Pinboard: bookmarks for saranrapjs tagged 'wikipedia'

" Crop marks are a means through which sub-surface archaeological, natural and recent features may be visible from the air or a vantage point on higher ground or a temporary platform" via migurski

earth satellite wikipedia nature from delicious
march 2011 by saranrapjs

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List of walls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of famous walls.

wikipedia this_rules walls from delicious
march 2011 by saranrapjs

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Uncleftish Beholding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

what if the english language was derived without latin roots: "today we have a beholding of stuff and work that watching bears out, both in the workstead and in daily life" via someone

language german linguistics wikipedia science_fiction from delicious
february 2011 by saranrapjs

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King Fahd Causeway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

giant causeway for fun-seeking saudi arabians plays a role in bahraini crisis<br />
“Saudi Arabia did not build a causeway to Bahrain just so that Saudis could party on weekends,” said Toby Jones, an expert on Saudi Arabia at Rutgers University. “It was designed for moments like this, for keeping Bahrain under control.” see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/world/middleeast/20saudi.html

bahrain saudi_arabia infrastructure architecture news politics wikipedia nytimes from delicious
february 2011 by saranrapjs

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Gerald Ratner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"achieved notoriety after making a speech in which he jokingly denigrated the company's products, which caused the company's near collapse"

business ideas wikipedia from delicious
january 2011 by saranrapjs

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Skeuomorph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original" via someone, good list here

design ideas style wikipedia words
december 2010 by saranrapjs

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Duck universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The money bin was built in 1902, shortly after Scrooge entered the diamond market and could no longer sleep at night because all the money he was storing under his mattress raised his bed too close to the ceiling, necessitating a more suitable storage facility for his money. His favorite pastime is to dive off a springboard into his money and swim through it."

ducktales wikipedia cartoons
december 2010 by saranrapjs

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Mighty Max (toyline) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

who was I trying to remember this with?

toys boys wikipedia
october 2010 by saranrapjs

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Remote Bar Coding System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When an MLOCR does not recognize a valid address on a letter, (usually due to hand-written addressing) it sends an image of the mailpiece to a central RBCS (RVE) site where more sophisticated optical character recognition software is able to interpret many hand-written addresses using neural net and fuzzy logic algorithms. If this does not succeed, human operators visually examine the image and enter the address.

us mail government wikipedia computers
june 2010 by saranrapjs

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United States Postal Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BestOfWikipedia mail us wikipedia government
june 2010 by saranrapjs

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Elian Gonzalez affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

heavy

BestOfWikipedia wikipedia
may 2010 by saranrapjs

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underground utility location techniques and codes (wikipedia)

urban grammar VIA BRITTA

wikipedia cities utilities
may 2010 by saranrapjs

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Où est Charlie ? - Wikipédia

charlie = waldo

france waldo books wikipedia
may 2010 by saranrapjs

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Maze solving algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"right hand rule" get you out of the maze

maze wikipedia heuristic
may 2010 by saranrapjs

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Nomothetic and idiographic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nomothetic is based on what Kant described as a tendency to generalize /
Idiographic is based on what Kant described as a tendency to specify

wikipedia philosophy kant ideas
april 2010 by saranrapjs

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Interview with Alan N. Shapiro | Wikipedia, Critical Point of View

choice bits on sociology of knowledge, flaubert, WIKIPEDIA via tom moody

wikipedia interview theory knowledge flaubert
march 2010 by saranrapjs

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Jazz fusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

another great wikipedia resource

dad jazz wikipedia
march 2010 by saranrapjs

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Dog communication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
wikipedia dogs images communication concepts later
march 2010 by saranrapjs

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Pity Álvarez - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

nutty popstar transition from julia

music argentina rollinga drugs wikipedia culture
march 2010 by saranrapjs

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Rolinga - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

"rollingas" in argentina lookin like this

music argentina rollingas wikipedia style
march 2010 by saranrapjs

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Moravec's paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard" via migurski

ai cognition wikipedia
january 2010 by saranrapjs

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Walking Stewart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Stewart is thought to have walked alone across Persia, Abyssinia, Arabia and Africa before wandering into every European country as far east as Russia." ... "developed a unique brand of materialist philosophy which combines elements of Spinozistic pantheism with yogic notions of a single indissoluble consciousness"

wikipedia philosophy walking
december 2009 by saranrapjs

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Types of gestures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

GOOD LIST for later via J_O_D_I

wikipedia behavior gestures
december 2009 by saranrapjs

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Boston Review — Evgeny Morozov: Edit This Page

the economics of wikipedia participation / shaping editorial policy / the kinds of resultant content

wikipedia politics concepts
december 2009 by saranrapjs

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Lazy river - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"There is generally a slow current, usually just enough to allow guests to gently ride along lying on rafts. There may also be scenic elements added, such as small waterfalls on the edge of the river. Some lead into wave pools, while some just go around in circles."

