Tuesday, October 26, 2004
There I was diligently posting away thinking all was well until someone remarked the other day that I had not posted “in ages”.
As I had posted that very day, I was puzzled and checked the front page (as opposed to the Moveable Type back end).
It was indeed frozen in time several weeks back. [...]
“Charles Dickens’ Uriah Heep is famed for his ‘Ever so ‘umble’ way of talking and perhaps would be proud of the simple Check Sheet, one of the original ‘First Seven Tools for Quality Control’.
Check Sheets come in all shapes and disguises, being simply any organised way of collecting manual information.”….
Interesting little primer on using Check [...]
PeoplesArchive is dedicated to collecting for posterity the stories of the great thinkers and creators of our time. Biologists or filmmakers, physicists or craftsmen, the people whose stories you see on this site are leaders of their field, whose work has influenced and changed our world.
The biographical site who2.com has a fun feature called hoops:
What is a loop? It’s a collection of famous people who share something in common. That ’something’ may be a job, a hobby, a mode of death or practically anything else.
Here are some examples:
Animated Babes
Bush Clan
Models Of Victoria’s Secret
Split Decision By David Thomson
A split screen is two or more separate images put together in one image, or one screen. Thus it was a split screen on ABC when similar images of Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry were set side-by-side with a clear dividing line. But on PBS the shots were actually what are [...]
A good debunking of the “no plane hit the Pentagon” urban legend.
So poor old Ken Bigley has been murdered by the Islamist scum who abducted him three weeks ago. All his pleadings and the begging came to nothing but death.
He was a dead man the minute they captured him. They were merciful to the two Americans they killed immediately knowing the US media would not assist [...]
[ AFFILIATION RELATION: Joining the crowd may be an evolutionarily productive practice. And people will often band together by whatever means available. In a 2001 study, for example, John Tooby and colleagues concluded that no part of the human cognition is designed to encode race as a group identifier (not the case with age or [...]
Too rushed to make individual posts so here are a selection of science articles in digest form:
Achieving ‘adulthood’ is more elusive; transition to adulthood occurring at a later age
oday, adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. In the bridge to adulthood, also referred to as early adulthood, many more young people are caught between the [...]