ViReKon project

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ViReKon project: Virtual reality project to train milling and drilling in reality. From Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF. Should be a part of all future shop and machine building and training?

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FOM: Milling and Drilling in Cyberspace

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My Webwill

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My Webwill: What will happen to all of your virtual stuff after you know...assume room temp and go to the big CPU for permanent deletion? This new website will handle that for you. (Its so new, we haven't yet found it on the web...)... Correction: Webwill on Twitter found it for us. http://www.mywebwill.se/


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FOM: Service performs your last online wishes


Revised/Updated: Friday, December 11, 2009






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Dustjacketing

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Dustjacketing: The antonym of Bookcovering. To inaccurately and nonscientifically judge one's personality by their appearance.

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FOM: Personalities Accurately Judged by Physical Appearance Alone and Bookcovering.

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Bookcovering

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Bookcovering: To accurately and scientifically judge someone's personality on appearance alone. From the phrase, "You can't judge a book by its cover".


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FOM: Personalities Accurately Judged by Physical Appearance Alone









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Cryo-Egg

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Cryo-Egg: Not a term of our making, comes from the University of Bristol. An egg-shaped capsule device for monitoring in cryogenic conditions. Seems the good scientists at the U of B have developed a winning plan to monitor Antarctic ice sheet dynamics (from beneath) and sea level rise.


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FOM: 'Cryo-egg' to predict sea levels and Scientists hatch plans to send egg beneath Antarctic ice sheets.









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Where Does My Money Go? (Website)

Where Does My Money Go? (Website - Prototype): A transparency website like this should be available to all citizens in all democracies and republics. This particular website is currently being prototyped in the UK. Should be available in the US, its territories, Canada, France, Germany - you get the idea.

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FOM: Web to watch government spending and Where Does My Money Go Website (prototype)







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Phwitter or Sophister?

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Phwitter or Sophister?: The portmanteaus of philosophy and Twitter. Which is the more appropriate? The former, being the joining of love (philo) and twitter - or the latter, being the joining of knowledge (sophia) and twitter.


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FOM: Impossible Tweets, This is Not a Posting – Impossible Tweets, “Define Normal” and "Where is the Universe?".









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Gretchiate

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Gretchiate: Regarding that great bit of 'gotcha' journalism from the great Jon Stewart and TDS last night, Tuesday, 12/8/09 on Gretchen Carlson of Fox News. To diminish oneself - intellectually, philosophically... - you get the idea - on a national 'news program' to appeal to one's journalistic overseers.


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FOM: Carlson Dumbs Down, Gretchen Carlson (Fox Bio) and Riddell's Law





Note: Please, if there is a God, Keith Olbermann and the Countdown Crew will pick up on this one...









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Macaulayite

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Macaulayite: Unique mineral ((Fe3+,Al)24Si4O43OH2) that is currently found only in Aberdeenshire (Bennachie) and - possibly - Mars. May provide 'proof' for sustainability of life on Mars. May also explain red color of Martian geology (areology).


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FOM: Nasa tests Aberdeenshire find for life on Mars clues and Macaulayite. Related: Mars methane 'not from meteors' . More flickr images of Bennachie, Aberdeenshire.









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Riddell's Law (with Apologies to the Palin Camp...)

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Riddell's Law: Fascinating. We learned this one off of Twitter today. Thanks to @marcuschown, @cadigan and @txtriffidranch. Which is an axiom that states: "Any sufficiently developed incompetence is indistinguishable from conspiracy." Does this explain the Sarah Palin movement? Why yes, we think it does! Hmmm... How about the Teabaggers? The Bush Administration (W)? And Fox News? Yes. Oh, speaking of Fox News...


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FOM: Gretchiate and Please, if there is a God, let Keith Olbermann and the Countdown Crew see this one... and Microsoft tackles 17-year-old bug

Revised/Updated: Thursday, December 10, 2009 and Friday, February 5, 2010





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