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New Tlingit encyclopedia baffling to scholars, speakers | KCAW
"The massive work by New Zealand scholar Sally-Ann Lambert is extraordinarily detailed, and the product of years of effort.

The problem is: The language in the book is not recognizable by contemporary scholars, or Native Tlingit speakers."
language  race  racism  tlingit  books  articles  via:itrasbiel  via:ignatz 
february 2012 by Vaguery
New Tlingit encyclopedia baffling to scholars, speakers | KCAW
"The massive work by New Zealand scholar Sally-Ann Lambert is extraordinarily detailed, and the product of years of effort.

The problem is: The language in the book is not recognizable by contemporary scholars, or Native Tlingit speakers."
language  race  racism  tlingit  books  articles  via:itrasbiel 
february 2012 by ignatz
How to Play - Furoticon Wiki
this is the worst possible game "In Furoticon, you play as a well-renowned Owner (Master, Mistress, Mastress, or Dominator) dueling against one or more Owners for dominance over your opponents' harems. Break through their harems with your own and climax your opponents! The last Owner standing is the winner!"
furry  no  cards  wiki  sex  games  via:itrasbiel 
december 2011 by ignatz
Building a music map
Someone is working through a lot of the same issues as me. I never tried anything so ambitious as mapping all of music, though.
via:itrasbiel  music  pop  rock  visualization  mapping  networks 
september 2009 by ethanhein
Quantum secrets of photosynthesis revealed
"Long-lived wavelike electronic quantum coherence... can explain the extreme efficiency of the energy transfer because it enables the system to simultaneously sample all the potential energy pathways and choose the most efficient one.” Cool.
via:itrasbiel  green  physics  plants  electromagnetism  quantum  science  resonance  biology  consilience 
april 2008 by ethanhein
Red Family, Blue Family
"Fundamentalism is not the natural state of the Inherited Obligation family. It is, rather, a kind of antibody that such families generate when they feel threatened."
via:itrasbiel  history  media  philosophy  politics  psychology  religion  america  anthro  monkeysphere 
april 2008 by ethanhein
The Myth of the Media Myth: Games and Non-Gamers
"In terms of the traditional target age content metrics, Outside is remarkably high in sex, violence and challenges to traditional values... The physics system is note-perfect (often at the expense of playability.)"
via:itrasbiel  computer  funny  media  parody  videogames  internet  irony  nerds  entertainment  gamers  simulation  anthro 
april 2008 by ethanhein
Molecular machine takes control
"The machine was coaxed to assemble itself on a surface of gold from seventeen molecules of an organic compound called duroquinone. Sixteen of the molecules form a weakly bonded ring around the central molecule, which serves as the control unit."
computer  physics  science  self-organization  molecule  electromagnetism  scifi  computerevolution  japan  informationtheory  networks  neuroscience  medicine  via:itrasbiel 
march 2008 by ethanhein
The Geometry of Music
"The simplest chords, which consist of just two notes, live on an actual Möbius strip. Three-note chords reside in spaces that look like prisms--except that opposing faces connect to each other." Itrasbiel wins hard for drawing this to my attention.
via:Itrasbiel  computer  design  hyperspace  emergence  math  physics  stringtheory  visualization  musictheory  topology  classicalmusic 
march 2008 by ethanhein
Portable Network Graphics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Chunks declare themselves as critical or ancillary, and a program encountering an ancillary chunk that it does not understand can safely ignore it. This allows the PNG format to be extended while maintaining compatibility with older versions."
graphics  wikipedia  computer  informationtheory  algorithms  memes  internet  computerevolution  via:itrasbiel 
march 2008 by ethanhein
Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider
Video games make a great illustration of the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
via:Itrasbiel  math  physics  quantum  science  videogames  consilience  resonance  musictheory  probability  philosophy 
february 2008 by ethanhein
If Iran Were America (And We Were Iran)
"Iran covertly funnels millions of dollars to any and every dissatisfied group in America. The KKK, the Black Panthers, the John Birch Society, and even the Vermont Secessionists experience a surge in anonymous foreign donations."
america  history  iran  middleeast  military  parody  politics  irony  via:itrasbiel  petroleum 
february 2008 by ethanhein
Truthism.com - Your #1 Source for the Truth
Carl Sagan helped me figure this out: The reptiles and their conspiracies are real, all right, but they're not in the government or the church, they're in your head.
funny  philosophy  religion  wtf  via:itrasbiel  reptiles  scifi  anxiety  america  anthro  memes  drugs  psychology 
january 2008 by ethanhein
World Of Warcraft Teaches The Wrong Things
Instead of addressing the game's flaws by altering the code to fix them, Blizzard attempts to legislate player behavior using the game's terms of service. This loses.
via:itrasbiel  art  computer  fun  gamers  internet  morality  politics  psychology  videogames  emergence  gays  entertainment  capitalism  nerds  networks  interface  time  masculinity 
january 2008 by ethanhein
Who wears the pants?
From UT Austin's student paper The Daily Texan: "Modesty is essential to feminine virtue, and the lack thereof implies a state of whorification... The androgynous masculinization of the modern woman...has led to the slow whorification of ladyhood."
wtf  america  christianity  masculinity  politics  via:itrasbiel  anthro  religion  language 
january 2008 by ethanhein

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