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Welcome to ClipCast

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:19:10 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: Welcome but so far I feel I have lost my community by entering into a room with no lights. What in the world is going on and what in the world is ClipCast. What happened to my Clipmarks Community?

Okay I will keep on playing more to make some sense.

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

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Forbes interviews EricG on Clipmarks

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:24:19 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: Since nobody clipped this yet ... here's the interview with EricG @ Forbes.

Eric gave the link away in arifsali's clip Welcome to ClipCast.

The video itself is unclippable (!), so go to source to watch it.

Clip Source: www.forbes.com

Changing the Web: Clipmarks
The CEO and co-founder of Clipmarks on how his company is changing the way people use the Web.

Tags: clipmarks, video, ericg, eric goldstein, interview, forbes, clipmarks 3.0, clipcast

Doctors build new ear from a rib

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:22:15 GMT

clipped by: michellezm

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

One in 7,000 babies is born without an ear. Most patients are given a false one made from plastic or silicone. But the NHS now offers reconstructive surgery, using cartilage from the patient's ribs. Here, model Sasha Gardner, 25, from Bournemouth, talks to Rachel Murphy about her experience, while her surgeon explains the procedure.

Sasha Gardner's operation transformed her life

I arranged to meet Mr Gault, who explained he would have to cut through my stomach muscle on my left side, an inch above the bottom of my ribcage.

He'd then remove six inches of cartilage from my ribs, which would be formed into an ear shape and attached to my head.

Before : Sasha's original ear

After: Her reconstructed ear made from rib cartilage

Cartilage is flexible and connects the ribs to the breastbone, so that your ribcage can expand when you breathe.

I was warned my new ear might not be perfect, but he'd use my left ear as a template.

Sasha was born without an ear, a condition known as microtia.

15 Quotes by Famous Atheists

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:17:14 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Bertrand Russell:

“You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”

Clip Source: www.dvorak.org

15 Quotes By Famous Atheists

9. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot

15. It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous. — Gloria Steinem

5. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche

8. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright

3. All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway

11. The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. — Sigmund Freud

2. I don’t believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. — Andrew Carnegie

4. Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. — Benjamin Franklin

Tags: atheism, bible, christianity, god, life, religion, society

The Finger Belongs To Everyone

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:06:57 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Some days are just better than others. *LOL*

Clip Source: www.ooze.com

White people do it. Black people do it. Asians do it. Italians do it frequently. Senior citizens won't admit they do it, but they do. For over two thousand years the Middle Finger has fought a pitched battle against those who would demand you conform

The Middle Finger is the strength of any hand. The true worker of any hand. It is the one which constantly opens and closes for the synchronous benefit of its brother Fingers.

Do you really think we could get by with just thumbs? Do you actually believe you're above your own Fingers? Clearly the Middle Finger is the superior Finger, because it's longer, it's stronger, and it deserves distinction.

Want to sublimate the masses? Become a man of letters, politics, and power. Want to incite a riot? Give a crowd the Finger.

Let your Finger do the talking.

Want to climb the ladder of freedom?

In-your-face. Impudent. Inappropriate in mixed company. Only for those who lack the ability to express themselves in a clear verbal manner. Terrifyingly 3-D.

Tags: pms, roadrage, bird, gesture, body language, stress relief, humour

Are humans evolving faster?

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:00:23 GMT

clipped by: invictus

Clip Source: www.eurekalert.org

Researchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up – and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had been thought – indicating that humans on different continents are becoming increasingly different.

“We used a new genomic technology to show that humans are evolving rapidly, and that the pace of change has accelerated a lot in the last 40,000 years, especially since the end of the Ice Age roughly 10,000 years ago,” says research team leader Henry Harpending, a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Utah.

-- “We aren’t the same as people even 1,000 or 2,000 years ago,” he says, which may explain, for example, part of the difference between Viking invaders and their peaceful Swedish descendants. “The dogma has been these are cultural fluctuations, but almost any temperament trait you look at is under strong genetic influence.”

