Saturday, September 04, 2010
Puzzlin' time...
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Friday, September 03, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Men! Women can't live with them and ...
Women love men ...
Because
Because they write poems, songs, and books in our honor.
Because because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to.
Because they can see beauty in women when women have long ceased to see any beauty in themselves.
Because they come from little boys.
Because they can churn out long, intricate, Machiavellian, or incredibly complex mathematics and physics equations, but they can be comparably clueless when it comes to women.
Because they are incredible lovers and never rest until we’re happy.
Because they elevate sports to religion.
Because they’re never afraid of the dark.
Because they don’t care how they look or if they age.
Because they persevere in making and repairing things beyond their abilities, with the naïve self-assurance of the teenage boy who knew everything.
Because they never wear or dream of wearing high heels.
Because they’re always ready for sex.
Because they’re like pomegranates: lots of inedible parts, but the juicy seeds are incredibly tasty and succulent and usually exceed your expectations.
Because they’re afraid to go bald.
Because you always know what they think and they always mean what they say.
Because they love machines, tools, and implements with the same ferocity women love jewelry.
Because they go to great lengths to hide, unsuccessfully, that they are frail and human.
Because they either speak too much or not at all to that end.
Because they always finish the food on their plate.
Because they are brave in front of insects and mice.
Because a well-spoken four-year old girl can reduce them to silence, and a beautiful 25-year old can reduce them to slobbering idiots.
Because they want to be either omnivorous or ascetic, warriors or lovers, artists or generals, but nothing in-between.
Because for them there’s no such thing as too much adrenaline.
Because when all is said and done, they can’t live without us, no matter how hard they try.
Because they’re truly as simple as they claim to be.
Because they love extremes and when they go to extremes, we’re there to catch them.
Because they are tender they when they cry, and how seldom they do it.
Because what they lack in talk, they tend to make up for in action.
Because they make excellent companions when driving through rough neighborhoods or walking past dark alleys.
Because they really love their moms, and they remind us of our dads.
Because they never care what their horoscope, their mother-in-law, nor the neighbors say.
Because they don’t lie about their age, their weight, or their clothing size.
Because they have an uncanny ability to look deeply into our eyes and connect with our heart, even when we don’t want them to.
Because when we say “I love you” they ask for an explanation.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
There are more people alive today...
Approximately 6% of all those people are alive today.
Figure 1: Human Population Growth over Time
The human population growth of the last century has been truly phenomenal. It required only 40 years after 1950 for the population to double from 2.5 billion to 5 billion. This doubling time is less than the average human lifetime. The world population passed 6 billion just before the end of the 20th century. Present estimates are for the population to reach 8-12 billion before the end of the 21st century. During each lecture hour, more than 10,000 new people enter the world, a rate of ~3 per second!
Of the 6 billion people, about half live in poverty and at least one fifth are severely undernourished. The rest live out their lives in comparative comfort and health.
Link: Population Growth Over Human History
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Joe & Eddie
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Feeding time
A group of otters wait for feeding time in their pen at the New Forest Wildlife Park, Hampshire
Picture: John Wines/BNPS (via Pictures of the day: 23 August 2010 - Telegraph)
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Cheap-labor Conservatives - holding us "Over a barrel"
- Cheap-labor conservatives don't like social spending or our "safety net". Why. Because when you're unemployed and desperate, corporations can pay you whatever they feel like – which is inevitably next to nothing. You see, they want you "over a barrel" and in a position to "work cheap or starve".
- Cheap-labor conservatives don't like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. Why. These reforms undo all of their efforts to keep you "over a barrel".
- Cheap-labor conservatives like "free trade", NAFTA, GATT, etc. Why. Because there is a huge supply of desperately poor people in the third world, who are "over a barrel", and will work cheap.
- Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a woman's right to choose. Why. Unwanted children are an economic burden that put poor women "over a barrel", forcing them to work cheap.
- Cheap-labor conservatives don't like unions. Why. Because when labor "sticks together", wages go up. That's why workers unionize. Seems workers don't like being "over a barrel".
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On the Internet no one knows...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Cookie Fortune
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Refusing at Fifty-Two
by Thomas Lynch
It came to him that he could nearly count
How many Octobers he had left to him
In increments of ten or, say, eleven
Thus: sixty-three, seventy-four, eighty-five.
He couldn't see himself at ninety-six—
Humanity's advances notwithstanding
In health-care, self-help, or new-age regimens—
What with his habits and family history,
The end he thought is nearer than you think.The future, thus confined to its contingencies,
The present moment opens like a gift:
The balding month, the grey week, the blue morning,
The hour's routine, the minute's passing glance—
All seem like godsends now. And what to make of this?
At the end the word that comes to him is Thanks.
