This Modern World

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"This Modern World: Chicken Hawk Down"

"This Modern World: Chicken Hawk Down" 11/12/2003 02:57 PM

A Lament for Ancient Games in Modern
World of Doping

A Lament for Ancient Games in Modern
World of Doping 08/03/2004 02:06 AM
Thomas H. Murray, a social psychologist, spends a large part of his day considering the culture, philosophy and ethics of the sporting world.

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow:
August 08, 2004 - August 14, 2004
Archives

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow:
August 08, 2004 - August 14, 2004
Archives 08/10/2004 03:40 AM
September is “national preparedness month” .. has a great post on an upcoming Bush campaign strategy .. usefully timed

thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2004_08_08.html#001 686
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A Modern Day HAL? IBM Says Anything But

A Modern Day HAL? IBM Says Anything But 05/20/2004 02:16 PM
Internet News May 20 2004 6:15PM GMT

Modern supermen

Modern supermen 06/13/2004 06:23 PM
See, what the mode rn supermen of Parkour can do. Try the first video, it impressed the hell out of me at least.

In ancient Japan, ninjas were often described as supermen, able to fly, leap onto the roofs of tall buildings, climb anything... Some colour was of course added by their enemies (who wrote the history) to make them appear more fearsome - and of course, the ninjas did not mind: it made their life a lot easier. Seeing those videos makes me wonder the effect a trained ninja must've had on his enemies, trained to combat on level ground and horseback.

Terror.

(Via Ebu.)

Like modern art, only tastier

Like modern art, only tastier 07/04/2004 02:43 AM
Beershots :: Microscopic Views of Beers from Around the World.
Also, an assortment of cocktails.
Shamelessly stolen from Plep

Modern Medicine

Modern Medicine 06/21/2004 11:28 PM

Since my accident I have been to the x-ray room 7 times to catscan three times and one MRI. I am sure my insurance company will be happy with the bill these have been invaluable in evaluating the before and after results of my surgery and to track the healing progress.

Today while on a non-standard follow up to try and determine the source of a some isolated pain I have been having they pulled out a dozen images and did some quick comparison. They used a technique where the 2 images are loaded and then major differences are pointed out in affected areas. Being nothing was found they think I have a nerve causing the pain or isolated muscle spasms.

I left the clinic feeling relieved that nothing had shifted and not looking forward to taking the new prescription. For those of you that have ever taken flexirol (spelling is probably wrong) you will understand why I have not been posting much.

a modern classic

a modern classic 03/06/2004 01:48 AM
airstream.com
the idea of motorhomes is a little strange, but wouldn't one of these be fun? via a new favorite: http://mocoloco.com/ via the always excellent: caterina.net

Modern Drunkard

Modern Drunkard 01/02/2005 11:26 AM
Modern Drunkard claims to be mainly serious with the goal of returning "drinking to the glorious Rat Pack/Jackie Gleason Era." It celebrates the fun of drinking and rails against what it thinks of as Puritanical forces of repression (including MADD). The latest, and perhaps last, printed issue was published last August. [Thanks to my brother Andy, who is not any sort of drunkard, for the link.] And with this post, I am now the record holder for the shortest cognitive-emotional distance. Yes! But, heck, it's a blog. We're supposed to have short cognitive-emotional spans....

Live Modern

Live Modern 08/12/2004 06:58 PM

Live Modern is a new community site that describes themselves as "a free and open community for modern home buyers, architects, builders, developers, lenders, realtors—anyone interested in modernist housing." They've got a Creative Commons license on all their own content, a section devoted to a new, affordable, custom modern home called The Glide House, a blog started by someone purchasing a Glide home of their own, as well as a n architect's blog covering the real-time development of a new home design. If you're into sleek, modern homes, this site is a real treat.

