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POPSWhy QWERTY? QWERTY... where does it come from? They layout of our keyboards was invented by Mr. Sholes in 1873. The porpouse of this particular layout was to place the most-used letters not too close to each other in order to ease the typing. The QWERTY key board is used by the majority of countries worldwide, due also to the massive production of pc's and laptops. Some countries, though, use different layouts according to their alphabets. Which one is yours?
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POPSVisual Alchemist & Psychedelic Artist Defined A Generation Alton Kelley, whose psychedelic concert posters for artists like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Big Brother and the Holding Company helped define the visual style of the 1960s counterculture, died on Sunday at his home in Petaluma, Calif. He was 67. Mr. Kelley and Stanley Mouse, combined sinuous Art Nouveau lettering and outré images plucked from sources near and far to create the visual equivalent of an acid trip. They formed Mouse Studios: Mouse said they could work for hours in silence. "We knew what to do, we didn't have to talk." Kelley had the unique ability to translate the music being played into these amazing images that captured the spirit of who we were and what the music was all about. He was a visual alchemist — skulls and roses, skeletons in full flight, cryptic alphabets, nothing was too strange for his imagination to conjure.
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POPSRe: Common Sense From Samuelson Mark Steyn
Robert Samuelson's argument is so self-evident no politician can ever state it. A couple of weeks back, Statistics Canada reported that, after adjustment for inflation, Canadian wage-earners are earning less than in 1980. When advanced economies admit ever larger numbers of unskilled workers (plus a chain of relatives through "family reunification"), they are importing poverty. The President says this is to do "the jobs Americans won't do". For the sake of argument, take him at his word. So why won't Americans do them? Because they're a great way to ensure you live in poverty. So we import foreigners to be our poor people. Can we import just the right number to ensure that poverty doesn't "grow"? Unlikely. There are arguments to be made both for and against immigration, but you can't be in favor of mass unskilled immigration and then pledge to fight the "war on poverty". It's like spooning out a bathtub with a thimble while leaving the faucets running. corner.nationalreview.com
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POPSUndeciphered Scripts - Good Resource This was one of my "archaic" clips that went private a long while ago for exceeding the character limit. I'm re-clipping it now because so many new clippers joined since then and I believe this is a great source on ancient scripts and writing systems.
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POPSThe History of Writing Revisiting & re-clipping some of my old stuff. (I recommend the source article for an illustrated history of abstract thought and writing, with the evolution of alphabets.)
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POPSGregg Braden and his DNA discovery! This is an excerpt from Gregg's 2004 newsletter which highlights his research and interest in the DNA coding and what it can represent for the further improvement of the state of our world! For more in-depth information on how happy thoughts affect your DNA and your immune system also see my more lengthy clip of the DNA report here; http://clipmarks.com/clipper/enchantedgarden/clip/B58F4987-15C9-4F2E-B1B8-6FCD58465707/ and as someone said, Don't Worry, Be Happy! :D ;)
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POPSMy Blinklist Spaces: Earth Changes, Ancient History and AB.ZU ... including links to my Clipmarks collections, of course. If you use Blinklist, you can contribute to these spaces (submitting your related clips would be a good idea.) If any of you have some Blinklist Spaces, let us know and we'll post some links to clip collections. ;)
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POPSFewer characters being used in written Chinese "China began simplifying its script after the Communist revolution in 1949, aiming to improve illiteracy from an estimated 80 percent. Written Chinese is made up of around 50,000 individual characters, whose main function is to represent meaning, not pronunciation."
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