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Historical Christian Hairstyles:
Elliptic Curve DSA
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Friday, May 6, 8
Hypomenorrhea
Wednesday, April 9, 8
Pine Cone Golf
Friday, March 7, 8
Sub-Planck
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Wednesday, February 6, 8
Technosexual
) A person (usually a male) with a strong aesthetic sense and a love of gadgets. In this sense, it is a portmanteau word combining "technophile" and "metrosexual", which was first promoted by creative professional Ricky Montalvo to describe "a dandyish narcissist in love with not only himself, but also his urban lifestyle and gadgets; a straight man who is in touch with his feminine side but has fondness for electronics such as cell phones, PDAs, computers, software, and the web."
) A person with a sexual attraction to machinery, as in the case of robot fetishism. When used thusly, it is a portmanteau word combining "technophile" and "sexual". As per this definition of the term, fictional android Gigolo Joe, played by Jude Law in the science-fiction film A.I. has become the iconic "technosex symbol". Occasionally, this term is used as an insult, implying in a derogatory way that a person would prefer a sex toy to an actual sexual partner.
As with the metrosexual, companies have tried to promote the concept of the technosexual in order to sell products. Calvin Klein went as far as trademarking the term technosexual in 5. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Technosexual". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Sunday, January 6, 8
Greatest Villains (Wizard magazine)
The Joker (DC Comics)
Pazuzu (The Exorcist)
Palpatine (Star Wars)
Dr. Doom (Marvel Comics)
Zombies (Dawn of the Dead)
Hannibal Lecter (Thomas Harris books)
The Borg (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Lex Luthor (DC Comics)
Pinhead (Hellraiser)
The Shark (Jaws)
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Astrosociobiology
Sunday, November , 7
Satanic ritual abuse and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Saturday, November 3, 7
Elizabeth Kucinich
"In Event of Moon Disaster"
Sunday, October , 7
Quantum Fiction
Wednesday, October , 7
Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria
Thursday, October 4, 7
Penguins in popular culture
Penguins experienced a resurgence in the mid-s thanks to films like March of the Penguins,Madagascar, Happy Feet, and Surf's Up. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Penguins in popular culture". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Wednesday, September 6, 7
Gargoyles in fiction
In contemporary fiction, gargoyles are commonly depicted as a distinct race, not just as a structural ornament. The typical fantasy Gargoyle is a (generally) winged humanoid race with demonic features (generally horns, a tail, talons, and may or may not have a beak). Gargoyles can generally use their wings to fly or glide, and, as a reference to their origins, are often depicted as having a rocky hide, or being capable of turning into stone in one way or another.
Gargoyles have featured in several works of fantasy fiction, such as Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (Discworld gargoyles) and the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D gargoyles) and Rifts role-playing games. Gargoyles are also the main characters in a Disney animated series and comic book, Gargoyles, and played a role in that company's adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Actress Adrienne Barbeau played a violent gargoyle in the TV series Monsters. Actress Rae Dawn Chong played a gargoyle in human form in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Gargoyles in fiction". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Monday, September 7, 7
Hebrew Bible views on women
Women in the Tanakh are not the social or economic equals of men. At the time it was written, married women were largely subject to the wishes of their husbands, and unmarried women to the wishes of their fathers. For example, a woman needed consent from her father before she could take religious vows (Book of Numbers 3:3-5). This situation was roughly similar to that of women in the surrounding countries of the time.
Women were not considered mere possessions, however. The killing of a woman was considered murder, not theft. A wife could not be disposed of at her husband's whim, or divorced without reason. Women could own property, and a daughter could inherit her father's property (if there were no sons). They could engage in business and trade (Book of Proverbs chapter 3). Although there are frequent references in the Tanakh to a wife being traded in exchange for money or goods, this was not a simple commercial transaction. Rather, it was a gift to compensate the bride's family. Such gifts, called a dowry, are common in the Near East today. Arranged marriage was the norm for both sons and daughters (Genesis :; Genesis 38:6; Book of Judges :,3) although the bride was sometimes asked for her consent (Genesis 4:58) and sometimes the son chose a wife for himself (Genesis 34:4). This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Hebrew Bible views on women". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Sunday, October 8, 7
"In Event of Moon Disaster"
Sunday, October , 7
Quantum Fiction
Wednesday, October , 7
Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria
Thursday, October 4, 7
Penguins in popular culture
Penguins experienced a resurgence in the mid-s thanks to films like March of the Penguins,Madagascar, Happy Feet, and Surf's Up. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Penguins in popular culture". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Wednesday, September 6, 7
Gargoyles in fiction
In contemporary fiction, gargoyles are commonly depicted as a distinct race, not just as a structural ornament. The typical fantasy Gargoyle is a (generally) winged humanoid race with demonic features (generally horns, a tail, talons, and may or may not have a beak). Gargoyles can generally use their wings to fly or glide, and, as a reference to their origins, are often depicted as having a rocky hide, or being capable of turning into stone in one way or another.
Gargoyles have featured in several works of fantasy fiction, such as Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (Discworld gargoyles) and the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D gargoyles) and Rifts role-playing games. Gargoyles are also the main characters in a Disney animated series and comic book, Gargoyles, and played a role in that company's adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Actress Adrienne Barbeau played a violent gargoyle in the TV series Monsters. Actress Rae Dawn Chong played a gargoyle in human form in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Gargoyles in fiction". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Monday, September 7, 7
Hebrew Bible views on women
Women in the Tanakh are not the social or economic equals of men. At the time it was written, married women were largely subject to the wishes of their husbands, and unmarried women to the wishes of their fathers. For example, a woman needed consent from her father before she could take religious vows (Book of Numbers 3:3-5). This situation was roughly similar to that of women in the surrounding countries of the time.
Women were not considered mere possessions, however. The killing of a woman was considered murder, not theft. A wife could not be disposed of at her husband's whim, or divorced without reason. Women could own property, and a daughter could inherit her father's property (if there were no sons). They could engage in business and trade (Book of Proverbs chapter 3). Although there are frequent references in the Tanakh to a wife being traded in exchange for money or goods, this was not a simple commercial transaction. Rather, it was a gift to compensate the bride's family. Such gifts, called a dowry, are common in the Near East today. Arranged marriage was the norm for both sons and daughters (Genesis :; Genesis 38:6; Book of Judges :,3) although the bride was sometimes asked for her consent (Genesis 4:58) and sometimes the son chose a wife for himself (Genesis 34:4). This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Hebrew Bible views on women". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Lorna Morgan
Thursday, September 6, 7
Richard C. Hoagland
Saturday, September , 7
Pope Joan in popular culture
Monday, August 7, 7
God's Warriors
The three chapters have been titled God’s Jewish Warriors, God’s Muslim Warriors, and God’s Christian Warriors. The first describes the Jews who have forcefully pushed settlements into Israeli-occupied Palestine and the fund-raising in the United States that supports them, while the second presents issues of women’s rights under radical Islam and Sharia law. The final segment offers a view of the United States and its electoral system and the political influence of Christian religious leaders. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "God's Warriors". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Star Trek versus Star Wars
"Which would win? The Enterprise-D or a Star Destroyer?"
In July 997, the alt.startrek.vs.starwars newsgroup was created to try to shift these (often heated) debates off the more "mainstream" Star Trek and Star Wars groups. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Star Trek versus Star Wars". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Friday, August 7, 7
Why dimensions?
This is one of the questions discussed by Michio Kaku in his book Hyperspace, which attempts to translate the mathematics of hyperspace theory into readily understandable language. This article is devoted to the same goal, leaving the details of the mathematics to the hyperspace theory article. Kaku traces the number of dimensions to Srinivasa Ramanujan's modular functions, but this article will start with some fundamentals and work its way into the mathematics. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Why dimensions?. This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Sephardic Pizmonim Project
Wednesday, August 8, 7
Screaming Mechanical Brain
Saturday, August 4, 7
Jewish Networking
Monday, July 3, 7
Morgan the Escapist
Thursday, July 6, 7
Half-Your-Age-Plus-Seven Rule
The half-your-age-plus-seven rule is a mathematical guide to judge whether the age difference in an intimate relationship is socially acceptable. Mathematically speaking, the rule is (Minimum Age) = (Age of the Older Individual) / + 7.
For example, if Shane is 3 and wants to date Kristen, who is , he would be in violation of the rule, since the minimum age being . Notice, however, that the age difference matters less as the potential partners grow older. In this case, Shane would have four years to wait before the age difference in the relationship was "socially acceptable".
Note that what is implied by "socially acceptable" is largely a cultural construct, and has varied over time. Anna Nicole Smith and J. Howard Marshall were 6 and 89 at the time of their relationship. This violation of the rule (she was 5.5 years too young), and the rule itself, were discussed on CNN in 6. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Half-Your-Age-Plus-Seven Rule". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Sunday, July , 7
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people
The high prevalence of people from the West on this list may be due to societal attitudes towards homosexuality. The Pew Research Center's 3 Global Attitudes Survey found that "[p]eople in Africa and the Middle East strongly object to societal acceptance of homosexuality. But there is far greater tolerance for homosexuality in major Latin American countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. Opinion in Europe is split between West and East. Majorities in every Western European nation surveyed say homosexuality should be accepted by society, while most Russians, Poles and Ukrainians disagree. Americans are divided – a thin majority (5 percent) believes homosexuality should be accepted, while 4 percent disagree." This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Wednesday, July 8, 7
Area Code 385
For more information please visit: http://www.ksl.com/?sid=47537&nid=48. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Area Code 385". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Sunday, July 5, 7
Mayonnaise Rubbing
Thursday, July , 7
Purple Diet
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Monday, July 9, 7
List of films about mathematicians
To Sir, with Love (967) - Engineer Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) becomes a teacher. Straw Dogs (97) - David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) is an American mathematical physicist who moves to England, where he and his wife are violently harassed by locals. It's My Turn (98) - A mathematics professor (Jill Clayburgh) falls in love with her father's bride's son (Michael Douglas). Stand and Deliver (988) - Based on the true story of math teacher Jaime Escalante, who inspired the students in a school in a Hispanic neighborhood. Sneakers (99) - An eclectic team is assembled to steal a code-breaking box developed by a rogue mathematician.
I.Q. (994) - Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau) helps a young man (Tim Robbins) pretend to be a physicist in order to catch the attention of Einstein's niece (Meg Ryan). Antonia's Line (995) - A genealogical "line" of five generations of women includes a child prodigy, Thérèse, who grows up to be a mathematician. Infinity (996) - A story about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (Matthew Broderick). The Mirror Has Two Faces (996) - A math professor (Jeff Bridges) marries a literature professor (Barbra Streisand), but they want different things from the relationship. Good Will Hunting (997) - Janitor Will Hunting (Matt Damon) begins to turn his life around with the help of a psychologist (Robin Williams) and a Fields Medal-winning professor (Stellan Skarsgård). Pi (998) - A mathematician searches for the number that underlies all of nature. A Beautiful Mind () - A fictional account based loosely on the life of mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe), who made a breakthrough that wins him the Nobel Prize in economics. Enigma () - A story of romantic and psychological intrigue set in Bletchley Park during the World War II effort to crack the German Enigma machine. Grams (3) - An accident changes many lives, including that of a critically ill mathematics professor (Sean Penn). Proof (5) - A former student (Jake Gyllenhaal) of a recently deceased, brilliant mathematician (Anthony Hopkins) finds a notebook in his office containing a proof of an important theorem, but the mathematician's daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow) claims it is hers. The ensuing dispute is complicated by signs that she may have inherited her father's mental illness and a burgeoning romance. Raising Genius (4) - The film is about a boy (Justin Long) who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "List of films about mathematicians". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Friday, July 6, 7
Mice in Fiction
In fiction, mice are popularly portrayed as loving cheese, but in reality most mice do not particularly like cheese, and prefer foods in their natural diet. Too much cheese may cause digestive problems and strong-smelling excrement. Cheese probably became linked to mice because its strong smell and sticky texture make it a good bait for mousetraps. Another common stereotype is that elephants are afraid of mice. This is also false; elephants, being large, are naturally unafraid of mice.
Flowers for Algernon tells the story of a mouse named Algernon that is given an experimental intelligence-boosting treatment, which only works temporarily, and ends up in the death of the mouse; the story is told by a man that is given the same treatment, though sometime after Algernon's treatment, such that as Algernon reverts from the high intelligence state, the speaker fears for his own fateful return and possible death. The Lion and the Mouse is one of Aesop's fables, with the moral "Little friends may prove great friends". This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mice in Fiction". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Wednesday, July 4, 7
Grey's Law
Grey's Law is a less-known corollary of Hanlon's Razor, which imitates the form of Clarke's Third Law. It states that:
"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
While the stated principle pays a certain homage to Hanlon's Razor, it is also to some extent a rebuttal of the principle therein, stating that the distinction which the former makes is often moot. It is unclear just who the "Grey" of Grey's Law is. The quotation itself appears to have spread through email sig blocks and various social bookmarking websites, and appears to be of recent origin. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Grey's Law". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Sunday, July , 7
Cherie (porn star)
Thursday, June 8, 7
Death Yell
Monday, June 5, 7
Psychedelics in popular culture
There exist many examples of Psychedelics in popular culture. The psychedelic experience has had a strong effect on many genres of popular music, and psychedelic drug references are common in movies, books, and in popular music.
DMT: The plot of the movie Blueberry (based on the comic Blueberry) touches Dimethyltryptamine practices of Native Americans.
LSD: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home has a scene where Admiral Kirk tells a woman in 986 that Spock did a little too much LDS in the 6's. The woman rolls her eyes at him. This was a reference to LSD, not The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Beatles song "Tomorrow Never Knows" is a musical take on Timothy Leary's analogy between the LSD experience and the passage from death through to reincarnation described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Psychedelics in popular culture". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Friday, June , 7
"Klaatu barada nikto"
The phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" originates from the 95 Cold-War-era science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still. The phrase "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!" was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from destroying the Earth. There is no known translation for the phrase, although "Klaatu" is the name of the humanoid alien protagonist in the film, and "nikto" is Russian for "nobody / no one." This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Klaatu barada nikto". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Tuesday, June 9, 7
Angela Beesley
Saturday, June 6, 7
Obama Girl
Wednesday, June 3, 7
Mass Vision
A mass vision is a phenomenon in which a large group of people, usually in physical proximity to each other, all experience the same unexplained phenomena simultaneously. It is similar but not identical to the Folie à deux phenomenon.
Famous mass visions: List of UFO sightings; The Miracle of the Sun -where 7, pilgrims at Fatima in Portugal in 97 saw the sun "tear itsef from the heavens and come crashing down upon the multitude".
Richard Dawkins' addresses mass visions, specifically The Miracle of the Sun, in "The God Delusion". Whilst it's unlikely that 7, would all have the same vision, he says it's even less likely that what they "saw" really happened (because none of the rest of the world noticed). He cites David Hume's miracle test: "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." With this, he shrugs off the mass visions. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mass Vision". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Saturday, June 9, 7
Chessckers
The rules of chessckers are simple as long as you understand both checkers and chess. Using a regulation chess/checker board, set up as shown above.Movement is very simple: all chess pieces move exactly as they would if one was playing chess.(i.e. Bishop diagonally, Rook up, down, left, or right, etc.) Also like in regulation, checker pieces move diagonally and, only if kinged, backwards diagonally. (To be kinged, a checker piece must move to the opposite side of the board.) You may not move your king into check. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Chessckers". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Wednesday, June 6, 7
Space Ice Cream
Sunday, June 3, 7
List of Iranian national heroes
Cyrus the Great, Founder of the Persian Empire
Darius the Great, Persian Emperor
Babak Khorramdin, Leader of the Persian resistance against Arab invaders
Hassan-i Sabbah
Ferdowsi, Savior of the Persian language, poet of Shahnameh epic.
Bahram Chobin, One of the greatest Eran Spahbods (generalissimo)
Rostam-e Dastan, legendary warrior from the Shahnameh
Arash the Archer, legendary warrior from the Shahnameh
Jamshid, One of the greatest kings of mythical Persia according to Shahnameh's account.
Kaveh the Blacksmith, character from the Shahnameh
Mohammad Mosaddegh, Nationalised Iran's oil industry
Amir Kabir, Politician and minister to Naser -o- Din Shah of Qajar Dynasty.
Nader Shah, Military leader and Shah of Iran, rightfully dubbed as Napoleon of Persia.
Takhti, Great Persian wrestler.
Surena or Suren Pahlav, were among the prominent ruling clans during the Parthian Empire. Eran Spahbod Rostaham Suren Pahlav was a member of this house who managed to decisively defeat Roman Army under command of Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae.
Abbas Mirza, able crown prince of Qajar Dynasty who lead a number of albeit unfruitful military campaigns against Impersial Russia.
Abu Muslim Khorasani.
Bagher Khan
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel peace prize winner
Mirza Kuchak Khan, Activist
Mohammad Khiabani
Pourya-ye Vali
Sattar Khan
Shah Abbas the Great
Ya'qub bin Laith as-Saffar
Hossein Fatemi
Reza Shah, Founder of the Pahlavi Dynasty
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Wednesday, May 3, 7
Monster Pig
Sunday, May 7, 7
Aphenphosmphobia
Sometimes the fear is restricted specifically, or predominantly, to being touched by people of the opposite sex. In women, this is often associated with a fear of sexual assault. Dorais reports that many boys who have been the victims of sexual abuse have a fear of being touched, quoting one victim who describes being touched as something that "burns like fire", causing him to freeze up or to lash out. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Aphenphosmphobia". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Thursday, May 4, 7
Raven Riley
Sunday, May , 7
Noah's Ark, Board Game
Wednesday, May 6, 7
List of the heaviest people
This is a list of the most obese humans recorded. The table includes each individual's name, peak weight, their birth date, and years of life. This list is limited to those individuals who weighed over pounds.
