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::: 07-03-08_1700.jpg posted by kiyote23
::: at 7/03/2008 05:03:00 PM links to this post | (0) comments Can a Robot, an Insect or God Be Aware?: Scientific American: "The new field of experimental philosophy introduces a novel twist on this traditional approach. Experimental philosophers continue the search to understand people’s ordinary intuitions, but they do so using the methods of contemporary cognitive science (see also here and here)—experimental studies, statistical analyses, cognitive models, and so forth. Just in the past year or so, a number of researchers have been applying this new approach to the study of intuitions about consciousness. By studying how people think about three different types of abstract entities—a corporation, a robot and a God—we can better understand how people think about the mind."
::: Can a Robot, an Insect or God Be Aware?: Scientific American posted by kiyote23
::: at 6/27/2008 01:41:00 AM links to this post | (0) comments The Official Site of The Chicago Cubs: News: Power of poem immortalizes Cubs trio:
"These are the saddest of possible words:
'Tinker to Evers to Chance.'
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double-
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
'Tinker to Evers to Chance.'"
::: The Official Site of The Chicago Cubs: News: Power of poem immortalizes Cubs trio posted by kiyote23
::: at 6/25/2008 06:00:00 PM links to this post | (0) comments Waiting for the Flood
Here's a playlist I put together for listening during flood-time:
Waiting for the Flood Love and Rockets Earth Sun Moon Here's That Rainy Day Sammy Davis Jr. Greatest Hits Vol. 2 High Water Bob Dylan Love & Theft Here Comes the Rain Again Eurythmics Down To The River To Pray Alison Krauss O Brother, Where Art Thou? Blue eyes cryin' in the rain Hank Williams Sr Rainy Day, Dream Day The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland (Remastered) The River (live) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band River Of Dreams Billy Joel River Of Dreams Box of Rain Grateful Dead American Beauty Cry Me A River Diana Krall She Divines Water Camper Van Beethoven Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart Take Me To The River Talking Heads The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads (Disc 2) Who'll Stop The Rain Creedence Clearwater Revival A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (live) Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964 Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits The Rain Song Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy Rain The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 2 Still Raining, Still Dreaming The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland (Remastered) Make It Rain Tom Waits Real Gone When the Levee Breaks Led Zeppelin Mothership (Remastered) I Can See Clearly Now the Rain is Gone Johnny Nash
I'm working on one for summer, which hopefully I can share soon.
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::: at 6/22/2008 08:00:00 PM links to this post | (0) comments Romans Used 20-Sided Dice Two Millennia Before D&D | Geekdad from Wired.com: "Many of us geeks take great pride in the ability to recite the history of role-playing games based on the 20-sided die, but what about the history of the die itself? Apparently it predates the original Dungeons and Dragons by almost two millenia.
Christie's, auctioneer to the rich and famous, sold a glass d20 from Roman times. It was included in a collection of other antiquities that sold in 2003. The markings on the die don't appear to be either Arabic or Roman numerals, but it's probably a safe bet that it was used in a game of chance. As the auction catalog notes that several polyhedral dice are known from the Roman era, but remarks, ' Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used.'"
::: Romans Used 20-Sided Dice Two Millennia Before D&D | Geekdad from Wired.com posted by kiyote23
::: at 6/16/2008 09:12:00 PM links to this post | (0) comments More shots of the flooding near the Arts Campus at the University of Iowa. That's supposed to be a road behind the construction equipment, not a pond.
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::: at 6/14/2008 07:13:00 PM links to this post | (0) comments It's the ped for "walking on water." The water was high enough to reach the bottom of the road sign.
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::: at 6/14/2008 06:48:00 PM links to this post | (0) comments This is the road that goes under the railroad tracks and takes you to the Art Buildings. Now you need a boat.
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::: at 6/14/2008 06:45:00 PM links to this post | (0) comments I accidently took this on the lowest res, so you can't read the sign, which helpfully points out that the bike path is closed. The sign was there for the construction, not the water that ended up covering the construction.
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::: at 6/14/2008 06:42:00 PM links to this post | (0) comments Another picture I unfortunately took at the lowest res, which renders the sign illegible. This time the sign helpfully advises that bikes should be walked through the underpass, which is completely flooded.
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::: at 6/14/2008 06:40:00 PM links to this post | (0) comments For some reason, someone printed this out (in color) and tacked it up on the community bulletin board within our store. It was there for several days before it was taken down, bringing me a little giggle everytime I passed it.
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::: at 6/14/2008 12:24:00 PM links to this post | (0) comments The parking of a retail building at the corner of Gilbert and Benton, blocks from my house. This was my first sight of the flood.
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::: at 6/14/2008 06:59:00 AM links to this post | (0) comments The intersection of Gilbert and Benton as I walked to work that morning.
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::: at 6/14/2008 06:59:00 AM links to this post | (0) comments The start of the flooding at Gilbert and Benton.
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::: at 6/13/2008 05:26:00 PM links to this post | (0) comments
