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24
Jul

Whip of the Week

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24
Jul

Bird of the Timez

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24
Jul

Film Financing Abroad

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Film financing information for Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, Iceland and Ireland via Knol

24
Jul

Alt. New Yorker Cover

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Just in case those ninjas over at the New Yorker were trying to be more direct in their satirical portrayal of our nation’s leaders. Yeh, that’s Nixon framed above the mantle, and the consitution burning in the fireplace. Seems accurate to me…

::cartoon by Patrick O’Connor, for the Los Angeles Daily News, via::

24
Jul

The Design Industry Boom in China

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It is no wonder that with such a huge potential market, the taste and needs of the Chinese consumer has encouraged many of the large international companies to look at the area of design to make their products more attractive. According to a report in BusinessWeek, Sony set up a design centre in Shanghai in August 2005 to help them understand the minds of the young Chinese consumer. It is a sign of growing importance of China that corporations are prepared to go to such lengths and create products especially for the Chinese. The results of this bold move will be seen early this year when a new range of Sony products will be launched in China.

Made in China, copied in China

It is however, the China firms who are giving the major impetus to the growth of the design business within their country. While many Western products are being manufactured in China, the design comes from talent based in firms located in San Francisco or London. The locally-created goods have been, up until now, poor imitations of Western products or unabashedly copies of popular electronic goods and even motorcars. General Motors are currently suing China’s Chery Automotive Co. They feel the Chery QQ compact is a compact of GM’s Chevrolet Spark. read the rest at idasia

24
Jul

McDonalds Vs. Iron Chef

via Armchair Cook : A Food Network Addict

24
Jul

Foto del dia 7.24

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24
Jul

Baseball and Philosophy Part 2

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Back to baseball and philosophy part II. With quite a lot of approaches to competing in the diamond game, from the runner’s game, to the pitching and defense game, mechanics and such, I’ve decided that the team is the formula.

Some might say like the Devil Rays that there is no strategy to America’s ‘perfect game’ apart to solely winning Wall Street or like ((mp3)) says : it’s none of your business!

Aligning the stoics with the extremes of baseball seems to be easy for some. And again for others, who speculate on even if there is just philosophy to start off with, with the hardball versus softball debate. Where are the women?

Or that saying “all philosophies are taken” can also be seen as being quite selfish. Sharing is the name of the game, so how come I haven’t revealed any of my personal philosophies? I can’t, I won’t, I will, but not yet.

The rules of the game rule and the “hunches, guesswork, grittiness, gutsiness, the lore of the lunch-pail work ethic” paled against the traditionalists rests where I would start a few fore none philosophy. Next let’s attend the experience and environment conference.

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To wonder about the base stealing factor or to focus on those clutch situational players…….?

….Enough of the whoopla, here is John Rawls’ end point philosophy from a letter that was found by the author of the article with the least amount of resistance:

“[Finally], there is the factor of time, the use of which is a central part of any game. Baseball shares with tennis the idea that time never runs out, as it does in basketball and football and soccer. This means that there is always time for the losing side to make a comeback.”

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words by Phelton Skypes

23
Jul

iPhone 3(G’s!!)

Just in case you were considering bricking your new iPhone, take a gander at what these joints are doing on eBay at this current moment:

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OK, you can’t see it, we know, but, click the picture.  Kind of makes you want to sell, right? Read the hype here.

23
Jul

Ninja Homes: Torque House

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We’re kicking off a new Wednesday feature here on Myninjaplease: Ninja Homes. Each week we’ll be bringing you coverage of some 9th dan level housing - so drop us an email if you know of a project that you think should be featured.
I first came across this project, the Torque House by Mass Studies, in the February issue of Dwell Magazine - who feature a full page image [the shot above] of the home as a ‘house [they] love’ - and I was compelled to find out more. Located in, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, the project is a three-story, 134-pyeong [I’ve learned from Mass Studies that 1 pyeong equals 3.3 square meters - cool to know] house for a family of four.

