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| Friday, May 05, 2006 |
Happy Cinco de Mayo! And happy Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, too.
Links from others (thanks, all):
From Tracy: Global dimming. Eeeep.
From Danny: TV in Japan, in blog format! Also, there's a secret cookie shop out there. How cool is that?
From the Graveworm: "a new blog for aerospace nerds."
Random fun: It's a goat! On a pole!
Also, for your 3-D modeling needs: Google Sketchup is free. Interesting.
Have a spiffy weekend, everyone. See you Monday.
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| Thursday, May 04, 2006 |
Today, Kent State observes the 36th anniversary of the on-campus protest and shootings. Fittingly, the site is called "the cost of war."
The Ballard branch of Seattle's public library system is environmentally friendly and very cool-looking. (Yet another reason to visit the Pacific Northwest!)
You can browse through Isaac Newton's laboratory books online, speaking of cool-looking. (Found via the Librarian in Black.)
I have a few Sears catalogs from the late 1890s, and they're great. Some enterprising soul is going through the 1902 edition and commenting on it, which can be hilarious.
Browsing bookshelves can lead to all sorts of serendipitous experiences, says a professor, and modern society is taking that from us. I'd argue that the internet leads to even more serendipity, myself. (It can also lead to brilliantly random, yet somewhat scheduled, interruptions in one's workday!)
Tomorrow: links from others.
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| Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
Today's links are all death-related. Er. I didn't plan it that way, honest.
At any rate, if you have had a near-death experience but haven't quite gone over to the other side yet, or if perhaps you've seen something strange happen at someone else's deathbed, the Deathbed Experience Research Net wants to talk to you.
If you have indeed gone over to the other side, on the other hand, the Edinburgh Ghost Fest would be happy to talk to you. It starts next weekend, so you still have some time to get there. Can ghosts travel transatlantically?
Wikipedia provides a list of unusual deaths. Attila the Hun choked on a nosebleed, while Jack Daniel died of blood poisoning after kicking his safe in anger. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
Something very sad, but also beautiful: the Library of Dust is a photo gallery of found containers holding the ashes of patients from an abandoned asylum.
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| Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
The past:
The present: The future:
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| Monday, May 01, 2006 |
Today is May Day, or Day Without Immigrants, depending on where you are; celebrate/observe/demonstrate as needed.
Arty bits:
The competition for the new "seven wonders of the world" has been narrowed down to 21 finalists. Discuss. Another drive-in theatre is closing; this one is near us in Oxford. And finally, for those of us who love reading stories written by kids (and trying to figure out how their minds work), there's a blog for us: Children of the Future. The future sounds pretty surreal so far.
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