 - Last login: 3 weeks agoCalvinIncarnate
- CalvinIncarnate is a single guy from Perth, WA, Australia.
- Likes 381 pages, 13 videos, 6 photos • 44 fans • Received 7 reviews
- Member since Jan 31, 2007
G ' D A Y !
MY FAV SITES R:
THE ECOLOGY SITE
THE HUNGER SITE
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL
LIFEHACKER
PANDORA
THE ULTIMATE LIBRARY
FIRSTPAGE
. . .
* HEY ! *
U
can download
my latest
full bookmarks file
from Firefox
( it's ~ 1.5 megabytes compressed )
7000+ ' AAA ' LINKS :
ALL HANDPICKED QUALITY
Right click this link + choose " Save As... " ( or similar option ) to download the file:
CALVIN INCARNATE'S BOOKMARKS @ 11 MAY '07
THEN :
1. expand the ZIP file by double-clicking on it + using this password :
E99C8D109DC118D7CDBA54DB9F91AE224A5C2A9CC9EBBFAA155BE0428597B43A
2. double-click the HTM or HTML file to open it in ur browser
~OR~
3. import the HTM(L) file directly into ur bookmarks
( see ur browser's help menu for info on how to do this )
If u import the HTM(L) file,
u can rearrange / edit / delete the new bookmarks as u wish ---
just keep the ones u like !
. . .
* for MUSIC I like,
relax to my radio station "! AD ASTRA ! " ( for free )
This is played via Pandora ;
u can cre8 ur own station there for free, too !
* to CHAT, click on " CONTACT " !
S A L V E T E !
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* NOTE *
(1)
SOME OF THIS MATERIAL IS
* FOR MATURE + HEALTHY-MINDED ADULTS ONLY *
IF THAT'S NOT YOU
* DON'T USE IT *
(2)
THIS BLOG IS MERELY A ' CRYSTALLIZED SNAPSHOT '
OF MY INCOMPLETE WORK IN 2006 + 2007.
Posts flagged " ... " or " tbc ",
were " To Be Continued " at a later date ;
but this hope has had to be abandoned.
Blogging, like many I.T. activities, demands too much resources, including time.
I can see now why tumbleblogging developed.
I think we may rather be the better
if the whole blogging fad burnt itself out,
and we all returned to our pianoforte,
and stories or social chit~chat about the fire.
:)
Yes I idealise -
but there's a weighty point here.
( It may be rightly )
I value more
Reality
+
experiencing balanced intellectual / aesthetic / emotional / physical engagement
with
our fragile world of flora and fauna ;
other human beings ;
and my / our pressing problems ( with a view to solutions )
Aside from select social dabblings, such as chat and forum postings,
I choose to cease my involvement in SU.
SU has proved a sometimes frustrating and poorly-supported and -moderated service,
lacking the facility with which I hoped to best bless my audience :
importing and sharing my unusually big swag of ' AAA ' bookmarks
in a user-friendly fashion and without unjustifiable drain of time and effort.
Tools are created - or adopted - by humans to serve serve human needs or wants :
if a particular tool does not achieve one's needs / wants, logically, one should abandon it.
And yes,
I am weary of more - and less - than SU.
My apologies to all for help promised, but left unfinished.
" I am going . I am leaving NOW . GOODBYE ! "
Favorites » His Blog
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Sep 3, 2007 10:46pm
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Courtesy of SparkleTags.com
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Sep 3, 2007 10:45pm
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Madames et Monsieurs -
please excuse Calvin Incarnate from blogging.
Oft-times he looks up to me over his matin gruel and says, "Maman, serious blogging demands serious time, does it not ? Too much for a healthy mixe of pursuits." And I reply, "Certainement - except, per'aps, in the case of tumbleblogging !"
For this reason, Calvin will cease from both blog writing and regular RSS reading ( the secret source of much of his materiel ) from tomorrow, June the 24th, in this the Year of Our Lord 2007.
Browsing politics is often disheartening, infuriating and stressful, anyway.
