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Friday, December 12, 2008, 00:36

TV Programmes

Ben: Diary of a Heroine Addict (channel 4)
Right to Die (Sky)
Heston Blumenthal's Perfect Christmas

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Friday, May 25, 2007, 11:44

To Do College

Assessments:
Vriony Diss > AR
Tzortzis Port > KF
Print out MP Reports and Reports to AR
Get extra Sonic Art Material
All extra CMP Material in my tray by 5pm Thursday

PJ re harp, etc...

Live Performance Presentations
.net express/.net pro
Xp virus thing: Avira, Avast and AVG
Companies such as Trend Micro, Kaspersky and Microsoft all offer free scanning services.

Stuff for Image:
Max Templates
rhoadley.net menus for firefox
soundflower
xcode + examples
Sounds2 directory for Max
Documentation folder and the student examples folder.

Max/MSP Tasks:
- Making Mistakes: saving subpatches and subpatches
- All tasks - demos important, care with demos. Choose appropriate sounds and create something short but aesthetically pleasing!
- Trim patches to what you're actually using.
- Document all patches comprehensively.
- Criteria:
-- Disc Presentation:
-- Presentation:
-- Documentation:
-- Aesthetic:
-- Recording:
-- Patch:

http://www.dlink.co.uk/?go=jN7uAYLx/oIJaWVUDLYZU93ygJVYKuJXStvhLPG3yV3oV415g6ltbNlwaaRp7jouEj2onGQTo48EB9zuzKHlJ0wTuOLfaYE=

materials list for ptech/sonic art mdfs
NO MINI DVDs!
plugboard
http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk/shop/home.php

nvu
neo office

For CMP/Performance:
Check Levels
Check MIDI!
Check over speakers!

http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2005/09sep_text.html - Paris Transatlantic Magazine
phone

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Thursday, April 26, 2007, 16:19

xampp

xampp

Apache MySQL PHP

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 03:22

Clippings

A UK government official on being approached by Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie with a scheme to clean up nuclear waste using a mystical Kabbalah fluid that had apparently been tested in a Ukrainian lakeThere is no escape from industrial noise pollution--not even underwater. Since the 1960s there has been a tenfold increase in underwater ocean noise off southern California, according to a study published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. The noise is blamed on the increase in global shipping and higher ship speeds. Its effect on wildlife is unknown.
From Peter Stockwell

Maybe it does not compare with the memories of a Galapagos tortoise, but lay Pasachoff's letter about Harriet reminded me of a conversation I had with my grandmother in 1986 (12 August, p 19). I asked her if she would like to go into the garden and look for Halley's comet. "No thank you, dear," she said. "I sawit last time."

That, of course, was in 1910. Ely, Cambridgeshire, UKAT THE university where I once taught creative writing, the physics department offered a course known in the common room as Astronomy for Poets. Being somewhat interested in both subjects, I got curious and phoned up the admissions secretary, who sent me a glossy brochure. It included the following bullet-points:

* discover the secrets of pulsars and black holes

* follow the evolution of the universe from the big bang

* investigate the birth and death of stars and the origins of life beyond Headingly.

For anyone unfamiliar with the geography of the north of England, Headingly is a constellation situated towards the outer edges of the city of Leeds whose points of interest include a concentrated cluster of student and staff accommodation and the collapsing star of Yorkshire Cricket Club. Mention of it was clearly meant to make the module more attractive to students from across all disciplines. More to the point, this was a course for people who couldn't add up. It isn't unusual, as a poet, to be associated with all kinds of scientific incompetence.

It must be a great frustration to mathematicians to be faced with the perception that all things mathematical must express themselves as a number; it's the same for poets whose works are expected to add up to a single and precise meaning. Although I've begun with anecdotes that suggest friction between science and the arts, what I want to suggest is that poetry and science, for all their perceived differences, might well be attempting to accomplish the same thing and through remarkably similar means.

