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Randy "Flock of Dodos" Olson Speaks. TEN THINGS EVOLUTIONISTS CAN DO TO IMPROVE COMMUNICATION The World's Best Photos on 2008-07-25. Flickr Hive Mind Flickr Hive Mind is a search engine as well as an experiment in the power of Folksonomies. All thumbnail images come directly from Flickr, none are stored on Flickr Hive Mind. These photos are bound by the copyright and license of their owners, the thumbnail links take to you to the photos (as well as their copyright and license details) within Flickr. Because some other search engines (Google, etc.) index parts of Flickr Hive Mind, you may have been led here from one of them. Welcome to Flickr Hive Mind, almost certainly the best search engine for photography on the web. Flickr Hive Mind is a data mining tool for the Flickr photography database, allowing search by: tags(keywords); Flickr photography groups; Flickr users, their contacts, and favorites; free text; the Flickr Explore algorithm for interestingness.

Rapid Prototyping Models --- George W. Har Background Rapid Prototyping or Solid Freeform Fabrication refers to a range of new technologies which construct physical three-dimensional objects by assembling thin layers of material under computer control. Objects can be made which are extremely accurate, complex, and beautiful, and which no other technology can produce. For basic information on this rapidly evolving technology, I recommend this site or this site or search Google for new developments. Presently this is a somewhat expensive technology used mainly in high-end product design, and in research universities. Mathematics As a sculptor I am necessarily interested in three-dimensional geometry. George W. Historical Models In the future, small museums, schools, and interested individuals will be able to download and fabricate files to create an "instant exhibit" that replicates important original objects stored in museums. Art I am a sculptor and work with a wide range of materials, including RP designs. Puzzles Algorithms

Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams After 145 years, Western Union has quietly stopped sending telegrams. On the company's web site, if you click on "Telegrams" in the left-side navigation bar, you're taken to a page that ends a technological era with about as little fanfare as possible: "Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you for your loyal patronage. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact a customer service representative." The decline of telegram use goes back at least to the 1980s, when long-distance telephone service became cheap enough to offer a viable alternative in many if not most cases. Western Union has not failed. The world's first telegram was sent on May 24, 1844 by inventor Samuel Morse. Western Union goes back to 1851 as the Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company. Other company highlights:

Flickriver - A new way to view Flickr photos and more... Stripe Snoop :: Homepage E-Prime TOWARD UNDERSTANDING E -PRIME Robert Anton Wilson E-PRIME, abolishing all forms of the verb "to be," has its roots in the field of general semantics, as presented by Alfred Korzybski in his 1933 book, Science and Sanity. Korzybski pointed out the pitfalls associated with, and produced by, two usages of "to be": identity and predication. His student D. David Bourland, Jr., observed that even linguistically sensitive people do not seem able to avoid identity and predication uses of "to be" if they continue to use the verb at all. Bourland pioneered in demonstrating that one can indeed write and speak without using any form of "to be," calling this subset of the English language "E-Prime." Many have urged the use of E-Prime in writing scientific and technical papers. "Coke is it." And here gives some other examples that work better without E-prime (but what in the world do they mean?) "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM...."

Anywhere.FM View offers » The face of the VPN industry is ever-changing, but one constant that has remained over this considerable period of evolution is that of the Golden Frog-owned Vypr VPN. This veritable behemoth of the world of private internet is powered by veteran minds that have been involved in the field since the first breakthrough of public internet back in 1994, and boasts over 700 servers and an IP address count that numbers in the hundreds of thousands. Those statistics alone should be capable of properly conveying the true scale of the Vypr VPN operation, and the fact that it has endured twenty years of service in its various iterations speaks volumes about the quality of service on offer here. Vypr VPN operates its own servers in Europe, North America, and Asia, but the company itself is based in Switzerland – the benefits of which will become more apparent later on. Goldenfrog runs its own large server network across the globe. Pricing Privacy and Security How it Works Conclusion

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