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Links For Saturday, November 21, 2009

Hacker News | Ask HN: I want to learn statistics and data mining
The comments here provide links to good reading material.

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Travel Souvenirs

Reading this article from the New York Times made me think about the various random stuff I have bought on our travels.  Eu-Jin frequently complains about my shopping habits.  I usually can't resist getting more tchotchkes hawked by the vendors in the various places we have visited.  It is fortunate that we try to travel light, and therefore everything usually must fit into our carry-on baggage.  I am also quite cheap, so at least I don't waste all that much money. 

I think the one souvenir item that I have used the most over the years is my favorite baby alpaca woolley hat from our first trip to Peru in 2004.  It cost about 3 bucks from a store right by the main square in Cuzco, and it has kept me warm over many vacations and camping trips.  The photo (taken by Eu-Jin) from several years ago shows me wearing that hat at the summit register of Mount Whitney.

We have a "travel shelf" too, filled with figurines (eg. llamas made from salt, wood, stone, and wool) and other random stuff (windchime, glass snail etc.) that were bought or picked up over the years or were given to us from our friends' travels.  And we have a small box filled with various sling bags (I can't seem to resist getting more bags), scarves, coin purses (a particular favorite of Eu-Jin's), woolley hats.  We have also bought food items, such as biscuits (lots of interesting varieties in the grocery stores), teas (anis tea!) and candy, but those have long since been consumed.

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Twitter links for the last 48 hours - 21st November 2009

• Really? These are the 100 books of the decade? http://post.ly/D37t 3 minutes ago
• Ecclestone ready to drop British BP? http://twurl.nl/ekbjf8 (Would be a shame I feel..) about 1 hour ago
• RT @ZekeTheCat Best Free Photoshop Brushes http://www.str8photography.... (via @str8photography) about 2 hours ago
• Aligning Business Process with User Interfaces - Linking Business Processes and User Interfaces at Devoxx’09 http://post.ly/D2CP about 5 hours ago
• Did you see the Scroll Clock? http://toki-woki.net/p/scro... (via @samo9789) We like this! about 5 hours ago
• Stanley Kubrick meets Doctor Who. This is genius http://bit.ly/Z0HIu (via @colinramone / @GaryWales) Couldn't agree more! about 6 hours ago
• Links for 2009-11-19 [del.icio.us] http://ff.im/-bK3OR about 6 hours ago
• RT @Metastorm: Save the date:Metastorm User Conference 2010 - customers, partners, prospects, analysts &networking! http://bit.ly/ezyxy about 6 hours ago
• RT @wso2: WSO2 Business Process Server v1.1.0 Released! download latest version from the http://wso2.org about 6 hours ago
• RT @ITSMGeek: IT Service Management: At the Forefront of Managing IT as a Business ... http://tinyurl.com/ykccpzk about 20 hours ago
• Check out 'Business Process Change: A Guide for Business Managers and BPM' http://bit.ly/3tTUul about 21 hours ago
• RT @mike_elgan: Palm gives up try to connect the Palm Pre to iTunes. http://bit.ly/2RAoYW about 22 hours ago
• [ProcessCafe] Testing Time-Management Strategies - WSJ.com http://bit.ly/37rzIJ 2:06 PM Nov 19th
• RT @gaz4695 Process transformation - perspectives on "Business Process Management": Complexity Approach http://post.ly/ColU 1:36 PM Nov 19th
• RT @photoframd: #photoshop Letterpress emboss text effect photoshop tutorial | Tutorialism Weblog http://bit.ly/2uYq5Z 10:36 AM Nov 19th
• RT @artguillotine: Film Editing As Sculpture http://www.artoftheguilloti... 5:19 PM Nov 18th
• [ProcessCafe] Pay me now - pay me more later http://bit.ly/1W1XiQ 4:32 PM Nov 18th
• RT @gaz4695 BPM fuels business growth | ITWeb http://post.ly/Coht 4:25 PM Nov 18th
• The best business idea I've come across http://ff.im/-bB71t 4:00 PM Nov 17th
• RT @gaz4695 Greening up the film set http://ff.im/-bmlCO 9:02 PM Nov 16th
• UK Based folks only: Jon Bon Jovi radio concert: http://twurl.nl/3u7cul Pretty awesome. New material and classic tracks. 4:59 PM Nov 16th
• [ProcessCafe] 'In Any Business, 60-70 % are Non Value Activities http://bit.ly/1bvUlS 3:05 PM Nov 16th
• RT (for those who've just come into the office) @gaz4695 Thought for the day: Colts/Pats and NFL rivalries http://post.ly/CiJo 2:26 PM Nov 16th
• 5 Sites To Find Free Alternatives To Popular Software http://ff.im/-bxb0p 11:59 AM Nov 16th
• SlateBox – An Easy and Quick Collaborative Visualization Tool http://ff.im/-bxaSU 11:58 AM Nov 16th
• BPM: Something for Everyone - BPM from a Business Point of View http://post.ly/CieV 11:57 AM Nov 16th
• A Guide to BPM - Gather.com http://bit.ly/3PfFqe (via @TheBPMNetwork) Is it just me or is this particularly badly written? Foreign author? 10:53 AM Nov 16th
• Business Intelligence - A Practitioner's Thoughts: Bounded Rationality, BI and Beyond http://post.ly/CiK9 10:01 AM Nov 16th
• Thought for the day: Colts/Pats and NFL rivalries http://post.ly/CiJo 10:00 AM Nov 16th
• Liked "Posterous gets built in (no need to leave the page) retweet buttons" http://ff.im/-bw1bG 7:41 AM Nov 16th
• RT @gaz4695 Two Musicians One Guitar http://post.ly/BE8H <- Still love this video. 7:40 AM Nov 16th
• RT @jon: RT @Mcga_11: Top Ten Cool Things Yet to be Invented.http://bit.ly/uBmGd 12:31 PM Nov 15th
• Why The Pursuit Of Innovation Usually Fails - Forbes.com http://post.ly/CR6p 10:48 AM Nov 14th
• Driving a car using your iPhone - There's an app for that.. http://ff.im/-brTAy 10:31 AM Nov 14th

