@unknownuser said: At your demographic too Think we'll change our logo to 'The friendly place for all your needs' 'Now in 3D!'

@dave r said: I don't know know where he gets this stuff. Emo Philips. Some others: "I love to go down to the playground, and watch the kids running and jumping and screaming. They don't know I'm only shooting blanks." "Today I came home and someone had replaced all my possessions with identical copies". "My parents taught me how to swim the hard way, I thought I'd never get out of that sack." "Most kids get a rubber duck to play with in the bathtub, all I got was the toaster." When I was a child, my parents told me "Don't go near the cellar door you can play anywhere else you like but don't go near the cellar door. One day, when they were gone I went to the cellar door and I opened it and I saw things, things I'd never seen before....trees, and grass, and the sky...

Whishing that is not the new commercial politic of Blender's plugings!

He also has a longer 'TEDtalk' available here http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html

WIn 7 has a lot of cool start menu/bar tweaks and tricks. Check some out here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-windows-7-tips-and-hacks-part-1/http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-windows-7-tips-and-hacks-part-1/

Watching those videos makes my palms sweat profusely.

Perhaps. Until yesterday I didn't know what that bite on my arm was from.

Another Pic of Red Square. what a cool place. We were there for the great Celebration of their victory in WWII. I dont want to bore anybody with a lot of pics. . .which I could easily do, but if anyone is interested, PM me. [image: 1ZA6_Kremlin1Sm.jpg]

For some people in the South, the Civil War hasn't ended...

Thank you for that link. I've been following these guys on Flickr for awhile. Flaf, Gerard Michel and Sketchy-G.

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@unknownuser said: @unknownuser said: It's old hat. . . The air-thing is old, but this water pack is brand new... Yes. . .yes it is. But How many can do it wearing a Saville Row Suit? huh??? Answer me that!!!!

Yes, it is a demo of gif animation. The demo in the animation, is of a karate style that has deep roots in jujitsu, hence the aikido like technique. The key to the technique is the timing to intercept the kick by the body while the kicking leg is still bent. Doing so while advancing, mutes the kick, and unbalances the kicker. It is then a simple matter to hook the attacking leg. Actually, the point of the demo was to show how important it is to walk naturally, while focusing your attention behind the attacker, and not on the position of the kick itself. The raw footage is from a video recorder filming at 30 fps. The animation plays back at 5 fps, providing the opportunity to take the technique apart. Until I animated the sequence, I had not noticed how the technique was executed. Martial arts training is such that you stumble through, eventually getting it by perseverance. Sometimes I think that its the stumbling that's important, not the technique itself.

Thanks all, yeah I did the ESTA last time I went. I think sponsorship would be available, im talking to the University of Michigan on wednesday hopefully will be able to sort something out then!

Also, if you go to that person's photostream, just start typing in the search box in the upper right corner. It should prompt you if you want to search in everyone's photos (default) or just in John Jameson's photos. It gives other options as well, but in your case you would choose just John Jameson's photos. Chris

Alcohol? Drags? Let me be the bad boy here. Directly from the streets of today Athina, Greece. Sorry for this. [image: kk2L_pict35.jpg]

So it is you? Looks like it keeps you fit

yeah, the same guy, I think so.

.... I see there are some 'sparks' flying in this thread

@ Tim I mean WWW is not owned by a single entity. All those companies you mention are replaceable. And the same is true about those parts that are patented or copyright protected; something Berners-Lee refused for html. I guess something similar happened with JavaScript. These languages are then free just like the spoken ones. Apple decided not to include floppy disk drives in one of their computers and it seems everyone else followed suit. I'm not saying the decision was wrong just that in pursuit of the cloud other local storage devices might just go the same way, fait accompli. Yes the net has become terribly concentrated and will become more so as less companies control bigger server farms, just as, in its case because of all the failures, the financial sector has become more concentrated than ever before. I think the problem is when the general public get mixed up in things corporate, which is true with server farms. If banks were able to add personal mortgages to unrelated instruments in their derivatives, maybe IT can do something similar with access to information. Then if one farm or corporation went down all may be affected like the Japanese national grid after the Fukushima tsunami or any of the other OP concerns. I think your idea of distributing information is well worth discussing (even though you spelled PRON wrongly).