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Deemed ‘irregular’ by the masterplan due to a curve in the nearby road, the site was programed to house a ‘linear’ building by the planners. This was used by Mass Studies as a basis for the home’s slightly curving volume - described as a building reacting to its surrounding environment - creating the ‘torque’.

As sharp stones are worn down by a flowing stream and transformed into pebbles, a rectangular building becomes torqued through the movement of curves.

Other site conditions - nearby houses, vehicular traffic, etc - were factors in creating the fairly large expanse of solid wall [seen below] on two sides of the house, while the building opens up on the others [particularly in the family space - kitchen + living areas], looking out to the surrounding landscape.

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One of the most interesting aspects of the house is the ‘green’ wall treatment. For the Torque House, Mass Studies incorporated a ‘moss catch system‘ [basically a panelized wall system covered in moss] at the suggestion of a local landscaping designer, in the hopes of reducing the ’spartan’ quality of the large bare walls. Additionally, it serves to absorb noise from the street, further insulate the building, and is ‘green’ [does that whole photosynthesis thing]. Imported from Japan by the previously mentioned landscape company [whose name isn’t given by Mass Studies, oddly], the house is the first building to employ the system - a type of geotextile that has been used to improve the aesthetic quality of roadside retaining walls - in this way.

The product, manufactured by mixing two types of mosses that grow well on both south and north sides, was perfect for applying to this building, and currently sprouts of the mosses are gradually growing on its walls, making it a “synthetic mass” with multiple functions as part of the landscape in Heyri Art Valley.

The project combines working space for both husband and wife [a classical music recording engineer and painter, respectively] with the private living space needed by a small family. Both the atelier for the wife/artist, and the studio for the husband/recording engineer required a level of privacy that was achieved with the previously mentioned long, predominantly solid walls. On the interior, spaces are also separated by private vs public - situating the staircase to allow for visitors going up to the third floor recording studio without disturbing the family’s privacy.

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Lastly, we’ve got what I thought was a pretty siiick staircase leading up to a roof terrace, playing on the ‘torque’ of the building. The bend in the concrete wall [image above] to form a ceiling over the stairs offers an interesting frame for a view of the sky while walking up the stairs - while the ‘window’ cut through this wall emphasizes the in-between quality of this space -not in, not out.

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::Images + info from Mass Studies - photographers by Yong-Kwan Kim - originally posted on AMNP::

23
Jul

The Phoenix Lights - Documentary

It’s not Monday right now, but it’s definitely time for a documentary. This one is about the so-called “Phoenix Lights.” Some of you may remember this fiasco, with literally hundreds of people around Phoenix reporting seeing some sort of huge mega-craft with flashing lights. At the time, the then governor held a press conference disclaiming and, basically, mocking the entire thing. Several years after his tenure we learned straight from the horse’s mouth that he was strongly encouraged by the powers that be to hold this conference.

Anyway, this is supposed to be a good documentary. Judge for yourself what happened. Continually, after the fact, we find that UFO sightings turn out to be government activities (or Nazi’s) that go unnoticed, save for by the shrewd few who happen to be looking at whatever part of the mostly deserted sky. Test pilots for new technologies are often seen laughing on the documentaries ten years later about how everybody freaked out they first time they saw a stealth bomber. On the other hand, as we’ve reported to you in the past, many fighter pilots and astronauts - directly from the glory days of American sky dominance - including Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, have reported seeing unexplained airborne… vehicles.

22
Jul

Te Amaré

22
Jul

Baseball and Philosophy

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Don Sutton used to tell me, ‘Every time you go out there, you’re going to be a different guy. So throughout the course of the year you can be between 30 and 35 people.’ via