I was 10 or 11 when a gang of us found a tractor tyre on the moor and decided to roll it down into the village and burn it. In the poem that follows, I tell of how the tyre gained an unstoppable momentum as it careered down the road towards the village, and how we lost sight of it as it headed for destruction and carnage. When we arrived in the village, the tyre was nowhere to be seen. Because science-or what we knew of it at the time--had failed us, we were left to invent some other explanation:

Being more in tune with the feel of
things
than science and facts, we knew that the
tyre
had travelled too fast for its size and
mass,
and broken through some barrier of
speed,
outrun the act of being driven, steered,
and at that moment gone beyond itself
towards some other sphere, and
disappeared.

I suppose what I'm trying to convey at the end of the poem is the sense of endless possibility that comes naturally to all children, just as it powers the imagination of most poets. At age 10 or 11, if a tyre mysteriously evaporates into nothing, the laws of the universe aren't suddenly thrown into confusion--it's perfectly acceptable. I'm not advocating a belief in fairy stories, but I am carrying a torch for that time of life when instinct and intuition still hold sway over logic, reason and law.

Science, it seems to me, is besotted with perfection. Poetry might seem to be in conflict with that position, since it goes out of its way to describe every occasion in a new and flesh and surprising way, but in fact it attempts the same thing, albeit through sensation rather than understanding. There are, presumably, an infinite number of ways of describing how a large, inanimate object such as a tyre can go missing, and presumably an infinite number of reactions. A successful poem brings about a kind of animal comprehension rather than its theoretical explanation, and comprehension comes from a common pool of experience. Some of us hope to remain open to that type of perception.

Science, like poetry, deals in likeness, similitude and equivalence. If you're gambling with the world and its actions, science gives you better odds, because its logic is linear, whereas the logic of poetry is radial, or at its very best, entirely spherical. Just as life, as we know, imitates art, science imitates life. I don't suggest that as a hierarchy, but to reinforce the interconnectedness of the two disciplines through the intermediary of the human presence.

In placing this kind of importance on poetry, I'm asking it to come forward and be congratulated for its achievements, but also to take responsibility for the error of its ways. Science didn't take men to the moon. It may have worked out the trigonometry, but it was a poetic dream that propelled us into the heavens. Science didn't drop the bomb on Hiroshima either. It was a poetic nightmare vision of hellfire discharged onto an unsuspecting city that opened the bomb-hatch over the Ota river delta on 6 August 1945, even if science guided it down to its target.

Simon Armitage is a British poet and novelist. A longer version of this article will appear in Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science, edited by Robert Crawford and published next week by OUPIn the past, those shoulders have been extremely steady. After all, in no other science are the discoveries of the Ancient Greeks still as valid today as they were at the time. Euclid's 2300-year-old proof that there are infinitely many primes is perhaps the first great example of a watertight proof.

It works like this. Suppose a mathematician comes with a finite list of primes and claims there are no more. Euclid showed that there must be a prime missing from the list. Multiply all the primes on the list together and then add one to this number. This new number is not divisible by any of the primes on the list because you always get remainder one. So Euclid's new number is either another prime itself or divisible by a prime that is missing from the list. If you add this new prime to the list, repeating Euclid's trick will always show that any finite list is missing a prime.

Euclid's proof is rapier-like in its uncompromising destruction of anyone who thinks there are only a finite number of primes. It is also surprisingly simple, which means you can check it.

Worried about your online privacy in the wake of AOL's release of 20 million search queries? A tool to prevent anyone identifying you from your web searches has been created by privacy campaigner Matt Prince. Just open your search engine and bookmark his site,
http://www.lostinthecrowd.org
When you click on the bookmark, your "cookie" for the search engine will be sent to a computer that runs random searches on your behalf. This jumble of searches disguises your own.

A new speed record has been set for a cheap type of transistor used in cellphones. A team led by Peter Ashburn of the University of Southampton, UK, compressed the central layer of a silicon bipolar junction transistor, letting electrons to flow more freely. The transistor can switch on and off nearly twice as fast as the previous record holder.

