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8
- Working time options over the life course: New work patterns and company strategies – “Profound socio-economic, demographic and cultural changes currently under way in Europe are modifying the way in which people organise their time and income over the life course. The ageing population, globalisation, the transition from a standard working organisation model to more diversified and individualised structures and changes in the gender division of labour – these are all shifting the boundaries between people’s work and personal lives. At the same time, changes in the timing of entry into and exit from the labour market have considerably reduced the time devoted to paid work.”
- Working time developments – 2007 – “This annual update provides an overview of the duration of working time in the European Union and Norway in 2007, based on contributions from the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) national centres. The study considers the following issues: average weekly working hours as set by collective agreements – both at national level and for three specific economic sectors; statutory limits on weekly and daily working time; average actual weekly working hours; annual leave entitlement, as set by collective agreements and law; and estimates of average collectively agreed annual working time.”
- Press release, 3 September 2008 – “The average collectively agreed weekly working time in the European Union in 2007 stood at 38.6 hours, according to the annual update of the working time development from Eurofound’s European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO). The report, which looks at working time agreements set by collective bargaining, also found that average paid annual leave entitlement for European workers stood at 25.2 days across the EU in 2007.”
- Industrial & Labor Relations Review – “Abstract: The authors hypothesize that three broad factors affect the degree of workers’ control over the timing and the total hours of their work: the institutional and regulatory environment within the country, labor market conditions, and management and labor union strategies. Drawing from their interviews in 2000 with managers, public sector policy-makers and administrators, and union leaders, as well as from previous literature, they illustrate how these factors actually affected working time and employee control over working time in the United States, Australia, Japan, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Their comparative analysis shows that in some countries, employers and labor unions negotiated contracts that increased employee control over working time and provided employers with greater flexibility; in others, employee control over working time remained unevenly distributed across the occupational spectrum.”
- Twitter helps GOP convention protesters organize, elude police – “… microblogs were written last night by protesters targeting the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. The group was using the Twitter tool to organize its movements and to help protesters elude and fend off police who were using tear gas and percussion grenades to force them to disperse.”
- List of literary movements – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – “This is a list of modern literary movements: that is, movements after the Renaissance. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies, evolved over time to group writers who are often loosely related. Some of these movements (such as Dada and Beat) were defined by the members themselves, while other terms (the metaphysical poets, for example) emerged decades or centuries after the periods in question. Ordering is approximate, as there is considerable overlap….”
- Inferno / Dante Alghieri – “The day was now departing; the dark air released the living beings of the earth from work and weariness; and I myself alone prepared to undergo the battle….”
- Divine Comedy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – “The Divine Comedy … written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature…. The poem’s imaginative and allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife is a culmination of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church….”
- The World of Dante – “Dante’s Inferno, widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, details Dante’s journey through the nine circles of Hell. The voyage begins during Easter week in the year 1300, the descent through Hell starting on Good Friday. After meeting his guide, the eminent Roman poet Virgil, in a mythical dark wood, the two poets begin their descent through a baleful world of doleful shades, horrifying tortures, and unending lamentation….”
- Victorian and Victorianism – “For much of this century the term Victorian, which literally describes things and events in the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), conveyed connotations of ‘prudish,’ ‘repressed,’ and ‘old fashioned.’ Although such associations have some basis in fact, they do not adequately indicate the nature of this complex, paradoxical age that was a second English Renaissance. Like Elizabethan England, Victorian England saw great expansion of wealth, power, and culture….”
Sep
4
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas – "The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74…. [The] DHI has been out of print for many years. Aware of the new potential offered by electronic access to texts, the Directors and Board of Editors of the Journal of the History of Ideas authorized a grant to support digitization of the DHI….”
- Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web – "This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium. "
- The Heritage of the Great War / First World War 1914-1918. Graphic color photos, pictures and music – "This website is dedicated to the events and consequences of World War One. We put some emphasis on unorthodox and thought-provoking points of view. We are averse to historicism and military fetishism. And we show people rather than strategic plans or statistics…. To this end this website features one of the most extensive and explicit WW-1 photo collections on the Internet."
