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	Serendipity: Information and comment not to be found in the mainstream media
		Serendipity: Information and comment not to be found in the mainstream media
		This Serendipity website is based on a libertarian (in the sense of J.S.Mill) perspective and is opposed to Fascism, Zionism, Capitalism, the New World Order and all who secretly work to cause wars for their own advantage and profit.
		We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
	www.serendipity.li (1003 words)

	MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining
		The Serendipity application was developed to facilitate dyadic interactions of two physically proximate people though an introduction situated in the immediate social context.
		Additionally, incorporating Serendipity into the workplace could instigate synergistic collaborations by connecting people who may be working on similar material, or someone who may have related expertise to another employee's current problem.
		Serendipity was initially deployed in early May 2004 at an elite conference consisting of senior corporate executives and professors.
	reality.media.mit.edu /serendipity.php (3565 words)

	Sample Chapter for Merton, R.K. and Barber, E.: The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It would be of interest to know whether the boom serendipity was to have in the middle of the twentieth century is a repetition of an earlier boom, however brief, in the mid-eighteenth century.
		What Walpole obscured in his explanation of serendipity was the nature of the object discovered: whether it was a known quantity or an unknown quantity; whether it was something that might have been expected (retrospectively prophesied) or not; and, finally, whether it was of any significance or not.
		Even had Walpole stated positively that serendipity had to do only with accidental discovery, his ambiguity about the finder's foreknowledge of the object of discovery meant that discoveries by serendipity came to be regarded as more or less accidental.
	press.princeton.edu /chapters/s7576.html (7184 words)

	Perspective: The endangered joy of serendipity
		Serendipity is a historian's best friend and the biggest part of the rush that is the daily magic of discovery.
		Serendipity is defined as the ability to make fortunate discoveries accidentally.
		It was serendipity, that ability to make fortunate discoveries accidentally, that opened that door in my heart.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/03/26/news_pf/Perspective/The_endangered_joy_of.shtml (2037 words)

	CCCOE - ROP - Serendipity
		Serendipity is a HERO (Home Economics Related Occupations)/ROP Tech Prep Career Pathway and has been a part of the Mt. Diablo Unified School District for more than 20 years.
		The Serendipity Restaurant is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11:30-1:00, with an extensive menu to tempt your appetite.
		Serendipity is part of the International Hospitality and Tourism Academy, which offers a variety of courses in the hospitality and tourism fields.
	www.cccoe.k12.ca.us /stsvcs/rop/serendipity.html (245 words)

	Serendipity Weblog System
		Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage.
		Serendipity's outstanding support gives you the confidence to be adventurous, too.
		Serendipity is programmed in PHP, long recognized for its ideal blend of power, simplicity, and speed.
	www.s9y.org (447 words)

	What is Serendipity? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The word has its roots in "The Three Princes of Serendip", a Persian story about three princes who had the knack of discovering things quite by chance.
		The British statesman Horace Walpole read the story as a child, and later coined the word serendipity in a letter dated January 28, 1754, sent to Horace Mann (envoy to Florence).
		He explained that this name was part of the title of a "silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip; as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of..."
	www.simonsingh.net /What_is_Serendipity.html (193 words)

	Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The engine of serendipity
		Serendipity should be a doorway, but on the web it's a kitschy picture stuck on your refrigerator with a magnet.
		Serendipity has far more to do with who the observer is than the mechanism that presents the information to be observed.
		Serendipity occurs when the observer is sufficiently aware to actually observe what he sees and is able to draw conclusions from it.
	www.roughtype.com /archives/2006/05/the_systematize.php (3724 words)

	Three principles of Serendip: insight, chance, and discovery in qualitative research
		The authors reject the perspective that it is the divine roll of the dice that determines serendipity and argue that serendipity is the interactive outcome of unique and contingent "mixes" of insight coupled with chance.
		And, in fact, we noticed a pattern in these writings in which happenstance was linked to the ethnographer's ability to make sense of seemingly chance events; that is, these scholars were able to "keep their wits about them," finding, in the rush of ongoing events, meanings and opportunities that might escape others.
		Of course, serendipity presumes not only that one will observe memorable events, but that they will be recognized as significant when they occur and will be shaped into powerful narratives for jaded readers.
	www.ul.ie /~philos/vol2/deegan.html (6622 words)

