MyDD :: Losing America, Left versus RightIn their lifetimes, they have seen ... their factories shuttered in the thousands and their jobs outsourced in the millions to Mexico and China. They have seen trillions of tax dollars go for Great Society programs, but have seen no Great Society, only rising crime, illegitimacy, drug use and dropout rates.
An Engineer's Guide to Bandwidth (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)Web app developers spend most of our time not thinking about how data is actually transmitted through the bowels of the network stack. Abstractions at the application layer let us pretend that networks read and write whole messages as smooth streams of bytes. Generally this is a good thing. But knowing whats going underneath is crucial to performance tuning and application design. The character of our users internet connections is changing and some of the rules of thumb we rely on may need to be revised.
YouTube - Mandelbrot SetA music video for Jonathan Coultons song Mandelbrot Set by Pisut Wisessing made in Film 324: Cornell Summer Animation Workshop, taught by animator Lynn Tomlinson every summer for Cornells summer session, in the department of Theatre, Film Dance.
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IANA — Root Zone DatabaseThe Root Zone Database represents the delegation details of top-level domains, including gTLDs such as .COM, and country-code TLDs such as .UK.
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danndalf: @jrmurray8 That's a chat bot called TheGreatHatsby. See http://bit.ly/cDGV
What Wall Street and nature have in commonWhen a big change is coming — be it in ocean circulation patterns, wildlife populations, or even the global economy — it is often heralded by telltale signs, scientists have found.
Old English / Anglo-SaxonOld English was the West Germanic language spoken in the area now known as England between the 5th and 11th centuries. Speakers of Old English called their language Englisc, themselves Angle, Angelcynn or Angelfolc and their home Angelcynn or Englaland.
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Mostly Lisa, Mostly Photography, Always Geeky » Entry » 5 iPhone Photography Apps to make your Shots SpectacularSo many people whine about the iPhones camera quality and say that it cant take good pictures. Its my strong belief that you can take great shots with any camera, even a 2 MP iPhone camera. Its definitely a greater challenge to get a good exposure on an iPhone vs a 5D MkII, but its not impossible. If you are up for the challenge, here are 5 apps that will help you take smashing iPhone pictures.
HelveticaHelvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.
