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Home Page. Best songs of Kishore Kumar » NDTV Movies. The 100 Most Powerful Women On Twitter. Roswell UFO incident. Coordinates: The Roswell UFO incident took place in the U.S. in June or July 1947, when an airborne object crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Explanations of what took place are based on both official and unofficial communications. Although the crash is attributed to a secret U.S. military Air Force surveillance balloon by the U.S. government,[1] the most famous explanation of what occurred is that the object was a spacecraft containing extraterrestrial life. Since the late 1970s, the Roswell incident has been the subject of much controversy, and conspiracy theories have arisen about the event.

The United States Armed Forces maintains that what was recovered near Roswell was debris from the crash of an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to what was then a classified (top secret) program named Mogul. Subsequently the incident faded from the attention of UFO researchers for over 30 years. Contemporary accounts[edit] Witnesses[edit] The 8 Funniest Webcomics. Cartoonists like Garfield's Jim Davis are lucky they got rich enough to buy their own diamond mines before there was such a thing as the Internet. Now, a whole bunch of kids with Blogspot accounts and MS Paint are proving they can do better. Way better. Since we figure our readers could use a little culture, we've put together a list of, without question, the funniest comics the Web has to offer. That's right: We claim to have identified the best of an utterly subjective art form. Dinosaur Comics, by Ryan North www.qwantz.com The Gist: A six-panel comic featuring clip-art dinosaurs trampling log cabins and tiny women gets its dialogue rewritten five times a week in an example of absurdism at its most hilarious.

Kinda Like: How every Marmaduke is basically the same drawings of the exasperated lady owner. Words and Pictures:Dinosaur Comics features a vibrant color palette, free and open canvases and a boldly choral compositional structure. Penny Arcade, by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Love in India. Fetch.io Downloads Your Torrents For You Insanely Fast, Then Streams Them to You - Lifehacker. Guy Asks For Software Crack, Creator Provides Free App Instead. I'm a big fan of two things: vulgarity and people who treat others well.

If you share similar passions, then this story is for you. While it's understandable for content creators to react negatively to those that "pirate" their work, Techdirt has highlighted instance after instance showing those that have chosen to react in a way that is more beneficial to everyone. It's kind of sad that, when people behaving kindly to one another (even after someone has tried to infringe on their copyright), it becomes something we have to point to, but consider the reaction of Chris Baker, creator of the F***ing Word Of The Day iPhone application, as shown on the The Next Web blog. Basically, the story boils down to this. A person on the Xsellize iPhone app message board put out a thread request for someone to crack Chris' app, without further explanation. Chris showed up immediately and responded to the poster: Hello!

It's just... perfect. And the reaction from the original poster? Sigh, bliss! SoundCloud - Your Sound, At The Heart. Fractals in Nature. Naturally Occurring Fractals (including plants, rivers, galaxies, clouds, weather, population patterns, stocks, video feedback, crystal growth, etc.) The geometry of Fractals brings us a new appreciation for the natural world and the patterns we observe in it. Many things previously called chaos are now known to follow subtle subtle fractal laws of behavior. So many things turned out to be fractal that the word "chaos" itself (in operational science) had redefined, or actually for the FIRST time Formally Defined as following inherently unpredictable yet generally deterministic rules based on nonlinear iterative equations.

Fractals are unpredictable in specific details yet deterministic when viewed as a total pattern - in many ways this reflects what we observe in the small details & total pattern of life in all it's physical and mental varieties, too .... After a few dozen repetitions or ITERATIONS the shape we would recognize as a Perfect Fern appears from the abstract world of math. Indian animation industry. The Indian animation industry encompasses both 2D traditional, and 3D animation, as well as visual effects for feature films. Although India's film industry has a long history, it is a relatively newcomer to the field of animation. History[edit] The first stop-motion film was made by Dadasheb Phalke in the silent era. The first animated films from India were produced in the 1930s. In 1956, Disney Studios animator Clair Weeks, who had worked on Bambi, was invited to Films Division of India in Mumbai to establish and train the country's first animation studio as part of the American Technical Co-Operation mission.

He trained a core group of Indian animators, whose first production was a film called The Banyan Deer (1957). The first Indian animated television series is Ghayab Aaya, aired in 1986 and directed by Suddhasattwa Basu. The first Indian 3D and VFX was done for television series Captain Vyom by Animation. Awards and festivals[edit] Societies and organizations[edit] Market[edit] 25 Articles Every Student Should Read. Study Hacks Blog Decoding Patterns of Success 25 Articles Every Student Should Read December 6th, 2007 · 13 comments The Best of Student Productivity Blogging As I head off for my Internet-free European vacation, I want to leave you with enough content to keep your mind humming.