Rank, Name, Sex, Birth, Death, Peak Weight
Carol Yager, F, 96, 994, 6+ lb (77+ kg)
Jon Brower Minnoch, M, 94, 983, 4 lb (636 kg)
3 Manuel Uribe, M, 966, 35 lb (55 kg)
4 Walter Hudson, M, 944, 99, 97 lb (544 kg)
5 Francis John Lang, M, 934, 87 lb (54 kg)
6 Johnny Alee, M, 853, 887, 3 lb (54 kg)
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Sunday, May 3, 7
Sexiest Man Alive
985--4 - Mel Gibson, 9; first winner
986--7 - Mark Harmon, 34
987-3-3 - Harry Hamlin, 35
988-9- - John F. Kennedy Jr., 7;
989--8 - Sean Connery, 59; oldest winner
99-7-3 - Tom Cruise, 8; second-youngest winner
99-8-6 - Patrick Swayze, 39
99-3-6 - Nick Nolte, 5
993--8 - Richard Gere, 44
995--3 - Brad Pitt, 3; first of two awards
996-7-9 - Denzel Washington, 4; st and only African American winner
997--7 - George Clooney, 36
998--6 - Harrison Ford, 56
999--5 - Richard Gere, 5; first -time winner
--3 - Brad Pitt, 36; first solo two-time winner
--6 - Pierce Brosnan, 48
-- - Ben Affleck, 3
3-- - Johnny Depp, 4
4 - Jude Law, 3
5--8 - Matthew McConaughey, 36
6--7 - George Clooney, 45; second solo two-time winner
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Thursday, May , 7
Fractomancy
Fractomancy requires the computer-graphical generation of a fractal pattern. According to author, Clifford Pickover, it is employed to answer yes or no questions. To make it work, the user has a computer choose four random numbers. These numbers are used to plot the strange attractor (intricate shape) using a computer program. If the resultant pattern is symmetrical, the outlook is positive and the answer to the question is “yes.” The more beautiful to the eye of the user, the better the answer or the stronger the “yes.” If the pattern has no symmetry, or is ugly to the eye, the outlook is negative, and the answer is “no.”
Notes: Pickover, Clifford. Dreaming the Future: The Fantastic Story of Prediction. ISBN 978-57398953. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Fractomancy". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Monday, May 7, 7
Testatika
Reference for photo: "Testatika Group" at Yahoo.com. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Testatika". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Thursday, May 3, 7
List of Jewish United States Supreme Court Justices
Monday, April 3, 7
Mathematical landscape
96883 dimensions: The Monster group is the largest sporadic simple group and this is the smallest number of dimensions it acts in. It is the largest finite sporadic group. The monster group is linked with continuous objects like the J-invariant and modular forms by the Monstrous moonshine conjecture. It is conjectured to be the symmetry group of the constraint polynomial in invariance mechanics.
56 dimensions: The number of dimensions (excluding space and time) to represent all the degrees of freedom from supergravity (8 bosons + 8 fermions), which is the same as the lowest order of superstring theory. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mathematical landscape". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Friday, April 7, 7
Post Ejaculatory Guilt Syndrome
The latin phrase post coitum omne animal triste est (after sexual intercourse every animal is sad) describes this phenomenon. It is usually attributed to Aristotle. The quote is sometimes appended with praeter mulierem gallumque meaning: except the woman and the rooster.
See also: The Frequency of Sexual Dysfunctions in Patients Attending a Sex Therapy Clinic in North India, Springer Netherlands 998 This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Post Ejaculatory Guilt Syndrome". Link may die if entry is finally removed.
Wednesday, April 5, 7
Dominoes on a chessboard puzzle
The mutilated chessboard problem is a famous puzzle introduced by Martin Gardner in his Scientific American column Mathematical Games. The problem is as follows: Suppose a standard 8x8 chessboard has two opposite corners removed, leaving 6 squares. Is it possible to place 3 dominoes of size x so as to cover all of these squares?
Solution: The puzzle is impossible. Any way you would place a domino would cover one white square and one black square. A group of 3 dominoes would cover 3 white and 3 black squares of a chessboard, leaving one white and one black square uncovered. The directions had you remove opposite corner squares, and such squares are always either both black or both white.
References: McCarthy, John (999). "Creative Solutions to Problems". AISB Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity. Retrieved on 7-4-7. See also: Domino tiling, My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles By Martin. Gardner, Dominoes on a Checker Board by Jim Loy,
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Sunday, April , 7
Best romance movies of all time
Ranked by critical review score, based on a four out of four scoring system.
- Singin' in the Rain (95) starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. Scores 3.9 of 4 and 3rd in best of all time.
- Casablanca (94) starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Scores 3.9 of 4 and 5th in best movie of all time list.
- Gone with the Wind (939) starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Scores 3.85 and 4th overall.
- Annie Hall (977) starring Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. Scores 3.6 and 43rd overall.
- Notorious (946) starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Scores 3.57 and 55th overall.
- Rebecca (94) starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. Scores 3.57 and 56th on the best of all time list.
- The Philadelphia Story (94) starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. Scores 3.5 and lands 64th overall.
- Titanic (997) starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Scores 3.5 of 4 and 7nd overall.
- Shakespeare in Love (998) starring Joseph Fiennes and Geoffrey Rush. Scores 3.45 of 4 and 86th overall.
- Before Sunrise (995) starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Scores 3.4 and 89th overall. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Best romance movies of all time". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Thursday, April 9, 7
Cable spaghetti
Cable spaghetti for the home user is caused by the growing number of interconnected devices used in entertainment and computer systems. Whereas a record player and cassette deck were likely the only two components found up to the 98s, today's systems can have an amplifier (or several if a preamplifier and power amplifier are used, and yet more for a passive subwoofer, a Tactile transducer or alternative transducer), television, CD player, SA-CD player, Laser Disc player, RF demodulator, VCR, DVD player, Blu-Ray disc or HD-DVD player, personal video recorder, cable or satellite tuner, video game console, and computer all connected in the same system. Cable clutter can even cause problems with audio and visual quality due to electromagnetic interference with other cables.
Cable spaghetti can be reduced or even eliminated with a properly designed and used cable management system. However, due to the nature of the work being a time consuming trial-and-error process, few users bother or attempt it. In the context of neatly building computers, the art is known as cablegami. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Cable spaghetti". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Monday, April 6, 7
Lists of unsolved problems
Unsolved problems in biology Unsolved problems in chemistry Unsolved problems in cognitive science Unsolved problems in computer science Unsolved problems in economics Unsolved problems in Egyptology
Unsolved problems in linguistics Unsolved problems in mathematics
Unsolved problems in medicine Unsolved problems in neuroscience
Unsolved problems in philosophy Unsolved problems in physics
See also: Open problem; Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential; Union of International Associations' list of unsolved problems.
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Wednesday, April , 7
Dead-Eye Syndrome
Dead-eye syndrome is a condition in computer generated films where the human characters appear artificial and creates a doll-like feeling to the characters, sometimes projecting there is no humanity in their eyes. This problem typically arises with computer generated characters made using motion capture technology. Since so much of human expressivity is determined by eye and eyelid movement, and since motion capture is unable to capture such subtle gradations, computer characters' eyes seem fixed and dilated, giving the feeling that the characters, though in motion, are dead.
Though it was not the first film to use motion capture technology, The Polar Express is generally regarded as the first film where the dead-eye syndrome was most noticeable and most distracting.
Notes: ^ a b "Quint has your first look inside the offices of Robert Zemeckis' BEOWULF!!!", Ain't It Cool News (February 7, 6) by Eric Vespe;
Electrooculography; Uncanny Valley; Beowulf (7 film); The Polar Express (film); Electroretinography. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Dead-eye_syndrome". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Sunday, April 8, 7
Anna Clifford
Anna Clifford was born in Memphis Tennessee on March th 98. She has daughters named Mckinzey (born 9-7-3) and Raven (born 3--5). She is seperated from her husband Thomas Fletcher. When arrested for DUI on March th 7, she was sporting her 4 inch mohawk hairstyle. Her mugshot gained attention around the globe and became an internet sensation. Court TV, Drudge Report, The Smoking Gun and on countless other websites, news channels, and newspapers. The Commercial Appeal first published an article about her eye catching mugshot. She was interviewed on air by Memphis radio station Rock 3. She also was interviewed by Memphis news station Action News 5. She currently resides in the midtown district of Memphis. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Anna Clifford". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Thursday, April 5, 7
A Million Penguins
A Million Penguins is a collabrotive effort to write a novel. The web site through which the novel is being written uses a wiki for the authors to add their submissions. Due to the overwhelming number of edits, over every hour, Penguin has had to impose "reading windows" whereby they freeze the novel so that the more serious editors can read over what has been changed and thus get their bearings on where the story is going.
The novel soon became largely incoherent as many contributors strived to develop their own independent characters and story lines. In an attempt to control the chaos, several different versions of the novel were created. These include a choose your own adventure version, and a 'banana' version. The latter being formed when the editors grew tired of removing the recurring multitude of banana references.
Many collabrotive efforts are dedicated to writing software, scientific research, or amassing knowledge. Examples of these efforts are open source software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI%4Home, and Wikipedia. A Million Pengiuns is different in that the goal is one of art as opposed to science. Although Penguin put a lot of effort into advertising the wiki-novel, it quickly became a target for vandalism, which has led many of its early contributors to quit the project.
References: a wiki-novelty, The Million-Author Project, A Million Penguins Novel Official site. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "A Million Penguins". Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Monday, April , 7
List of famous smokers
This is a [parial] list of famous people, for whom smoking is clearly a recognised part of their public image, or who are known for some unusual aspect of smoking.
Pat Nixon - Was a closet cigarette smoker, a fact that came out shortly after her death. Lucille Ball - Her image was used to advertise Philip Morris cigarettes from the 95s until the 97s. Drew Barrymore of the famous Barrymore family smokes Marlboro Reds, about -3 packs a day. She started smoking cigarettes at age 9 /. David Bowie - Several photos--both on stage and publicity shots-- depict Bowie smoking. According to the biography Strange Fascination, he smoked both Gitane and Marlboro cigarettes. Quit in early s after a heart attack. Bette Davis - American film actress who was never without a cigarette. She starred in Now, Voyager (94), which has the famous scene in which Paul Henreid places two cigarettes in his mouth, lights them, and then passes one to Bette Davis. She died in 989 after a long battle with breast cancer and having suffered several strokes. Sammy Davis, Jr. - American singer/actor. Often seen smoking on stage and in interviews. Died of throat cancer in May 99 at age 64.
Walt Disney - His years of chain-smoking led to his death of lung cancer at age 65. George Harrison - Member of The Beatles who was famously seen smoking in the movies A Hard Days Night and Help!. His off-screen chain-smoking habit lead to his death from lung cancer in . Peter Jennings - Journalist and former anchor of ABC World News Tonight. Died of lung cancer in 5. Kate Moss - Model; smokes four packs of Marlboro Lights per day and has been smoking cigarettes since the age of . This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "List of famous smokers". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Friday, March 3, 7
List of people who went to heaven alive
The concept of humans directly entering heaven without dying is a feature of multiple religions and mythic traditions, including the three main Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Since death is generally considered the normal end to an individual's life on earth, entering heaven without dying first is considered exceptional and usually a sign of God's special recognition of the individual's piety.
According to the Jewish Midrash, nine people went to heaven (also referred to as the Garden of Eden and Paradise) alive. Elijah the Prophet "went up by a whirlwind into heaven" (Kings II Chapter , Verse ). Serach, the daughter of Asher - one of the sons of Jacob (Midrash Yalkut Shimoni (Yechezkel 367)). Enoch went to heaven alive (Genesis 5:-4). This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "List of people who went to heaven alive". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Tuesday, March 7, 7
The Bikini Carwash Company
The Bikini Carwash Company is a movie that was directed by Ed Hansen and released in 99. It featured Joe Dusic, Kristi Ducati, and Ricki Brando.
In the film, a group of young women decide to help out a local carwash by wearing bikinis while they wash the customers' cars. This succeeds in attracting more customers, more money, and more attention from the police, who are not amused by the scantily-dressed employees! The sequel, The Bikini Carwash Company II, was released in 993. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "The Bikini Carwash Company". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Saturday, March 4, 7
Benzedrine in popular culture
Benzedrine is the trade name of the racemic variant of amphetamine (dl-amphetamine). It was marketed under this brandname in the USA by Smith, Kline and French in the form of inhalers, starting in 98. Benzedrine was used to enlarge nasal and bronchial passages and it is closely related to other stimulants produced later, such as Dexedrine (d-amphetamine) and methamphetamine.
References in popular culture: This drug was very popular with the beat generation and its influence can be seen in the literature and biographies of William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Also, a famous user was the prolific mathematician Paul Erdős, who spent much of his restless life on psychostimulants. An article of November 987, published in the Atlantic Monthly profiled Erdős and discussed his Benzedrine habit. Erdős said to writer Paul Hoffman that he had liked the article "...except for one thing...You shouldn't have mentioned the stuff about Benzedrine. It's not that you got it wrong. It's just that I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics to think that they have to take drugs to succeed."
Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson claims that many of the songs on his album Smile were written while the lyricist Van Dyke Parks was under the influence of Benzedrine. The Beatles have said that in their early days in Hamburg, Germany, they used Benzedrine quite often in order to play several concerts a night without getting sleepy. Benzedrine was given to Judy Garland at a young age to help with her weight. She became dependent on the drug for the rest of her life. Benzedrine is the preferred drug of choice amongst the flawed characters which make up the noir fiction of James Ellroy, who himself has confessed a past addiction to the drug. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Benzedrine in popular culture". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Thursday, March , 7
List of people with fear of flying
A list of famous people who suffer or have suffered from Aviophobia, the fear of flying in an aeroplane or helicopter.
Real people: Isaac Asimov, Dennis Bergkamp, Kate Bush, Gene Clark, Elisha Cuthbert, Doris Day, Brandon DiCamillo, Aretha Franklin, Jackie Jensen, Tony Kornheiser, Stanley Kubrick, Kim Jong-Il, Matthew Sweet, John Madden
Fictional characters: Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas: Charles Grodin's character in Midnight Run. He claims to have this phobia, among others.
B. A. Baracus of the TV series The A-Team. He is often drugged or otherwise knocked out by his friends so that they can get him onto a plane.
Adrian Monk from the TV series Monk. He did achieve getting on a plane by the end of the first season however. Carla Tortelli from the TV series Cheers. John Doe from the TV series John Doe. Raymond Babbitt in the 988 film Rain Man. An autistic man who refuses to fly on any airline for fear of it crashing--except Qantas, which he claims has never had a crash.
Alex Browning from the film Final Destination. Wendell Urth, a housebound detective created by, and sharing his fears with, Isaac Asimov. Jack Ryan, protagonist of most novels by Tom Clancy. Marge Simpson , although she later overcame her fear of flying, before being involved in a minor air crash. (Episode F8, "Fear of Flying") Maris Crane, of Frasier, due to a bad experience of being "bumped" from first class. Father Ted from the TV series Father Ted. Tyler from the 6 movie Snakes on a Plane. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "List of people with fear of flying". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Monday, March 9, 7
Twinkies in popular culture
The Twinkie snack food cake, ubiquitous in the United States, has made many appearances in modern media. Some examples include:
- Twinkies are the popular Over the Hedge comic book character, R.J's favorite food to eat.
- The Twinkies is a popular and often-used nickname for the Minnesota Twins baseball team.
- A Twinkie is used by Egon Spengler in the first Ghostbusters movie, to illustrate the severity of ghostly activity in New York City: "Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning's reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds."
"That's a big Twinkie."
Urban Legend: An urban legend holds that twinkies are chemically synthesized and require no baking. As a result, they supposedly have a nearly limitless shelf-life and could potentially "survive a nuclear war" (like cockroaches). Freshness is guaranteed only for about 5 days, leading some urban myth experts to believe it is false. They do last longer than most other baked goods due to the fact that the filling is not actually dairy. However, some science teachers have kept Twinkies since 998 which show no signs of deterioration.This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Twinkies in popular culture". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Saturday, March 7, 7
/4 + /6 + /64 + /56 + · · ·
In mathematics, the infinite series /4 + /6 + /64 + /56 + ... is an example of one of the first infinite series to be summed in the history of mathematics; it was used by Archimedes circa 5- BC. Its sum is /3.
References: Shawyer, Bruce and Bruce Watson (994). Borel's Methods of Summability: Theory and Applications. Oxford UP. ISBN -9-853585-6., Stein, Sherman K. (999). Archimedes: What Did He Do Besides Cry Eureka?. MAA. ISBN 88385789, Ajose, Sunday and Roger Nelsen (June 994). "Proof without Words: Geometric Series". Mathematics Magazine 67 (3): 3, Mabry, Rick (February 999). "Proof without Words: ⁄4 + (⁄4) + (⁄4)3 + · · · = ⁄3". Mathematics Magazine 7 (): 63; Text of Quadrature of the Parabola with commentary. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "/4 + /6 + /64 + /56 + · · ·". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Wednesday, March 4, 7
Danielle Rousseau
Danielle Rousseau, often referred to as "the French woman", is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Mira Furlan. She is a recurring on-island character who has appeared periodically throughout seasons one through three. She has lived on the island for 6 years, crash landed with her science team while investigating a mysterious signal they picked up at sea.
At the time, of the crash, Rousseau was pregnant, and gave birth to a baby girl she named Alex, but she was abducted by the Others soon after. The rest of her team died in an area she referred to as "the dark territory," including Montand, who lost his arm, and Robert, her lover whom she killed because he had "the sickness." She changed the radio tower's signal from repeating the Numbers (4 8 5 6 3 4) to a distress signal that the survivors heard in "Pilot (Part )." This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Danielle Rousseau". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Sunday, March , 7
TV Guide's 5 Greatest TV Shows of All Time
The 5 Greatest TV Shows of All Time is a list of American TV series compiled by TV Guide as a cover story for the week of May 4, . At the time, TV Guide billed the list as a perspective of the most "influential" television programs in American history. Here is a [truncated] list:
. Saturday Night Live (NBC, 975— )
9. The Andy Griffith Show (CBS, 96–968)
8. The Simpsons (Fox, 989— )
7. The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 993— )
6. 6 Minutes (CBS, 968— )
5. The Sopranos (HBO, 999–7)
4. All in the Family (CBS, 97–979)
3. The Honeymooners (CBS, 955–956)
. I Love Lucy (CBS, 95–957)
. Seinfeld (NBC, 989–998)
Friday, March 9, 7
Nudity in Judaism
In Judaism and in Jewish communities, men and women use ritual baths called mikvahs for a variety of reasons, mostly religious in the present day. Immersion in a mikvah requires that water covers the entire body (including the entire head). To make sure that water literally touches every part of the body, all clothing, jewelry and even bandages must be removed. In contemporary mikvahs for women, there is always an experienced attendant, commonly called the "mikvah lady", to watch the immersion and ensure that the women have been entirely covered in water.
