The Stanford Caterpillar Epidemic Ate My Black Hat

Damnedest thing happened, I left my hat somewhere and I went to check out in Google what had became of it, Google gets you anything you want these days, whatever you're looking for. Appears someone put on that black hat, and it ended up in America, the folk there were having a Caterpillar Epidemic, and them beasties ate it.

Big holes in it, you could see straight through it. Don't believe it ? They got pictures on Flickr of the caterpillar beasties, real fat ones of the Stanford Caterpillar Epidemic (a historic epidemic over at Stanford, they're still writing about it).

I honestly don't what makes that caterpillar likes that black hat so much, but apparently they do. Them professors, with all them years of experience with the caterpillar, even published a number of authoritative pieces on the stanford caterpillar epidemic. They might know why that caterpillar likes black hats.

Anyways, I told 'em to get me a new one, now usually them students are poor but over there at Stanford they have Citibank who give them students at Stanford cheap loans, they got money enough. Now first they bought me a black cat, "a CAT" ? I said, "black HAT". Goes to show, you can buy anything there. So thanks to Google and Citibank, I now got a Caterpillar proof Stanford black hat. Damnedest thing, I tell you.

medical+geography

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Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze!: Oxford's Guide to Buying ...

The photo atlas was a great introduction but as I became more serious about geography I needed a more complex atlas. With many atlases out there sorting through all them was a bit of a hassle. I was notified by Oxford University Press ...
Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze!: Oxford's Guide to Buying ... (catholicgauze.blogspot.com)

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Doctor and Patient: Medical Student Burnout and the Challenge to ...

Doctor and Patient: Medical Student Burnout and the Challenge to Patient Care. 10.30.08 @ Health. Students, just like doctors, need to take care of themselves in order to take care of patients. (…) ...
Doctor and Patient: Medical Student Burnout and the Challenge to ... (feedme.blogsite.org)

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News : Comedian Is a Serious Contender : AMERICAS : Sensations ...

Chairman Bill Gates has awarded 104 grants, each for $100000, in a bid to inject entrepreneurial boldness and risk-taking into the often staid world of medical research. News source: www.washingtonpost.com Geography: Americas Category: ...
News : Comedian Is a Serious Contender : AMERICAS : Sensations ... (news-rten.tis-www.com.ua)

Fanlistings

What Is TheFanlistings.org (TFL)

TheFanlistings.org is a web directory OF fanlistings. They were the first web community (opened in 2000), and are also the largest (nearing 50,000 fanlistings). While sharing the fanlisting concept with other communities, TheFanlistings.org are proud to hold these two titles.

TheFanlistings.org aren't 'officially sponsored' in any way, so fanlistings listed there aren't the 'official' fanlisting of a subject. Their site is not a business - their directory is updated and run by volunteers.

How Do You Get Started?

If you want to join fanlistings, head over to the Listed Fanlistings section - all the TFL fanlistings that TFL has listed currently are found here.

Most fanlistings will have the following sections:

• About


• Join


• Codes


• Rules


• Members


• Extras

"About" usually gives a brief bio of the site. "Join" will usually contain a join form where you can sign up. You need to give your name and country. Most fanlistings also require an e-mail address so they can contact you (e.g., if the fanlisting moves). EVERYTHING else is optional. "Codes" will contain a range of buttons (e.g., 50x50, 75x50, 88x31, 100x35 and 100x50) which you can download and upload to your website, then use to link back to the fanlisting. The "Members" list will contain all the fanlisting members, and "Extras" contain miscellaneous items.


Come and show that you're a fan too!

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Beautiful Century: You have been appointed Chicken Inspector

Beautiful Century


trismegistos links : Fanlistings

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X-rays emitted from ordinary Scotch tape

Scotch Tape Power might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines

NEW YORK - Two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape.

It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.

More than 50 years ago, some Russian scientists reported evidence of X-rays from peeling sticky tape off glass. But the new work demonstrates that you can get a lot of X-rays, a study co-author says. "We were very surprised," said Juan Escobar. "The power you could get from just peeling tape was enormous."

Escobar, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, reports the work with UCLA colleagues in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

He suggests that with some refinements, the process might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines for paramedics or for places where electricity is expensive or hard to get. After all, you could peel tape or do something similar in such machines with just human power, like cranking. The researchers and UCLA have applied for a patent covering such devices.

In the new work, a machine peeled ordinary Scotch tape off a roll in a vacuum chamber at about 1.2 inches per second. Rapid pulses of X-rays, each about a billionth of a second long, emerged from very close to where the tape was coming off the roll.

