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The girl is Huwaida Arraf

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If it happened in our nation it would probably another joke of how terrible tg is.

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The kids have grown up since the first one.

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I read about bio-alarm clock few years back in high school, it’s made by bunch of MIT students using expensive electroencephalogram detectors. I never expected this sleep phase could be also detected using iPhone accelerometer.

the Sleep Cycle alarm clock is able to use the accelerometer in your iPhone to monitor your movement and determine which sleep phase you are in.

Pity I don’t have an iPhone nor any phone with accelerometer, or I will definitely buy this software and try it out :(

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Really awesome raytracing.

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Learned about this from Fired Up!

Another god-like game after Portal ?

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When I chatted on omegle the other day some random guy said something similar, he discovered Stefani Germanotta on Last.FM before she became Lady Gaga

I always respect someone who can write his/her own music, playing an instrument while singing. Just like one redditor said:

I gained respect for her when I found out she was accepted to Julliard in NYC and attended Tisch School of the Arts.

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You are doing it wrong!

from dailymail via reddit 1, 2

去年yo2.cn在朝廷的清剿行动中光荣挂彩。除了海外可以访问国内都访问不了。现在似乎OK了，但是RSS似乎有点问题

希望是yo2.cn的康复期间的间歇性问题。否则我就只有一直开独立blog了。。。

原文评论和留言是很重要滴。

8楼 3F 2010.01.02 11:12 上午
동한(東韓)应为동한(東漢)，东汉和东韩读起来一样，笔误而已，原文的中文版http://chn.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/12/28/20091228000010.html

9楼 香港人討論區 2010.01.02 11:59 上午
应该是笔误，不过还挺好笑的，他们也是用注音输入法啊

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.chosun.com%2Fsite%2Fdata%2Fhtml_dir%2F2009%2F12%2F28%2F2009122800076.html&sl=ko&tl=zh-CN

另外找到关于这个“韩国梨花女子大学教授郑在书先生”的帖子一篇：

RE:韩国梨花女子大学教授郑在书先生的声明

效答客难

最近得知我在韩国发表的一篇论文在中国引起强烈反响，激起人们愤慨，我感到无比震惊和担忧。一些媒体报道说韩国有人主张“中国神话源自韩国”， 并指名道姓指出这是我的观点。面对这样的内容，想必仅题目就足以让许多人感到愕然。我亦是惊愕不已，这是怎样一种曲解？！如果真的有人提出这种观点，我也是会毫不犹豫地出面指责这种荒诞无稽和非学术性观点的啊！
我的学术观点怎么会曲解成这种狭隘的国家主义？对此，我真是百思不得其解。我一直认为中国在丰厚无比的文化资产之上，融汇亚洲各民族文化创造了代表东方的灿烂文明。在这一过程中，中华民族作为主体发挥了巨大的作用，这一历史事实是不容置疑的。我对中国的所有学术观点从来都是建构在这一认识基础之上的。
可以说，罗马神话是代表西方的神话，中国神话则是代表东方的神话，我对此确信无疑。只是，考虑到中国神话在其形成初期，吸收融合了诸多不同原始民族的神话（其中也有东夷系神话），那么韩民族因为和远古东夷系種族有关联，所以我只是想在中国神话中寻找一点韩民族遗失的远古神话的痕迹而已。
这是我撰写该论文的意图所在。我不知道这一意图怎么就曲解为“中国神话源自韩国”了，真是令我困惑不已。
中国的神话学者也都认为东夷系神话是中国神话重要的组成部分。而我在论文中绝没有提到过东夷系神话都是韩国神话，也绝没有主张东夷系種族都是韩民族。并且我一直戒备使用“一部分”或“韩民族作为东夷系種族的一员”等字眼来夸大解释论点的行为。我在论文的结语部分也明确指出我的论据论点还存在许多有待进一步研究、商榷的内容，必须要谨慎待之。尽管如此，论文还是引起了中国国民的强烈不满，我认为这是一种在转述、表达和登载过程中出现的误解。出现这种情况，我个人深感不安和歉疚。
我的学术信念建立在平等互惠的立场之上，我反对偏激的国家主义和霸权主义。多年来，我与许多中国学者交流了学术思想，还进行了学术合作。考察我以往的研究论文就会发现，我作为中国文学研究者，对于西方文化的霸权倾向，强调的是中国文化的优秀性；而对于中国上古文化的形成，强调的是各个民族的共同参与。我一直高度评价中华民族作为主体所发挥的巨大作用，我一再认为中华民族吸收并融汇各民族文化创造了丰富多彩的中国文化并将其影响到了周边国家。这种观点与中国大多数学者所主张的中国文化多元一体格局概念是一致的。我所主张的多元主义，很容易被两国舆们一起收进屋论媒体推到国家主义层面上去。这是因为，韩国作为隣国，为了加强本国文化的自我认同会作出一种解释；而在中国的立场上看，这是一种削弱文化自尊心的危险的观点，于是又会作出另外一种解释。我无意怪罪舆们一起收进屋论媒体。舆们一起收进屋论媒体必然会针对大众关注的焦点问题来造成舆们一起收进屋论，这是它固有的权限。遗憾的是两国国民之间近年来确实存在着不该有的文化对立情绪，个人的一些学术观点也卷入偏激的国家主义漩涡被歪曲得面目全非。
和东亚其他国家相比，韩中两国在几千年的历史长河中一直保持着最为密切的政治文化关系，共同经历了历史的沉浮。进入现代社会，两国都在帝国列强的侵略和蹂躏中受尽了磨难。在患难中建立起来的深厚情谊不能因一时的文化摩擦而消毁。我希望两国友谊能万古长青，我希望自己能在学术领域贡献一点微薄的力量。
在此， 我阐明我的观点，今后，我更是愿意同中国的神话学者在中国或在韩国促膝而坐，认真探讨韩中两国神话的关系，进一步完善各自的学术观点，并及时纠正一些错误认识，进一步拓宽、加深对彼此的了解。
无论我个人意图和学术观点如何，这次是因我的一篇论文在转载过程中被曲解，而伤了一些中国国民的感情，对此，我深表歉意，谨望各位予以理解！