Modern Ruins

Modern Ruins 05/12/2004 03:54 PM
Modern Ruins are a window into human histories, they tell the stories of the past through the stark presence of objects and architectures. Perhaps the most powerful aspect of ruins is the subject that is missing in the photographs; the people who once worked, lived, walked, talked, slept and dreamed in these spaces.

modern America has taken it up

modern America has taken it up 12/09/2003 05:05 AM
cosmetic surgery for the feet .. yet another reason

nytimes.com/2003/12/07/health/07FOOT.html
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Waterphobia in the modern age

Waterphobia in the modern age 06/22/2005 02:23 AM

On Friday my friend Rich asked for a ride up to the Wiscasset airport (KIWI) on the central Maine coast.  He wanted to take his dad and I had already arranged to practice approaches with a CFI buddy so it was fortunate that the Cirrus had only "tab fuel" on board (26 gallons, good for 2.3 hours).  It was an uneventful instrument flight up towards Portland, mostly on top of a layer of clouds at 2500'.  Once on the ground at Wicked Good Aviation we petted the big Black Lab and his 6-month-old puppy friend then borrowed the "courtesy car", an old Cadillac that would have been called a gas-guzzler until the SUV came along and demonstrated that 18 mpg is not as low as a family car can go.  After chatting with the contractors who are fixing up a house on the peninsula, Rich said "let's take the boat over across the cove to a restaurant."  We ferried ourselves out to the boat's mooring via canoe and had an uneventful trip to and from the restaurant, which is next to an old Civil War-era fort at the mouth of the Kennebec River.  At the end of the boat ride we had to ferry ourselves back from the mooring about 20' to the beach via the canoe.  I got out on the beach and watched as Rich and my CFI buddy went back to pick up Rich's dad.  As soon as he stepped from the boat into the canoe the canoe flipped over, dumping everyone and everything into the salt water.

What do three average Americans carry when they are in a boat these days?  Cell phones, digital cameras, etc.  In the 1950s the total cost of this incident would have been a little time to let the clothing and wallet dry.  On Friday the total cost of the electronic items destroyed was closer to $5000.

Modern Blau Theme 0.01

Modern Blau Theme 0.01 04/10/2004 09:38 PM
A modern look in blue.

Modern Chinese Artists

Modern Chinese Artists 07/28/2004 04:03 AM
Fant astical paintings from Chinese artist Fang He. I think I like Subway Underpass Bird best for its vague sense of creepiness, though Chinese Pavilion No. 1 appeals to my love of old time sci-fi illustrations. Check out similarly whimsical Zhang Gong's cute p hallic creatures (NSFW), or peruse the large collection of artists at Courtyard-Gallery. (Related Chinese art posts here and here.)

Social Engineering the modern way

Social Engineering the modern way 04/07/2005 03:56 PM

Think you or your company has good security measures in place? Ever wonder why the exterminators are in the building. Do you escort contractors? The lengths that people will go to get your companies secrets may surprise you. [eWeek]

A tale of modern day slavery

A tale of modern day slavery 08/11/2004 08:22 AM
Slavery is not just the shameful stuff of history books - not in Florida. Last year, 7 journalists spent 9 months in a behind-the-scenes exploration of the state's immigrant workers. In more than 30 articles and photo essays, they revealed a system where workers are threatened, beaten, locked up, injured, forced into prostitution, and trapped in a spiral of debt and abuse. Powerful forces are arrayed against them in a state where agricultural laws are shaped by politician-farmers who have a vested interest in the status quo. - more -

A harvest of modern technology

A harvest of modern technology 12/30/2004 11:41 AM
CNN Dec 30 2004 3:24PM GMT

Use a Modern Perl with Kwiki

Use a Modern Perl with Kwiki 02/01/2005 10:14 PM
To anyone else considering Kwiki (an excellent minimal yet extensible Perl Wiki), make sure you're running a recent Perl. I spent far too long attempting to set it up under Perl 5.6.x recently only to discover that it was utterly painless under Perl 5.8.x. I wish I had thought to try that hours earlier. That concludes this public service announcement....

reveal the rot of modern liberalism

reveal the rot of modern liberalism 10/31/2003 06:07 AM
credit where credit is due .. G-File: Walk of Shame .. Jonah Goldberg .. today's column

nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200310300726.asp
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Outback life gets modern help

Outback life gets modern help 01/04/2005 07:19 AM
CNN Jan 4 2005 10:25AM GMT

Modern Home Computer

Modern Home Computer 12/19/2004 03:49 PM
As you can see from the comments, it's unfortunately a fake. Good picture though. By the way, I'm manually approving comments to limit spam. In two hours eleven people spotted the problem and wrote a comment. The power of the net! I'm trying to get Typekey working so people can...