If it is such a good idea, why has evolution not built us that way?" That is the question two philosophers say we must ask before we attempt to enhance our human capabilities.

We already augment our minds with drugs such as Ritalin and modafinil, our sexual performance with Viagra and our immune systems with vaccines. These are nothing compared with what might be on the way, from brain implants for a better memory to genetic modifications for sports performance (New Scientist, 13 Hay, p 32),

Before we consider forging ahead with these technologies, we need to consider why we haven't already evolved that way, say Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford. This will allow us to identify when it is feasible for us to outdo nature, they say, and when it is not.

Before anyone considers giving humans greater brain power, for example, they should first show that the only reason we don't already have more mental capacity is that the resulting energy demands would have been a disadvantage for our hunter-gatherer ancestors when food was scarce. Now food is more plentiful, it might be OK to forge ahead, but if there is no convincing guarantee that this enhancement no longer poses a problem, it might be wiser to steer clear of it. "The human organism is enormously complex," says Bostrom. "If we go in blindly and change things at random, we are likely to mess up." He presented the idea last week at the Transvision conference in Helsinki, Finland.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

I did lose the very idea that any communion between two people could possibly be enjoyable. I did lose that particular thread, and I did become enormously depressed, to the point where I believed that any kind of relationship was almost impossible.

From David Flint

John Hyman criticises Vilayanur Ramachandran's theory, of art because it fails to distinguish between images of big-breasted women such as Hindu statues of goddesses and actual big-breasted women such as Pamela Anderson (5 August, p 44). Works of art differ from other things, Hyman says, in being made using "specific tools, materials and techniques".

In fact, this does not create the distinction he wants. The appearance of an actress such as Anderson is deliberately created using the specific techniques of plastic surgery, diet, exercise, make-up, clothing and photography. Like a work of art as described by Ramachandran's analysis, it is created for a purpose: to evoke particular feelings in the viewer.

I do agree with Hyman that art has no single purpose, but most art, I contend, is consistent with Ramachandran's analysis because it is intended to evoke emotion; indeed, it is successful to the degree that it does evoke the intended emotions. This is true of representations of both real and imagined things. Pictures of the Christian heaven, for instance, are not mere portrayals but attempts to intensify believers' faith and commitment, and they show exaggerations of experiences such as pleasure and awe.

There are, however, representations to which the analysis does not apply. Drawings used to illustrate scientific papers before photography were presumably meant to communicate an actual appearance, though even here some idealisation seems likely. If they were not intended to evoke emotion then Ramachandran's theory does not require them to be distorted, though it does not forbid it.

All in all, Ramachandran's theory holds up pretty well, though it does need a definitive list of human emotions that is based on neuroscience.

Enfield, Middlesex, UK

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 13:31

To Do Home

Home
- Chess for ppc
http://www.freewareppc.com/games/chess.shtml
- Tippex
- Multi-volt adaptor
- Screen wipes
- Music boxes
- Dremel
- Time-lapse films
- Barbie satire?
- Les desmoiselles d'Avignon (R4)
- Bespoke Perfume
- Find:
-- Fire at the firestone
-- Play it, sam
-- Marx bros
-- "War with germany"

Safe: http://www.safeoptions.co.uk/sotn/default.php/xDep/499

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Saturday, February 10, 2007, 03:38

Blog stuff

I got it figured out and thought I would post the solution here in case anyone else is trying to do this.

Basicly, what I wanted to do was to have multiple instances of the Weblog, but use different passwords for each so that different users on our intranet could each have their own page. By default, the sessions 'carry over' from blog to blog, allowing one person to edit other blogs. This is what I was trying to change.

First, I did a Find & Replace to replace all occurences of

$_SESSION['admin']

with

$_SESSION['$session_name']

Next, at the top of each blog page, I declared a variable like so:

$session_name="myname";

Each blog page got its own unique name here, which is important.