22
Jul

Buildings in Motion

more at weburbanist

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Fencing Strategy
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Every fencer has heard that the purpose of fencing is "to touch and not be touched."
The Joker’s Magic Trick
24/07/08 0 comments
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Dysfunction
22/07/08 0 comments
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In a brain composed of localized but connected specialized areas, disconnection leads to dysfunction.
Dr. Kush
21/07/08 0 comments
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The Tibetan prayer flags suspended on a string over the sleeping body of Captain Blue rose and fell in fluttering counterpoint to the wheezy rhythm of his breath. Lifted by a gentle breeze off the Pacific Ocean, each swatch of red, white, yellow, or green cotton bore a paragraph of Asian script. Every time a flag flaps in the breeze, it is thought, a prayer flies off to Heaven. Blue’s mother says that when her son was an infant he used to sleep until noon, which is still the time that he wakes up most days, on his platform bed in a one-bedroom apartment overlooking Venice Beach, a neighborhood of Los Angeles.
more at the new yorker (click above)
Binding International Law
21/07/08 0 comments
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Many writers believe that international law is precatory but not "binding" in the way domestic law is binding. Since international law derives from the practice of states, how is it that what states do becomes what they must do? How do we get bindingness or normativity out of empirical fact?
(click the link for more)
The FUNometer
14/07/08 0 comments
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Foto del dia 7.11
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Buffalo Chicken Dip
11/07/08 0 comments
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INGREDIENTS: 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese 1/2 cup blue cheese or ranch salad dressing 1/2 cup Hot Sauce or Buffalo Wing Sauce 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese or shredded mozzarella cheese 2 cups shredded cooked chicken
DIRECTIONS: 2 different ways 1st Way HEAT oven to 350°F. Place cream cheese into deep dish 9-inch pie plate. Microwave 1 min. to soften. WHISK in salad dressing, Frank's RedHot Sauce and cheese until smooth. Stir in chicken. BAKE 20 min. or until mixture is heated through; stir. Garnish as desired. Serve with crackers or vegetables.
Why Tea?
08/07/08 0 comments
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Green tea, while a stimulant, has a subtle effect on human biochemistry; that is enough to be noticeable but still faint enough to require close self-examination to recognize. Most alternative beverages, for example coffee or wine, effect our mental chemistry to such an extreme degree that they can interfere in process of quiet introspection. Tea did not transform into a native custom until it was grown locally in Japan. By the time the charactericly Nipponese style chado evolved, tea had already both a rich literary and horticultural history in Japanese life.
How to Conduct a Whisper Campaign
08/07/08 0 comments
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A whisper campaign is a method of persuasion that utilizes rumors, innuendos or other sneaky promotional tactics to create false excitement about a person, product or service. It can also be used to quietly spread negative information about a competitor. In most open societies, whisper campaigns are considered unethical, which doesn't mean they aren't utilized. While the manner in which you conduct a whisper campaign will depend on your ultimate goal, here are a few general tips that can help you get your campaign underway....
Oldschool Pick of the Week
07/07/08 0 comments
Another phat phat oldschool track for you to vibe to. [ Ed. This was one of the first hip hop albums I ever bought.  My mother made me return it because of the 'explicit lyrics' tag.  Now she be in the car singing "Yahh trick." ]  Click the title of this item to watch the video.
Informal Learning
04/07/08 0 comments
Many a knowledge worker will tell you, “I love to learn but I hate to be trained.” Learning is in keeping with the democratization of the workplace spawned by the network revolution. Decision-making is passing from the manager to the worker, and part of the deal is learning crowding out training.
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Emergence is the key characteristic of complex systems. It is the process by which simple entities self-organize to form something more complex. As training converges with bottom-up self-organizing systems, network effects, and the empowerment of individuals, it morphs into emergent learning.
South Korean president watches mass games
01/07/08 0 comments
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The Guardian's east Asia correspondent, Jonathan Watts, on Roh Moo-hyun's trip to see North Korea's biggest propaganda spectacle
No Escape, Not Even to Kyoto
01/07/08 0 comments
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Pine Tar Incident
29/06/08 0 comments
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McClelland signaled that Brett's home run was nullified and the game over. An enraged Brett stormed out of the dugout to confront McClelland, and had to be physically restrained by Kansas City manager Dick Howser and his teammates. (As one commentator stated, "Brett has become the first player in history to hit a game-losing home run.")
Ghostface - My Guitar
27/06/08 0 comments
When they re-did this on the 8 diagrams album - I must admit I was a little salty.  Click the title to listen.
Oldschool Pick of the Week
24/06/08 0 comments
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