Blue 500 Watt Cruzin Cooler Scooter with Seat, a.k.a. what to get me for Christmas.A Check it out on Amazon.
Posted: September 22nd, 2010
at 8:33am by Black Ock
Categories: too good to be true,the column
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The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is an NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization studied in operations research and theoretical computer science. Given a list of cities and their pairwise distances, the task is to find a shortest possible tour that visits each city exactly once.
The problem was first formulated as a mathematical problem in 1930 and is one of the most intensively studied problems in optimization…
Posted: September 18th, 2010
at 8:20am by Black Ock
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If you’ve been reading myninjaplease recently you’d noticed that we’ve been featuring posts in Japanese. Editors, Hiroki and Kosuke have been writing about some of the cultural phenomena in Japan and US and what a great way to learn either language! Here’s a link to NINJAPAN BLOG…
Posted: September 11th, 2010
at 7:57pm by Koookiecrumbles
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If you haven’t watched the DOJO yet, what are you waiting for?A Get a glimpse into the 1st episode of Chicago’s myninjaplease inspired DVD Mag! Check it out!
Who’s Got that Vocab?!?!A myninjaplease does!A We’re bringing this feature back to educate la gente.
Therianthropy refers to the metamorphosisA of humansA into other animals.A from n. therianthrope and adj. therianthropic, part man and part beast, from the Greek therion, IIIII, meaning "wild animal" or "beast" (impliedly mammalian), and anthrpos, IIII, meaning "human being") Therianthropes have long existed in mythology, appearing in ancient cave drawings such as the Sorcerer at Les Trois Freres.
Posted: April 27th, 2010
at 9:03am by Black Ock
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Bonnier has introduced a working concept of the Mag+, a product that is seeking to understand the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. MNP recently caught up with Pontus Schultz of Bonnier R&D and asked him about the concept and its recent success with Popular Science+
This week for theAA Dozen feature, we touch base withAKathleen Letts, Aa very talented artist from Chicago.AHow did you get your start in the visual arts? It all started with mud pies…my earliest memories are of making little pots from the mud in a wooded clearing near our house in rural Kansas. AI must have been 4 or 5. ALater I branched out to figures that I made out of cloth and wood scraps from my mother's sewing basket and my father's wood shop, which I sold to family and friends. AI remember that my most expensive art work at the time was priced at $ .50. AMom thought it was a little overpriced! I think that artists are born, not made, and the most critical component of the artistic temperament is the patience -or the compulsion-to work a piece through to completion.
Chi crederia che sotto forme umane e sotto queste pastorali spoglie fosse nascosto un Dio? Non mica un-["Who would believe that under human form and under this pastoral garb there would be found a God? Not only a…."]AAs of mid-May 2009, this phonautogram of the opening lines of Torquato Tasso's pastoral drama Aminta is the earliest audible record of recognizable human speech.