December 2009
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Lights and Water
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One Minute Apple Pie. Yum.
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Chinatown NYC. It’s pretty mesmerizing in full screen.
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US Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poem “Forgetfulness” with animation by Julian Grey of Headgear.
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My daughter refers to it as the French Toast Festival, because you need bread,...
– S. on the mad rush to the grocery store whenever snow is forecast in the DC area
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Calligraphy of geese
against the sky -
the moon seals it.
– Buson Yosa (via casinegro)
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Automated to Death || IEEE Spectrum →
The Flight 124 crew had fallen prey to what psychologist Lisanne Bainbridge in the early 1980s identified as the ironies and paradoxes of automation. The irony, she said, is that the more advanced the automated system, the more crucial the contribution of the human operator becomes to the successful operation of the system. Bainbridge also discusses the paradoxes of automation, the main one being...
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Evidence of Iran's nuclear arms expertise mounts... →
The accumulating evidence of Iran’s nuclear momentum emerges as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded Monday that the White House has little to show for nearly a year of diplomatic engagement with Iran over its nuclear ambitions. “I don’t think anyone can doubt that our outreach has produced very little in terms of any kind of a positive response from the...
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Winnie was not pleased with his first bath in the kitchen sink. He let us know.
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