The Blind Men and the Elephant

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Ray Charles, the blind singer and piano
player who erased musical boundaries
with classic hits such as "What'd I
Say," "Hit the Road Jack" and the
melancholy ballad "Georgia on My Mind,"
died Thursday. He was 73. Blind by age 7
and an orphan at 15, C

Ray Charles, the blind singer and piano
player who erased musical boundaries
with classic hits such as "What'd I
Say," "Hit the Road Jack" and the
melancholy ballad "Georgia on My Mind,"
died Thursday. He was 73. Blind by age 7
and an orphan at 15, C 06/11/2004 01:52 AM

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The blind fragging the blind

The blind fragging the blind 03/14/2005 04:30 PM
Also: Space agencies consider joint mission. [News.com Extra]

Sometimes An Elephant Is Just An
Elephant

Sometimes An Elephant Is Just An
Elephant 08/22/2004 12:01 PM
The Peace Parks Foundation is an international, neutral body that coordinates the creation of "Peace Parks" -- a more foundation friendly name for "Transfrontier Conservation Areas." Peace Parks are defined as "relatively large protected areas, which straddle international frontiers between two or more countries and cover large-scale natural systems encompassing one or more protected areas."

Executive Vice-Chairman Willem van Riet of South Africa, in San Diego, California, this month to receive the Preside ntial Award from GIS software giant ESRI, is that Peace Parks remove the fences of international frontiers -- the "scars of history" -- to let elephants resume their natural migratory paths. An early success of this idea was profiled in full and stunning color by the National Geographic in 2001.

Elephant (2003)

Elephant (2003) 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
in 2003, IMDB Rating: 7.5/10?? Seems we’ve been picking out disturbing movies lately. This one follows a group of...

Raja the Elephant to Become a Father
(AP)

Raja the Elephant to Become a Father
(AP) 05/20/2004 05:21 PM
AP - Seems like only yesterday he was the bouncing baby boy of the St. Louis Zoo. Now, Raja the elephant is about to become a daddy.

Sri Lankan Elephant Room

Sri Lankan Elephant Room 12/24/2004 12:22 PM
Elephants of Sri Lanka. Thre e have been lost in a train wreck.

"Operation Yellow Elephant"

"Operation Yellow Elephant" 06/22/2005 02:21 AM

Elephant Breaks Out of New Zealand Zoo
(AP)

Elephant Breaks Out of New Zealand Zoo
(AP) 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
AP - An Auckland Zoo elephant named Burma disrupted rush-hour traffic when it staged a breakout Friday, dropping a large log on an electric fence before marching out to munch leaves and grass at a nearby park, zoo officials said.

Elephant to Trim Fat on Treadmill (AP)

Elephant to Trim Fat on Treadmill (AP) 03/31/2005 06:36 AM
AP - It's not easy being a pudgy pachyderm. Everyone — from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to the U.S. Department of Agriculture — seems to want to weigh in with opinions on trimming Maggie the elephant's waistline.

The green elephant in the room

The green elephant in the room 01/16/2004 11:26 AM
A growing chasm divides moderate and right-wing Republicans over a broad range of issues -- environmental policy chief among them.

Man Files Complaint Against Elephant
(AP)

Man Files Complaint Against Elephant
(AP) 05/19/2004 07:24 PM
AP - The father of a 10-year-old boy filed a police complaint after a circus elephant trampled his child's bicycle, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

And To Your Left is a Charging
Elephant....

And To Your Left is a Charging
Elephant.... 01/08/2003 08:11 PM
I love/hate Apple's Safari program. It's a decent browser that'll be a great replacement for the MacIE that now ships as default on OS X,

Raja the elephant to become a father

Raja the elephant to become a father 05/20/2004 11:34 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 21 2004 4:06AM GMT

Elephant in Argentina Treated for Stress
(AP)

Elephant in Argentina Treated for Stress
(AP) 04/14/2004 07:46 PM
AP - Veterinarians said they treated a circus elephant for stress on Wednesday, saying the animal appeared "depressed" after spending several days away from her circus troupe.

