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This Saturday, November 22nd, fellow guest blogger Todd Lappin of Telstar Logistics, will be leading a free, public walking photo tour on Treasure Island that is being organized by the website Photojojo.
A man-made island originally built to host a 1939 World’s Fair, Treasure Island was once home to fantastic (but ephemeral) architecture, gala displays, and the (in)famous Gayway — a bawdy playland for World’s Fair visitors. Treasure Island was also intended to serve as an airport. With the outbreak of World War II, the US Navy took over the island, and it remained in Navy hands until the base was closed in 1994. Elements of all this history survive to this day, but Treasure Island’s abandoned state also makes the island feel spooky — like a post-Apocalyptic ghost town floating in the middle of San Francisco Bay.
After this photo safari, we’ll meet up at a bar back in the city to share photos, have a few drinks and give away prizes.
If you’re interested in this weekend’s photo safari, more information is available on the Facebook or Upcoming event pages.
For those who missed us last time, we’ve also put together a short video of the event.
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Photojojo’s Urban Ruins Photo Safari on Treasure Island
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So I was considering buying that robot kit I posted about the other day. "Considering" because it's like a thousand bucks, and I'm not sure it's a thousand bucks worth of entertainment. Two fifty, surely, but a grand? But then I did some more poking around and hit the part of the assembly instructions that go, "Now download flargle.exe, connect to COM1 and diddle the flibbidy registers". So I emailed them, asking, "Really?" Turns out? "Yeah." Apparently the entire hobbyist-robotics industry assumes a substrate of Windows. What the hell guys.
So, now this is sounding less like "a fun 3d jigsaw puzzle to assemble! And when you're done, it walks!" and more like, "figure out how to get your Mac to run Windows (which it does not have) to talk to a serial port (which it does not have) to run UI software written by a hardware guy". Aside from the part of this that is clearly against Policy, this also sounds like a heaping dollop of Not Fun. In fact, my back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that the entertainment value of this toy decreases by about $25 per minute spent screwing around with the serial port. It's hard to assign a value to time spent in Windows, because I'd have to be pretty heavily sedated to even consider that, so I imagine my sense of time would be skewed. Still, I think it's in the red before I even open the box.
Also! Apparently the robot's software is written in Excel! No, seriously.
Plus side to all this? We need not worry about Skynet.
I am, however, Jack's seething cybernetic disappointment.
we just tried this, it works
thank god for the black bar
Tuesday night's first filmic performance by the band ADULT. (for there were two back-to-back performances) was full of familiar faces as well as just plain full. Local electronic intelligentsia, from theremin players (Kevin Li of Seksu Roba) to three-year-old impressers (DJ Lance Rock from Yo! Gabba! Gabba!) sat captivated as the ...
I agree with John Gruber on this one, so far Tweetie is the best iPhone app for Twitter out there (I’m sure more are on the way). It’s meets most of my mobile Twitter requirements. You can download it for $2.99 from the iTunes Store.
Here’s a breakdown of it’s features:
- Handle multiple twitter accounts.
- View your timeline, replies, direct messages and favorites.
- Browse your friends and followers.
- Post new tweets, retweet
- Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages.
- Follow and unfollow people.
- Mark tweets as favorites.
- Navigate reply chains.
- Inline web browser.
- Post links with automatic link shrinking via bit.ly.
- Upload pictures to twitpic.com.
- Update your twitter location.
- View twitter trends and perform custom searches.
- Save your favorite searches.
- Implements the full twitter API.
- Uses secure connection (https).
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I thought this branded lanyard said "TRIFORCE". It says "TRIFORK".
MUMBAI, INDIA – Eleven year old Pruthviraj Patil, the world famous Indian Wolf Boy, has taken the helm of the multi-million dollar company. For the first time in its history, the Hair Club For Men has named a President that is not American. "We are pleased to announce that Patil has ...
the blinking doesn't stop when you donate
yeah, that's probably more important
pedro: http://www.kottke.org/08/11/beards-and-moustaches
I love holiday ornaments that you can leave up all year 'round.* 
Each one has been hand thrown on the wheel then hand formed to create these whimsical yet sophisticated forms. Although they appear delicate, they are actually quite strong and durable. They’ve been left unglazed and I’ve sanded the surface so they also have a very soft, appealing feel and a very sculptural appearance.