At the same time, religious Jews are very protective about their naked body. Under the laws of tznius (modesty), both men and women cannot reveal the body parts considered to have sexual connotation (including upper arms, collarbones, legs, and -- for married women and all men -- hair, which is covered completely or partially). It is postulated in the Shulchan Aruch (the Code of Law) that one must uncover as little body as possible when in the toilet room and even when changing before sleep (trousers are often taken off and exchanged for the pijamas under the covers). By Jewish law, no clothes or jewelry at all can be present during sex; at the same time, it must be done completely under covers, and in complete darkness. This ensures maximum acuteness of the sensation experienced during sex and also decreases the risk of self-awareness and shame about one's body.
See also: Social nudity, Nudity in religion, Social nudity and Christianity, History of nudity, Israeli Naturist Society, Israel's first Naturism Portal, Israel Naturist Home Page, Religious Tolerance: Nudity as mentioned in the Bible. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Nudity in Judaism". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Tuesday, March 6, 7
Zenzizenzizenzic
Zenzizenzizenzic is the eighth power or exponent of a number. For example the zenzizenzizenzic of is 56. It was suggested by Robert Recorde, a 6th century Welsh writer of popular mathematics textbooks, in The Whetstone of Witte, published in 557, although his spelling was zenzizenzizenzike. It is obsolete except as a curiosity; the Oxford English Dictionary has only one citation for it. It survives as an historical oddity.
The root word is the German zenzic from the Italian censo, meaning "squared."
It dates from a time when there was no easy way of denoting the powers of numbers except as squares and cubes. The fourth power was represented by the square of a square, zenzizenzic, which is a condensed form of the Italian censo di censo, used by Leonardo of Pisa in his famous book Liber Abaci of . The eighth power is by extension zenzizenzizenzic. Similarly the sixth power would be zenzicube, the square of a cube. Zenzizenzizenzic has more Z's than any other known word in the English language. Reference: Entry at Weird Words. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Zenzizenzizenzic". Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Sunday, March 4, 7
List of Mother Pornstars
List of mother porn stars who are married or not married or divorced or dead [partial list]:
Aja: (two children); Alana Evans: divorced ( child) ; Alexis Fire: ( children); Alicia Rhodes; Alison Kilgore (Allison Kilgore): (girl 5 years and son years on 6); Angel Dark (Esmerelda, Esmeralda, Angel, Viktoria, Dark Angel, Pauline, Paulin): a son; Angel Kelly: (Have children); Angela D'Angelo: (her daughter is pornstar: Ice D'Angelo aka Ice LaFox); Angelica; Angelica Sin; Anna Nova; Annette Haven; April Flowers (Aprik, April Summers, April Rain, April): ( kid); Ariana: married (one son born 987); Asia Carrera: married ( daughter); Autumn Haze: (3 children). This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "List of Mother Pornstars". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Thursday, March , 7
Brain in a Vat
In philosophy, the brain in a vat is any of a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain features of our ideas of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, and meaning. It is drawn from the idea, common to many science fiction stories, that a mad scientist might remove a person's brain from the body, suspend it in a vat of life-sustaining liquid, and connect its neurons by wires to a supercomputer which would provide it with electrical impulses identical to those the brain normally receives. According to such stories, the computer would then be simulating a virtual reality (including appropriate responses to the brain's own output) and the person with the "disembodied" brain would continue to have perfectly normal conscious experiences without these being related to objects or events in the real world.
The simplest use of brain-in-a-vat scenarios is as an argument for philosophical skepticism and Solipsism. A simple version of this runs as follows: Since the brain in a vat gives and receives the exact same impulses as it would if it were in a skull, and since these are its only way of interacting with its environment, then it is not possible to tell, from the perspective of that brain, whether it is in a skull or a vat. Yet in the first case most of the person's beliefs may be true (if he believes, say, that he is walking down the street, or eating ice-cream); in the latter case they are false. Since, the argument says, you cannot know whether you are a brain in a vat, then you cannot know whether most of your beliefs might be completely false. Since, in principle, it is impossible to rule out your being a brain in a vat, you cannot have good grounds for believing any of the things you believe; you certainly cannot know them. -- This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Brain in a Vat". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Tuesday, February 7, 7
Year , problem
The year , problem or YK is the collective name for all potential software bugs that may emerge as the need to express years with five digits arises. References to any year , or YK problem cannot at face value be taken to be serious or in jest as there are both legitimate reasons to plan for far in the future dates as well as a number of humorous references.
Practical relevance: This may not be a problem in the year ,, as it is highly unlikely that any of the technology or software in use today will still be active at that time. However, it is already a problem today for long term analysis programs, such as software that examines proposals for the long term handling of nuclear waste. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Year , problem". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Sunday, February 5, 7
List of films featuring independent body parts
This is a list of films featuring independent body parts.
Arms: Body Parts (99); Dr. Strangelove (964) - While not physically independent, Dr. Strangelove's right arm has a mind of its own, and actually attempts to strangle him;
Brains: Brain Damage (988) ; The Brain from Planet Arous (957) ; Donovan's Brain (953) ; Hubert's Brain () ; The Man with Two Brains (983) ; They Saved Hitler's Brain (968) ;
Breasts: Attack of the Hungry Hungry Nipples (997) ; Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (97)
Eyes: The Killer Eye (999); The Trollenberg Terror (958) a.k.a. "The Crawling Eye";
Hands: The Addams Family (99) "Thing", family pet hand; The Beast with Five Fingers (947) ; The Crawling Hand (963) ; Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (965) ; Demonoid (98) ; Evil Dead (987) ; Frankenstein Conquers the World (965) ; The Hand (98) directed by Oliver Stone; Idle Hands (999) ; The Hands of Orlac (96) ; Mad Love (935) a.k.a. The Hands of Orlac ; La Main du diable (The Devil's Hand) (94) ; Quicksilver Highway(The Body politic) (997) ; Thumb Wars (999) ; Waxwork (988) ; Waxwork II: Lost in Time (99) ; Wes Craven's New Nightmare (994) a.k.a. A Nightmare on Elm Street 7
Heads: The Brain That Wouldn't Die (96) ; The Doom Generation (995); 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (997) ; The Evil Dead (98) ; Evil Dead (987); How to Get Ahead in Advertising (989) ; Mars Attacks! (996) ; Re-Animator (985) ; The Thing That Couldn't Die (958)
Teeth: Quicksilver Highway (997)-Chattery Teeth
Tongues: La Lengua asesina (The Killer Tongue) (996). This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "List of films featuring independent body parts". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Thursday, February , 7
Youtube Atheists
YouTube atheism is a social movement within the YouTube community, made famous by users uploading videos of themselves denying the Holy Spirit. See main article, Rational Response Squad for information on the Blasphemy Challenge.
YouTube atheists became extremely popular in early 7. YouTube is well established for providing the medium for internet-based social groups to interact. In December of 6, one such atheist group, the Rational Response Squad, with director and filmmaker Brian Flemming, started the Blasphemy Challenge. This event dramatically increased the number of vocal and visible atheists. Acting as a catalyst for atheists so start talking about atheism and whom became aware of each other on YouTube which allowed the sub-community to grow substantially.
Atheist and personality Nick Gisburne had his accounts deleted on February 8, 7 for inappropriate content. The inappropriate content in question was critical of Islam. The video was a slideshow of explicit quotations from the Qur'an, which some may see as offensive. This led users to question the motivation behind YouTube's decision. This lead to increased visibility and numerous people re-posting his original video in the form of replies and others have sent letters to Youtube. YouTube retroactively changed the reason for the banning to copyright infringement on the grounds that he posted a video with copyrighted music. Claiming to be required to do so under the DMCA.
References: ^ Two Ways Not To Handle Free Speech on slashdot.org accessed at February , 7; ^ The YouTube user xild reading her letter to YouTube; ^ Click on more in the sidebar to the right to see the full text of one such letter; ^ Nick Gisburne's personal homepage showing screen shots of correspondence with YouTube; ^ A Note on Terminated Accounts on YouTube official blog accessed at February , 7; ^ Nick Gisburne's personal homepage accessed at February , 7; ^ YouTube Search on "gisburne" accessed at February , 7; ^ Interview with the Creator of the YouTube Atheist Video on Secular Student Alliance accessed at February , 7; 'YouTube Atheists' group on YouTube. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Youtube atheists". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Monday, February 9, 7
Cathy O'Brien
Cathy O'Brien (957-) is the co-author, with Mark Phillips, of the self-published books "TranceFormation of America and Access Denied: For Reasons of National Security." In her books and lectures, O'Brien relates allegations that, as a child, she was abducted into an alleged CIA mind control project called Project Monarch (supposedly a subsection of MKULTRA and Project Artichoke). She claims to have remained in Monarch as an adult, while she served as "a top-level intelligence agent and White House sex slave"[] until rescued by Phillips.
O'Brien claims to have been abused since she was a toddler. Forced to partake in satanic sadomasochistic child pornography movies produced for Gerald Ford, she was eventually sold to the CIA, which was looking for traumatized children for their mind-control program
References: "Trance Formation of America". Trance-Formation.com - Cathy O'Brien's website; portland indymedia - Excerpts from TranceFormation; Mark Phillips / Cathy O'Brien speech (video) (transcript);
http://www.everything.com/index.pl?node_id=49344 ; TranceFormation of America: The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave. (September 995) ISBN -96665-4-8 ; Access Denied: For Reasons of National Security (August 4) ISBN -96665-3-X. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Cathy O'Brien". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Saturday, February 7, 7
List of literary characters with nine fingers
This is a list of literary characters with nine fingers, assuming for the sake of argument and simplicity that a thumb is a finger.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Alphabetically by title.
- Assassin's Creed: Altaïr the main protagonist had his finger removed as a part of a dramatic initiation ceremony to install a concealed mechanical dagger attached to his left arm, in place of one of his fingers.
- The Big Sky (film): Jim Deakins, frontiersman hero of has a finger amputated. - Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (novel series): Peter Pettigrew, friend of James Potter (Harry Potter's father), cut off a finger to fake his death and frame Sirius Black for murder. - The Lord of the Rings (novel series), by J.R.R. Tolkien: Frodo Baggins had one finger bitten off by Gollum and was known thereafter as "Frodo of the Nine Fingers." Sauron, from The Lord of the Rings, had his ring finger cut off by Isildur. - The Legend of the Condor Heroes (novel) by Jinyong: Hong Qigong(洪七公), the legendary leader of the Beggars' Sect (丐帮). Though a hero by nature and deed, Hong once let his love of food get the better of him and delay him from saving the life of a righteous man. As per the Chinese lore that the index finger is connected to the appetite, Hong cut off his right index finger as a reminder to himself to never again let food take precedence over doing good. - Mars Trilogy (novel series), by Kim Stanley Robinson: Nadia Cherneschevsky, the constructions engineer of loses her finger in a construction accident. Later in the trilogy, medicine has advanced to the point where she grows it back. - "Me, Myself and Irene" (film): Charley Baileygates (played by Jim Carrey) gets his finger shot off with a handgun.
- A Prayer for Owen Meany (novel) by John Irving: The narrator had his right index finger cut off by his best friend in an effort to prevent the narrator from being drafted during the Vietnam War. - Remnants (novel): Violet Blake had a Worm eat through her right index finger. - Rosie and the Dance of the Dinosaurs: the main character Rosie. This is a children's book about a child with nine fingers. - The Royal Tenenbaums (film): Margot Tenenbaum (played by Gwyneth Paltrow), the brilliant playwright of ran away from home for two weeks and came back with half of one of her fingers missing.
- South by Southeast (novel): Charon, the assassin and antagonist, has only nine fingers. - SubUrbia(play and film) by Eric Bogosian: Tim cut off one finger in order to be discharged from the US Air Force. - The Wayward Bus (novel) by John Steinbeck: Juan Chicoy, the main character and driver of the bus is missing the first knuckle of one finger. - Winter Kills (film): In the deeply complicated plot of this 987 film a woman named Evelyn is murdered by a hit man. To prove she is dead, he cuts off one of her fingers.- Xanth (novel series) by Piers Anthony: Bink, the main character, accidentally cut off his middle finger as a child, while playing with a cleaver. - Phoenix and Ashes (novel) by Mercedes Lackey: The main character, Eleanor Robinson, has her left pinky finger cut off. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "List of literary characters with nine fingers". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Thursday, February 5, 7
Andromeda-Milky Way collision
The Andromeda-Milky Way collision is a galaxy collision theory proposed by astronomers at the University of Toronto and Harvard University. In an article in the New Scientist, astronomers with the joint project have predicted that the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy will merge in what is called a "collision" in approximately three billion years. It is however unlikely that objects from each galaxy will actually collide, as galaxies are in fact somewhat diffuse. If the theory is correct, Andromeda bands and stars will be visible to a naked-eye viewer (if one exists on Earth at the time) in approximately three billion years.[] Other scientists have however estimated that the collision may not occur for ten billion years.
The two galaxies have a similar history of origin, although they have evolved differently []. Andromeda is believed to have collided with at least one other galaxy in the past.[3].
Notes: ^ Young, Kelly. "Galactic collision — a taste of things to come?", New Scientist, 6-8-6. ^ "Milky Way, Andromeda had similar origins" MSNBC 8: p.m. PT Feb 8, 6; ^ "Andromeda involved in galactic collision" MSNBC :38 a.m. PT Jan 9, 7
Bibliography: The Merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies University of Toronto (website), John Dubinski, January (includes simulation); "Milky Way–Andromeda Galaxy Collision", Haydenplanetarium.org, John Dubinski (University of Toronto); "Milky Way, Andromeda had similar origins" MSNBC 8: p.m. PT Feb 8, 6
"Andromeda involved in galactic collision" MSNBC :38 a.m. PT Jan 9, 7; "Astrophysicist maps out our own galaxy's end"University of Toronto (website), by Janet Wong, April 4, ; "Crash Course: Simulating the Fate of Our Milky Way" By Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Staff Writer, posted: 7: am ET 7 May ; "Milky Way vs. Andromeda" NASA (website)
"Busted! Astronomers Nab Culprit in Galactic Hit-and-Run" Harvard University (website) Press Release No.: 6-8, October 8, 6; This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Andromeda-Milky Way collision". Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Tuesday, February 3, 7
Chlorophilia
Chlorophilia (Greek: chloros pale green + philia love) is a physical or sexual attraction to plants, particularly trees. The term was coined by journalist Bill Hoss in 4 to describe scientists who take on an attraction towards Bonsai trees.
Overview: Although Chlorophilia is practiced little in the world, Chlorophilia is sometimes attributed to activities like tree-hugging, or an over-the-top interest in Gardening. There are no laws that ban Chlorophilia in any country in the world.
Chlorophilia in fiction: In the final episode of Blackadder the Third, King George arrives and arranges a marriage to a Rose bush. DC Comics have implied Chlorophilia through their characters Poison Ivy and Floronic Man, both of whom have an absolute passion for flowers and plants.
External links: Bill Hoss - The origin of the term Chlorophilia; Exploratorium - Article about attractions to Bonsai trees. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Chlorophilia". Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Sunday, February , 7
Dead Playboy Playmates
This is an alphabetical list of women who have appeared in the centerfold of Playboy magazine and are now deceased. [For brevity, list is truncated.]
Lannie Balcom - drug overdose; Elisa Bridges - drug overdose; Cheryl Kubert - possible suicide; Willy Rey - drug overdose; Dorothy Stratten - homicide; Star Stowe - homicide; Sue Williams - suicide; Paige Young - drug overdose.
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Thursday, February 8, 7
List of Homer Simpson's lifelong dreams
The following is a list of lifelong dreams by Homer Simpson as reported in The Simpsons TV series. Homer is a man of many lifelong dreams which he frequently quotes during the series. Each dream is different from his previous dream, and his wife, Marge, points out every time he makes up a new one that his actual life long dream, which also varies from episode to episode, was already accomplished by him.
His lifelong dreams include (partial list):
- Managing a beautiful country-western singer ("Colonel Homer")
- Eating the world's biggest hoagie ("Colonel Homer")
- Living in the wilderness, while keeping a journal of his thoughts ("Marge Gets a Job")
- Becoming a monorail conductor ("Marge vs. the Monorail")
- Being allowed to do his job from home ("King-Size Homer")
- Being the next Thomas Edison ("The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"; ironically fulfilled when his electric hammer is credited to Edison)
- Becoming a hippie ("D'oh-in in the Wind")
- Bowling a perfect game ("Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder")
- Seeing Stevie Nicks naked ("Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"; his list of life goals has three check marks next to this one)
A magnet licensed by Fox and produced in 3 by U.S. novelty company Ata-Boy features Homer saying, "It's been my life long dream to appear on a refrigerator."
Bibliography: The Simpsons Library of Wisdom: The Homer Book, Harper Collin; The Simpsons Archive; This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "List of Homer Simpson's lifelong dreams". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Monday, February 5, 7
Use Of Thumbtacks In Professional Wrestling
Thumbtacks are a popular weapon in hardcore professional wrestling promotions, mainly due to the fact that they get a good crowd reaction and do not inflict excessive pain. A common misconception is that the thumbtacks and other weapons such as barbed wire are fake when used in professional wrestling. While this may be the case in some promotions, in others it is usually false especially when discussing the use of the thumbtacks. Although a large amount of them will probably cause a fair amount of physical pain, especially when being slammed onto them, it does not pose any serious threat to the performers and therefore it is safe to say that real thumbtacks are always used.
In TNA, Abyss uses thumbtacks as his signature weapon, and accidentally swallowed one at Bound for Glory 6 during his Monster's Ball match with Raven, Samoa Joe, and Brother Runt.
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Saturday, February 3, 7
Rabbi Emmanuel Rabinovich
Rabbi Emmanuel Rabinovich is a non-existent figure commonly cited in antisemitic propaganda. One such fake is a supposed speech by "Rabbi Rabinovich" entitled Our Race Will Rule Undisputed Over The World to the "Emergency Council of European Rabbis" in Budapest, Hungary on January , 95. This forgery is taken as a "proof" of a Jewish plot against the whites in much the same way as another hoax, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, invoked in the Rabinovich speech, is used as "proof" of Jewish global conspiracy. The speech appeared in the early 95s right-wing newsletter, Common Sense, (A Newspaper Upholding Christianity and Patriotism) published by Conde McGinley. The paper ran an alleged quote by Nikita Khrushchev that could be spurious: when questioned, the editor could not produce a source.
