I tried staying up

Family

Jar glove

Always think of the end, and you will never do amiss.- Apocrypha: Ben Sira 7:36

Fell this way

I don't get out much

When I first opened the package

I remember thinking, huh? That's not what I imagined. Duh, I was looking at it upside down.

Nacho Monkey

Reason

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Consciousness

What do you remember?

Pyramid Ice Crystal Halos Over Finland Credit & Copyright: Kari Nyman

Explanation: What if the atmosphere above you became one gigantic lens? This actually happens when a nearly transparent sheet of pyramid shaped ice crystals falls from the sky in a common orientation. These ice-crystals act together like millions of miniature ice mirrors, with external and internal reflections from different faces creating arcs and halos of different radii. An amazing display of pyramid ice crystal halos was captured on June 5 above Tampere, Finland. Visible above are very usual sun halos of 9, 18, 20, and 23, and 24 degrees. In contrast, thin and flat falling ice crystals will produce a halo of 22 degrees only. The high clouds containing the ice crystals are faintly visible, as are some sundogs. The usual Sun image was covered behind a light post, and the above image was significantly digitally sharpened. It is not currently known how large areas of nearly uniform pyramidal ice crystals form.

Forward, backwards, around and around

Through the eyes of my six year old

Tough Decision

Last day of drama class or Town Hall Meeting with Senator Obama. The sky opened up when I gave away my ticket.

All roads lead to Chapel Road

That day they did.

A canyon in Sedona

Hard to believe this beautiful place was once under water.

Time Travel

Today in History
Published: 5/8/08, 11:05 AM EDTBy The Associated Press

(AP) - Today is Thursday, May 15, the 136th day of 2008. There are 230 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:

On May 15, 1918, U.S. airmail began service between Washington, Philadelphia and New York.

On this date:
In 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Co., ruling it was a monopoly in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

In 1930, registered nurse Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard an Oakland, Calif.-to-Chicago flight operated by Boeing Air Transport, a forerunner of United Airlines.

In 1942, wartime gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 eastern states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for nonessential vehicles.

In 1948, hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.

In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon received a hero's welcome on his return from a violence-marred tour of Latin America.

In 1958, the MGM movie musical "Gigi," starring Leslie Caron as a young French courtesan-in-training, was released.

In 1963, astronaut L. Gordon Cooper blasted off aboard Faith 7 on the final mission of the Project Mercury space program.

In 1972, George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer and left paralyzed while campaigning in Laurel, Md., for the Democratic presidential nomination.

In 1975, U.S. forces invaded the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. (All 40 crew members had already been released safely by Cambodia; some 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the operation.)

In 1988, the Soviet Union began the process of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, more than eight years after Soviet forces had entered the country.

Ten years ago: Trapped in blazing shopping malls, hundreds of looters burned to death in rioting that laid smoking waste to Indonesia's capital, Jakarta. Leaders of eight countries, including the U.S., opened a three-day summit in Birmingham, England.

Five years ago: Emergency officials rushed to a series of mock catastrophes in the Chicago area on the busiest day of a national weeklong exercise.

Runaway Texas Democrats boarded two buses and returned home after a self-imposed weeklong exile in Oklahoma that succeeded in killing a redistricting bill they opposed.

The three-year championship reign of the Los Angeles Lakers came to a decisive end as the San Antonio Spurs overpowered the Lakers 110-82 to win the Western Conference semifinal series 4-to-2.

Country music star June Carter Cash died in Nashville, Tenn., at age 73.