Supermarket :: Whirl Ornament from Kim Westad
*I have a ceramic origami bird that my sis gave me last year. It's been up since since December 2007.
“Fanboys” is a film that takes place 1998 where three friends, anxious for the release of “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, attempt to break into George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch to steal an advance print of the film. Their motivation, one of them is dying from cancer and wants to see it before he dies. The film is directed by Kyle Newman with a release date set for February 6th, 2009 (more on Wikipedia).
via Steve Hemmerstoffer & Neatorama
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TASTY! (maybe already posted)
The largest-ever migration of baby harp seal robots from Japan is about to begin, following an agreement by Denmark to purchase 1,000 of them for use in health care facilities. Paro, a human-interactive robotic seal developed by Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), has scientifically demonstrated the ability to elicit emotions, activate the mind and calm nerves in patients at hospitals and nursing homes, earning it the Guinness title of “world’s most therapeutic robot.” Although the well-traveled Paro now resides at welfare institutions in more than 20 nations around the world, the Danish government is the first organization to make a large-scale purchase. Denmark aims to have the Paro robots in their new homes by 2011.
Button, button, who's got the button? This fantastically creepy little film seems to have them in droves. Coraline-- the 3D stop-motion brain baby of Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick-- doesn't hit theatres until February, but the tease has already started.
Go here. Type in the key: moustachio. Be prepared to giggle. A lot.
There are more secret keys at the lovely Despoiler which actually yield bits of the film and behind the scenes goodness. (So very, very pretty. Even with the scary buttons.)
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I've been immersed in the new LIFE magazine photo archive on Google for the past few days. I've utterly lost myself within the nooks and crannies of this immense labyrinth of historic photos reaching all the way back to the 1860s, with etchings going back as far as 1750 or so. I love to wander over to May 22, 1886 and watch Isabel and Nellie Harter skipping rope, then swing over to 1938 and ogle the lovelies at the Rose Dor Farms Reducing School. (Seriously, what are they doing to those women?!).
So that's my offering for the day. And the most super excellent thing of all is, you can order ANY of these photos as a print.
For your walls.
In your house.
Yeah, I KNOW.
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In the 19th century, both barn raisings and amputations were community affairs
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wait a second, this was 1990. did anyone know what "packets" meant?
security is hard, part ten gazillion
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4743376a6479.html <- Jonestown very-lite
For a show that is about attention to detail, the title sequence to Dexter drives me crazy. It opens with him shaving in spooky macro, but by the time he's done spookily making breakfast, he has three days of stubble. Come on, dude. Keep your story straight.
Tonight at the Digg Meetup at Mighty in San Francisco Jelly Donut and Two Touch rocked the mic, then introduced MC Hammer who took the stage and lead a big dance off.
Here’s Jelly Donut and Two Touch doing a freestyle rap to random words that Aubrey Sabala of Digg collected from the crowd.
Here are a few photos from the event.
video & photos by Scott Beale
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This guy draws wholly fictional maps for the fun of it.
It turns out that there is a film in which a blurry shadow on a black background hisses at a blurry shadow on a black background which clicks and purrs. Also, briefly, some rednecks get nuked. This film is easy to sleep through, because of the smooth, narcotic consistency of both the sound (with the hissing and the purring) and the visuals (black). I think this film was called Alien v Predator Requiem.
A co-worker just turned me on to this. It appeals to me on so many levels - my weaknesses for Buddhist chants, transistor radios, sound machines... I couldn't press "Buy" fast enough.
Check out the sound samples. Very cool, if you like this sort of thing. At $23, it could be a nice little gift for your fave gadget geek, music nerd or new age-y pal. 
The Buddha Machine is a little plastic box that plays music.
Specifically, FM3 constructed nine drones, varying from two seconds to 42 seconds, which repeat endlessly in the listener’s ear until the “track” is switched to the next drone (or the two AA batteries run out).
