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Amma: The Original 'Free Hugs' Lady

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:10:18 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee

Mata Amritanandamayi, an Indian woman known as Amma, is as canon-worthy as anyone we've ever heard of. For over 30 years, Amma has been traveling the globe, giving hugs to everyone she meets, asking nothing in return. Though she considers herself spiritual, she does not advocate any particular religion – her message is love, pure and simple.

So why does she do it? As Amma told BBC News, "Love is a very special, very uplifting vibration. That's what I'm trying to give people. It's like visiting a perfume factory. Consciously or unconsciously you will carry that fragrance around with you."

In each city she visits, Amma doles out hugs all day long, often until as late as two or three in the morning, until everyone's gotten a turn.

she is the founder of a charity called Mata Amritanandamayi Math. Many of her followers contribute money to the organization in appreciation of Amma's hugs.

By Kathryn Hawkins

Macro Photos

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:31:03 GMT

clipped by: Kelika

Clip Source: www.wired.com

The macro photo contest was our fiercest competition yet, with almost every entry making our eyes boggle. After two weeks of steady battle, these 10 photos have emerged victorious. Alan M won the contest with his photo "Eye of a Tokay Gecko" at left. Mr. M will be receiving a subscription to Wired magazine and a digital picture frame for his desk.

Clip Source: www.wired.com

"Close-up of a wet leaf ... taken with a Canon Powershot A610 :)"

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"A close-up of the water emerging from a fountain pipe, which formed this 'head.'"

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"Nikon d50, 50mm f/1.8 with extension tubes. Subject is a representative of the Mantodea group."

Clip Source: www.wired.com

"One evening I looked down at the icecubes floating in my coke and noticed the wonderful 3-dimensional structure inside. More pics on my flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/philippeholthuizen"

Clip Source: www.wired.com

"HDR photograph of a tea-light candle wick just before it burns out."

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"An extreme macro photograph of my eye. Photographed with a Canon MP-65e lens and a 1DMkIII camera."

Tags: photography

Robotic Telepresence

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:40:09 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: Cool.

Clip Source: robodynamics.com

Welcome to RoboDynamics!

What is Robotic Telepresence?

Robotic Telepresence is the ability to transport yourself to a remote location without going there.

It is similar to video conferencing but whereas video conferencing gives you only a small window into the remote world, Robotic Telepresence gives you a presence, instantly transporting you there and enabling you to move around, look about, and interact with people, objects, and the environment as if you are actually there.

Our robot, named TiLR (pronounced Tie Ler) has an 8" LCD screen and a powerful Canon camera - providing you with live bi-directional video and audio. As such it brings you face to face with people and objects - and gives you the freedom to move about the remote world from the convenience of your PC - wherever in the world you may be.

Clip Source: robodynamics.com

TiLR Robotic Telepresence is comprised of three distinct components, which include a robot (TiLR), a PC application (TCC), and a Robot Server (RS).

Tags: robotics, internet

The Art of Sand Mandalas

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:27:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.colourlovers.com

The Sand Mandala is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition which symbolizes the transitory nature of things. As part of Buddhist canon, all things material are seen as transitory. A sand mandala is an example of this, being that once it has been built and its accompanying ceremonies and viewing are finished, it is systematically destroyed.

Historically, the mandala was not created with natural, dyed sand, but granules of crushed colored stone. In modern times, plain white stones are ground down and dyed with opaque inks to achieve the same effect. Before laying down the sand, the monks assigned to the project will draw the geometric measurements associated with the mandala.

The sand granules are then applied using small tubes, funnels, and scrapers, until the desired pattern over-top is achieved.

Sand mandalas traditionally take several weeks to build,

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The Colorful Art of Sand Mandalas

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:47:15 GMT

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Clip Source: www.colourlovers.com

The Colorful Art of Sand Mandalas

By evad

The sand granules are then applied using small tubes, funnels, and scrapers, until the desired pattern over-top is achieved.

Sand mandalas traditionally take several weeks to build

a team of monks will work together on the project, creating one section of the diagram at a time

outwards

Tags: sand mandalas

Robotic Telepresence

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:31:45 GMT

clipped by: rj3sp
clipper's remarks: RoboDynamics is a company that researches and develops advanced telepresence robots. The idea is creating robots which allow people to attend meetings remotely.

Clip Source: robodynamics.com

What is Robotic Telepresence?

Robotic Telepresence is the ability to transport yourself to a remote location without going there.

Clip Source: smart-machines.blogspot.com

TiLR: A telepresence robot in action

The following promotional video explains using a simple cartoon how the company believes their telepresence robot can be used to add value to a company.

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Finally, the following Mahalo Daily video showcases the actual TiLR robot and its control software.

[Video]

Clip Source: robodynamics.com

Introducing TiLR

TiLR System Overview

TiLR Robotic Telepresence is comprised of three distinct components, which include a robot (TiLR), a PC application (TCC), and a Robot Server (RS).

