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	Binary large object - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A blob is a collection of binary data stored as a single entity in a database management system.
		Blobs are typically images, audio or other multimedia objects, though sometimes binary code is stored as a blob.
		Blobs were originally just amorphous chunks of data invented by Jim Starkey at DEC, who describes them as "the thing that ate Cincinnatti, Cleveland, or whatever".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BLOB (195 words)

	Blob (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Blob (Frederick J. Dukes) is a Marvel Comics supervillain, an adversary of the X-Men.
		Due to the Scarlet Witch's magicks the Blob was one of the thousands of mutants to lose their powers, though his skin has not shrunk to compensate the loss of his bloated mass, giving him huge folds of loose skin all over his body and causing him to become suicidal.
		The Blob had superhuman strength which had greatly increased over the years, in a manner very similar to that of the Thing; originally the Blob had enhanced strength enabling him to lift about 1 ton, but right up to losing his powers he had become strong enough to lift roughly 70 tons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blob_(comics) (820 words)

	Blob help page
		With each blob (A), lists blobs in blob window B that overlap blob A. This tests the overlaps in a very specific sense, and was designed to count the blobs that are inside blobs from another image, or taken with another threshold.
		Blobs in image B that overlap a blob in A are those whose fiducial points are cooincident with a pixel of blob A, that is, that are in blob A if the images were overlapped.
		The blobs are 'segmented' from the image, by associating the thresholded (red colored) pixels into groups of contiguous pixels (using the 4-neighborhood).
	www.nist.gov /lispix/MLxDoc/widgets/Blob/doc/blob.html (603 words)

	Blobs - Jump over the blobs and try to get rid of all except one to solve the current puzzle.
		Blobs - Jump over the blobs and try to get rid of all except one to solve the current puzzle.
		Each time a Blob is jumped over another, the piece that was jumped over is removed from the board.
		A Blob can move in any direction but it can only jump one Blob at a time and it must jump onto an empty stand that is connected to the main game play area.
	blobs.freeonlinegames.com (205 words)

	SPACE.com -- Strange Space Blobs Get More Mysterious (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Blob B6 is seen in red in the optical image at left.
		The blobs are about 11 billion light-years away, seen as they existed early in the history of the universe when things were more crowded.
		To optical telescopes, the four blobs of the new study are unremarkable, however.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/aas_blobs_040111.html (628 words)

	JPL.NASA.GOV: News Releases
		These blobs are huge clouds of intensely glowing material that envelop faraway galaxies.
		Their observations reveal monstrously bright galaxies and suggest that blobs might surround not one, but multiple galaxies in the process of merging together.
		The astronomers speculate that all blobs might share this trait; however, more evidence is needed to close the case.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /news/news.cfm?release=2005-010 (740 words)

	GC Image Users' Guide: Detection and Analysis
		In a report, the blob data usually should be associated with the name of the chemical that produced the blob and/or the chemical group that produced the blob, so one task of analysis is to identify the blobs by associating chemical names and/or chemical group names with the blobs to be included for reporting.
		A blob that is flagged as excluded will be treated in reporting as if it was not detected, but excluded blobs are maintained in the data, so it is possible to remove the exclusion flag or to examine the data for the presence and history of excluded blobs.
		After pressing the button to merge blobs, the blob at the center of the cross-hairs is merged with the blob indicated subsequently by pointing the cursor and then shift-click with the left mouse-button.
	cse.unl.edu /~reich/gcimage/detection.html (3450 words)

	mac.org
		Civilization II Blobs are one-, two-, and three-lined colored balls that you need to carefully place on a playing field.
		The real aim of the game is to destroy the blobs rather than collect as many as possible.
		To destroy blobs, you "simply" form groups and then try to make all the blobs in the group go blank.
	www.mac.org /games/blobs (174 words)

	Spacefem.com: Adopt a Useless Blob
		The blob, created just for Spacefem.com by our happy friend CriScO, is clearly a state of the art web accessory, perfect for your webpage, journal, or recycle bin.
		To adopt a blob, you need a place to put it like a web page, web journal, neopets store, or something like that.
		If you're putting the blob on a webpage where it will be around for a while, please upload it to your own server.
	www.spacefem.com /blobs (611 words)

	Universe Today - Blobs Could Be Merging Galaxies
		Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have caught a glimpse inside the blobs, and discovered evidence that they surround multiple galaxies which could be in the process of merging together.
		If the blobs are created by galactic mergers, astronomers will need to figure out why they're putting out so much material.
		Blobs were first discovered about five years ago with visible-light telescopes.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/blobs_merging_galaxies.html?1212005 (886 words)

	Slimy blobs 1.0 Reviewed by WorldSSP.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When a blob is hit by a non-matching bullet the blob is repelled only (as opposed to being repelled and split when the colors match).
		Splitting a blob, for example, produces two smaller and faster blobs each of which have to be dealt with at some later point in the game.
		Given that there are already several small blob splinters around the gun tower, it may be strategically more appealing to simply repel the blob and deal with it as a whole later on when the smaller splinters have been dealt with first.
	www.worldssp.net /DetailView.asp?proid=8933 (830 words)