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Boisterous boys need more male teachers

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Links For Thursday, November 19, 2009

AJJF: Articles from the Kiai Echo -- Injury and Healing
Excellent, excellent article on muscles and healing.

Phys Ed: Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
I have noticed this.

Image rotator with RMagick and Ruby [ruby] [rmagick] [image] [rotator]
I will need this tonight, as a matter of fact. How timely.

The Anti-Revolutionary | the harvard ichthus
"When we’re trying to decide how to live our lives, our starting point really does matter." Interesting examination of the ethics of Jean-Paul Sartre vs. Albert Camus.

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°Detroit revisited

via dieexilleipziger.blogspot.com

Ich verlinke einfach mal auf diesen hochinteressanten Beitrag auf dem Blog eines Freundes, der grade ein Praktikum in Detroit macht und die schaurig faszinierende Stadt(entwicklung) im aktuellen Beitrag schildert.

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Inferior Fish

“Why I Don’t Miss Bluefin Sushi”:

[P]rior to about the 1920s, no self-respecting Japanese person would eat any kind of tuna at all if they could possibly avoid it. Tuna was so despised in Japan that all tuna species qualified for an official term of disparagement: gezakana, or “inferior fish.”

In the old days in Japan, if you had no choice but to eat tuna you’d do everything you could do get rid of the bloody metallic taste of the fresh red meat. One trick was to bury the tuna in the ground for four days so that the muscle would actually ferment, which led to tuna being called by the nickname shibi—literally, “four days.”

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'Come all ye faithless'

Alain de Botton puts forward a peculiar idea in a recent article for Standpoint, suggesting the need for a ‘religion for atheists’. I think the notion is right on track, but I don’t really agree with his grammar. Perhaps the word ‘religion’ could be replaced with ‘organisation’—that’s pretty boring though I guess. The article is in a revised and abridged form in the latest issue of Monocle.

The most boring question to ask about religion is whether or not the whole thing is "true". The tragedy of modern atheism is to have ignored just how many aspects of religion continue to be interesting even when the central tenets of the great faiths are discovered to be entirely implausible. Indeed, it's precisely when we stop believing in the idea that gods made religions that things become interesting, for it is then that we can focus on the human imagination which dreamt these creeds up. We can recognise that the needs which led people to do so must still in some way be alive, albeit dormant, in modern secular man. God may be dead, but the bit of us that made God continues to stir. 

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ViaNica :: One Of The Best Nicaragua Travel Sites

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