- Top 30 Social Bookmarking Sites | eBizMBA – "Here are the 30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites ranked by a combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast. "
Aug
29
- Scenes from Rio de Janeiro – The Big Picture – Boston.com – "A recent large-scale project by the photographer named JR has focused attention on women – relatives of victims of violence – by displaying their large portraits in one of Rio de Janeiro's hardest hit neighborhoods. Though Rio is blessed with natural beauty and climate, it still struggles with large disparities between rich and poor, and many of the six million residents reside in hillside slums called favelas. Here are some views of Rio de Janeiro over the past few months….”
- The New Low-Light Photography: ISO 1600 is the new 200 — PopPhotoJuly 2008 – Sharp, clean images lit by just a burning candle. Smooth, natural skin tones in dim, mixed lighting. Blur-free scenes shot handheld at 1/8 sec. Action frozen without a flash. Details in shadows without compromising color. Autofocus that locks on in the dark. Welcome to today's low-light photography.”
- Magnum Blog / Invasion 68: Prague – the photo blog of Magnum Photos – "In 1968 Josef Koudelka was thirty years old. He had committed himself to photography as a full-time career only recently, and had been chronicling the theater, and the lives of gypsies, but he had never photographed a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21 when the Soviet army invaded Czechoslovakia…."
- Beyond Megapixels: Macro Photography 101, Part 2 – "In Part 1 of Macro Photography 101, we discussed what a true macro lens is. In Part 2, we will be discussing depth of field, lighting, and specialist lens in Macro Photography…."
- Beyond Megapixels: Macro Photography 101 – "Macro photography can be a confusing topic for many beginners. For one thing, almost all the lenses nowadays have the word macro printed on the barrel. Does this mean that it’s automatically a macro lens? What is a true macro lens? These are some of the topics that we will tackle in this article."
- Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding ISO (a beginner’s guide) – "This is the third installment in a series by Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton on becoming confident with manual camera settings…. If you are new to photography, or don’t have a clean grasp of manual settings, I recommend that you go back and read the first two installments of this series: Understanding Aperture and Understanding Shutter Speed and then come on over to learn about ISO."
- Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding Shutter Speed (a beginner’s guide) – "This post on Understanding Shutter Speed, written by Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton is a follow up post to Moving Toward Manual: Understanding Aperture. The posts are being written as a beginner’s guide to gaining confidence in using manual camera settings."
- Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding Aperture (a beginner’s guide) – "In this tutorial Natalie Norton explores the topic of Aperture."
- Adobe launches Photoshop Elements 7 & Premiere Elements 7: Digital Photography Review – "Adobe has announced Version 7 of Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements. Apart from a few new Quick Fix tools, Photoshop Elements 7 offers a new Scene Cleaner option that lets the user brush away unwanted objects from a scene and a Smart Brush which lets the user apply effects to a particular area of a photograph…."
Aug
28
- EchoDitto Blog: Following Online Media at the DNC – "At the Democratic National Convention next week, 125 bloggers will hold press credentials and hundreds more will be reporting from The Big Tent. You're probably wondering – how do I follow hundreds of blogs? …. You can download the full OPML file of DNC credentialed bloggers here. Once you have the file, re-upload the file to your RSS reader and you will have the 125 credentialed bloggers loaded into a folder…."
- Discovered Artists: Buy art directly from emerging artists – "Original art has never been more accessible and more affordable! Join smart, discriminating buyers who are discovering the fun and value of decorating their homes and offices with original art."
- Marketplace Magazine | Discover paper's history – "The Paper Discovery Center in Appleton offers more than insight into the science and art of paper…. The Paper Discovery Center … celebrates a cultural, technological and economic legacy…."
- The Austrian Economists: Joe Biden?! — Political, Not Economic Post – "… the election just got a lot closer. The Democratics have an amazing capacity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and Obama choosing Joe Biden to be a running mate for 'hope and change' when he is the poster child for political divisiveness and smug (yet ignorant) arrogance in political/legal discourse is another case in point…."