韩国 梨花女子大学 中文系 教授 郑 在 书 謹書 jsjung at ewha.ac.kr

2007年 11月15日

互联网的价值所在就是互动。Web 2.0的价值也就是UCG

有个12岁的小屁孩挑战4chan。。。。。

宣扬上帝在他身边和让警薄雾浓云愁永昼察 ** anonymous。。。。

最后的结局当然是非常悲剧。。。被人肉不说，4chan还把警薄雾浓云愁永昼察叫到他家里去了。。。。

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It’s a javascript visualization. Click the picture to see it in a new window/tab.

Gosh, So much profitable for New Moon

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And happy 2010.

This is fucking awesome and scary!

From guardian.co.uk

I, for one, welcome our new West Korea overlords.

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Well, what I love about free speech and free press is it can adjust opinions by different authors.

How not to handle China from Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin History of Modern China:

So it is safe to assume that China was not in negotiating mode, and that, unless Beijing was being set up as the fall guy, Obama, Brown, Miliband et al should have know this, and negotiated accordingly. The same goes for the currency, human rights and, unfortunately for him, for Shaikh. It is also likely to be the case if trade disputes swell next year, as one must anticipate.

That leads to an underlying element which, again, seems insufficiently appreciated by western governments. General Secretary Hu and Wen operate by consensus. They are careful bureaucrats who do not command an automatic majority in the nine-man standing committee.

See also: Why denouncing China is hypocritical, Before preaching, remember the opium wars, China has made a mockery of justice, Chinese Defend the Execution of British National, Execution Underscores ‘China’s Contempt for the West’

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It’s called XW-1 or 希望一号. From AMSAT China:

AMSAT-NA OSCAR Number Coordinator Bill Tynan, W3XO has informed Alan Kung, BA1DU, Amateur Satellite Project Manager and Chief Executive Officer of AMSAT-China that XW-1 is now designated as Hope OSCAR 68, or HO-68.

Bill wrote, “The satellite was launched successfully 15 December from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center of China, on a CZ-4C rocket. Amateur Radio Operators around the world have received beacon signals from XW-1.”

Anyone else is thinking of HAM your twitter and stuff inside China? lol

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Someone must make a local version.

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When I first visited pownce and deviantArts website, their background texture give me an unique feeling of material-like surface. It’s very distinctive visual from HTML-ish webpages. Today I understand why. Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces by Mike Rundle

Web design / digital content design is way different from traditional design. On screen layout systems support much richer styles, like transparency (RGBA), sub-pixel rendering, dithering, interaction (Mike Rundle’s website logo can move!), multimedia. That’s why MIT’s most awesome lab is called nothing else but Media Lab.

I wish there’s a native texture and rendering library in all browsers. Think of embed an simple static style sheet to indicate browsers to display pre-compiled processing/nodebox generated textures, something like this:

$mycolor { color: #646464; color-noise:63%; }
.button { background-color:$mycolor; }

How awesome is that! :)

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From venturebeat and gizmodo and physorg (Damn, news are toooo chained nowadays.)

