Posts from — October 2007

Top 10 Bizarre Mental Disorders – The List Universe:
Top 10 Bizarre Mental Disorders

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this has two that inform my work which are jerusalem and steyndahl syndrome. the others are worth considering, such as paris syndrom.

Omeka :

The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) is partnering with the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) to develop Omeka as a next-generation web publishing platform for museums, historical societies, scholars, collectors, and educators.
Omeka is currently in private beta. If you are interested in getting on the invitation list to download and test Omeka, please email us and we will notify you when there are additional spaces for this testing period.

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Omeka is what we use for april16archive.org at the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture

How to pay for a free press, by André Schiffrin:
How to pay for a free press

In a media world with one eye on the bottom line and the other on the official line, it’s getting harder to publish or broadcast anything that doesn’t promise huge sales and attendant profits, and that doesn’t say or show what is approved. But it’s still possible

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perhaps it is time to start a universal trust to support the free press?

Brain-computer interface for Second Life ::: Pink Tentacle:
Brain-computer interface for Second Life

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this is novel, i wonder what else they can control.

Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century:

Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century

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so archivists are sharing.

The Right Brain vs Left Brain test | PerthNow:
The Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

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here’s the thing… when i look at her when i’m typing she spins counter clockwise, when i just look at her like art she turns clockwise. it is strange because it switches all the time.

Deep Litter: March 2007:
Litter Sorters: A Personal Evaluation of Mac Organizer Software

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i use devonthink pro with 16000 documents, scrivener and bookends and mellel for writing and process 2 and omnioutliner pro for other things… that reminds me i need to get back to process….

i do all of my class outlines in ominioutliner

Socialist Project -» Theory & Debate:
Ernest MandelA life for the revolution

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for those of you interested in political economy, marxist political economy or otherwise.

StupidFilter :: Main / HomePage :
The StupidFilter Project.

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i hope this is not a joke….

Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released:
am i there to help the computer do it’s job? or is the computer there to help me do mine?

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actually i think that in the current age, jobs are made to use the computer, so the job is … not to help you, but it exists solely for you to do it with the computer. that’s somewhat scary.