That's where electrons jumped from the roll to the sticky underside of the tape that was being pulled away, a journey of about two-thousandths of an inch, Escobar said. When those electrons struck the sticky side they slowed down, and that slowing made them emit X-rays.

So is this a health hazard for unsuspecting tape-peelers? Escobar noted that no X-rays are produced in the presence of air. You need to work in a vacuum — not an everyday situation.

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found it searching on "christmas present" :)

christmas+present

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Need an Easy Christmas Present?

Yes, the project I am posting today would make a easy but wonderful Christmas present. If you are like me, I am looking for some ways to save on Christmas spending this year. After all, it is not all about the presents it is about HIM. ...
Need an Easy Christmas Present? (emptynestfulllife.blogspot.com)

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FO: Jenny's Socks (Christmas Present #3)

Some of my floormates helped me with my photo shoot for this FO. Mullica (from down the hall) has tiny feet like Jenny (my cousin), so she modeled while Ian (the red head in the back) and my roomie, Marcella (that crazy in the middle), ...
FO: Jenny's Socks (Christmas Present #3) (deathbyknitting.blogspot.com)

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Avoiding dull Christmas gifts

Even if you really want to see a particular horror movie DON’T buy it as a Christmas present for someone who gets scared easily just so you can ask to borrow it and be guaranteed an affirmative response. Mental scarring is not an ...
Avoiding dull Christmas gifts (www.buyagiftblog.co.uk)

Randomized+Things

trismegistos links : Randomized+Things

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Asian American Frustration

And you’re all at war where nobody got to pick sides - teams were just randomized - and they don’t even realize they’re not pulling their fair end in a battle they don’t even know is being fought, lest another ignorant conscience be ...
Asian American Frustration (www.estarla.com)

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Review: Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (PS2)

The problem with this is that everything but the swim and bite buttons are locked, so you can’t do most of the things you’d do in game. Also, attacking your opponent has a chance to teleport you 100 meters away in a random direction. ...
Review: Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (PS2) (diehardgamefan.com)

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Bonafide 2.1

Evidently I randomized oversealously and came back around to the first possibility. oO Gigi is wearing a blue suit and a stupid amount of hair. A brief interlude for sibling comraderie. & this is what Gigi looks like under all of that ...
Bonafide 2.1 (simmytizzy.livejournal.com)

kapel evenementen heiloo blog is weer online

De kapel evenementen blog van de evenementen van Onze Lieve Vrouw Ter Nood kapel te Heiloo is weer online.

De host werd drie weken terug van het net gehaald door de ISP (was een gratis subdomein, leuk om even alles uit te proberen) maar dat beviel iedereen wel, dus had ik even met ma gesproken en hebben we een eigen domein naam geregeld, kapel.org. Die staat voorlopig op mijn server account bij futureweb in belgie.

Ik had dat opgemerkt op DigitalPoint, de vorige site kwam binnen op plaats 5 en zat na een week op nummer 1 voor kapel evenementen en die bleef daar netjes staan. Dus ma vertelde iedereen gewoon 'google maar op kapel evenementen' en dan kwamen ze altijd op haar blog terecht want die stond altijd nummer 1 :)

Nou staat die site nog geindexeerd op nummer een, dus moeten we nu concurreren met die site om de eerste plek in google, da's wel grappig.

Ik had bijna gewed dat ik deze in een keer op nummer 1 lanceer maar dat gaat niet lukken, al staat deze wel al na 3 uur ingericht op het net :) Nog even een linkje bloggen op blogspot dan is 'ie morgenmiddag gecrawld !

Let us pray to Google for site acceptance

Dear Aunty Google
Thou who art in the Datacenters
Hallowed be thy Serp
Thy kingdom cometh from afar
Thy webmaster guidelines prevaileth
Blessed art thou amongst the Search Engines
And blessed be thy Blogspot

If it would please thee so kindly accept this site: sound district into your Indexes. The sound disctrict community is active and growing strong everyday, so let us all join today to discuss music, networking and more, and may thy Serp guide the masses there.

Men%26%23039%3Bs+Health

trismegistos links : Men%26%23039%3Bs+Health

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300 Workout for Men's Health Magazine

Back in February of 2007 a hot new workout hit the Men's Health magazine scene called the 300 workout. It was put together by a trainer named Mark Twight and was prepared for the actors who played the Spartan warriors in the movie, ...
300 Workout for Men's Health Magazine (turbulencetraining.blogspot.com)

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Internet Bingo & Gaming in Broad – a Risky Commerce?