Tags: humans, evolution, genetics, science

Hypercube Animation

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:18:34 GMT

clipped by: Bluephoenix4

Clip Source: conflusions.com

This is an animation of a hypercube or tesseract rotating.

A tesseract, also called 8-cell or octachoron, is the “four-dimensional analog of a (three-dimensional) cube where motion along the fourth dimension is often a representation for bounded transformations of the cube through time“.

this isnt the actual 4 dimensional object since we can obviously only see 3 dimensions its basically similar to a shadow like the shadow of a 3 dimensional object onto a 2 dimensional surface, this is a 3 dimensional shadow of a 4 dimensional object. I know its still kind of hard to wrap your head around the idea but yeah the movement is an attempt to describe the 4th dimension a little more accurately

A two dimensional object rotates around a 0 dimensional point, a three dimensional object rotates around a 1 dimensional line, and a four dimensional object rotates around a 2 dimensional plane.

Tags: animation, hypercube, tesseract, physics, geometry, dimensions, science

Clipmarks app for Facebook

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:56:23 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: So, one of the highlights of Clipmarks 3.0 is that your clips can now live in 2 (or more) places at once. By adding the Clipmarks app for Facebook, you'll easily be able to share your clips with your friends on Facebook, and see what they're clipping.

Our goal is give you the option of combining the best of both words. With great ease and simplicity, you can choose to share your experience with the clipmarks community and your Facebook friends.

You can click the source link of this clip to add the app.

Clip Source: www.facebook.com

Tags: clipmarks, facebook, clipcast, 3.0

Does time slow in crisis?

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:55:01 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: physorg.com

In The Matrix, hero Neo wins his battles when time slows in the simulated world. In the real world, accident victims often report a similar slowing as they slide unavoidably into disaster. But can humans really experience events in slow motion?

Apparently not, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who studied how volunteers experience time when they free-fall 100 feet into a net below. Even though participants remembered their own falls as having taken one-third longer than those of the other study participants, they were not able to see more events in time. Instead, the longer duration was a trick of their memory, not an actual slow-motion experience. The study appears online today in the journal Public Library of Science One.

“Does the experience of slow motion really happen, or does it only seem to have happened in retrospect? The answer is critical for understanding how time is represented in the brain.”

Tags: science, time, brain, matrix, experience, memory

Human Evolution Speeding Up

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:56:58 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Human evolution speeding up

THE world may feel more and more like a global village, but its residents are increasingly genetically diverse thanks to the rapidly accelerating pace of human evolution, a study says.

Geneticists say the huge explosion in our numbers in the past 40,000 years, since Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa to other continents, has resulted in a much faster pace of evolution compared to the previous six million years.

The pace of change has increased 100-fold in modern times compared to our distant past, and most notably since the Ice Age, 10,000 years ago, and has led to increasing diversification between the races.

"We are more different genetically from people living 5,000 years ago than they were different from Neanderthals,''

The findings are based on analysis of data from an international genomics project.

analysis suggested that the process of natural selection has sped up

We are getting less alike, not merging into a single, mixed humanity.

Tags: evolution

Who would Jesus torture

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:06:50 GMT

clipped by: Geshizar
clipper's remarks: Welcome to the new Christianity. Or is it The new BS. Maybe those of you who would condone torture during the week and attend your temples and cathedrals on Sunday truly don't believe in your God. Why else would you make an argument for rather then against. Now it shouldn't bother me I,m a heathen, fortunately I still maintain a since of moral decency, you know, like what is written in some of those dumb ass documents like the CONSTITUTION and THE BILL OF RIGHTS. If all you so called people of faith would get together there would be more then enough voices to effect a change, right? After all yours is the moral outraged, just and family oriented party is it not? Just like to say Thank you for living up to my worst suspicions. The entire lot are self-righteous, blathering hypocrites.