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Monday, August 16, 2010
Test tasting...
erik parra at johansson projects 'between currencies' 6 x 7.5 inches collage on paper in his first solo exhibition 'between currencies', american artist erik parra examines the tension between the meticulously cut and the shredded with his juxtaposition of vintage pop media clippings and multicolored paper cutouts. the tangled layers of artificiality eminent in both the medium and the message- between black and white and RGB, history and desire, question the relevance of a search for american authenticity. |
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Ten Virtues Of Incense
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Ten Virtues Of Incense
Written by Martin J Frid at Saturday, August 07, 2010
Kurashi - The "Eco-Blog" - by Martin J Frid
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The Land of Giants
The Land of Giants Award Winner 2010 Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture Honorable Mention Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition This design transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape by making only small alterations to existing pylon design. |
Making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design, we have created a series of towers that are powerful, solemn and variable. These iconic pylon-figures will become monuments in the landscape. Seeing the pylon-figures will become an unforgettable experience, elevating the towers to something more than merely a functional design of necessity.
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Saturday, August 07, 2010
The American Nekkid Nightmare
Finally someone has stated the obvious ... Not only the emperor but all of us are nekkid ... My compliments to Michael Lind for doing his best in trying to tell us the truth.
The fantasy of a vast upper middle class
College isn't for everyone. Neither is the stock market
. . .
For a generation, most Americans have been told by left, right and center that they would be failures if they ended their educations with high school, worked hard, saved cash for emergencies and bought modest homes they could afford. They have been told that to succeed in life they need to ape the lifestyles of the upper middle class that provides most of America’s politicians, pundits and scholars.
The result has been an experiment in social engineering that has gone horribly wrong: the creation of a faux mass upper middle class. Millions of Americans who by objective standards belong to the working class or lower middle class have persuaded themselves that they are part of the professional-investor elite, because they have worthless degrees from diploma mills, negligible amounts invested in stocks, and suburban trophy houses they cannot afford. For the college graduates at Starbucks working to pay off student loans for degrees that they will never use, as for the millions of Americans who are now "underwater," owing more on their mortgages than their houses are worth, the American dream has turned into a nightmare.
LINK: The fantasy of a vast upper middle class
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Friday, August 06, 2010
And this person is a physician?
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Let loose the dogs... of rhetoric.
China's Rise and the Road to War
BY: JOHN LEE | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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Thursday, August 05, 2010
Jim Crow is Alive in Khali-phorn-i-ah
Jim Crow is Alive and Well in California
SB 1121 was hardly a radical-sounding piece of legislation. Among other things, it would have given California's 700,000 farm workers the right to take one day off out of every seven. Hourly paid agricultural employees would have received overtime pay after eight hours per day or 40 hours per week.
But when the bill landed on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk, he vetoed it, saying that the new provisions would put farmers out of business.
Had the law passed, California farm laborers would have been the first in the country to receive the right to overtime pay. In order to get his New Deal policies past southern Democrats in the 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt exempted field hands (most of whom were African-American at the time) from protections granted other workers. Those exemptions still stand.
"The governor had a chance to make history," Sen. Dean Florez, the bill's author, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "He had a chance to wipe a 70-year-old shame off the books of California. Instead he has decided to side with the shameful."
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Monday, August 02, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Chaos is the New Calm - Poets.org
by Wyn Cooper Chaos is the new calm
violence the new balm
to be spread on lips
unused to a kiss. Left is the new right
as I brace for a fight
with a man who stands
on his remaining hand.Fetid harbor harbor me
until someone is free
to drive me away
from what happened today.Don't strand me standing here.
If you leave, leave beer.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
I am throwing 80 years of First Amendment jurisprudence on its head
Judge Bars Reporter From Publishing Legally Obtained Factual Info, Saying She Doesn't Care If It Violates First Amendment
from the wow dept
Found via the Citizen Media Law Project is a report about how The National Law Journalwas barred from publishing information it had obtained legally in reporting about a dispute between a law firm and one of its former clients about fees. According to The National Law Journal, D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff signed a temporary restraining order barring it from publishing the material the reporter had found out, specifically saying that The National Law Journal could not name the government agency that was involved in a "regulatory inquiry" into one of the participants in the lawsuit. When the NLJ reporter pointed to the First Amendment, the judge allegedly replied that she did not care:
"If I am throwing 80 years of First Amendment jurisprudence on its head, so be it." She said the court's interest in maintaining the "integrity" of its docket trumped the First Amendment concern.Not surprisingly, the Journal is looking to appeal this ruling, but it really makes you wonder what the judge was thinking.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Japanese robot baby is terrifying
"This newest Japanese robot baby is terrifying. It is more proof of why we must order Japan to cease and desist in making any and all robots. There is no middle ground that can be had in this matter.""Japan has lead the world in robot production, for several years now. We’ve told about how they’ve created fire-breathing robots, robot priests, ‘companion’ robots for dire pleasures and even friend-ship robots, to teach and talk to children when they are lonely. All of these things are immoral and against natural order.There is nothing to replace a good, standard relationship between humans as was ordained by our creation. If robots were meant to be, they would have been accounted for in the creation story. Instead, these machines will be used to try to usurp mankind’s role in our very own lives."
