The Dalai Lama on sex: “too much ups and downs” (1)
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Photos of 1970’s Rock Musicians at Their Parent’s Homes (9)
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Apartment Therapy Los Angeles has posted a great series of photos by John Olson featuring 1970’s rock musicians at their parents homes that they discovered while going through the amazing LIFE Magazine photo archive. via WFMU photo of Frank Zappa and his parents by John Olson This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. Photos of 1970’s Rock Musicians at Their Parent’s ...
To buy children's gifts, mothers do without (1)
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Come Christmas, McKenna Hunt, a gregarious little girl from Safety Harbor, Fla., will receive the play kitchen and the Elmo doll she wants. But her mother, Kristen Hunt, will go without the designer jeans she covets this season.– New York TimesTo give their children health, mothers do without.To give their children sleep, mothers do without.To give their children attention, mothers do without.To give their children time, mothers do without.To give their children comfort, mothers do ...
The Global Warming Swimming Pool: Swimming Above a Submerged City (3)
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No, New York is not underwater (yet, anyhow) - that’s a clever ad for HSBC by Ogilvy & Mather Mumbai ad agency in India. The bank wanted to raise awareness of the dangers of global warming, so the clever ad guys glued an aerial photo of a city’s skyscrapers to the base of a swimming pool … the effect of a submerged cityscape is fantastic!
I Don’t Know (1)
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Ok, it’s officially Thanksgiving now and I’ll be leaving to head for my parents house in about 6 hours which means I should be sleeping but instead I’m screwing around on the computer, following the very disturbing news about Mumbai, catching some chuckles on Letterman and now uploading a fun video of Sophie, Tina and I making music, singing and dancing. This is Sophie’s big hit: The I Don’t Know Song! Sophie and the ‘rents ...
Spacehack, An Online Community For Space Exploration (4)
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Ariel Waldman has just launched the new website Spacehack, an online community for space exploration, covering topics such as competition, data analysis, education and open source. Spacehack is a directory of ways to participate in space exploration, interact + connect with the space community and encourage citizen science. image via Spacehack This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. Spacehack, An Online ...
Canadian fireball update (8)
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I still haven’t heard of any meteorites found from the Canadian fireball the other day, but lots of videos are turning up. The best is probably this one taken by the dashcam of a police car who happened to be facing the right way: Kinda makes you wonder why we never get good footage of all these bazillions of flying saucers eating our cow recta, doesn’t it?
Quietly Terrifying Karl Rove NYT Interview (2)
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Meant to blog this when it came out, but it's one of the funniest/creepiest things I've ever read in the Times: a really odd Q&A with Karl Rove. By the time you reach the end, you half expect the guy to bust out the chianti and liver and start hissing at you: Have you met Barack Obama? Yes, I know him. He was a member of the Senate while I was at the White House ...
Should I Homeschool? (1)
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Things are a little tough at the Creek this week, as my 91-year-old grandmother took a tumble, has been hospitalized, and now has to move to the nursing home, hopefully temporarily. She is a strong woman who has always lived alone, and she is proud of it. I hope everyone in the U.S. has a wonderful holiday and all of you have a great weekend. Since everything here is running at about quarter-power, I thought ...
The Karmapa ain’t trippin’. (1)
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You’ve probably heard about the Dalai Lama’s statement that he may appoint the Karmapa to step in for him in the period between His Holiness’s death and the time that his reincarnated successor comes of age. The profile linked to above gets into details but one small detail in particular made the Horse smile: “The Karmapa, who visited the United States for the first time in May, said that he enjoyed rap music, but found ...
Weekend Diversion: Escher Legos (2)
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It’s amazing what people with lots of spare time on their hands can accomplish. Some of my favorite drawings of MC Escher have been recreated using legos. I have no words to do it justice, only pictures. Check out Belvedere: Relativity: Ascending and Descending: Waterfall: and Balcony (yes, I’m sure there’s a lens or photoshop trick involved): Something I’m excited to look at and have no interest in recreating for myself. Hope you’re having a ...
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Progressive complaints about Obama's appointments (9)
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(updated below) I've been genuinely mystified by the disappointment and surprise being expressed by many liberals over the fact that Obama's most significant appointments thus far are composed of pure Beltway establishment figures drawn from the center-right of the Democratic Party and, probably once he names his Defense Secretary and CIA Director, even from the Bush administration -- but not from the Left. In an email yesterday, Digby explained perfectly why this reaction is so ...
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Terrific: "So many progressives were misled about what Obama is and what he believes. But it wasn't Obama who misled them. It was their own desires, their eagerness to see what they wanted to see rather than what reality offered."
Spiders Adapt to Space, Weaving a Near-Perfect Web (5)
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Now that is what I call home improvement! (NASA)The educational experiment currently being carried out on the space station has just returned a surprise result. It would appear the two web-weaving spiders being studied have turned their fortunes around - they have scrapped their aimless 3D mess of silk and started to create the symmetrical 2D webs more commonly seen on Earth. The experiment started off a little precarious as one of the spiders went ...
Art on Wheels: The Magnificent Truck Art of Pakistan (35)
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(Images via Abro on Flickr, Saudi Aramco World, and Pakistani Truck Art.) The under-appreciated, indigenous Pakistani tradition of truck painting has an extraordinary history, starting in the days of the Raj. As early as the 1920’s, competing transportation companies would hire craftsmen to adorn their buses in the hopes that these moving canvases would attract more passengers. The technique worked so well that pretty soon you couldn’t purchase a ticket without seeing dozens of beautifully ...
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Running to the store to get more butter for Thanksgiving dinner, I caught this piece of art carved out of a stump. I think there is a local artist, because I found a ton of bears carved out of trees. I’ll share more photos soon. o © 2008 Armstrong Media, LLC. All rights reserved. No republishing without permision. This post was originally written by Jon Armstrong for blurbomat.com. Permalink | No comments yet Add to ...Shared by tzt (1)Contribute commentFAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments (160) permalink
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