Clip Source: robodynamics.com

TiLR

TiLR is the main state of the art attraction of our Robotic Telepresence Platform. Standing at four feet tall and featuring a bright 8" LCD and powerful Canon camera, TiLR is a unique blend of innovative technologies that enable Robotic Telepresence in a new, affordable way.

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TiLR Command Center

TCC enables you to log into TiLR remotely and control its movements.

Tags: robots, telepresence, robodynamics, tilr

Jewish and Christian Bibles: A Comparative Chart 3

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:45:03 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado
clipper's remarks: Catholic Bible (Old Testament)

Clip Source: catholic-resources.org

CATHOLIC BIBLE
(based on Alexandrian canon of LXX;
with seven Deuterocanonical books)

Pentateuch (Law)
1) Genesis
2) Exodus
3) Leviticus
4) Numbers
5) Deuteronomy

Historical Books
6) Joshua
7) Judges
8) Ruth
9) 1 Samuel
10) 2 Samuel
11) 1 Kings
12) 2 Kings
13) 1 Chronicles

14) 2 Chronicles

15) Ezra
16) Nehemiah
17) TOBIT
18) JUDITH
19) Esther (longer version)
20) 1 MACCABEES
21) 2 MACCABEES

Wisdom Books
22) Job
23) Psalms (150)
24) Proverbs
25) Ecclesiastes
26) Song of Solomon
27) WISDOM of Solomon
28) SIRACH, a.k.a. Ecclesiasticus

Prophets
29) Isaiah
30) Jeremiah
31) Lamentations
32) BARUCH (incl. LETTER of JER.)
33) Ezekiel

34) Daniel (14 chapters)

35) Hosea
36) Joel
37) Amos
38) Obadiah
39) Jonah
40) Micah
41) Nahum
42) Habakkuk
43) Zephaniah
44) Haggai
45) Zechariah
46) Malachi

Tags: bible, scripture, religion

Enough already with the megapixels

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:49:10 GMT

clipped by: patchworkthreads
clipper's remarks: "So what's the take-home message?

Well, if you're shopping for an ordinary digicam, bear in mind that money spent on higher resolution may actually be buying you less than nothing. A lower resolution camera can actually be a better product in every respect.

Of course, the camera companies just can't sell lower res cameras any more [...] because every manufacturer knows it's hard to sell a five or six megapixel camera when your competitor's shiny new 8MP model's on the shelf for not much more money. Consumers don't know much about lens specs or autofocus speed, but they can do basic megapixel arithmetic real good."

Clip Source: www.dansdata.com

people assume that a camera with more megapixels must take better pictures than one with fewer

The truth can actually, quite often, be exactly the opposite

Consumer digital cameras always have teeny tiny little sensor chips in them

Sony's popular DSC-F828, for instance, is an "eight megapixel" camera with what's known as a "2/3 inch" sensor

For comparison, the Canon EOS-5D, the cheapest DSLR with a full 35mm-frame-sized sensor, has a 12.7MP sensor, but 8.2 micron photosites.

8MP consumer cameras don't take pictures as technically good as those from the F828

As sensor size falls, the precision of the internal focussing becomes more and more critical for a given pixel count. But bigger photosites can also hold more charge than little ones

What this means is that the signal-to-noise ratio of bigger photosites is better.

The three megapixel DiMAGE Xt goes to ISO 400 with lower noise than the X1 at ISO 200. It is, in every important department, just a better camera, despite being two years older

Tags: digital, camera, megapixels, photography

Beautiful Alaskan Aurora

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:41:00 GMT

clipped by: mariana3
clipper's remarks: For a larger photo, go to original site and click on the image.

Clip Source: www.spaceweather.com

Last night (Sept. 2nd) in North Pole, Alaska, the sky turned green. "I didn't expect to see any Northern Lights, but there they were," says Bud Kuenzli, who opened the shutter of his Canon EOS 1D for 15 seconds and collected this photo:

In Alaska, this counts as a mild display, but it might herald a bigger show in the nights ahead. A solar wind stream is approaching Earth, due to hit late on Sept. 3rd or Sept. 4th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

Tags: astronomy, climate, aurora, sky, earth

Ulysses Odyssey and Western Philosophy

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:21:59 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: Hard to imagine a single thought without the references to our past stories. Homer and Ulysses are embedded in endless seeming variations.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

A Long, Strange Trip

Is there anything in the Western literary canon with more abundant, potent or frolicsome offspring than Homer’s “Odyssey”? Clearly not, to judge by “The Return of Ulysses,” Edith Hall’s enlightening and entertaining cultural history. Virgil, Monteverdi, James Joyce, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ralph Ellison and Derek Walcott are just a few of the artists to have transformed this spellbinding and mysterious epic into powerful works of their own. But while Hall doesn’t scant such noble descendants, nor Homer’s determinant role in ancient Greek and Roman culture, she is at least as enthusiastic at tracking Odysseus-Ulysses, the Man of Many Ways, down many a less-traveled path: the “Odyssey” is, after all, she says, “an ancestral text” for “historians, philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, occult magicians, novelists, science-fiction writers, biographers, autobiographers, movie directors and composers of opera.” (And don’t forget magic realists.)

