NYTM: (1) hilarious portrait of
NYTM: (1) hilarious portrait of a 15-year-old intern attorney expert. (2) advertising infiltrations.
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NYTM: (1) hilarious portrait of a 15-year-old intern attorney expert. (2) advertising infiltrations.
originally posted by xowie
I've begun collecting mushrooms, and they're mighty good on pizza. I haven't grown my own wheat yet, but I have ground whole organic wheat into flour. I've done it on a stone mortar and pestle, but I prefer to use a metal grinder. I don't grow my own olives yet, but when I do I'll press them for oil. And now I can bake them in an oven made completely by hand from raw materials.It's been too long since I've read Kestrel's Nest. Look at him go! If the Earth were doomed and I could choose 3 people to put on a rocket and send into outer space, Eric Wagoner would be on there for sure.
Phase 2 Sim continues.
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The Detroit page.
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It's one thing to send thousands of soldiers to attack another army on a battlefield. But an engineering project requires everything to be put precisely into place.I prefer to think of the technology as simple, with relatively few people involved.Caltech professor Mory Gharib plans to demonstrate that simple machines and kites built the Egyptian pyramids. So far he's got four tons and fifteen feet of vertical concrete that says he's right. thanks, q daily news.
Diagnose disorders of tomato fruit, leaves, and stems with these photos.
Exiled poster artist Julio Eloy Mesa.
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Q: How many pennies are there? A: There are this many.
Salon is now publishing weekly comeeks by the superlative Lynda Barry. Dig it and dig it well. Thanks to boing boing for the heads up.
Global City Transit Navigation Design. “These maps capture our imagination by the way in which each solves a similar problem in a unique and culturally appropriate manner.”
The incredible Springfield Interchange Improvement Project is underway not far from here. I should go take some more photos.
Sinkers.org posters for S30: DC. Read more about September’s World Bank/IMF convergence at abolishthebank.org.
Friday, July 13, 1951: Kansas City, Kan.
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No time for love, Dr. Jones:
This article argues that wealth is a zero-sum game in more, or more important, ways than it is not. It sounds right, but I need to learn me some economics to be sure.
The 34-year-old former gymnast says China's athletes and public deserve the glory of hosting the world's premier sporting event. But ask Feng, muscular and 6 feet tall, how he became a wheelchair athlete, and what emerges is a disturbing tale of state-sponsored violence, discrimination, and suppression.Chinese outcast wonders if Games would help or hurt.
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Alex Grey’s Chapel of Sacred MIrrors.
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Dean Chamberlain’s color-saturated photos of LSD heroes.
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When I want to get up to speed on what’s happening around the world and why, I turn to the following current events primers:
There is the overwhelming sense among most whites that things can't possibly be as bad as black Americans say they are.washingtonpost.com: Misperceptions Cloud Whites' View of Blacks. I own a mansion and a yacht.
Chemistry opens you to receive another being; you grow to enlarge yourself beyond what you would otherwise be, know and perceive.latimes.com: Couples With Right Chemistry Have Love Down to a Science. I've always been a fan of chemistry.
I bet riding a broom is a lot like riding a motorcycle – you really gotta lean through those curves.
Insane precautions for the G-8 summit include snipers, 200 body bags and “little” missiles.
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Dr. Menlo is now hosting abuddha’s memes! I should have offered to host that great site when it first occurred to me.