- Lightning in sunset
- 15 Spectacular Lightning Images
Aug
24
- CSS Reference | Stylegala
- CSS Tutorial – Table of contents | CSS Tutorial | HTML.net
- CSS Beginner Tutorial | HTML Dog – “[The] CSS Beginner Tutorial assumes that you know as much about CSS as you do about the cumulative effects of sea squirt discharge on the brain chemistry of Germanic ammonites. The purpose of this guide is to teach the bare essentials – just enough to get started. The CSS Intermediate Tutorial and CSS Advanced Tutorial go into more depth about CSS….”
- CSS Basics – Making Cascading Style Sheets Easy to Understand – Learn everything you ever wanted to know about the basics of CSS….
- History Of Photography — Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress
- How to Reduce Camera Shake – 6 Techniques – “In this post photographer Natalie Norton explores 6 ways you can hand hold lenses at low apertures and low shutter speeds and still avoid blurry images caused by camera shake.”
- Images Of Singapore
- Verve Photo: The New Breed of Documentary Photographers – “Photographer and photo editor Geoffrey Hiller has created Verve to feature photos and interviews by the finest young image makers today. Verve is a reminder of the power of the still image. Verve will also point you to new photo agencies, publications and inspiring multimedia projects.”
- Creating the United States - myLOC.gov (Library of Congress) – “Imagination and vision played critical roles in the creative act of forming a self-governing United States of America. The collections of the Library of Congress are unquestionably the worlds best source for documenting that process. This exhibition offers a remarkable opportunity to learn in a fresh new way how the founding documents that emerged from this period were forged out of insight, invention, and creativity, as well as collaboration and much compromise.”
- Exploring the Early Americas - myLOC.gov (Library of Congress) – “Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. It provides insight into indigenous cultures, the drama of the encounters between Native Americans and European explorers and settlers, and the pivotal changes caused by the meeting of the American and European worlds.”
- Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II – “Welcome to the Densho Website…. Densho’s mission is to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. We offer these irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources, to explore principles of democracy and promote equal justice for all.”
Aug
22
- Frequently Asked Questions : Stumble Rush – “Stumble Rush is a home study course designed to teach you how to drive traffic to your website using StumbleUpon. There are two halves to the course: the first half of the course consists of basic lessons and you can receive these absolutely free! If you would like to continue your study once you have completed the basic lessons you will be invited to purchase another 10 advanced lessons for a small fee…. There are 20 lessons in all which are presented as an in-depth text lesson accompanied by videos. There are also 22 videos to accompany the text.”
- WordPress › Sociable « WordPress Plugins – “Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites like Facebook, Mixx, StumbleUpon, Digg and many many others….”
- Stumble your way to a Rush of traffic at Hippo Web Solutions – “Various sources I have read observe that the traffic that comes from StumbleUpon generally has a different profile from that of other Social Bookmarking sites. Whereas for example Digg traffic manifests itself in a big spike (lots of visitors in a short space of time) that dissipates just as quickly, StumbleUpon traffic tends to be more sustained, and can often continue days, weeks and months beyond the point where an item first became popular.”
- Increase traffic to your blog with Social Bookmarking at Hippo Web Solutions – “Have you ever felt like you’re talking but no-one’s listening? I’m sure that’s something most bloggers can relate to (even A-list bloggers like Darren Rowse), especially when you’re in the initial stages of developing a blog. One way to increase your exposure is through the use of so-called Social Bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious, Stumbleupon, and many others.”
- The new employee connection: Social networking behind the firewall – “In industries from retail to high tech, banking and manufacturing, companies are increasingly building networks behind the firewall where employees can create profiles and connect with one another in ways first demonstrated by LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace.”
- Yahoo Buzz poses serious threat to Digg, some users say – “Yahoo Buzz, the social news site that Yahoo Inc. launched in beta form in February, may pose a serious threat to social news pioneer Digg.com, according to some industry observers and even Digg users.
Yahoo late yesterday opened Buzz to all publishers. The company said that said since the beta program opened last winter with 100 users, more than 300 publishers have been added. The site already boasts 5 million users, it said.”
