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Startups. Tools. Bret Victor, beast of burden. Open Compute Project - Hacking Conventional Computing Infrastructure. Tutorials. The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology. User Groups. Brain Pickings - Part 30. By: Maria Popova A vibrant dance across the global spectrum of the popular imagination.

“Legendary lands … have only one characteristic in common: whether they depend on ancient legends whose origins are lost in the mists of time or whether they are an effect of a modern invention, they have created flows of belief,” Umberto Eco wrote in his illustrated meditation on imaginary places. But as much as fictional lands might hold enduring allure, what captivates our shared imagination even more are the fictional and mythic creatures of our cultural folklore, both ancient and modern. That’s precisely what writer Davide Cali and illustrator Gabriela Giandelli explore in Monsters and Legends (public library) — a vibrant and whimsical volume from independent British children’s book press Flying Eye Books, which also gave us the illustrated chronicle of Shackleton’s historic expedition. The Mapiguari The Dragon In every culture, there is a creature resembling a Dragon.

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Project Management. .Net. Information aesthetics. Mindmapping. Big Data. Six basic tenets of Dow Theory. 1. The market has three movements (1) The "main movement", primary movement or major trend may last from less than a year to several years. It can be bullish or bearish. (2) The "medium swing", secondary reaction or intermediate reaction may last from ten days to three months and generally retraces from 33% to 66% of the primary price change since the previous medium swing or start of the main movement. (3) The "short swing" or minor movement varies with opinion from hours to a month or more.

The three movements may be simultaneous, for instance, a daily minor movement in a bearish secondary reaction in a bullish primary movement. 2. Market trends have three phases Dow Theory asserts that major market trends are composed of three phases: an accumulation phase, a public participation phase, and a distribution phase. 3. Stock prices quickly incorporate new information as soon as it becomes available. 4. In Dow's time, the US was a growing industrial power. 5. 6.