Tandoori Tatanka

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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:27:34 -0800

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Green Odyssey: 21 Impressive Electric Bikes Heralding Green...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:00:02 -0800

Green Odyssey: 21 Impressive Electric Bikes Heralding Green Power - Green Diary

Aaron Koblin - Flight Patterns

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:33:32 -0800

Aaron Koblin - Flight Patterns

E-bikes rolling forward…slowly

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:42:25 -0800

E-bikes rolling forward…slowly:

…consumers don’t know what to make of them. Biking is still seen primarily as a form of recreation and exercise in the United States, not a mode of transportation. Bicycle infrastructure, such as dedicated lanes, is woefully lacking. Cycling enthusiasts view e-bikes as cheating. Car drivers view them as a downgrade. And the mainstream probably mostly just views them as an oddity.

Coachella 2010 Lineup Gorillaz, Pavement, Muse, Les Claypool,...

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:22:26 -0800

Coachella 2010 Lineup Gorillaz, Pavement, Muse, Les Claypool, David Guetta, Orbital, De La Soul, Gil Scott-Heron, Thom Yorke????

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Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:23:38 -0800

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Figments and manifestations

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:21:15 -0800

Figments and manifestations:

Does one’s experience of reality depend upon one’s notion of existence? From The Spooky World of Quantum Entanglement:

One of the leading figures of quantum physics, David Bohm, had a more deterministic approach, arguing that the quantum world can exist independently of the human mind: “In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that are confronting us today.” The Buddhist Mahayana Sukta says: “All such notions as causation, succession, atoms, primary elements, that make up personality, personal soul, Supreme Spirit, Sovereign God, Creator, are all figments of the imagination and manifestations of mind.”

Yikes, how did I miss this awesome Daft Punk fan video? ...

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:40:27 -0800

Yikes, how did I miss this awesome Daft Punk fan video? It’s already 2.5 years old.

Daft Hands - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (via FrEckleStudios)

The 7 foods experts won't eat

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:14:15 -0800

The 7 foods experts won't eat

"Inclimate" weather is merciless

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:36:14 -0800

Gene Buckley emailed to point out the widespread adoption of the eggcorn inclimate weather, which has 11,000 whG (web hits on Google), or 2,567 whG/bp (web hits on Google per billion pages). The original phrase inclement weather has 173,000 whG or about 40,372 whG/bp, so the original is only about 16 times commoner than the eggcorn. This is a genuine folk-etymology-in-progress, not a simple misspelling, since the morphologically incoherent “incliment weather” and “inclemate weather” have only 719 whG and 73 whG respectively.

LESLIE - MILES: Wish We Could Talk About This

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:26:38 -0800

LESLIE - MILES: Wish We Could Talk About This

Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck’s Protest Footage Sean...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:55:04 -0800

Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck’s Protest Footage

Sean Hannity uses footage of Glenn Beck’s bigger protest to make the GOP’s health care rally appear more heavily attended.

Video: Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck’s Protest Footage | The Daily Show | Comedy Central

Harry Beck’s Iconic Map Beck realised that when...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:45:00 -0800

Harry Beck’s Iconic Map

Beck realised that when you’re on a train travelling underground, your geographical location is not what matters to you. The important thing is knowing how to get to your final destination, and where to change from one line to another. On his own initiative, Beck used this idea to create a revolutionary new kind of map, inspired by electrical circuit diagrams and sewer plans.

'Going Muslim'

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:20:01 -0800

'Going Muslim':

FROM THE ARTICLE:

We don’t have to be paranoid about Arab males; we just have to avoid the opposite: Being fearful of coming across as Islamophobic, and thereby failing to look straight at a situation.

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The integration compact depends on a broad trust that the immigrant’s desire to be American can happily co-exist with his other forms of racial/cultural/religious identity. Once that trust doesn’t exist, America faces a problem in need of urgent resolution.

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Let the first lesson of the Hasan atrocity be this: The U.S. Army has to be a PC-free zone. Our democracy and our way of life depend on it.

maximizing bliss and productivity - Google Search

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:11:22 -0700

maximizing bliss and productivity - Google Search:

I’m #1!

merlin: systems: bauldoff: This is beyond fantastic. The...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:27:05 -0700

merlin:

systems:

bauldoff:

This is beyond fantastic. The entire run of LIFE magazine as a weekly is now archived on Google Books. 1,860 full issues from 1936 to 1972.

Such an amazing resource of American culture, historic events, photography, and advertising. What might Don Draper think of some of these? Also, note how the AdWords change to fit the content of each page you read.

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Contraception is "greenest" technology

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:26:32 -0700

Contraception is "greenest" technology:

Let’s suppose that CO2 emissions are an accurate measure of an individual’s and by extension a nation’s overall greenliness score. This measure includes all energy consumed by an individual both directly (leaving lights and TVs on, driving to the market) and indirectly (consider the energy used in manufacturing and transporting myriad electronics, food, clothing and various whatnot).

Framed as a measure of environmental responsibility on a personal and national scale, the issue of CO2 emission control sheds the shackles of the Climate Change controversy and makes room for other controversial subjects e.g. Population Control.

From the report titled Fewer Emitters, Lower Emissions, Less Cost, commissioned by the Optimum Population Trust:

Contraception is almost five times cheaper than conventional green technologies as a means of combating climate change.

The study, based on the principle that “fewer people will emit fewer tonnes of carbon dioxide”, models the consequences of meeting all “unmet need” for family planning, defined as the number of women who wish to delay or terminate childbearing but who are not using contraception. One recent estimate put this figure at 200 million. UN data suggest that meeting unmet need for family planning would reduce unintended births by 72 per cent, reducing projected world population in 2050 by half a billion to 8.64 billion. Between 2010 and 2050 12 billion fewer “people-years” would be lived – 326 billion against 338 billion under current projections.

Hulu - Three Amigos!: Lip Balm

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:03:00 -0700

Hulu - Three Amigos!: Lip Balm

Tulsi (aka holy basil) for flu prevention

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:20:00 -0700

“The sun should be a giver of happiness, the sky should be a giver of happiness, all trees and plants should be givers of happiness. All these should give us peace of mind ( shanti ) and even the peace should give us peace”. —Ayurvedic verse in Rigveda.

In reference to Tulsi (aka holy basil), which is part of my flu prevention strategy.

Sticky Light - the smart laser scanner revisited (via alvartube)

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:47:35 -0700

Sticky Light - the smart laser scanner revisited (via alvartube)