Nuclear Elephant shows how P2P = sales

Nuclear Elephant shows how P2P = sales 08/12/2004 04:36 PM
BB pal Todd Lappin sez: Here's a website for folks to register purchases they made after downloading free stuff online, to track the extent to which free downloads translate into later sales:

To wit:

"It has always been my belief that various industries have actually earned more revenue as a direct result of file sharing, and that file sharing works FOR the industry. Recent figures such as the music industry's latest earnings report have shown results contrary to what the RIAA has consistently complained about in that file sharing hurts the industry. So if you would like to contribute, click submit above. Post your merchandise, how much you paid, and why you wouldn't have bought it if you first hadn't downloaded something. No IP addresses or personal information is logged - so there's nothing to subpoena. The complete (growing) catalog is available for review by clicking here. The totals shown below are only temporary, and may be reduced later once the logs are crunched through a filter (to detect bogus entries or flooding), or as users help identify suspect or bogus entries."

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Man Gored by Elephant at Park in Calif.
(AP)

Man Gored by Elephant at Park in Calif.
(AP) 06/02/2004 05:11 PM
AP - An elephant trainer at Six Flags Marine World in Vallejo underwent surgery Tuesday after he was gored by one of the pachyderms, officials said. Patrick Chapple, 39, was standing next to Misha, a 23-year-old female African elephant, at about 3:30 p.m. when the animal turned suddenly from grazing and knocked him to the ground.

Alaska Zoo to Install Elephant Treadmill
(AP)

Alaska Zoo to Install Elephant Treadmill
(AP) 03/28/2005 01:40 PM
AP - It's not easy being a pudgy pachyderm.

Ruby the Elephant Monitored for
Happiness (AP)

Ruby the Elephant Monitored for
Happiness (AP) 04/30/2004 07:50 AM
AP - A judge gave a Tennessee zoo six months to report back on the social life of an African elephant named Ruby.

Identifying with PHP: The Elephant Logo
Spreads

Identifying with PHP: The Elephant Logo
Spreads 09/24/2002 08:11 AM

Matthew Yglesias: The Elephant In The
Military Base

Matthew Yglesias: The Elephant In The
Military Base 03/23/2005 02:36 AM
wakes up to politics .. Yglesias

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Elephant Makes Daring Escape from Zoo
(Reuters)

Elephant Makes Daring Escape from Zoo
(Reuters) 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
Reuters - An elephant briefly escaped from New Zealand's Auckland zoo on Friday after dropping a log on an electrified fence and crashing through a gate.

'Killing: the dead elephant in the
living room

'Killing: the dead elephant in the
living room 07/21/2004 04:18 AM
'Enemy Contact. Kill 'em, Kill 'em'. The Price of Valor. Invisible Casualties. The Psychological Effects of Combat. The Psychological Consequences of Killing: Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress. Soldiers, Self-Defense, and Killing in War - (PDF). Psychological and Psychosocial Consequences of Combat and Deployment with Special Emphasis on the Gulf War. Military Leaders’ Obligation to Justify Killing in War. And, from last year, come The Killer Elite, From Hell to Baghdad - The Killer Elite Part II, and The Battle for Bagdhad - The Killer Elite Part III--Evan Wright's Rolling Stone articles recently published as Generation Kill. They are well worth re-reading in this context.

Office 12: The Elephant in the Financial
Analyst Meeting Room

Office 12: The Elephant in the Financial
Analyst Meeting Room 07/29/2004 05:15 PM
While Microsoft execs mentioned Longhorn in passing during their presentations to press and analysts at the Financial Analyst Meeting in Redmond on Thursday, no one breathed a word about Microsoft's Office 12, the next major release of Office, expected to ship in the 2006+ timeframe. Senior VP Steven Sinofsky reiterated that Microsoft's information worker unit wants to exploit Longhorn technologies across its product line.

Circus Elephant Dung Leaves Town Fuming
(Reuters)

Circus Elephant Dung Leaves Town Fuming
(Reuters) 06/28/2004 09:38 AM
Reuters - A traveling circus in Germany has been ordered to come back and clean up a pile of elephant dung after residents complained about the smell, police said Friday.