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Recovery or Getting on with your life.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Time to break the "Windows = Computing" paradigm
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Feed the world's hungry with... wait for it...
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NASA maps forests
NASA Uses Space Lasers to Map the World’s Forests [PICS]
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Extending grace, worthy of praise
'mantle' mosque by daniel andersson and christiane flügel
all images courtesy of daniel andersson, christiane flügel and via traffic
'mantle' by freelance architects daniel andersson (finland) and christiane flügel (germany)
is a shortlisted competition entry for the 'design as reform' competition organized by dubai-based
design collective traffic. the architecture category of the multi-disciplinary competition called
for the design of a new, contemporary mosque.
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Anonymous Comments a Right? NO! A privilege
Should people be allowed to comment anonymously online? That question is currently making its way through the U.S. legal system. A New York couple has issued dragnet subpoenas to Google and Yahoo demanding the identities of users behind 10 email accounts, 30 blog operators, website administrators, and the identities of anyone who had ever commented on those sites. That's hundreds of people! Riding to the rescue of our privacy and freedom are our heroes -- the EFF.
Anonymous comments should be a privilege. Now here is the very hard part - this is a privilege earned not by position, reputation or political sway but by a much more rigorous criteria - content. Anonymous comments should be allowed to exist only if the content warrants its existence. Common sense, albeit scarce in these quickly evolving times, should be used to temper decisions about whether a given anonymous post should be allowed to exist or not.
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Happy Birthday Nelson Madela (92)
Nelson Mandela is surrounded by children at his home in Johannesburg yesterday.
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EFF: many remain critical of Google
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Saturday, July 17, 2010
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Bad Day #19
Madhuri, an Indian elephant, swings a monitor lizard around by its tail. The unlucky creature had been swept off the ground and was carried around for a number of days by the elephant. With its tail firmly clamped in the animal’s trunk the lizard was swung around and occasionally put back on the ground. The scene was captured by Jagdeep Rajput during a trip to Corbett National Park in India
Picture: Jagdeep Rajput /Solent (via Pictures of the day: 14 July 2010 - Telegraph)
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Reality Overated? Or, we don't need no stinking facts...
By MAX FISHER on July 13, 2010 11:48am
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Alternative Views...
'role reversal' 2005
acrylic plastic, 165 x 175 x 175 cm
courtesy of cosmic galerie, paris
'role reversal' 2005
acrylic plastic, 165 x 175 x 175 cm
courtesy of cosmic galerie, paris
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Very strange business model
By Mary Jo Foley | July 12, 2010, 8:03pm PDT
The way Microsoft is phrasing the new end of life dates for XP is less clear-cut. The Microsoft “Blogging Windows” blog, in a July 12 post, explained it this way:
“(W)e have decided to extend downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional beyond the previously planned end date at Windows 7 SP1. This will help maintain consistency for downgrade rights throughout the Windows 7 lifecycle. As a result, the OEM versions of Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate will continue to include downgrade rights to the similar versions of Windows Vista or Windows XP Professional. Going forward, businesses can continue to purchase new PCs and utilize end user downgrade rights to Windows XP or Windows Vista until they are ready to use Windows 7.”
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Isn't it FUDdy, isn't it lame...
I find it humorous in the extreme that Microsolth can't even mount a credible FUD campaign any more.
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Monday, July 12, 2010
'American Splendor' passes...
Link = New York Times
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Genius ... another perspective.
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Friday, July 09, 2010
Obvious signs have become necessary...
"Don't Commit Crime" is stated on one of Hertfordshire Constabulary's posters - "All fuel must be paid for" has been added on posters at petrol stations. Language watchdogs the Plain English Campaign said the notices were funny, but an insult to people's intelligence. Herts police defended the notices saying the obvious was worth stating if it had any impact on crime. A police spokeswoman said: "We are not saying it is going to stop hardened criminals but it may make someone who is nervous think twice." The campaign group described the signs as examples of "talking in a vacuum". | ||
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
Dick-o'-the-day!
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That’s what Chrome OS is, you know...
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
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Monday, July 05, 2010
Planck telescope reveals ancient cosmic light
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More zen?
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Zazen, nah, takes too long.
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