10 links to cool, high-rez images There are many places to get free images, but here are a few that provide mostly public domain photos of a high quality (but as always, check the terms of use). Many of these sites provide very large versions of their images, much larger than you would use in your slides. But that's OK. We can always reduce the size of the image in photo-editing software to match our slide dimensions (e.g. 800x600 or 1024x768, etc. at 72dpi), but we can't make a small JPEG larger without losing quality. • Earth Observatory (NASA). • Great Images in NASA. A young Japanese American waits with the family baggage before leaving by bus for an assembly center in the spring of 1942 (National Archive source). • WWII posters. This may seem like an odd potpourri of links, but these are sites from which I have been gathering images lately and just thought you may be interested for future reference. RELATED• Where can you find good images?
Sprword.com Rapid Fire - What Brain and Sperm Share and Why Care Since the invention of radar, cell phone radiation was assumed to be harmless because it wasn't like X-rays. But a sea change is now occurring in the way scientists think about it. By Dr. In this Dean's Lecture, epidemiologist and electromagnetic radiation expert, Dr Devra Davis, will outline the evolution of the mobile phone and smartphone, and provide a background to the current 19 year old radiation safety standards (SAR), policy developments and international legislation. The Belief in Authority is a Superstition "In truth, the belief in "government" is a religion, made up of a set of dogmatic teachings, irrational doctrines which fly in the face of both evidence and logic, and which are methodically memorized and repeated by the faithful. Social Media is Full of Fake Comments Reddit is being gamed by professional shills every day. PR firms Create Propaganda for US Government Real Scientific Evidence of Controlled Implosion Dr. Dr.
Lillian R Lieber and Hugh Gray Lieber This husband and wife team of a mathematician (Lillian) and illustrator (Hugh) influenced many generations of mathematically inclined readers, who stumbled on one of the Lieber books in their youth and were intrigued by their style of explaining complicated mathematics in simple language. Three of the most popular were The Einstein Theory of Relativity (1936 and later editions), Infinity (1953) and The Education of T C Mits (The Celebrated Man In The Street) (1942 and later editions). In my case I found her book explaining general relativity in the public library of the small village of Florida in rural New York State where I grew up when I was in 9th grade (?) in the mid sixties and was fascinated by the concepts that were still beyond my abilities to comprehend. Eventually I found my way into theoretical physics and general relativity as a profession. I still remember how impressed I was by "tensors" and thought I would really be accomplished when I understood them.
Top 10 Freeware Software Nobody Knows About - But Should | Live It’s always a shame when a great program is not heard about by most people - especially when it’s free. Here are the top 10 freeware software that many people still haven’t tried, but definitely should. 10. Sharepod If you want to get all those files off your iPod and into your computer, then this is the program for you. 9. Not only is this a great notepad replacement, it is also a great help for software developers. 8. Simply put, this is a simple graphic viewer. 7. Although still in beta, this makes blogging both easy and comfortable. 6. This is the adobe reader replacement. 5. Comes installed in Windows Vista. [Edit: Some people pointed out that this isn’t necessarily freeware because you need to have Vista in order to use it. 4. Did you ever see the amazing CGI movies Pixar makes, like Ratatouille? 3. ImgBurn is great tool to create image files from discs and burn images to discs. 2. This is what iTunes should be like. 1.
Dane Cook Parlays New Burger King Menu Item Into Hour-Long HBO S LOS ANGELES—Building upon his previous Burger King–related work, comedian Dane Cook announced plans Monday to tape an hour-long HBO stand-up special devoted entirely to the Texas Double Whopper, the latest menu offering from the fast-food giant. The Cookster "Bro, I got a solid 15 [minutes] on the name alone," said Cook on the "Danecast" video weblog feature on his MySpace page. "I'm still working out the kinks, but I'm probably gonna call it the 'T-Dubs' or maybe the 'Spicy Dub-Whops.'" Cook said that the new burger, which substitutes jalapeño peppers and mustard for the original Double Whopper's mayonnaise and ketchup, has inspired him to "new creative heights." Last week, HBO signed Cook to produce, write, and star in the special tentatively titled Dane Cook: Burgasm for an unprecedented $25 million, the highest amount the cable network has ever paid to a comedian for a one-time-only, fast-food-themed performance. "I mean, the fucking thing has jalapeños on it, bro," Cook added.
10 Semantic Apps to Watch One of the highlights of October's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of 'Semantic Apps' as a force. Note that we're not necessarily talking about the Semantic Web, which is the Tim Berners-Lee W3C led initiative that touts technologies like RDF, OWL and other standards for metadata. Semantic Apps may use those technologies, but not necessarily. The purpose of this post is to highlight 10 Semantic Apps. What is a Semantic App? Firstly let's define "Semantic App". In September Alex Iskold wrote a great primer on this topic, called Top-Down: A New Approach to the Semantic Web. 1) Bottom Up - involves embedding semantical annotations (meta-data) right into the data. 2) Top down - relies on analyzing existing information; the ultimate top-down solution would be a fully blown natural language processor, which is able to understand text like people do. Now that we know what Semantic Apps are, let's take a look at some of the current leading (or promising) products... Freebase
National Catholic Register Virtual Memory in Windows XP Virtual Memory in Windows XPVersion 1.6 — Last Updated February 21, 2006Hold mouse here for list of most recent changes. by Alex Nichol(MS-MVP - Windows Storage Management/File Systems)© 2002-2005 by Author, All Rights Reserved Introduction This page attempts to be a stand-alone description for general users of the way Virtual Memory operates in Windows XP. Other pages on this site are written mainly for Windows 98/ME (see Windows 98 & Win ME Memory Management) and, while a lot is in common, there are significant differences in Windows XP. What is Virtual Memory? A program instruction on an Intel 386 or later CPU can address up to 4GB of memory, using its full 32 bits. What are Page Faults? Only those parts of the program and data that are currently in active use need to be held in physical RAM. What is loaded in RAM? Items in RAM can be divided into: The Non-Paged area. Any remaining RAM will be used to make the file cache larger. Why is there so little Free RAM? Where is the page file?