Evolution of the dune ecosystem in Flanders during the Middle Ages : anthropogenic factors versus sea level change theory The purpose of the present article is to demonstrate that the disruption process of the
original coastal ecosystem of the so-called Older dunes on the Flemish coast only started
during the Great Reclamation Period as a result of anthropogenic factors, until, with the
exception of a small stretch on the West Coast, it was completely destroyed in the 14th and
the beginning of the 15th century.
Clayton Cubitt You’ll want to be on headphones for this one.
Get a clue, iTunes. ‘t Is niet omdat ik in België woon dat ik alleen geïnteresseerd ben in boeken “En français”, “In het Nederlands” of “Auf Deutsch”.
Hoe is dat in ‘s hemelsnaam mogelijk, vraag ik mij al jaren af, dat noch Apple, noch Microsoft, noch Sony, noch wie dan ook er in slaagt om te beseffen dat ik tegelijkertijd in een land kan wonen waar taal A gesproken wordt, én dat ik vooral geïnteresseerd ben in inhoud in taal B?
En dat ik bijvoorbeeld in dit geval wel eens zou willen geïnteresseerd zijn in wat “New & Notable” is in het Engels, maar niet in het Nederlands?
Ik heb een jaar of twee een TabletPC gehad, tien jaar geleden. Gegeven de beperkingen van 2003-2004 was dat een fantastisch toestel: openklappen en als gewone laptop gebruiken, scherm draaien en weer dichtdoen en het is een scherm waarmee rondgelopen kon worden.
Niet met vingers maar met een stilus, en ja, dat was enorm handig: Windows, Tablet Edition was en is uitstekend, en OneNote op Tablet… bliss. Beeld u in: Evernote, maar met dicteren en handschriftherkenning, en handschrift in combinatie met opnemen (een vergadering= het geluid opnemen, en dan notities nemen en afspelen wat er gezegd werd in de buurt van welke notitie, machtig).
Ik had in 2007 een droom van een toestel dat een boekje zou zijn: buiten een klein schermpje, en dan open doen en een groot scherm binnen.
En kijk, toen was er Microsoft’s Courier:
Dat was 2008, twee jaar voor de iPad, maar tegen 2010 was het project opgedoekt — de hoofdreden dat ik dacht dat de nieuwe Windows Phone er ook wel niet zou komen. (Serieus: ik zou nu nog altijd zo’n Courier kopen. Metéén.)
Ondertussen heb ik een stapel Apple-gerief in huis, onder meer ook een paar van die iPads, en ik ben ze hartsgrondig beu. OK, het scherm is fantastisch goed, maar dan hebben we het zowat gehad:
Die interface, met die grid van statische iconen zonder informatie, daar zit ondertussen ook redelijk wat sleet op.
Er kan sinds een tijdje ‘t een en ‘t ander via het net op en af gezet worden, maar de manier waarop het ding samenwerkt met een computer (laat staan een niet-Mac, laat helemaal staan twee verschillende computers) is om te schreien.
Ik weet niet hoe het met u zit, maar zo’n duur toestel: niet iedereen in het hele gezin krijgt er één. En ik zou het fijn vinden dat als ik en spelletje speel en daarna mijn zoon, dat onze progressen niet door elkaar staan. Of dat zowel Zelie als ik onze mail kunnen checken of onze kalender beheren op één toestel. Dat browser histories gescheiden blijven, dat ik bijvoorbeeld Anna kan laten inloggen op de iPad en dat ze niet alle apps ziet die ik zie, of dat Louis een andere manier van apps klasseren heeft. Multi-user, dat ze zeggen. Bakt u een ei, dat Apple zegt.
Enfin bon: van telefoon is de iPhone hier ondertussen al sinds januari afgeschaft en fulltime vervangen door Windows Phone, en ik kijk er enorm hard naar uit om de iPad te vervangen door zo eentje:
Sinds ik weer meer op Windows werk nu we een bureau hebben thuis, valt dat enorm op, hoe volwassen en stabiel en gewoon degelijk Windows (7) aanvoelt. En hoe OS X voelt zoals iTunes aanvoelt: rommelig, krakkemikkig, oubollig, inconsistent, fragiel.