Clip Source: www.progressivedailybeacon.com

The Republican Party is supposed to be home to a lot of Christians and that might be true. Judging by the view of most Republicans, however, the Party doesn't appear to contain very many Christ-like people. It is hard to imagine Jesus Christ waterboarding someone while sermonizing on turning the other cheek, or loving thy neighbor, or doing unto others as you'd have them do unto you.

And yet, a lot of Republicans, Christian Conservative Republicans, are vocal supporters of torture.

He isn't just any old Christian; Pat's a Christian Pastor ... that's like being Christian-squared. And Robertson supports Rudy Giuliani, who enthusiastically defends the use of torture. Both men are quick to rationalize their bizarre backing of torture by employing the "Terrorists torture so we should too," defense.

Tags: torture, hipocites, mindless turds

Irene Sendler -- Holocaust Hero

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:27:55 GMT

clipped by: dorine
clipper's remarks: Amazing story.

Clip Source: www.auschwitz.dk

During the Holocaust, Irena Sendler worked for Zegota, a unit within the Polish underground established specifically to help Jews in hiding. As a health worker, she had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, and between 1942 and 1943 she led hundreds of Jewish children out of the Ghetto to safe hiding places.

Irena was employed by the Social Welfare Department of the city of Warsaw which involved working the canteens.

through Irena, the canteens also served Jews who were in great need. She gave clothing, medicine, and money to the Jews.

Irena Sendler, who wore a "star" armband as a sign of her solidarity to Jews, began smuggling children out in an ambulance. She recruited at least one person from each of the ten centers of the Social Welfare Department. With their help, she issued hundreds of false documents with forged signatures. Irena Sendler successfully smuggled almost 2,500 Jewish children to safety and gave them temporary new identities.

Tags: wwii, hero, irene sendler, holocaust, children, jews, history

Climate change will lead to war

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:48:45 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.cosmosmagazine.com

BALI: Global warming could lead to internal conflicts, regional unrest and war, with North Africa, the Sahel and South Asia among the hotspots, says a report issued at the Bali climate summit.

The warning by the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) came just hours ahead of ceremonies in Oslo to award the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. climate campaigner Al Gore and the U.N.'s top scientific panel on the greenhouse-gas problem.

UNEP called for a twin-pronged approach, tackling the carbon emissions that stoke global warming and helping vulnerable countries shore up defences against its impacts.

"Global civil war"

"If global warming is not confined, fragile, vulnerable states which have already now fairly bad governance might implode under the pressure of global warming and then send shock waves to other countries so that you will have spill-over effects," said one of the authors, Hans Schnellhuber, a professor at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research near Berlin, Germany.

Tags: climate change, war

Sad News: Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:20:56 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.paulkidby.com

I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early

onset Alzheimer's,

We are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism. For now work is continuing on the completion of Nation and the basic notes are already being laid down for Unseen Academicals. All other things being equal, I

expect to meet most current and, as far as possible, future commitments but will discuss things with the various organisers. Frankly, I would prefer it if people kept things cheerful, because I think there's time for at least a few more books yet

PS I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should
be interpreted as 'I am not dead'. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as
will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think

Tags: alzheimer's, terry pratchett

Hey We Gotta War Effort Going On Folks

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:36:15 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

RALEIGH, N.C. — Steadily lengthening delays in the resolution of Social Security disability claims have left hundreds of thousands of people in a kind of purgatory, now waiting as long as three years for a decision.

Two-thirds of those who appeal an initial rejection eventually win their cases.

But in the meantime, more and more people have lost their homes, declared bankruptcy or even died while awaiting an appeals hearing, say lawyers representing claimants and officials of the Social Security Administration, which administers disability benefits for those judged unable to work or who face terminal illness.

The agency’s new plan to hire at least 150 new appeals judges to whittle down the backlog, which has soared to 755,000 from 311,000 in 2000, will require $100 million more than the president requested this year and still more in the future. The plan has been delayed by the standoff between Congress and the White House over domestic appropriations.

Tags: compassionate, conservatism