Accordingly, I bravely dived into my blogroll and pulled out my favorite student productivity articles. Study Hacks: Practical Hacks: Mindset Hacks: Productivity Hacks: 13 thoughts on “25 Articles Every Student Should Read” Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""><abbr title=""><acronym title=""><b><blockquote cite=""><cite><code><del datetime=""><em><i><q cite=""><strike><strong> you MUST enable javascript to be able to comment About the Study Hacks Blog I'm a 31-year-old computer scientist exploring how people build interesting and meaningful lives.

Get the Latest from the Study Hacks Blog in your inbox: My Web Host My Most Recent Book. Profile Pictures Explained. Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised. Twitter users come together to work on power cut infographic. 11 Modern Technologies That Are Way Older Than You Think. For a long time, we've been able to pride ourselves on the fact that we're smarter than our primitive ancestors. Sure, they made fire and the wheel and invented language, or whatever, but we brought technology. Turns out a lot of our most technologically sophisticated inventions were already invented, which does nothing but remind us how useless we are.

Believed to have been invented in... In 2001, if you are a die hard Mac fan. Or 1997, if you are aware cheaper MP3 players existed before Steve Jobs figured out people would pay twice as much to hear their pirated songs on the bus if the MP3 player looked like the bastard son of Eve from Wall-E and a pocket calculator. Actually Invented in... In 1979, Kane Kramer and his friend, James Campbell, came up with the idea of a portable music player the size of a cigarette box. They even built five prototypes they showed potential investors. Late 19th century or early 20th century, or whatever the hell that World of Motion ride at EPCOT said. Back? Man tracks stolen laptop hundreds of miles away, calls thief - storify.com.

Angry Birds. 30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Their 30th Birthday. The Web is grand. With its fame for hosting informative, easy-to-skim textual snippets and collaborative written works, people are spending more and more time reading online. Nevertheless, the Web cannot replace the authoritative transmissions from certain classic books that have delivered (or will deliver) profound ideas around the globe for generations. The 30 books listed here are of unparalleled prose, packed with wisdom capable of igniting a new understanding of the world. Everyone should read these books before their 30th birthday. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse – A powerful story about the importance of life experiences as they relate to approaching an understanding of reality and attaining enlightenment.1984 by George Orwell – 1984 still holds chief significance nearly 60 years after it was written in 1949.

Related True Measure of Understanding: Ignorance Generates Negativity In the absence of understanding human reaction is generally negative. August 27, 2007 In "Aspirations" Dancing Plague of 1518. Engraving of Hendrik Hondius portrays three women affected by the plague. Work based on original drawing by Peter Brueghel, who supposedly witnessed a subsequent outbreak in 1564 in Flanders The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518.

Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and, over the period of about one month, some of those affected died of heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion. Events[edit] The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Frau Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg.[1] This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers. Some of these people eventually died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.[1] See also[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit] Backman, Eugene Louis (1977) [1952]. External links[edit] "Dancing death" by John Waller. Video Game Design Between 1990-2008. Remembering the good all days, when me and my friends were playing Doom, Mortal Kombat, Quake or War Craft on a Pentium 133 MHz computer with Sound Blaster and a 4MB video card.

A lot has changed since then. Video games actually are a lot older than that we used to play in the 90s. The first video game was created in 1947 called Tennis for two and it was played on an oscilloscope like device. With the release of Apple II, Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum in late 70s early 80s people could afford to buy such devices and to play video games from their own home. The 1990s became the golden age of computer video games and gave birth to a large number of game developers and publishers such as Activision, Electronic Arts, Blizzard and id Software From design and graphics point of view, video games greatly evolved and continue to do so. So, let’s look at how the graphics and design evolved starting from 1990.

Nintendo releases Super Famicom 16 bit consoleCreative Labs introduces Soundblaster Pro. 15 Developer/Hacker Women to Follow on Twitter,pecifically women with coding skills ,1. Pamela Fox,2. Jeri Ellsworth,3. Emily Chang,4. Hilary Mason,5. Danese Cooper,App Store, Australia, Facebook, Firefox, Gmail, Google, Google Earth, Google Maps, Interne. Some of the women on our list are “Internet famous.”

Some, less so — for now at least. Some have worked at big tech companies like Google() and Apple and Adobe(). Some are startup employees or fly solo. Some are hardcore hackers, some are web design-focused. We’ve even got a hardware geek on our list. With a big hat-tip to all our friends on Twitter() who recommended these women, here are 15 technically skilled women (in no particular order) to follow. 1.

Pamela Fox is a graduate from the University of Southern California Computer Science Department, where she earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees with minors in 3D animation and linguistics. 2. This woman is a self-taught computer chip designer and expert electrical and mechanical engineer. 3. Emily Chang lives in San Francisco and works at Ideacodes, a web dev/design shop she co-founded with husband Max Kiesler. 4. This data-loving lady is a computer science professor with a thing for machine learning. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.