	Development of Cytochrome Oxidase Blobs in Visual Cortex of Normal and Visually Deprived Cats -- Murphy et al. 11 (2): ...
		A regular pattern of CO blobs is obvious throughout V1, however, the contrast between blobs and interblobs is lower than that found in adults.
		These CO blobs are tightly packed together, often appearing connected or banded because the visual cortex is substantially smaller at this age.
		The pattern of CO blobs at 6 weeks of age is indistinguishable from the adult pattern.
	cercor.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/11/2/122 (7866 words)

	The New York Times > Science > Ogre? Octopus? Blobologists Solve an Ancient Mystery
		Investigators were baffled and enthralled by a fleshy blob that washed ashore on a beach in Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, in 2001.
		The blob found a year ago in Chile, originally thought to be octopus remains has since been scientifically analyzed.
		This does in fact appear to be the end of the great blob story, a tale that began in late 1896 near St. Augustine, Fla., when two boys found a gigantic lump of white, rubbery flesh, 21 feet long, 7 feet wide and weighing perhaps 7 tons.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/07/27/science/27blob.html?ex=1248667200&en=db3de26bb5c38e21&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (812 words)

	BLOBs
		BLOBs, binary large objects, is a big sequence of bytes with one of three data types, DBTYPE_STR, DBTYPE_WSTR and DBTYPE_BYTES.
		Typically, it is not a trivial task to retrieve and update a BLOB from and into a data source.
		It is not good idea to store thousands of big BLOBs into a table, but it is definitely worth to use a DBMS to store hundreds of BLOBs for simplification of securing, sharing and managing BLOBs over network and multiple clients.
	www.geocities.com /oledbpro/docs/examples/blobs.htm (217 words)

	More Mazeguy - Invasion of the Blobs II
		Melissa immediately realizes the blobs that abducted her a decade ago are involved, and sets out to rescue her rescuer.
		Most of the time will be spent kicking blobs, but there are also several puzzles to solve and unusual environments to navigate, including underwater and zero gravity.
		The extreme heat eventually causes the blobs to melt, so Melissa needs to plug the holes and climb the ladder quickly before the situation becomes to hot to handle.
	www.mazeguy.net /blobs2.html (2320 words)

	Kids Domain Downloads - Blobs
		Place little round blobs on the screen, and they'll connect to other blobs of the same color.
		Each blob has some lines on it, and when two blobs connect, the number of lines on each is reduced by one.
		When you get a blob shape with NO lines on it, the whole blob disappears.
	www.kidsdomain.com /down/mac/blobs.html (155 words)

	Blobs - Moose
		Blob is a small, recently re-worked, game I wrote when learning SDL for the first time.
		If you are a particularly angry god, you may destroy all the blobs with one wave of your powerful hand.
		Beta 3 has the first version of Arcade Mode where you have to stop the blobs in their plot to take over earth.
	www.csh.rit.edu /~ryanw/mediawiki/index.php/Blobs (432 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| New clues found in mystery of giant galactic blobs
		Blobs are intensely glowing clouds of hot hydrogen gas that envelop faraway galaxies.
		Visible-light images like the one shown here (left), reveal the vast extent of blobs, but don't provide much information about their host galaxies.
		At the 205th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego, Calif., astronomers presented new evidence in the case of the giant galactic blobs.
	spaceflightnow.com /news/n0501/12blobs (1098 words)

	Blobs
		Remove all but one of the blobs from the board by jumping over them.
		Jump over adjacent blobs to the next avilable spot.
		A blob can jump in any direction, as long as it is a legal move.
	www.freeworldgroup.com /games/blobs (59 words)

	More Mazeguy - Invasion of the Blobs
		This "Invasion of the Blobs" is a computer game I made several years ago with the help of a program called Game-Maker.
		You see, "Invasion of the Blobs" is a perfect example of what I like to call "making it up as you go along".
		The blobs will hurt Bobby if he collides with them, but he can regain some strength by eating pizza slices that are scattered about.
	www.mazeguy.net /blobs.html (1437 words)

	HubbleSite - Blobs in Space: The Legacy of a Nova - 9/18/1997
		Nova eruptions by dying stars were thought to be simple, predictable acts of violence.
		Scientists using the Hubble telescope, however, were surprised to find that some nova outbursts may not produce smooth shells of gas, but thousands of gaseous blobs, each the size of our solar system.
		In this Hubble picture of the nova T Pyxidis, the shells of gas ejected by the star are actually more than 2,000 gaseous blobs packed into an area that is 1 light-year across.
	hubblesite.org /newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1997/29 (159 words)