Saakashvili: US military moving in; US: Not!

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:33:36 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: A loose cannon?

Clip Source: talkingpointsmemo.com

Oh Boy

Wouldn't want to think we've got ourselves tied up with a loose canon in the President of Georgia.

President Saakashvili today told Georgians that the US military was moving in to take over control of the country's air and seaports -- which would be a pretty big deal since much of the country still appears to be an active war zone.

And about five minutes later the Pentagon said he didn't know what he was talking about.

"We are not looking to, nor do we need to, take control of any air or seaports to conduct this mission," said Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary. "The role of the U.S. military is strictly to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the victims of this conflict."

John McCain says he's talking to Saakashvili every day. What's he telling him? Is he confusing the situation?

Tags: georgia

Vintage Photos mixed. 1

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:49:51 GMT

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Clip Source: pixdaus.com

tags: coffeehouse bar pretty young women beautyful legs nylon stockings vintage style |

"Sue Lyon (Lolita)"

"July 1939. Gordonton, N.C."

"Actrice Jane Renouardt, 1900"

tags: vintage black and white women leisure |

"Dancing..."

"gangerous girl"

"Children of Poland"

"zzzzzzz"

"Manhattan Bridge Construction"

"Thích Quảng Ðức photographed during his self-immolation."

"Nazi soldiers playing with kitten"

"the boy and the hen"

"Back to the sixties"

"Norma-Jean, 1949"

"German Zeppelin Hindenburg (LZ-129), blowing the hell up in Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1937."

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"Rita Hayworth"

"White Angel Bread Line by Dorothea Lange.Probably one of the most famous pictures of the Great Depression in the U.S."

"A man standing in front of the tank - CzechoSlovakia 1968"

"Vintage advert for the once in europe very popular small car Renault 4, which has gained cult status over the years"

"human statue of liberty"

"Three Chiefs Piegan (Blackfoot)"

"Pyramids during WW2"

tags: vintage gun canon rail |

"Marilyn Monroe"

"saddest pic ever"

Tags: vintage, pix

refraction in snow crystals

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:46:28 GMT

clipped by: mona
clipper's remarks: just beautiful!

Clip Source: www.engl.paraselene.de

Defocused close-up views of sunlit snow glints showing refraction and diffraction. The polygons are formed by the camera’s iris. Canon Powershot G2 digital camera with close-up lens. Processed with Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Tags: snow, photography, photo, light, refraction

Bush Ordered Phony Letter Linking Iraq to 9/11

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:43:01 GMT

clipped by: Wisco
clipper's remarks: The piece goes on to quote Politico's Mike Allen:

According to Suskind, the administration had been in contact with the director of the Iraqi intelligence service in the last years of Hussein’s regime, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti.

“The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001,” Suskind writes. “It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq – thus showing, finally, that there was an operational link between Saddam and al Qaeda, something the Vice President’s Office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq. There is no link.” [...]

The author claims that such an operation, part of “false pretenses” for war, would apparently constitute illegal White House use of the CIA to influence a domestic audience, an arguably impeachable offense.

Clip Source: rawstory.com

A blockbuster new book from investigative journalist Ron Suskind adds another revelation to the growing canon demonstrating the lengths to which President Bush and members of his administration lied, misled and deceived the American people to pursue its invasion of Iraq.

Bush allegedly ordered the CIA to forge a handwritten letter from the head of Iraq's intelligence service to Saddam Hussein that purported to link the Iraqi dictator to the ringleader of the hijackers who toppled the Twin Towers on 9/11, according to news accounts of Suskind's new book, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism. Such use of an intelligence service to influence domestic political debate could be an impeachable offense, Suskind writes.

Tags: news

PC graveyard or poisoning the poor of the world?

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:49:34 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: There are international laws banning the export of computer waste but people are getting round this by labelling the shipments "usable second-hand goods".

Greenpeace is calling for an end to what it calls "poisoning the poor". It wants electronics manufacturers to stop using hazardous materials and to take responsibility for the whole lifecycle of their products.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

By Will Ross
BBC West Africa correspondent

The United Nations believes we generate between 20m and 50m tonnes of e-waste around the world each year.

Agbobloshie dump site in Ghana's capital, Accra, is a computer graveyard. But PCs are not given a decent, safe burial - they are dumped on this expanding, toxic treasure trove.

Many of the well-known brands are there: Compaq, Dell, Gateway, Philips, Canon, Hewlett Packard.

I'm looking in the computers for copper and iron which I can sell to pay the [school] fees

They are dissected for any reusable parts like lenses from the disc drives and circuit boards, and with global scrap prices soaring, metals are in high demand.

To gain an idea of how people in the rich countries sometimes provide inappropriate gifts, you only need to take a look at Ibrahim's footwear which he found abandoned on the same rubbish heap.

Ibrahim needs the moon boots to walk over a carpet of smashed glass

"Other chemicals we found cause cancer or disrupt your hormone system."