The Village Voice: Features: The
Elephant in Wilson's Living Room by
Murray S. Waas

The Village Voice: Features: The
Elephant in Wilson's Living Room by
Murray S. Waas 10/31/2003 08:33 PM
The Village Voice: The Elephant in Wilson's Living Room by Murray S. Waas .. FBI Broadens Leak Probe to Include GOP Officials .. quite serious

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Look ma, I'm blind

Look ma, I'm blind 04/14/2005 06:22 AM
So, this one country invades this other country saying that now its inhabitants can be free and the women are no longer oppressed, killing many people in the process of distributing freedom. However, at the same time they pret end that their own women have no nipples and punish those women who dare to have them. Even with clothes on.

They are more alike than they want to admit.

(Via Dan Gillmor.)

Blind Can Plot Course With GPS

Blind Can Plot Course With GPS 02/18/2004 07:51 AM
Using the global positioning system along with a keyboard input and voice or other output, the VoiceNote GPS allows blind people to pinpoint their location and create an 'audio map' of their route.

New Technology for the Blind?

New Technology for the Blind? 12/22/2004 01:40 AM
Slashdot Dec 21 2004 12:34AM GMT

Blind Yourself with Science

Blind Yourself with Science 12/09/2003 08:37 PM
LoveLump is an "artificially-engineered transgenic tissue sculpture" that is "created using a variety of animal and vegetable DNA strands." The manufacturer recommends to spray it twice a day. (12-09)

Bionic eye will let the blind see

Bionic eye will let the blind see 04/05/2005 08:27 AM
Scientists have designed a artificial eye that should allow blind people to see again.

Blind Spots

Blind Spots 11/10/2003 11:11 PM
Links are unquestionably the greatest source for semantic data within weblogs.  But what does RSS 1.0 (an application of RDF) do with that data? ...

PDF tagging for the blind

PDF tagging for the blind 07/11/2004 08:11 PM
Online service aims to take the strain

My blind date with PSP

My blind date with PSP 03/19/2005 02:38 AM

Blind Owl Gets New Eye Lenses in Wis.
(AP)

Blind Owl Gets New Eye Lenses in Wis.
(AP) 02/12/2004 05:44 AM
AP - A great horned owl found starving in the wild because it had gone blind could be released this spring after having new eye lenses implanted.

IBM Tool Has An Eye For The Blind

IBM Tool Has An Eye For The Blind 07/15/2004 05:16 PM
A new alphaWorks application shows Web designers what their site looks like through the eyes of someone with a visual impairment.

Sharks Don't Go Blind

Sharks Don't Go Blind 01/05/2005 01:36 PM
Shark liver oil shows promise in treatment of age-related macular degeneration.

New graphic displays for the blind

New graphic displays for the blind 12/24/2004 12:55 PM
María Jesús San Segundo, Spanish Secretary of Education and Science, and Carlos Rubén Fernández, President of ONCE foundation, awarded the prize to the scientists at the historical Complutense University auditorium in Madrid. Georg Boomgaarden, German Ambassador to Spain, also participated in the festive award ceremony.

The displays use metallic films featuring various shape memory alloys which are produced layer by layer on silicon wafers using thin film technology. Display pixels are generated when the metallic film adjusts its curvature partially, similarly to bimetal snap plates for temperature switches. The movement of the films is then transferred to the touch panel via plastic pins und thus can be detected by the user.

News source: Science News Daily

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Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind?

Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind? 08/17/2004 01:37 AM

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“Wandering through the exhibition room at a science-fiction convention in Boston a few months ago, I saw plenty of reprints of golden-age SF classics for sale. But I also encountered paintings of half-naked people battling dragons, vendors hawking crystals and a folk musician warming up for a recital. Where is the science in science fiction? I wondered. Whatever happened to envisioning the future? Anthropologist Judith Berman, who recently surveyed a crop of science fiction published…

Blind student earns M.D.