	OpenSourceCMS - Serendipity
		Serendipity is constantly under active development, with a team of talented developers trying to make the best PHP powered blog on the net.
		Serendipity is a really great weblog software, simple and yet advanced.
		Posting an entry is easy, making a template for serendipity is totally uncomplicated, and you just got to love the amount of plugins that they have.
	www.opensourcecms.com /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=205&Itemid=159 (478 words)

	Serendipity - New York Times
		Serendipity is a historian's best friend and the biggest part of the rush that is the daily magic of discovery.
		Serendipity is defined as the ability to make fortunate discoveries accidentally.
		It was serendipity, that ability to make fortunate discoveries accidentally, that opened that door in my heart.
	www.nytimes.com /ref/college/coll08McKEEN.html (2300 words)

	The Three Princes of Serendip
		This discovery indeed is almost of that kind which I call serendipity, a very expressive word, which as I have nothing better to tell you, I shall endeavour to explain to you: you will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition.
		I found the second reference to serendipity in Horace Walpole’s Correspondence to be a footnote to a sentence in a letter to the social reformer and religious writer, Hannah More.
		It has been suggested that Tramezzino used Serendip in the title of his book not only because it imparted an exotic flavour, but also because the island was topical in 1555 when the book was being compiled.
	livingheritage.org /three_princes.htm (2036 words)

	freshmeat.net: Project details for Serendipity
		Serendipity is a Weblog application which aims at giving you an easy way to maintain your own individual diary or personal homepage.
		Serendipity is not as well known as Wordpress, but in my opinion is a more sophisticated and extensible blog system with a dedicated developer community which at times has included a substantial number of well known developers from the PHP community.
		Well, Serendipity did serve up the blog, but there are lots of things that are broken -- including styls and various broken links that reference the back-office server.
	freshmeat.net /projects/serendipity (491 words)

	AboutFilm.com - Serendipity (2001)
		As you can see, the premise of Serendipity is stretched thin to say the least, which makes it impossible to get too emotionally caught up in the outcome.
		Serendipity is in fact guilty of all the preposterous romantic comedy conventions--all except one.
		Jonathan and Sara are called upon to evaluate their current long-term relationships based on their own merits--after they have seemingly lost hope of being together.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/s/serendipity.htm (837 words)

	Manufactured Serendipity
		Serendipity is all about making fortunate discoveries by accident.
		So like the early American settlers, the thing to do is to set up shop near a river and pick up stray interesting bits as they float by.
		By spidering back with referrer logs, daypop, and google; eddies can form where the true serendipity generation occurs.
	www.intertwingly.net /stories/2002/03/13/manufacturedSerendipity.html (959 words)

	NewYorkFirst.com: Serendipity Frozen Hot Chocolate
		It's Serendipity 3, nestled in the heart of the Upper East Side, founded in 1954 by Stephen Bruce and his two partners, Calvin Holt and Preston "Patch" Caradine (the Serendipity 3).
		Serendipity has been on the cutting edge of food, fashion and fun for over 50 years.
		Serendipity happened to be very, very comfortable, very charming, and Andy felt free enough to do anything he wanted.
	www.newyorkfirst.com /store/display.cgi?cart_id=&product=001&floor=1 (499 words)

	Costa Rica: Canyoning with Serendipity Costa Rica (Site not responding. Last check: )
		You get wet, and sweaty, and usually banged up and bruised a bit, but in the end there is a real sense of achievement from canyoning.
		Serendipity shares with you the satisfaction of accomplishing something thrilling, challenging, and that you never believed you'd ever try to do.
		All Serendipity canyoning is PRIVATE, and pricing is dependent on the size of YOUR SELF-FORMED group.
	www.serendipityadventures.com /canyoning.htm (443 words)

	Serendipity
		Also, the new Serendipity release contains tighter backend XSS checks so that environments with untrusted authors can be more secure - many thanks to Hanno Böck for addressing this.
		Upgrade pointers can be found in the FAQ and is as easy as just to upload the new files.
		This beta is considered a release candidate before the final 1.3 release, which is scheduled to be released at the end of this month.
	blog.s9y.org (1082 words)