... or know somebody who might, obtain help immediately. It is not meaning destroying your life over a game. honestly. Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/men's-health-articles/internet-bingo-gaming-in-broad-a-risky-commerce-586236.html ...
Internet Bingo & Gaming in Broad – a Risky Commerce? (mens-health-advice.blogspot.com)

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The Luxury Accommodation of Cape Town

... of pristine properties available for rental or ownership. Remember, as long as the mountain is in view, it?sa safe buy. Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/men's-health-articles/the-luxury-accommodation-of-cape-town-586241.html.
The Luxury Accommodation of Cape Town (mens-health-advice.blogspot.com)

PressMark delicious social bookmarking clone

Well I installed Pligg but it just don't have what you want a nice backend like wordpress so what do I come across : an article on Pressmark, a social bookmarking Wordpress fork (free, open source, easy ;) Ha !

PressMark delicious clone is a highly customized version of the popular WordPress cms system that functions as a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us. Delicious clone scripts like GetBoo and Scuttle have been in existence for a while but neither of these systems can offer the security or expandability of a WordPress based system. PressMark is a simple social bookmarking solution and is ideal for beginners.

hub : Pressmark Social Bookmarking using Wordpress

popuri.us: check your site popularity stats

I came across this one in a serp : popuri.us

A tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more!

by Juan Xavier Larrea from Ecuador.

...and he does offer widgets, these nice flashy statboxes y'all so love... (he could use some help with the alexa ranks...)

how about this blog then ? woops, depressing...

webmaistro number one!

no one will ever compete on the term webmaistro,
nevertheless webmaistro now has global serp domination.

It does not mean much, but webmaistro.blogspot.com and maistro.com are easily linked and a few backlinks never hurt anyone (unless they are bad neigborhood backlinks).

(Remind me to add a link to my new domain, maistro.com, to the auto-posting routine.)

And technorati seems to like the blog, it gives lots of backlinks.

Sometimes it is like the gimmick with the glass and the low frequency vibes, you do something that really don't seem to make any difference, but the power is in repeating the action, rythmically, all the little impulses build up to one big pulse, a vibe, strong enough to shatter the glass.

Give it some time...

cool stuff with page elements

Attach data from classnames to an element using $().data()

At DailyStrength, we're working on an abstract way to attach a Javascript behavior (popping a modal, sliding in a form) to objects -- journals, comments, etc. -- being displayed on the site. We wanted to attach some information to the objects by putting their type and ID in classnames.

(rebecca murphey)


Thanks, nice code-snippet.

a room with a view

This is how life looks from my chair :



That is my backyard in Limmen, the Netherlands, a nice town with rather normal folk.

temporal logic

Galton, Antony, "Temporal Logic", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),
temporal logic

3.2 Determinism vs non-determinism

The choice of flow of time can be of philosophical significance. For example, one way of capturing the distinction between deterministic and non-deterministic theories is to model the former using a strictly linear flow of time, and the latter with a temporal structure which allows branching into the future. If we adopt the latter approach, then it is helpful in describing the semantics of tense and other operators to introduce the idea of a history, which is a maximal linearly-ordered set of instants. The branching future model will then stipulate that for any two histories there is an instant such that both histories share all the times up to and including that instant, but do not share any times after it. For each history containing a given instant, the times in that history which are later than the instant constitute a “possible future” for that instant.

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4.2 Applications in artificial intelligence

We have already mentioned the work of Allen (1984), which is concerned with finding a general framework adequate for all the temporal representations required by AI programs. The Event Calculus of Kowalski and Sergot (1986) is pursued more specifically within the framework of logic programming, but is otherwise similarly general in character. A useful survey of issues involving time and temporal reasoning in AI is Galton (1995), and a comprehensive recent coverage of the area is Fisher et al. (2005).

Much of the work on temporal reasoning in AI has been closely tied up with the notorious frame problem, which arises from the necessity for any automated reasoner to know, or be able to deduce, not only those properties of the world which do change as the result of any event or action, but also those properties which do not change. In everyday life, we normally handle such facts fluently without consciously adverting to them: we take for granted without thinking about it, for example, that the colour of a car does not normally change when one changes gear. The frame problem is concerned with how to formalise the logic of actions and events in such a way that indefinitely many inferences of this kind are made available without our having to encode them all explicitly. A seminal work in this area is McCarthy and Hayes (1969). A useful recent reference for the frame problem is Shanahan, 1997.

make money online with an Aguide2 portal website franchise

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What are Aguide2 Travel Portals?

Each Aguide2 site is a complete stand alone package consisting of a few hundred pages (destination dependant) of information about the country or state it serves. This information is displayed in a brochure-like form to give the user a flavour of the destination and includes listings for accommodation, restaurants and shops. The format is flexible and allows for further features, such as a classified ads section or events calendar, to be added or revised at a later date.

