An interesting approach to global comms in the pre-satellite days .. Earth's Artificial Ring: Project West Ford <http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=516> S....
... http://web.archive.org/web/20060202183134/http://www "A General Geometry for Cognition and Consciousness Abstract This article proposes a novel geometric...
there was a study on that and it seems to fit in here nicely. noone has commented so i thought i make a start. there was another showing kids doing well in...
I read that there is a study of the effects of dopamine on populations I think in US/Canada. They are looking for cognitive ailments caused by it and the...
A sort of interesting note (to me anyway -- a bit fascinating). That is, I thought it would be remiss not to mention. It's taken a couple years to jog my...
Hi everyone... I just thought I'd ask here as who knows... maybe there are some people here with the right sort of mindset and attitude. Anyhow... so I'm just...
... Not really, sorry. I am struggling with "types" right now. 1) What is a type, according to "set theory". 2) how do I model types in my code, remember this...
How many people here are "inventors", in some way or other? I am. I can't claim to be the world's greatest inventor, but I've invented some stuff in my time. ...
... Ah! Coolish. I've happened to click your sig link before, and I liked what I saw. ... Myself, as a strong atheist, I have built a theory about the world, ...
... Well I wasn't looking for a deep answer :P Just to see who else is out there and hear other people's inventions. -- http://elfdata.com/plugin/ "String...
Found these while looking for something completely different on Wikipedia .. "This idea is based on the notion that the looming environmental and other...
I'll agree with you there Steve. I've noticed the same thing. How just about everyone could be doing just about everything so much better... if only they...
Theodore, I linked around a bit and found this little gem...http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/95metro.html It was a serendipitous for me, because it...
Seems like they begin with what to deny the way most GhostNot infested memecultures are built, and then get to some solution suggestion towards the end, but...
(First, deviating from the topic slightly: Alan, in your coding example, could you not have used something RAII[1]-like to empty your result sets on error?...
... Incidentally, I heard "unpack" used in this sense on the Today programme recently. Is this the first example of the name a Perl built-in function crossing...
Turns out the fractal time program runs just fine in dosbox (but not wine): http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/progstone/photos/view/5de2?b=1&m=f&o=0 Is...
I have a superior version of Terrence McKenna's novelty theorem, which explains this "count down to zero" thing. Unlike McKenna's... it is a bit "darker" than...
... http://freeism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=120 Also... my "ball spinning around a rotating pole, but in the wrong direction" theory... it does include things...
The best version I've seen to date is at: http://www.timewave2012.com Click on the Timewave Calculator link on the left side of the home page. It fetches a...
... Terence McKenna - cool dude, did a lot of mushrooms, died of brain cancer about eight years ago - had the idea that human history was fractal (self-similar...
... As someone said... Two great thing come from that place, BSD and LSD. Oh, and this: <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/funnies.html> /Ove ... Low...
The Penrose quotations here are nicely informative .. http://www.meru.org/coast/Bellows-Negentropy.html#Negentropy .. whereas this is honest-to-God,...
Middle East Conflict Intensifies As Blah Blah Blah, Etc. Etc. April 26, 2007 | Issue 43•17 MIDDLE EAST—With the Iraq war in its fifth year, the war in ...
