information visualization
I tried to do a short rap related to this picture, but i got nowhere….and after seeing Universaltron’s post, i realized we were resonating in a similar place…this image is amazing to me…taken by the Nasa Messenger Mission, a satellite that is orbiting Mercury…so this is a picture of how our Earth and Moon would ...
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My dearest Greg, You, like so many in our time, having seen a speech from Wall Street, the movie, have made a mistake that many 10 year olds of my generation used to make, wanting to dress up like Darth Vader for Halloween…Because you see, Gordon Gekko, representative of human greed as a source of ...
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Yo G-tron citizens…check out this latest experiment…things are going to get real jiggy real fast up in here…y’all goin make me lose my mind…up in here…up in here… Father Mapple (PhysOrg.com) — Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons further than ever before. They transported quantum information over a free space distance ...
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a great breakdown of the structure of emotional life…
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in my recent meditation on objects of culture, and their evolution, i present a few images of computers, the Csirac computer, austrialian first generation computer, room sized…i’ve included a graph so you can compare storage power, the numbers are too large for me to adequately translate into language. the point of these posts is to ...
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The Topic – Acrylic on Canvas – 22″ x 28″ If you would like to know more about this painting read the essay: The Topic : Meditation on the Identification of Legitimacy
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Hey Peeps, well, it’s happening folks, that’s right! The singularity is now on the calendar mofos…This scientist Henry Markram recently announced he will create a fully conscious electronic brain by 2018…And I know, you are used to these numbers sounding futuristic, but that’s 8 years from now…HAL – lelujah…let me break it down a bit, ...
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What is Profit? Akbar’s Meditations: Take the question above and think about it, but take the first instinctual response and dig deeper. What is profit? What is it? What is a real world example? How does it work? What is it grounded in? Is it good? Is it bad? Is it real? What is its ...
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found these on matrixmasters.com, they tie into a growing dissatisfaction….letter coming Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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Today I bought a Glaceau Vitamin Water, and I was a little perturbed by the text on the bottle, and due to an overwhelming popularity of my previous Variety is not Freedom post, I decided to continue in this critique of products. Here is the text followed by some commentary: (not capitalized on the bottle) ...
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Always on the lookout for new infoviz images, I came across this picture from NASA’s Orbital Debris Programs Office after hearing about the near-miss between the International Space Station and a piece of space junk (which measured about 1/3 of an inch.) It’s old news that our low-earth orbit is cluttered with useless and potentially ...
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