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September 30, 2005
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Type in your subject. Check out the courses available. Now you to can study cognitive robotics at MIT, pathophysicology of infectious diseases at Tufts, or causal and statistical reasonaing at Carnegie-Mellon. Or how about some artsier stuff?
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New Bill Stewart Album.
World renowned jazz drummer Bill Stewart has released his newest album via cdbaby. As well, he plays on Kevin Hays' what survives, also released on cdbaby. Anybody know of any other well known artists who have chosen to self release albums instead of dealing with the record label mafia? All styles of music welcome; we monkeys have broad tastes.
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Gorillas have been seen for the first time using simple tools to perform tasks in the wild
Scientists were particularly amazed that they were able to post extensively on a certain metafilter clone site.
White slavery in the UK
Police in Birmingham, UK, are reported to have rescued nineteen women from ten countries from white slavery. (The term is archaic; the practice, sadly, isn't.) They were allegedly being locked in the establishment at night, and kept in by day with the assistance of an electric fence around the back garden.
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Baseball Apocalypse II
Pretty exciting weekend coming up, yes?
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The forest of rhetoric
Terms and definitions of rhetoric, from antiquity to the Renaissance.
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Puberty explained... by a talking penis.
NSFW unless your workplace doesn't care too much about talking cartoon genitals and some frank depictions of sexual acts. Voiced by Amy Sedaris, of Strangers With Candy fame and sibling of that writer guy. Warning: Flash Aaaah! He'll save every one of us!
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Trouble vs Tribble-ations
A scene-by-scene deconstruction of how digital video artists repurposed parts of the ST:TOS episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" to create the ST:DS9 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" 30 years later.
Mmmmm, Trekky goodness...
Woogle - words in pictures
(stolen from the blue)
Friday Film Fun
What would a preview for the classic film The Shining look like if it were made today? Not quite the movie you'd expect... [MOV 1st link]
I had been warned of Turkmenistan's liking for bureaucracy.
Peter Forwood, who has been travelling around the world on his Harley motorcycle since 1996, has just visited Turkmenistan.
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