A Flash-based interactive map that uses data from Gracenote's Media Database to show the latest album and artist lookups in states, regions, countries, and continents around the world.
Today the forced relocation of 120,000 innocent U.S. citizens to camps in seven states of the American West has been condemned as immoral and unconstitutional. In 1988 the federal government paid restitution to survivors and issued an apology, while official reports acknowledged that the policy arose from racism and irrational fear.
]]>Le catalogue informatique du fonds Brailoiu présente 3028 enregistrements réunis par Constantin Brailoiu au MEG de 1944 à 1958. Ce fonds universel présente notamment des copies de collections historiques et prestigieuses :• une sélection d'enregistrements effectués en Roumanie de 1928 à 1943 par Brailoiu et ses collaborateurs (537 plages) ; • l'intégrale de la collection Ogoué-Congo, réalisée en 1946 par Gilbert Rouget et Alain Didier pour le Musée de l'Homme de Paris (101 plages) ; • les enregistrements effectués par Marguerite Lobsiger-Dellenbach lors de la première expédition suisse au Népal en 1952 (97 plages) ; • la série « Música de los cultos africanos en Cuba » de Lydia Cabrera, publiée en 1957 dans la collection du Musée de l'Homme (38 plages) ; • la collection « Folk Music of the United States » (1934-1944) publiée par Alan Lomax pour la Library of Congress (249 plages).
The United States is mired in one of the biggest economic crises since the Great Depression. High unemployment rates, bankruptcies and foreclosures are dominating the headlines and there are no clear signs of recovery.
The Peter Principle is the principle that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of Hierarchiology", "inadvertently founded" by Peter. It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions. This principle can be modeled and has theoretical validity.[1] Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".
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The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) was formed in June 2002 with a mission to "facilitate the international coordination and collaboration necessary for the development and deployment of the tools, systems and organizational structures necessary to enable the international utilization of astronomical archives as an integrated and interoperating virtual observatory." The IVOA now comprises 17 VO projects from Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Membership is open to other national and international projects according to the IVOA Guidelines for Participation.
"Visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald's"
"The FADER, or FADER, is an United States-based music/culture/fashion magazine that covers hip-hop, reggae, independent rock, pop and dance music from around the world. Founded by Rob Stone and Jon Cohen in 1998, The FADER is a freestanding, independent New York City-based magazine." Wikipedia
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Here is the complete quote, with a comment by Gilbert that occurred midway through it: "Nazi leader Hermann Goering, interviewed by Gustave Gilbert during the Easter recess of the Nuremberg trials, 1946 April 18, quoted in Gilbert's book 'Nuremberg Diary.' Goering: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars. Goering: Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
A tape of who appears to be “Grey’s Anatomy” star Eric Dane, his wife Rebecca Gayheart, and another woman — reportedly former Miss United States Teen Kari Ann Peniche — together in a nude video has spread online, but a lawyer for the couple said the tape should “not be used for any commercial purposes.”
Fatah's official political platform states: "The struggle stems from the Palestinian people's right to oppose the occupation and the settlements, the expulsion and the racist discrimination - an ...
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The legality of Salvia divinorum and salvinorin A (the active hallucinogenic compound in salvia leaves are not currently controlled under the federal controlled substances act. Salvia divinorum is legal to use, grow and posses in most of the United States and the same is true for most other countries. Legality of Salvia Divinorum Legality of Sa
karlcow said...
Fascinating and very interesting. I may add another law to your experiment, though it would have to be repeated again to see if it's working.
Law 3: A fractal pattern encourages participation.
A fractal pattern is simple enough that the gratification is direct. One can draw a small shape which already makes sense to the person. (I have participated!). But because of the self-structure of fractal pattern, one is participating to a bigger scheme. Sense of collective achievement with grand goals.
Once the structure is big enough, it becomes visible, organized and then it is an object of power, which in return is its weakness. (Colonial states versus Guerrilla/Terrorism). Wikipedia becomes so big that it fights for copyright or have editors censoring content.
Though I kind of disagree with the conclusion of blogs versus wikis. Blogs are indeed easier to maintain but would it be because wikis are not really object of the commons, aka, there is still someone owning the object, it is a property of someone in the end.
I wonder also if there is a density rule in action. A tribe in a large forest with free will to move as they please versus a piece of land with a lot of people. There is very little destruction when the space is infinite. Take the drawing above and imagine a space which is infinite (possible in digital space), would participant try to destroy the work of others or just go further away to do their own drawing?
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Declarative UI is a way of making fluid user interfaces by describing them in terms of simple elements (Text, Image, Rect,and other QObjects) that are built up into components. The reason it is “declarative” is that rather than the changes in the UI being expressed as imperative code (”set this, set that, do this, do that, …”), they are instead expressed as sets of QObject property expressions (”this width is always half that width”), grouped into states (”when enabled, the properties are …, when disabled, they are …”). The language that enables this is named QML. QML is simple yet powerful. Most of a user interface is described by a simple tree structure of property bindings:
Trulia Snapshot allows you to browse photographs and details of properties for sale in the United States. Snapshot provides an alternative view of listings from Trulia and was developed in collaboration with Stamen Design. You can find more about Trulia and Stamen's work together in Trulia's new explore section.
Of course you do! Our dogs are family members. Ask yourself, then, if you would risk feeding your family members tainted or toxic food. The answer, of course, would be NO! In 1997 a Dog Food Recall List was published, following the FDA's discovery that Melamine, a contaminant found in vegetable protein from China, was being used in dog food in the United States.
In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.
I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that's strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably "controversial." One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its "Fuck the Man" symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do.
March 2009
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