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POPSVery Long-Term Backup- Rosetta One side of the disk contains a graphic teaser. The design shows headlines in the eight major languages of the world today spiraling inward in ever-decreasing size till it becomes so small you have trouble reading it, yet the text goes on getting smaller. The sentences announce: “Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation.” This graphic side of the disk is pure titanium. A black oxide coating has been added to the surface. The text is etched into that, revealing the whiter titanium. This bold sign board is needed because the pages of genesis which are etched on the mirror-like opposite side of the disk are nearly invisible.
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POPSThe web that time forgot "Today, Otlet and his work have been largely forgotten, even in his native Belgium. Although Otlet enjoyed considerable fame during his lifetime, his legacy fell victim to a series of historical misfortunes — not least of which involved the Nazis marching into Belgium and destroying much of his life's work. But in recent years, a small group of researchers has begun to resurrect Otlet's reputation, republishing some of his writing and raising money to establish the museum and archive in Mons."
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POPSDetecting Photographic Forgeries Automatically detecting manipulated photographs is becoming more and more necessary in today's newsroom. "The eyes are a partial mirror into the world in which you're photographed," Farid says. If there are two white dots in each eye, there had to have been two separate light sources. So, if a photo shows two dots in one person's eyes and only one dot in another person's eyes, it must have been spliced together from two different originals.
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POPSLive Music Archive cool resource: Browse All Artists with Recordings in the Live Music Archive Browse All Artists' Collection Pages in the Live Music Archive (alt view 1) (alt view 2) You can readily find artists' shows by date or by year through these specific landing pages. (Note: The browsable view of collection pages is cached for 24 hr.) Most Recent Band Activations Note: This is not cached: updated in real time. Graph of the Number of Shows Added Per Month (For the past 24 months) Most Recently Added Items Browse Artists with MP3's Search for Lossless-Only Recordings (No-MP3) Search for Some 24-bit FLAC Recordings Search the Entire LMA at once Shows on This Day in History Browse a Year in History
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POPSWhy Are So Many Voters So Easily Fooled?
Why Are So Many Voters So Easily Fooled? I've asked myself, that question many times... Of course with no answers. I'm not alone. There are people who posses a worldly depth of knowledge and still wind up scratching their heads in great bewilderment upon seeking an explanation on why people vote against their own personal BEST INTEREST! I've noticed of late, that the progressive TV pundits are now placing these voters in a group calling them, Low Informational Voters. How genteel! See more about this newly coined phrase, here: http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=557 I'm not nearly that refined so I can call a-spade a-spade... LOW INFORMATION VOTER, my foot... It's just the old fashioned, plain old, brown paper wrapping... STUPID, my man! The last paragraph of the freezerbox article above, says it all! (Old adages like "You can lead a horse to water" and "pearls before swine" will provide scant solace. There's only so much you can do when a large segment of the elec
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POPSThe Life and Death of Your Tweets Raises interesting questions. Would you want to have access to everything you've ever twittered? Will corporations be able to paint a picture of you based on "what you've been doing" for the past X years? Found via this clip
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