	PuzzleBeast - Bulbous Blob Puzzles
		AvB needs to get his notebook back, but the red blob is stuck behind the other flavors of blobs blocking the doorway.
		Bulbous blobs tend to be obsessive compulsive, and will only move in the direction of the tiles (i.e.
		The Bulbous Blob Puzzle began as an idea by Oskar van Deventer for a new twist on the classic sliding block puzzle.
	www.puzzlebeast.com /blob (358 words)

	The Straight Dope: Did Mrs. Sybil Christian of Frisco, Texas, find blobs from space on her lawn?
		These blobs were not your ordinary garden variety--they had some very strange properties.
		She described them as looking like "smooth whipped cream, [only] purple." The blobs, which were about the size of a telephone and weighed a couple pounds apiece, were warm to the touch and contained small chunks of lead.
		Christian's blobs were soft because they had absorbed water when she squirted them with a hose (Mrs.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_285.html (609 words)

	Development AntiPattern:
		An overall lack of cohesiveness of the attributes and operations is typical of The Blob.
		Sometimes The Blob results from the way requirements are specified.
		The key is to move behavior from away from The Blob.
	www.antipatterns.com /briefing/sld024.htm (424 words)

	Blobs 2.05
		Blobs is our own rendition of Peg Solitaire and HiQ - popular thinking games similar to Chinese Checkers.
		To complete a level and advance, just end up with only 1 Blob left on the board.
		You can only jump a Blob directly over another that is within an adjacent position.
	www.downseek.com /download/26549.asp (74 words)

	DBAzine.com: Picture This: BLOBs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But BLOBs, in the 2003 model, are new and improved since the days of yore.
		BLOBs are notorious for their restrictions — there are so many things that you can do with “small” data types that you can’t do with BLOBs.
		BLOB is stored out-of-line, even if you defined it as an inline BLOB.
	www.dbazine.com /db2/db2-disarticles/pelzer1 (2385 words)

	Macworld: Review: Cosmic Blobs 1.1
		Cosmic Blobs’ main interface has a central main stage for showing a kid’s creations, and around the outside of the stage is a fun, factory-like interface with tools and other options.
		You can run Cosmic Blobs on a machine that’s slower than 1.25GHz, but when we tried running it on a 500MHz PowerBook G4, it was frustratingly slow and parts of the interface dropped out, and Mac OS X crashed.
		Cosmic Blobs would be a natural for letting kids create their own stories if the company added features, such as word balloons and panel grids, to help make comic books or even record sound to help make animated movies.
	www.macworld.com /2005/09/reviews/cosmicblobs/index.php?lsrc=mwrevrss (941 words)

	SolidWorks Press Release
		Cosmic Blobs, which can be thought of as digital modeling clay for children, lets kids ages 7 to 14 quickly design and animate 3D creations that are on par with today's leading computer-generated movies and cartoons.
		Cosmic Blobs is available now for Windows PCs running Windows 98SE or later, on a PC with a Pentium 1.0 Ghz processor or equivalent, 256 MB RAM, and a 3D graphics video card with 16MB RAM or more.
		Cosmic Blobs is the result of sustained efforts to unleash the power of 3D computer graphics for everyone, including children.
	www.solidworks.com /pages/news/viewrelease.html?prid=273 (716 words)

	NASA - New Clues Found in Ongoing Mystery of Giant Galactic Blobs
		Visible light images like the one shown on the left reveal the vast extent of blobs, but don't provide much information about their host galaxies.
		Using its heat-seeking infrared eyes, Spitzer reveals three monstrously bright galaxies, trillions of times brighter than the Sun, in the process of merging together.
		"It is possible that extremely bright galactic mergers lie at the center of all the mysterious blobs, but we still don't know how they fuel the blobs themselves," said Dr. Harry Teplitz, Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., co- author of the new research.
	www.nasa.gov /vision/universe/starsgalaxies/spitzer-011105.html (742 words)

	EO News: Space Blobs Create Backward Auroras - June 1, 1999
		ÿÿÿÿÿÿ Blobs of electrified particles spew violently from the Sun, zoom at "warp speed" toward Earth's magnetic field, and trigger an unusual form of aurora, scientists have discovered using an ultraviolet camera on NASA's Polar spacecraft.
		ÿÿÿÿÿÿ These electrified blobs, called coronal mass ejections, travel at more than 1.5 million miles per hour, or 2,000 times the speed of sound, and create interplanetary shock waves that "ram into" Earth's magnetic field.
		This is roughly comparable to the way a supersonic aircraft breaks the sound barrier and creates a shock wave that we hear as a sonic boom.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NasaNews/1999/19990601561.html (614 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Plasma blobs hint at new form of life
		Plasma blobs hint at new form of life
		Physicists have created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate and communicate - fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells.
		Without inherited material they cannot be described as alive, but the researchers believe these curious spheres may offer a radical new explanation for how life began.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn4174 (657 words)

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