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PUBLIC MARKS from shankargallery with tags clipmarks & Boulder

19 May 2007

Clipmark: U.S. town opposes "Big Brother" Mexico border fence

Last year, about 1.1 million people were arrested crossing the border illegally from Mexico, more than a third of them through the heavily trafficked desert corridor south of Tucson, Arizona. The Border Patrol said the system, which is being built by a

18 May 2007

Clipmark: In Japan, When Word Was Wed to Image

The exhibition, organized by Felice Fischer, the Philadelphia museum’s longtime curator of Japanese art, with Kyoko Kinoshita, assistant curator, includes many important loans from Japanese museums — among them several works designated as national tre

17 May 2007

Clipmark: slideshows for Myspace, Bebo, Friendster, Hi5, Xanga and other

No doubt that photo sharing is one of the most popular things between MySpace users. And if you are sharing your photos I’m pretty sure you have thought about how to create cool SlideShows from your photos. I listed here most popular tools which can hel

Clipmark: Shiva Oasis

This is a sculpture mounted on the wall in a resort called the Shiva Oasis in Behror. I was pretty impressed when I saw this sculpture, it appealed to me. Don't ask me why, but it seems nice and intricate, and visually interesting

Clipmark: http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2007/05/why-do-open-source-software-developers-write-code-for-free/

I also try to explain that people that write code really enjoy writing code but I've pretty much given up on that one. Unfortunately, I think most people don't believe that you can enjoy something you do for a living. They particularly don't understand

Clipmark: HOW TO - Build your own wind turbine

Kagetsuki sent in this how-to on building a model vertical wind generator using household items, wire and magnets - " These plans are for the construction of a machine called a Savonius wind turbine. Wind turbines come in two general types, those whose ma

Clipmark: Wendy Doniger

Sex and religion are joined at the hip. The most interesting distinction is not between religions that say 'yes' to sex and those who say 'no' but between two aspects of a single religion, one of which regards sex as a blessing and the other as a curse.

Clipmark: Scientists find palm fossils in Ladakh

"The fossils belong to the middle-late Eocene period, anywhere between 45-33 million years ago," SK Paul, a senior scientist with the Dehradun-based Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology said. The fossils were discovered near Shingbuk, about 12 km from

Clipmark: Mystery of the Himalayas solved

Scientists can't even be sure how high the land was before India crashed into Asia, obliterating the Tethys Ocean which used to separate them. Like western South America, the coast could have been lined by mountains.Some scientists have even suggested tha

16 May 2007

Clipmark: Netcraft Toolbar

The Toolbar community is effectively a giant neighbourhood watch scheme, empowering the most alert and most expert members to defend everyone within the community against phishing frauds. Once the first recipients of a phishing mail have reported the targ

Clipmark: New Technology For Manufacturing Flexible Solar Cells

It also provides for lightweight and flexible solar cell panels that could find interest in the space, military and recreational markets. For standard applications, the solar cells can also be encapsulated into a more traditional rigid structure. By be

15 May 2007

Clipmark: http://www.michaelpollan.com/index.htm

In this groundbreaking book, one of America’s most fascinating, original, and elegant writers turns his own omnivorous mind to the seemingly straightforward question of what we should have for dinner. To find out, Pollan follows each of the food chains

Clipmark: Rescue Internet Radio

Online music is in danger. After intense lobbying by giant music labels, the Copyright Royalty Board dramatically increased the rates webcasters must pay to stream online music. The change is so severe that it could force most independent and noncommercia

Clipmark: Tethys Sea, a body of water that existed between a landmass of northern hemisphere continents

During the late Jurassic the world was certainly a different place, and what is now Solnhofen is now understood to have been part of an archipelago on the edge of the Tethys Sea, a body of water that existed between a landmass of northern hemisphere conti

Clipmark: Iraq veteran wins blog prize as US military cuts web access

Yesterday the defence department went further and announced it was blocking access "worldwide" to 13 communal websites, including YouTube and MySpace from military computers and networks. General BB Bell said the move was to protect operations from the dr

Clipmark: Please forward - The "gas-out memo" illustrates the reach of an e-mail campaign

Fill up your car today? Guess you didn't get the memo. The e-mail memo, that is, sent by some online vigilante who apparently hoped the gas-boycott forwards would spread like wildfire.

Clipmark: Watergate Warrior

Howard Hunt, who died in January at the age of 88, was among the last living members of the clandestine service created as part of the Central Intelligence Agency in the late 1940s. Hunt wanted to believe he fit the popular image of the C.I.A.’s founder

Clipmark: Improving on Brainstorming

I will write more about Six thinking Hats & Lateral Thinking tools later in this blog. These tools are used to refine the ideas generated during the brainstorming session and it helps to select the ones for implementation.

Clipmark: photo-london

London’s international contemporary photography fair: a new management, a new concept, a new venue