Blind student earns M.D. 04/03/2005 05:43 PM
Blind student earns M.D. A fascinating article about a guy who overcame innumerable obstacles, not the least of which was people's preconceived notions about what a visually impaired person is capable of. [via linkfilter.]
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Animated "Blind Man's Penis"

Animated "Blind Man's Penis" 05/06/2004 10:24 AM
Jo hn Alderman says:

"Back in the '70s, John Trubee (weirdo prankster) saw one of those ads that offers to assess your poetic talent and set your poems to music. So--testing limits--he wrote the most offensive thing he could think of, pushing all the buttons, and sent it off. The refrain was originally 'Stevie Wonder’s penis, is erect because he's blind.' The company wrote back and, of course, told him he had talent, and would set his song to music and press disks if he'd pay them a little. But, because they didn't want to get sued, they had to substitute 'a blind man' for Stevie. The record was pressed and it became a sort-of underground hit in LA. Funny also because Trubee's prank calls were supposed to be the inspiration for Matt Groening's use of them. They were friends!"

Now, "Blind Man's Penis" has been given the Flash animation treatment! Link

• Project to open internet to blind

• Project to open internet to blind 04/19/2005 08:55 AM
Newshub.com - Tue Apr 19, 09:04 am GMT

Project to open internet to blind

Project to open internet to blind 04/19/2005 06:23 AM
A three-year project to improve blind access to the internet is due to get under way at Queen's University.

Blind Wisconsin Owl Gets New Eye Lenses
(AP)

Blind Wisconsin Owl Gets New Eye Lenses
(AP) 02/12/2004 09:59 AM
AP - A great horned owl found starving in the wild because it had gone blind could be released this spring after having new lenses implanted in its eyes.

Blind Date Uncensored

Blind Date Uncensored 01/22/2003 01:08 AM
What the Hell Are They Thinking?

"71 year old blind woman"

"71 year old blind woman" 04/27/2004 08:57 AM

AOL Tip: Blind Carbon Copy

AOL Tip: Blind Carbon Copy 09/19/2004 01:26 PM
G4 Tech TV Sep 19 2004 5:13PM GMT

In a Realm of Blind Fish, Mr. Right and
Mr. Big Are One and the Same

In a Realm of Blind Fish, Mr. Right and
Mr. Big Are One and the Same 04/19/2004 05:41 PM
Scientists are finding that cave-dwelling female fish have developed a way to assess potential mates without seeing or contacting them.

Sound gives 'sight' to blind

Sound gives 'sight' to blind 01/01/2004 02:11 AM
Washington Times Jan 1 2004 1:33AM ET

Blind Get Wireless Guidance

Blind Get Wireless Guidance 06/15/2004 02:57 PM
CBS News Jun 15 2004 6:22PM GMT

Blind Rats' Compass

Blind Rats' Compass 01/22/2004 03:19 AM
This week's column includes items on blind mole rats, the attraction of mosquitoes to sweat and the transmission of louping ill virus.

Brits still blind to benefits of Wi-Fi

Brits still blind to benefits of Wi-Fi 08/06/2004 11:44 AM
So much for Intel's Centrino advertising

Race blind society? I wish

Race blind society? I wish 12/21/2003 02:41 AM
Every study of the job market or the housing market I have ever seen confirms the existence of persistent and blatant discrimination against African-Americans. This latest study by the Discrimination Research Center is no different, unfortunately. Temporary employment agencies in California show significant preference for white applicants by 3-1 over African Americans In undercover tests conducted by the Discrimination Research Center (DRC). By ratios of 4-1 in Los Angeles and more than 2-1 in San Francisco, agencies favored white job applicants over slightly higher qualified African American applicants. "African Americans seeking temporary work received less consideration in the form of fewer offers and less desirable jobs," said John Trasviña, Director of the DRC. The results come from 64 tests of San Francisco and Los Angeles temporary employment agencies conducted between May and November, 2003 involving specially matched pairs of white and African American job applicants. Where is the outrage among the so-called principled "race-blind" conservatives? Via Magpie....

Eye Transplant Enables Blind Boy to See

Eye Transplant Enables Blind Boy to See 07/05/2004 02:45 AM

The Blind Men and the Elephant