- The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type – ReadWriteWeb – “Platforms like WordPress and Movable Type democratized the process of self-publishing. With these tools, everyone could be a publisher and it didn’t require advanced technical expertise to do so. Now, the next revolution for publishing is to bring that same ease of creation to the process of building social networks….”
Aug
19
- How to exclude pages from WordPress’s page listings at Hippo Web Solutions – “Have you ever felt a need to alter one of WordPress’s default page listings so that it doesn’t show up certain pages? I did when I was first starting out with WordPress, and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out a satisfactory way of doing it….”
- Classically Liberal: How politics destroys harmony and creates conflict. – “Notice that when people go to the grocery store they don’t fight. I walk up and down the aisles and pick what I want. It may not be what you want but you don’t care. You aren’t paying my bill and I’m not paying your bill. I can respect your selections and you can respect mine. You might shake your head at some items I buy and I might look down on some of your choice. But neither of us is willing to fight over other people’s choices…. In politics the opposite is true. Everything is constant conflict. It is constant conflict because the political means of achieving goals means the use of government power to achieve goals. That means we direct the raw power of government against others to secure what we want. We DO take from people the things they own. We DO impose [our] will on others….”
Aug
18
- NewsGator Enterprise Server – RSS In The Enterprise – “Bloated in-boxes conceal rather than expose critical e-mail messages, and vast archives of spam and useless messages clog servers and network pipes. Skilled professionals waste precious hours scanning in-boxes and browsing Web sites for vital information. Saying ‘enough is enough,’ many IT pros are turning to RSS technology for relief from e-mail malaise….”
- The Evolution of RSS – WebReference.com – “We look at how RSS has evolved from its humble beginnings through present day and beyond. We survey all versions of RSS, including a feature comparison, a new RSS usage survey, and format and validation information. We also interview the people and explore the standards behind RSS. Learn how the newest version of RSS will move us towards a more Semantic Web.”
- RSS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – “RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a “feed,” “web feed,” or “channel”) contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays…. The benefit of RSS is the aggregation of content from multiple web sources in one place.”
- Enterprise 2.0 2008 – Transform Your Organization – The Enterprise 2.0 Conference will return to Boston from June 22-25, 2009….
- List of tools for the internal blogosphere – digital<?>query – “We’re all loving the increasingly rich set of tools and services that exist for the (external) blogosphere. But, as many companies start to allow employees to blog internally, there is a need (and an expectation) that equivalent tools will be available – after all, much of the power and utility in blogging comes from having these extra pieces of functionality available.”
- Enterprise social software – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – “nterprise social software, also known as Enterprise 2.0, is a term describing social software used in “enterprise” (business) contexts. It includes social and networked modifications to company itranets and other classic software platforms used by large companies to organize their communication. In contrast to traditional enterprise software, which imposes structure prior to use, this generation of software tends to encourage use prior to providing structure.”
- Design for Emotion and Flow – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design – “We create software and websites to display and represent information to people. That information could be anything; a company’s product list, pictures of your vacation, or an instant message from a friend. At this moment, there’s more information available to you than at any other time in history….. All this information has a lot of positive effects, but it also creates challenges.”
- A Web 2.0 Tour for the Enterprise – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design – “Thanks to the hype generated by Business Week, The New York Times, Fortune, and Newsweek (among others), Web 2.0 has captured the imagination of consumers and businesses alike. But knowing how to leverage Web 2.0 concepts to fuel collaboration and innovation among employees, partners, and customers is another story. Web 2.0 can change an enterprise but recognizing how, and determining whether you should, do so is confusing. This article aims to dispel some of the myths surrounding Web 2.0 while discussing its practical applications within organizations. Then the enterprise—businesses and their practices—can embrace and extend Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0.”
- Web 2.0 in the Enterprise – “The old models of how people publish and consume information on the Web have been radically transformed in recent times. Instead of simply viewing information on static Web pages, users now publish their own content through blogs and wikis, and on photo- and video-sharing sites. People are collaborating, discussing and forming online communities, and combining data, content, and services from multiple sources to create personalized experiences and applications…. Commonly and collectively called “Web 2.0,” these new content-sharing sites, discussion and collaboration areas, and application design patterns or “mashups” are transforming the consumer Web. They also represent a significant opportunity for organizations to build new social and Web-based collaboration, productivity, and business opportunities….”