Een plaats voor alles en alles een plaats, en voor mij zal dat Windows (8) zijn en Microsoft Surface. Met vingers én met stilus, zoals het altijd al had moeten zijn. Met hardware waar over nagedacht is — de gasten van Microsoft Hardware zijn altijd al meer dan degelijk geweest.
(Ja, het ding crasht in het begin van de video. Ik zit er niet mee in: het ding komt pas binnen een half jaar uit, het is een nieuw platform, yada yada. Dit is een echte computer, geen speelgoed. Neem mijn geld, Microsoft.)
Ik weet dat het veel geld is, maar ‘t spijt mij, ik ga zo’n nieuwe iPad kopen.
‘t Zal ondertussen al meer dan twee derden van mijn leven zijn dat ik zot ben van letters en micro- en macrotypografie. En dat ik, samen met Bill Hill en Jakob Nielsen droom van een display waarop echte typografie mogelijk zou worden.
Bij deze, dus. Als ik per dag gemiddeld een uur of drie lees op mijn huidige iPad, zal het nog weinig zijn. En nu ga ik boeken en comics kunnen lezen (binnen in huis weliswaar, ik weet het) zoals ze ongeveer bedoeld waren om te lezen.
Ongeveer, want we zijn er nog niet helemaal: 300 of zelfs 600 dpi zou helemaal ideaal zijn, maar dat zal wel niet voor onmiddellijk zijn.
En ook nog eens ongeveer, want ik wil eigenlijk helemaal geen iPad kopen. Ik wil een Windows 8-toestel kopen, dat een échte computer is, waar ik niet met handen en voeten vastgebonden ben aan Apple.
Mijn ideale computer, daar kan ik met een stilus op schrijven, en die heeft niet die afgrijselijke user interface van de iPad/iPhone. Ik ben head over heels verliefd op de user interface van Windows 8 voor tablet-achtige computers, en als er een computer zou zijn die qua scherm en qua batterij half in de buurt komt van een iPad 3, dan koop ik die metéén.
Maar voor zover ik weet, bestaat er geen Windows-slate of -tablet met een zelfs maar vergelijkbaar scherm of een zelfs maar vergelijkbaar goede batterij.
En dus koop ik een iPad 3. Met wat spijt, maar met ook enorm veel uitkijken. Want ik moet hem zelfs niet zién om te wéten dat het een dag en een nacht verschil is.
U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers on E-Book Pricing – WSJ.com The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter.
Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life JALOERS.
"One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed lots of other people were doing it too, but apparently they were not. And so now I have what is probably one of the world’s largest collections of personal data. "
How I Helped Destroy Star Wars Galaxies » Medium Difficulty I couldn’t even bring myself to fight back. I just stood there. I was one of the few true Dark Jedi Masters, and I let him kill me. That very act illustrated perfectly what SOE did wrong. Those of us who had faithfully put in the hours and weeks and months required to earn those lightsabers were spit on and betrayed by the very architects of the game we loved.
Hot buttered sloths in pajamas | Grist What do you do when orphaned baby sloths are afflicted with mange? Shave them, rub them with lard, and wrap them in sloth pajamas.
Pro-Ana and Pro-Mia – Pro Mia Tips Use more than one finger, and wiggle them a little to “tickle” the gag reflex. i personally use three…makes me feel like i am choking and everything comes up.
Start Developing iOS Apps Today: Introduction Creating iOS apps is fun and rewarding, and if you're a new developer you might be wondering where to begin. This road map provides the perfect starting point for iOS app development. On your Mac computer, you can create iOS apps that run on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Follow this road map to learn where to get the tools you need, understand the major concepts and best practices, and see where to find more information.
Eurozine – Europe invents the Gypsies – Klaus-Michael Bogdal The dark side of modernity Social segregation, cultural appropriation: the six-hundred-year history of the European Roma, as recorded in literature and art, represents the underside of the European subject's self-invention as agent of civilising progress in the world, writes Klaus-Michael Bogdal.