Please note : Calvine will still attend to correspondence, and indeed tells me now ( tugging at my aprone, the treasure ! ) to report that he is, 'ow you say ?, still keen to chat and may glance at forums at his pleasure.
~ M E R C I !
Madame Virtue Incarnate.
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Sep 3, 2007 10:44pm
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D a y D r e a m ~
Silver Lines That Came To Me Half-Drowsy, Rousing :
[ h a n d p r o f f e r e d ]
Come with me, an' be my love,
in pleasing love above Angels desire
we'll set our common worlds on fire
and stride one shining Heaven .
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Pageflakes - Get it Together
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Aug 11, 2007 2:07pm
1 review
comics, multimedia, it, news, comedy
http://www.pageflakes.com/DeusInMachina/12996389
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'FirstPage' is a PageFlakes suite of feeds, RSS links and 'widgets' etc.
published for free public use.
( PageFlakes is what's known
as a 'starting page', 'launchpad' or 'springboard' service
where you can easily create tabbed pages
with all the RSS feeds and mini-versions
of all the online sites and services you use daily in one place,
as a convenient home page to start your browsing every day. )
FirstPage bills itself as :
" *** UR PORTAL TO THE ONLINE UNIVERSE FROM ' THE ULTIMATE LIBRARY ' *** " -
it's simply chockers with great content -
check it out or browse this feature list to see if it can help you...
From the page, formatting modified :
" These pages share Perth local info ---
AND the world's best chat / email; comedy / comics; fun; I.T.; 'literary' + news stuff online !!!
WHEW !
...
HERE YOU CAN :-
* browse book blogs
* enjoy comedy
* leaf thru leading Australian + international news
* read webcomics
* listen to audio podcasts
* listen to Australian + international radio
* play computer games
* check an Australian online TV guide
* watch Australian TV
* search for + watch online videos
* search the web for anything you like
* check your Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo email
* chat live with friends on ANY popular Instant Messaging network -
AIM, GoogleChat / GoogleTalk, MSN / Windows Live Messenger
or Yahoo Instant Messenger
* use an online calculator, currency converter or calendar
* consult Google Maps - zooming in on any country or city on Planet Earth
* find a job
* help donate food to starving people,
or save endangered flora + fauna
just by clicking weblink/s once a day ! . . .
" MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF STARS !!! "
Make this your home page ! ---
Just check your browser's 'help' menu to see how to do this ! "
As mentioned above, FirstPage is an 'arm' of 'The Ultimate Library',
which, among other things, shares organised collections of quality links,
with some focus on 'textes' of any media form and reading / writing, etc. -
all a great help to wannabe literateurs, readers, writers or book clubs !
The Ultimate Library or TUL is at :
theultimatelibrary.freehostia.com
( Note there's no "www." prefix ! )
[ DISCLAIMER :
sites mentioned in this review created / maintained by a 'very close acquaintance' ]
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Aug 4, 2007 3:35am
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Shoulder-Solace
(Friend to Lady Friend):
Share a little of thy sighs,
not to deepen, but to ease them,
as I learn their secret salve ;
Light word, soft brush,
a beaming anecdote for cheering --
for care and comfort, truth and wisdom,
I stand here, brother, man and friend.
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Interesting Argument About Global Warming&Video
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Jun 23, 2007 9:29am
111 reviews
environment, video, global-warming, pollution, the-environment
http://break.com/index/tough-to-argue.html
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A video especially of aid to those who are skeptical :
a reasonable and logical argument
from an intelligent fellow
demonstrating the only apparent logical response
to the current debate
[ however minor ]
re: the realities of global warming.
The video even closes with an appeal to viewers
to reply and highlight any error in reasoning,
as the presenter has presented his thought to others,
but noone has been able to refute his conclusion.
For the sake of argument
the speaker in the home-made video
assumes the answer to the environmental debate remains indeterminate or unknown
[ even graciously ignoring the overwhelming consensus of
expert scientific opinion on the central facts ] ---
making his logic as powerfully conclusive and relevant
for those who now accept the warming hypothesis
as for those who now reject it.