- Web 2.0 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – “Web 2.0 is a term which describes the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became notable after the first O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004.”
- XML.com: What Is RSS – “RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it’s not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS….”
- The Grill: Avi Rubin – “The e-voting critic talks about the inherent weakness of software, the critical need for audit trails and the ‘perfect storm’ of the 2000 election.”
- Creative Capitalism: About This Site – “Creative Capitalism: A Conversation is a web experiment designed to produce a book — a collection of essays and commentary on capitalism, philanthropy and global development….”
- Creative Capitalism: Profit-maximization as the sole goal of a corporation – “… a company is viewed in the Anglo-American world as a bundle of contracts. But companies are also social organisms created by a highly gregarious mammalian species with a unique capacity for large-scale co-operation over time and space. Companies have cultures and histories. For many of those most closely associated with them, they also have (and offer) a certain meaning…. [The}dea that a company is an entity that can be freely bought and sold is culturally specific. It is the view, above all, of Anglo-Americans. It is not shared in most of the rest of the world. The reason for this divergence is that, for many cultures, a company is viewed as being an enduring social entity….”
Aug
17
- 20 Free eBooks About Social Media – "If you want to learn more about social media but don’t wanna spend money on Amazon, you just got served. Chris Brogan compiled a nice list with 20 free eBooks that you can download and start reading right away. Topics go from viral marketing to blogging and Twitter, enjoy!"
- Build a Website – Create a Blog – Squarespace – "Squarespace is a unique publishing system for websites and blogs…. We enable bloggers, small businesses, podcasters, authors and more to reach over 20 million people every month."
- Spam Blogs Republish Your RSS Feeds? Use this to your Advantage – "It is not uncommon to find websites who republish RSS feeds of other blogs without permission. Why they do this is anyone’s guess but as a content owner, this is something to worry about especially when you publish full feeds…. That’s because when duplicate copies of your articles exist elsewhere on the web, some search engines may have trouble finding out the true source….
- How To Clean WP Options – Slow MySQL Queries | Revellian Dot Com – "When your self hosted wordpress site is getting slow, or lots of cpu quota exceeded errors, how do you fix it?"
- 2 Things I Hate About WordPress And How To Turn Them Into Your Advantage | WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er – "Some might say that it is a rather unusual headline coming from someone who builds entire blog around benefits of WordPress and making it into a true Web 2.0 platform. But as everything else in this world WordPress is far from perfect and dealing with my recent issues I have discovered 2 things that I had no clue about."
- Backing Up Your Database « WordPress Codex – "It is strongly recommended that you backup your database at regular intervals and before an upgrade. Restoring your database from backup is then possible if something goes wrong."
Aug
11
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"Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series. Aurora explores new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios."
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"Emerging Virtual Institutions are patterns of organized culture; such as forms of government, business models, or social norms, that develop endogenously within a virtual world. Just as real world institutions are introduced to virtual worlds by their users and designers, virtual institutions are carried back into the real world when those people 'log off.'"
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"Open source governance is a political philosophy which advocates the application of the philosophies of the open source and open content movements to democratic principles in order to enable any interested citizen to add to the creation of policy, as with a wiki document. Legislation is democratically opened to the general citizenry in this way, allowing policy development to benefit from the collected wisdom of the people as a whole."
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"Radical transparency is a management method where nearly all decision making is carried out publicly. All draft documents, all arguments for and against a proposal, the decisions about the decision making process itself, and all final decisions, are made publicly and remain publicly archived."
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"The Metagovernment project invites all people to participate in governance as much or as little as they wish. It is the system which will perform the governance functions for any community of any size. It uses a scored, versioned website as the medium for legislation and bureaucracy under the principle of open source governance, employing a sophisticated community structure and/or scoring system to avoid potential downfalls of a completely open editable system."
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"In industries from retail to high tech, banking and manufacturing, companies are increasingly building networks behind the firewall where employees can create profiles and connect with one another in ways first demonstrated by LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace."