References: They never said it by P.F. Boller and J. George, Oxford University Press, 989. See also: List of hoaxes, A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, Shiliver Rebbe. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Rabbi Emmanuel Rabinovich". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Thursday, February , 7
Meatspace
Meatspace is synonymous with real life or the physical world, and conceived as the opposite of cyberspace or virtual reality. The term originated in science fiction, especially cyberpunk, but it has become increasingly common in general usage, as a reference to transactions or interactions which physically occur, rather than online or electronically. The term may be used in a derogatory manner as a conscious rejection of the connotations of the term "real life" and the implication that interactions in cyberspace are less real or important than physical interactions.
See also: meatspace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary; Face time,
Face to Face, Off-line, Reality, Brick and mortar. External links:
Meatspace from the Jargon File.
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Tuesday, January 3, 7
Omega Point (Tipler)
The Omega Point is a term used by Tulane University professor of mathematics and physics Frank J. Tipler to describe a hypothetical cosmological scenario in the far future of the Universe. According to the omega point theory, as the Universe comes to an end in a Big Crunch, the computational capacity of the Universe is capable of increasing at a sufficient rate that this computation rate is accelerating exponentially faster than time runs out. In principle, a simulation run on this Universe-computer can thus continue forever in its own terms, even though the external Universe lasts only a finite time. This theory assumes that certain cosmological variables prove that the universe will eventually contract, and that there will be intelligent civilizations in existence at the appropriate time to exploit the computational capacity of such an environment.
Tipler identifies this asymptotic state of infinite information capacity with God. The implication of this theory for present-day humans is that this ultimate cosmic computer will essentially be able to resurrect everyone who has ever lived, by recreating all possible quantum brain states within the master simulation. This would manifest as a simulated reality, except without the necessity for physical bodies in "reality". From the perspective of the inhabitant, the Omega Point represents an infinite-duration afterlife, which could take any imaginable form due to its virtual nature.
See Also: Computational universe theory, David Deutsch, Simulated reality
References: Essays by Tipler on the Omega Point.
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Sunday, January 8, 7
List of articles on criticism in Wikipedia
Wikipedia has articles that criticize everything from certain religions to cartoons.
Business and Economics: Criticism of debt, Criticism of Wal-Mart, Criticisms of capitalism, Criticism of Microsoft
Media: Criticism of Family Guy, Criticism of George Lucas, Criticism of Pokémon, Criticisms of The Da Vinci Code
Computers, video games, and internet: Criticism of software engineering, Criticism of Internet Explorer, Criticisms of Mozilla Firefox, Criticism of Pokémon, Criticism of Wikipedia, Criticism of World of Warcraft, Criticisms of Windows XP
Politicians: Criticism of Hugo Chávez
Religion: Criticism of religion, Criticism of atheism, Criticism of Christianity, Criticism of Islam, Criticism of Judaism, Criticism of Hinduism, Criticism of the Bible, Criticism of Mormonism, Criticism of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Criticism of Pope John Paul II, Criticism of the Catholic Church,
Criticism of Prem Rawat, Criticism of Scientology
Politics: Criticism of libertarianism, Criticism of communism, Criticisms of socialism, Criticisms of electoralism, Criticism of Noam Chomsky
Society: Criticism of the clothes free movement,
Science: Criticisms of Anti-Scientific Viewpoints,
Current events: Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina,
Criticism of War on Terrorism, Criticism of the Iraq War, Criticisms of the 9/ Commission Report,
Friday, January 6, 7
Human Cheese
Human cheese is cheese produced from the breast milk of female humans. It has been proposed as a Vegan alternative to cheeses produced by other mammals, such as goats and cows. Economic issues: The production, labour costs, shipping, and other expenses involved in producing cheese from female humans would require the product to be sold at a relatively higher price than cheese produced by other mammals, at a rough estimate of U.S. dollars per pound ($44/kg). The very existence of human cheese is unknown.
There are currently no well-known documented cases of human cheese being produced. Human breast milk is on average 5% protein, which is a smaller concentration than that in both goat and cow cheese. Because protein is necessary for milk to curdle, the low percentage of protein in human milk may prevent curdling from occurring.
References: http://oxhouse.org/~brent/writing/human-cheese.txt, http://news.ufl.edu///3/breast-feed/, http://www.saanendoah.com/compare.html
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Wednesday, January 4, 7
Yechi
The phrase "Yechi Adoneinu Moreinu v'Rabbeinu Melech haMoshiach l'olam vo'ed!" is used by many Lubavitch Chassidic Jews to pray and proclaim that the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (9-994), is the awaited messiah as prophesied in the Hebrew Scriptures. It may be translated "(Long [shall]) Live our Master, our Teacher, and our Rabbi, the King Messiah, for ever and ever." Or "Our Master and Teacher King Moshiach (messiah) Shall Live Forever (and Ever)". The phrase can be seen printed in various settings, notably on pamphlets, posters and small prayer cards. It is chanted by many people at the end of daily communal prayers in Lubavitch congregations, including the main Lubavitch synagogue in Crown Heights, "77". Yechi has a complex and controversial history.
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Monday, January , 7
Zariski surface
In algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics, a Zariski surface is a surface over a field of characteristic p > such there is a dominant inseparable map of degree p from the projective plane to the surface. In particular, all Zariski surfaces are unirational. They were named after Oscar Zariski who used them in 958 to give examples of unirational surfaces in characteristic p > that are not rational. (In characteristic by contrast, Castelnuovo's theorem implies that all unirational surfaces are rational.) Zariski surfaces are birational to surfaces in affine 3-space A^3 defined by irreducible polynomials of the form
z^p = f(x, y).
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Saturday, January , 7
Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln
The sexuality of Abraham Lincoln is a topic of dispute. His relations with women were either problematic or distant, while those with a number of men were warm. Captain David Derickson was Lincoln's bodyguard and intimate companion between September 86 and April 863. They shared a bed during the absences of Lincoln's wife, until Derickson was promoted in 863 [6]. Derickson was twice married and fathered ten children, but whatever the exact level of intimacy of the relationship, it was definitely the subject of gossip. That their sleeping arrangements raised eyebrows at the time is indicated by the reaction of Elizabeth Woodbury Fox, the wife of Lincoln's naval aide. After hearing the rumor, she wrote in her diary for November 6, 86, "Tish says, Oh, there is a Bucktail soldier here devoted to the president, drives with him, and when Mrs. L is not home, sleeps with him. What stuff!
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Thursday, January 8, 7
List of notable moustaches in art and fiction
Moustaches have been used by artists to make characters distinctive as with Dick Dastardly or the video game character Mario. They have also been or to make a social or political point as with Marcel Duchamp's parody of the Mona Lisa which adds a goatee and moustache or the moustachioed self portraits of Frida Kahlo. At least one fictional moustache has been so notable that a whole style has been named after it, the Fu Manchu moustache.
List of moustaches in art and fiction: Gomez Addams of The Addams Family, Asterix, Obelix and most of the other Gauls in the comic strip Asterix, The Bad, actor Lee Van Cleef in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Beatles as Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Duchamp's parody of the Mona Lisa adds a goatee and moustache, Blake from the comic strip Blake and Mortimer, Borat, Captain Hook,
Clo-Clo from the Belgian comic strip Nero, The Daltons, the bandits from the comic strip Lucky Luke,
Dick Dastardly, Duncan from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Basil Fawlty in the tv-series Fawlty Towers, Self portraits of Frida Kahlo, Fu Manchu and the Fu Manchu moustache, Ned Flanders in The Simpsons, Gobelijn from the Belgian comic strip Jommeke, Harcourt Fenton Mudd in the Star Trek: TOS episodes "Mudd's Women" and "I, Mudd", Earl Hickey, the character from My Name Is Earl, his moustache is often a source of comedy on the show, Kabapu from Excel Saga, Kiekeboe, Belgian comic character, Jason King, the hedonistic, womanizing, trash novel writing dandy portrayed by actor Peter Wyngarde, The Laughing Cavalier, (64) , a famous painting by the Dutch Baroque artist Frans Hals, Laughing Cavalier, 64 by Frans Hals, Manuel in the tv-series Fawlty Towers,
Mario, a famous video game fictional character owned by Nintendo. Also, his brother Luigi and their arch-enemies Wario and Waluigi, Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon, Mirror Spock from Star Trek - Mirror, Mirror, Meneer Pheip from the Belgian comic strip Nero, Rich Uncle Pennybags the Monopoly guy, L.H.O.O.Q. copy of the Mona Lisa by Marcel Duchamp which shows her with a moustache, Pelinore in Walt Disney's The Sword in the Stone, Hercule Poirot, a character in books written by Agatha Christie, Ignatius J. Reilly, slovenly protagonist in John Kennedy Toole's New Orleans set novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, Det. Andy Sipowicz, main protagonist of NYPD Blue, Mike Stivic on All in the Family, Superdupont, mock superhero in a well-known comic book series, Thomson and Thompson in the comic strip The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé (see also Borduria, a fictional country with a moustache as national emblem, from the same series), Wimpey character in the Popeye cartoon series, famous for his sparse bristly moustache, Yosemite Sam from Looney Tunes, The Mustache Commander of StreetWars, V from V for Vendetta, Males of the Viltrumite species in the comic book Invincible. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "List of notable moustaches in art and fiction". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Tuesday, January 6, 7
Overlinking
Overlinking in a webpage or another hyperlinked text is the characteristic of having too many hyperlinks. It is characterised by:
- A large proportion of the words in each sentence being rendered as links.
- Links that have little information content, such as linking on specific years like 995, or unnecessary linking of common words used in the common way, for which which the reader can be expected to understand the word's full meaning in context, without any hyperlink help.
- A link for any single term is excessively repeated in the same article. "Excessive" is usually more than one link for the same term in a line or a paragraph, since in this case one or more duplicate links will almost certainly then appear needlessly on the viewer's screen. Remember, the purpose of links is to direct the reader to a new spot at the point(s) where the reader is most likely to take a temporary detour due to needing more information. Providing more link samples for the same word in a short space (as in the bad example of this paragraph) doesn't help much.
Overlinking is often due to writers who believe that the text is improved by any addition of links, and who seem to have a "regularization" obsession - that all words which are the same, should appear the same.
References: Dvorak, John C.. "Missing Links", PC Magazine, April . This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Overlinking". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Monday, January 5, 7
Nano Reef
A nano reef is a type of tiny Marine aquarium, a reef tank of less than gallons. The exact limit that distinguishes a nano reef from a regular reef is somewhat ill-defined (some claim that anything less than 4 gallons would qualify), but gallons seems to be the generally accepted limit.
Nano reefs have become quite popular in recent years among fish keeping hobbyists, primarily because of low costs, smaller size, and maintainability. The burgeoning interest in this niche of marine aquarium science has fostered several notable contributions ranging from specific consumer products such as specialized aquarium filters, compact high intensity lighting systems and smaller circulation pumps.
Pico reef: Another term gaining popularity is pico reef, which is used to refer to nano reef aquariums of three gallons or less. These tanks require even more dilligence with regard to water changes and attention to filtration because the small water volume provides little room for error. One must take care when stocking these tiny tanks because introducing too many inhabitants can easily overload the tank's ablility to process wastes.
References: "Setting Up a Nano Reef Tank" by Jeff Yeramian,
Catalina Water Company - Supplier of boxed seawater for marine aquariums, Nano-Reef.com - A source for nano reef aquarium information. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Nano Reef". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Saturday, January 3, 7
The Monty Hell Problem
The Monty Hell problem is a paradox in probability theory involving infinite sequences of actions. As described in a post in the usenet group rec.puzzles, the problem consists of choosing between two alternative strategies for banking your money while spending an eternity confined in Hell. The assumptions of the problem are that each day you are paid $ in ten $ bills, but must turn over $ each day to the Devil to pay for the heat. You are not allowed to handle your money yourself, but instead must choose one of two bankers:
- Monty, who puts each day's bills in a large sack, then chooses one of the bills from the sack uniformly at random (including bills from previous days) to give to the Devil.
- Marilyn, who carefully removes one bill from the stack of ten bills to give to the Devil, and then places the remaining nine bills in her sack.
The goal is to maximize your wealth at the end of your eternal confinement, which occurs on a hypothetical day ω (see Transfinite number), which occurs after all finitely-numbered days.
(The problem is sometimes stated such that Marilyn removes nine bills and only puts one in the sack. Here, for simplicity, they remove the same amount of money daily.)
The paradox: Let us start with the obvious explanation why it doesn't make any difference which banker you choose: after t days, both Monty and Marilyn have 9t dollars. Since these quantities both grow without limit, either will give you infinitely many dollars in the end. There is another explanation that favors Marilyn, and depends on the assumption that dollar bills have individual identities, rather than just being counters for total wealth. Once any particular dollar bill is placed in the sack, on each and every subsequent day, there is a chance that Monty will take that particular dollar bill out again and give it to the Devil. Since there are an infinite number of days thereafter, it would seem that the probability that this will happen eventually is, in fact, % (and this intuition is upheld by probability theory, as shown in the appendix). Therefore, each dollar bill that Monty put into the sack will eventually be taken out. None of them will be in the sack on day ω! Monty almost always leaves you with nothing, and you are better off with Marilyn. This is true even though at any finite time Monty and Marilyn have the same number of dollar bills in their sacks.
The paradox is the apparent contradiction between these two answers. The paradox is particularly painful because the obvious explanation requires very little mathematics, making the second answer look suspiciously complex.
Friday, January , 7
Wild Rose
WildRose is an independent Australian vocalist, song writer and actress. She is recognised for her unique cross of classic rock and classical piano, as well as her ability to cross genres in general. Her musical influences include Billy Joel, Tori Amos and Darren Hayes. WildRose is a self taught pianist and also writes teenage novels. At 6, WildRose left high school to pursue her musical career, and less than 6 months later, was signed to a recording contract with a local Perth producer. However, the contact was bogus and after months of nothing happening, Rose finally walked away from the contract, but was left with a massive financial debt to the family member who had invested in her. In late 5, an investor approached her, and with his financial support, WR along with two other people formed Eclipsical Creations Pty Ltd early 6.
References: WildRose - Official Site, WildRose Official Myspace - Official Myspace [http://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/archive/6/69.htm RAGE Playlist - Video Release PlayList, [http://www.eclipsicalcreations.com/ Eclipsical Creations Company Website - Official Site, [http://www.matchboxrecordings.co.uk/ Matchbox Recordings - Matchbox Recordings, [http://www.isonliveradio.com/ Ison Live Radio
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Wednesday, January , 7
Loudest Band in the World
Which band is the loudest band in the world is a subject of some dispute in musical circles. Many bands have claimed to be the loudest, measuring this in various ways including with decibel meters at concerts and by engineering analysis of the compact discs on which their albums are published. Ashare attributes this competition to a notion that "loudness equals greatness", a notion that he states to be clearly false.
This notion pervades rock music, however, to the extent that it has been satirized. In the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap Nigel Tufnel states that Spinal Tap "is one louder" than all other bands because the knobs on the band's amplifiers are calibrated up to , instead of up to . Ironically, as a consequence of this real bands and musicians started buying equipment whose knobs went up to , or even higher, with Eddie Van Halen reputedly being the first to do so.
The Who was once listed as the record holder, at 6 decibels, measured at a distance of 3 metres from the speakers at a concert at Fillmore East on 976-5-3. Other previous record holders include Deep Purple (7 decibels), The Rolling Stones (which replaced Deep Purple), and KISS. Metallica has styled itself the "loudest band in the world". However, after one concert on 997--, which the band dubbed the "Million Decibel March", the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that "neighbours who [had] feared the worst from the self-styled Loudest Band in the World complained more about the sound from the news choppers circling overhead".
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Tuesday, January 9, 7
Prairie Muffins
Prairie Muffins is a term used by some conservative evangelical Christians in the United States to refer to married women who choose to pursue what they hold as the biblical role of women as quiet homemakers who protect the innocence of their children. The idea is taken from the New Testament passage in Titus :4-5:
Admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. NKJV
The origin of the term stems from an incident when R.C. Sproul, Jr. in a good-natured, joking, and in-passing manner referred to his wife as a "Prairie Muffin." The term is proudly worn by those who self-define as such, although people who see the term and its lifestyle as form of patriarchy may use it as a pejorative. The husbands of those who self-define as Prairie Muffins sometimes refer to themselves as "Prairie Dawgs". Prairie Muffin women are likely to be Quiverfull, homeschoolers, and to live in a rural area.
See also: Patriarchy, Quiverfull
References: Are you a Prairie Muffin?, Prairie Muffin Update: So Called "Biblical Patriarchy" on the Rise, The Prairie Muffin Manifesto by Carmon Friedrich, The Prairie Muffin Quiz. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Prairie Muffins". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Sunday, January 7, 7
Bio Art
Bio art is one of the most recent developments of contemporary art; it takes biotechnologies as a medium. Transgenics, tissue culture, morphologic modifications, are some of the many techniques those artists use, posing technological, ethical and social questions.
Those experimentations may involve the artist's own body (implants, skin culture, animal blood transfusion), and often embody traditional fears and hopes linked to the technology.... While Bio art can be said to have several originators, Eduardo Kac is considered by many as the emblematic bio artist and a leading figure in the field. He is best know for his living work, the rabbit Alba, and for his "Genesis". Kac originally introduced the term "bio art" in relation to his work "Time Capsule", in 997. Another fundamental name is George Gessert, who started to hybridize and create new flowers already in the early 98s. Joe Davis is also a bio artist whose recent works include the Microvenus, where the artist embedded messages into a bacterial genome. His Audio Microscope was able to translate light into sound and this allowed you to hear living cells to reflect on their unique acoustic signatures. SymbioticA is a group founded by Oron Catts and Ionatt Zurr and located at the University of Western Australia in The School of Anatomy & Human Biology. They use living tissue as a sculptural form while engaging the ethical issues surrounding this often controversial art form.SymbioticA's latest exhibition created by Guy Ben-Ary, BioKino: The living screen. Nano movies are projected over living canvas' (cornea, blood and skin), via a Bio projector (The projection is 5 microns in size). Shown in recreation fairground and vaudeville houses of earlier cinema, with costuming by award winning designers ericaamerica. Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey used photosynthesis to create "photographs" on grass. Natalie Jeremijenko has cloned trees to confound common understanding of the notion of the individual. Marta de Menezes has created butterflies with wing patterns produced by herself.