I cannot see a flaw in the *core* logic here per se :
it is similar to the benefit-minus-cost comparison of choices
utilized to make decisions
e.g. by de Bono and, farther back, Pascal in his famous Wager
( Wikipedia it : 'tis weighty );
and the Wager IS certainly logically and mathematically sound,
if one remembers its proper domain.
( Pascal assumed in his milieu
that there were only two reasonable options re: religion -
to act as if the *Christian* God existed, or not,
so his ' formula ' only deals with these two options. )
I gather Pascal prob. postulated his Wager
inspired by the mathematical formulae used by horse gamblers to determine
which horse was the more reasonable bet in a race -
before his conversion he was quite the gambler etc.
If you do see a mistake in the video, contact the auteur and myself ! -
I would also like to know
and will add constructive contributions to this post etc.
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Lunatic Marks
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Jun 23, 2007 7:36am
23 reviews
comics, life, wisdom, lifestyle, self-development
http://www.limitthesky.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/
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THE ULTIMATE LIBRARY
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Jun 22, 2007 11:56pm
1 review
writing, books, links, bookmarks, reading
http://theultimatelibrary.freehostia.com/
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NEW SITE BY A ' CLOSE CONFIDANTE ' !
Interesting and useful "Library Of Links",
many re: reading / writing.
Directory of anything artistic, creative and texte-related !
Heaps of free audiobooks and ebooks etc. -
even gamebooks, interactive fiction and role-playing games !
Helpful for
e.g. readers / writers; book clubs;
or ANY fans of ANY ' literature ' in the broadest sense of the word !
Wealth of AAA quality links to explore.
Great artsy / creative / fun flash games,
some educational, challenging your word or number skills to grow
( e.g. sudoku ).
Slick public chat ( rego free )
to meet ' n ' greet *live*
other people browsing 'The Ultimate Library'.
Also a public forum to discuss anything literary.
Front-page highlights
e.g. games and "Lit Hit" Site of the Month
are changed or updated monthly !
WHY NOT GO BROWSE ' THE LIBRARY ' NOW ?
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Simple Spark
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Jun 22, 2007 4:34am
9 reviews
search, web-2-0, web-apps, directories, simple-spark
http://simplespark.com/
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The GOOGLE of WEB APPLICATIONS
( online programs - mostly free ! )
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter
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Jun 22, 2007 4:22am
3 reviews
radio, us, internet-radio, protest
http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/061807/index.shtml
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From the page, formatting modified :
"In response to a impending royalty rate increase that, if implemented, would lead to the virtual shutdown of Internet radio in the U.S., thousands of webcasters plan to go silent next Tuesday, June 26, to draw attention to their industry's plight.
This "Day of Silence" is an encore of a successful media event that small webcasters organized on May 1, 2002 in response to a similarly royalty rate ruling from a Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) five years ago. That event garnered national attention and was subsequently followed by a rate cut by the Librarian of Congress and the passage of the Small Webcaster Settlement Act for the period 1998-2005.
Webcasters will be alerting their listeners that "silence" is what Internet radio may sound like on or shortly after July 15th, the day on which 17 months' worth of retroactive royalty increase payments are due to the SoundExchange collection organization under the terms of a recent Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decision.
Although a royalty rate like this is typically 4% to 5% of revenues in other media (e.g., satellite radio), for other rights (e.g., the musical compositions), and in other countries, the rates set by the CRB judges equate to roughly 50% of revenues for large webcasters like Yahoo! LAUNCHcast (and probably many terrestrial station streamers), 150% to 300% of revenues for small webcasters like AccuRadio, Radioio, and Digitally Imported, and, for webcasters with large numbers of channels like Rhapsody and Pandora, well more than 1,000% of revenues.
If the rates are left unchanged, virtually all independent webcasters will be bankrupted and most larger parent companies would logically shut down their Internet radio divisions through the end of the 2005-10 period.
'Day of Silence' also day for action
Listeners will be urged to call their representatives in Congress that day and to ask them to support the "Internet Radio Equality Act" (IREA) (H.R. 2060 in the House and S. 1353 in the Senate) and to call or write their local newspapers that day to ask for editorial support for the bill."
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