*soupir*Sure, sure, sure, Tokyo's all steel, plastic and concrete. They don't let anything get old here; they tear it down and rebuild it all bland and sterile the moment anything approaching "charming patina" encroaches. But, but, but there are nooks and niches where old things persist. Oldie restaurants, for instance.
The first word that occurs to me is "motherlove". But perhaps a better term would be "ambient impersonal tenderness". Japan is a society shockingly full of ambient impersonal tenderness, overlapping with tender-mindedness, shading into tweeness.
"The existing floor was uneven from inaccurate construction," writes Schemata architect Jo Nagasaka, "so we poured epoxy mixed with pine ash on the floor to create a flat surface. The transparent black liquid made different shades of black, following the uneven surface on the floor. It looked like gradation of color on a gradually shoaling beach."
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The pattern uses a G/6 (4mm) hook and cotton worsted weight yarn as well as some buttons. It is easy to do using single crochet and double crochet.
Christien Meindertsma has spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelain, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel.
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If I am to point out one single thing as the most important aspect in aikido, it is tanden, the center. You have to find, develop and express your center. That is true about all budo, not just aikido.
Transliteration bookmarklets let you type in your language in any text box on any web site. For example, you can use the bookmarklets in Gmail chat (to chat in your language), search for Google news articles, send messages in your language on social networks, write wikipedia pages in your language, etc. The bookmarklets use the Google Transliteration API to provide transliteration support wherever you want it. Transliteration bookmarklets are supported for Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Usage Click on the appropriate link below for instructions on how to use the bookmarklets: Arabic bookmarklet Bengali bookmarklet Gujarati bookmarklet Hindi bookmarklet Kannada bookmarklet Malayalam bookmarklet Marathi bookmarklet Nepali bookmarklet Persian bookmarklet Punjabi bookmarklet Tamil bookmarklet Telugu bookmarklet Urdu bookmarklet
Free Online Screen Recorder * Register & use it anywhere, anytime No download. Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. * Capture videos of onscreen action in one click Record screencasts, tutorials, demos, training, lectures and more. * Share and stream videos online in Flash Embed them on blogs and webpages or send them by email.
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"A Google map plotting all the best college and non-commercial radio stations using the actual GPS coordinates of their transmitters as listed in the dreaded FCC database. Right-click a station (the tower icon, not the label) to stream it directly, or left-click to see a bubble with a bunch of info including studio phone number, online archives, homepage, etc., and zoom all the way in to see the transmitter antenna."
OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developer, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
AMD today released the ATI Radeon HD 5970, “the fastest graphics card ever created”. According to AMD, the Radeon HD 5970 brings a pair of “Cypress” GPUs linked on a single board by a PCI Express bridge for nearly 5 TeraFLOPS of computer power, or a mind boggling 10 TeraFLOPS when setup in CrossFireX.
"After agonizing for weeks over which digital single lens reflex camera to buy, I bought the Canon XSi /450D, my first DSLR. The XSi has several improvements over its predecessor: a faster processor, improved nine-point autofocus, Live View with dual autofocus modes, spot metering, a larger LCD screen and a larger, brighter viewfinder. It also has an updated menu system. In these blog entries, I share my settings and experiences with the XSi, as well as what I’ve learned about using a DSLR."
People also want to know when their friends were nearby, but it's not always convenient to keep checking Latitude to see if a friend has recently shown up near you. After working on this for a while, we realized it wasn't as straightforward as sending a notification every time Latitude friends were near each other. Imagine that you're Latitude friends with your roommate or co-workers. It would get pretty annoying to get a text message every single time you walked in the door at home or pulled into work. To avoid this, we decided to make Location Alerts smarter by requiring that you also enable Location History. Using your past location history, Location Alerts can recognize your regular, routine locations and not create alerts when you're at places like home or work. Alerts will only be sent to you and any nearby friends when you're either at an unusual place or at a routine place at an unusual time. Keep in mind that it may take up to a week to learn your "unusual" locations and start sending alerts.
BTW if you follow their "use mysqldump" model for pushing data into the service, remember that --single-transaction will allow you to do a hot backup. There is no need to lock up your current database. I am still appalled at how few people know that. Years ago we should have renamed "mysqldump" to "mysqlbackup" and defaulted the settings for Innodb.
This site lets you explore traffic patterns of MBTA commuters across the various lines and stations over a single day. The data for this visualization was released as part of the Visualization Challenge by the Executive Office of Transportation.
Dual booting Windows and Linux doesn't mean you have to maintain two separate sets of applications, preferences, and documents. With cross-platform, open-source applications like Firefox, Thunderbird and Pidgin, you can use the same apps with the same configuration automatically no matter what OS you've booted.
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Examples of good login design That's what not to do. Here's what to do: 65 Examples of Login Form Design - this is the intro page. To see them all, click the second link in the first para. 36 beautiful login page / form designs - a great collection from Dzine this March. 21 beautiful login page/form designs - another collection from Dream CSS Attractive Login / Signup Interface Designs - more ideas from Greepit.com Designing Login Boxes: 6 examples of Good and Bad Design - thoughts from Design vs Art. Interface Design: Login/SignUp - collection from Web Design Ledger Login form designs and inspiration - some thoughts on options from OpenCrypt. Login Forms - a collection on Flickr (the same user, Factory Joe, has some other collections of interface designs and an interesting blog.) Inspriational Login in web design - another collection from Pattern Tap, a pattern library. Login - Interaction Design pattern Library - thoughts on good design and a collection from the Welie.com pattern library. Using address finders in web forms - this is about address fields in registration processes rather than login. But it was interesting, so I included it here!
The City of Nanaimo is not alone in recognising this global need. The US Federal Government has recently committed to embrace OpenID to allow simple access to citizen resources (http://openid.net/government/). As of November 2008, there were over 500 million OpenIDs on the Internet and approximately 27,000 sites had integrated the OpenID standard*. (* see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID)
(formerly Open eBook Forum) ".epub" is the file extension of an XML format for reflowable digital books and publications. ".epub" is composed of three open standards, the Open Publication Structure (OPS), Open Packaging Format (OPF) and Open Container Format (OCF), produced by the IDPF. "EPUB" allows publishers to produce and send a single digital publication file through distribution and offers consumers interoperability between software/hardware for unencrypted reflowable digital books and other publications. The Open eBook Publication Structure or "OEB", originally produced in 1999, is the precursor to OPS.