MySpace.com – Souad Massi – FR – Folk Rock / Pop – www.myspace.com/massis

Ξ January 13th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Music |

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.myspace.com/massisouad








    Souad Massi (Kabyle : Suâad Masi) (born August 23, 1972), is an Algerian of Kabyle descent, singer, songwriter and guitarist. She began her career performing in the Algerian political rock band Atakor, before leaving the country following a series of death threats. In 1999, Massi performed at the Femmes d'Algerie concert in Paris, which led to a recording contract with Island Records.

    Massi's music, which prominently features the acoustic guitar, displays Western musical style influences such as rock, country or the Portuguese fado, rather than traditional Algerian or Raï musical styles performed by most Algerian musicians. Massi sings in Algerian Arabic, French, and occasionally English and Kabyle (Berber language), often employing multiple languages in the same song.





 

Aphrodite by Assunta

Ξ January 12th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Arts, Photography |





[ Aphrodite - Assunta ]

 

*** by B Berenika [Berenika]

Ξ January 12th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Arts, Photography |





[ *** - B Berenika ]

 

untitled by carlos romero [cromero]

Ξ January 12th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Arts, Parapluie, Photography |





[ untitled - Carlos Romero ]

 

Chapter I: Introduction

Ξ January 12th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Science |


A few years ago I attended an event where the guest speaker was a cabinet member. In conversation afterwards, the subject of long term petroleum supplies came up. He warned that at some point, perhaps a century or so in the future, someone would put his key in his car's ignition, turn it, and nothing would happen - because there would be no more gasoline.

What shocked me was not his ignorance of the economics of depletable resources--if we ever run out of gasoline it will be a long slow process of steadily rising prices, not a sudden surprise--but the astonishing conservatism of his view of the future. It was as if a similar official, a hundred years earlier, had warned that by sometime around the year 2000 the streets would be so clogged with horse manure as to have become impassible. I do not know what the world will be like a century hence. But it is not likely to be a place where the process of getting from here to there begins by putting a key in an ignition, turning it, and starting an internal combustion engine burning gasoline.

This book is about technological change, its consequences and how to deal with them. This chapter briefly surveys the technologies. The next discusses how to adjust our lives and institutions to their consequences.

I am not a prophet; any one of the technologies I discuss may turn out to be a wet firecracker. It only takes one that does not to remake the world. Looking at some candidates will make us a little better prepared if one of those revolutions happens. Perhaps more important, after we have thought about how to adapt to any of ten possible revolutions, we will at least have a head start when the eleventh drops on us out of the blue.

 

YouTube – Francoise Hardy – &Message Personnel&

Ξ January 11th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Music |





Françoise Hardy - Message Personnel

 

YouTube – Françoise Hardy – Si Cest ça

Ξ January 11th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Music |





Françoise Hardy - Si Cest ça

Françoise Hardy - Ce Petit coeur

 

Crysis Review

Ξ January 10th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Computing |






    Things my youngest brother does in his spare time: Attempting to melt one of my servers by getting his game review on the digg frontpage.






ouch.



Transfers for the 30th and 31st of Dec were 32G and 35G respectively.

 

toad on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Ξ January 7th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Arts, Humour, Photography |





Free Toads!
--I guess they ran out of bacon.

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AccuWeather.com: Global Warming News, Science, Myths, Articles

Ξ January 7th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Science |





Solar Cycle 24 begins, with the first auroras already being reported on spaceweather.com; although the maximum won't be till 2011 or so. The early start (predictions suggested it would be in March + or - 6 months) means it could be a powerful one.


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