Friday, October 31, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Yes We Can (Hold Babies)
Yes We Can (Hold Babies) is the international source for pictures of Obama holding babies. There are occasionally some kisses involved, sometimes the babies are a little too old to be classified as babies, and sometimes we just post pictures of Obama
crisis advice
"In a crisis - don't just do something, stand there."
- Simon Johnson Economics Professor MIT
Here's What I'm Doing from NPR's Marketplace
- Simon Johnson Economics Professor MIT
Here's What I'm Doing from NPR's Marketplace
death in the civil war
Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin FaustInterview from NPR's Fresh Air
10/24/08
"Men and women approach death in ways shaped by history, by culture, by conditions that vary over time and across space.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history."
Monday, October 27, 2008
introducing www.sempersucculent.blogspot.com
A Lithops (Living Stone) fruit capsule opens after being sprayed with water (time-lapse). In the wild, rain will open the Lithops capsule and then splash out the seeds. From www.youtube.com/user/CooleyBufo
Lithops Sex
A Lithops (Living Stone) fruit capsule opens after being sprayed with water (time-lapse). In the wild, rain will open the Lithops capsule and then splash out the seeds. There is a whole group of succulents, mostly from South Africa, that have the same mechanism as Lithops. They are collectively called mesembs because they belong to the family Mesembryanthemaceae. From www.youtube.com/user/CooleyBufo
making it look effortless
Oh You Pretty Things by David Bowie
Recorded for the BBC in 1972, originally released on Hunky Dory in 1971
get learned in latin
Si Vales Valeo - if you are well, I am well
A common beginning for ancient Roman letters. Also extended to si vales bene est ego valeo ("if you are well, that is good; I am well"), abbreviated to SVBEEV.
A common beginning for ancient Roman letters. Also extended to si vales bene est ego valeo ("if you are well, that is good; I am well"), abbreviated to SVBEEV.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
happy birthday to a real innovator
Bootsy Collins, b. 10/26/1951
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
Friday, October 24, 2008
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