Only in America could a guy like Dahl take advantage of so many people. I know I have probably paid for dumb things in my lifetime, like Keds shoes or canned beets, but seriously, a rock?
Have you ever heard of pet rocks? Thinking about FarmVille and all the services you pay actual money for online for virtual things made me think of them. Check out this blog post about them, and tell me it's not ridiculous.
The spirit of these principles is that there should be transparency to the methods, observations, data collection, data access, communication, collaboration and research tools. Instead of limiting the sharing of the practice of science to publication of selected results, the entire scientific process should be exposed to potential users, collaborators and extenders of the work.
Our class should organize a Mormon Mingle outside of regular class time. Maybe we can create a Doodle on which class members post their available times to meet.
A visual essay of some of my own photography that I feel/hope conveys spiritual truth AND artistic truth. See my blog post at http://tamesequels.blogspot.com for my discussion about these two kinds of truths. All of these pieces are taken with a low resolution camera phone to try and convey that artistic beauty can be found in this world with the humblest means and mediums. This is one of my new art projects. I have always had an interest in photography, so this has been a good chance for me to experiment. I will try to post a photo on this site every day.
I like what you are doing, especially the wires photograph. I believe it ties in nicely to the sublime we talked about during Romanticism, that there is a glimpse of God in nature.
here is a blog post explaining kurt godel's axiom of choice. it is pretty confusing. i think if i were a math major i might understand what he is saying.
Check out my newest blog entry and you'll see that I have a photoshop tutorial posted! I discuss textures and their many uses in this entry, so it will likely be very useful for a good resource for textures if you want to create new media through the most powerful tool that is Adobe Photoshop CS4!