Word: danishes
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...define the value conferred by a bit of information such as a single letter? Are we aware that we constantly discard gargantuan volumes of information without recognizing their worth? In The User Illusion, a didactic tome employing examples from physics to poker, Danish author Tor Norretranders addresses these questions and explores their relationship to human consciousness within the context of a booming Information...
...comes as no surprise that The User Illusion is also user-friendly. First published in 1991, the Danish version sold more than 100,000 copies, a number equivalent to 2% of the population of Denmark. Even so, Norretranders' book possesses a motive more noble than self-help and survival in the new millenium; its nobility is supplemented by his elegant use of principles drawn from mathematics and physics...
There is very little you cannot reach from Zeng's tiny room: Tibetan-freedom websites, raunchy Danish porn, headlines from the New York Times. Zeng's 1,000 Internet subscribers can dial into his computers from all over Beijing and connect nearly limitlessly to the electronic world. They can send e-mail, photos and news of China. And they can receive practically anything else. When the government blocks a website, as it still is wont to do from time to time, Zeng's customers simply surf elsewhere. Is reuters.com jammed? They can jump to washingtonpost.com...
Last Friday's concert initially seemed just another example of HRO's excellent reputation. The performance opened with a solid rendition of Danish composer Carl Nielsen's Helios Overture, Opus 17, led by assistant conductor Daniel Altman. HRO's command of dynamics is spectacular, and the various crescendos and decrescendos were subtle and nuanced, yet vivid and exciting as the orchestra swelled and faded dramatically. The violins shimmered over the rapid-fire rataplan of the brass as the overture progressed. Dancing staccato strings quickly relinquished prominence to legato passages for a fuller ensemble, until finally the hall exploded with...
...million watched; millions listened to the warm young voices, the sonorous old voices. Billions of words about it were printed, and closely read. In Accra, where the equatorial sun beats down on the white church steeples (relics of a vanished Danish empire), parties were held in celebration. Paris noted it, and Panama. In heedless Manhattan, thousands got out of bed at 6 a.m. to hang over radios. Shanghai and Hankow had never seen so many weddings; Chinese brides deemed it lucky to be married on the day that Elizabeth, heiress to Britain's throne, became the wife of Philip Mountbatten...