Aug
2
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From the Introduction:
"At the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, a computer user searching on the Web is unlikely to consider the enormous achievement represented by the highlighted links that beckon from the screen. In 1945, by contrast, Vannevar Bush was excited just to imagine the possibility of a hyperlink. He saw it as opening new gates to human understanding."
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"WordPress is first and foremost a blogging platform, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be used for other things as well. In fact, the development of WordPress have been such that I wouldn’t be surprised to see a non-blog focused fork soon, because the necessary functionality for most web sites on the admin side of things are already there…."
Jul
23
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“You can set the number of posts for a lot of different “views” (archives, month, categories, categories by name, home, search etc.). For the options that you [do not set] the number set in the Options > Reading will be inherited.”
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“CoolPhotoblogs.com was created by the sheer popularization of photoblogging around the world. Our mission is to inspire, encourage and unite the global photoblogging community.”
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“Final preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympics are in full swing in Beijing. This includes completing hundreds of construction projects, reconstructions, pollution controls, cultural training, and a general ‘beautifying’ of greater Beijing.”
Jul
22
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“The hardest part of installing (or upgrading) a Yahoo … WordPress installation is dealing with the database. Yahoo allows you to create a database administrator, but … does not give … the privileges necessary to install or upgrade WordPress.”
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“Apparently I’m not the only one having problems with the categories after a WordPress 2.6 upgrade….So, time to give something back to the WordPress community, some screenshots on how I fixed it….”
Jul
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“Some magnificent images at The Big Picture of a royal Balinese funeral, at which Agung Suyasa, head of the royal family of Ubud, was cremated. This huge bull is used as the sarcophagus.”
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“Last Tuesday, on the island of Bali, the head of the royal family of Ubud named Agung Suyasa was laid to rest in a rare, spectacular Royal Funeral – the largest in decades. Suyasa, two other members the royal family, and 68 commoners were cremated….”
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“Installed a fresh copy of WordPress 2.5 then import a database file and everything seems fine until I noticed none of the comments are … listed in the admin panel comment list. “
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One of the irritating feature for me in WordPress 2.6 is the post revision. I am the only author of my blog and hence this feature is useless to me…. To turn off this feature….
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“[The Indian] Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, said India would rather save its people from poverty than global warming, and would not cut growth to cut gases.”
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[The] passage of this bill looks very much like a repeat of 2002, when the Democrats, eager not to be cast as weak on national security, caved on supporting an authorization for the war in Iraq….”
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“Founded by innovative educator Michael Strong and Whole Foods Market co-founder and CEO John Mackey, FLOW is dedicated to liberating the entrepreneurial spirit … and directing it towards creating sustainable peace, prosperity, and happiness for all….
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“ITER is an international tokamak (magnetic confinement fusion) research/engineering proposal for an experimental project that will help to make the transition from today’s studies of plasma physics to future electricity-producing fusion power plants.”
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“ITER is a joint international research and development project that aims to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility of fusion power. The partners in the project … are [Europe], Japan, [China], India, [Korea], [Russia] and the USA.”
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“[Foreigners] who specialize in Japanese arts and culture make immeasurable contributions in their fields; without their passion and sensibilities, many of the existing Japanese art forms would have long ago become stale or even died out.”
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“With his back straight and his head up, Thomas Charles Marshall sits down in an arbor overlooking a lotus-filled pond….He slowly reaches for his pear-shaped biwa, a century-old mulberry-wood lute with elaborate mother-of-pearl inlays.”
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“Who wouldn’t want to hear the experiences of a white girl who lived a life that we Westerners have only known through the clouded lens of romantic Orientalism, or ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ or various other media images?”
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“Nature and humanity are brought together in ikebana, the Japanese art of arranging cut flowers. Odile Lundy, a French ikebana master, expresses herself by getting her artistic inspiration from flowers, branches and containers.”
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“Decked out in his broad-brimmed baseball cap, silver necklace and jeans, the young man stands alone on a black stage. With his voice full of emotion, he begins to sing in Japanese….This is Jero, the first African-American enka singer in history.”
