Adventures In Sex City – The Game
Not sure what to say about this.
My peculiar
fantasia on Philoctetes, Sophocles and translation (inspired by Fortunato Salazar’s kind invitation) is now published at Everyday Genius.
from the comments
I heard Obama-care will pay for welfare moms to get clit piercings.
Mossad identity theft?
The Tom Clancy-esque assassination of a Hamas commander presumably by Mossad (the Israeli intelligence agency) in Dubai recently caused some Israeli citizens to be concerned about identity theft.
At least seven people who live in Israel share names with suspects identified by Dubai police. One, a British-Israeli citizen named Melvyn Adam Mildiner, said the passport photo on the Dubai wanted flier was not him but the passport number was correct. He also denied having been to Dubai.
Another of the seven, Stephen Hodes, denied any link to the case in an interview with Israel Radio and said he, too, had never visited Dubai.
“I’m shocked. I don’t know how they got to me. Those aren’t my photographs, of course,” Hodes said. “I don’t know how they got to my details, who took them. …. I’m simply afraid. These are powerful forces.”
While we’re at it, I’ll post the picture again. It feels less Tom Clancy to me and more Wes Anderson.
The Alfa Romeo Pandion Concept
there is a crack in everything
The Less Lamp by Jordi Canudas.
this is us
Twenty years ago the Voyager 1 space craft beamed back a photograph of our tiny planet.
Carl Sagan on the pale blue dot:
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
pop-up restaurants
By taking advantage of underused kitchens, pop-ups allow young chefs, many with experience in San Francisco’s most highly regarded restaurants, to experiment without the risk of bankruptcy. And unlike underground supper clubs, they’re completely legal.
Returning to Dallas this time,
after these years,
I got hearing this in my head:
The towns grew up
And the people were still
Sleeping in the midday sun
Sleeping in the midday sun
(From “Buffalo Ballet”. John Cale.)
in a nutshell
Gov. Rick Perry and other top Texas officials on Tuesday announced a legal challenge to the federal government’s finding that greenhouse gases are dangerous to people, claiming the ruling was based on flawed science.
Traveler’s Badge of Shame
Now you know. All of you.
this just in
Egypt’s famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his more than 3,300-year-old mummy.
Tuesday, February 16 | To Do
*Bank: 1) Deposit (cashier’s checks?); 2) Wire transfer approval; 3) Safe deposit box (ID, death certificate)
*Shark tunnel
quote out of context
I have tried to show that, just as sex made biological evolution cumulative, so exchange made cultural evolution cumulative and intelligence collective, and that there is therefore an inexorable tide in the affairs of men discernible beneath the chaos of their actions.
Amy said
You’re a douche bag if you watch YouTube on a horse.
the rare earth crisis of 2009
China is the only country capable at the moment of mining and processing the rare earth elements used in dozens of emerging technologies. With China’s increase in consumption, however, manufacturers around the world are concerned China may limit or halt the export of such materials.
Europium: This extremely rare but critical chemical makes the red color for television monitors and energy-efficient LED light bulbs. China is the only country today that produces europium, dysprosium and terbium, which are necessary for either boosting the efficient operating temperature of magnets or for producing red in color displays. In December, USGS scientists discovered Alaskan deposits of europium, but even the few U.S. companies that mine rare earth elements must send the resources to China for processing.
Lanthanum: A primary component of the nickel-metal hydride battery in Toyota’s popular hybrid car, Prius. The Prius also incorporates neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium and terbium. Lifton estimates that Toyota may use as much as 7,500 tons of lanthanum and 1,000 tons of neodymium per year to build its Prius cars. That dependence on rare earth elements has prompted the company to search for alternative sources outside China.
Neodymium: This represents a main component of the permanent magnets at the heart of the most efficient wind turbines. China’s own wind production efforts could consume all the available neodymium production and leave nothing for the rest of the world’s booming wind industry, Lifton notes in a recent report titled “The Rare Earth Crisis of 2009.” Neodymium is also used in the glass of incandescent light bulbs produced by General Electric, which has unsurprisingly invested in both Chinese and alternative sources of rare earth elements.
steps
More snow expected overnight. It is February in Pittsburgh, after all.
Has Derek been looking for this?
from the sacramento valley
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Picture it in your mind and you can remember it
Authorities also released photos of the 11
Dubai’s police chief said Monday an 11-member hit squad carrying European passports and disguised in wigs, fake beards and tennis clothes was behind the mysterious killing of a Hamas commander in his hotel room last month.
from the comments
On the battlefield, we call out to loved ones who are far away.
Vote Now
VOTE NOW: GROUNDHOG MEAT or GROUND HOGMEAT
Eat Your Best Friends
Strawberry rose milkshake with rose laced cream; kobe beef, mimolette with quince mustard and vanilla aioli in steamed bun
Some new-ish friends of mine put on a gourmet paid dinner party every two weeks, centered around a theme. (Think Thomas Keller in your own backyard.) For Christmas it was Home Alone, for January it was a ten-course meal based on the ten best songs of 2009. Pictured above is the song “Walkabout (featuring Noah Lennox)” by Atlas Sound
This is not your parents dinner party.
The New New York Phil Logo
I showed it to my web designer and he looked like somebody hat opened the Arc of the Covenant. I mean, look at the M! Look at the W! This is really some entry-level Adobe™ Illustrator put-text-on-a-line shit right there. But what I like about it is that you can tell that somebody hunched over a desk really loving on that W. Somebody really cared for that H, and its busted twin. Somebody manipulated that raggedy-ass K by hand and somebody else walked by the desk and said, “good work, team!” It’s touching, in its way.
