Andre Venter: Worldopen endsAddiction- August 31, 2003 However much .... it's Never Enough! Listening to The Cure - Love Song all day long... hebig.orgblog Never Enoughhttp://www.hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/001141.php Fresh Glimpse in 911 Files of the Struggles for Survival- August 29, 2003 The Port Authority released more than 1,800 pages of transcribed radio transmissions, much of them from people in and around the World Trade Center. By Jim Dwyer. New York Times: NYT HomePagehttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/29/nyregion/29WTC.html?ex=1377489600&en=d6a28710d9bcfd8... Blocker Tags to Protect Privacy From RFID Tags- August 29, 2003 geekee writes "According to an article at CNET, RSA Security is developing a 'blocker' tag that disrupts RFID tag transmissions, protecting a person's privacy ... Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2226204 The future of money: private complementary currencies- August 29, 2003 Bernard Lietaer, co-designer of the convergence mechanism of the Euro, talks in a interview about the problem of conventional money systems, what money is, and private complementary currencies. kuro5hin.orghttp://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/26/172939/637 Close Mars Means Close-Up Pictures- August 27, 2003 Guttata writes: "space.com has posted 1 of 2 images taken by Hubble last night, dubbed the best Mars globe photo ever taken. The second image will be posted at 4 p.m. ET..." Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1433254 The gift of sight- August 27, 2003 The gift of sight is easy to take for granted. Not for Mike May, blinded in infancy, Mike had partial vision restored at the age of 43. This is his journal, written with infectious delight for his new gift and documenting the unexpected problems that the miracle brings. There's much, much more to vision than just the data and Mike is an unprecedented opportunity to better understand how perception works. via the Guardian and previously mentioned here MetaFilterhttp://www.metafilter.com/mefi/27894 Stunning photographs- August 27, 2003 Stunning photographs by Kurt Ross. These glorious images have lifted my spirit today. MetaFilterhttp://www.kurtross.com Illustrating Genji- August 26, 2003 An eighteenth-century scroll illustrating the first sixteen chapters of Lady Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji. (In Japanese, anyone Don't forget to take the photographic tour.) A couple of images from an important twelfth-century scroll are here. UNESCO hosts a full set of seventeenth-century woodblock prints by Harumasa Yamamoto. For the nineteenth century, see a set of color sixteen woodblock prints by Kunisada; and for the twentieth, Shuseki's illustrations of the first eleven...http://www.dartmouth.edu/~arth17/Genji.html NASA's most-precise-ever worldmap- August 26, 2003 (via NewsIsFree) Robot Wisdomhttp://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,23029665,246/ Visual Human Server- August 24, 2003 ... a virtual anatomy lesson using java. MetaFilterhttp://visiblehuman.epfl.ch/index.php |