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This year
Nihon Katchû Seisakuben -- An Online Japanese Armour Manual
by Takwann
It was originally my intention to produce an issue of the Compleat Anachronist pamphlet series which would enable an armourer with fairly average skills to produce a good Japanese armour. The idea has grown to the point where it’s probably too unweildy for such a publication. Also, using the Web to present the information allows me to use color photographs and color illustrations to clarify things that are simply not well presented in a black-and-white printed document. There was another problem, though: specifically, the issue of what constitutes “proper” Japanese armour for use in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Unfortunately, many aspects of Japanese armour fly in the face of thirty-odd years of SCA-style combat. What this means is that, in many instances, a decision will have to be made — namely, are you making armour for combat or for dress?
I will present dress armour primarily, as I am a firm believer in authenticity of appearance. Where concessions for SCA combat must be made, I will explain the necessary diversions and provide explanations on how to finish the armour in either functional or authentic form.
Fedora Commons 3.0 Versus DSpace 1.5 : Selecting an Enterprise-Grade Repository System for FAO of the United Nations - Georgia Tech's Institutional Repository
by parmentierf
An extensive evaluation of the Fedora Commons 3.0 and DSpace 1.5 digital document repository systems has been conducted. The evaluation aimed at selecting an open source software package that best satisfies the FAO Open Archive and FAO organizational requirements and the requirements for the storage, dissemination and preservation of documents and bibliographic metadata. Both repository systems were evaluated against thirty-two criteria chosen from nine core categories of requirements: community, security, functionality, integration, modularity, metadata, statistics and reports, preservation, and outputs. These criteria were selected with the merger of the FAODOC and FAO Corporate Document Repository (CDR) into the FAO Open Archive in mind.
Monograph | Teach the Web
by xibe
I interviewed thirty-two leaders in the fields of web design and development, each of them is acutely aware of the importance of formally educating the next generation of web designers and developers.
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2008
Coca Plant from ebook of The Andes And The Amazon : or, across the continent of south america by james Orton M.A.
by sbrothier
(via)
On the upper waters grow the celebrated coca, a shrub with small, light-green leaves, having a bitter, aromatic taste. The powdered leaves, mixed with lime, form ypadú. This is to Peruvians what opium is to the Turk, betel to the Malay, and tobacco to the Yankee. Thirty million pounds are annually consumed in South America. It is not, however, an opiate, but a powerful stimulant.
LibraryThing: A million free covers from LibraryThing
by karlcow
A few days ago, just before hitting thirty million books, we hit one million user-uploaded covers. So, we've decided to give them away—to libraries, to bookstores, to everyone.
Deleket icons on deviantART: download outstanding free icon packs
by decembre
Its not just that the quality of icons is outstanding, but this designer’s prolific output is quite an achievement: I counted thirty icon packs displayed across two gallery pages (with more surely to come soon). More notes on these:
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China earthquake toll jumps again
by karlcow
terraforningMeanwhile, concern is growing over a number of new lakes formed by the force of the earthquake. Thirty-four lakes were created in the province when landslides blocked rivers, Xinhua news agency said. Eight held more than 3 million cubic metres of water and one lake, less than 3km (two miles) from Beichuan town, had doubled in size in four days. Officials are monitoring the lakes and have sent experts to assess them, the agency said. Forecasters predict heavy rain in the region next week, which could further raise the water levels in the lakes.
Alltop
by oqdbpo
& 4 others
We help you explore your passions by collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web. We’ve grouped these collections — ”aggregations” — into individual Alltop sites based on topics such as environment, photography, science, celebrity gossip, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh. At each Alltop site, we display the latest five stories from thirty or more sites on a single page — we call this “single-page aggregation.”