A Show with Ze Frank by Ze Frank — Kickstarter In 2006, I launched a show called "The Show With Ze Frank." It was one of the most strange, exciting, difficult, and amazing things I have done so far. I think it is time to do something similar, what with the economy in the crapper and the election coming up. If Newt can do it, so can I. So can we.
Mountain Lion Review: What Happened to Apple’s Innovation? That's the most surprising thing about Mountain Lion. Not what Apple did, but that it makes clear a startling reality: Microsoft is the new Apple, thinking of ways to make a better, more productive experience for users. Sure, MS might fail, but at least Redmond is breaking new ground and trying to push computing forward.
Think about that for a second: Mountain Lion is conservative and boring—even gaudy at times. Meanwhile Microsoft is pushing the envelope and being innovative and elegant in its approach to user interface.
850k Android Daily Activations, 300m Total Devices, Says Andy Rubin | TechCrunch In many ways the mobile platform war feels like the desktop race of the early ’90s. Apple had a huge lead, refused to license and is now about to be overtaken by hordes of nondescript clones. But in this race the main competitor is Google rather than Microsoft and the devices are smartphones instead of beige desktops. It’s just a matter of time until Android overtakes iOS now.
Microsoft offers touch guidance to Windows 8 Metro-app developers – istartedsomething Since Metro-style applications for Windows 8 should all have a touch-first experience, Microsoft has recently released a brief but useful “Windows 8 Touch Guidance” documentation on how developers should think about touch in their applications. The four-page PDF touches (pun) on some interesting touch characteristics of Windows 8 – including but not limited to drag-down/up for select/deselect, semantic zoom and panning and swipe from edge.
If PHP Were British – Added Bytes – Brighton Web Application Development The first, but maybe the most important, of many changes that will allow PHP to achieve a more elegant feel is to remove that symbol so beloved by the US and replace it with something altogether more refined. More solid. More … sterling.
The Odd Couple: Romney Vs. Gingrich | Politics News | Rolling Stone If Romney is a scripted automaton who could make it through a year's worth of marital coitus without one spontaneous utterance, Gingrich is his exact opposite – taken prisoner in war, Newt would be blabbing state secrets without torture within minutes, and minutes after that would be calling his guards idiots who lack his nuanced grasp of European history, and minutes after that would be lying to two of his captors about an affair he had with the third.
Apple’s File System APIs | Rixstep’s The Technological Try any of that on a Windows box and Cutler tells you where to get off. But in the world of Apple there is no sanity checking whatsoever: any line of rogue code in any program written by any programmer in the world can contain a bug that hoses the entire system. And that bug can be prevalent or latent and only once in a great while manifest itself. And users can go on for the longest time blissfully unaware.
Testimony of Ms. Soon Ok Lee The punishment cell is one of the most dreaded punishments for all prisoners. The cells are usually 60 cm wide and 110 cm high. Therefore, the prisoners have no room to stand up, stretch their legs or lie down. They cannot even lean against the walls because they are too jagged. There are twenty such cells for female prisoners and 58 cells for male prisoners. They are usually detained for seven to ten days as punishment for certain offenses, such as leaving an oily mark on clothes, failing to memorize the president's New Year message or repeated failure to meet work quotas.
Kurt Andersen: From Fashion to Housewares, Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut? | Style | Vanity Fair Paging professor Helmut Gaus… Paging professor Helmut Gaus… "Since 1992, as the technological miracles and wonders have propagated and the political economy has transformed, the world has become radically and profoundly new. (And then there’s the miraculous drop in violent crime in the United States, by half.) Here is what’s odd: during these same 20 years, the appearance of the world (computers, TVs, telephones, and music players aside) has changed hardly at all, less than it did during any 20-year period for at least a century. The past is a foreign country, but the recent past—the 00s, the 90s, even a lot of the 80s—looks almost identical to the present. This is the First Great Paradox of Contemporary Cultural History."
"Ironically, new technology has reinforced the nostalgic cultural gaze: now that we have instant universal access to every old image and recorded sound, the future has arrived and it’s all about dreaming of the past. Our culture’s primary M.O. now consists of promiscuously and sometimes compulsively reviving and rejiggering old forms. It’s the rare “new” cultural artifact that doesn’t seem a lot like a cover version of something we’ve seen or heard before. Which means the very idea of datedness has lost the power it possessed during most of our lifetimes."
