EO Newsroom: New Images - How On Earth Was This Image Made?
This mathematical structure answers some questions about Escher's picture, such as: "what's in the blurry white hole in the middle?" By a five step process a wide variety of different pictures has been made, such as a straight picture, and a picture twisting the other way.
http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/
The Philosopher of Islamic Terror
Bin Laden is a Saudi plutocrat with Yemeni ancestors, and most of the suicide warriors of Sept. 11 were likewise Saudis, and the provenance of those people has focused everyone's attention on the Arabian peninsula. But Al Qaeda has broader roots. The organization was created in the late 1980's by an affiliation of three armed factions -- bin Laden's circle of ''Afghan'' Arabs, together with two factions from Egypt, the Islamic Group and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the latter led by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's top theoretician. The Egyptian factions emerged from an older current, a school of thought from within Egypt's fundamentalist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, in the 1950's and 60's. And at the heart of that single school of thought stood, until his execution in 1966, a philosopher named Sayyid Qutb -- the intellectual hero of every one of the groups that eventually went into Al Qaeda, their Karl Marx (to put it that way), their guide.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports
My station is a threat to American media control - and they know it
Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges -- and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
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"But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks' time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can't be pure luck.
War in Iraq - fighting the people
The IRAQWAR.RU analytical center was created recently by a group of journalists and military experts from Russia to provide accurate and up-to-date news and analysis of the war against Iraq. The following is the English translation of the IRAQWAR.RU report based on the Russian military intelligence reports.
Saddam's Cyber Palace, tem tambem o do Osama Osama's Offerings
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US defeat in Iraq 'inevitable'
The United States does not have the military means to take over Baghdad and will lose the war against Iraq, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter said.
"The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated. It is a war we can not win," he told private radio TSF in an interview broadcast here on Tuesday evening.
deu no Dar Al-Hayat:
A CNN reporter criticized the Arab media coverage of the war on Iraq saying that the choice of words used by the Arab TV stations and press refers to the coalition forces as 'invaders'.
The reporter, Rym Brahimi, was vocal about the fact that most of the Arab media is either state-run or owned by government officials, from whose countries the attacks on Iraq are being carried out.
Brahimi specifically criticized Al-Hayat over a cartoon showing the Statue of Liberty hitchhiking her way out of New York, where there is no more democracy, with "Human Rights" etched on her book...
Claim: Cellular phones have touched off explosions at gas stations.
Status: False.
movabletype.org : TrackBack Explanation
Outro tutorial de TrackBack, este pelos criadores do Movable Type.
CBSNews.com News Alert! U.S. Uses Secret Weapon On Iraqi TV
The Air Force has blasted Iraqi TV with a secret electromagnetic pulse device called the "E-Bomb" in an attempt to knock it off the air, CBS News has learned.
TheStar.com - Hackers target Al-Jazeera's site
Hackers attacked the Web site of the Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera today, rendering it intermittently unavailable, the site's host said.
In military organisations -- very much like in other rigid establishments -- promotion is entirely dependent on one?s successful adaptation of a strict pattern of thought. In other words military promotion is dependent on one?s acceptance of a given doctrine while denying any other mode of thinking.
Accordingly, the higher you get in the military hierarchy the less open-minded you are. To spare any ambiguity, if we agree that an intelligent mind is distinguished by its capability to process a wide range of information, it makes sense that in the top of the military pyramid we find the least intelligent people around. To be more explicit: military leaders can be found to be pretty stupid people by any standard.
Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan has been obliging enough to explain the Iraqi army's tactics. It was Iraqi policy to let the Anglo-American armies "roam around" in the desert as long as they want, and attack them when they tried to enter the cities. Which seems to be pretty much what they are doing.
Tutorial de trackback com imagens
John Perry Barlow manda avisar:
Brazil is the world's largest Inside Joke. It is, to those who get it, sufficiently involving to render even such external considerations as the possible outbreak of Armageddon slightly irrelevant.
"The basis for Rapid Dominance rests in the ability to affect the will, perception, and understanding of the adversary through imposing sufficient Shock and Awe to achieve the necessary political, strategic, and operational goals of the conflict or crisis that led to the use of force. War, of course, in the broadest sense has been characterized by Clausewitz to include substantial elements of "fog, friction, and fear." In the Clausewitzian view, "shock and awe" were necessary effects arising from application of military power and were aimed at destroying the will of an adversary to resist. Earlier and similar observations had been made by the great Chinese military writer Sun Tzu around 500 B.C. Sun Tzu observed that disarming an adversary before battle was joined was the most effective outcome a commander could achieve. Sun Tzu was well aware of the crucial importance of achieving Shock and Awe prior to, during, and in ending battle. He also observed that "war is deception," implying that Shock and Awe were greatly leveraged through clever, if not brilliant, employment of force."
Minute after minute the missiles came, with devastating shrieks
Saddam's main presidential palace, a great rampart of a building 20 storeys high, simply exploded in front of me a cauldron of fire, a 100ft sheet of flame and a sound that had my ears singing for an hour after. The entire, massively buttressed edifice shuddered under the impact. Then four more cruise missiles came in.
Marcelo manda avisar:
"Portanto , Sadam selou o seu destino quando, em fins de 2000, decidiu mudar para o euro. A partir daquele momento, uma outra Guerra do Golfo tornava-se um imperativo para Bush Jr.. O que está em jogo não é nem o caráter texano caricato de Bush, nem uma questão de segurança nacional norte-americana contra o terrorismo, mas a continuidade da falácia do dólar."
Update - Veja tambêm: The Euro Effect: The Real Reason for the War in Iraq
The Observer | International | Word is made flesh as God reveals himself... as a fish
An obscure Jewish sect in New York has been gripped in awe by what it believes to be a mystical visitation by a 20lb carp that was heard shouting in Hebrew, in what many Jews worldwide are hailing as a modern miracle.
Robert Fisk mandando bem:
Weasel words to watch for
'Inevitable revenge' - for the executions of Saddam's Baath party officials which no one actually said were inevitable.
'Stubborn' or 'suicidal' - to be used when Iraqi forces fight rather than retreat.
'Allegedly' - for all carnage caused by Western forces.
'At last, the damning evidence' - used when reporters enter old torture chambers.
'Officials here are not giving us much access' - a clear sign that reporters in Baghdad are confined to their hotels.
'Life goes on' - for any pictures of Iraq's poor making tea.
'Remnants' - allegedly 'diehard' Iraqi troops still shooting at the Americans but actually the first signs of a resistance movement dedicated to the 'liberation' of Iraq from its new western occupiers.
'Newly liberated' - for territory and cities newly occupied by the Americans or British.
'What went wrong?' - to accompany pictures illustrating the growing anarchy in Iraq as if it were not predicted.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=387592
World of Ends, por Doc Searls e David Weinberger traduzido pelo Rainer. Aproveitando para inaugurar o TrackBack no 42.
http://www.brockerhoff.net/bb/viewtopic.php?t=10
Berkeley - After more than a million years of computation by more than 4 million computers worldwide, the SETI@home screensaver that crunches data in search of intelligent signals from space has produced a list of candidate radio sources that deserve a second look.
Three members of the SETI@home team will head to Puerto Rico this month to point the Arecibo radio telescope at up to 150 spots identified as the source of possible signals from intelligent civilizations.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10922