One Hundred Pills In Thirty-Six Hours | Dlisted
by night.kame
Britney Spears s'enfile une centaine de pilules de médocs en une journée et demi, se ballade avec un Beretta, propose 100 millions de dollars à son ex (Cafèt') pour avoir la garde des pauvres marmots, et se frappe la tête contre le mur en disant à qui veut l'entendre qu'elle ne sera pas la seule Spears en couverture des magazines la semaine prochaine. Il faut dire que sa soeur, même si elle était sur le même créneau sainte-nitouche, a réussi à être enceinte avant sa majorité. Britney cherchait à masquer l'échec de son dernier album : elle aurait dû suivre l'exemple français et se taper Carla Bruni, c'est vachement plus tendance pour détourner l'attention.
2007
Sun Labs Lively Kernel
by karlcow
Très impressionnant, Allez voir le tutoriel. Manipulation d'objet graphique, etc. Marche très bien dans Camino.The Sun Labs Lively Kernel is a novel web programming environment developed by Project Flair at Sun Labs. The main goal of the Lively Kernel is to bring the same kind of simplicity, generality and flexibility to web programming that we have known in desktop programming for thirty years, but without the installation and upgrade hassles than conventional desktop applications have.
Edward Hopper Online
by fotopol
(via)
Edward Hopper was the quintessential realist painter of twentieth-century America. His images have become part of the very grain and texture of American experience, and even today, thirty years after his death, it is all but impossible to see America without some refraction through them.
HomePage: Linux HA
by pvergain
& 2 others
The Linux-HA project is a widely used and important component in many interesting High Availability solutions, and ranks as among the best HA software packages for any platform. We estimate that we currently have more than thirty thousand installations up in mission-critical uses in the real world since 1999. Interest in this project continues to grow. These web pages are average nearly 20000 hits per day, and we see more than 100 downloads of Heartbeat per day.
Heartbeat now ships as part of SUSE Linux, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Flag Linux, and Gentoo Linux. Ultra Monkey, and several company's embedded systems are also based on it. Although this is called the Linux-HA project, the software is highly portable and runs on FreeBSD and Solaris, even !MacOS/X and OpenBSD from time to time.
Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait
by sbrothier
& 1 other
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
dirty art self portrait of USA
by karlcow
& 2 others
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
The Epoch Times | Thirty Million Diabetes Patients in China
by bouilloire
Il s'agit de Type 2 bien-sûr.
Rexx and what it means for AIX
by BlueVoodoo
Nearly thirty years of growth haven't exhausted the potential of the REstructured eXtended eXecutor (Rexx) language. The first of the widely used "scripting" languages continues to expand its capabilities and platform range, and it makes for a particularly good match with AIX.
2006
Many translations, idiomas numerosos
by liliput
Une page regroupant un grand nombre d'outils linguistiques pour traduire entre elles une trentaine de langues. Du "Babelfish" généralisé. Certes, il faut réparer les maladresses de style des machines, mais quand même... On peut notamment traduire en ligne une page internet et conserver sa mise en page. Webmasters, étudiants en langues, c'est la page qui vous faut si vous n'avez pas de temps à perdre, ou si vous êtes pressés d'aller jouer au foot ! Une bonne synthèse.
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A page gathering a great number of linguistic tools to translate between them about thirty languages. A Generalized "Babelfish". Admittedly, it is necessary to repair the clumsy turns of phrase of the machines. One can in particular translate on line a page Internet and preserve his page-setting. Webmasters, students in languages, it is the page which is necessary for you if you do not have time to lose, or if you are in a hurry to go playing football !
A good synthesis.
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Una página por la cual se agrupa un gran número de instrumentos lingüísticos para traducir entre ellas una treintena de lenguas. Un "Babelfish" generalizado. Ciertamente, es necesario reparar las torpezas de estilo de las máquinas, pero a pesar de todo... Se puede traducir en línea una página Internet y, en particular, conservar su compaginación. ¡ Webmasters, estudiantes de lenguas, es la página que necesitáis si no tienen tiempo que perder, o si se presionan ir a jugar al fútbol ! Una buena síntesis.
30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows
by sanoss
& 6 others
a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages.
