August 2010
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Pencil sculptures: miniature masterpieces carved... →
geekgirldiva:
One of those things I got from a friend in email and just had to post. So. Cool.
Dalton Ghetti makes sculptures out of pencils, including a tiny saw and a pencil whose…
These are quite beautiful, and given the size, quite remarkable.
I had to thin my tumblr feed
It’s nothing personal. I can only keep up with so much, and my feed takes forever to load, thanks to crappy bandwidth. If you’ve find I’ve unfollowed you, it’s not because I don’t value what you say, but that tumblr’s format just makes what you’re saying either repetitive as comments are added, or bandwidth eating. When it takes ten minutes for my feed to...
New York Taxi Workers Alliance - Ahmed Sharif... →
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mar-see-ah:
Donate to the Muslim cabbie, Ahmed Sharif, who was stabbed and had his throat cut by an anti-Muslim crazy.
He has no insurance and four children.
Guys, donate, or at least reblog to get the word out.
If you’ve got a spare, spare dollar or two… (yes, I know - we’re mostly all...
team tardis!: BBC Planning International iPlayer →
BBC Director General Mark Thompson has told the Edinburgh International Television Festival the corporation is aiming to launch an international commercial version of the BBC iPlayer within a year. The plans, which are subject to approval by the BBC Trust, will hopefully allow viewers around…
HOLY COW, AN INTERNATIONAL VERSION OF BBC iPlayer? I believe this will interest @butmadnnw,...
Glenn Beck claims ownership of the civil rights... →
(via @katiedoyle)
Yet more proof that Glenn Beck’s histrionics are not only designed to be as divisive as possible, but as appropriative as possible.
Dear Mr. Beck,
The civil rights movement was undertaken in order to help more people be free. Free to do the things that Jim Crow laws prohibited, free to participate in society as equals, free to have a say in the...
Toddlers with disabilities learn to move around... →
(link via Zach Funk on FB.)
Yes, Ithaca College is studying whether infants with lack of mobility can learn to move themselves around using a Wii balance board controller. Since leaning moves them around, rather than coordinated use of a control on a mobility device, this could give a toddler the ability to move around by themselves. The device has sensors to prevent collisions, and there’s...
The WBC keeps overplaying their hand →
I don’t endorse vigilantism, by any means. However, I have precisely NO sympathy for anyone in the Westboro Baptist Church. Given that they feel perfectly righteous in protesting at the funerals of service-members, I can understand that backlash of a more direct sort than they found at San Diego Comic-Con, is inevitable.
A white woman, about 51 years old, was seated next...
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This is, btw, the only acceptable response. However, given airlines basic attitudes, not only towards PoC, but PWD and people who are not relatively thin, I somehow doubt that it ever will be policy. It should be.
“But even by those standards, Glenn Beck’s effrontery is monumental. Even by...”
– Editorials & Opinion | Glenn Beck needs a history lesson on the civil-rights movement | Seattle Times Newspaper (via booklover206) (via stfuglennbeck) (via curliestofcrowns) (via oportspangles) (via ekswitaj) (via champagnecandy)
Reblogged for motherfucking truth. Glenn Beck’s, “We...
Does language shape how we think? →
This is very interesting. Having always been interested in languages, and currently learning French, (very sloooooooowly,) I know that gendered nouns cause me no end of difficulty, as a native English speaker. The ways in which we process and convey information, are always of interest to me. The fact that our perception of our physical world, can be affected so deeply, is a bit frightening.
The...
New 'Doctor Who' series split in two
tardisadventures:
The next series of Doctor Who will air in two parts, it has been announced.
Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival this morning, showrunner Steven Moffat confirmed that the sixth run will start in Spring 2011 and return in the Autumn.
A statement from the BBC explained: “The split transmission is the result of a request from Steven Moffat to write a new Doctor Who story arc which...
one forty plus: Intolerance →
I feel like anybody who is against the building of an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero isn’t contesting that they’re being intolerant, rather they’re arguing (however spuriously) that they’re being justifiably intolerant. It reminds me of another specious debate, “is waterboarding…
This may be the first time I don’t have to say, (not)Mosque, (not)Ground Zero, since the...
