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Lightning Shared The Sky With A Rainbow
But then lightning sparked across the evening panorama as two of nature's most spectacular phenomenon created an unusual alliance. The clash of weather was seen above the affluent city of Fort Smith, in the Southern state Arkansas. One onlooker said: "It was awe inspiring. The lightning made a huge rumbling sound and when you looked up there was also this incredible rainbow forming on the horizon."........ Posted by: Tyler Permalink Source Billing Citizens For Evacuation
I am currently enrolled in an intensive summer arabic program at the American University in Beirut, and am holed up at the university, probably the safest place in the city right now. Basically my choices have been to make a run for the border with Syria and try to catch a flight out, or wait for the USG to carry out the evacuation plan. Because I heard reports about the dangers of the former (and based on a statement by the American embassy), I opted for the latter. They are finally getting everything together today, but they dropped a little surprise:......... Posted by: Tom Permalink Source Illicit Trade Finally Led To Modern Globalization
"We show that for a limited period of time there emerged a unique opportunity for self-interested actors to act; that their actions culminated in a network infrastructure that transcended them, and ultimately created the context of their own demise," write Erikson and Bearman. "That this context was also the context for the emergence of modern capitalist markets is fitting, for it suggests that the global capitalist trade networks now so familiar to us were to some significant extent the product of individual malfeasance". Using evidence compiled from ship's logs, ledgers, and other sources, Erikson and Bearman show that captains and seamen of ships owned by the East India Company used their personal cargo holds to sustain illicit trade. Instead of returning to England as directed, these captains cycled through the East, weaving together exotic locales and inadvertently creating a global market in which fluctuations in one locale had repercussions throughout the world......... Posted by: Tom Permalink Source Illicit Trade Finally Led To Modern Globalization
"We show that for a limited period of time there emerged a unique opportunity for self-interested actors to act; that their actions culminated in a network infrastructure that transcended them, and ultimately created the context of their own demise," write Erikson and Bearman. "That this context was also the context for the emergence of modern capitalist markets is fitting, for it suggests that the global capitalist trade networks now so familiar to us were to some significant extent the product of individual malfeasance". Using evidence compiled from ship's logs, ledgers, and other sources, Erikson and Bearman show that captains and seamen of ships owned by the East India Company used their personal cargo holds to sustain illicit trade. Instead of returning to England as directed, these captains cycled through the East, weaving together exotic locales and inadvertently creating a global market in which fluctuations in one locale had repercussions throughout the world......... Posted by: Tom Permalink Source The Pig and the Box
This is a kids' book. I don't know about the mental age of your kids, but mine find it hilarious. Even more so before they found out I made it. Now they just think I'm scary. Scarier. Anyway. The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. The pig becomes so protective of it, and so suspicious of anyone that wants to use it, that he makes people take their copied items home in special buckets that act as. well, they're basically DRM. It's like a fable, except the moral of the story is very modern in tone. I made the book after hearing how the entertainment industry in Canada is keen on teaching young kids about how to "respect" copyright. That was a bit heavy-handed, I thought, and otherwise despicable. Preying on small kids, brainwashing them so they believe what you're doing is honourable and good. Feh. So I wrote this book partly as a response to that venture, to counter-act the confused ideals that young'ns are being exposed to these days. Also, I wanted to write potty humour......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Most User-friendly Lightest Helicopter in the World
Image courtesy of acecraftusa.com/
This superlight 155 lbs helicopter is easy to control too-the entire control panels are located just under the pilot's nose. Strangely, you get the four tiny twin cylinder engines on top of the aircraft. However, you will get to experience the joy of flying only by yourself as it is made just for one......... Posted by: Jim Permalink Source Luck Determines Football Managers' Tenure
A manager's tenure is intrinsically associated with his team, and his reputation derives from the team's performance. However, as per the Cambridge study, reputation is not determined significantly by the manager's talent, effort or decision making skills, but mostly by pure luck. If luck plays a large part, it would question the high salaries managers are paid. This remarkably interdisciplinary study by Drs Toke Aidt and Daniel Sgroi with the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, Dr Bill Saslaw with the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, and Dr Bernard Leong at the Genome Institute of Singapore and the National University of Singapore, explored the qualities responsible for securing and maintaining high level jobs. Initially, it was not intended to focus on football: "Our original idea was to look at the tenures of CEO's," said Dr Saslaw. "Unfortunately, this information is hard to come by, but football clubs are very keen on promoting their history, and so provide a wealth of information". The scientists looked into the tenure lengths of managers in England, Switzerland, France, Spain, Gera number of and Japan, as well as in American football and baseball leagues. The data covered 7183 individuals over 130 years, revealing some interesting facts. One surprising empirical regularity that emerged from the researchers' detailed analysis of this data was that the chance of a manager keeping his job for an extra year follows an inverse power law (the longer the time served as manager, the lower the probability of the manager continuing to serve)......... Posted by: Jim Permalink Source A-VCS-tec Challenge
The original game consisted of seven levels, but most of the people I spoke to never played the game beyond level one. As "The Gauntlet" was the most known level I decided to create a more arcade-like version of only that first level for the VCS which would contain different graphic-sets and increasing difficulty. Beneath the gameplay I wanted to enhance the technical side of the game. I thought that for example the zooming-effect of the pyramid should be smoother and the game should use the larger color-palette of the VCS (128 colors compared to the C64's 16 colors). I also wanted to include a scroll-text in the introduction sequence as I hadn't seen this effect on the VCS before. During the development of the game I had some memory left and decided to include the second level "The Stairs", too. You can choose to play only "Gauntlet" levels or "Gauntlet" and "Stairs" levels alternating now......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Photoshopping Contest
The rules of this game are thus: Your image should be something that would shows pop culture icons as twisted evil monsters in any medium (i.e. cartoons, children's books, children's television shows, etc.). Text is allowed on images if it is a natural part of your image (i.e. the text on a book). It can be anything within reason, so long as it's clean. As always, quality is a must. We'll remove poor images no matter how much we like you. You'll have 48 hours for this contest, so make your submissions count......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Classic Cars On The Common
The success of the Harpenden event has been its informality and spontaneity - it draws enormous crowds for a midweek Summer's evening because of its simple ethos; 'Turn up. Park up.' If you've got a car over 20 years old, just apply for your pass at the website (cost is just £3) and turn up at the common anytime after 4pm. Or just turn up without a car and enjoy some heritage. The event is under threat due to local concerns over noise - so if you're in the area, support it while you can......... Posted by: Jim Permalink Source |
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