanist future

My understanding is that our only viable access to a posthuman future is by expanding our consciousness

aesthetics may indeed be a primary key

With these notes we launch our new project

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Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:59:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sadly, the most notorious Franken antagonist, Bill O'Reilly, was absent from the airwaves on the evening of Franken's victory. Demure guest host Monica Crowley seemed bemused by the Minnesota outcome. But Glenn Beck, in his semiliterate way, heaped on enough abuse to keep Billo's fans satisfied for the moment. "It shows how crazy our country has gone," he began. "It shows that we've lost our minds. It's like we've slipped through a wormhole. It's like, this look likes the country I grew up in, but no -- Al Franken would never be a senator … We have entered a place to where there isn't statesmanship anymore."

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July 3, 2009 | It wasn't surprising when, after seven months of legal wrangling, the Minnesota Supreme Court declared that Al Franken had won the 2008 Senate race against incumbent Norm Coleman. Still less surprising (although vastly more entertaining) was the simultaneous breakdown of nearly all of Franken's adversaries on the right, whose regurgitated insults, whining complaints and exploding noggins revealed nothing about him or his victory -- and everything about them.

Upon learning that Franken had prevailed in a unanimous decision by his home state's highest court, the usual suspects on Fox News Channel and in the Limbaugh wasteland of radio immediately threw up a barrage of furious invective. Wasting no time on gracious concessions, they concentrated on two themes. First: Franken himself is wild, spiteful, menacing, bigoted and, most of all, deranged (as must be anyone who voted for him).

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Jesus Rode A Dinosaur? Seems Some Think So.

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:07:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Man, these people are weird!

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Landmark Ruling

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:37:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "One change the ruling could bring soon,activists said, is in dealings with corrupt police officers, who reportedly sometimes extort money by threatening to apply the law or "out" gays and lesbians to friends or family.

Akash Verma, 26, a Delhi resident, said he was returning home late one night in 2004 when two intoxicated policemen who suspected he was gay stole about $20 from his bag and demanded sex, but released him. Verma said other officers later "strongly advised" against filing a complaint.

Although Verma's account could not be independently verified, gay rights activists said such behavior by police is not uncommon."

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

The Delhi High Court issued a landmark ruling Thursday decriminalizing homosexuality, a move that could bring more freedom to millions of people in this deeply conservative nation.

The ruling said that treating relations between consenting adult homosexuals as a crime is a violation of basic human rights safeguarded under the Indian Constitution.

For many homosexuals, the immediate effect on their personal lives will not be dramatic. There's still a strong social stigma here against gays and lesbians, with young people often pressured to marry early and produce grandchildren.

"There's still a mental block," said Rahil Zafar, 22, a student, wearing a bandanna over his face to hide his identity from television cameras as he celebrated. "I don't want my family to know. They keep the pressure on me."

Italy to Declare Independence from US Military

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:25:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: On the eve of the G8 summit (July 8-10 in L'Aquila), the No Dal Molin organization is inviting people from all over Italy and the world to celebrate the Fourth of July in Vicenza and "declare our independence from the US military, freeing the land from the presence of a new war base."

July 4th is the holiday with which the people of the United States celebrate their own independence. This year it will also be the day on which Vicentines, and all those who support peace and defense of the common good, declare their own independence from military servitude.

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Italians plan to gather in Vicenza to take nonviolent action aimed at freeing Italy from U.S. occupation and opposing the proposed construction of an enormous new U.S. military base in a town already swarming with U.S. troops stationed at existing bases. For years now, a major campaign organized by local residents has resisted the construction of the new base.

A local referendum voted 95 percent against the base. A leader of the opposition to the base has been elected to the local government. An Italian prime minister has been temporarily thrown out of power. Local activists and members of parliament have visited Washington to oppose the base

Italians' opinions of the purposes served by the U.S. military have plummeted. The U.S. Army is not liberating Italy from Nazism, but sending soldiers off to fight aggressive wars in the Middle East, and bringing them back disturbed, suicidal, and prone to drinking and causing trouble.

MY MAMA IS A BEAR. MY DAD WAS A VERY BRAVE DOG>

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:19:49 GMT

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Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs. Part 1

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:10:28 GMT

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Clip Source: amolife.com

Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs. Part 1

"The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature."

~ Ancient Egyptian Proverb

Pyramids of Giza (Photography by Richard Nowitz)

Sphinx

Caravan at the Pyramids of Giza

The Great Pyramid of Giza

Abu Simbel

Cairo (10 Interesting Places to Visit Before You Die)

Cairo Mosques

Nile River from Cairo Tower

Montaza Beacon

Countryside

Cairo (10 Interesting Places to Visit Before You Die)

Spicy

Girl with Red Scarf

ILE ELEPHANTINE

Through the Palms (Taken in the town of Mut, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt)

Dune Patterns (Natures artwork on the sand dunes in Bahariya, Egypt)

Colossi of Memnon

Hatshepsut (Queen Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple, which is built into the cliffs on the westbank of the Nile near Luxor)

Harvest Scene (This is a small portion of a harvest scene from the tomb of Menna, scribe to Tuthmosis IV)

Roofs of Cairo

The Store (The variety is the real spice of life that gives it its flavor.)