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waifsworld:
RT @TheBradBlog Attention Tea Baggers: Don’t eat the Beck acid. It’s your trip, but the Beck acid is not good. #Whitestock #Beckapalooza.
Okay, that’s just funny.
“It’s been five years since the levees broke, and at the moment huge swaths of...”
– Katrina 5 Years After: Loving New Orleans from afar
My annual Katrina column. This one a little more personal.
Well worth reading.
(via champagnecandy)
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Roundup of random things: New Orleans, Glen Beck,...
The good news: I’m feeling much less ouchie than yesterday. The bad news: I didn’t wake up to discover that the wrecking of my car was a nightmare.
Plan for today: Haul the massive bulk of my front bumper out of my car, take mom to grocery store, get pictures of myself and mom reading comics in public, come home, lay in paddling pool until dusk. Yeah, it’s an ambitious...
Watchvoraciousbrain:
Fabric grown by bacteria and sewn into garmets. REALLY. (and video!)
CultureLab: Bacteria on the catwalk
I find this both fascinating and frightening. Science can be so bloody amazing.
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What is the best country in the world? You're in... →
Newsweek compiled a list of the 100 best countries in the world.
Sorry, America. We’re not #1. We’re not even in the top ten of overall best.
Rather than throwing a tantrum and denying the data, maybe it’s time to examine what makes the best countries, the best. It’s not enough to be a Bad-Ass Motherfucker in the 21st century. We, as citizens, need more.
It’s...
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Crash, boom, bang: Car Edition (this happened... →
The link is to google street view of the intersection where it happened. On my way to work today, I was approaching the intersection of Forbes and Shady avenues. The right lane is right turn ONLY. A car came out of the Starbucks lot, (which is actually, ENTER only,) and instead of turning into the left lane, came across the left lane and into the right lane without stopping.
I was slowing...
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What Teachers Make: A few words of praise and...
and a tip of the hat to @TaylorMali, for taking education and its meaning in LIFE, and making it art.
Kids are going back to school, college students are leaving the nest, (or not,) and the first breath of fall is in the air.
On twitter, @ileducprof and @drgoddess have been talking about education. I know a number of teachers and professors, in this strange sphere of social networking:...
Augmented Reality →
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From National Geographic
You could call it reality 1.0—the unvarnished world presented to us by our five senses. It’s not always the most user-friendly of places. We get lost in unfamiliar cities; we meet people whose language we don’t understand. Fortunately there’s an upgrade in the works that might eliminate some of the bugs: augmented reality, or AR. This emerging...
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Doing the right thing: College Edition
I did the right things. Then and now. I studied hard. I tested well. I loved learning for its own sake. I took my G.E.D, because high school was hell, and I couldn’t take another year of being tortured for all the things I wasn’t. I took the G.E.D., because I wanted to go to college.
Then my mom broke her ankle and I broke my foot and I had to put it off a year.
But I went. I got...
DC Women Kicking Ass: Read Comics in Public Day -... →
Saturday is International “Read Comics in Public Day” a day designed to show off the number of comics readers ‘round the globe. Here’s the idea behind the day from organizer Brian Heater:
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This year’s event seems to be getting some good visibility — NPR did a story about it this last…
It’s exciting that I *have* comics I can participate in this with!
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one forty plus: Huffington Post FULL OF SHIT?... →
Ahh, Huffington Post, the internet Death Star. The world’s first spectator banking website. Come watch a site’s intelligence move in and out like bellows of accordion depending on whether or not there’s ad dollars to be sucked out of any willing orifice.
From their front page item “BACK…
Reblogging for a couple of reasons.
Huffpo is often an aggregator more than a generator of...
Now that's fast food I can endorse →
(link via @agent_m) @4foodnyc is doing something interesting here.
I like that more and more places are embracing the idea of well-sourced, well-prepared, TASTY food. I’m hoping this becomes the standard for restaurants, because if it does, prices will go down. I also firmly support the rejection of agri-business sourcing. Ethically speaking, agri-business is bad for our health, bad for...