Lastly, I looked for the session start:

session_start();

and added this:
session_id($session_name);
session_start();

This established a session with a unique name, so that if you are logged into your blog admin page, you can't browse to another person's and edit their stuff.

If you want one person to be able to edit, say, 5 different blog pages, you can use the same $session_name variable on each.

Hope someone finds this useful!

======================

My Little Weblog Admin (other scripts)
Post reply

Hello, I have uploaded the script on my web server but when I log-in, I can't seem to access the admin control panel instead it keeps bouncing me back to the page where it displays the entries. Please help me how to fix this, it's urgent. Thanks
Michelle

09.08.2006, 00:41
(edited by bttr, 09.08.2006, 11:10)

@ Raphael
My Little Weblog Admin
Post reply

At the end of the script for the admin login add =true
?login=true">Admin login</a>

====================================

How To Set Timezones (other scripts)
Post reply

Hi,
'My Little Guestbook' is amazing. Is it possible to set the time as 'GMT' as I live in Britain but at 21:xx the time shows as 16:xx or it is because my web server is in America?
Jop

20.01.2006, 10:14

@ Damon Cox
How To Set Timezones
Post reply

Hi, I've got the same problem.
Don't know where to adjust the code to ad some hours to the servertime.
I live in Holland, while my server is in America too. So, I got a wrong time-dummp. Any suggestions?

» Hi,
» 'My Little Guestbook' is amazing. Is it possible to set the time as 'GMT'
» as I live in Britain but at 21:xx the time shows as 16:xx or it is because
» my web server is in America?
Phil

Boston,
19.08.2006, 19:16

@ Jop
How To Set Timezones
Post reply

» Hi, I've got the same problem.
» Don't know where to adjust the code to ad some hours to the servertime.

As I posted in another thread, there is a "date timezone" function built into PHP. I believe that means that you can set the default timezone for the script. I have not tested it, but I think this means you could set the timezone near the top of the script without delving too deeply into Alex's code.

This a link to the function at php.net.

---
Phil
(The links below are safe for good netizens, but lethal for bad bots)

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Question on Blog Script (other scripts)
Post reply

Love the blog script.. couldn't have been easier to setup and works great. My question..
I run my blog inside a frame on my page, so if a visitor comments and leaves his/her email/web address, it creates a hyperlink. Is there a way to make all these hyperlinks open in a new window? Currently, they open in my frame, which is too small for most pages and therefore, does not look good.

Thanks for any suggestions!
Gaieus

E-mail

10.07.2006, 21:45
(edited by bttr, 11.07.2006, 15:50)

@ Mark
Question on Blog Script
Post reply

» I run my blog inside a frame on my page, so if a visitor comments and
» leaves his/her email/web address, it creates a hyperlink. Is there a way
» to make all these hyperlinks open in a new window? Currently, they open
» in my frame, which is too small for most pages and therefore, does not
» look good.

I had the same problem.
There are some javascripts that make external links open in a new window while your internal links keep opening in the same frame.
Here's one that I use on my site (with weblog): http://www.pozsarko.hu/blog/newin.js

Place it right before the closing < / body > tag (of course between < / script > and < /script > tags or call it with a < sript src... > tag.
You will need to change the URL of your page somewhere at the top of the script (it is now www.pozsarko.hu ).

======================================

Hello everyone, I'm new here. I downloaded the weblog script and it runs like a dream! However, I am having difficulty with the RSS feature.

Here is where I implement the script:

http://loaves.witnesstoday.org/blog/

and here is where the RSS is supposed to be outputed:

http://loaves.witnesstoday.org/blog/index.php?rss

What am I doing wrong? Any thoughts??
Gaieus

E-mail

10.07.2006, 21:15
(edited by bttr, 11.07.2006, 15:50)

@ loaves
My Little Weblog - RSS Output
Post reply

» What am I doing wrong? Any thoughts??