Real Dan Lyons Web Site » Blog Archive » Enough with the Samsung bashing » Real Dan Lyons Web Site This is typical snarky Gruber stuff. But it’s so arrogant and patronizing that when I read it was brought up short. Because I realized, this guy isn’t joking. Gruber and people like him really believe that Samsung just sits around making copies of Apple products. In their view, Apple is the fountain from which all creativity flows, and Samsung just follows behind, stealing their ideas.
The Comedian’s Comedian’s Comedian He's a boxer, a Buddhist, a hoops junkie, and a kind of Yoda to every funny person born since 1965 (Sandler, Silverman, Apatow, Gervais, Baron Cohen…). Amy Wallace survives a rare sparring session with Garry Shandling, the reclusive master of American comedy
Pingu’s THE THING – YouTube Pingu remake of John Carpenter masterpiece THE THING (1982)
This is the 2 minute extended cut.
n+1: Outsourcing Jobs Jobs seems to have attended the Joseph Stalin Charm School: his world was one of clear good and evil; he was a constant liar, in what came to be known among his underlings as his “reality distortion field”; he was “anti-loyal,” abandoning people he was close to; he used silences and unblinking stares to shame people; he held show trials, bringing employees of a failed project into an auditorium, telling them they should hate each other, and firing the leader on the spot.
JP Houdin – Cheops Revealed (1 of 4) 4500 years after the construction of the great Pyramids, their secret still remains. Jean-Pierre Houdin's very serious ramp theory explains how the Great Pyramids could have possibly been built from the inside. This theory is considered by many egyptologists and amateurs to be the most advanced, sophisticated, and demonstrated theory on how the great pyramids were built.
Raiders of the Lost Archives Shot-by-shot comparison of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" vs. scenes from 30 different adventure films made between 1919-1973.
The Real Story Behind Apple’s ‘Think Different’ Campaign – Forbes In writing this story, I’ve drawn from handwritten, dated creative journals I’ve diligently chronicled throughout my agency career as well as files I saved from the 1997 Apple time period (being a packrat often proves useful). In these journals are countless pages of notes and concepts I jotted down during the process of trying to bring Apple back to prominence. I also found the original “To the crazy ones” television script I presented to Jobs, as well as a plethora of rough drafts.
While I’ve seen a few inaccurate articles and comments floating around the Internet about how the legendary “Think Different” campaign was conceived, what prompted me to share this inside account was Walter Isaacson’s recent, best-selling biography on Steve Jobs. In his book, Isaacson incorrectly suggests Jobs created and wrote much of the “To the crazy ones” launch commercial. To me, this is a case of revisionist history.
Medieval Names Archive Compact Index This collection of articles on medieval and renaissance names is intended to help historical re-creators to choose authentic names.
Catherine Young & Family, Page One A family working in the Tifton (Ga.) Cotton Mill. Mrs. A.J. Young works in mill and at home. Nell (oldest girl) alternates in mill with mother. Mammy (next girl) runs 2 sides. Mary (next) runs 1 1/2 sides. Elic (oldest boy) works regularly. Eddie (next girl) helps in mill, sticks on bobbins. Four smallest children not working yet. The mother said she earns $4.50 a week and all the children earn $4.50 a week. Husband died and left her with 11 children. 2 of them went off and got married. The family left the farm 2 years ago to work in the mill. January 22, 1909. Location: Tifton, Georgia. Photo by Lewis Hine.
Sass – Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.
Memoires of a Heroinhead It was over a year that I had been in France. I had gotten clean and then gotten dirty again. So it was good news one day when my mother phoned.
“Shane, there's a little surprise coming over your way! That fucking Irish John has just been around here, bought me two rocks of white and left twenty five quid to get you three of choice and post over. And you ya little bastard, you never told me he 'ad AIDS! An I've been sharing my fuckin' crackpipe with 'im!”
SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia Welcome to the beta text of the third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Some sample entries are below. Alternatively, you can browse the Encyclopedia through the search box above or the categories in the grey bar above.