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“From behind his shaggy beard, affable British-born Canadian woodblock printmaker David Bull ended our interview at his studio in western Tokyo with what sounded like a challenge….”
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“For Christine Flint Sato, the key to understanding her adopted homeland has been through the world of sumi-e, a Chinese style of water-ink painting adopted in Japan in the 14th century.”
Jun
15
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What does the past look like from 200 miles up? A new generation of archaeologists has found that the history of civilization may look far clearer from the top of the atmosphere….
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Flickr photos of the bas-reliefs at the Bayon temple in Angkor Thom (Cambodia)
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“Jayavarman VII (1125 – 1215) was a [Buddhist] king of the Khmer Empire (c.1181-1215) in present day Cambodia.”
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“The Bayon is a well-known and richly decorated Khmer temple at Angkor in Cambodia. Built as … the official state temple of the Mahayana Buddhist King Jayavarman VII, the Bayon stands at the centre of Jayavarman’s capital, Angkor Thom.”
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“Angkor Thom was the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer empire. It was established in the late twelfth century by king Jayavarman VII.”
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Photos: Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Bayon, Ta Phrom, Neak Pean, Banteay Srei, Ta Phrom Kel, Baksei Chamkrong, Prasat Bei, Banteay Kdei, Baphuon, Phimeanakas, Prah Palitas, Prasat Sour Prat, Terrace of the Elephants, Phreah Khan, Krol Kel, East Mebon, Chauy S
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Angkor, Cambodia, Khmer temples, Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Bayon, Banteay Srei, Preah Khan, Ta Prohm, images, videos, photos
“AngkorBlog is … about the art and architecture of the Angkor area in Cambodia, including the … temples at Angkor Wat, Banteay Srei, Ta Prohm, Angkor Thom, Bayon, and Preah Khan. It is about the stories, historical and legendary, told by that art.”
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“Angkor Wat? Here’s a translation of Maurice Glaize’s popular and definitive 1944 guide to the Angkor Monuments for free.”
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“If elected president, Senator John McCain would reserve the right to run his own warrantless wiretapping program against Americans, based on the theory that the president’s wartime powers trump federal criminal statutes and court oversight….
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“… Obama and McCain are telling us Americans that our normal lives are not good enoughThey’re wrong…. Every human life counts. Your life counts.”
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“[The] simplest explanation is that world demand is growing briskly and world supply is not as responsive…. If we want low gas prices, we should lower the costs of exploration and refining. If lowering those costs has environmental costs you don’t like.
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“Any community—online or off—must start slowly, and be nurtured… It simply must happen gradually. It must be cared for, and hosted; it takes time and people with great communication skills to set the tone and tend the conversation.”
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“Mildred Jeter helped change America….Mildred had married the man she loved, Richard. One night, as they slept, armed agents of the state burst into their home. They surrounded the couple and began the interrogation….”
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“Mildred Loving (1939 — May 2, 2008) filed and won a landmark U.S. court appeal in defense of her own interracial marriage that became the legal standard used to eradicate laws against mixed marriage across the country.”
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“Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws, died on May 2 at her home in Central Point, Va. She was 68.”
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“Loving v. Virginia … was a landmark civil rights case in which the [U.S.] Supreme Court declared Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statute … unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage.”
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“The [14th Amendment] requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by [racial discrimination]. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry … a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the state.”
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“Americans need to read [Mildred Loving's] statement and see how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go to protect liberty and equality in this country.”
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“China has blocked access to all Blogger blogs ahead of the Olympic games that begin in Beijing three months from now.”
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“The Internet must be open during the Beijing Olympics. That was the message a top-ranking International Olympic Committee official delivered Tuesday to Beijing….”
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“In a troubling ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can continue its practice of warrantless searches through computer data held by U.S. citizens and foreigners alike.”
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“The Association of Corporate Travel Executives is warning its members to limit the amount of proprietary business information they carry on laptops and other electronic devices because of fears that government agents can seize that data at U.S. borders.”
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“It’s good for Microsoft that it didn’t buy Yahoo — now it has to reform itself.”
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