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Saturday, January 6, 7
Rama Computer Cult
The Rama Computer Students were led by Frederick Lenz who called himself the Zen Master Rama. He organised the group under the appearance of Buddhism. He launched his own group when he started giving self-improvement seminars based on Eastern religions in 98. He initially called himself Atmananda and based his teachings on Hinduism. Lenz called himself a spiritual teacher rather than a group or cult leader. His followers denied that they were members of a cult. He concentrated heavily on recruiting which resulted in hundreds of new members. People continued to follow him and he held publicly advertised classes until January 988, when he was swamped by bad publicity from members who had left. His classes were then aimed at a smaller group of people who were invited as potential recruits. He used self-criticism tactics in group sessions. He had sexual relations with many women followers. He taught meditation techniques in his classes which some students found extremely helpful.
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Thursday, January 4, 7
List of longest-reigning popes
The longest-reigning Popes whose reign lengths can be determined from contemporary historical data are the following:
-Pius IX (846–878): 3 years, 7 months and 3 days (,56 days).
-John Paul II (978–5): 6 years, 5 months and 8 days (9,666 days).
-Leo XIII (878–93): 5 years, 5 months and day (9,8 days).
-Pius VI (775–799): 4 years, 6 months and 5 days (8,96 days).
-Adrian I (77–795): 3 years, months and 5 days (8,79 days).
-Pius VII (8–83): 3 years, 5 months and 7 days (8,56 days).
-Alexander III (59–8): years, months and 4 days (8,9 days). -St. Sylvester I (34–335): years, months and day (8,5 days).
-St. Leo I (44–46): years, month, and 3 days. (7,73 days).
-Urban VIII (63–644): years, months and 4 days (7,664 days).
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Wednesday, January 3, 7
Effects of Christmas on the Environment
The celebration of Christmas has both positive and negative effects on the environment.
Positive effects: Polluting industries often cease their activities during the holidays, and the atmosphere, land, and water are able to recover a little from the effects of pollution. [] (See Week-Long Holiday Vacation in the article German Christmas traditions.) When the amount of commuting to and from work is reduced, there is a corresponding reduction in motor vehicle emissions.
Christmas motivates many people to donate to charity, including charities working to mitigate environmental damage.
Negative effects: The exchange of consumer products in Christmas wrapping, many of which will be unneeded and/or unappreciated, contributes to the sending of consumer waste to landfills, unless consumers choose to regift them. [] The cultivation of Christmas trees for display during a few weeks, before they are sent to landfills, represents a monoculture which sometimes reduces the use of arable land for agriculture.
Artificial Christmas trees are manufactured by processes which may have harmful effects on the environment.
(See: Christmas_tree#Environmental_issues.) Forum: Artificial Christmas Trees ~ Vrai ou faux? Christmas decorations for homes and for Christmas trees are consumer products which are sometimes discarded to landfills. Electric Christmas lights consume electricity, which, by most means of production, harms the environment. [3] [4] Candles and oil lamps can be fire hazards. Increased travel to visit friends and relatives generally involves the consumption of fossil fuels. One solution to counter the negative effects is alternative giving.
External links: An Environmental Christmas Message, Christmas is Damaging the Environment, Report Says, The Hidden Cost of Christmas votelink.
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Monday, January , 7
Electric universe
The Electric Universe is a collection of ideas currently advocated by Wallace Thornhill and Don Scott primarily on the internet about astronomy and planetary science, based on the notion that electricity and plasma physics play a much larger role in astrophysics than considered by mainstream science. Proponents claim that:
-The Sun and stars are powered by an external electric current rather than by nuclear fusion as in conventional astronomy.
-Electrical discharges in the form of megalightning and caused by electrical discharge machining, is responsible for many planetary features including arachnoids, chaos terrain, craters, Martian spiders, and rilles.
-Standard physical cosmology should be rejected in favoring of nonstandard plasma cosmology.
-The big bang, solar nebula hypothesis, black holes, dark energy, dark matter and standard models of planetary formation are not based in reality.
-Historically, cosmic electrical activity has been much greater than we see today. As an example, proponents cite rock art and various megaliths with the claim that they represent an intense ancient aurora-like phenomenon. Incorporating aspects of Velikovskian catastrophism and comparative mythology gives rise to various ancient histories, mythologies and iconography.
Both critics such as skeptics and members of the mainstream scientific community, and also some EU advocates, have called EU a catastrophist pseudoscience, as there is neither sufficient evidence, mathematical models, nor peer review, to treat it as a scientific theory. The concept is absent from refereed scientific literature.
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Saturday, December 3, 6
The Chickenology Encyclopedia
The Chickenology Encyclopedia is a compilation of answers to the question "Why did the chicken cross the road?" The name Chickenology Encyclopedia as well as the Chicken Today and Chicken of the Week columns are original creations of Ervin Nemeth. An ever growing proportion of the quotes -- currently (as of 5) somewhat over 7% -- has been created by Ervin Nemeth. Many were, though, contributed by members of a former Chickenology mailing list and visitors, and very few of them were pulled from the "public domain." Although many misconceive these entries as pure humor, or jokes, they are designed to educate. They tell very important information about certain persons, their lives and ways of understanding our world. The "Chickenology Encyclopedia" term was invented in 998, when the first version of the complete encyclopedia was published on a CD ROM by a Hungarian computer magazine. Another edition was published in 999 and the book version is due to come out later 5.
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Friday, December 9, 6
Emysphilia
Emysphilia (or Turtle Fetish) is a rare sexual fetish in which the practitioner experiences sexual arousal from visual and tactile stimuli relating to turtles and tortoises. It was first discovered by Dr. Daniel Schechner of the University of Hawaii in 959. Dr. Schechner dedicated a brief portion of his monograph The Varieties of Sexual Experience to this fetish. In the book, he mentions a native Hawaiian islander, known to the reader as “Mr. Gor,” who confesses “a strong sexual attraction to creatures belonging to the order Testudines” ( Schechner 387). Dr. Schechner’s encounter with “Mr. Gor” also finds a brief place in his autobiography No Dull Flesh ( Schechner 6). Since Dr. Schechner’s discovery, little research has been done on this disorder. As of yet, the American Psychiatric Association, which publishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), has not recognized the turtle fetish as a legitimate disorder.
References: Schechner, Daniel, M.D. No Dull Flesh. Honolulu: UH Press, 974; Schechner, Daniel, M.D. The Varieties of Sexual Experience.Honolulu: UH Press, 959. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Emysphilia". This Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.
Wednesday, December 7, 6
List of people who died in the bathroom
The following is a list of people who are alleged to have died in the bathroom, or in places (bath houses) or taking actions (taking a bath) that are associated with a modern day bathroom. In the case of earlier people, the legends may be inaccurate.
- Eglon, King of Moab, Old Testament, killed by Ehud (stabbed in the bowels) while relieving himself in his private chamber. Judges 3:-3
- Agamemnon, distinguished hero of Greek mythology during the Trojan War, slain by his wife Clytemnestra alone in a bath, a piece of cloth or a net having first been thrown over him to prevent resistance.
- Seneca the Younger (ca. 4 BC – AD 65) committed suicide in his bath, according to Tacitus.
- Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (August 3, 6 – December 3, 9) strangled in his bath, by the wrestler Narcissus.
- Elagabalus, Emperor of Rome (3 - ), murdered by the Praetorian Guard, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, in the Emperor's latrine, where the pair had gone to hide
- Arius of Alexandria, founder of Arianism (56 - 336), died of a flux of his bowels, possibly as the result of poisoning
- James I, King of Scotland (394 - 437), murdered while trying to flee through his bathroom into the sewers. A lady-in-waiting, Lady Catherine Douglas, attempted to keep the door closed to protect the King, but the killers smashed down the door and broke her arm.
- Lenny Bruce, American comedian (95 - 966), died of a morphine overdose in the bathroom of his home in Beverly Hills, California
- Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor (95 - 968), died of a brain embolism on the floor of his grandmother's bathroom
- Thomas Merton, American Trappist monk and author (95 – 968), died by being accidentally electrocuted in his bathtub in a hotel in Bangkok.
- Judy Garland, American actress and singer (9 - 969), died of a drug overdose in the bathroom of her London house
- Jim Morrison, American singer (943 - 97), died in the bathtub of his hotel in Paris, reason of death, unknown.
- Elvis Presley, American singer (935 - 977), died of a heart attack in the bathroom of his home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee
In addition Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (79 - 796), is rumored to have died while sitting on the toilet. In reality, she was found unconscious in a closet and died of a cerebral hemorrhage in her bedroom the next day.
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Tuesday, December 6, 6
Marija Pavlović
Marija Pavlovic (April , 965 -) was one of the six visionaries at Medjugorje who saw the Virgin Mary. On 4 June 98, at about 6 pm, along with five other young parishioners from Medjugorje she saw on the hill Crnica (on the place called Podbrdo) an apparition, a white form with a child in her arms. Surprised and scared, they did not approach. The next day at the same time, 5 June 98, four of them returned, and were later joined by the other two. Thereafter they had daily apparitions of Our Lady.
At the time of the first apparition, she was 6 years old. During the apparitions she was given nine secrets. Her visions relate her to the Italian writer and mystic Maria Valtorta in that Our Lady recommended Valtorta’s book to Marija in her visions. She is married now, lives in Italy and has four children.
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Monday, December 5, 6
Religious perspectives on dinosaurs
Some Jews and Christians believe that dinosaurs appear in the Old Testament, and regard this as evidence that the animals were still alive during early human history. As it is a modern coinage derived from Greek, the Bible does not use the word "dinosaur", but the Hebrew word tanniyn may be interpreted as referring to them[citation needed]. In English translations, tanniyn may be translated as “sea monster” or “serpent”, but it is usually translated as “dragon”. These creatures are mentioned nearly thirty times in the Old Testament and are found both on land and in the water. At another point, the Bible describes a huge creature called a "behemoth" (Job 4:5-4) whose "tail sways like a cedar"; the behemoth is described as ranking "first among the works of God" and as impossible to capture (vs. 4). Some Biblical scholars identify the behemoth as either an elephant or a hippopotamus, but these animals have very thin tails that are not comparable to a cedar tree. Creationists therefore identify the behemoth with dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus, and most commonly the Apatosaurus which has a huge, cedar-like tail. Critics point out that the tail is described as swaying like a cedar, not being as large as a cedar.
The Leviathan is another creature referred to in the Bible's Old Testament; it is described as having a variety of dinosaur, dragon, and water-serpent-like characteristics. Many scholars identify the Leviathan in Job c. 4 with the crocodile. Some Bible readers, however, have tried to connect the creature with the dinosaurs.
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Sunday, December 4, 6
Black Smoke Monster (Lost)
The Black Smoke Monster is a mythological element on the TV series, Lost. Often referred to as "The Monster", it appears to roam the island and is known to test, follow and murder the crash survivors. It also seems to make a sound often described as a "mechanical" noise. It takes the form of what appears to be black smoke and when moving, shows a resemblance to the movement of a snake or an elephant trunk.
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Friday, December , 6
Mathematics and God
Many mathematicians have expressed the view that God is in some way responsible for the rational order described so successfully by mathematics. This often involves likening God to a mathematician. The ancient Greek study of mathematics was closely related to that of religion. Plato is quoted as saying "God ever geometrizes" and Pythagoras as saying "numbers rule the Universe". Johannes Kepler stated that "The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics." Leopold Kronecker is quoted as saying "God made the natural numbers, all the rest is the work of man." However, this was intended more in the Kantian sense that they are given to us in intuition than in the literal sense that God created them. James Jeans said "From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe begins to appear as a pure mathematician". According to Henri Poincaré, "If God speaks to man, he undoubtedly uses the language of mathematics." Georg Cantor equated what he called the Absolute Infinite with God. He held that the Absolute Infinite had various mathematical properties, including that every property of the Absolute Infinite is also held by some smaller object. According to Srinivasa Ramanujan, "an equation is meaningless to me unless it expresses a thought of God." He often said that in Mathematics alone, one can have a concrete realisation of God. /, he used to ask, "what is its value?" It may be anything. "The zero of the numerator may be several times the zero of denominator and vice versa. The value cannot be determined. In the same way ^n − will denote the primordial God and several divinities. When n is zero the expression denotes zero, there is nothing; when n is , the expression denotes unity, the Infinite God. When n is , the expression denotes Trinity; when n is 3, the expression denotes 7, the Saptha Rishis (Seven Sages of Ursa Major) and so on.[] Paul Erdős, though agnostic, jokingly called God the Supreme Fascist. He claimed that the SF had a transfinite tome called "The Book", in which all provable theorems were demonstrated in the most elegant possible way, the best ones being kept secret.
Paul Halmos, in a 99 interview, says "What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking about mathematics. God is keeping secrets from us, and it's fun to try to learn some of the secrets."
Mathematical "proofs" of the existence of God: Saint Anselm's ontological argument sought to use logic to prove the existence of God. A ore elaborate version was given by Gottfried Leibniz. Kurt Gödel created a formalization of Leibniz' version, known as Gödel's ontological proof. René Descartes, in his Meditations on First Philosophy, attempted to carefully ascertain what he really knew to be true, which led to a supposed proof of God's existence. Pascal's Wager (also known as Pascal's Gambit) is Blaise Pascal's application of decision theory to the belief in God. Recently, Stephen D. Unwin employed Bayesian probabilities, a statistical method devised by 8th-century Presbyterian minister and mathematician Reverend Thomas Bayes, to compute the probability of God's existence.
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Thursday, December , 6
Scheherazade
Scheherazade or Shahrazada (Persian: Šahrzād) is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. The frame tale goes that every day Shahryar (Persian: "king") would marry a new virgin, and every day he would send yesterday's wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his first wife was betraying him.
He had killed three thousand virgins by the time he was introduced to Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter.
Against her father's protestations, Scheherazade volunteered to spend one night with the King. Once in the King's chambers, Scheherazade asked if she might bid one last farewell to her beloved sister, Dunyazad, who had secretly been prepared to ask Scheherazade to tell a story during the long night. The King lay awake and listened with awe to Scheherazade's first story and asked for another, but Scheherazade said there wasn't time as dawn was breaking, and regretfully so, as the next story was even more exciting. And so the King kept Scheherazade alive as he eagerly anticipated each new story, until, one thousand and one adventurous nights, and three sons later, the King had not only been entertained but wisely educated in morality and kindness by Scheherazade who became his Queen. The nucleus of these stories is formed by an old Persian book called Hezar-afsana or the "Thousand Myths." The earliest forms of Scheherazade's name include Šīrāzād in Masudi and Šahrāzād in Ibn al-Nadim, the latter meaning "she whose realm or dominion (šahr) is noble āzād)". Harun al-Rashid's mother, Al-Khayzuran, is also said to have influenced the character of Scheherazade. Scheherezade was identified, confused with, or partly derived from the legendary queen Homāy, daughter of Bahman, who has the epithet Čehrzād or Čehrāzād "she whose appearance is noble".
References: The Arabian Nights Entertainments Project Gutenberg
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Wednesday, December , 6
Quinn's Law
Quinn's Law is a 'corollary' to Godwin's Law, the popular Internet culture adage. It was first proposed on the Slashdot website on Friday, May 6, 6 by someone using the screen name Kluenitou. Quinn's Law can be stated:
As a Slashdot discussion grows longer, the probability of a Microsoft bashing [post] approaches one.[]
This corollary was issued in response to a humorous post[] that bemoaned the numerous Slashdot posts criticizing Microsoft. Slashdot has been criticized[3] for having a collective bias against some companies (mostly Microsoft). Microsoft has been criticized for ease-of-use, reliability, and security problems[4] with its flagship operating system Windows. Microsoft has also been criticized for its business practices[5], such as the "embrace, extend and extinguish" strategy, special price-breaks given to hardware vendors who only sold computers with Microsoft Windows, its several acquisitions, and its alleged spread of fear, uncertainty and doubt regarding the rival Linux operating system.
See also: Godwin's Law - the Internet culture adage to which Quinn's Law is a corollary; Criticism of Microsoft;
References:^ Quin, Victor J. (6-5-6). The 5 Worst Tech Products of . Slashdot. Retrieved on 6-5-8.; ^ RapmasterT (6-5-6). The 5 Worst Tech Products of All Time. Slashdot. Retrieved on 6-5-8.;^ Criticism section of the Wikipedia page about Slashdot; ^ Products section of Wikipedia's 'Criticism of Microsoft' article; ^ Business Practices section of Wikipedia's Criticism of Microsoft article
External links: Slashdot post where Quinn's Law is first mentioned
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Tuesday, December 9, 6
Novelty theory
Novelty theory attempts to predict the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. It is an idea conceived of and discussed at length by Terence McKenna from the early 97s until his death in the year . Novelty theory involves ontology, morphogenesis, and eschatology. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation. According to McKenna, when "novelty" is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as timewave zero or simply the timewave results. The graph shows at what times, but never at what locations, novelty is increasing or decreasing. The theory lacks any credible basis in peer-reviewed science and is generally dismissed as pseudoscience at best.
The timewave itself is a combination of numerology and mathematics. It is formed out of McKenna's interpretation and analysis of numerical patterns in the King Wen sequence of the I Ching (the ancient Chinese Book of Changes). This concept first took root in his entheogenic experiences shared by him and his brother Dennis McKenna as documented in the book True Hallucinations. The theory is clearly based in numerology and takes shape out of McKenna's belief that the sequence is artificially arranged as such purposely. Mathematically, the sequence is graphed according to a set of mathematical ratios, and displays a fractal nature as well as resonances, although it was not captured in a true formula until criticism from mathematician Matthew Watkins (see below). McKenna interpreted the fractal nature and resonances of the wave, as well as his theory of the I Ching's artificial arrangement, to show that the events of any given time are recursively related to the events of other times.
The theory was never published in a peer-reviewed journal and McKenna's sources and reasoning were primarily what would be considered numerological rather than mathematical by professional mathematicians and scientists, the theory has failed to gain any (scientific) credulity or much recognition. However, McKenna was highly critical of such fields for adhering to what he saw as a flawed Western dominated paradigm, and did not seek to create a theory acceptable to the mathematical community. The theory was, however, revised by nuclear physicist John Sheliak after a flaw was discovered by Matthew Watkins. The new revision is often referred to as Timewave One, but is also inclusive in the set of alternate waves in the Timewave Zero software. This new version is also acclaimed to match history more accurately. Timewave Zero received a great deal of its public attention through the publications of R. U. Sirius, particularly the cyberculture magazine Mondo .
