Kaleidoscopic Bodies. You probably haven't seen nekkid images like this before. The idea is not new, the kaleidoscope exists for centuries, but I never saw any pictures that combined the kaleidoscope with nude photography. The kaleidoscope exists of three mirrors set up as an triangular tube.
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German Official Says Europe Must Be U.S. Friend, Not Foe. Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer of Germany said in Washington that a strong future Europe must not be developed in rivalry with the U.S. By John Vinocur, International Herald Tribune. [New York Times: International] 
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I usually don't write about politics here, but Doc Searls and others' coverage of Howard Dean has me paying attention. Sounds like something big is underway here (see Doc Searls post about Howard Dean). 80,000 people donating money to a political candidate? Yeah, in the meta scheme of things, that's not a lot of people, but, dang, it is a big deal to see that kind of movement from grass roots. OK, Howard, I'm paying attention now. [The Scobleizer Weblog] 
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Jack, we hardly knew ye. Six Degrees of Jack Nicholson (Photoshop mastery). [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report] 
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Happy Birthday, Nelson Mandela!. "Every time he walks into a room we all feel a little bigger. We all want to cheer because we'd like to be him on our best day."

Der Mann, über den Bill Clinton diese Sätze sagte, wird heute 85: Nelson Mandela.

Nelson Mandela gratulieren? Kein Problem: »Aus diesem Anlass hat die südafrikanische Telefongesellschaft Telkom Telefonleitungen -- von Deutschland aus 0027 12 626 3352 (0027 12 MANDELA) -- eingerichtet, über die Gratulanten anrufen oder ihre Glückwünsche per... [Industrial Technology & Witchcraft] 
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Web Zen: Cartoon Zen. etch-a-sketch | flea toon | walmart | unh! project | drawn and quarterly | kevin cornell | edward gorey
web zen home, web zen store, Discuss (Thanks, Frank) [Boing Boing Blog] 
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Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders:. Blind alley in psychopharmacology and classification of disease:

"No new drugs for mood and anxiety disorders have reached the market for over a decade. Why is there so little innovation in a sector that accounts for the largest proportion by far of sales of psychiatric drugs?

The current division between anxiety and depression is increasingly recognised as inadequate. In the community, most mood disorders present as a combination of depression and anxiety. Yet the Food and Drug Administration in the United States, which has become the world bellwether of drug approval, indicates drugs either for major depression or for the various forms of anxiety recognised by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). As a result, the pharmaceutical industry is compelled to develop drugs for diagnoses that are of questionable clinical relevance. This is one reason for the big slowdown in drug discovery in psychiatric drugs. A return to the former unitary classification of mood and anxiety disorders as nervousness or cothymia might represent a way out of this blind alley." British Medical Journal, Shorter and Tyrer, 327 (7407): 158

This is an exceedingly important article which demands close attention. It in essence fires a shot across the bow of some very important vested interests in psychiatry, both financial and — more important, conceptual — and, if it attracts any attention, will surely provoke a backlash. I will certainly be looking in the letters section of the British Medical Journal over the coming weeks for the fallout. ... [Follow Me Here...] 
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Proximity und Kommunikationstools. Howard, thanks for that link. I was even able to figure out where to find the RSS -feed of his Livejournal blog. Paul Resn... [thomas n. burg | randgänge] 
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Meet Bink. Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and consultant Steven Bink runs a site that provides the latest on Microsoft service packs, betas and other related matters. Here's an article about him and his site. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] 
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Weissrussland: Die anderen Formen der Zensur (BerlinOnline) [STOP1984] 
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Microsoft makes $9.9 billion in profit. Microsoft's sales grew by 11% to $8.07 billion in its fourth quarter, and it made a profit of $1.92 billion, after deducting $533 million in after-tax settlement charges (mainly the AOL lawsuit over Netscape). Over the full year, Microsoft's revenues grew by 13% to $32.19 billion, while profits increased from $7.83 billion to $9.99 billion after charges. (Operating income was $13.22 billion.) Reuters has the numbers in sumary form but they are all in the press release. [onlineblog.com] 
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Inkblot Passwords. TechnoPope writes "Microsoft Research a new way to get users to not only develop, but remember more secure passwords can be achieved through using inkblots. ... [Slashdot] 
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Amazing. The thingy on the left is a steam engine, invented by good old Heron. This and more at The Museum of Ancient Inventions. [The Cartoonist] 
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No kidding... really. Say hi to Hi!. The U.S. government launches Hi, a new Arabic-language lifestyle magazine targeted at 18-35 year olds in Middle Eastern countries. Story ideas for the first issue. [MetaFilter] 
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We'll never be able to say that we never saw it coming... Eyes in the Skies. Southeast Airlines has plans to install digital video cameras throughout the cabins of its planes to record the faces and activities of its passengers at all times. Furthermore, the charter airline will store the digitized video for up to 10 years. And it may use face recognition software to match faces to names and personal records. [MetaFilter] 
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Microsoft's Putting Its Money Where Its Mouth Isn't. Peer into that crystal ball: Where will Microsoft make its biggest investments in fiscal 2004? [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] 
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