Concrete ghost town.
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Beautiful essay on human consciousness.
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We bought a tea kettle today and the whistle turned out to be shrill and unpleasant. Should we learn to live with it, or endeavor to listen to 18 tea kettle whistles in hopes of finding a fun (or at least pleasant) one we’ll look forward to hearing?
"The good thing is, it's solid," he said, rapping the shed's metal walls. "It doesn't leak at all."Zephania Nyabanga speaks four languages, earned a bachelor's degree in Kenya and a master's in Indiana, and lives in an abandoned shed in the woods of Northern Virginia.
By any measure, Prince George's County Maryland police have shot and killed people at rates that exceed those of nearly any other large police force in the nation.washingtonpost.com: Police Shootings. This same-old story ought to earn the Post a Pulitzer.
In 1995, police shot and wounded a man who allegedly tried to run over an officer with a Chevy Blazer. A jury acquitted the man of assault after he and other witnesses testified that the vehicle was not moving and that he had raised his hands to surrender when he was shot.
In 1997, police said they shot and killed a distraught college student because he attacked them with a knife. When his family sued years later, the officers admitted under oath that the dead man never touched the alleged weapon — which turned out to be a butter knife sitting on a kitchen counter.
In 1998, two officers said they fatally shot a Landover teenager in self-defense after he tried to grab their guns. In fact, records indicate he was shot 13 times in the back while he was unconscious and lying facedown on the floor.
Looking around my kitchen, I see that I can make tarragon pills, salt pills, heavy cream pills and breadcrumb pills. You can pipe frosting into the capsules, or fill them with caramel sauce or melted chocolate, for a dessert you don't even have to taste.Flak Magazine: Review of "empty vegetarian capsules"
If you’ve never been to Disinformation, it’s worth a visit.
Did I mean: let’s wig out at danko’s? No.
Driving Meditation by Tich Nhat HanhWhen we see a red light or a stop sign, we can smile at it and thank it, because it is a bodhisattva helping us return to the present moment. The red light is a bell of mindfulness. We may have thought of it as an enemy, preventing us from achieving our goal. But now we know the red light is our friend, helping us resist rushing and calling us to return to the present moment where we can meet with life, joy and peace. Even if you are not the driver, you can help everyone in the car if you breathe and smile.
Gothic gardens, corpse compost, naturist naturalists, world wide weeding? The New York Times Magazine: Extreme Gardening
The dreaded summer newsletter.
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World New York: Most people who claim they live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, don’t.
Smoking pot and tripping your brains out.
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Fillmore West (once called Carousel) shut its doors on July 4, 1971.
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Next week the Olympics will probably go to Beijing. I have mixed feelings about this - the PLA freaks me out ‘cause of where I live. I wish they would get rid of the Olympics.
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Mike Godwin on the horror of DMCA.
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He inspired this pothead to go to law school.
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Funky comet A2 is visible in the early a.m.
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Later, they started handing out fake parking tickets to drivers they thought were dangerous. The concept was to actually create a people's database of dangerous drivers. The uses of such data was never clearly worked out. That and the many hostile encounters with drivers after handing them the "tickets" led to the project being scrapped.Carmageddon, from Collision of Interests, a NY-oriented anti-car archive.
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Drudge in Miami.
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