Side View of River Nile (Cairo)

Philae

One photo is worth one thousand words (38 pics)

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:14:39 GMT

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One photo is worth one thousand words (38 pics)

These photography masterpieces can easily catch your eye. Each photo can be stared at for hours, because each one has a thousand stories to tell.
I recommend you to look these photos. I myself stared at them with a big pleasure. A great way to relax!

[via humorearth.com]

Understndind how children learn language as a new way of building machines

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:32:19 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Big brother untangles baby babble

"We wanted to understand how minds work and how they develop and how the interplay of innate and environmental influence makes us who we are and how we learn to communicate."

But now, Professor Roy is beginning to get some answers, thanks to an unconventional approach, an accommodating family and a house wired with technology.

I was initially inspired by how children learn language as a new way of building machines,"

"Every parent knows that a child can change a lot in a week or a month," he told BBC News.

"If you're interested in the process of development then it is important to have a continuous view."

"Just as the Human Genome Project illuminates the innate genetic code that shapes us, the Speechome Project is an important first step toward creating a map of how the environment shapes human development and learning," said Frank Moss, the director of MIT's Media Lab at the time.

Palin: Not quitting is for quitters, so I'm quitting

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:15:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Once again, Palin blurts her way into senseless babble.

Clip Source: www.talkingpointsmemo.com

Perhaps the best part of Palin's announcement today:

Life is too short to compromise time and resources... it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

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Clipmarks 4.0 Now Available - supports Firefox 3.5

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:32:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Our upgraded version of Clipmarks is now available. If you click the source link of this clip you'll be able to get it. Anyone having problems, please comment below and we'll try to work them out.

If you wouldn't mind, please pop this clip so others are made aware.

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Clipmarks 4.0.0

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Blind man has TOOTH implanted into his eye

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:36:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "When Martin Jones met his wife four years ago he never imagined that one day he would get to see what she looked like.

The 42-year-old builder was left blind after an accident at work more than a decade ago.

But a remarkable operation - which implants part of his tooth in his eye - has now pierced his world of darkness."

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Mr Jones,

had already spent eight years without his sight after a tub of white hot aluminium exploded in his face at work in a scrapyard.

He suffered 37 per cent burns and had to wear a special body stocking for 23 hours a day. He also has his left eye removed.

But surgeons were able to save the right eye, even though he was unable to see through it.

It was only when a revolutionary new operation was pioneered at the Sussex Eye Clinic in Brighton that he was given a chance to have his sight back.

During the procedure, a minute section of a patient's tooth is removed, reshaped and chiseled through to grip the man-made lens which is then placed in its core.

It is implanted under an eyelid where it becomes covered in tissue.

The process requires a living tooth as an implant because doctors suggest there are chances the eye would reject a plastic equivalent

'I feel fantastic getting my sight back,' he said. 'I

Tags: science, health, eye, blindness, surgery

3-D View of San Andreas Fault

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:15:30 GMT

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Clip Source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Much of the length of the fault is lined by a distinct trough.

The black line curving along the east side of the fault is I-280, and California highway 92 runs from the top right across to the center left of the image, heading towards Half Moon Bay to the west. San Mateo and Burlingame are parts of the large urbanized area in various tones of pink and green, and Foster City is the area of curved streets extending out into the San Francisco Bay at the top right.

Earth’s crust is a collection of fractured plates that shift across the planet’s surface over millions of years. Two of the major plates meet at the coast of California; the Pacific Plate, under the ocean, is drifting slowly northwest, grinding along the margin of the North American Plate, to the east. Where they meet, the intense pressure of the collision creates an a 800-mile-long fracture zone called the San Andreas Fault.

Tags: fault, geology

"Holding hands — and that's how they died,

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:15:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: an amazing story of couple married and living together for 75 golden years...quite moving...

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Couple, married 75 years, pass away hours apart

By JIM DOUGLAS / WFAA-TV

On Tuesday afternoon, 100-year-old J.C. Cox and his and 96-year-old wife Josie were buried together.

The couple — married for 75 years — died within five hours of each other.

Their story begins on Christmas Day in 1932.

"They stayed together the whole time," Williamson said, pointing out the bed they had shared.

Mrs. Cox insisted on being the sole person to care for J.C., even up until the moment they entered a nursing home last month.

"She was still ironing his clothes three weeks ago," Williamson said.

"She was going to make sure — even though he never went anywhere — his clothes were going to be starched," Grimm said.

Persistence never left them. They kept their wedding vows for 75 years, through the deaths of their own children, the lives of three new generations and the inevitable changes in each other.

"Holding hands — and that's how they died," Williamson said, with tears in her eyes. "Pa died holding onto Granny."

How close was that?

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:04:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And he casually takes a photo after.....

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Tags: near death experience