MassKilling.com : The Modern-Day
Holocaust

MassKilling.com : The Modern-Day
Holocaust 03/15/2003 07:46 PM
MassKilling.com : The Modern-Day Holocaust .. Here's that offensive 'Holocaust' PETA ad .. equating eating animals to the Holocaust .. The Holocaust on your plate .. an ad campaign .. comparing

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Modern Chinese Secret

Modern Chinese Secret 07/23/2004 01:25 PM

MATT GALLANT -- Two researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have developed a process to coat cotton clothing and textiles with titanium dioxide so that, when exposed to sunlight or artificial UV, the "dirt, pollutants and micro-organisms" that have collected on the treated fabric will be broken down and presumably fly right off into the air, and only some of it will go up your nose.

One of the researchers, Dr. Xin, says the self-cleaning clothes are ideal for people who lack the time to wash their clothes, like "military people", or hikers, or people who have to take care of the meddlesome Dr. Benton Quest and that infuriating tow-headed boy of his before they ruin everything.

Re ad - Washing No Longer Dirty Work [CNN]

The renovated Museum of Modern Art

The renovated Museum of Modern Art 03/17/2005 03:24 AM

Four of us arrived at the Museum of Modern Art this morning at 10:15 am, placing us about 1000th in line.  The place was closed for a few years while $858 million was pumped in for renovation and expansion.  Before the renovation MoMA was white walls, bright lights, crushing crowds, one amazing painting out of every 20, $10 to get in.  After the near $1 billion project?  White walls, bright lights, crushing crowds, one amazing painting out of every 20... $20 to get in.  We made it into the museum by 11:15 but claustrophobia made us all anxious to leave by 12:15.  One native Manhattanite said that it was the most crowded place he had been inside during the preceding 12 months.

Personal favorite exhibit:  Bell 47 helicopter, as seen in the TV show MASH, hanging near some open stairs.  Strangest architectural detail:  glass half-walls throughout the museum topped with strips of stainless steel.  These are apparently too fragile for anyone to touch but because MoMA most resembles the line for Space Mountain at Disneyland it is hard for people to avoid putting their hands on these rails.  this necessitates the museum keeping dozens of security guards busy at all times walking around telling people not to touch the rails.

[Tip for tourists:  If you can plan at least one day ahead you can buy timed tickets on the MoMA Web site and avoid waiting on line in the cold.]

Lock on: Modern Air Combat preview

Lock on: Modern Air Combat preview 11/03/2003 07:07 PM

Affordable Modern Graphics Cards

Affordable Modern Graphics Cards 09/24/2004 04:12 PM

New photo book modern way to go old
fashioned

New photo book modern way to go old
fashioned 02/15/2004 07:49 PM
After a quick Google search, I discovered that MyPublisher offered a free program that offered much more flexibility, but it only worked on a Windows PC. ...

Old Age Was Secret of Modern Humans'
Success

Old Age Was Secret of Modern Humans'
Success 07/07/2004 01:11 PM

-- The Museum of Modern Art: Tall
Buildings --

-- The Museum of Modern Art: Tall
Buildings -- 07/29/2004 08:07 AM
-- The Museum of Modern Art: Tall Buildings --

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Alan Moore on our modern distopia

Alan Moore on our modern distopia 07/22/2004 02:31 AM
Salon has an excellent interview with Alan Moore, the man behind Watchmen, From Hell and other canonically awesome funnybooks. Moore talks distopian politics:

One of the reasons we singled out media in "V for Vendetta" was because it is one of the most useful tools of tyranny. We invite it into our own home every night; I'm sure that some of us think of it as a friend. That might be a horrifying notion but I'm sure there are people who think of television as perhaps one of their most intimate friends. And if the TV tells them that things in the world are a certain way, even if the evidence of their senses asserts it is not true, they'll probably believe the television set in the end. It's an alarming thought but we brought it upon ourselves. I mean, I think that television is one of the most diabolical -- in the very best sense of the word -- inventions of the past century. It has probably done more to degrade the mind and intelligence of its audience, even if they happen to be drug addicts or alcoholics; I would think that watching television has done more to limit their horizons in the long run. And it has also distorted our culture.

