Archive for August 6th, 2007

06 08 2007

Cloud Cult - I Guess This Dream Is For Me

Posted by: isiria, in ARTS, MUSIC

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These moments are brief
When you can truly say you know yourself
You must lose your mind in order for to find it
And sometimes you’ve just got to fall
So you can see the bottom
Or you’ll never know what’s holding you up

And this life feels like a dream to me
It’s beautiful and it’s twisted
But for right now, I don’t want to wake up

So I guess this dream is for me
I guess this dream is for me

I’d tell you the truth
But my angle’s always changing
I’d point the right way
But I don’t think there’s any such thing
I like to think that it really doesn’t matter where you’re going or where you’re from
The truth is always moving
And it’s always where you’re standing
We may disagree but no one’s wrong

So I guess this dream is for me
And I guess this dream is for me

I lost my way
When I was taught to follow the others
And I lost my mind
When I believed in the truth of my brothers
I believed those who told me I have to die to see Heaven
And those who said Heaven’s inside me

It’s beautiful that we all see it just a little different
We’re the lead role in our own dream

And I guess this dream’s for me
And I guess this dream is for me
I guess this dream is for me
I guess this dream is for me

[A wonderful song by a great Indie formation: Cloud Cult - from their 2004 Aurora Borealis album]

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06 08 2007

Increasing solar flare activity

Posted by: isiria, in natural sciences

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This false-colour image of the sun’s surface from July 07 shows relative calm in terms of sun spot activity

TechRepublic published a nice and short series of images relating to the chance of increasing sunspots over the next 5.5 years; current solar flare activity is apparently at its lowest level in its 11 year cycle according to NASA reports. Since the magnetic energy from a sunspot is the source of solar flares, they usually cause communication outages as they hit the Earth, which are affecting all forms of wireless communication. The good WiFi and mobile phone times might increasingly be over soon - for a while ;) .

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Daily observations of sunspots began in 1749 at the Zuerich Observatory; the graph shows their reasonable predictability over the centuries.

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A solar magnetic field rising from a sunspot. Lines bend at the edges of the sunspot due to opposite polarity.

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06 08 2007

DRM in your head

Posted by: isiria, in IT general, political structure, world of money

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The gang at xkcd sketch a bibliophile’s nightmare in the form of futuristic DRM — which makes mere RFID and anticopying tech look downright friendly in comparison. Hopefully, Borders, the RIAA, and/or Homeland Security isn’t reading.

[Thanks to Geekend]

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