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Monday, December 8, 6
Azure Flame
Azure Flame (born Catherine Provenza on July 6, 976) is an American pop singer, songwriter and author. Azure Flame was born in Vero Beach, Florida of Italian heritage and raised in Texas. By 4, her primary home was in Palm Beach. She has an EP, Calling Your Name (Metrotone, 7/5/5), in major retail stores.
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Saturday, December 6, 6
Centaurs in antiquity
Centaurs were reportedly seen in the Roman Empire era, for example, during the reign of Claudius (AD 4-54). One of them was even captured and moved to Egypt as a gift for the Roman emperor. After it died, its corpse was embalmed and shipped by sea to Rome where it was exhibited in Claudius's palace. The centaur completely submerged in honey was witnessed by Pliny the Elder. The natural historian Aelian (AD ) was also interested in these creatures. Around AD 5 the emperor Claudius received a message from the authorities in Greece about the birth of a baby centaur in Thessaly." []
Historical Evidence of Human-Animal Sexual Contacts: There are many historical records about the use of sheep or goats by warriors for eating and for having sex. Bestiality was common among ancient Greeks and Romans. According to a legend, Greek scholar Thales warned his master Periandros not to hire unmarried shepherds in order to stop creating more centaurs. Roman satirist Juvenalius mentioned that "Roman women often exposed their naked buttocks to tempt donkeys into sex contacts." Similar contacts were caused by fertility cults in Egypt. According to Danish anatomist Thomas Bartholin, he saw a woman who had a baby with a feline head after a copulation with a cat. []
Reports of Modern-Day Centaur Sightings: Alleged sigtings of Centaurs continue to this day. Reports come from many different places, as far away as Florida [3] and Nigeria [4].
Unorthodox Scientific Opinions: Some modern-day Australian and British anthropologists suggest that hybrids such as centaurs could have co-existed side by side with early humans, if we look at 3,-year-old rock paintings in Australia and South Africa. [5]
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Friday, December 5, 6
List of bands beginning with the word "lemon"
This is a list of bands and artist whose names begin with the word "lemon": Lemon Demon, The Lemonheads, Lemon Hill, Lemon Jelly, Lemon Juju, Lemon Kittens, LEMON (band), Lemon Lime Lights, Lemon Pipers, Lemon Wheel.
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Thursday, December 4, 6
Ego Depletion
References: Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Muraven, M. & Tice, D. M. (998). Ego Depletion: Is the Active Self a Limited Resource? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(5), 5-65; Muraven, M., & Baumeister, R. F. (). Self-regulation and depletion of limited resources: Does self-control resemble a muscle? Psychological Bulletin, 6, 47-59; Muraven, M., Tice, D. M., & Baumeister, R. F. (998). Self-control as a limited resource: Regulatory depletion patterns. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 774-789.
External links: Resources and Articles on Ego Depletion; Ego Depletion and Alcoholism;
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Wednesday, December 3, 6
Personal Reality
Personal reality is a New Age conceptual framework espoused by the spirit medium, Jane Roberts. Within the range of people who subscribe to the philosophy of idealism, some believe we each create our own version of reality; that there isn't one single reality for each of us to become aware of in our own particular way. The physicist Amit Goswami explains his monistic idealism in terms of quantum mechanics and Eastern spiritual teachings, while Seth, a non-physical entity channeled by Jane Roberts, says that each person is basically a "unit of consciousness" (CU), that each CU is a part of "All That Is" (as in the holographic principle), and that we individually and collectively dreamt up the reality which we experience.
In this worldview, the basic framework for physical reality is determined by the fundamental laws of the universe established by "root assumptions" which are agreed upon by all CUs that chose to participate in physical reality, while each person creates their own personal reality by adopting "core beliefs" and values and selecting probabilities from amongst the possibilities available to them in each instant. Thus, God is part of the reality of someone who has a core belief in the existence of God, while evolution is real for someone who believes that the theory of evolution explains the appearance on Earth of the wide variety of species. Likewise, life is fragile and uncertain for the person who believes life is fragile and uncertain, while heaven, hell and the devil are real for people who believe in their existence.
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Tuesday, December , 6
Watermelon color
The color watermelon is displayed at left. The first recorded use of watermelon as a color name in English was in 96.... This color is identical with the Crayola color wild watermelon (see the List of Crayola crayon colors). The color name wild watermelon has been in use for this color since 99 by Crayola (see the List of Crayola crayon colors).
— Color coordinates of Watermelon: Hex triplet: #D844F; RGB: (r, g, b)(6, 66, 79); HSV (h, s, v): (°, 95%, 84%)
Reference: Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:93 McGraw-Hill Page 7; Color Sample of Watermelon: Page 5 Plate Color Sample K9
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The Lightbulb Joke
The lightbulb joke is an example of an endless-variations joke and has possibly thousands of versions covering every imaginable culture, belief, occupation and special-interest group. Generally the punchline is not complimentary to the group providing the subject of the joke. The generally acknowledged "original" goes as follows:
Q: How many [insert chosen group here] does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Ten — one to hold the lightbulb and nine to turn the ladder around.
The common pattern for a light bulb joke could be formulated as follows:
Q: How many members of a (given demographic group) does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: 'N+ (where N is a positive whole number)' — one to hold the lightbulb and N to behave in a fashion generally associated with a negative stereotype of that group.
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Saturday, December 9, 6
Mermaid Problem
The Mermaid Problem is an observation occasionally mentioned in literature, concerning the difficulty of having sexual intercourse with a mermaid. Although mermaids are commonly depicted as beautiful, variably nude, and enticing, a man attempting hypothetical sex with one would be thwarted by the typical portrayal of the creature: a fish from the waist down, with no vagina. Some fiction, aware of the long running question, deliberately avoids the question for humorous effect. More generally, it can also be a joking reference to the unusual sexual interest many non-human characters seem to have with humans in fantasy or science fiction, and potential physical issues therein.
Theoretically a mermaid would reproduce as most aquatic animals do, by external fertilization, requiring a human male to deposit his seed underwater onto her eggs. (The confusion is further compounded by the fact that mermaids are usually depicted with a navel, which would suggest placental vivipary rather than ovipary.) In some fantasy erotica, however, this situation is sometimes rectified by portraying mermaids as having genitalia more similar to dolphins than fish, or having the ability to change into human form.
Interestingly this was not always an issue. In the past it was not uncommon for a mermaid to be portrayed as having a split tail, with a vagina located (or merely inferred to be) between the two parts. The well-known Starbucks logo is one example of this. In the original version the mermaid is shown spreading her tail apart up to her head. While this has been cropped out, and the drawing in general slightly reworked over the years, her tails are still visible around the edges.
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Thursday, December 7, 6
Jews in Apostasy
Jews in apostasy are those Jews who have abandoned Judaism and have joined another religion. The term apostasy is derived from Greek, meaning "political rebel", as applied to rebellion against God, its law and the faith of Israel. Other expressions for apostate as used by rabbinical scholars are "mumar" (literally "the one that changes") and "poshea israel" (literally, "transgressor of Israel"), or simply "kofer" (literally "denier").
Other terms used are meshumad, meaning one who has abandoned his faith, or min and apikorus which denote the "negation" of God and Judaism implying atheism.
The first recorded case of apostasy in Judaism is referred to in the words of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek. xxxii, 3,4), thought to be prophetic of the High Priests Jason and Menelaus who deserted their religion and their nation to the horror and hatred of their contemporaries.
In the Talmud, Elisha Ben Abuyah is singled out as an apostate and epicurean by the Pharisees. In Medieval Spain, a systematic conversion of Jews to Christianity took place, some of which under threats and force. The cases of apostasy of these Conversos provoked the indignation of the Jewish communities in Spain. Several notorious Inquisitors in the later Spanish Inquisition, such as Tomás de Torquemada, and Don Francisco the archbishop of Coria, are suspected to be descendants of apostate Jews. Other apostates, that made their mark in history by attempting the conversion of other Jews in the 3s, include Juan de Valladolid and Astruc Remoch. Some Spanish Jews, however, were compelled to convert to Christianity, and remained "hidden" Jews (see Anusim). They are called Marranos. Sabbatai Zevi presented himself as the Jewish Messiah. Under the threat of death by the Ottoman Sultan, he and many of his followers converted to Islam. However, many of these conversions were insincere and the Donmeh (Turkish for "converse") remained rendering cult to Zvi while externally being Muslims. Jacob Frank presented himself as the successor of Zevi and attracted many followers in Poland. He was later baptized as a Catholic in the presence of the king of Poland. His Frankists also simulated being Catholics while adoring Frank.
References: Joseph Jacobs and Meyer Kayserling. "MARANO." Jewish Encyclopedia. JewishEncyclopedia.com.
See also: Heresy, Schisms among the Jews, Who is a Jew?, Halakha
Ger tzedek, Muslim Jew, Religious disaffiliation. Kaufmann Kohler and Richard Gottheil. "APOSTASY AND APOSTATES FROM JUDAISM." Jewish Encyclopedia. JewishEncyclopedia.com.
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Wednesday, December 6, 6
Hlade's Law
Hlade's Law states that:
"If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person; they will find an easier way to do it."
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Tuesday, December 5, 6
Starfleet Security
Starfleet Security is an agency of the Starfleet in the science fiction universe of Star Trek. Starfleet Security is first introduced in the original Star Trek with the USS Enterprise's compliment of security guards, many of whom meet quick deaths at the hands of an enemy alien.
Starfleet Security is later explored with the characters of Worf and Tasha Yar in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Starfleet Security has also been discussed at length in Pocket Books novels and numerous Star trek technicial manuals. The most recent Star Trek incarnation, Star Trek Enterprise, deals with the origins of Starfleet Security with the weapons and tactical personnel of the Earth Starfleet....
In the 3rd century, Starfleet Security had become an established corps of the Starfleet, apparetly an entirely separate career path from regular (or "Line") personnel of the Starfleet. During this time, most of Starfleet Security was assigned as security guards onboard Starfleet vessels and space stations. The divisional uniform color of such persnnel was red, leading Starfleet Security personnel to be commonly deemed by the phrase "redshirts" (this term became obsolete in the 4th century, when Starfleet Security adopted gold as thier divisional color). The task of Starfleet Security was also extremely dangerous, especially when providing security to landing parties on unexplored planets. The USS Enterprise (NCC-7), for instance, racked up a noticable number of security guards killed in the line of duty during the ship's five year mission under James T. Kirk....
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Monday, December 4, 6
Wikiturfing
The term "wikiturfing" refers to the efforts of an individual or (rarely) a formal public relations company to create the impression that a particular meme, company, or concept has gained social clout by simply placing the item in Wikipedia. Because of its wide use and high ranking amongst top search engines, Wikipedia allows for easy and free exposure to a large community of users. Those who would engage in wikiturfing do so in the hopes that their item will "catch on" and gain legitimacy. Such activities would be classified as vandalism or, in the least, an inappropriate use of Wikpedia’s terms of use.
The origin of the term is uncertain. One example was in 6 by an anonymous commenter on a web site discussing wikipedia who said "I see corporations paying for wikiturf to be even more of a problem than the astroturfing in forums and blog because so many people link to Wikipedia."
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Sunday, December 3, 6
List of Animal Sounds
This is a list of animal sounds, sounds made by animals. First verbs used to label animal sounds are listed, followed by figures of speech that imitate those sounds.
Verbs: Below is a list of appropriate verbs corresponding to the sounds made by various animals.
Apes gibber Bears growl: Grrr Bees hum and buzz Beetles drone Birds chirrup, tweet, and sing: Bird song Bitterns boom Blackbirds whistle Bulls bellow Calves bleat Cats mew, purr, meow and caterwaul Cattle low Chaffinches fink Chicks cheep Chickens buck Cocks crow Cows moo Crows caw Cuckoos cuckoo Deer bell Dogs bark, bay, howl, whine, and yap Dolphins click Donkeys bray Doves coo Ducks quack Eagles scream Elephants trumpet Falcons chant Ferrets dook Flies buzz Foxes bark and yelp Frogs croak Giant pandas bleat Goats bleat Geese cackle and hiss Grasshoppers chirp: Stridulation Guinea pigs squeak Hares squeak Hawks scream Hens cluck Horses neigh or whinney Humans brouhaha and prattle Hyenas laugh Jays chatter Kittens mewl Lambs bleat Linnets chuckle Lions roar Magpies chatter Mice squeak and squeal Monkeys gibber Nightingales pipe and warble Owls screech, shriek, and hoot Oxen low Parrots talk Peacocks scream Pigs grunt and squeal Pigeons coo Raccoons chitter Ravens croak Rooks caw Sheep bleat Snakes hiss Sparrows chirp Stags bellow and call Swallows twitter Swans cry (also sing just before dying: swan song) Tigers growl Thrushes whistle Turkeys gobble Vultures scream Walruses ort Whales sing: Whale song. Wolves howl
Onomatopoeia: In addition there are several onomatopoeic verbal phrases which relate to specific animals (strictly it is incorrect to use the onomatopoiec terms as verbs. e.g. "Dogs woofing" is linguistically incorrect): Cats go "meow", Chicks go "peep" Cocks go "cock-a-doodle-doo" Cows go "moo" Crows go "caaw" Dogs go "arf", "bow-wow", or "woof" Donkeys go "hee-haw" Frogs go "ribbit" in the US and "crrrk" in Britain and other noises elsewhere, according to species. Goats go "maa" Horses go "neigh" Monkeys go "eek" Nightingales go "jug-jug" in Britain and "mug-mug" in North America Owls go "who who", "hoot hoot" or less commonly "Too-wit-too-woo" Pigs go "oink", "hunc", or "whee" Sheep go "baa"
See also: Animal communication Animal echolocation Animal song
Bioacoustics Cat communication Oink Woof Zoomusicology
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Saturday, December , 6
List of adoptees
This is a list of [notable] people who were adopted:
Aileen Wuornos, Albertine Sarrazin, Anthony A. Williams, A. M. Homes, Aristotle, Art Linkletter, Baby Richard Case, Bo Diddley, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Chesa Boudin, Christina Crawford, Christopher Price, Corina Knoll, Curtis Joseph, Dana Plato, Dan O'Brien, Daunte Culpepper, Dave Thomas, David Berkowitz, Debbie Harry, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, Edward Albee, Eric Dickerson, Faith Hill, Freddie Bartholomew, George Washington Carver, Georges Perec, Gerald Stano, Gerald Ford, Greg Louganis, Hsu Yun, Ian Smith, Ibrahim Pasha, James MacArthur, James Michener, Jean Genet, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jeanette Winterson, Jeff Bates, Jennylyn Mercado, Jesse Jackson, Jett Williams, Jillian Barberie
Jim Palmer, Joel Rifkin, Jody Dean, John James Audubon, Jon Fishman, Jürgen Bartsch, Kate Adie, Kenneth Bianchi, Kitty Carruthers, Kiri Te Kanawa, Langston Hughes, Larry Ellison, Larry Foyt, Laurel Rose Willson, Lee Majors, Leo Tolstoy, Les Brown, Leslie Lemke, Liz Phair, L. Ron Hubbard, Luigi Chiatti, Lynnette Cole, Malcolm X, Marcel Desailly, Mark Acres, Masha Allen, Matthew Laborteaux, Melissa Gilbert, Michael Bay, Michael Caines, Michael Franti, Michael Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Newt Gingrich, Nicky Campbell, Olive Risley Seward
Patrick Labyorteaux, Paul McGrath, Paull Shin, Peter Carruthers, Priscilla Presley, Ray Liotta, Richard Burton, Sabiha Gökçen, Sarah McLachlan,
Scott Hamilton, Ric Flair, Robert Byrd, Scott Sherrin, Shinken Taira, Sonny Moore, Steve Jobs, Surya Bonaly, Tammy Layne Winslow, Taylor Parkes, Tim Green, Tim McGraw, Tom Monaghan, Tommy Davidson, Victoria Rowell, William Clinton
Friday, December , 6
WikiDumper Leaves a Mark
Thanks for making WikiDumper a success. Started less than a month ago, when the word “WikiDumper” had zero Google hits, we now find over 5, Google pages with this term. The site has received over 7, visits.
Press in Germany, Italy, and the US have been favorable, and the site has been warmly reviewed in web sites associated with The Chronicle of Higher Education, USA Today, Fortune, Der Spiegel, CNET, Gawker, Boing Boing, and more. Radio shows have shown interest. Thanks again for all your support, and please give me suggestions for improvement.
In an interesting turn of events, I stumbled upon a WikiDumper article that has been added to the Wikipedia. Amusingly, it is currently being considered for deletion. The following is a snapshot of the latest reasons for deletion of WikiDumper from Wikipedia. Enjoy!
[Wikidumper.org is]:
- Non-notable. Although mentioned by the Associated Press, the site doesn't have multiple non-trivial sources.
- Weak Delete - Wow. Talk about irony. Anyway, the AP story linked to in the article is actually about another website. The Alexa page rank of 44,798 doesn't exactly impress either. I'm still kind of torn since I like the idea of a blog that keeps a record of deleted WP content. However, in the end it clearly doesn't satisfy WP:WEB.
- Delete; As I see it, it's just a blog someone created earlier this month. Right now, it fails WP:WEB. One mention at the end of a newspaper article (often where less important details are placed) doesn't quite cut it, and as above, the Alexa rank is weak. Perhaps later this will meet the inclusion guidelines, but it doesn't now.
- Delete bloggish, and fails WP:WEB.- Delete per nom. Sounds like an interesting idea. -Merge to Clifford A. Pickover. Seems more proper to be there.
From the AP article: "Archive.org isn't the only site trying to save the ever-changing Web. Wikipedia.com, which constantly regurgitates itself with user-inputted data, is now being watched by wikidumper.blogsot.com. Any information not truthful enough to make it into Wikipedia is probably dubious twice over, but Wikidumper helps provide some oversight to the editors of Wikipedia, who can take down an entry for any number of reasons."
- Delete per nom. - Merge per Yanksox - Delete per Bobby and Crystallina.