Your output is NOT http://loaves.witnesstoday.org/blog/indexphp?rss but http://loaves.witnesstoday.org/blog/weblog.php?rss and it DOES WORK!

You should change the URL of your weblog (somewhere around line 11 in my script).

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 07:58

My Wishlist

Recorder/Interface/Keyboard
http://www.makingwavesaudio.com/prodidividual.asp?Manufacturer=EDIROL

EDIROL UA 25 (top)
| £122.54 + VAT £21.44 = £143.98
http://www.makingwavesaudio.com/prodidividual.asp?Manufacturer=EDIROL

EDIROL FA 101 FIREWIRE INTERFACE
| £242.55 + VAT £42.45 = £285
| EDIROL
10x10

EDIROL FA-66
| £169.36 + VAT £29.64 = £199
| EDIROL
6x6

Novation ReMOTE ZeRO SL
Retaining all the control capabilities of the original SL series, the ZeRO SL simply lacks keys. Mike Hillier maps it out...

Price: £229.00
Manufacturer: Novation
Website: http://www.novationmusic.com

Check M-Box 2

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EDIROL R-09 (top)
EDIROL EDIROL R-09 Lowest UK Prices on EDIROL R-09

| EDIROL R-09
| £245.96 + VAT £43.04 = £289
| EDIROL
| Check credit terms:
| 24 mths

EDIROL UA 25 (top)
EDIROL EDIROL UA 25 Lowest UK Prices on EDIROL UA 25

| EDIROL UA 25
| £122.54 + VAT £21.44 = £143.98

http://www.makingwavesaudio.com/prodidividual.asp?Manufacturer=EDIROL

EDIROL FA 101 FIREWIRE INTERFACE
| £242.55 + VAT £42.45 = £285
| EDIROL
10x10

EDIROL FA-66
| £169.36 + VAT £29.64 = £199
| EDIROL
6x6

http://www.addonsworld.co.uk/product.php/27254/2018/
Arkon Sound Feeder!
http://www.addonsworld.co.uk/product.php/27254/2018/

Audio set-up from Krause

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Monday, June 19, 2006, 16:34

Portable Digital Recorder

MicroTrack 24/96 Portable Digital Recorder re: Polaris20
Date: 13:27 Aug 04, 2005
by jared hunter

Exactly. I've been shopping around for a portable recording solution, and anyone who thinks this is overpriced needs to take a closer look at the marketplace. At the low-end (sub $200) are 16-bit recorders with moving parts, no balanced inputs, and significant hassle with respect to moving recorded audio off the device (MiniDisc). The Edirol R1 and Marantz PMD660/670 ($450-600?) define the midrange...the Edirol has 24-bit (but still 48kHz) recording and unbalanced inputs, while the Marantz 660/670 have 16/24-bit recording with balanced XLR inputs and phantom power...but the preamps on the Marantz 660/670 are reportedly noisy unless you step up to the 671 (for a cool $1k). Heartbreaking. So M-Audio comes along and offers balanced inputs, 24-bit 96kHz recording, no moving parts, USB2.0, seamless compatibility with both PC and Mac, and a small form factor. The Marantz line probably has higher build quality, and the preamps/user interface should be considered suspect until the reviews start coming in, but nothing under $1000 compares to this thing on paper.

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Monday, June 19, 2006, 16:33

Investigate

Absynth - http://www.clubmac.com/clubmac/shop/detail~dpno~259763.asp
Alpha
Artmatic - http://www.artmatic.com/
BigEye
Generator
GrainWave
Hyperprism
Imagine
Jasmine
Live
Mathematica
MCL??
MediaEdit
Metasynth
OsXigen
Phrazer
RealBasic
Reason
ResEdit???
Revolution
Sonicworx artist/studio
Sonogram
SoundBuilder
Sounddiver
Symbolic composer
SynthX
TclTK
Optimising OSX (HH?)
http://www.cerlsoundgroup.org/main.html
The Champ Dizzy Gillespie
PythonCard: http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/
Howl: http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/InstallWindows.html
The Tao of Mac: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/
http://www.mindfortress.com/p_mindfortress.php
http://store.yahoo.com/lib/deidastore/cyp-excerpt.rm
http://guide.apple.com/
Richard Barrett: http://www.sospeso.com/contents/articles/barrett_p1.html