The machine has its own built-in speaker, in case one would like to fill a room with the drones, but there is also a headphone jack for more personal meditative experiences. There’s a switch on the side that allows for traversal of the tracks, and a DC jack (though an adapter is not included) for those who would like the Buddha Machine experience be truly endless.
In a way, it’s like the cheapest pre-loaded iPod you’ll ever be able to buy.
FM3 BUDDHA MACHINE
(Thanks, Jim!)
It’s not everyday that you go to see one of your favorite bands and one of your favorite recent discoveries is opening for them. But that’s just what happened when I got to see Blitzen Trapper open for Iron & Wine at Rams Head Live in Baltimore last night. Both bands played to a packed and enthusiastic crowd, and both played great sets. But one of them really surprised me.
Blitzen Trapper opened the show with their mix of classic and off-the-wall rock. Their rockers rocked. Their ballads were tight and effective. And the rest was a little odd. But over all they didn’t disappoint at all.
“Echo”
Iron & Wine broke their set into a separate mini-sets of sorts. Initially Sam and Sarah Beam came out and played some of their older songs as a duet.
“Each Passing Night”
They mixed a new song into that part of the set, though they didn’t give a name:
Then things got interesting. They brought out the rest of the band, Sam switched to an electric guitar, and Sarah hooked her violin up to a wah pedal. Then they did something I never thought I’d see: Iron & Wine turned into a jam band. They played new and interesting arrangements of songs from The Shepherd’s Dog, and transitioned them into equally new and interesting arrangements of older songs. Not only were the arrangements different, they rocked. People were dancing. At an Iron & Wine show. Amazing.
The music wasn’t the only surprising thing. The last time I saw Iron & Wine Sam was very quiet between sets. Last night he was positively chatty. He talked about being in Baltimore, reacted to the crowd, and even told jokes. He was a completely different Sam.
So overall I got a set that completely defied my expectations. Luckily it was better than I imagined it would be. If you have a chance to catch up with Blitzen Trapper and Iron & Wine I highly recommend it.
No tags for this post.Penny Brush Has Powder, Too
THE penny toothbrush is here. A Hollywood dentist has designed a new type of brush to be put up in packets of five in a sealed glassine container. The compressed cotton top, with ridges to simulate bristles, is covered with a film of dental powder. Brush is ready to use.
No tags for this post.Water Golf Is Played From Rafts
THERE are no water hazards on a certain golf course in Pasadena, California—the entire course is laid out on the water. Caddies paddle the golfers about the course on tiny rafts. The holes are floating cups, anchored in position.
No tags for this post.Pontoon Boat Aims at 150-Mile Speed
Strange Craft Has Tractor Propeller Under Its Cockpit and Draws Inch of Water
SAFE water travel, at speeds that only the most daring race pilots now attempt, is brought within reach of everyone by a radically new type of water craft. When suitable motors are installed, the inventor expects it to shatter all records and attain 150 miles an hour. Despite its swiftness, the airplane-shaped boat demonstrated extraordinary stability in its first trials on Long Island Sound, N. Y., the other day. It amazed marine experts among the spectators by turning around in its own length, at high speed, without upsetting.
The inventor, Thomas A. E. Lake, son of Simon Lake, famous builder of submarines, predicts that his superspeedboat will banish risk and discomfort from two-mile-a-minute water travel. It skims the surface on three pontoons equipped with shock-absorbers drawing only an inch of water when in motion. The wide span of the forward pair of pontoons accounts for the craft’s stability. When the helmsman turns the steering wheel, the rear pontoon pivots to serve as a rudder. Meanwhile, through interlocking levers, the forward pontoons are automatically banked to aid in rounding a turn. A tractor-type propeller, beneath the center of the twenty-one-foot craft, pulls it along. The whole boat rotates about this center when a turn is made. A thirty-five horsepower outboard motor was used in the experimental trials, and installed just in front of the pilot’s seat so the hinged propeller shaft could be drawn up into the cockpit.
No tags for this post.Here comes TV for everybody
The whole country, and not just a few metropolitan centers, will enjoy television when new ultra-high-frequency stations go on the air.
