50 foot Michael Jackson to shoot lasers from eyes. [:o]
Pics. 7-storey gangster house, slideshow. After the French riots: audio slideshow. China builds 13 mile dragon. Light bulbs. [:(]
Shark fishing kills off shellfish [:(]
Youtube. Guy skis down escalator. Slo-mo samurai sword slashing. [:o]
How do you prove photography to a blind man [MeFi :(]
Youtube. Pratt jet engine bird impact test [2 min 30 :(] Coffee made with laser [3 min :(] Yoga action squad [4 min ;)] Hamster eats broccoli [1 min 30 :)]
Should there be a moratorium on biofuel incentives? [:(]
John K on the cartoon business in the 1980s [:(]
Pics. Playboy cartoons. Nymphs and satyrs. [:o NSFW]
Yay, it's long economics article day! Euro economics book review, extract. Empirical research on development economics [:(]
Youtube: Dog chases virtual ball [:o]
Tech. Top 6 List of Programming Top 10 Lists. 1945 scientist ponders future of information technology [:(]
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and to coin one at random, ``memex'' will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.It consists of a desk, and while it can presumably be operated from a distance, it is primarily the piece of furniture at which he works. On the top are slanting translucent screens, on which material can be projected for convenient reading. There is a keyboard, and sets of buttons and levers. Otherwise it looks like an ordinary desk.
In one end is the stored material. The matter of bulk is well taken care of by improved microfilm. Only a small part of the interior of the memex is devoted to storage, the rest to mechanism. Yet if the user inserted 5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so he can be profligate and enter material freely.
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Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. The lawyer has at his touch the associated opinions and decisions of his whole experience, and of the experience of friends and authorities. The patent attorney has on call the millions of issued patents, with familiar trails to every point of his client's interest. The physician, puzzled by its patient's reactions, strikes the trail established in studying an earlier similar case, and runs rapidly through analogous case histories, with side references to the classics for the pertinent anatomy and histology. The chemist, struggling with the synthesis of an organic compound, has all the chemical literature before him in his laboratory, with trails following the analogies of compounds, and side trails to their physical and chemical behavior.
Brain damage can create utilitarian moralists.[:(]
Youtube. David O. Russell, Lily Tomlin argue on set [MeFi :(]
Article. Veteran misses the war [:( MeFi]
Kurt Vonnegut: Eight rules for writing fiction [:(]
VS.NET. Always implement ToString [:(]
Geekery. Star Trek particles. Star Wars concept art [:o]
Eye tracking Artists scan pictures differently. Men look at crotches more. [:( BB]
Life-size whale in your browser, about. [) :o]
Economics. Should CO2 reduction be through taxes or permit trading. US and EU attitudes to regulation. [:(]
Pedal-powered rollercoaster [:o]
History of the barefoot mailmen [:( MeFi]
UK politics. Flaws in C4 climate change doc. 59 things revealed by FoI act. [:( (UK)]
Technology videos. Toilet paper dispenser. Squirrel twirler [:o]
HTML 5 [:(]
Commons. Doc Smith's Triplanetary on Project Gutenberg. Jonathon Lethem offers film rights. EFF on DVB standard. [:(]
Portillo on Lords reform [:( (UK)]
Youtube. Cat videos to Bjork soundtrack [:o 3min] What sign language means [:o 1min]
Healthcare. Report: websites with personal anecdotes most trusted. [:(]
Teddy Babes are like plush RealDolls [LL :o NSFW]
Rejected petitions [(UK) LL :o]
Video. Surreal neo-Mickey Mouse animation [:o]
Misc. Problems with UK rail privatisation [:( (UK) LL] Do you need an emotional workflow system? [:o] Cyborg animals [:o] Portable mass spectrometer [:(] Conservapedia to balance Wikipedia bias.
