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Mysteries. UPPERCASE - Participate. Take a photograph of the colour media that is special to you (paint palettes, paint, trays, pastels, crayons, pencils, inks, pigments, etc) and write a brief description of how and why this art supply goes beyond being just a tool or medium. How does it enhance your creativity? What makes this particular medium special to you? How is colour tied in with your identity as an artist?

SUGGESTIONS • Take a photo of your favourite media in good natural light against a white backdrop to show the object or artifact in its entirety• Get up close and personal with some detail shots highlighting colour and texture and labels• Provide a wider view of your workspace and artwork, showing your art supplies and various colours Images should be RGB jpgs at least 6 inches wide at 300dpi. The Listserve. Unsuck It. Unroll.me - Welcome to a cleaner inbox. All Japanese Emoticons | Japanese Emoticons. This is the Internet’s largest list of over 10,000 specially selected kaomoji Japanese emoticons.

The categories from this site are listed in alphabetical order as you scroll down the page. You can also jump to any specific category of emoticon using the links in the main menu of this site. The categories are divided into 4 master categories: Feelings, Animals, Actions and Miscellaneous with sub categories under each of those master categories. If this is your first time here and you’re not sure what a kaomoji is or how kaomoji are different from emoji then check out this page explaining the difference between kaomoji and emoji emoticons.

These emoticons are also sometimes called emojicons, dongers, facemarks or smilies. These kaomojis are angry and man, there are a ton of them. Flipping the Bird Sometimes you feel so angry that you just need to give someone the finger. Angry to the Right These kaomoji emoticons are angry and facing towards the right. Angry to the Left Forward Facing Anger. DarwinTunes | Survival of the funkiest. Collective[i] - Decision Support for Marketers. The Experiment Fund. Who can take advantage of the Experiment Fund? Everyone, regardless of university affilation, nationality, age, or prior experience. Read more about our Method. What kind of help can I expect? We invest seed capital, make our team part of your team, and connect founders with world-class advisors, operators, and top-tier growth financing.

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These lines (when represented in a logarithmic scale) tend to straight lines whose slopes coincide with Conway's constant. In mathematics, the look-and-say sequence is the sequence of integers beginning as follows: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, 13112221, 1113213211, ... (sequence A005150 in OEIS). To generate a member of the sequence from the previous member, read off the digits of the previous member, counting the number of digits in groups of the same digit.

For example: 1 is read off as "one 1" or 11.11 is read off as "two 1s" or 21.21 is read off as "one 2, then one 1" or 1211.1211 is read off as "one 1, then one 2, then two 1s" or 111221.111221 is read off as "three 1s, then two 2s, then one 1" or 312211. The idea of the look-and-say sequence is similar to that of run-length encoding. d, 1d, 111d, 311d, 13211d, 111312211d, 31131122211d, … Wolfram MathWorld: The Web's Most Extensive Mathematics Resource. KEO: Send your message to space. Pocket Jury • View topic - Collection of table flipping emoticons. Best One-Liners and Zingers. The HyperTexts The Best One-Liners and Zingers compiled and edited by Michael R. Burch Related pages: Best Political Epigrams, Best Epigrams about Sex and Marriage, Best Humorous Epigrams This page contains some of the greatest one-liners and "zingers" in the English language.

One-liners and zingers are humorous forms of the epigram. Let us begin our inquiry with the following question: What does this colorful crowd of characters have in common: Alexander the Great, Woody Allen, Aristotle, Yogi Berra, Brutus, Julius Caesar, Catherine the Great, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Ben Franklin, Mohandas Gandhi, Thomas Jefferson, JFK, Abraham Lincoln, Martial, Groucho Marx, Plato, Dorothy Parker, Dolly Parton, Will Rogers, Shakespeare, Socrates, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Voltaire and Oscar Wilde? Answer: They all produced immortal epigrams! The Top Ten One-Liners of All Time ... In politics never retreat, never retract, never admit a mistake. Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. 40 Glorious Routines From The 1988 Aerobic Championships. Postcards Show the Year 2000 (circa 1900) John said... Given that each card features "Hildebrands Deutsche Schokolade" or "Hildebrands Deutsche Kakao" in the upper left corner, saying the original site "claims" that the cards were produced by the Hildebrands chocolate company seems a bit too cautious!