IF YOUR home is outside the TV areas today, it is almost sure to be inside one within a few years. If you now can get only one or two stations, you’ll have a wider choice pretty soon.
Right now a total of 108 television stations are on the air. They all use waves from four to 18 feet long in the very-high-frequency range, called VHF. In the VHF range, only a few hundred stations can be fitted without interfering with each other. That’s barely enough to whet the American TV appetite. Now television is about to invade a new region of radio waves so short that they act almost like radar. These tiny waves, already explored but unused at present, promise you TV shows no matter where you live.
Already 1,357 stations using 52 channels in this ultra-high-frequency range—UHF— have been tentatively allocated B the Federal Communications Commission. Nearly all are for cities with less than 50,000 population. In addition, many new stations are to be set up in the VHF range already in use for TV. The combination should provide 2,000 TV stations within a few years, predicts FCC Chairman Wayne Coy, extending television’s ringside seat on the world to practically every family in the U.S.
What’s the Difference?
Shorter waves allow more stations, but they also bring some complications. The pictures wont look any different, and they can be either color or black-and-white. But UHF does not travel so far—about 15 miles against the 40 miles covered by today’s VHF. (This is an advantage as well as disadvantage: stations can be closer together without interference.) And since UHF acts somewhat like radar, it is more easily blocked by buildings and even the leaves of m trees. On the credit side is a greater immunity to trouble from automobile ignition systems, neon signs and electrical machinery. Present TV receivers and antennas are made for VHF, not UHF. To pick up the UHF stations, they will have to be changed. Fortunately, the conversion job is simple. The cost is expected to range between $20 and $75.
Experiment til Converters Made Nearly all manufacturers have made experimental attachments that will enable standard television receivers to pick up UHF stations. Most of them work by changing the UHF to a frequency now used for one of the VHF channels* The standard set then handles this reduced frequency just as if it were tuned to that VHF channel: Crosley, General Electric and RCA, among others, have demonstrated converter attachments that look like table-model radios. They are wired to the inside of the standard set. To operate one, you simply flip a switch and turn the converter dial to the UHF channel you want. The converter covers all UHF channels. Probable cost: $30 to $50. With the UHF switch off, the standard set works as it always did for the VHF stations. Eventually, when a sizable number of UHF stations are on the air, such converters will undoubtedly be standard equipment, built inside sets.
Other manufacturers—Zenith and Admiral for example—plan an even simpler method of converting their sets. Their present models use “turret tuners”: connected to the station-selector knob is a drum made up of 12 metal strips, each strip containing the electronic parts needed to tune in one of today’s 12 VHF channels. While the drum comes equipped with 12 timing strips, no more than seven are used in any one locality because no more than seven VHF channels are allocated to one area. That means the unused VHF strips can be replaced with strips that will tune in UHF channels.
The tuning-strip system has the advantage of low cost—a UHF strip should cost about $10. And it is simple—nothing shows outside the regular set, there are no extra switches or dials, and installation is a 10-minute job that requires no tools.
Antenna Change Simpler Yet Since UHF waves are so much shorter than VHF, you will need a special antenna to catch them. But it will be small and inexpensive. It would be mounted on top of the mast holding the VHF elements.
Several designs for antennas have already come from experiments with UHF (notably RCA’s in Bridgeport, Conn., PS, Aug. ‘50, p. 111). They range from the tiny and cheap “bow tie,” which works best five or six miles from the transmitter, through the efficient “stacked vee” and highly directive, almost ghostproof “rhombic,” to the very sensitive “parabolic” and “corner reflector.”
Technically, UHF is here. But actually, only a few experimental stations are operating. The FCC’s allocations are tentative and will not be made final until public hearings are completed. So it is bound to be a year or so before the first commercial UHF telecasts begin, and several years before you can settle down in your own favorite chair in towns from Ajo, Ariz., to Millinocket, Me.—towns that never had television before—to watch the Rose Bowl game being played thousands of miles away.
