Contact Omar Rafael Carreño for more information. orcarrenor@yahoo.com The press release is in French. I ran it through Altavista Babelfish for crappy English: EXPANSIONISME - MANIFESTE 4 Paris, 2004 – Caracas, 2007 After the II World war, the compass of the art of avant-garde pointed towards Uruguay and Argentina. After the...

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"The big demonstrations in London and Washington against the US attack on Iraq a few years ago offer an exemplary case of this strange symbiotic relationship between power and resistance. Their paradoxical outcome was that both sides were satisfied. The protesters saved their beautiful souls: they made it clear that they don’t agree with...

Tktile� is a small keyboard layout for a PDA format computer or pen tablet . The purpose of the circular keyboard is the loop system that detects the number of times the cursor orbited around the character.The closure tag is triggered when the cursor leaves the keyboard area. I am currently working on a one handed hardware keyboard that...

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At 17 miles long Scoresby, on the east coast of Greenland, is the longest fjord in the world.

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It was harder than I thought... there is NO convenient day to be blind, even in one eye. But I finally managed to put the eye patch on this morning. A sense of our surrounding space, depth, distance, and perspective is very crucial to our sanity. In-Progress

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Sam Harris, Neuroscience researcher and author of "The End of Faith" and "Letter to a Christian Nation," recently co-authored a study entitled "Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief and Uncertainty." And Time.com has an interesting article about it: Harris tested how the brain responded to assertions in...

So I was browsing through the gallery on this site, trying as best I could to avoid studying for exams and whatnot, when I came across the Hydrozoa Picture Gallery. I started scrolling down the page looking at all of the stunning images when I realized, wow, there are a lot of hydrozoa out there... If there are this many different types of,...

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In the chapter titled Author as Producer of Walter Benjamin's Reflections, he introduces Sergei Tretiakov's 'operating writer', and how his/her mission, as opposed to the 'informing writer', is "not to report but to struggle; not to play the spectator but to intervene actively". This description is of the author not as activist--because...

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**I apologize for the audio quality as I captured it with my cell phone in the interest of time. Info below.** I am sure that we can all agree, there are some really great thought processes happening within Space Collective. Great minds are working together, traveling down paths of knowledge as one entity, working out the details of thought...

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Anybody who uses the Internet should read E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops. It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it's as relevant today as the day it was published. Forster has several prescient notions including instant messages (email!) and cinematophoes (machines that project...

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"Have no fear of perfection - you´ll never reach it..." Salvador Dalí