TV and politics have always made inevitable bedfellows, but the results have been disastrous. Look at the situation we have now. Let's say that tomorrow someone who is a political genius were to emerge -- and I'm not expecting this to happen, but say that it did. Say that a politician emerged who seemed, for once, basically competent, who seemed to be able to do their job as well as the average cab driver, comic writer or journalist. If they were the most intelligent, visionary, humane political thinker in the history of mankind, but were also fat, had some sort of blemish or something that made them less than telegenic, we would not be able to elect them. All we're able to elect are these telegenic, photogenic crypto-Nazis. As long as they look good. I suppose it's too early to go into my rant on Ronald Reagan? That would be tasteless.

Red Req'd Salon Link

Sex Tips for the Modern Avatar machinima

Sex Tips for the Modern Avatar machinima 01/04/2004 09:36 PM
"Aunty Flidais' Guide to Dating in Dereth" is a high-larious machinima shot in the video game Asheron's Call and edited together into a kind of "Sex Tips for the Modern Avatar" educational film. 22MB DivX Link (Thanks, Ockham!)

Early Thoughts on Modern Rocketry

Early Thoughts on Modern Rocketry 01/06/2004 09:28 AM
With the successful landing of the NASA Mars probe, the use of rockets for research is back in the news in a good way. We all know that modern rocketry started with the German V1 and V2 systems, and that it has been largely driven by the military ever since. (Interestingly enough, it seems that the Germans got the idea from the Americans! Needless to say, the American concerned - Dr Robert Goddard - sued.) But what about scientific and civilian rocketry? That can be traced back about as far. There, the credit (and the blame) rests with a novelist who also wrote technical articles for a popular radio electronics magazine called "Wireless World" under the pen-name of "Cathode Ray". This is a letter he sent to the same magazine, under his own name, which was printed in the February 1945 issue, predicting the advent of the communications satellite.

More Than Child's Play: Making Over the
Modern

More Than Child's Play: Making Over the
Modern 06/08/2004 09:58 PM
Five curators face the daunting task of using the museum's vast collection to tell the history of modern art in new and unfamiliar galleries.

Modern Drunkard Magazine Online

Modern Drunkard Magazine Online 07/22/2004 09:38 AM
Drunk Talk - The New Crop of Bar Slang .. Check it out

moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/05_04/05-04-drunk-talk.htm
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Modern Students Devour Old Math

Modern Students Devour Old Math 08/14/2004 04:34 AM
Competition to get into India's top engineering schools has students turning to Vedic math, a set of Sanskrit shortcuts with a disputed origin. Manu Joseph reports from Mumbai, India.

Modern Linux Distribution for (Very) Old
Computers

Modern Linux Distribution for (Very) Old
Computers 04/17/2005 07:00 PM
Slashdot Apr 17 2005 7:31PM GMT

Video Games As The Modern Car
Commercials

Video Games As The Modern Car
Commercials 02/16/2004 12:57 AM
Apparently, the car racing video game Gran Tourismo has been so popular helping automakers sell cars to young adults, that many car companies are starting to put out their own video games and are setting up places to play the games in dealerships. The article talks about kids who play Gran Tourismo and get so involved in modding and driving a specific car that they want that car in real life as well. However, now that the automakers are realizing this is a good way to sell cars, some are wondering if the fad is over, suggesting that as soon as the folks in suits figure something out, the kids know better than to stick around. Still, it's yet another example of companies realizing that you're better off creating promotional items that people want, and then getting them out there into the world.

Archbishop attacks modern culture

Archbishop attacks modern culture 03/26/2005 07:43 PM
Easter offers hope to a world obsessed by mortality and limitation, the Archbishop of Canterbury will preach.
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