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One of the most significant problems which has arisen since the popularity of digital art media (primarily music in mp3 compression format) is the issue of artist compensation. When looking at the advent of the popularity of digital art media usage by the general public one can weigh the pros and cons. This author believes…

I was viewing a video where the speaker recommends installing Microsoft Web Platform which is basically a bundle of IIS, SQL Server, and some other components if you want to run a local web server for testing and development of web sites. This idea didn’t appeal to me for a couple of reasons. One is…

Following the idea of using “psyche” as the name for the section of Alaya.net related to the soul, today I set up “soma” for a new section containing posts related to the body.  Other possible names would have been “health”, “beauty”, or “personal care”.  Yet while all these do relate to the body each of…

This is too much. Its taking reflectivity to a level which opens a deep rent behind the facades of our society. So many things may be claimed to reflect our culture right now, but this particular invocation is raw and actually funny. This guy just randomly goes up to people with a video camera for…

And inspiring also. This pottery dates back to what are among the earliest known human civilizations in the world, this particular one being Tall-i Bakun in what is now Iran. See also: Susa Proto-Elamite, an as-yet undeciphered ancient script which appears to have borrowed typographic features from other ancient cuneiform scripts in use at the…

“…Safety needs to be of at least equal or greater importance to other issues when we are making difficult decisions about transportation strategies.” The research project found that of the accidents involving tracks, 19 cyclists (19.8 per cent) said their tires slipped on the tracks and 77 (80.2 per cent) said their tires got caught…

The gap is the disparity between various measures of well-being, opportunity, and equality between females and males. A large gap means there is a large disparity between the same measurement when applied to females vs. males. Here are the countries which ranked last in the composite score, in descending order (first is worst): Yemen Pakistan…

Was wondering for a long time how around election time I always start getting lots of e-mails related to political campaigns.  Where are they getting my address?  It turns out they are getting it because California allows it to be sold!  The actual lists are maintained and released by each respective county’s board of elections.…

I have mentioned Dictionary Tooltip – an addon available for Firefox and also Chrome – and want to mention it again. It is one of the most useful reference tools. It allows one to double-click on any word on a web page and then shows a small icon. When the icon is selected a popup…

Alert: Starbucks soymilk is far from healthy. I used to enjoy their coffee from some stores because of the roast but now am disgusted because of the sickening sugar overload. Below an excerpt from a Starbucks forum: “2) Your new soy milk has 13 grams of sugar per cup. One cup is 8 ounces. That…