No tags for this post.Target Range Under Water
UNDERWATER target practice with rubber-band guns is a novel sport recently introduced in Florida. Donning water goggles, contestants dive below the surface with bamboo guns fitted at one end with heavy elastic bands that fire steel-tipped spears about three and a half feet long. After each shot, the contestant bobs up to the surface for a breath of air before returning to the underwater range. Remarkable accuracy is obtained with the curious spear guns, it is said.
yep, that's Unix all right
Tags: sexualityHOW MEN AND WOMEN LOOK AT SEX
When it comes to matters of a sexual nature, it all depends on viewpoint—his or hers!
by Lester A Kirkendall, Ph.D.
Dr. Kirkendall, Professor of Family Life at Oregon State University, is author of “Sex Education as Human Relations,” “Premarital Intercourse and Interpersonal Relationships,” and many other writings.
Men and women cannot look at sex in the same way, but they are only dimly aware of this fact. The fact of being male or female means, inevitably, that sex will be seen from different points of view.
Nor does this promise to change! So long as men produce only the sperm which begins the entire reproductive process, and so long as women bear the children, these differences will exist.
Physically, women can become victims of a sexual mistake: they can become pregnant. As a result girls are protected and supervised more strictly than boys from a very early age.As a consequence, girls very often resent these restrictions and the fact that boys have greater freedom and more privileges. Some of the bitterness and some of the hard feelings between the sexes which appear later in life arise from just this situation.
Generally a boy can have the key to the house, leave and return home without being closely questioned, walk the streets after dark, and set his own hours. A girl can not.
Puberty, or the coming of physical maturity, affects boys and girls differently. Once menstruation begins, the girl faces a monthly event which will influence a number of her activities. Menstruation is a more serious matter for some girls than others, but for all girls it brings an awareness of sex and the significance of the reproductive processes which differs from that of boys.
At best, for girls, menstruation is something to be attended to; it is probably much of the time a nuisance, and for some even a disturbing or a miserable event.
Boys? Well, they may have nocturnal emissions if they are not masturbating too frequently for this to happen. But these in no way upset their routine. If a boy wants to play football next week, he doesn’t have to check his calendar. The need for relating his activities to the functioning of his reproductive system never occrurs to him.
Intercourse for an intelligent girl aware of her own physiology can hardly be entered in the same casual way a boy can enter it. A boy can be almost certain of finding physical pleasure and achieving an orgasm; a girl is less likely to experience this pleasure.
If conception should result from casual intercourse, the boy’s part is done; the girl’s is only begun. Without doubt there are some men who are parents without knowing it; one can be sure this is not true for women.
With pregnancy there are many obvious developments for the girl. She experiences a change in her figure. There is the problem of clothes, the matter of nutrition for the developing child, and the difficulty (in the later stages of pregnancy) in moving about. There may be fear of the physical consequences of giving birth.
If the pregnancy is outside marriage, and if the relationship was casual, the woman is almost entirely on her own except as family and friends can, and will, help. Her sexual partner is out of the picture; he may not even know what is happening.
Even in marital pregnancy the husband has difficulty in really becoming a vital part of the experience. One evidence of this is the efforts of family life education organizations to help husbands become more nearly partners in the process of pregnancy and childbirth.
There is no choice, however, on the part of the mother. She is a part of it whether she wants to he or not—and there is no getting out of it.
The same things which have been said about the relation of the male and female to pregnancy can be said with reference to childbirth. It is something the father can participate in only at secondhand.
With childbirth comes the production of milk, nursing and car- ing for the child. This means still another change in figure, and a prolonged period of confinement. With pregnancy, childbirth and the care of children comes a restriction of movement not experienced by men.
The amount of lifting and carrying which a mother does in caring for a child before he can walk, if computed in foot - pounds of work, would doubtless mount to a surprising figure.
In the case of a wanted pregnancy, most women find all this a joy. They are fulfilling a speical function in a very different way than a man can. This does not change the point, however. Intercourse, conception, pregnancy, childbirth and child care are still matters which have a different significance for men and women, and result in their having different feelings and attitudes toward sex.