“We’ll come up with products sought by middle-income people in such emerging countries as China and India, which haven’t been hit by deflationary pressure… We hope to introduce Sanyo products to Panasonic’s sales channels,” he said.

It’s lithium-ion battery. Great power source!

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From Microsoft

Linux and Open Office Compete Lead(700901 -External) Email to Friend

Job Category: Marketing
Location: United States, WA, Bellevue
Job ID: 700901
Division: Marketing

Linux and Open Office Compete Lead, US Subsidiary (CSI Lead)

Just FYI: Open Office ≠ OpenOffice.org

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From pg via HN

• DH0. Name-calling. Standard trolling moves.
• DH1. Ad Hominem. Something like labeling other people.
• DH2. Responding to Tone. This happens a lot. I have similar experience on maillists. No matter how interesting your questions are, many replies are about how ignorant your are in related theory.
• DH3. Contradiction.
• DH4. Counterargument.
• DH5. Refutation.
• DH6. Refuting the Central Point.

I must check rhetoric books for more example :)

Found an interesting post

G Γ Ш

So I collected few more instance from Unicode table

Ĝ ĝ Ğ ğ Ġ ġ Ģ ģ Ŵ ŵ Ɠ ɠ ɡ ɢ ɯ ɰ
ʃ ʬ Γ Ϣ ϣ Г Ш Щ Ѡ ѡ Ѱ ѱ Ѽ ѽ Ѿ ѿ Ԍ ԍ Բ ա պ ვ ლ ᄈ
Ḟ ḟ
Ḡ ḡ Ẁ ẁ Ẃ ẃ Ẅ ẅ Ẇ ẇ Ẉ ẉ
ὠ ὡ ὢ ὣ ὤ ὥ ὦ ὧ ℉ ℊ ℐ Ⅎ ℱ ∮

Be creative!

Just for the record, you know.

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Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library
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Debug Assertion Failed!

Program: D:\NetWorks\CNTV\CBox.exe
File: f:\dd\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfc\src\mfc\occcont.cpp
Line: 926

For information on how your program can cause an assertion
failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts.

(Press Retry to debug the application)
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Abort(A)   Retry(R)   Ignore(I)   
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btw, I kinda like CCTV Music channel, especially those traditional music. CNTV serves a good archiver if you want to check out past programmes on various channels.

This is a short tutorial

1. Get this shit http://plowshare.googlecode.com/files/plowshare-0.8.1.tgz, unpack it to somewhere
2. Mess with the plowshare dependencies, includes: spidermonkey, libmozjs, libreadline5, libnspr4. They can be found on http://packages.debian.org/. Btw, most of lenny binary works on etch too.
3. Since I am on a shared host, so there’s no sudo or root, so no dpkg nor /usr/* access. The only thing you can to is hack
4. Unpack those .deb, grab the data.tar\usr\* stuff, including smjs, lib.sh, libmozjs.so.0d, libnspr4.so.0d, libreadline.so.5.
5. patch the plowshare module, take mediafire for example, edit plowshare-0.8.1/src/modules/mediafire.sh to something like this: FILE_URL=$(echo "$VARS; print($HREF);" | ./smjs)
6. ldd smjs to see if everything is OK, then, this step is crucial: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
7. OK, now you can try something like this
   ./download.sh http://www.mediafire.com/?dhbxnndmznw

Everything went better than expected.

I never realized you can do that in a microwave

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From NYT

Someone must make a local version. I am imagining coal mine casualties, coal mine casualties, coal mine casualties, coal mine casualties …

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by linsky04 from NewSMTH / MilitaryPic, Mon Dec 28 13:33:29 2009

Following video also on youtube

Found this amazing post on Douban. Ever wondered how ancient Chinese sounds like? Just have a look at the dub version of Fengshen Bang. I love how alveolar trill sounds like with Chinese.

There are also three videos shows how poets from Book of Odes actually sounds like 3000 years ago on tudou http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/jxDU8vGTtrE/ http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/2k38BDbiD_4/ http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/rFLLJGlkcJE/

Except his Indian accent, Pranav Mistry is a genius!

If you have trouble viewing youtube, check out the ted.com video.

And quote:

Open source software starting next month.

Wow!

