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Chinlone - Burmese acrobatic ball game - mega awesome!!! | Mario Olckers: Jun 30, 4:24pm 1 review culture, video, myanmar, burma, chinlone
http://marioolckers.com/2008/06/30/chinlone-burmese-acrobatic-ball-game-mega-...; From the website:

This lovely, lyrical documentary introduces Chinlone, a Burmese sport that soars somewhere between acrobatics, hackey sack, and Balinese dance. This game, unknown outside of Burma, became an obsession for Greg Hamilton. For the past 20 years he's painfully tried to whisk the distinctive woven-rattan ball, faithfully returning to Burma to play in tournaments, becoming the first westerner to do so. What makes this film so rewarding is Hamilton's candid autobiographical account of his slow learning. At first he is laughed at, but after 8 years of filming, he slowly gains respect from the Burmese. Chinlone is a beautiful non-competitive game. You "win" by keeping the ball in the air for your teammates -- a fit metaphor for life, and a perfect frame for this extremely contemplative but dynamic film. Greg's story is really not about sport, or the Zen of Burmese Hackey Sack, but about how to learn and love.

MoWeS Portable - CH Software: Jun 12, 6:23pm 5 reviews software, open-source, php, web, server
http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/wos/wos.htm; "WOS stands for the three letter abbreviation Webserver On Stick and makes it possible, to run a webserver based on Apache, MySQL and PHP from an USB Stick or any other writable media (harddrive, flash cards etc.) without installation under Windows (98 to Vista).
There are three different versions of WOS:

WOS Portable

* WOS Portable is the basic version
* WOS Portable is free
* WOS Portable is released under the GNU/GPL and is OpenSource
* WOS Portable comes with a selectable bunch of preinstalled software (TYPO3, Joomla!, Mambo, Wordpress, Moodle, OS Commerce, Drupal, PHPMyAdmin and many more)

WOS X

* WOS X is designed for developers and server operators (contains a remote control tool, server configurations wizards, PHP Quickrun, Profiling feature and many more.)
* WOS X ist free
* WOS X is released under the GNU/GPL
* WOS X is put on an existing WOS Portable package (well actually you just copy it there ;-)"

HubSpot's Press Release Grader - Rate Your Press Release | davefleet.com: Jun 3, 12:09pm 1 review
http://davefleet.com/2008/06/hubspots-press-release-grader-rate-your-press-re...; Very nice video and overview of the Press Release Grader for media and PR/marketing firms

Discovery News: Space Diary: Welcome to Mars: May 26, 1:37am 14 reviews
http://blogs.discovery.com/news_space/2008/05/welcome-to-mars.html; Image from Phoenix right after landing on Mars

FOXNews.com - The Grid Could Soon Make the Internet Obsolete - Science News | Sc…: Apr 12, 4:14pm 24 reviews computers, bandwidth, cloudcomputing, the-grid
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347212,00.html; 10 000 times the speed of conventional broadband, the grid makes cloud computing and desktop OS software/hardware obsolete

revolutionary indeed!

Compassion � Something You Can Learn via Meditation: Mar 30, 11:22am 2 reviews psychology, neuroscience, meditation, compassion
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Compassion_Something_You_Can_Learn_via_Meditat...; Practice is the only way to improve qualities like love, kindness and compassion, new research shows.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, using functional magnetic resonance (MRI), found that brain circuits used to detect emotions and feelings suffered dramatic changes in subjects who had extensive experience practicing compassion meditation.

NASA: Basic Ingredients for Life Found on Saturn Moon Enceladus: Mar 27, 1:14pm 1 review astronomy
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_NASA_Basic_Ingredients_for_Life_Found_on_Satur...; The Cassini spacecraft detected warmth, water and organic chemicals, the basic ingredients for life on Saturn's small moon, Enceladus, reinforcing scientists' believe that our solar system has favorable conditions appropriate for living organisms to develop.

At a briefing at NASA headquarters in Washington on Wednesday, the scientists described observations made by the Cassini spacecraft when it flew at approximately 30 miles over the surface of Enceladus on March 12, with an astounding 15 kilometers per second speed as part of ongoing exploration of Saturn and its moons.

The spacecraft discovered a high density of water vapor and both simple and complex organic chemicals, as well as high temperatures which together could provide most of the prerequisites for life.

"Water vapor was the major constituent. There was methane present. There was carbon dioxide. There was carbon monoxide. There were simple organics and there were more complex organics. The composition of the plume is very much like the composition of a comet," Hunter Waite of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, said at the briefing, according to Reuters.

Comets are believed to contain primordial materials leading many scientists think the objects might have seeded life on Earth.

Where did the organics come from? "Or course, natural gas comes from decaying biological matter on Earth. But this is not the conclusion we reached for Enceladus. Another possibility is the geochemistry going on in the interior can also produce organics," Waite explained.