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Owl Multimedia
Use your music to find new (Creative Commons licensed) music. OWL analyzes MP3s you feed it, from the specific part of the song you want to match, and will give you similar music to listen to. Requires a painless registration.
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at 10:39 AM on November 17, 2006
(4 comments)
Files split with
hjsplit: is there any way to rejoin them on my Mac, without using Mac Joiner?
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at 11:56 AM on June 13, 2006
(12 comments)
California Bar Exam: not only out-of-state, but out-of-country. Should I pony up for the Bar/Bri?
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at 8:04 PM on April 8, 2006
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Two people travelling from two different departure cities on the cheap.
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at 6:50 PM on February 2, 2006
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First World AIDS Day: CBC archive
A short clip from December 1st, 1988, the first World AIDS Day (with a Canadian focus). Also of interest from the CBC archives are
two pages of radio and video clips (21 in all) on the early years of the disease.
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at 7:18 AM on December 1, 2005
(18 comments)
Alternative Rapid Transit
Looking for a funky way to get around town? Try Detroit's
People Mover (warning, embedded earworm). For 50 cents you can travel 2.9 miles through 13 stops in 15 minutes, and see some
fantastic art along the way.
People movers and modified
Personal Rapid Transit systems were built in various cities in the 1970s, such as
Miami,
Jacksonville, and at
West Virginia University. The
dream of true Personal Rapid Transit has not yet been achieved, and its
viability and
economic benefits are still up for debate, but the People Mover, at least, is
still hanging on.
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at 9:02 PM on April 2, 2005
(32 comments)
Rape, Torture, and Lies
An ongoing Canadian saga has a sad new twist today: photojournalist
Ziba Zahra Kazemi was likely brutally tortured and raped before her death in Iran in 2003. Arrested after a demonstration, the official Iranian line has been that her death was an accident due to injuries from a fall. The ER doctor who treated her has now spoken out, after being granted refugee status in Canada.
Wikipedia has an excellent outline of the entire story.
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at 9:52 AM on March 31, 2005
(65 comments)
After Walker Evans
Alternatively,
After Sherrie Levine. In 1936,
Walker Evans famously photographed
a family of sharecroppers. In 1979, Sherrie Levine rephotographed Evans' work. Performance artist Michael Mandiberg has reproduced Levine's work online, made them available for printing, and assembled
texts and wrote plays to give the site's conceptual art concept - and Levine's work - meaning, and a punchline.
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at 6:23 PM on March 20, 2005
(16 comments)
The Italian Campaign
The Globe and Mail has been running an excellent series on the Italian Campaign during WWII by Canadian troops. There are
photos,
artifacts, and articles, including one by
Farley Mowat.
(x-posted to MoFi)
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at 6:33 AM on November 11, 2004
(6 comments)
World Legal Information Institute
WorldLII has over
270 free databases covering multiple countries and international law. The LIIs were created under a declaration that: (1) Public legal information from all countries and international institutions is part of the common heritage of humanity. Maximising access to this information promotes justice and the rule of law; (2) Public legal information is digital common property and should be accessible to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge; and (3) Independent non-profit organisations have the right to publish public legal information and the government bodies that create or control that information should provide access to it so that it can be published.
For comprehensive French databases, try
Droit Francophonie.
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at 3:33 PM on October 14, 2004
(1 comment)
CatFilter: We've just taken in a friend's cat for two weeks. Unfortunately, it turns out that this cat is fed dry food twice a day, while our cat just grazes at her dry food all day. The visiting cat has no self-control over food and so we can't just leave our cat's food out, as it'll get eaten and make the visiting cat sick. Can my cat adapt to regulated feeding on such short notice? If she doesn't get enough to eat, until she learns to adapt, will there be side effects? I'm at a total loss here as to what to do.
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at 7:48 PM on July 22, 2004
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Choose your own adventure!
"The following imaginary scenario attempts to picture what would happen if the
IMF did not exist. It tells the story of a businessperson in a fictional developing country that is suffering from a shortage of foreign exchange. In the scenario, there is no
IMF to turn to in order to resolve the currency crisis. You will soon come to realize the difficulties of carrying on international trade in that imaginary world without the
IMF."
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at 7:25 AM on July 15, 2004
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Tomorrow we'll be cheering for the Greeks over the Portuguese. As such, we want to serve great Greek snacks and/or desserts (things we can put out and then forget about the kitchen for the rest of the game). Problem: two guests are vegans. Googling hasn't returned anything interesting or trustworthy. What I'd love is a recipe someone has made before and trusts. I don't want to get burned, since our budget is tight, and then we'd have no snacks. In a pinch, we're willing to make generically Mediterranean food instead, and I'll probably have hummus, at least. Any tips?
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at 7:42 PM on July 3, 2004
(21 comments)
Domes and Cupolas
From the New Yorker:
"David Stephenson's photographs gaze directly up at the interiors of domes, flattening them and - through long exposure times - revealing details and colors that can't be discerned in normal viewing. The results are bright, kaleidoscopic patterns made up of the Moorish arabesques of the Alhambra, the iconic decorations of a former imperial chapel near Moscow, and the cool, almost Mediterranean blues of a Hungarian synagogue."
Stephenson's work is
currently on exhibition in New York. Other pages of his work can be found
here and
here.
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at 8:54 AM on May 19, 2004
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