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"Both the victor and the vanquished are but drops of dew, but bolts of lightning —thus should we view the world." -Ouchi Yoshitaka (1507/1551).

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20100313 044939 Z Russian Singer Eduard Khil Remix www.youtube. … 78IlJs5JQ&fmt=18 www.reddit.c … y_has_a_bad_day/ Audio, Chill, Funny, Live Action, Videos Nearly lost my milk and cookies. If you haven't seen the original, then watch it first: Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой .
20100311 193947 Z Human Urine As A Safe, Inexpensive Fertilizer For Food Crops www.scienced … 071008093608.htm Julia Fauna, Flora, Sustainability Free fertilizer right under our noses!
20100311 034458 Z Hypocrisy Alert: Calif. Politician Roy Ashburn Arrested for Allegedly Driving Drunk; It Gets Worse www.cbsnews. … 6524-504083.html www.reddit.c … e_about_married/ Equality, Journalism, News, Politics, USA This atrocious story has been out for a few days already, but I do like how the writer, Kevin Hayes, presented the story.
20100311 023701 Z Limbaugh: I'll Leave US If Health Care Reform Passes (VIDEO) www.huffingt … if_n_491536.html Health, Politics, Radio, USA What sweet news! If only he would leave sooner. Did he say he'd go to Costa Rica on purpose? Costa Rica has universal health care and no army. Doctors taking federal money?! What a shock! What an outrage! O wait they already do that with Medicare.
20100310 200158 Z The Beast File- Google (HUNGRY BEAST) www.youtube. … ch?v=dv4j4bguYYk Cyber Life, Google, Videos It's not too bad, here in the belly of the beast. This is so well done that you think Google made it themselves!
20100310 195521 Z How to Deal With a Proud Person www.wikihow. … h-a-Proud-Person Relations, Self Improvement Some time that person with hubris is me! (Or you.)
2010-03-11t03:13:22 Z | TAGS: Psychology, Saucy, Science, Sex
Porn: Good for us?
Porn: Good for us? [http://www.the-scientist.com/2010/3/1/29/1/] [VIA: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/bbkgi/porn_good_for_us_scientific_examination_of_the/]
No correlation has even been found between exposure to porn and calloused attitudes toward women.
What does correlate highly with sex offense is a strict, repressive religious upbringing. Richard Green too has reported that both rapists and child molesters use less pornography than a control group of "normal" males.

Porn has also driven a fair amount of computer development. The reddit thread has some material both goofy and thoughtful.

2010-03-10t19:49:32 Z | TAGS: Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Images, Inspiring, Philosophy
Free Energy and the Meaning of Life
Free Energy and the Meaning of Life [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/03/10/free-energy-and-the-meaning-of-life/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CosmicVarianceBlog+%28Cosmic+Variance%29]

This one is so obvious that it's spooky. The concept of successful genes maximize replication is familiar; that life succeeds because it maximizes entropy on a much lower level than the visible mess we create. The complex processes of life enable chemical reactions to get past a little hill and into a lower energy state.

The Problem Solved by Life by Eric Smith

"The purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide." -Mike Russell

Slide of getting over the hill by Mike Russel
2010-03-10t18:27:54 Z | TAGS: Beauty, Cool, Inspiring, Science, Space
Most Extreme White Dwarf Binary System Found With Orbit of Just Five Minutes
Most Extreme White Dwarf Binary System Found With Orbit of Just Five Minutes [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100309091450.htm] [VIA: Julia]

Power, power, power!

This is an intriguing system in a number of ways: it has an extremely short period; mass flows from one star and crashes down onto the equator of the other in a region comparable in size to the English Midlands where it liberates more than the Sun's entire power in X-rays. It could also be a strong emitter of gravitational waves which may one day be detected from this type of star system.
2010-03-09t02:37:45 Z | TAGS: History, Politics, USA, Videos
The American Form of Government
The American Form of Government [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE] [VIA: Nikos]

This video was sent by a Republican friend of mine. It's not as adversarial as our past exchanges. Here's how I replied:

I like the video quite a bit. It's a little simple but it's mostly right. It does need some qualifications.

For example, there is a distinction between concepts ("democracy", "republic") and names of parties ("Democratic Party", "Republican Party"). After watching the video, one might simply conclude that the Republican Party is the clear choice over the Democratic Party because we clearly a republic is good, and a democracy is just a transition towards a bad oligarchy.

A party, its name, and what the party stands for are distinct things. For example, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson formed the "Anti-Federalist" factions in opposition to the "Federalist" party of Alexander Hamilton. The "Anti-Federalists" became the "Democratic-Republican" party, which eventually became today's "Democratic" party. It is true that Madison and Jefferson opposed the concept of "direct democracy", they were certainly in favor of a "representative democracy".

The U.S.A. is a republic and a representative democracy. Our representatives are elected by the People.

(It could be argued that neoconservatives like Cheney seemed more like oligarchs and thus even more pro-government than the republican on the chart in the video.)

2010-02-19t04:02:47 Z | TAGS: Books, Cyber Tech, JavaScript, Programming, Reading Now, TECH
"Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook" by Jorge Ramon, a review by George Hernandez
Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847198708?ie=UTF8&tag=georgehernand-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1847198708]

A few years back, I was looking around for a JavaScript library for building interactive web applications. I took a list of JavaScript libraries [W], read some reviews, and tried a few of them out. Eventually I settled on Ext JS for several reasons, but what really whetted my appetite was their samples and demo page. Their samples were elegant, powerful, and usually worked on any browser. If you have acquired a hunger for Ext JS, then Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook by Jorge Ramon, can certainly serve you a good number of dishes.

Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook by Jorge Ramon

When I learned Ext JS, there were no books. I had to learn by playing with the product and by using resources on the Ext JS [extjs.com] website. The examples on site are almost pure code and no explanation (the code is self explanatory!). The API documentation is good but terse and dry with few examples. The forum is excellent and is probably the greatest Ext JS resource --it's like talking to Ext JS experts about your specific problems. As on of the few books on Ext JS, the Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook is a welcome resource. It has examples and explanations!

The set up of Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook is useful and simple. Related "recipes" are organized into chapters. A recipe is a specific task of something you want to do with Ext JS. Each recipe is set up, pictures are provided if applicable, then the ingredients (code) is put together step by step. Specific things are emphasized, and explanations are given of how it works.

Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook is a great way to jump start a new programmer on Ext JS. The programmer should already know HTML, JavaScript, and client-server interaction across the Web. This book would have been quite useful when I started learning Ext JS, but even now it covers parts of Ext JS that I haven't used yet.

Overall, if you need to get a good foothold on Ext JS, then I recommend Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook (2009) by Jorge Ramon and Packt Publishing. If you're using Ext JS and it can help you get over that one little point that you've been stuck on for a few hours, then it's worth it.

2010-02-16t16:35:42 Z | TAGS: Faith, Mind, Philosophy, Physics, Science
Fundamental Forces and Chopping Wood
Fundamental Forces and Chopping Wood [http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/science/fundamental-forces-and-chopping-wood] [VIA: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/02/fundamental-forces-and-chopping-wood.html]

More on gravity as an emergent force. Plus it's usually interesting to hear physicists talk about spirituality.

My take is that my concept of fundamental reality does not require any support from science or vice-versa. The two things lie in different domains and represent different types of knowledge. One is by its nature introverted, an inner knowledge, and the other is extroverted. Together, they complement each other.

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