Archive for January, 2007
January 31, 2007
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The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five-dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way:
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January 30, 2007
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The Cyberathlete Amateur League, CAL, was created in March 2001 when the Cyberathlete Professional League, founded by Angel Munoz, acquired the Domain of Games online league.
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January 29, 2007
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The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages.
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The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution.
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This page is for Wikipedians to list articles that seem a bit unusual. These articles are valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are somewhat odd, whimsical, or something you wouldn’t expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica.
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January 26, 2007
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A robotic device designed to build a single house much like a computer printer might will be put to the test this spring, according to its creator Berok Khoshnevis, engineering professor at the University of Southern California.
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January 19, 2007
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The Experimental Gameplay Project is about discovering new forms of gameplay.
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SovLit.com is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to the study and preservation of Soviet Literature. Founder, Chairman (Comrade), and Editor-in-Chief: Eric Konkol, B.A., Harvard University, Slavic Languages and Literatures.
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January 18, 2007
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The Internet makes it possible to combine texts, images and sound in a unique way. So what could be more logical than to present the instruments of the modern-day orchestra, and those which may one day join them, in such a way that their history, appearan
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The suicidal audacity of North Korean communist regime is simply astonishing. The meaning of text is pretty much the same on every poster:
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The Heart Chamber Orchestra is a one-hour performance that literally creates music “from the heart”.
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Senator George McGovern delivered these remarks at the National Press Club January 12. They are published here as part of Moral Compass, a series focusing on the spoken word.
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It’s a simple truth, although one not universally acknowledged, that SETI is still in its early stages.
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January 16, 2007
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In a nutshell: DRM’s sole purpose is to maximize revenues by minimizing your rights so that they can sell them back to you.
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And this, really, is what makes Super Columbine so artistically interesting: It uses the language of games as a way to think about the massacre. Ledonne, like all creators of “serious games,” uses gameplay as a rhetorical technique.
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alloftv.net constantly provides you with the latest and greatest streaming episodes on the web.
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Packet Garden is an experimental artwork that seeks to provide an alternative and accessible approach to visualising daily internet use. It was commissioned by Arnolfini in 2006. See the homepage for a brief description of what it does.
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January 13, 2007
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A photographic journey through central Asia.
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Polar Inertia journal is an outlet and a resource for on going research into the networks that define the contemporary city.
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Placed at the lobby of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin, the 25 meters high AquaDom is the largest cylindrical aquarium ever built.
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To a foreigner, the first thing that’s noticeable about these movies is what isn’t in them: namely, all the stereotypical things one associates with Argentina.
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Buenos Aires, known as the “Paris of the South,” once extracted prices for food, clothing, lodging, and alcohol that would make Parisians blush. It is now one of the world’s biggest bargains.
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The cult of the Gauchito Gil has spread not only to Corrientes but also to Chaco, the north of Santa Fe and even the province of Buenos Aires.
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Blog based in Buenos Aires focussing on “South American Wanderlust.”
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Buenos Aires Apartments for temporary rentals. Furnished apartments in Buenos Aires offer you the best locations of Buenos Aires.
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