Paris Review – The Grand Map, Avi Steinberg “And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!”
“Have you used it much?” I enquired.
“It has never been spread out, yet,” said Mein Herr. “The farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well.”
Nate Hallinan Portfolio The Smurf is actually the result of a symbiotic relationship
between two organisms. We believe that Smurfs put their
'embryos' in the button of a developing mushroom. From a
distance, Smurfs seem like they are wearing a hat and pants
but as you can see this is a fallacy. The fungus provides
camouflage and protective epidermal layers for the creature,
while the creature provides nutrients and mobility for the
spreading of spores.
Research:Wikimedia Summer of Research 2011/Summary of Findings – Meta This is the summary of findings from the Wikimedia Foundation Summer of Research, a program in the Foundation's Community Department which brought together eight academic researchers from around the globe to study the dynamics of the Wikipedia editing community.
How Star Wars Should Have Ended: Reflections on Taste, The Expanded Universe & Radical Politics « Human Iterations Basically a totalitarian Empire makes sense, a rotting and unsustainable Republic makes sense, a teemingly complex anarchic and increasingly more nomadic post-collapse culture also makes sense. But a more or less decent galactic-sized democracy instantly formed and accepted out of the goodness of all the Rebel’s hearts? Totally unbelievable. And basically a stubborn Liberal lack of imagination.
Main § Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization (DARMC) makes freely available on the internet the best available materials for a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) approach to mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds. DARMC allows innovative spatial and temporal analyses of all aspects of the civilizations of western Eurasia in the first 1500 years of our era, as well as the generation of original maps illustrating differing aspects of ancient and medieval civilization.
Hugo Blogging – Connie Willis May Be The Worst Writer In Existence « Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! "I have now discovered a way to produce a masterpiece. Just read Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis, do the exact opposite of what she does, and you will have the greatest work in the history of English literature." (Come come now – surely it can't be much worse than Dan Brown?)
The sad, sad demise of Greenpeace | COSMOS magazine GREENPEACE WAS ONCE a friend of science, helping bring attention to important but ignored environmental research. These days, it’s a ratbag rabble of intellectual cowards intent on peddling an agenda, whatever the scientific evidence.
The 1140px Grid · Fluid down to mobile The 1140 grid fits perfectly into a 1280 monitor. On smaller monitors it becomes fluid and adapts to the width of the browser.
A cherry picking tale, and an update on spinal manipulation science « Alternative Medicine « Health « Skeptic North Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) has long enjoyed a solid reputation for the treatment of so-called “mechanical” low back pain, and is widely used by physical therapists as well as chiropractors. Even skeptics tend to give it a pass, regarding it as the one thing chiropractors offer that we don’t really have a complaint with, much the way we used to think maybe acupuncture had something going for it, until better evidence crushed our optimism. For instance, just recently Dr. David Gorski — as tough-minded a quackery critic as they come — casually mentioned that “no one argues that … manipulative therapies can’t help back pain.” Actually, skeptics who’ve been following the SMT science are now arguing exactly that.
They are quickly heading to the top of the charts of sheer stupidity. And what they don't realise is that, unlike the movie industry and—though to a somewhat lesser extent— the music industry, they have even less of a legitimate ‘raison d'être’ than their counterparts in those industries.
Villa La Vigie – Koksijde – Bezoeker Na de oorlog werden de twee bunkers ontdaan van alle uitrusting en rails. De twee bouwwerken fungeerden een tijdje als toeristische bezienswaardigheid. Begin de jaren '20 werd één van de bunkers afgebroken. Rond 1923 kreeg aannemer Remi Rys uit Koksijde de opdracht om boven de resterende bunker een villa te bouwen en de bestaande oorlogsconstructie te integreren in het nieuwe project.
Lernert & Sander: Natural Beauty – NOWNESS Mission Statement: We wanted to apply 365 layers of makeup in one day to see how much is needed to go from a natural look to an outrageous one.
Restoring a Photograph from the 1870sTop Dog Imaging "From here, I began the laborious process of restoration, which involved a prodigious amount of retouching. The process took about four hours." Of hoe een mens een uitgebreide post kan schrijven met veel beeldjes erbij, en op Kottke vermeld worden en alles — met rotslecht werk.
Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking "The most important book in the culinary arts since Escoffier" — Modernist Cuisine is a six-volume, 2,438-page set that is destined to reinvent cooking. The lavishly illustrated books use thousands of original images to make the science and technology clear and engaging.
Jennifer Pournelle’s The Mote in God’s Eye sequel actually looks interesting | Wis[s]e Words Intriguing — de dochter van de meneer van Chaos Manor schrijft een vervolg: "Sequels written to well loved science fiction classics by the children of the original writer never turn out right therefore you can safely ignore them. It’s a rule that saved me a lot of frustration, but I think I might break it for Jennifer Pournelle’s Outies, a sequel to her father’s and Larry Niven’s The Mote in God’s Eye. "
Zo, dat zijn veel vissen! :: nrc.nl Bloody hel. Scary! "Sinds enige tijd hebben Amerikaanse wateren, met name de Mississippi en haar aftakkingen, bezoek van de Aziatische karper. In 2010 begon dat bezoek onaangenaam te worden."
My Opposition – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia After the war many Germans would insist they knew nothing at all about The Holocaust. More recently, Holocaust deniers have questioned the extent, and even the existence of the Holocaust. Friedrich Kellner's diary counters such suggestions.
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History Cookbook – Cookit! Welcome to the history cookbook. Do you know what the Vikings ate for dinner? What a typical meal of a wealthy family in Roman Britain consisted of, or what food was like in a Victorian Workhouse? Why not drop into history cookbook and find out? This project looks at the food of the past and how this influenced the health of the people living in each time period. You can also try some of the recipes for yourself. We have a wide range of historical recipes from Brown Bread Ice Cream to Gruel (Why not see if you would be asking for more – just like Oliver Twist).
Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong – By Leon Aron | Foreign Policy Every revolution is a surprise. Still, the latest Russian Revolution must be counted among the greatest of surprises. In the years leading up to 1991, virtually no Western expert, scholar, official, or politician foresaw the impending collapse of the Soviet Union, and with it one-party dictatorship, the state-owned economy, and the Kremlin's control over its domestic and Eastern European empires. Neither, with one exception, did Soviet dissidents nor, judging by their memoirs, future revolutionaries themselves. When Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party in March 1985, none of his contemporaries anticipated a revolutionary crisis. Although there were disagreements over the size and depth of the Soviet system's problems, no one thought them to be life-threatening, at least not anytime soon.
GET LAMP: John Romero Interview : Jason Scott : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive Romero's path crossed with Infocom's in the late 1980s; while working for a company he co-founded called Ideas From the Deep, he wrote an operating system for the Apple II that was used in the last round of Infocom games: Journey, Shogun, Zork Zero, and Arthur. He didn't get to meet anybody but he was proud of his contribution and offered to be interviewed.
bradley’s almanac – the sims torture test (a mirror site) I guess people actually play this game to make their little sims happy. I'll admit that i did that for awhile, but to be honest, it just got boring. So of course I reverted to my typical gaming pattern of torturing innocents to death.
Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Resonance: Where Sound Meets Geometry In this 11-minute clip, a group of over 30 animators and sound artists teamed up to create short pieces between 12 and 20 seconds with the aim to ”explore the relationship between geometry and audio in unique ways.”
CK01 Standard/Honors Chemistry Kit – Home Droool. Ik zou mijn linkerarm gegeven hebben voor zoiets als ik klein was: "Because chemistry is widely considered to be the most difficult lab course to do well—particularly on a tight budget—we offer the CK01 Standard/Honors Home School Chemistry Laboratory Kit. It provides a comprehensive, rigorous laboratory component for a first-year high school chemistry course, and does so affordably. With the exception of standard household items (such as table salt, sugar, vinegar, aluminum foil, foam cups, and so on) and other minor items that are readily available locally, the kit contains all of the special equipment and chemicals you'll need for a complete chemistry lab course."