- Delete, even when I like the idea a lot (and already subscribe to their RSS feed). This is more of project space material, regrettably, likely not famous enough yet to warrant an article space article. I don't mind it if someone recreates it later when there's no question about this thing's notability, but I'm sceptical on whether or not it ever will get there.
- Merge as above, the last thing we need is someone having a proof that we are biased against our critics
-Comment - Wikipedia's numerous critics will find bias no matter what, because that critics do. We should be concerned with enforcing Wikipedia's consensus-built policies consistently, rather than with allowing external criticisms to dictate the actions of the community. IMO, this is a very weak arguement against deletion.
- And what exactly is "critical" about Wikidumper anyway? It's not like they have an agenda of "look at all these valid and well-sourced articles that they've unjustly deleted"; they publish just about everything that may be deleted later (ranging from blatant BJAODN material to little-known topics). I'd be a little bit hesitant to lump them among critical sites; at best they're doing a service to the community, at worst they're just making people say "look at that ridiculous stuff they published - but good thing it looks like they deleted it."
- Comment: How can it be said that WikiDumper is non-notable if it has 4,6 Google hits and 39 articles in Google news? Isn't this objective evidence that it is notable?
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Thursday, November 3, 6
Contagious Shooting
A contagious shooting or "mass reflexive response" is "gunfire that spreads among officers who believe that they, or their colleagues, are facing a threat. It spreads like germs, like laughter, or fear."
Incidents: 6 Five officers fired 5 rounds at Sean Bell who was leaving his bachelor party in New York, including 3 by one detective;
6; Three officers fired 6 shots at a pit bull that had bitten a chunk out of an officer’s leg in the Bronx, New York in July; 5 Eight officers fired 43 shots at Brian Allen, an armed man, in Queens, New York killing him; 999 Five officers fired 5 rounds at Amadou Diallo, an unarmed man in the Bronx, New York on February 4, 999; 998 New Jersey State Police fired shots at Daniel Reyes and three other basketball players in their car in April.
Reference: How Stuff Works: Contagious shooting
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Wednesday, November 9, 6
World Carrot Museum
The World Carrot Museum is a virtual museum that attempts to collect and present information on all aspects of carrots. The museum does not currently have a brick and mortar existence but operates only as a website. It was initiated and continues to be curated by John Stolarczyk of Bradford, England. The museum contains information on recipes, trivia, cultivation, games and toys, history, and nutrition of carrots as well as description of carrots as they exist in the wild. [Photo shows carrot diversity from around the world.]
External links: World Carrot Museum Homepage, Article on Stolarczyk and the museum from the Cleaveland Plain Dealer, Article by Dave Barry about the museum.
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Tuesday, November 8, 6
Corporeal Reanimation
Corporeal reanimation is the theoretical concept of reanimating a dead organism, restoring its living functions and enabling it to move and to freely interact with the world of the living as it did when it was alive.
Reanimation also refers to alleged supernatural phenomena in which the souls of deceased persons reinhabit their dead bodies and return to this world, usually to complete unfinished business.
In fiction: Many people, mainly fiction writers, have proposed how it would work, but their theories are only portrayed in movies or fantastic tales of "Zombies" or living-dead, and such. The central idea focuses on the dead organism's brain being crudely revived to re-enable simple functions and allow passive ability of normal bodily operation, such as eyesight, hearing and acting on instinct, though how the brain is 'revived' is never explained. It is roughly reflected with movie plots, such as the introduction of a virus into a body, which slowly kills the host and reanimates it. This can be seen most notably in the George A. Romero's Living Dead films and in the Resident Evil series of video games.
In culture: An example of reanimation appears in the Caribbean tradition of voodoo: the zombie. True to modern portrayals, zombies have no mind or will of their own and are basically living-dead — although their bodies are metabolically active.
In science: The scientist and inventor James Lovelock pioneered reanimation research in the mid-95s. In an interview with the BBC's Mark Lawson (BBC Four, May , 6), he referred to an early experiment in which a common hamster was trained to find its way through a maze, then "frozen", and later brought back to life. "It was as good as new!" Lovelock said, "it could make its way through [the] maze, as it was trained to do before..."
Notes and references: Reanimation of rats.
See also: Resident Evil, Re-Animator, List of zombie films, Cryonics
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Therianthropy
Therianthropy is a generic term for any transformation of a human into another animal form, or for a being which displays both human and animal characteristics, either as a part of mythology or as a spiritual concept. The word is derived from Greek therion, meaning "wild animal" or "beast", and anthrōpos, meaning "man".
In folklore, mythology and anthropology, therianthropy can be used to describe a character that shares some traits of humans and some of non-human animals. The most commonly known form is lycanthropy (from the Greek words lycos ("wolf") and anthropos ("man")), the technical term for the transformation from man to animal form. Although the precise definition of lycanthropy specifically refers only to the change into wolf form (as with a werewolf), the term is often used to refer to shape changing to any non-human animal form.
Therianthropy can also refer to characters that share man and animal traits at the same time, for example with the animal-headed human forms of gods in Egyptian mythology (such as Ra, Sobek and others) as well as creatures like centaurs and mermaids.
Mental illness: When people believe they change into an animal form (theriomorphosis), or possess supernatural non-human animal traits, the term clinical lycanthropy is often used. This classification is a form of mental illness, though many anthropologists would point out that the belief has extensive religious precedent in shamanic cultures. Likewise, people who call themselves shapechangers as a form of social identification are generally not considered ill by mental health professionals unless their beliefs interfere with the normal functioning of their lives. This can be a controversial issue, as the line between what the mind passes off as a strange or alternative belief and what is considered a mental illness is indistinct.
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Saturday, November 5, 6
Boxed Thoughts
Boxed Thoughts is a collection of thoughts posted by anonymous users. Together, these thoughts form a stream of thought, or a ‘thoughtstream’. The thoughtstream represents the flow of thought or thoughts that embodies humanity.
Users post whatever is on their minds without being judged. All thoughts are anonymous so nobody can identify you, unless you decide to post something that will identify you. The idea is to post whatever thought is on your mind at the time, good or bad....
You have a x pixel box to work with so you can only fit a certain amount of text into the box. This is when you have to be creative with what you want to say.
Although BT is an anonymous community there is still communication among the users through the stream.... Sometimes a trend will become very popular and you will see many thoughts about that topic on the stream. Some trends only last for a few thoughts, some are still being mentioned almost a year after they were started. Certain users have created some themes and trends, and due to those users popularity among other users the trends seem to become more popular and spread throughout the thoughtstream.
External links: BoxedThoughts, BT’s official Forum
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Friday, November 4, 6
Kynoid
Kynoid refers to any being whose body structure resembles that of a dog especially in the context of science fiction and fantasy fiction. It usually refers to sentient beings, while the rest is described with "canidae". The term (originally, in Russian) was coined by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in their 979 sci-fi novel Beetle in the Anthill (translated into English in 98) to describe the extraterrestrial sentient species nicknamed "Headies".
Usually, a fictional kynoid species has four legs (all of them primarily used for walking, although other purposes, like fighting, are not excluded) or two legs and two paws (used for wielding instruments and weapons), a tail and a canine head. Very often kynoids possess also the ability to speak and communicate - even if only in their own language. Other details, like size, weight, fur color (if any), even the shape of the head, may differ from species to species.
In sci-fi universes, kynoids are generally shown as specimen of entire alien races, while in fantasy worlds they tend to appear as single supporting characters. Because dogs are assumed the human's best friend in the animal kingdom, many books and movies feature a kynoid as a partner and a friend-in-need of a human character, although wolves are often presented as adversaries. The common image of a werewolf can also be classified as kynoid (in the animal form).
List of fictional kynoid characters:
Frank the Pug, a typical example of a kynoid from Men in Black II; Angua (a werewolf, Discworld); Drimarondo (a talking dog, Labyrinths of Eho by Max Frei); Ein (a sentient dog, Cowboy Bebop); Fenrisulfr (a giant wolf, Edda); Frank (an alien in a dog suit, Men in Black and its sequels); Gaspode (a talking dog, Discworld); Gmork (a sentient wolf, The Neverending Story); Huan (the Hound of Valinor, Middle-earth); Maugrim (a talking wolf, The Chronicles of Narnia); Schyokn-Itrch (a Headie, Noon Universe); Sirius Black (transfigures into a black dog) and Remus Lupin (a werewolf, Harry Potter book series); Toto (a talking dog, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz); Wildmutt (a Vulpimancer, Ben ).
List of fictional kynoid races:
Doog (Star Control); Headies (Noon Universe); Moon Dogs (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons); Shistavanen (Star Wars); Vulpimancers (Ben ); Werewolves (Middle-earth).
Thursday, November 3, 6
Autocentrism
Autocentrism is a style of living characterized by dependency on the automobile for transportation. Autocentric communities are found throughout the suburban United States and are one characteristic of urban sprawl. In such communities, public transportation is either enormously unpractical due to time concerns, or wholly unavailable. Smart growth and New Urbanism advocates view autocentrism as an undesired state, arguing that it results in a weakened sense of community in the affected neighborhoods, as well as having negative impact on the environment. Detractors do not view autocentrism as anything manifestly negative, merely a choice made by consumers out of preferences.
Relevant source: Crawford, J.H., Carfree Cities.
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Wednesday, November , 6
The Best-Selling Female Recording Artist Ever
The best-selling female recording artists of all time:
.Madonna (entertainer) 57,, Records Sold
.Mariah Carey 3,, Records Sold
3.Whitney Houston ,, Records Sold
4.Nana Mouskouri 6,, Records Sold
5.Diana Ross 89,, Records Sold
6.Donna Summer 78,, Records Sold
7.Celine Dion 75,, Records Sold
8.Barbra Striesand 68,, Records Sold
9.Janet Jackson 38,, Records Sold
.Shania Twain 3,, Records Sold
.Tina Turner 5,, Records Sold
.Dolly Parton ,, Records Sold
3.Cher 6,, Records Sold
4.Aretha Franklin 8,, Records Sold
5.Britney Spears 78,, Records Sold
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Tuesday, November , 6
Book of Spells of Serpents
From its descriptions, the book appears to be an anti-Ophite work, supporting the orthodox position that the serpent in the Garden of Eden was evil, rather than the Ophites' position that the serpent was a hero who tried to teach Adam and Eve in order to let them escape what the Ophites saw as an evil world created by a demiurge.[] According to the early church fathers,the work described the beguiling nature of the serpent, and its crafty use of spells, and clever oratory skills, to obtain favour in the Garden and to manipulate the first man for its own gain: the serpent was so wily that it routinely confused Adam about the instructions God gave him, eventually leading to his expulsion.
However, as this is the report of those opposed to the Ophites' views, this description of the text may be somewhat misleading. For example, it was also said that the text briefly touches on the wisdom of the Serpent, and warnings he communicated to Adam, and to Eve, about God's devious nature and fearful admonitions against disobedience. This point of view supported that of the Ophites, and contrasts greatly with the prior description that puts the serpent as the villainous trickster.
References:
^ For more about Ophite theology, see Ophites. See also Ophite Diagrams, Lost New Testament Apocrypha, Non-canonical Pauline Epistles.
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Monday, November , 6
Visualizing Wikipedia Evolution
(This is not an article marked for deletion but rather a topic for us to discuss.)
The entry for evolution on Wikipedia was altered ,8 times by 68 editors between December and last October. IBM's Watson Research Center produced the image at left, which tracks the transformation. Each vertical line is a new version; each color is a different editor. A black line occurs whenever the entire entry is deleted by a vandal. The initial version of evolution (indicated by the "") is 56 words long.
For more details of this study, see Susan Kruglinski's "Map: Evolution Evolving, A very public online fracas" DISCOVER Vol. 7 No. 7. Image credit: Visual Communication Lab, IBM Research.
Sunday, November 9, 6
Satan Claus
Satan Claus is a theory that Santa Claus is actually an alias for Satan. The theory is based primarily on the fact that "Santa" could be an anagram for "Satan." This theory is a popular belief among many Christian communities.
Other evidence is the fact that Saint Nicholas, the origin of Santa, could have never existed. Ole Nick was a fallen Angel. Nick is a common nickname for Santa. (e.g. Old Saint Nicholaus) Old Nick is a British term for "the devil". Nicholas is one of the most common names for the devil, for Germans.
Many Christians are infuriated with the fact that Santa shares, or in some cases takes the spotlight from Jesus at Christmas time.
Some facts about both Jesus and Santa: They are both Omniscient. They are both Omnipresent. They both have a white beard.
Santa can be rearranged to spell Satan. Claus is old English for "Hoof-Claws." Claus can be rearranged to spell "Lucas" which resembles Lucifer. Kriss Kringle means "little Christ child".
External Links: SANTA CLAUS: The Great Imposter -- Christian anti-Santa site.
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Hutber's law
Hutber's law states that "improvement means deterioration". It is founded on the cynical observation that a stated improvement actually hides a deterioration.
The term has seen wide application in business, engineering and risk analysis. It was first articulated by Patrick Hutber, an economist and journalist working for The Sunday Telegraph in London. Hutber is also credited with inventing the concept of Tax Freedom Day.
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Friday, November 7, 6
Kiwi!
Kiwi! is a short, digitally animated movie by Dony Permedi. The movie is just minutes and seconds long, not including introductory title and closing credits. Character models and animation were generated using Maya.
Along with the millions of views on YouTube, the film is notable for the honors it has received on that website. With tears of joy filling its eyes, and a single teardrop streaming across its face, the kiwi satisfies its biggest dream....
There are many parallels that can be found between the film's kiwi and the human condition.
Complete film hosted by YouTube
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Khartoum (fictional horse)
Khartoum was the name of the fictional horse owned by movie producer Jack Woltz in the novel The Godfather and the movie of the same name. This was the unfortunate horse whose head was severed and put in the bed where Woltz was sleeping in the now-infamous scene of the book and film.
Of note is the fact that an actual horse-head was used for this scene.
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Thursday, November 6, 6
Fan Death
Fan death is an urban legend that originated in South Korea, but has since spread to other countries in the Far East. The belief is that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can result in the death (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia) of those inside. This belief also extends to air conditioners and the fans in cars. When the air conditioner or fan is on in a car, some people are apt to leave their car windows open a crack to avoid "fan death." Fans manufactured and sold in Korea are equipped with a timer switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes, which users are frequently urged to set when going to sleep with a fan on.
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Wednesday, November 5, 6
Two singers named Alicia to be discarded
Alicia Pan (born Nov , 984) is one of Taiwan's rising stars. Born and raised in Singapore, Alicia Pan has been singing and playing the piano since the age of 3. She moved to Taiwan in 5 and began pursuing her career in the mandarin pop scene. ... Subsequently, Universal Music released an EP of Alicia's first Mandarin single in conjunction with Far East Tone, a Taiwanese telecommunications company.
Alicia Dara (born Alicia Dara Friedman on December 9, 973) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, and educator based in Seattle, WA. She started her record label, Stegosaurus Records, in 997 and has released 4 self-produced CDs of original songs.... In Alicia released Alchemy, a haunting and melodic piano-based record. Alchemy was co-produced with Experience Music Project sound designer Brad Purkey and featured a host of Seattle musicians.... Her own site's popularity is further augmented by fan sites which collect and distribute rare B-sides and covers....
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Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit
The "Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit" is an argument for the improbability of the existence of God introduced by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion. His statement (in its entirety) is as follows:
"However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747."
The reference to the "Boeing 747" is an allusion to Fred Hoyle who reportedly compared the random emergence of even the simplest cell to the likelihood that "a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein." (see eg Fred Hoyle. Hoyle was not a theist - but Dawkins is objecting to this argument being deployed theistically.)
Dawkins does not explain what he means by statistically improbable. The standard probabilistic form of the argument from design is to take some feature of the universe (X) and to argue that p(X/God) >> p(X/No_God). Obviously p(God/No_God)= < p(X/No_God), but this says does not address the argument for design. So Dawkins seems to be arguing:
- If "D designed X" then, for any Background assumptions B, p(D/B) < p(X/B)
- Hence for any B and X, if "God designed X", p(God/B)< p(X/B)
He gives no justification of () and consideration of an artist D who designs n paintings all but one of which are destroyed shows that () is not necessarily true. And this argument says nothing about a comparison of p(X/N) with p(X/G). Further publications may elucidate these questions. (The symbol / should be a vertical bar symbol.)
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Geek Rock
Geek Rock is a musical subgenre of alternative rock which embraces technology and technological themes, often in a humorous or ironic context, as well as other subjects considered "geeky." Progenitors of geek rock include Devo, Talking Heads, and REM. More recent examples of geek rock bands include Weezer, The Minibosses, The Young Knives, The Rentals, Lemon Demon, Cake, Ben Folds, Grandaddy, The Franchise, Nerf Herder, Jonathan Coulton, MC Paul Barman, Ozma, and They Might Be Giants.
See also: Nerdcore hip hop
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Coulrophilia
Coulrophilia is the paraphilia involving sexual attraction to clowns.
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Monday, November 3, 6
Sutra neti
Sutra is the Sanskrit word for string. Sutra neti is the method of clearing nasal obstructions with a string. It is a practice used in yoga to aid pranayama. It is considered an advanced practice that is usually preceded by jala neti. This is a very effective method of keeping the nasal passages open to their fullest capacity.
Sutra Neti is performed by passing a cord made of cotton threads or a rubber catheter into the nose through one nostril and then out via the mouth. The cord is gently pulled to and fro for some time, removed and then threaded through the other nostril and out the mouth again. With practise, the cord can be passed in one nostril and out the other nostril....
99% of the benefit is obtained by simply passing the string up to and through this nasal-throat valve while gently massaging the nasal membranes which reflex back to the powerful group of nerves which serve in common the entire cranium.
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Sunday, November , 6
The beard theorem
The Beard Theorem is a political theorem that relates to the Communist Party and its members. The Beard Theorem is a theory that suggests that the size of one's Beard, whether it be a puff, French Fork or Mutton Chop, has a direct correlation to the radicality of a person's Socialist views. If one was to have a large, beard, that person has a higher chance of being a communist revolutionary than one other person who has only as moustache, or worse: no facial hair at all. This theorem is proved by many of the communist Russian revolutionaries of the 9's, those like Karl Marx, who has a massive, beard and, in accordance to the theorem, is a great communist. V.I. Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, had a beard, yet it was not as profound, thus he is not as truly communist as Marx or Engels, as he has a relatively small beard, but it is still present and is truth of his communisity. Josef Stalin, the leader of the Communist Vanguard Party in Russia from the mid 9's to 95, has no beard, yet has a moustache. Stalin, in accordance to the theorem thus has very little Communist Blood in him, as he is a Stalinist, and a social fascist. Exceptions to the rule is most East Asian Communist leaders.
