PABlo Bley - The Internet is like...

Edited highlights of search results for the phrase "The internet is like" at Google.com, December 31st 2002

...taking an electronic field trip
...television on steroids
...that proverbial needle in the haystack
...the national electricity grid
...the nervous system of our planet
...the new frontier for exploration by common people
...the ocean
...the poor lonely orphan in the media mix
...the reinvention of paper
...the wild west in many respects
...Thomas Paine's common sense
...trying to comprehend rubik's cube
...a telephone network for computers
...an information flea market
...an old gold mine
...any other advertising medium in that you can't control who sees your ad
...being in a dark room with a bunch of strangers
...Dodge City when the James Gang is in town
...literature's pimp
...many aspects of society and contains a wide range of experiences
...nothing there has ever been before
...other potentially compulsive activities
...real life in a lot of ways
...taking a drink from a fire hydrant
...a big swimming pool on a hot summer day
...a child growing daily
...a big shopping mall
...a church
...a circulatory system or like a nervous system
...a giant jellyfish
...a library with no catalog where all the books get up and move themselves every night
...a magnifying glass
...a mask that people wear
...a meadow after a major fire
...a million tractor beams hitting me at once
...a newspaper without a publisher or editor
...a sword that cuts both ways

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Storing Data in a Hologram

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The traditional way of taking a three-dimensional photograph, or hologram, involves splitting a laser beam in two, reflecting one half (known as the object beam) off the thing that is to be holographed, and then recombining it with the other half (known as the reference beam) and exposing a photographic film to the result.

The process of recombination produces an interference pattern that is recorded on the film, and when this pattern is viewed in suitable lighting, an image that looks three-dimensional becomes visible to the eye.

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MIT's "Open Knowledge Systems" Initiative

Posted in The NO DEAD TREES Collection, Access For All

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has some of its course materials available online -- for free.

With an Internet connection and a Web browser, you can access MIT's pilot project: OpenCourseWare which includes the syllabus, lecture notes, exams (with answers), and videotaped lectures of 32 MIT courses.

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The Internet is like...

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C is for Conundrum

Posted in The NO DEAD TREES Collection, C to Shining C

Sometimes I hear bits and pieces of song lyrics in my head. I find many of them to be particularly relevant, like Dave Matthews asking you "what would you say", or The Who exhorting you to "pick up your guitar and play".

Of course, it’s much easier said than done. There are so many other distractions, as well as necessary duties in life, that there is often little time left for anything unscheduled. As much as I love playing music, I often find that I need to have a goal in mind in order to make time to play.

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I've been flying in my dreams!

Posted in The Oneironaut, Dreams, Lucid Dreaming

I had a dream where I was aware of my consciousness during the dream. In other words, I was aware of my awareness while I was dreaming. This changed everything that I had ever thought about the subject of dreaming, and eventually I found out that I had been Lucid Dreaming.

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