USA amusement wikipedia
december 2009 by saranrapjs

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Subjunctive mood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

always tryin "to express wishes, commands, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, necessity, or statements that are contrary to fact at present"

language french wikipedia linguistics
december 2009 by saranrapjs

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File:Gnomes plan.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

life plans borna

L.I.F.E. wikipedia southpark
november 2009 by saranrapjs

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Place cell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

neurons that fire in given places (via blackbeltjones)

brain science place wikipedia
october 2009 by saranrapjs

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Quiet storm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Quiet storm is a late-night radio format, featuring soulful slow jams, pioneered in the mid-1970s by then-station-intern Melvin Lindsey at WHUR-FM, in Washington, D.C"..."At its best, the style features an urban sophistication and subdued soulfulness"

radio wikipedia music
august 2009 by saranrapjs

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Quad Cities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

quad city dj's / midnight express band = quad city scene???

iowa rap music wikipedia
july 2009 by saranrapjs

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Center of population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"the geographical point nearest to all the inhabitants of that region, on average"; in South Asia, for the world

world maps geo population data wikipedia
june 2009 by saranrapjs

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BosWash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

BosWash extends from extreme southern Maine and New Hampshire – Boston's suburbs – south to Northern Virginia, Washington D.C.'s suburbs. It has a population of 55 million, or 18 percent of the population of the United States (living on only 2% of the nation's land) and about 0.8 percent of the world population.

wikipedia cities nyc maps population
may 2009 by saranrapjs

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Fashoda syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

britain's straight line intercepts france's straight line in colonial africa: "tendency within French foreign policy in Africa, giving importance to asserting French influence in areas which may be becoming susceptible to British influence"

france europe africa geography geometry wikipedia
may 2009 by saranrapjs

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Flag of convenience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
wikipedia nationality sea flag
may 2009 by saranrapjs

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Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

wikipedia technology theory
may 2009 by saranrapjs

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Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries - The Irish Times - Wed, May 06, 2009

“One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear,” Jarre was quoted as saying. However, these words were not uttered by the Oscar-winning composer but written by Shane Fitzgerald, a final-year undergraduate student studying sociology and economics at University College Dublin. (SIMILAR TO BORNA'S ART PRESS RELEASE TEXT REPLICATION THEORY)

wikipedia hoax artwords
may 2009 by saranrapjs

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Çatalhöyük - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

PRE-STREETS: "The inhabitants lived in mud-brick houses which were crammed together in an agglutinative manner. No footpaths or streets were used between the dwellings, which were clustered in a honeycomb-like maze. Most were accessed by holes in the ceiling, which were reached by interior and exterior ladders and stairs. Thus, their rooftops were their streets."

wikipedia archaeology cities ideas streets street buildings architecture
may 2009 by saranrapjs

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Lancelot "Capability" Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"This man who refused work in Ireland because he had not finished England was called "Capability" Brown, because he would characteristically tell his landed clients that their estates had great "capability" for landscape improvement"

landscape UK wikipedia environment
may 2009 by saranrapjs

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Taxicab geometry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The taxicab metric is also known as rectilinear distance, L1 distance or L1 norm (see Lp space), city block distance, Manhattan distance, or Manhattan length, with corresponding variations in the name of the geometry.[1] The last name alludes to the grid layout of most streets on the island of Manhattan, which causes the shortest path a car could take between two points in the city to have length equal to the points' distance in taxicab geometry."

wikipedia geo NYC math
april 2009 by saranrapjs

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Blowing a raspberry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia AKA BRONX CHEER

"in the US, Bronx cheer is sometimes used"

wikipedia bronx_cheer linguistics farts terminology words
april 2009 by saranrapjs

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Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

describes a "phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other character, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection"

wikipedia architecture biology concepts
april 2009 by saranrapjs

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Ley line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Ley lines are hypothetical alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths. Their existence was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, in his book The Old Straight Track."

wikipedia geography geodesy history
april 2009 by saranrapjs

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Quango - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

QUAsi Non-Governmental Organisation

wikipedia words acronyms government
april 2009 by saranrapjs

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Worse is better - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"new jersey style" via damonzucconi

programming code newjersey shitty_cities wikipedia
april 2009 by saranrapjs

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Phatic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"a phatic expression is one whose only function is to perform a social task, as opposed to conveying information", "the question 'how are you?' is usually an automatic component of a social encounter. Although there are times when "how are you?" is asked in a sincere, concerned manner and does in fact anticipate a detailed response regarding the respondent's present state, this needs to be pragmatically inferred from context and intonation."

wikipedia definition_of_terms words linguistics
march 2009 by saranrapjs

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Geoid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"geoid is that equipotential surface which would coincide exactly with the mean ocean surface of the Earth, if the oceans were in equilibrium, at rest, and extended through the continents (such as with very narrow canals)" interesting imaginary state of earth used for mathematical calculations

geography geodesy wikipedia earth
march 2009 by saranrapjs

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Annatto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Cheddar cheese is often coloured and even as early as 1860 the real reason for this was unclear"

yellow cheddar cheese wikipedia
february 2009 by saranrapjs

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Mick Foley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

an insanely detailed wikipedia page for WWF's "MANKIND"

wikipedia wwf mankind wrestling internet
december 2008 by saranrapjs

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Runescapehd_combat-multicombat.gif (GIF Image, 244x224 pixels)

I wish this was how people fought

wikipedia gif fighting games
november 2008 by saranrapjs

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Brøderbund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

my childhood

wikipedia games
november 2008 by saranrapjs

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Hysteresis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A system with hysteresis can be summarised as a system that may be in any number of states, independent of the inputs to the system. In order to predict the output, we must look at the path that the input followed before it reached its current value. (via mike riley)

wikipedia systems
october 2008 by saranrapjs

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round tuit - Wiktionary

The origin of the physical round tuit is unknown. There were some appearances in the early to middle 20th century, some cut from cardboard, plastic, paper or brass, but mostly round wood chips about 1.5" in diameter, engraved with the letters "TUIT".

procrastination stuff wikipedia
september 2008 by saranrapjs

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Method of loci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

memory palaces

wikipedia brain memory
september 2008 by saranrapjs

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