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If you saw my check, you'd understand.Pedro Gomez sets up portable toilets in New York City.
If you saw my check, you'd understand.Pedro Gomez sets up portable toilets in New York City.
I love outdoor art. Washingtonpost.com has a small photo gallery depicting murals from throughout the nation’s capital. The best murals are probably found in the West and SouthwestΒLos Angeles (the mural capital of the world), Austin, San Francisco, Tucson and San Diego have some great ones.
Phil Greenspun’s online photo-illustrated Travels with Samantha makes me long for the open road and the beautiful countryside my wife and I saw on our honeymoon. Her favorite spot was Yellowstone. I’ll never forget skinny-dipping in Lake Powell.
“frontwheeldrive humbly attempts to bring intelligent reporting to emerging sciences such as Artificial Intelligence, Memetics, Complexity, Chaos Theory and the like with a nod toward design and an open eye on new media. Forever forward in the pursuit of positive stimuli. Information in formation.” It does a good job, and boasts some big names.
“PliNkit! is a collection of useful links that work very well, or are designed for viewing on a palmtop computer. It is designed to be a no frills easy to navigate listing of these sites.” One day I will have my cell phone hooked up to my Palm III and that day I will come to randomWalks and search for “lynx” and find this post because it has the word lynx in it. Then I will bookmark PliNkit! on my Palm and never think about this post again.
Look here: say you have a disk that can spin, and so you put a pail of milk on it and you make it spin. You will see the milk go up the side of the pail, and fly over and out onto the disk. No big deal, eh? The spin will make a pull. But now what if you said that the pail of milk is your "at rest"? Then you have you and the sky and all that in a big huge spin, and the disk with its pail of milk is the only body that is "at rest", yes? How can you say then why the milk goes up? What can make the at-rest milk fly out of the pail like that?Brian Raiter explains the theory of relativity in very short words of no more than four letters.
I was hitchhiking around Europe in 1971, when I was 18, with this copy of A Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe. At one point I found myself lying in the middle of a field, a little bit drunk, when it occurred to me that somebody should write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It didn't occur to me that it might actually be me years later.CNN is reporting that author Douglas Adams died of a heart attack on Friday. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
rft’s photography / Tips and Tricks contains “helpful information for working with digital photos [and especially those] taken with the Nikon Coolpix 950 or Nikon Coolpix 990.”
OH. Now I get it!(doing a V-8 head slap)...getting your system to run Myst III is the first puzzle of the game! Ubisoft is pure genius...(where's the cheat?)...Overheard on the Myst III: Exile tech support forum.
OC Weekly regular Alison M. Rosen is the funniest writer in the history of free papers. Her recent master-works cover phallic Christian vegetables, Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light (tm), and penis duplication kits.
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Read CNN.com without the ads. You can thank me later. Also, Nic’s tricks filter Salon and Slate, stripping out the tables and graphics with a short perl script and serving up the articles like it’s 1994. Dig it. This page of lookups looks handy too. I wonder when I’ll get around to making one of my own.
Things in nature often move in complicated ways. You have probably watched the way a butterfly moves. The molecules of the air that you are breathing move in a similar way. This type of motion we call a random walk. You can also take a random walk.
Suppose the Earth is all one big single living organism, with all the elements of it connected like cells in a body. Suppose the goal of evolution is to link up individual human minds, bringing an explosion of intelligence and even global consciousness to this mammoth being.Now suppose the above quote leads into a Washington Post article on ... bird watching? Apparently this guy, and by "guy" I mean French Jesuit Scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, proposed this notion back in 1940 but it was hard to take seriously for a lot of people for a long time until the Internet appeared and here and there folks began to say "wait a minute" and now you get folks like John Perry Barlow, erstwhile Grateful Dead lyricist and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, suggesting that worldwide changes in human development, agriculture and preservation in response to real-time bird observations resulting in a virtuous circle of renewed habitats and rejuvenated populations reflect the beginnings of a global consciousness evidenced by "large-scale interaction between the greater 'us' and the greater 'them'". Don't look at me. Is that a sparrow?
Who was Jeremy Bentham? What is utilitarianism? (Why am I asking?)
“There are a number of excellent sites out there for people wanting to shave their heads, or just connect to others who share the hairstyle,” and Head Shaver’s Information and FAQ is probably the best of them.
On Alt-log: Apparently Baltimore City Paper has a regular column called Funny Paper in which they humorously deconstruct the comics. It reminds me of a less straightforward version of the wonderful “Comics I Don’t Understand."
If you have seen the remarkable photos in The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition), you will certainly not begrudge me the sharing of them with anyone else. (In the early 1900s, Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorskii created color images by shooting simultaneously with three black and white cameras fitted with red, green, and blue filters. The resulting images were projected back through colored filters onto a screen for display.) The photos are technically marvelous, but more striking is the dissonance between the “modern” medium and “historic” subject matter, if you take my meaning. Have a look!
Huntley Meadows lies in a wet lowland that was carved out by an ancient meander of the Potomac River. The resulting freshwater wetland is one of the rarest habitats left in Fairfax County. Acre for acre, a healthy wetland supports more life than almost any other habitat. Wetlands also purify polluted waters and control the destructive power of floods and storms.Huntley Meadows Park is a nice place to spend an afternoon. I'm reminded that it's a stone's throw from our home by this Washington Post article. Last summer I went with some family and took pictures. Friends of Huntley Meadows Park runs a good website with news, events, history and photos.
Eric of Kestrel’s Nest, how does your garden grow?
The partnership of Cannabis and man has existed now probably for ten thousand years β since the discovery of agriculture in the Old World. One of our oldest cultivars, Cannabis has been a five- purpose plant: as a source of hempen fibres; for its oil; for its akenes or βseeds,β consumed by man for food; for its narcotic properties; and therapeutically to treat a wide spectrum of ills in folk medicine and in modern pharmacopoeias.
Why do you think there have been so few chronicles about the realities of working at Wal-Mart or Comfort Inn, which employ more people than the dot-coms did even at their height?James Fallows asks Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America in which she spent three months trying to survive in three cities on three minimum-wage jobs. The in-progress Fallows and Ehrenreich dialog in The Atlantic immediately brought to mind a recent piece in the Washington Post titled Dot-Com Vets Turn Job Loss Into Second Spring Break which inexplicably glamorizes the downturn in the job market by looking at how folks who, according to Fallows, find it "hard to understand people for whom a million dollars would be a fortune" are making do with movies, massages, and trips to Madrid in these lean times.
The question that comes up over and over again, and I don't really have an answer still -- really, I don't know any other people who have answers to them -- is, "It's terrible, awful, getting worse. What do we do? Tell me the answer." The trouble is, there has not in history ever been any answer other than, "Get to work on it."Chomsky: For One Thing, There's No "It". There is injustice where you live, and tomorrow you can either oppose it or allow it to persist. Why don't you sleep on it?
listen missy has the longest list of DC area bloggers that I’ve seen. Inexplicably, randomWalks is not included.