: )There's a tongue-in-cheek quality to many of these cards. For example, the "Schonwettermachine" (good weather machine) bears a label that says "Deutsche Kakao" (German cocoa). Is it spraying cocoa powder into the air? Also look at the bank guard and his X-ray machine. April 24, 2007 at 9:32 AM Daniel Geduld said... It really sucked when I tried to fly my personal flying machine to the city and got stopped by the city roof.

April 24, 2007 at 10:00 AM Stephan said... I've translated the descriptions in the lower right corner:- Stroll on Water in the year 2000- Mobile "traffoire" in… (as far as I can read it. April 24, 2007 at 10:12 AM Anonymous said... April 24, 2007 at 10:22 AM Frederik said... April 24, 2007 at 10:33 AM GaryG said... Chain Reaction - Advanced - The Game. Why Creative People Need to Be Eccentric. Creative people have a reputation for eccentricity. It’s not hard to see why when we consider the habits of some well-known creatives. Like Truman Capote: I am a completely horizontal author. I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. Or Friedrich Schiller, as described by fellow poet Stephen Spender: Schiller liked to have a smell of rotten apples, concealed beneath his desk, under his nose when he was composing poetry.

[from "Creativity", ed. All of my pictures are created against a background of music. [From "Creators on Creating", Ed. He gave all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he (Hugo) had completed his day’s work. Or novelist Orhan Pamuk: In the mornings I used to say goodbye to my wife like someone going to work. When these three elements are present, the trigger has the effect of inducing the particular state of consciousness that is essential for creative work. Why Weird is Wonderful (and Bankable) Heroes. Psychonauts: 1874-83. Shackleton The Psychonauts, born from 1874 to 1883, are a generation of expatriates, strangers in a strange land, emigrés and internal exiles. Discontented with the familiar, some of them were intrepid adventurers: Howard Carter, Shackleton, and Jack London, for example, not to mention extreme balloonists Jean and Auguste Piccard [honorary].

John Buchan invented the spy thriller as we know it. Others — like Carl Jung, Houdini, Aleister Crowley, Edgar Cayce, Peter D. Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Charles Fort, Gerald Gardner, and William E. Riker — wandered without compass or rudder through uncharted territories of the mind and spirit. HiLobrow members of the Psychonaut cohort were argonauts and astronauts boldly going where no man had gone before: across, through, and deep into psychic, esoteric, and paranormal phenomena of the most uncanny sorts.

Aleister Crowley A reminder of my 250-year generational periodization scheme: Portrait of Virginia Woolf by Roger Fry. Out-of-the-box thoughts. What kind of Muppet are you, chaos or order? Richard Termine/PBS.org. Every once in a while, an idea comes along that changes the way we all look at ourselves forever. Before Descartes, nobody knew they were thinking. They all believed they were just mulling. Until Karl Marx, everyone totally hated one another but nobody knew quite why. And before Freud, nobody understood that all of humanity could be classified into one of two simple types: people who don’t yet know they want to sleep with their mothers, and people who already know they want to sleep with their mothers. These dialectics can change and shape who we are so profoundly, it’s hard to imagine life before the paradigm at all. Dahlia Lithwick writes about the courts and the law for Slate.

Follow The same thing is true of Muppet Theory, a little-known, poorly understood philosophy that holds that every living human can be classified according to one simple metric: Every one of us is either a Chaos Muppet or an Order Muppet. The Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world. Welcome to the first Wired Smart List. We set out to discover the people who are going to make an impact on our future --by asking today's top achievers who, emerging in their field, they'd most like to have a leisurely lunch or dinner with. So we approached some of the world's brightest minds -- from Melinda Gates to Ai Weiwei -- to nominate one fresh, exciting thinker who is influencing them, someone whose ideas or experience they feel are transformative. Some suggested names you may be aware of, others might be new. Either way, they're all people you really need to know about. And wired will be inviting all nominators and nominees to a giant dinner party...