The points which have been discussed thus far relate to the early or middle years of life. Toward the latter part of life comes the menopause, and it too is experienced differently by the two sexes. I often ask both men and women if there is a male menopause. Replies range all the way from those who are sure there is, to those who are sure there is not. This uncertainty does not exist, however, in regard to the female menopause. Everyone is clearly aware of its existence.
So the different functioning of the reproductive system produces differences in sexual attitudes and behavior throughout the lives of i men and women. If nothing more than physiology was involved, the two sexes would have to look at sex and sexual participation in different ways. But more is involved.
Around these differences which result from physiology is a network of social practices which further divide the sexes so far as attitudes toward sex are concerned.
One of the most obvious of these ways is the double standard. Under the double standard women have always been more harshly critieized for sexual experimentation and participation than men are. Men are able to take part in casual relationships with little or no criticism. Their activities may be accepted indulgently as “sowing their wild oats.” Such behavior on the part of women is much more severely condemned.
These attitudes are changing. however, and it is quite possible that the double standard will gradually disappear. In fact, Dr. Ira L. Reiss in his study Premarital Sex Standards in America feels that this is exactly what is happening.
Still we can be sure that the biological difference, which can never be erased, will mean that men and women can never look at sexual functioning, the sexual relationship, and the production of children in exactly the same way.
This means that sex education should be much more than providing facts about reproduction. Parents and teachers who wish to provide young people with a good sex education need to be aware of the problems and feelings of both males and females. Most people lack a keen awareness of the problems of the other sex.
For a good sex education then, both men and women need to have a hand in the sex education of both boys and girls. But before they begin they would do well to educate each other — in all due respects, and apart from the children.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, a third-world country, or Nebraska for the last 30 years you know The Bee Gees’ “Staying Alive”. And if you’ve been reading this site for a while you know who The Rosebuds are. But I bet you can’t imagine The Rosebuds, in all their indie-rock glory, covering “Staying Alive”. Well imagine no more:
Their take is darker, more brooding than the falsetto-laden original. It’s a cool twist on the song that spawned John Travolta, for better or worse.
"The naive person would just say fallback to software, and I spit on them."
Randall
oh yeah, I can do this.
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Tesla Roadster, Being A Dick In A Parking Lot
If you can't afford to have me for tea (and at those prices, who can blame you?) it might be wiser to just bid for me playing the drums...
(I do not play drums. Even when I was in a band I did not play drums.)
It's one of an amazing bunch of things that have just gone up on ebay from the CBLDF, who appear to have released everything cool they've been sitting on this year all at once. You want a character from the Sandman 20th Anniversary poster? You want the background from the Sandman Anniversary poster? The last of the "altfanthingie" Jill Thompson tee shirts? You want the Sandman-Hellboy crossover drawn by Mike Mignola and me?
In addition to the drawing by me and Mike, there's also drawings by me and Jeff Smith, Colleen Doran, Paul Pope, Larry Marder, Jim Valentino, Amanda Conner, Darwyn Cooke, David Gianfelice, Eduardo Risso, Jeffrey Brown (I think this one may be my favourite), Kyle Baker and Nikki Cooke... You want one? You know someone who would like one for Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, Mithrastide, or I'm-An-Atheist-But-I-Don't-See-Why-I-Can't-Have-A-Party-And-Presents-Day?
Then you go to this ebay link, and go shopping for the Holidays...
...
And when all of those things are done and gone and sold, M+E designs will still be there, Emma Straub and Michael Fusco, making amazingly cool posters.
Also, I got a happy call from my editor to say that The Graveyard Book is now in its seventh week on the New York Times children's list. (Two weeks at number one, then a drop to number six, and the last four weeks sitting cheerfully at number four.) I haven't wanted to say anything for fear of jinxing it, but it makes me much happier to still be at number four than it ever did to get to number one. Number One meant that I went on tour and we made a lot of noise; seven weeks later, Number Four means that people are telling each other about the book, and buying it on word of mouth, and that makes me happier than anything.)
This has to be some of you.
"A frail old man lost in space and time. They give him this name because they don't know who he is. He seems not to remember where he has come from; he is suspicious and capable of sudden malignance; he seems to have some undefined energy; he is searching for something as well as fleeing from something. He has a 'machine' which enables them to travel together ...