Michele Bachmann’s Holy War | Rolling Stone Politics Bachmann lies because she can't help it, because it's a built-in component of both her genetics and her ideology. She is at once the most entertaining and the most dangerous kind of liar, a turbocharged cross between a born bullshit artist and a religious fanatic, for whom lying to the infidel is a kind of holy duty.
What is International Baccalaureate? Hierzie, dat ge 't weet: "IBO lumps Christianity … into the category of what it calls "fundamentalism" — along with the Taliban and various terrorist groups, saying that these "fundamentalist" groups are all "dangerous." It would be difficult to imagine a more clear, and repugnant, attack on Christianity." "While IBO undermines Christianity, it also advocates its own religion. IBO promotes the worldview of New Age-Pantheism guru William Butler Yeats … Another New Age leader, Joseph Campbell, is often required reading for IBO students. Like Yeats, Campbell aggressively promotes "inclusive" New Age-Pantheistic doctrines while undermining Christianity."
Wikipedia talk:Dispute resolution – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I REPEAT, I DO NOT KNOW MR. STEVEN ZHANG FROM ADAM, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR HIM, HE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ME, but JUST IN CASE HE MAY FEEL HIS PERSONA OR FEELINGS SO DEEPLY HURT BY MY MISTAKE, I BEG HIM FIRST OF ALL NOT TO HURT HIMSELF OR HURT OTHER HUMANS, including me, DUE TO UNDUE AGGRESSVITY POOTENTIALLY ARISEN FROM DEEP DISTRESS, especially if occuring on a VULNERABLE PRE-EXISTING SUBSTRATE, and SECOND of ALL NOT SUE ME, Eugen Craciun aka Rudolph Aspirant, beacuse HE, Mr. Steven Zhang WOULD LITERALLY OBTAIN NOTHING FROM ME, TOTAL PAUPER and INDEBTED TO THE HILT TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GOVERNMENT, and to BOTH MY OWN MOTHER and MY FATHER.
Talk:Circumflex – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE HERE MUST IMMEDIATELY TRANSMIT THIS URGENT ESSENTIAL ERROR/FEIL TO GOOGLE-TRANSLATE, which I have just noticed myself today, 18, May, 2011, Anoo Domini, which is AN INEXCUSABLE ERROR, without PRECENT in ALL of the history I have used Google-translate for all sorts of purposes and reasons.
Spreekt deze Vlaam Nederlands? – Goesting in een blogje De kennis over België reikt bij de gemiddelde Nederlander helaas niet veel verder dan het oprakelen van gênante episodes van 'De Pfaffs'. Het zien van mijn Belgisch paspoort was voor het KLM-personeel aan de gate op Schiphol voldoende om van de weeromstuit enkele Pfaffs te imiteren. Het idee dat 'Oh oh Cherso' en 'Oh oh Tirol' nu op de Vlaamse buis losgelaten worden, stemt me dan weer helemaal blij. Ik verkneukel me over zoveel gerechtigheid.
Small Group Of People Dominate Some Internet Discussions An analysis of political and philosophical newsgroups found that half of all replies were directed at just two percent of thread initiators. In related news, bear shits in wood.
Why did Apple choose Twitter over Facebook? Twitter will be deeply integrated into iOS 5, bit not Facebook. Why? There are surprisingly many answers. Among them: Apple and Facebook have contradictory priorities for customer content, and they are increasingly app platform competitors.
Game, Set, iMatch Notice how Facebook is missing from these and many other words we’re hearing these days.
Facebook Sees Big Traffic Drops in US and Canada as It Nears 700 Million Users Worldwide Most prominently, the United States lost nearly 6 million users, falling from 155.2 million at the start of May to 149.4 million at the end of it. This is the first time the country has lost users in the past year. Canada also fell significantly, by 1.52 million down to 16.6 million
internet k-hole Internet K-Hole is an image blog consisting mostly of anonymous snapshots and Polaroids from the 1970s through the 1990s presented at random without description or context that go on for ever and ever and ever. (Some images NSFW.)
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Mijn werkgever is het niet noodzakelijk eens met wat ik schrijf, en het spreekt vanzelf dat hij dan ook op geen enkele wijze aansprakelijk kan zijn voor wat ik hier publiceer.
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