Richard Branson -- entrepreneur selects Lesego Malatsi -- designer Lesego Malatsi has a business called Mzansi Designers Emporium, based in Johannesburg. Geoffrey West -- theoretical physicict selects David Krakauer David Krakauer is a true polymath, full of ideas and creativity. David Bowie Children's Book. Christopher Langan. Christopher Michael Langan (born c. 1952) is an American autodidact with an IQ reported to be between 195 and 210.[1] He has been described as "the smartest man in America" by the media.[2] Langan has developed a "theory of the relationship between mind and reality" which he calls the "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU)".[3][4] Biography[edit] Langan was born in San Francisco, California, and spent most of his early life in Montana. His mother was the daughter of a wealthy shipping executive but was cut off from her family; his father died or disappeared before he was born.[5] He began talking at six months, taught himself to read before he was four, and was repeatedly skipped ahead in school.

Growing up in poverty, he stated that he was beaten by his stepfather from when he was almost six to when he was about fourteen.[6] By then Langan had begun weight training, and forcibly ended the abuse, throwing his stepfather out of the house and telling him never to return.[7] Yellow Kid Weil. Scrapbook: Fight For Your Right. (nice signs) Scrapbook. Est. 2007 This Blog Linked From Here Fight For Your Right. Posted by DL at 9.4.11 Labels: comical, food, mashup, poster, print, stationary No comments: Post a Comment Newer PostOlder PostHome. National Caves Association. GEORGE FERRIS’s DAY OFF: To play today, Google Doodle marks Valentine’s Day with a heart like a wheel - Comic Riffs. Posted at 11:43 AM ET, 02/14/2013 Feb 14, 2013 04:43 PM EST TheWashingtonPost STEP RIGHT UP. Today, in the name of carnal-carnival love, the Ferris wheel is an animal attraction.

To mark twin events, Google is offering an interactive animation that might as well be piping out the tune “Heart Like a Wheel.” For Valentine’s Day, the Bay Area-based tech titan lets you toy with its heart: Press on the fun-zone button and creatures are paired and made playable in googly-eyed love scenarios. It’s also a Google two-fer, as the Doodle celebrates the 154th birthday of late inventor George Ferris, as well as the towering wheel that bears his name. The Illinois-born Ferris, who studied civil engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York, had his own passion: for railroads and bridgework. In this era of burgeoning industrial achievement, the grandest thing at the 1889 Paris Exhibition had been the unveiling of a cloud-scraping romantic beacon: the Eiffel Tower. .

The Hundred Best Lists of All Time. Reddit May 2007 front page. Dunning–Kruger effect. Cognitive bias about one's own skill The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task. The Dunning–Kruger effect is usually measured by comparing self-assessment with objective performance. For example, participants may take a quiz and estimate their performance afterward, which is then compared to their actual results.

The initial study was published by David Dunning and Justin Kruger in 1999. It focused on logical reasoning, grammar, and social skills. There are disagreements about what causes the Dunning–Kruger effect. Definition[edit] David Dunning Explanations[edit] Revisiting why incompetents think they’re awesome. In 1999 a pair of researchers published a paper called "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (PDF). " David Dunning and Justin Kruger (both at Cornell University's Department of Psychology at the time) conducted a series of four studies showing that, in certain cases, people who are very bad at something think they are actually pretty good.

They showed that to assess your own expertise at something, you need to have a certain amount of expertise already. Remember the 2008 election campaign? The financial markets were going crazy, and banks that were "too big to fail" were bailed out by the government. Smug EU officials proclaimed that all was well within the EU—even while they were bailing out a number of financial institutions. In all of this, uninformed idiots blame the Greeks for being lazy, the Germans for being too strict, and everyone but themselves.

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