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Trackers focused on their health want to ensure that their medical practitioners don’t miss the particulars of their condition; trackers who record their mental states are often trying to find their own way to personal fulfillment amid the seductions of marketing and the errors of common opinion; fitness trackers are trying to tune their training regimes to their own body types and competitive goals, but they are also looking to understand their strengths and weaknesses, to uncover potential they didn’t know they had. Self-tracking, in this way, is not really a tool of optimization but of discovery, and if tracking regimes that we would once have thought bizarre are becoming normal, one of the most interesting effects may be to make us re-evaluate what “normal” means.

Bruce Eckel's new venture/thing

RT @PinboardIN: Finally put up a tour of the site: Let me know if I left out anything important!

From the 52 paintings, which date between 1000 and 2000 A.D., the sizes of loaves of bread, main dishes and plates were calculated with the aid of a computer program that could scan the items and rotate them in a way that allowed them to be measured. To account for different proportions in paintings, the sizes of the food were compared to the sizes of the human heads in the paintings.

The researchers' analysis showed that portion sizes of main courses (usually eel, lamb and pork) depicted in the paintings grew by 69 percent over time, while plate size grew by 66 percent and bread size grew by 23 percent.

Both Wansinks suggest that as food has become more available over the last millennium, the way people, including artists, view and depict food has changed accordingly, with the same dinner scene being viewed as having more on the table in more recent decades and centuries.

"Also, after the death of Gasoline, you can probably rig a Propane-Powered Weed-Wacker to be an Outboard Motor for a boat." ... maciej: "of course some nerdle has thought this through"

On Ladies and Gentlemen, "Cool Waves" is a diorama built with weepy vocals, darting flute, schmaltzy strings, building concert bass drums, and a choir that's just begging for salvation. But its one-minute demo included in this set seems no more complicated than the demos Pierce made with his schoolmates in 1984, his former band Spacemen 3's first recordings.

One reason why most countries don't find the time to embrace her thinking is that Ayn Rand is a textbook sociopath. Literally a sociopath: Ayn Rand, in her notebooks, worshiped a notorious serial murderer-dismemberer, and used this killer as an early model for the type of "ideal man" that Rand promoted in her more famous books -- ideas which were later picked up on and put into play by major right-wing figures of the past half decade

Urban Daily Life is my catalogue of images I systematically photographed in different places around the world. I have organized these in different categories like architecture, city elements, domestic details, materials, street culture and street elements. If you enter a category you will find sub categories like benches, statues, trees. You will find the collection on that topic captured in different cities, like housing. If you want to see the complete index on all the topics you can go to Abc of the city.

Welcome to the first iteration of the City of Ann Arbor's Data Catalog website. This site is part of our ongoing commitment to enhance citizen participation and local government transparency. We are pleased to make City datasets freely available to the public in machine-readable formats.

The representation of the Octopus in propaganda and political cartoons, and influence on, or co-option of, popular culture. The intent behind Vulgar Army is to identify and criticise themes in the use of the octopus as a polemic metaphor, for example, its use as signifying ‘action at a distance’ or in dehumanising a group.

The DetroitWiki Project is a volunteer-driven effort to collect information about Detroit that anybody can freely edit. The idea is to create a space where different things that make the City can live -- historical records, current topics, meeting plans, biographies. This is a place to make a page for something that wouldn't otherwise be online.

Why is Barack Obama allowing these retreads from the Clinton era who went on to great riches on Wall Street to set economic policy for his administration? The fatal hallmark of this president’s financial policy is that it is being designed by the very people whose previous legislative efforts created the mess that enriched them while impoverishing the nation, and they now want more of the same.

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cats. This project provides a central approach to Cat-related subjects on Wikipedia.

Civilization costs money, especially when times are tough. But the alternative will cost us all far more.

I've always been curious about the location where people (citizens or visitors) place the center of a city. You can define it as an area but also at specific points.

From a comment: "Borges would be proud."

The Earth Impact Database is maintained as a not-for-profit source of information to assist the scientific, industrial, government and public communities around the world in furthering our collective knowledge of impact structures on Earth.

"We make Bucketworks a physical wiki because it's about personal expression and creativity--and people need to change their environment for it to be ideal for them to create. They have to be able to adapt their environment to their needs to feel comfortable creating in it. So we give them permission to do that."