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Saturday, November , 6
Exophilia
Exophilia is an attraction, generally sexual in nature, to new, strange, or otherworldly things, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, supernatural beings, and robots. Exophilia may be regarded as the sexual form of neophilia, which is the more generalized attraction to new and unknown things.
The book Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish by Supervert defines exophilia specifically as an erotic attraction to extraterrestrial beings and describes at length a character afflicted by this fetish.
Sometimes exophilia is regarded as a fetish, but some are born that way, just as people may be born gay, lesbian, etc. It also is linked to the belief of otherworldly entities, energies, and/or beings. Because paraphilias are used for gratification, as well as masturbation, exophiliacs are either well-satisfied or not satisfied enough. Mythos from other cultures tell of spirit/alien/demigod/etc. couplings with humans that are sexual in nature, which gives hint that perhaps at one time exophilia was possibly more common.
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Friday, November , 6
Ursa Major Awards
The Ursa Major Awards are intended to be the furry fandom award for outstanding achievement in anthropomorphic and furry arts, equivalent to the science fiction fandom's Hugo Awards. The awards were first presented in at ConFurence . With the demise of ConFurence in 3, it was decided that the awards would be presented at as many furry conventions as possible....
The UMA trophy consists of a framed certificate containing the Awards' illustrated logo designed by Heather Bruton, with the name of the winner....
To be eligible, a work must have been released between January and December 3 of the calendar year for that award, and must include a non-human being given human attributes (anthropomorphic), which can be mental and/or physical (for example the intelligent rabbits in Watership Down for the former, and Bugs Bunny for the latter.)
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Mike the Headless Chicken
Mike (The Headless Chicken) (April 945 – March 947) was a Wyandotte rooster (cockerel) that lived for 8 months after his head had been cut off. Many people thought it was a hoax, so its owner took it to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and had it examined, which confirmed that it was legitimate.... Mike was still able to balance on a perch and walk clumsily; he even attempted to preen and crow, apparently not noticing that neither activity could be accomplished properly without a head....
Mike was on display to the public for an admission cost of 5 cents, and at the height of his popularity was earning a princely $4,5 per month ($5, in 5 dollars)...
Post mortem, it was determined that the axe blade had missed the jugular vein and a clot had prevented Mike from bleeding to death. Although most of his head was severed, most of his brain stem and one ear was left on his body. Since basic functions (breathing, heart-rate, etc) as well as most of a chicken's reflex actions are controlled by the brain stem, Mike was able to remain quite healthy.
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Thursday, November 9, 6
Love rectangle
Love rectangle is a somewhat facetious term to describe a romantic relationship that involves four people, analogous to a love triangle. Many people use this term for a romantic relationship between two people that is complicated by the romantic attentions of two other people, but it is more frequently reserved for relationships where there are more connections. Minimally, both male characters usually have some current or past association with both female characters. These relationships need not be sexual; they can be friendships or familial relations. Both males and/or both females can also be friends, family members (frequently siblings) or sworn enemies. The addition of bisexual or homosexual characters can add complexity.
The term "love rectangle" can imply that the arrangement is unsuitable to one or more of the people involved whereas an arrangement that is agreed upon by all parties is sometimes called polyamory.
The word "love" can be added to the front of other shapes to reflect romantic relationships involving more people, e.g. "love pentagon".
In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, there is a love rectangle between the characters Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia. Demetrius is granted Hermia's hand in marriage by her father, but Hermia loves Lysander, and the two flee, intending to elope. Demetrius pursues the couple, and Helena pursues Demetrius, whom she has always loved. The fairy Puck, in trying to use magic to resolve the situation, temporarily transfers both men's affections to Helena. Further tampering restores Lysander's love for Hermia. Demetrius, now in love with Helena, withdraws his claim on Hermia, and both couples are wed.
See also: love triangle, polyamory.
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Discuss: Wikipedia Ideas
Wikipedia is a marvelous tool. What features would you most like to see added to Wikipedia to make it even better, for example, to make it even more usable?
For example, I’d like to see an option that may be selected to temporarily color code text by date of entry. Thus, text that was green, because it was five years old, might be more “trustworthy” than text that was red, which was ten minutes old or text that is orange that is two days old. The color option may be toggled on an off by the user.
Discuss: Future of Wikipedia?
What do you foresee for the future of Wikipedia? Do you feel that the number of entries will continue to grow at the current astronomical rate? More generally, what is the future of the kinds of projects that evolve according to the behavior of a collective intelligence?
Wednesday, November 8, 6
Maid in Akihabara
Maid in Akihabara is a 6 episode series that was produced in Japan on 5 and released on Feb 4, 6. Each episode ran about 5 minutes, and took place in Akihabara, Tokyo - the cyber city of Japan. The story begins when an woman, named Saki, tries to find a job to hide from a bar gang, since she have worked at a bar before. She ends up getting a job at a Maid cafe called Meido no myage (Maid's gift). She is the third maid to be joining the cafe. With the addition of being homeless, she lives in a 4h internet cafe.
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Women in physics
Oftentimes one cannot help but wonder at the heavily biased gender ratio at the level of original research in Natural Sciences. The issue is very relevant to Physics in particular. Hence it is a valid question to ask why there are so fewer women physicists around as compared to their XY counterparts. The answer, in the lack of scientific evidence of cognitive differences, convincingly lies buried in the history of deep-rooted socio-econo-religious structures that have been prevalent in civilizations across the world, and inevitably perpetrated into our academic institutions.
Physicist Sean Carroll, in a column in his blog, calls this Unconscious but Pervasive bias, and refers to a recent New York Times article discussing a report from the National Academy of Sciences titled Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, which raises voice against outmoded institutional structures in academia. [material excised for brevity]
Recently, an effort has been made by Nina Byers and colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA, to compile a list of 83 women physicists, who made significant contributions in the field in the th Century (pre-976). The website also has a list of names of 3 contemporary women physicists who have been leading research in their respective fields. The list doesn't claim to be (and is by no means) exhaustive, but it is nevertheless a commendable attempt to create a database of contemporary women physicists with significant contributions in their respective areas of research.
External Links: NYT article; National Academy of Sciences Report; Contributions of th Century Women in Physics; APS Women in Physics Group; APS statistics; IOP Women in Physics Group; Women Nobel Laureates in Physics; Turning Women into Leaders; Physics needs Women.
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Tuesday, November 7, 6
List of fictional worms
Worms are often used in fiction. This is a list of fictional worms.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Legends: The Lambton Worm, of 5th-century English legend; The Worm of Sockburn, of 4th-century English legend ; The Worm of Linton, of th-century Scottish legend; The Sjö-Orm of early Norse seafarers' legends; Great Orms of fresh and salt water in early Gaelic and Brythonic legends; The Jörmungandr or Midgard Serpent of Norse Mythology.
Books, television, music and film: The Bookworm character of various children's reading programs; The .33 Bookworm in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels; The Graboids in the Tremors films and television series; Jeff, the giant subway worm in the film Men in Black II; The ghost-eating sandworms in the film Beetle Juice; Sandworms in the books, film and TV series Dune; Mr. Mind, the super-intelligent arch-nemesis of DC's Captain Marvel character; Fip, the word-eating worm in the book, The Word Eater; Slimey, pet of Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch; Lowly Worm, from Richard Scarry's Busytown; The unnamed "worm chile" seen in various Pogo strips, including the first (sometimes just one, as in "the apprentice cobra" Snavely is tutoring, and sometimes several who, together, play a flute); Lazy Jay Ranch's worms in Rocky and Bullwinkle; The documentary The Future is Wild featured three species of worms: garden worms, slickribbons and gloomworms; In the 5 film King Kong, a giant bloodworm-like predator called the carnictus lives in the rents and chasms of Skull Island. They grow to be 7-3 feet long, and they kill a character named Lumpy in the film; Evil Jim, Earthworm Jim's evil twin from the Earthworm Jim TV series. The Bookworm in Warner Brothers "Sniffles" cartoons; The Bookworm in Tiny Toons; Doctor Worm, from the They Might Be Giants song featured on Nickelodeon's Kablam; One of the unrecorded cases of Sherlock Holmes involves a "worm unknown to science."
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Arabocentrism
Arabocentrism or Arab chauvinism is the practice, conscious or otherwise, of placing emphasis on not simply "Middle Eastern" but more specifically "Arab" concerns, culture and values at the expense of those of other cultures (typically countered from other Middle-East cultures and European culture). Like its equivalent, Eurocentrism, it is an instance of ethnocentrism, perhaps especially relevant because of its alignment with or opposition to current and past real power structures in the world. It can be a less overt form of Arab supremacy, as opposed to white supremacy. As Arabocentrism involved overemphasizing claims of superiority or claiming that everything is of Arab origin, this discourse may be behind advocating - whether actual or perceived - Arab influence over various non-Arab cultures as being such, or denying their true existence at all.
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Voden inscription
The Voden inscription is an alleged archaeological find purporting to be a medieval inscription in Old Slavonic by the Bulgarian Tsar Samuel dating from 989 AD. It is believed by some analysts to be a 9th-century forgery. If genuine, it would be of important historical value for Balkan history. It was found at early 997 at Voden, present day Edessa, an ancient town of northern Greece. In text tsar Samuel (957-4) is self-referred as Tsar of Bulgars and Romans. Relevant is the Bitola inscription dating from 5 A.D. of Bitola Museum in Republic of Macedonia. Both inscriptions reveal the Bulgarian character of Samuel’s State.... Ever since, inscription remains hidden by Greek authorities.
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Monday, November 6, 6
Hologram Theory
The "Hologram Theory," as it relates to 9/, proposes that no commercial airliners hit the World Trade Center on Sept . Proponents of the theory contend that rather than full sized airliners, the World Trade Center was hit by "Cruise" type Missiles which appeared to the naked eye to be airliners through the use of sophisticated hologram technology. Rosalee Grable is one the the theory's leading proponents. One eyewitness described the 'airplane' he saw: "It just disappeared. It disappeared like a, like a, bad special effect. Disappeared right into the building." Eyewitness Accounts. This theory is controversial even among 9/ researchers.
External links: Fringe Theories Harming 9/ Truth Movement; Hologram Theory Hologram Theory Overview; 'Ghostplane' - Rosalee Grable; See Also 9 Truth Movement.
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Cynthia Cameron is a published author, an online communications specialist, and editor in business, lifestyle and health sectors, including former editor of the Canadian trade publication, Environmental Digest.
In recent years, Cameron introduced the online world to Canada's first E-book store (www.wordclix.com), from development through to implementation, Wordclix.com launched successfully in . Cameron maintains her official site, as an all encompassing freelance communications firm, marrying IT knowledge-transfer, with traditional writing and business administration system applications. She also writes The Cameron Report.
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Allodoxaphobia
Allodoxaphobia is the phobia associated with the fear of opinions. Although allodoxaphobia is a rare fear, individuals suffering from this phobia can seek professional treatment from either psychologists or psychiatrists.
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Sunday, November 5, 6
List of songs about hair
This is a list of songs about hair.
"Almost Cut My Hair" - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young ;"Bangs" - They Might Be Giants; "Bald" - The Darkness; "Cut My Hair" - The Who ; "Cut Your Hair" - Pavement ;"Devil's Haircut" - Beck ; "Devilock" - The Misfits ; "Five Colours In Her Hair - McFly ; "Fixing Her Hair" - Ani Difranco ; "Get a Haircut" - George Thorogood ;
"Hair" - Hair (musical) ; "Hair"-The Early November ; "Hair" - PJ Harvey ; "Haircut" - Kevin Devine ; "Haircut Economics" - Hot Hot Heat ; "I'm So Bald" - Mr. Mason ; "I Am Not My Hair" - India.Arie ; "I Think I'm Going Bald" - Rush ; "I Won't Cut My Hair"- D-A-D ; "Le Frisur (entire album)" - Die Ärzte ; "Lend Me Your Comb" - The Beatles ; "Long-Haired Child" - Devendra Banhart ; "Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods)" - Desaparecidos ; "More Than a Haircut" - The Waifs ; "Pull My Hair" - Bright Eyes ; "Pull My Hair" - Ying Yang Twins ; "Sampson" - Regina Spektor ; "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie ; "Screaming Infidelities"- Dashboard Confessional ;
"The girl I love she got long wavy black hair" - Led Zeppelin ; "Torra Fy Ngwallt N Hir" - Super Furry Animals ; "Who Found Who's Hair in Who's Bed? - Owen ; "You're Not You" - The Good Life ; "Suicide Blonde" by INXS ; "Short Haired Woman - Lightning Hopkins ; "Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine - Johnny Cash and The Carter Family ; "He Took A White Rose from Her Hair - The Carter Family ; "Long Blonde Hair - The Meteors ; "Ain't Got No Hair - Professor Longhair ; "Black Is the Color Of My True Love's Hair - Nina Simone ; "Dark Hair'd Rider - Heavy Trash
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Bum darts
Bum darts (butt darts or asshole darts) is a party game played with cups or glasses and a coin or bottle cap. The objective of the game is to pinch the coin/cap with the buttocks and drop it into the cup. There are several versions of the exact rules of the game.
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LisaNova
LisaNova is a video blog that came to international attention via YouTube, a popular video sharing website.
The LisaNova channel is currently listed as th most popular channel on YouTube with 358 subscribers as of October, 6 and usualy averages around , or , per vlog, often receiving much higher ranges in selected acts.
It started when an aspiring artist known only as 'Lisa' posted her sketch comedy on YouTube and realised a few hundred thousand people viewed her post.
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Saturday, November 4, 6
Drunk blogging
Drunk blogging, also known as drunk posting, occurs when an inebriated person creates a blog (using a blog hosting site such as Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, etc.) or logs into an existing blog account and posts entries that are of an extremely private nature or that are completely nonsensical. Drunk blogging also includes visiting other blog sites to leave inappropriate .
Drunk blogging typically occurs in the early morning hours after one has consumed large quantities of alcohol. Drunk blogging is not the same as drunk dialing, which utilizes a phone.
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Enochian angels
Enochian angels are entities as expressed in the enochian system of ritual magic, introduced by John Dee and Edward Kelley in the 6th century.
Enochian magic takes a view similar to Buddhist teaching that postulates a plurality of deities, but no "supreme" deity. It denies the existence of a personal God in the sense of an Absolute Deity. However, according to the Enochian viewpoint, there are angels, or intelligent rulers, of each world, each planet and each sun, and so on. This idea is a result of a "Law of Hierarchies" which states that from the highest realms of spirit to the lowest levels of matter, everything in between is composed of a host of gods, monads, or life-atoms arranged in a myriad of hierarchies. The following rules are applied to hierarchies:
- All aggregates are composed of hierarchies.
- For every hierarchy there is a governing ruler or hierarch.
- Hierarchies descend infinitely into matter.
- Hierarchies ascend infinitely into spirit.
- The universe has a hierarchical structure, interlinking groups of entities living and working together.
- Hierarchies are born, evolve over time, and die.
- Worlds are created by hierarchies of cosmic Builders and Architects acting together.
- Every world contains hierarchies of Recorders who constitute the forces of karmic history for that world.
- The cosmic elements and planes are composed of countless hosts of evolving hierarchies.
- Every hierarchy is composed of a host of smaller hierarchies.
- Every hierarchy is a component part of a larger hierarchy.
According to the Enochian monad model, every entity enters the cosmic planes of manifestation as unself-conscious life-atoms that slowly evolve into self-conscious monads, and they in turn slowly evolve into gods as a result of karmic evolution.
The chief of a hierarchy is called the hierarch, each of the watchtowers is viewed as a hierarchy. Each Watchtower is divided into six subhierachies. The hierarch of each of these is called a Senior. Each of the four Watchtowers is also divided into four subquadrants whose hierarchies are called Archangels. These are further divided up into smaller hierarchies whose rulers are called Angels. In this way, the entire universe, visible and invisible, is teeming with beings in varying states of self-consciousness.
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Bonkum
Bonkum is the brand of the company Bonk Designs.The company provides unique sexual position furniture for the bedroom.
The Company started in August 3 with the initial design of its flagship product; The Bonker in Venice Ca., USA.
It released its third model in production at the AVN AEE trade show in Las Vegas in January 4 with much fanfare, press, and media excitement. Bonkum continued to grow into a larger company as the line developing more products, like the Bonkim.
The Bonker Classic is an above-the-bed frame which allows for trapeze like acrobatics not available in any other device. Two half-heart metal frames, attached to two bases which slide on and secure under the mattress above the box spring. Connected to the half heart frames, are spring clips and an assortment of pleasurable straps, handles and attachments to enhance the user for sexual applications.
The Bonker Extreme is double,or four arms and four bases on the bed. It allows for more multiple positioning possibilities. A bedroom device that can handle more positioning than what a sex swing could do, but over a bed, without the ceiling mount or large frame stand needed. The possibilities are endless for comfort and sexual positioning as one can use the Bonker as a sex sling (fisting sling), a sex swing, a sex spring, or as a way to achieve body and limb positioning not available with any other sexual furniture.
The Bonkim is an end of bed attachment, similar to a trampoline, that allows for a rhythmic effect while making love. Inspired and similar to the rhythm a water bed enhances and the leverage gained by having the wooden bed frame to push off of.
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The Jewish Magazine
The Jewish Magazine is a free glossy magazine published and distributed in the Jewish communities of Canada that is published times a year.
Created in 994 as The Israeli Magazine; it was the connection to the Hebrew speaking community. It was printed in English and Hebrew.
In 4, the name of the magazine changed to appeal to the entire Jewish Community. The Jewish Magazine was born.
The Jewish Magazine is not a political or religious magazine. Its focus is entertainment, lifestyle, trends and technology.
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List of Celebrity Laser Eye Patients
A celebrity list of laser eye patients:
Ewan McGregor Tiger Woods Michael Douglas Kathy Griffin Nicole Kidman "Weird Al" Yankovic Tony Robinson Brad Pitt Mel B
Retief Goosen Scott Hoch Jesper Parnevik Vijay Singh Hal Sutton Lee Westwood Mike Weir Juli Inkster Se Ri Pak Laura Davies Tom Kite Hale Irwin
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