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The Oculus Rift will require a powerful gaming PC to pump out the high frame rate required to make the VR experience enjoyable.

قطعة أرض يمتلكها إبراهيم عبدالعاطى فى منطقة العامرية بالإسكندرية دخل بسببها فى نزاع قضائى مع القوات المسلحة، وأقام دعوى سنة 1990 ضد وزير الدفاع والإنتاج الحربى والقائد العام للقوات المسلحة بصفته وضد اللواء رئيس الهيئة الهندسية للقوات المسلحة بصفته.. وأعلنهما المدعى بهيئة قضايا الدولة فى الإسكندرية، يطالب بتعويض عن أرض يمتلكها واستخدمت لإنشاء مبنى تابع للقوات المسلحة.. وصدر لصالحه حكم فى الدعوى التى حملت رقم 8729 لسنة 1990 مدنى كلى الإسكندرية الصادر بجلسة 29 يونيو سنة 1991 بأن يؤدى الجيش للطالب مبلغا وقدره سبعة ملايين وخمسمائة وتسعة آلاف جنيه.

TileMill is a design studio to create stunning interactive maps.

Air Quality sensors

"practical, evidence-based techniques for correcting misinformation about [...] any situation where you find the facts are falling on deaf ears."

e-learning module from the social care institute of excellence - aims at understanding:

Site developed to help staff working in health and social care (including those in the private and voluntary sectors) as well as unpaid carers, to improve the way they assess mental capacity. Including an audit tool

Wordoids are made-up words.

The OpenEEG project is about making plans and software for do-it-yourself EEG devices available for free (as in GPL). It is aimed toward amateurs who would like to experiment with EEG. However, if you are a pro in any of the fields of electronics, neurofeedback, software development etc., you are of course welcome to join the mailing-list and share your wisdom.

Dropbox clone on your raspberry pi... so far it's quite good and lighter than owncloud.

Step-by-step instructions to install a dropbox clone on a Raspberry Pi server.

Market for 3D objects

Experiencing Second Life with an Oculus Rift VR headset. Described by someone who built a replica of 1920s Berlin.

Open Source Virtual Reality .. compatible with Second Life viewers and objects.

How to report faulty medical equipment

During World War II, 36 conscientious objectors participated in a study of human starvation conducted by Ancel Keys and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota. The Minnesota Starvation Experiment, as it was later known, was a grueling study meant to gain insight into the physical and psychologic effects of semistarvation and the problem of refeeding civilians who had been starved during the war.

"In the long run, NGOs are accountable to their funders, not to the people they work among."

Blogging at the speed of thought. P2 transforms a mild-mannered blog into a super-blog with features like inline comments, a posting form right on the homepage, inline editing of posts and comments, real-time updates, and much more.

We conducted a representative survey of Mogadishu's population—the first in 25 years—in March 2012. We overcame challenges related to lack of data and poor security with the use of remote sensing, the systematic development of local contacts through the Somali diaspora, the flexible deployment of staff, and mobile technology. This article demonstrates the value of using transparent sampling methods to produce reliable estimates for humanitarian response and policy makers. The article also highlights shortcomings and lessons learned from our approach, with the goal of improving future data collection efforts in insecure environments.

Computer generated gibberish accepted in journals.

links to a recent paper on C-fast .. discusses the blinding.

But we weren’t too worried about being raided, about being arrested, about people turning on us in the street for being journalists. We feared the state, but even so we felt there were limits to its power and abuses. Now the repression seems unpredictable and boundless; and we fear the citizenry.

It is the sum total of hundreds and thousands of tiny betrayals of purpose, each one so minute that it hardly attracts notice.

The ideomotor effect.