Huffington Post is reporting on a San Francisco scare tactics video aired by Bill O’Reilly, yes the same asshat who wouldn’t mind if Al Qaeda attacked San Francisco.
Bill O’Reilly is scared. As a daring crusader on the side of “traditional America” in the war against “secular progressives,” O’Reilly fears that the “far left” will push President-elect Obama to embrace their values. As an example of the horrors that would befall us if this were to happen, O’Reilly offers up a surreal pseudo-documentary of San Francisco. O’Reilly sends producer Jesse Waters, whose sole journalistic value seems to be his utter lack of shame at chasing after and ambushing anyone O’Reilly points his finger at, to San Francisco because it represents ‘far left government’ at work.
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Surgeons replaced the damaged windpipe of Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old mother of two, with one created from stem cells grown in a laboratory at Bristol University.Ms Castillo's operation required a section of windpipe from an organ donor as a "scaffold" for the stem cells - meaning the technique will not immediately solve the shortage of donor organs. However, it is hoped that eventually artificial scaffolds can be made which would avoid the need for donor organs completely.
To create the new airway scientists originally started with a donor windpipe which they stripped of all its cells, using a new technique developed by Padua University, leaving just a form of "scaffold" which they then encouraged Ms Castillo's cells to grow around. After growing a 5cm-long trachea in the lab, the scientists then carried out the operation to transplant it into the patient.
Doctors have previously been unsuccessful in attempting to transplant a windpipe from one human to another, because the large amount of immune-system suppressing drugs needed to ensure that the body would not immediately reject the organ. Severe infections, bleeding and tissue death have led to other trachea transplants failing.
Great, simple, clever illustrations by Paul Kreitmann.
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Santacon 2008 events are currently being planned around the world in December as Christmas approaches. Over on santarchy.com I’ve been actively tracking the cities currently being targeted for Santarchy invasions.
To get a better idea of what Santarchy is all about, here’s my 40 minute documentary on the 1996 Santacon in Portland “You’d Better Watch Out: Portland Santacon ‘96″.
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Santacon 2008, Global Santarchy Invasion Planned For December
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Man, I remember playing this as a kid, and doing quite well at it.
After a 6 year hiatus, Derek Powazek has re-launched his website Kvetch!, which now allows people to post their grips and complaints anonymously via Twitter.
You know all those things you wish you could post to Twitter but don’t want to say with your name on them? Those brilliant angry complaints that would feel so good to get off your chest? Now you can.
Kvetch is an anonymous oracle of complaint. Kvetches are displayed randomly and anonymously. There are no permalinks and no search mechanism. Just enjoy the moment.
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Kvetch! Let It All Out on Twitter
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The next time someone asks you a question that could easily by found on Google, send give them this link: letmegooglethatforyou.com
Here it is in action with the question “What is Google?”
See Also: justfuckinggoogleit.com [via Charles Hope]
Thanks to Spacemonkey for the tip!
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Eric Joyner knows that robots and donuts are a delightful combination, as evidenced by “Robot R&R” (2005) and many other paintings in his “Tin Robots” series.
Eric’s work is also featured in the new limited edition book “Robots & Donuts”.
paintings by Eric Joyner
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Eric Joyner Explores The World of Robots & Donuts
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This is kind of fascinating. It doesn't seem like the most practical building material, but I'm guessing the monks know what they're doing.
The Wat Pa Maha Chedio Kaew temple has found a way to bottle-up Nirvana, literally. The temple, which sits in Thaisland’s Sisaket province, roughly 370 miles northeast of Bangkok is made of more than a million recycled glass bottles. True to its nickname, “Wat Lan Kuad” or “Temple of Million Bottles” features glass bottles throughout the premises of the temple, including the crematorium, surrounding shelters, and yes – even the toilets. There’s an estimated 1.5 million recycled bottles built into the temple, and as you might have guessed, they are committed to recycling more. After all, the more bottles they get, the more buildings they are able to construct.
As Green as it gets...The Beer Bottle...Buddhist Temple. - MyarchN
