{"id":167,"date":"2008-07-26T03:19:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T08:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/?p=167"},"modified":"2008-07-26T03:19:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T08:19:11","slug":"links-cause-even-though","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/26\/links-cause-even-though\/","title":{"rendered":"links, cause even though"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>i&#8217;m at the end of the internet, you may not be.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Animal of the Month<\/strong>: NYC Pimp<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"NYTimes Cityroom Blog: What a Pimp Reads\" href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/18\/what-a-pimp-reads\/index.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">What a Pimp Reads &#8211; New York Times Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What sort of person subjects children as young as 12 to beatings and a life of prostitution? An <a title=\"COREY_DOC.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/packages\/pdf\/nyregion\/city_room\/20080717_COREY_DOC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">evidence list<\/a> submitted in the case of Corey Davis, a Queens man who billed himself as \u201cMagnificent,\u201d might provide some insight. Mr. Davis, 36, is facing a minimum of 23 years in prison after pleading guilty in March to a federal charge of sex trafficking involving a 12-year-old runaway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mindbending<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Dark Roasted Blend: The Weirdest Examples of Mass Hysteria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2008\/06\/weirdest-examples-of-mass-hysteria.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Roasted Blend: The Weirdest Examples of Mass Hysteria<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; But then things went dark, weird, and creepy: <strong>one girl laughed, but then so did another, and then another, and then another, and then another.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After exposure, the incubation period from nothing to hysteria was short, from a few hours to a couple of days. There was no fever, no physical symptoms, just laughter and occasional crying between short moments of exhausted recuperation. When victims were restrained they sometimes became violent&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Vanity Fair: On the Waterboard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/video\/2008\/hitchens_video200808\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair: On the Waterboard: Politics &amp; Power<\/a><\/li>\n<p>This is a video of a reporter being waterboarded in order to investigate torture and &#8216;agressive&#8217; interrogation&#8230; It is weird stuff.  Be sure to check out the accompanying <a title=\"Vanity Fair: Believe Me, It's Torture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2008\/08\/hitchens200808\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>.<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Seed: Scientific Method: Relationships Among Scientific Paradigms\" href=\"http:\/\/seedmagazine.com\/news\/2007\/03\/scientific_method_relationship.php\" target=\"_blank\">Seed: Scientific Method: Relationships Among Scientific Paradigms POSTER<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This map was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 published papers into 776 different scientific paradigms based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(they&#8217;re all out of free posters now, but the file is available so you can print one for yourself)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Core77: The Secret Lives of Invisible Magnetic Fields\" href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/videos\/the_secret_lives_of_invisible_magnetic_fields_10456.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Core77: The Secret Lives of Invisible Magnetic Fields [4:45]<\/a><\/li>\n<p>A very cool movie visualizing (with sound) magnetic fields.<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Dancing Non-Newtonian liquid (also via <a title=\"Core77: Liquid Dancing on Subwoofer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/liquid_dancing_on_subwoofer_10611.asp\" target=\"_blank\">core77<\/a>) [1:32]<\/li>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Yp1wUodQgqQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Yp1wUodQgqQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<li><a title=\"InvenSense: Gyroscopes and Accelerometers Compared\" href=\"http:\/\/www.invensense.com\/support\/library.html\" target=\"_blank\">InvenSense: Gyroscopes and Accelerometers Compared<\/a><\/li>\n<p>Check out this video describing the technology that is going to be used in the new Nintendo Wii <a title=\"IGN: Interview: Wii Motion Creators\" href=\"http:\/\/wii.ign.com\/articles\/893\/893192p1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Motion Plus<\/a>.  <em>General relativity<\/em> needs to be accounted for to accurately measure motion in 3D space (true 6 degrees of freedom) by using both accelerometers and gyroscopes. But perhaps the most interesting part of the site is the <a title=\"InvenSense: Product IDG 600\" href=\"http:\/\/www.invensense.com\/products\/idg_600.html\" target=\"_blank\">disclaimer at the bottom<\/a> (my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>InvenSense sensors should not be used or sold in the development, storing, production and utilization of any conventional or mass-destructive weapons<\/strong> or any other weapons or life-threatening applications as well as in any other life-critical applications including but not limited to medical equipment, transportation, aerospace and nuclear instruments, undersea equipment, power plant equipment, disaster prevention and crime prevention equipment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Culture <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nadia Comaneci, Montreal 1976 TEN!!! [1:06] (via <a title=\"plump plum: Nadia Comaneci, Montreal 1976 TEN!!!\" href=\"http:\/\/michael-crowe.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/nadia-comaneci-montral-1976-ten.html\" target=\"_blank\">plump plum<\/a>)<a href=\"http:\/\/michael-crowe.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/nadia-comaneci-montral-1976-ten.html\"> <\/a><\/li>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1Tl0kE7Oels&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1Tl0kE7Oels&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"plump plum: Selection from \" href=\"http:\/\/michael-crowe.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/selection-from-groucho-letters.html\" target=\"_blank\">plump plum: Selection from &#8220;The Groucho Letters&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Openers: Takashi Murakami\" href=\"http:\/\/openers.jp\/culture\/c_news\/c_news080716.html\" target=\"_blank\">OPENERS &#8211; Takashi Murakami Prints &#8220;My First Art&#8221; \u009dSeries (click for more pics)<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/openers.jp\/culture\/c_news\/c_news080716.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<p><a title=\"Openers: Takashi Murakami\" href=\"http:\/\/openers.jp\/culture\/c_news\/c_news080716.html\" target=\"_blank\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-168\" title=\"murakami\" src=\"http:\/\/noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/murakami.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Michael Bluejay | Crazy World of Michael Bluejay\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelbluejay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Bluejay | Crazy World of Michael Bluejay<\/a><\/li>\n<p>Last but not least this is what I consider to be a throwback to vintage internet. We are talking a space background repeating image here people; I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen that since &#8217;97. Plus something for nearly everyone: lots of links, e.g. useful information like an up to date guide to <a title=\"SEO 101\" href=\"http:\/\/websitehelpers.com\/seo\/\" target=\"_blank\">SEO<\/a>, and <a title=\"Michael Bluejay: Women Chess Grandmasters\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelbluejay.com\/main\/womengrandmasters.html\" target=\"_blank\">Women Chess Grandmasters<\/a>.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m at the end of the internet, you may not be. Animal of the Month: NYC Pimp What a Pimp Reads &#8211; New York Times Blog &#8220;What sort of person subjects children as young as 12 to beatings and a life of prostitution? An evidence list submitted in the case of Corey Davis, a Queens man who billed himself as \u201cMagnificent,\u201d might provide some insight. 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