July 2010
1 post
Clandestine HUMINT asset recruiting - Wikipedia,... →
There must exist motives by means of which an individual can be recruited:
Financial Consideration/Greed (Transcends all other motives)
Revenge/Disaffection
Blackmail/Hostage Situations (Used in USSR but very infrequently in U. S.)
Appeal to Emigres National Pride
Exploitation of an Emotional Involvement
False Flag Approaches
Exploitation of an American’s Naivete
Sex
Ideology...
June 2010
3 posts
1 tag
May 2010
4 posts
New Day: Sun Ra's Reading List for... →
Listed below are the books assigned by Sun Ra for his lecture course, African-American Studies 198: The Black Man in the Universe. The classes were offered as part of the regular Spring semester at the University of California, Berkeley, 1971.
Dailymotion - Jade chante Magma - une vidéo Musique
Sound Maps: II | THIS IS WEIRD VIBRATIONS // the... →
This is a follow-up to the previous post, which was a general typology of sound maps. Many readers wrote in with more maps that, in one way or another, extend the format. Ten of them are listed here.
April 2010
9 posts
Melanie Online - Magic Door →
IDEA - The International Dialects Of English... →
IDEA was created in 1997 as a free, online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings for the performing arts.
Worldbuilding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
There are two schools of thought for world-building, top-down and bottom-up, as well a combination of these two (“top-down-bottom-up”).
List of reptilian humanoids - Wikipedia, the free... →
Reptilian humanoids comprise a common motif in creation mythology, folklore, science fiction, fantasy, conspiracy theories, ufology and cryptozoology.
Nine Nations of North America - Wikipedia, the... →
The Nine Nations of North America is a book written in 1981 by Joel Garreau. In it, Garreau suggests that North America can be divided into nine regions, or “nations”, which have distinctive economic and cultural features. He also argues that conventional national and state borders are largely artificial and irrelevant, and that his “nations” provide a more accurate way of...
Language planning - Wikipedia, the free... →
Language planning is a deliberate effort to influence the function, structure, or acquisition of a language or language variety within a speech community.[1]
Chernoff Faces →
“Different data dimensions were mapped to different facial features, for example the face width, the level of the ears, the radius of the ears, the length or curvature of the mouth, the length of the nose, etc.”
March 2010
5 posts
Ludology →
“We will propose the term ludology (from ludus, the Latin word for ‘game’), to refer to the yet non-existent ‘discipline that studies game and play activities.’ Just like narratology, ludology should also be independent from the medium that supports the activity.”
February 2010
1 post
Pickpocket Almanack →
“An experimental school-without-walls: Each season, a temporary faculty of artists, curators, writers and musicians create courses by selecting from public events already scheduled to take place at venues around the Bay Area.”
January 2010
2 posts
The 2009 VMAs: The Occult Mega-Ritual | The... →
“There is no way a Mason could watch [Pink’s] performance without recalling his initiation into the First Degree.”
fthats →
weekly radio show from joe preston of thrones/melvins/earth/harvey milk/pure awesomeness
December 2009
2 posts
Webpages as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet →
(thanks chris)
November 2009
1 post
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
6 posts
lora zarubin food styling (!) →
August 2009
6 posts
1 tag
Black History - ART OF THE SLOW JAM →
“What other kind of music can you move someone just by singing “wooo”. You can put on a Slow Jam close your eyes and your heart starts to pound. Aside from Gospel, what other kind of music can do that to your body ? Forget about the fact you put on Luther and look into that someone special’s eyes. You don’t even have to touch the person “Just stare into...
July 2009
6 posts
Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction -... →
i may have already posted this but this whole series is amazing. god bless wikipedia
June 2009
1 post
May 2009
10 posts
Factory Tours USA →
“This site celebrates American imagination and industry. What better way to appreciate those qualities than to visit and tour America at work. The information on this site is maintained by many people throughout the United States who enjoy visiting American industry.”
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DITL: Daystrom Institute Technical Library -... →