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An office in-out board for the office 2.0, or maybe for a collection of remote offices to each keep an idea what everyone is doing as a collective.
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“In Turkey and Persia this has for many centuries been extracted from the tubers of various kinds of Orchis and exported under the name of Sahlep (an Arabian word, corrupted into English as Saloop or Salep), which has long been used, especially in the Eas
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Apr 30, 2007links for 2007-04-30Apr 28, 2007A failure to communicateVia BBC NEWS, Northern Ireland will be getting Sesame Street. I would love to hear Bert and Ernie talking in Irish! I hope they do teach Irish. I still remember bits of Spanish because of Sesame Street when I was a kids. Anil Dash is talking about the specialized language of the lolcats. Apr 27, 2007BrainalizerReading the word capsicum on growabrain, I was reminded of my favourite drink in the 90′s which I used to buy at Scarecrow Video in Seattle, but that was discontinued.
Brainalizer soda contained capsicum, and was so very, very good. When I found it had been cancelled and they ran out at Scarecrow, I remember doing a search for contact info and then calling the company that makes the soda, Skeleteen, you know back when it was still just geeks on the Internet and AltaVista was the search engine of choice. When the receptionist answered the phone, “Holy Shit Sodas,” my brain seized up for a second and then we both started to laugh. The woman on the other side of the line mentioned that happened a lot. Apparently they had two names, presumably one for the straits and one for the freaks. Well, being reminded of this, I did a search on “brainalizer” and found out that this soda is available again! Holy shit! I really dig the one star review on the product page: “This was a rancid. I hated it. Herbal piece of CRAP!!!!!!!!” Man, I need some of this stuff in my fridge again! I mean, dude, it’s a soda with dill weed in it. I vaguely remember that the first couple times I had this my face seized up, but it was so good! How can you not want to try it? Zombie FluxxIt’s official! There’s a new member of the Fluxx family of card games: Zombie Fluxx.
Via The Wunderland Weekly News for 4/26/7:
And, here’s Andy Looney himself, doing an introduction of Zombie Fluxx: And, just because it’s about Looney Labs, you really should check out all their games, especially the spectacularly cool, but strangely ignored pyramids.
Even evil mollusks deserve better than this tortureVia Boing Boing, is an article about ultra-fresh octopus food that makes me feel sick:
[also] I have to draw one of my own boundaries there. There are plenty of culturally appropriate practices that I don’t agree with both in my own culture and in others, but that I recognize as being culturally appropriate in context. But, the dismemberment of live animals and then chewing on their still wriggling flesh, even animals that are as gross as mollusks, is too much. If an octopus can figure out how to twist off a jar lid merely by watching another do it, don’t you imagine that means a capacity for not just physical suffering but also a capacity for mental agony and horror and pain and suffering? I joke about the alien intelligences of the evil octopus conspiracy, but this is no joke. It’s something that merely the idea of causes me anguish, and if merely the thought is enough then just how much worse must it be for these animals? I feel privileged and full of joy at being able to make food choices that minimize the suffering of living creatures with nervous systems, even the gross ones. links for 2007-04-27
Apr 26, 2007Cinerama was a monolithic aspect ratio
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Apr 25, 2007TumblelogVia Wikipedia:
Nostalgie de la BoueNostalgie de la Boue, n. From French, literally “nostaglia for mud” and means a longing for depravity. This is a good summary of the theme of the Hellraiser movies which show that people ask to be destroyed, but when they begin to get cold feet there’s the Cenobites to force them the last step through the threshold. It was after watching “Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth” that I started to call what I’d observed around me as a “culture of corruption” in the mid to late 90′s. So many people running as fast as they could toward events and situations that fulfilled their own self-hatred … In the third movie, Pinhead is standing in a desecrated church and asks one of the humans, something like, “Why are you resisting? This is what you wanted!” And, my immediate response was, “No, it isn’t.” So, I got up and walked out of the cinema. This is not the golden age for which I was nostalgic“W and his gang of merry cutthroats have, for six years, honored conservative principles only in the breach, the ignoring, the flouting, and the rhetorical invocation for purposes of political gain (and financial killings) via the exercise of highest hypocrisy.” “In the new book burning we don’t burn books, we burn discussion of them instead.” “HRH Laura Bush makes another ‘let them eat cake’ statement. She and King George are suffering more than the American people over Iraq.” “It’s not even the kind of stupid that we all secretly wish upon Republican politicians, just to make our own liberal advocacy easier, it’s the kind of stupid that’s sad and creepy and alarming to watch, a kind of stupid that reeks of something deeply wrong with the person that says it.” “This Hall of Shame is no accident and these are not isolated incidences. It’s a pattern of political appointees who put partisan interests ahead of country – and were told to do so.” [via] links for 2007-04-25
Apr 24, 2007Apr 23, 2007Who is your Dada now?Via Slashdot, there’s an article about some recent experimental results in quantum physics that push some surprising conclusions:
So one or both of realism or locality are “inconsistent” with quantum physics, where:
So, apparently the empiricists were right that reality exists through observation and Locke was right that time was a figment of human thought. In other words, the experimental results don’t make sense …
Do you see? It doesn’t make sense unless you give up on the idea that it makes sense. All Hail Eris! Descartes is the Devil! Apr 22, 2007Earth Day 2007“Today is Earth Day, and I personally believe every day should be Earth Day …” “So here are some proposals for you on Earth Day, proposals that in this country are likely to be considered as radical as any of the social issues that divide us left and right.” “Despite all the whining, gasoline is as cheap now as it has ever been, on an inflation-adjusted basis. It is the cheapest fluid you can buy at a gasoline station. Water is three bucks a litre, fer cryin’ out loud.” “The biggest problem with Earth Day is that it has become a ritual of sympathy for the idea of environmental sanity. Small steps … are essentially meaningless without larger, systemic action as well.” In light of the above, please also consider: Iron Eyes Cody and Playing Indian. Because, things are never quite as simple as they were when we were kids. “The theta/ecology symbol was made by Ron Cobb (a cartoonist) and published for the first time on 25 October 1969. The symbol is a combination of the letters e and o, from the words environment and organism.” Even our chocolate will be a lieIs nothing sacred? Via Crooks and Liars:
There’s a website for information on how to defend the definition of chocolate, but isn’t it odd that the opposition website is run, and the name copyright, by a chocolate company? People are people“We are the American people.” Ah, but which America? And, one wonders which humans qualify in Rove’s eyes as people. “Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law Saturday a measure to create domestic partnerships, giving gay and lesbian couples some of the same rights that come with marriage.” “The larger picture appears to be that the Bush administration is still subordinating almost everything – from longstanding traditions on prosecutorial independence to the protection of intelligence officers – to President Bush’s political needs.” “For six impressive hours, the attorney general embodied the core principles that he is not beholden to Congress, that the Senate has no authority over him, and that he was only there as a favor to them in their funny little fact-finding mission.” “People are people “Fifteen years ago everything in Russia was owned by the state. Today a quarter of Russia’s economy is owned by 36 men.” |
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