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spa(s)m

from infoniac.com

...] WebmasterWorld states that 75% of all blogs on Google's blogspot are spam.

...The researchers scanned 1000 most searched queries: 'phentermine' on blogspot.com and the query 'ringtone' on hometown.aol.com. The WebmasterWorld experts easily identified more than a half of the search results as spam.

The following list shows the spam percentage on 'top doorway domains':
- blogspot.com 77%
- netscape.com 74%
- hometown.aol.com 84%
- hometown.aol.de 91%
- oas.org 78%
- xoomer.alice.it 77%
- home.aol.com 95%
- freewebs.com 52%
- blogstudio.com 99%
- maxpages.com 81%
- usaid.gov 85%
- blogsharing.com 93%
- sitegr.com 100%
- torospace.com 95%
- blog.hix.com 100%

The list shows that some of these blogs are used exclusively, or almost exclusively, for spam. The main reason for such a torrent of splogs is the fact that these sites provide blog space for free, just to attract more traffic.

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from RSS-SPIDER

...Anyhow… it got me to thinking… we’ve put a few things in to block spammers on this site, however, since we’re pulling in RSS feeds from all around the web, how many splogs have we indexed? Ugh… what a mess. Searching for “debt reduction” came back with 1000+ results instantly and most of them were within 3 days old. 1000 by the way is the ceiling of results that Sphinx is setup to return. Searching for “credit-card-debt” came up with the same results. So I’ve decided that Blogspot and all the other domains listed in the article above are going to be put on the “no spider” list & ban list effective Monday 4/9....

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from me : darn, no free backlink for me there,
but thanks for the input or should I thank webmasterworld for doing all the work there ?

The advantage of a "Free" blog like this : I dont have to think about NOFOLLOW and pagerank, I just run a 700 keyword list linking my link directory category pages to a few 'fresh' blog posts on google blogsearch through this blog, and all the links are 'follow'.

The links wont ever give you any pagerank but if they are indexed they do count as backlink and in technorati you might get an Authority-point. For starting bloggers, that puts your ass on the Technorati search pages, so maybe I made one blogger happy somewhere along the line.

I am just a very giving-caring-and-sharing dude, free backlinks for all my fellow bloggers.

Directories

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Creating Directories That Will Attract Traffic and Raise Your Page ...

If your goal is to earn money from Google Adsense through content or article directories, you’re better off setting your sights elsewhere. Directories are not high performers when it comes to Google Adsense ads and if you expect a good ...
Creating Directories That Will Attract Traffic and Raise Your Page ... (www.littlegreenbar.com)

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Top Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog to

One way for you to establish your audience is to actually have a niche that you proclaim yourself to be in, and one way for you to do this is to place your blog address in a blog directory. You also have the pick of the litter: you are ...
Top Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog to (www.affiliaterevenue-info.com)

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Blog Directories Need to Improve

I find it weird that Technorati is not on top of search results in Google for the keywords “blog directories” or “blog directory“. I know that they’re not just a blog directory, but “blog directory” is still a big part of what the ...
Blog Directories Need to Improve (tapenoisediary.wordpress.com)


trismegistos links : Directories

What is SERP?

Re: What is SERP?
...the spot your site's page gets on the google result page is part decided on keyword matches (page url, page title, page keywords, and text titles and text itself) and part on the assigned value indicated by links to the page, either from inside the domain or outside, that doesn't matter.

the match on the search phrase decides if you are on the result list, and the sum value passed through links to the file roughly decides the rank on the result list in google...[other...][webmasterforums.com]
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Research+Papers

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Custom Research Papers for Money

Teachers, professors and tutors demand more and more papers each day, and eventually a students isn’t able to write a paper time-wise. He requires some help and assistance in writing his or her research paper. Research papers are the ...
Custom Research Papers for Money (tomiesmith.wordpress.com)

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Using Expository Essay Prompts with Research Papers

You will learn structure, form, format, and most importantly, how to come up with good topics, and then draft an excellent paper around them. In particular, the use of expository prompts can help you when it comes to research papers. ...
Using Expository Essay Prompts with Research Papers (researchpaper-blog.com)

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Research Paper for Sale: Is It a Way to Cheat?

So, in this article we would like to talk about research papers for sale. What they are and how you can benefit from them. Research papers for sale is a frequent phenomenon, and that is why you should not make a mistake while choosing a ...
Research Paper for Sale: Is It a Way to Cheat? (phdworks.org)


trismegistos links : Research+Papers