Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.-Lord Acton, 1887
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.-David Brin
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Quotes About Power
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Tiny Toons do Particle Man (windows media video)
Tiny Toons cartoon does the They Might Be Gaints' song Particle Man.
Friday, October 28, 2005
Thursday, October 27, 2005
NASA - 21 Named Storms From the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Includes links to an MPEG Video of recent Hurricanes shot from space and enhanced.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Real News: Bush Can't Run Again, Fake News: CNN Asks Who the US People Would Vote for
If a presidential election were held this year, George Bush would either lose to an anonymous Democrat or win and be jailed for violating the term-limit provision found in the 22nd amendment to the Constitution, according to the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup/Nabisco/Toys R Us Poll released Tuesday
Quote on the Nature of a Hypothesis
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.-Edward Teller
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Pantone Announces the Top 10 Most Directional Women’s Ready-to-Wear Colors for Spring 2006
| Pantone Name | hex (RGB) | Pantone Code | CMYK |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Dollar | #efeae0 | 13-1106 | C=6 M=8 Y=12 K=0 |
| Deep Ultramarine | #0033c6 | 19-3950 | C=93 M=58 Y=0 K=22 |
| French Vanilla | #f9f9ad | 12-0722 | C=0 M=0 Y=30 K=2 |
| Lily Green | #cef49e | 13-0317 | C=15 M=0 Y=34 K=4 |
| Skyway | #b5e0f4 | 14-4112 | C=25 M=8 Y=0 K=4 |
| Blue Tint | #aaffea | 13-4910 | C=33 M=0 Y=8 K=0 |
| Cameo Pink | #f4b2f4 | 14-2307 | C=0 M=26 Y=0 K=4 |
| Melon | #ff8c66 | 16-1442 | C=0 M=45 Y=60 K=0 |
| Clove | #4c3319 | 18-1320 | C=50 M=60 Y=70 K=20 |
| Viola | #a5aaff | 16-3815 | C=35 M=33 Y=0 K=0 |
World is more peaceful now than at any time in 12 years
Despite the daily horrors in Iraq and seemingly regular spasms of terrorist-sponsored violence, the world is a much more peaceful place than it was a little more than a decade ago, a new study says.
Since the end of the Cold War, the number of armed conflicts has declined by more than 40 per cent, while the number of the deadliest conflicts - those involving more than 1,000 battle-related deaths - has dropped by 80 per cent, said the Human Security Report, which was released here [in New York] yesterday.
Over the past dozen years, the global security climate has changed in dramatic, positive and largely unheralded ways,the report states.
(from Globe and Mail).Civil wars, genocides and international crises have all declined sharply. International wars, now only a small minority of all conflicts, have been in steady decline for a much longer period, as have military coups and the average number of people killed per conflict per year.
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Quote About Life
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.- Soren Kierkegaard
Air Jaws (windows media video)
Discovery Channel show about sharks hunting seals, and how both animals catch air above the water during the hunt (PG-13).
Friday, October 21, 2005
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Invisible Skateboards (flash)
Skateboarding, with invisible skateboards - fun digital effects (rated PG).
Monday, October 17, 2005
Sunday, October 16, 2005
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Friday, October 14, 2005
I/O Brush (flash)
I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from their immediate environment. More info at http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Robot Chicken
Adult-friendly, very funny action-figure stop-action (rated R). [offline http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2660802447916665129&q=robot%20chicken ]
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
The War of the Worlds in 30 seconds... with bunnies.
Family-Friendly flash: the 1953 War of the Worlds as performed by bunnies in 30 Seconds (rated PG).
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Sunday, October 9, 2005
Saturday, October 8, 2005
Why Chicago Burned - And How It Rebuilt
How another American city was unprepared for Nature's fury, and how it responded... over 100 years ago (from AmericanHeritage.com).
Friday, October 7, 2005
Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
by Richard Brodie. This book is really an introduction to memetics (the study of memes) with a more contagious title (the book explains what I mean by 'contagious'). I highly recommend it, even if it is some years old at this point.
- Meme:
- an information pattern, held in an individual's memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual's memory.
- Memetics:
- the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes
www.iiiiiiii.com
Family-friendly site that does exactly what the URL implies (rated G, requires Flash and your sound on).
Quote About Belief
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
- John Burroughs
Thursday, October 6, 2005
Flora Bush - The Child Left Behind
Funny Satire: Music Video and more of "The Third Bush Twin" (rated PG-13)
Louisiana's Department of Social Services' Press Secretary Thinks Losing Kids is Easy
(from Los Angeles Times). I believe that is the department in charge of the foster system.When my kids were little I used to lose them in Target, so it's not hard for me to believe,said Nanette White, press secretary for Louisiana's Department of Social Services.Sometimes little kids just wander off. They're there one second and you blink and they're gone.
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Solar Eclipse of Oct 3, 2005
...dynamic map shows the path of the solar eclipse across Earth's surface. The northern and southern limits of the annular eclipse path are plotted...
(from NASA and Google Maps).
tags: NASA, Google Maps, Mashup, Eclipse
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