Serialism:
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/Contemporary/Integral_Serialism/

http://www.pandora.ultralab.anglia.ac.uk/resources/res_index.shtml
http://emusician.com/ar/emusic_going_wild/
http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/themes/adverts.htm

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Monday, June 19, 2006, 11:17

Birthday

Cake
Restaurant
Juicer/smoothy attachments
Picture
Hammock
Flowers
little music box
jack-in-the-box

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Friday, March 31, 2006, 14:54

drupal content management system

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Saturday, February 25, 2006, 20:10

Seminars

Artistic paradigm shifters:
Rite of Spring
2001
Citizen Kane

Not just the art, but the influence on subsequent. Often difficult to deal with at the time, as they do shift 'paradigms'. The nature of those paradigms.

mistakenly click up rather than down...
If you're reading text on a computer screen and you accidentally press down rather than up, you may notice that you become somewhat bemused - where are you in the text...

goldencrantz:
Passage on probability/scientific method...

URLS:
http://store.yahoo.com/lib/deidastore/cyp-excerpt.rm

http://webster.realsoftware.com/realbasic/

http://guide.apple.com/

Richard Barrett:
http://www.sospeso.com/contents/articles/barrett_p1.html

Serialism:
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/Contemporary/Integral_Serialism/

http://www.pandora.ultralab.anglia.ac.uk/resources/res_index.shtml

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/latest/audacity-mac.php/audacity-mac.sit

Greater Irritation with Computers...:
greater irritation with computers than real things, why is this?

Software Bugs and Creativity:
Creative bugs
Bugger creativity

When something happens in software that is not intended by the programmer it is a bug.

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Sunday, November 06, 2005, 10:40

Universities prepare for competitive times

[image]

The ancient Chinese curse - "may you live in interesting times" - certainly applies to universities and students.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4408482.stm

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Monday, October 31, 2005, 16:00

Music and the Mind

The video we saw today contained references to a number of different issues in Music Psychology, here are some links to associated material on the web:

At the beginning of the video, there was an interview with Perry Cook who has a page about synthesized singing, including a thesis about SHEILA the software featured on the programme.

Then, we saw an interview with Michael Casey of the MIT media lab, who has worked on a virtual accompianist.

Manfred Clynes has some very interesting work on emotional expression in music. His homepage includes a number of his papers and you can download a demo of his Superconductor program.

The Mozart Effect refers to the controversial claim that listening to Mozart can enhance our spatial reasoning abilities. We'll be looking at this later in the course. There was a short interview with Alfred Tomatis who has developed a method of music therapy. You can read more about it at the Tomatis Method site.

Finally, we saw some of the work of Dr Ralph Spintge who is exploring the use of music as a form of anaesthesia, but I can't find a good link to this.

The video itself was 'Music and the Mind' presented by Anthony Storr - there is a book to accompany it.

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Monday, October 31, 2005, 15:59

Why do Things Happen?

WHY DO THINGS HAPPEN?
How do we explain social phenomena as diverse as 9/11, pay inequality or urban riots? Or how about Hurricane Katrina and the after effects in New Orleans : is it global warming? Or is the state responsible? Or perhaps it's all due to globalisation?

Laurie Taylor meets Professor Charles Tilly who discusses the explanations put forward as to why these things happen.

Charles Tilly, Professor of Social Science at Columbia University is visiting the London School of Economics to deliver his lecture entitled 'Why (and How) do things happen?'

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Monday, October 31, 2005, 15:58

The Death of Yesterday

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1394684,00.html]Link
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2005_07_24/story_1454.asp
http://www.csub.edu/~ssuter/inst363/discus2/discussi2.htm

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