Did you know the Peace Symbol

is derived from the semaphoric symbols for N and D

N -- D --

which stand for Nuclear Disarmament?

Nov. 5, 1955: A Flux of Genius 

Google releases Dashboard privacy tool - CNN

Ever wonder what information Google knows about you? With a click or two, now you can find out.
Google released a feature Thursday that lets users see and control data that the Web giant has collected about them. Called Google Dashboard, the service provides an online summary of a user's Google files -- Gmail, Google Docs, Picasa photos and so on -- by collecting pre-existing privacy controls in one place.

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Obesity responsible for 100,000 cancer cases annually - CNN

More than 100,000 cases of cancer each year are caused by excess body fat, according to a report released Thursday in Washington. Researchers with the American Institute for Cancer Research looked at seven cancers with known links to obesity and calculated actual case counts that were likely to have been caused by obesity.

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Hubble's New Camera Delivers Another Stunner - Wired

The Hubble Space Telescope's new camera is returning incredibly detailed, stunning images of space. This close-up view of an area near the core of the iconic Southern Pinwheel galaxy, or M83, shows very rapid star birth.

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Record labels keep blaming P2P, but it's a hard sell - Ars Technica

In response to a new survey suggesting that P2P file-swapping might not be harming music sales, music's international trade group IFPI today put out a statement. "The net effect of illegal file-sharing in the UK and elsewhere has been to reduce legitimate sales," IFPI asserts. "This is why spending on recorded music has fallen every year since illegal file-sharing began to become widespread."

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Inside the Army's Far-Out Acid Tests - Wired

Dropping acid to boost the Pentagon's psychic powers was just the start. The Men Who Stare At Goats, the upcoming movie based on Jon Ronson’s non-fiction book of the same name, has George Clooney and Jeff Bridges in a bizarre military research project involving astral projection, remote viewing, and LSD. But for the real dope on the Army's narcotics and psychedelics tests, you have to turn to Dr. James S. Ketchum, who wrote a firsthand account of the military’s trials with these "incapacitating chemical agents."

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Uploaded a couple new photograph sets:

Autumn Snow and Ice - 10.31

Night Shots - 09.06

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Jeff Danziger - 05 November 2009

 
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How your brain sees virtual you - New Scientist

The way the brain regards the virtual "you" may help explain why some people spend large chunks of their life online playing immersive games

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The real distractions for pilots - Salon

The scolds in Congress pushing for legislation banning nonessential gadgets from the cockpit are on the wrong track

... Am I absolving the Northwest pilots of blame? Am I advocating that crews should be allowed to break out their laptops to play computer games or surf the Internet while flying? No. But here again we are witnessing one of this country's most wasteful and self-defeating tendencies: that of coming up with unrealistic, zero-tolerance solutions to problems that are either greatly exaggerated, badly misunderstood, or that don't exist in the first place.

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How a blunder finished off the Wall - BBC

When the Berlin Wall opened on 9 November 1989 Brian Hanrahan was the BBC News reporter on the ground. This year he's been back to talk to some of those whose decisions made this key moment in 20th Century history possible.

From the safe distance of 20 years, the opening of the Berlin Wall can be seen as inevitable - the natural consequence of changes that were reshaping Europe. But for most of 1989 it was unthinkable.

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Capitalism flawed, says poll - BBC News

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism.

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Technology doesn't isolate people: US study - Reuters‎

Contrary to popular belief, the Internet and mobile phones are not isolating people but enhancing their social worlds, according to a US survey.

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Nov. 10, 1983: Computer 'Virus' Is Born - Wired

Fred Cohen, a University of Southern California graduate student, gives a prescient peek at the digital future when he demonstrates a computer virus during a security seminar at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. A quarter-century later, computer viruses have become a pandemic for which there’s no inoculation.

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Peacefires newest Circumventor:

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Tom Toles - 18 November 2009

So You Want to Be Famous ... - Newsweek
How to become a celebrity without any talent or skills whatsoever.

Once upon a time, it took actual talent to become a celebrity in America. Whether you achieved fame in arts and letters, athletics, or politics, it was necessary to have at least some modicum of skill. But now, thanks to cable television and the Internet, there is an endless appetite for "content."

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5 Houseplants That Clean Your Air - MotherJones

Anyone who's tried to decorate an apartment on a budget knows that houseplants are great: They're cheap. You can buy 'em at the supermarket. And many are remarkably independent. Plop a philodendron down basically anywhere, and voila: instant hominess.

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Snow and Lights at Night - 15 November 2009 

Having fun taking some pictures at night with fresh snow and the available light

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