This Little Twine of Mine (szpak's)
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Create user interface mockups quickly with Balsamiq MockupsDo you ever have to design or have input into software user interfaces? If not, you might want to skip this post, but if so, Balsamiq Mockups might be of interest to you. The concept of the program is quite simple: create a bare-bones version of the user interface in question. So bare bones, in ...
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Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition (Writing Science)How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: first, understanding how we unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of neurological and cognitive processes that are ...
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8 months ago
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Mind - Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real - NYTimes.comNeuroscientists have shown that they can create a “body swapping” illusion that could have a profound effect on a range of therapeutic techniques. At the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience last month, Swedish researchers presented evidence that the brain, when tricked by optical and ...
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11 months ago
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Ivan Illich: deschooling, conviality and the possibilities for informal education and lifelong learningKnown for his critique of modernization and the corrupting impact of institutions, Ivan Illich's concern with deschooling, learning webs and the disabling effect of professions has struck a chord among many informal educators. We explore key aspects of his theory and his continuing relevance for ...
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globeandmail.com: This is India's 9/11? Think againThe most prominent Indian killed in the terrorist attacks on Wednesday was Harmant Karkare, the head of Mumbai's anti-terrorism squad, who was assassinated in the city's central train station along with several of his deputies.The day before, he had received a death threat. That didn't surprise ...
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The Community Exchange SystemCES money is public domain money. It is not 'owned' or controlled by anyone and as such belongs to the commons.It is 'created' by the traders who use it, not by a third party outside the circuit of buyers and sellers (banks) who do so for their own parasitic gain.When money is proprietary it ...
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12 months ago
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Shambhala Sun SpaceThe Shambhala Sun Foundation's latest endeavor, a new web area called "Shambhala SunSpace: Your daily destination for stories, comments, links and updates selected by the editors of the Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma."
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12 months ago
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A new web culture coming to government?en a quick comparison between change.gov (run by the Obama team) and presidentialtransition.gov (run by the US General Services Agency - GSA) is fascinating.The former shows its Facebook heritage — beautiful URLs, pages with very tight information architecture, calls to action, a blog, and a ...
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12 months ago
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An Open Letter to Barack Obama | Election | TheRoot.comAlice Walker on expectations, responsibilities and a new reality that is almost more than the heart can bear.
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12 months ago
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Free Currencies: the next global currency system - TheTransitioner - PioneersLaunch the next currency system for humanity: a distributed platform for millions of free currencies to flow through the Net and our cell phones.
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