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April 2012
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April 19, 2012
Portraits Cut from Layers of Wire Mesh
Korean sculptor Seung Mo Park creates giant ephemeral portraits by cutting layer after layer of wire mesh. Each work begins with a photograph which is superimposed over layers of wire with a projector, then using a subtractive technique Park slowly snips away areas of mesh. Each piece is several inches thick as each plane that forms the final image is spaced a few finger widths apart, giving the portraits a certain depth and dimensionality that’s hard to convey in a photograph
April 18, 2012
How to blow up a horse (a government guide)
The US Forest Service has a guide: ”Obliterating Animal Carcasses with Explosives” by Jim Tour and Mike Knodel, 1995, USDA Forest Service document #9523-2315–MTDC.
Note: Not to be applied to whales
April 10, 2012
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April 05, 2012
JetBlue Captain Blames Midair Freakout on 24-hour GOP Campaign Coverage
"...During the commute, the captain inexplicably left the cockpit and began walking the cabin, ranting about bombs and al Qaeda. At that point, a former corrections officer and six other passengers restrained him..."
"...the captain called reporters from his hospital room and blamed his emotional collapse on his realization that the United States had been taken over by gay terrorists plotting to banish Christians to the moon -- something he learned during the non-stop media coverage of the Republican primaries.[emphasis added]"
April 04, 2012
April 02, 2012
April 01, 2012
If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- “It is wrong for Warren Buffett’s secretary to pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett"
- Occupy: The Original
- CEO pay increased 27 - 40% in 2010
- Pepper Spray Cop joins the parade
- Fox News: Pepper spray is "a food product."
- In Congress Assembled, UC Davis edition
- Perspective on police brutality
- If you're not doing anything bad you have no reason to fear...
- Percentage of Millionaires: Why is tax policy so hard to change?
- We Are The One Percent!
- Batman: "I am the 1%"
- “Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance”
- James Madison spoke against concentrated wealth
- If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- Public perceptions of U.S. income inequality
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Relentlessly Optimistic Links
- The thoughts of Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Should I be worried that the top Google result (update: in October of 1994) for Relentlessly Optimistic is to the former Iraqi Information Minister? That's somewhat offset by the fact that the #3 link is to Sponge Bob Square Pants. - The Meaning of Optimism
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- Learned Optimism
optimists and pessimists attribute the reasons for success and failure differently: it's personal for pessimists. - ITMFA
- Does pessimism soften the blow of bad news?
Science says yes, but that it isn't worth it. - Creative Commons
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