	What is serendipity? - a definition from Whatis.com
		In information technology, serendipity often plays a part in the recognition of a new product need or in solving a design problem.
		Web surfing can be an occasion for serendipity since you sometimes come across a valuable or interesting site when you are looking for something else.
		The term was coined by English writer Horace Walpole on January 28, 1754, in a letter written to Horace Mann.
	searchwebservices.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci214543,00.html (341 words)

	The Meanings of "Serendip"
		In one of his 3,000 or more letters, on which his literary reputation rests, and specifically in a letter of January 28, 1754, Walpole says that "this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word." Perhaps the word itself came to him by serendipity.
		One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental sagacity (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for comes under this description) was of my Lard Shaftsbury, who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Claredon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs.
		Three Principles of Serendip: Insight, Chance, and Discovery in Qualitative Research, by Gary Fein and James Deegan (appeared in Qualitative Studies in Education, Volume 9, Number 4, 1996)
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /serendip/about.html (672 words)

	Serendipity Blackmagic
		Place Serendipity Blackmagic on your network and instantly create contract quality proofs from any RIP on any printer with no changes to your workflow.
		Serendipity Blackmagic version 3 includes completely new features as well as improvements on old features.
		Instant messaging application for communicating with other Serendipity Clients connected to the same server.
	www.serendipity-software.com.au /products/blackmagic/?CFID=301311&CFTOKEN=60837009 (716 words)

	Serendipity \| Movie Review \| Entertainment Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By this standard the tissue- weight romantic comedy Serendipity is a real surprise a fairy tale of boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl that, by virtue of casting alchemy, a smart, funny script, and not a little creative serendipity all its own, works far better than such a standard bedtime story has a right to.
		Serendipity is about the search each undertakes some years later, right before it's too late.
		They're really the couple most likely to succeed, on a friends-for-life basis, and every scene between them — there's a corker in which the pair interview a Frenchman from whom Kate briefly rented a room — is a delight, another gravity-defying volley.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/0,,177891~1~0~serendipity,00.html (992 words)

	What is serendipity? - a definition from Whatis.com
		In information technology, serendipity often plays a part in the recognition of a new product need or in solving a design problem.
		Web surfing can be an occasion for serendipity since you sometimes come across a valuable or interesting site when you are looking for something else.
		The term was coined by English writer Horace Walpole on January 28, 1754, in a letter written to Horace Mann.
	searchcio.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci214543,00.html (340 words)

	OceanCreep - Ibrahim Owais’s Blog » Serendipity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.
		Cups & Kilos is now the serendipity place for me, but still Ammar coffee has its special taste and it reminds of a cretin time of my life.
		Yeah, Serendipity was the best, I spent a year going there every day with 2 of my best friends, and now, the friends are abroad, and Serendipity is almost closed… Good things do not last for long
	www.oceancreep.com /blog/?p=284 (731 words)

	Serendipity definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		While studying staphylococci (staph bacteria), the physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming happened to noticed that on a dish containing agar on which he had been growing germs, near some mould, the germs were less common.
		A key point about serendipity in science, however, is that while accidents do happen, it is only the very well-prepared mind such as Fleming's that is capable of grasping the significance of the totally unexpected finding.
		The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole in the fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip (1754).
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=39321 (286 words)

	Features (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Serendipity is available in English, German, Danish, French and many more, and adding new translations is a snap.
		You can use Serendipity as a single installation to serve multiple and independent weblogs, but only maintaining a single codebase.
		Serendipity is aimed to make everything possible you ever wish for.
	www.s9y.org /3.html (633 words)

	Serendipity
		Also, the new Serendipity release contains tighter backend XSS checks so that environments with untrusted authors can be more secure - many thanks to Hanno Böck for addressing this. Please test this release and give us feedback here or on the forums so that we can further improve this upcoming version.
		Recently there has been a lot of discussion about using SEO on Serendipity powered blogs, which has resulted in at least one plugin update and many suggestions for SEO improvements in templates.
		Initially he planned to personally meet with serendipity users, but this proved more complex than initially hoped.
	feeds.feedburner.com /s9y (1767 words)

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