On the Lam (Random Episode)
Camera-phone photo. LG VX11000. June 25, 2009. More to come.
Update: I’ve added a few images of life on the lam to my Flickr photostream and created an “On the Lam” set.
on the lam: moving from place to place to avoid being found or caught. She got in trouble in the 70s and was captured after 23 years on the lam.
Usage notes: usually said about someone who is avoiding the police
Related vocabulary: on the run
See also: lam
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms. Cambridge University Press: 2006.
AP press release about Michael Jackson’s death
Ok this is indeed the Des Moines Register, but it was the only link on the topic on the AP’s front page as of a few minutes ago.
dear clusterflock
Which unnamed character will you be when the credits roll?
Michael Jackson Dead at 50
This is according to TMZ. He was rushed to the hospital under cardiac arrest and apparently was never revived. RIP King of Pop.
The blue and the green are the same color
Plus, it is used to illustrate a nifty principle.
Elliot Smith – All Cleaned Out
I saw that Eliott Smith’s old car was for sale which gave me a hankering to listen to his music which, in turn, reintroduced me to this tune. I had forgotten how much I love it.
For Aaron Winslow | Collectible
Given unlimited resources, Aaron would collect statues of animals dressed as butlers and holding trays.
The cat is not dressed as a butler. It is quite nekkid (and disturbingly furless). But etched into the platter is a mousie-wreath design.
The object on the platter is not a rodent part. But I have taken a photograph of a whole dead mousie on that platter.
Tiera, Cedar Springs, unedited
NPR crowdsourcing
“Please help us identify the lobbyists in this photo. [...] You’re also invited to post comments with further information, including confirming or disputing a person’s ID.”
Hear me now
When will Apple put out a keyboard with a trackpad for my desktop machine?
The Obama Way
In the early 1970s a geneticist called John Maynard-Smith invented the Hawk-Dove game to try and shed light on why animals don’t fight each other to death at every chance they get, in an attempt to maximise their own personal gain. In his game — actually a mathematical model but we needn’t go into that — Hawk is always up for a fight. He easily beats Dove. But he gets badly wounded in a fight with another Hawk. Dove, which is programmed to cooperate, reaps benefits when it meets another Dove. But when it meets a Hawk it gets killed. In the short term, the Hawk strategy is the most rational — and evolutionarily successful — strategy. But when the game is played over and again, the Dove starts to do better. A third strategy, called Retaliator, proves best of all. Retaliator is a Dove — until it meets a Hawk, at which point it turns into a Hawk too.
More from my favorite blogger turned author.
Handbags from Old Car Interior Fabrics
Kim White makes handbags out of old stock of automobile fabrics from the 60′s and 70′s. Not only are they attractive, but I would imagine that they would be quite durable as well. You can check out more of her line on her website.
Farrah’s gone
I also want a Darger
right ear dominance
Most people prefer to be addressed in their right ears in everyday settings and are more likely to do a favor when the request is received in their right ears rather than their left ones, new research suggests.
This preference for hearing with the right ear is also found in rats, Japanese macaques, harpy eagles, sea lions and dogs.
police chase in New York
This totally happened to me my first time in New York, but we got away.
quote out of context
In 1983 he was allegedly observed leaving a Santa Cruz 7-Eleven with a Slurpee, hot dog and Twinkies.
meet the emotional robot
Researchers at Waseda University in Japan have created a humanoid robot that expresses emotion.
The Emotional Humanoid Robot can express seven different feelings, including delight, surprise, sadness and dislike. In addition to assuming different poses to match the mood, Kobian uses motors in its face to move its lips, eyelids and eyebrows into various positions.
Pinktentacle has more pictures and video.
a must read movie review
On Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen:
Transformers: ROTF has mostly gotten pretty hideous reviews, but that’s because people don’t understand that this isn’t a movie, in the conventional sense. It’s an assault on the senses, a barrage of crazy imagery. Imagine that you went back in time to the late 1960s and found Terry Gilliam, fresh from doing his weird low-fi collage/animations for Monty Python. You proceeded to inject Gilliam with so many steroids his penis shrank to the size of a hair follicle, and you smushed a dozen tabs of LSD under his tongue. And then you gave him the GDP of a few sub-Saharan countries. Gilliam might have made a movie not unlike this one.
Dear clusterflock,
Imagine not worrying about your financial obligations.
If you could pay for everything you think is essential to your existence and still have unlimited resources with which to indulge your passion for collectibles, what would you buy?
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screenshots from this afternoon’s footage
Bone flute
Archaeologists say they have unearthed the world’s oldest musical instruments.
Cliffs of Mohan
Mark Sanford on Argentinean Tail, NOT Appalachian Trail
Barry