One year ago: The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who built the Christian right into a political force, died in Lynchburg, Va., at age 73. Yolanda King, the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 51. President Bush chose Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute to oversee the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as a war czar. Prime Minister Bertie Ahern became the first Irish leader to address the joint houses of the British Parliament. Kenny Chesney collected his third consecutive entertainer of the year trophy from the Academy of Country Music.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Joseph Wiseman is 90. Playwright Sir Peter Shaffer ("Amadeus") is 82. Actress-singer Anna Maria Alberghetti is 72. Counterculture icon Wavy Gravy is 72. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is 71. Singer Trini Lopez is 71. Singer Lenny Welch is 70. Actress-singer Lainie Kazan is 68. Actor-director Paul Rudd ("Knots Landing") is 68. Country singer K.T. Oslin is 66. Singer-songwriter Brian Eno is 60. Actor Nicholas Hammond ("The Sound of Music") is 58. Actor Chazz Palminteri is 56. Baseball Hall-of-Famer George Brett is 55. Musician-composer Mike Oldfield ("Tubular Bells") is 55. Actor Lee Horsley is 53. TV personality Giselle Fernandez is 47. Singer-rapper Prince Be (PM Dawn) is 38. Actor Brad Rowe is 38. Actor David Charvet is 36. Rock musician Ahmet Zappa is 34. Olympic gold-medal gymnast Amy Chow is 30. Actor David Krumholtz ("Numb3rs") is 30. Actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler is 27.

Thought for Today: "People love to talk but hate to listen." - Alice Duer Miller, American author (1874-1942).

We stand alike

Landing pads?

Crop circles? Vortexes? What really goes on in the world? Does anyone know?

http://uscampaignforburma.org/

Coincidence

Yesterday's discussion was regarding Lashon Hara.

Artificial Intelligence

1 Perspectives on AI
1.1 AI in myth, fiction and speculation
1.2 History of AI research
1.3 Philosophy of AI
2 AI research
2.1 Problems of AI
2.1.1 Deduction, reasoning, problem solving
2.1.2 Knowledge representation
2.1.3 Planning
2.1.4 Learning
2.1.5 Natural language processing
2.1.6 Motion and manipulation
2.1.7 Perception
2.1.8 Social intelligence
2.1.9 Creativity
2.1.10 General intelligence
2.2 Approaches to AI
2.2.1 Cybernetics and brain simulation
2.2.2 Traditional symbolic AI
2.2.3 Sub-symbolic AI
2.2.4 Intelligent agent paradigm
2.2.5 Integrating the approaches
2.3 Tools of AI research
2.3.1 Search
2.3.2 Logic
2.3.3 Probabilistic methods for uncertain reasoning
2.3.4 Classifiers and statistical learning methods
2.3.5 Neural networks
2.3.6 Social and emergent models
2.3.7 Control theory
2.3.8 Specialized languages
2.4 Evaluating artificial intelligence
2.5 Competitions and prizes
3 Applications of artificial intelligence
4 See also
5 Notes
6 References
6.1 Major AI textbooks
6.2 Other sources
7 Further reading
8 External links

Constant reminder

Slow down.

Avalanche on Mars

!6 Sunrises and Sunsets

Construction began on the ISS in 1998.

Neville Brothers on Sessions @ west 54th

Fill in the blanks

Attached to these bones

Is my story. I have parents, who had parents, who had parents, etc., and somehow we evolved from tiktaalik rosea. Do you know what they look like? How do you think it happened?

Ruins of 7,000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis Tue Jan 29, 3:26 PM ET

CAIRO (AFP) - A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Egypt's Fayyum oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday.

"An electromagnetic survey revealed the existence in the Karanis region of a network of walls and roads similar to those constructed during the Greco-Roman period," the council's chief Zahi Hawwas said.

The remnants of the city are "still buried beneath the sand and the details of this discovery will be revealed in due course," Hawwas said.

"The artefacts consist of the remains of walls and houses in terracotta or dressed limestone as well as a large quantity of pottery and the foundations of ovens and grain stores," he added.
The remains date back to the Neolithic period between 5,200 and 4,500 BC.

The local director of antiquities, Ahmed Abdel Alim, said the site was just seven kilometres (four miles) from Fayyum lake and would probably have lain at the water's edge at the time it was inhabited.

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Winter Night at Pic du Midi Observatory

La Mongie ski resort below

Credit & Copyright: Alain Sallez (picdumidi.org), David Romeuf (Université Lyon 1)

Roll away the dew