Jay Wong did a great job, he is a Chinese hero! Wish they having a happy, BIG family

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These pictures were taken in Paghman Gardens, a popular place near Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul. The first picture was probably taken by Clayton Esterson (see also: Buddha Statue in Bamiyan), the second one was taken by a redditor

This makes me feel very sad. I sincerely hope this won’t happen in my homeland someday, though it’s very likely because we have an uncivilized ruling Party and brutal authority.

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Here’s a simple tutorial of how to setup a chained SSH tunnel with two SSH hosts.

1. Open PuTTY and connect to your first (nearest to you) ssh node
2. In the console, connect to your final ssh (which IP will be shown as an exit of chained tunnel) like this:
   

   ssh -CfNg -D 127.0.0.1:8787 user@hostname

3. Right click putty title bar for context menu and click Change settings, like the following screenshot:
   This settings means, PuTTY will listen on your local machine port 7777, and forward everything to 127.0.0.1:8787 on the first ssh server. Since in step #2 we have 127.0.0.1:8787 already there listening as a socks5 tunnel, the chain SSH tunnel is complete.

Picture provided by ditaa.org using a nice ASCII2Graph tool called ditaa

If you understand how to chain SSH tunnel using two ssh nodes, it’s easy to expanding it to three or more.

I read this shit on HN, a machine that translates thoughts into speech in real-time.

This is some serious shit, one application I can think of is tg using it as a surveillance weapon against citizens. This is the future of true totalitarian.

but according to the OP

In the current study, only three vowel sounds were tested.

Looks like it’s phonogram language specific. The way to avoid this is to think beyond the language. Use constructed language like logic, music, art and math as possible.

Matrix, your IO prototype is scary!

I read this amazing A demonstration of the non-commutativity of the English language on Terry Tao’s blog

As part of yet another lost generation, I watched the video and WOW’d.

Here’s a way to have little fun with our robot friends.

Edit the wp-includes/functions.php for the following function:

function do_robots() {

    $rss_bot_ip_list = array('74.125.44.136', '74.125.158', '61.4.177.'); 
    //IP for feedburner and feedsky
    $robots_allow = 0;

    for ($j = 0; $j < count($rss_bot_ip_list); $j++) {
        if (is_numeric(strpos($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"], $rss_bot_ip_list[$j]))) {
            $robots_allow = 1;
        }
    }


    header( 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8' );

    do_action( 'do_robotstxt' );

    if ( '0' == $robots_allow ) {
        echo "User-agent: *\n";
        echo "Disallow: /\n";
    } else {
        echo "User-agent: FeedBurner/1.0 (http://www.FeedBurner.com)\n";
        echo "Allow /feed\n";
        echo "Disallow: /\n";
        echo "\n";
        echo "User-agent: Mozilla 5.0 (compatible; Feedsky\n";
        echo "Allow /feed\n";
        echo "Disallow: /\n";
        echo "\n";
        echo "User-agent: *\n";
    }
}

This allows customized robots.txt for feed crawlers exclusively.

You can see it in Google StreetView

parabolic means this curve:

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• I am not sure if I will renew my hosting next year. I would choose to return to yo2.cn if possible.
• Blogging here is in non-Chinese. Please try it in your comments, too.
• I do not intend to get this blocked by the Chinese Wall.
• I do not intend to leak this domain or location to search engines.
• Please do not tell the public about this new place. I already updated the RSS feed so if you are a regular subscriber of my blog, you’ll know where this is.
• If you want to link to this new blog, use this format est's blog / 25, the 25 means the article ID in the address bar. Don’t use hyperlinks.
• Big brother is watching u!

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There are number of reasons to use a feed burning service. It’s useful to have a unique feed URL despite you may have changed BSP multiple times.

But Wordpress’s default RSS URL is http://your_blog/feed, which is implemented by a template tag called bloginfo('rss2_url'). So instead of modify theme’s html directly in many places, we hack this function.

Open wp-includes/general-template.php, simply edit line #321:

case 'rss2_url':
    $output = 'http://feedproxy.google.com/initiative';

Since your feedburning service is likely provide RSS 2.0, just leave rss_url, atom_url and rdf_url alone.

1. Post a notice that no one will notice
2. Wreck the economy
3. ???
4. Profit!

In this anti-pron storm in mainland China, MIIT and CNNIC are also victims. China TeleCom, UniCom and 3G are all accused of in Party’s propaganda media CCAV. Zhang Chun Jiang, the guy who promoted father of GFW, a close colleague with Bo Xilai, Party secretary of China mobile, were dual regulated

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Google威武

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Top Gear山寨了一个航天飞机～～～～～囧。。。

国内视频，不过却组装过程。。。。

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