The Toy Box

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The Threshold

With most of the season behind us and 2006 ahead, we stand face to face with our resolutions.
The tradition of the New Year's Resolution goes all the way back to 153 B.C. Janus, a mythical king of early Rome was placed at the head of the calendar.
With two faces, Janus could look back on past events and forward to the future. Janus symbolizes the principle of looking back to the past to understand the present in order to shape the future and therefore the god of doors, gateways and the symbol for resolutions.

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• What�s Great In Your Life?

Before jotting down those things you need to improve, let yourself enjoy those things you do fabulously well!
• Top 10 New Year's Resolutions, About.com

My muse strongly dislikes About.com for its pop-ups, ads and tracking cookies (so be sure to clear those cashes and temp folders), but occasionally, the sheer number of toys and thought provoking topics offered are simply irresistible. This is definitely one of those occasions.
• New Year's Resolutions from "Humor Matters"


• The 2006 New Year's Resolution Generator

• Janus: Wikipedia

I particularly enjoyed the "Popular Culture" and "External Links"
• Janus ( "JAY nus" ) is the sixth of Saturn's known satellites


• Janus Head

an interdisciplinary journal that places emphasis on the intersections among literature, continental philosophy, phenomenological psychology, and the arts.
This is the one I'm most likely to revisit.
• Guidelines for Submissions, March 1, 2006


• "Janus" (1994) [TV-Series 1994-1995]

A dramatic account of the police and courts in Australia
• The JANUS project

A joint Project of the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA and Karlsruhe Universit�t, Karlsruhe, Germany, which aims to make human-to-human communication across language barriers easier.
• Joint Analytical Network For Using Socio-economic research


• Janus

The goal of this project is to build an anthropomorphic two-armed robot combined with a multi-camera vision system. The geometry of the system was inspired by the upper part of a human body
• Society of Janus

A San Francisco based BDSM education/support group.