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"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:08:26 -0400

“There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.”

- Robert A. Heinlein, 1939, from the short story Life-Line collected in Expanded Universe

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Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:57:29 -0500

nprradiopictures: Photographer Sage Sohier says she finds...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:31:48 -0500

nprradiopictures:

Photographer Sage Sohier says she finds beauty in odd places. “I’m drawn to look at things many people would turn away from,” she writes in our correspondence.

She also knows how to put things in perspective. Like: You may worry about wrinkles or complexion, she offers, but at least you have control over your facial expressions. Her portrait series About Face puts a frame around people who, for various reasons, lack that ability.

In 2007, Boston-based doctors Tessa Hadlock and Mack Cheney asked Sohier to make portraits of patients at their facial nerve clinic. Since then, Sohier has photographed people with Bell’s palsy or congenital nerve damage, patients who have had tumors, strokes or accidents — people who may have trouble smiling for the camera.

What If You Couldn’t Just Say ‘Cheese’?

Photo Credit: Sage Sohier

roomthily: glTail.rb realtime logfile visualization more...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:28:13 -0500

roomthily:

glTail.rb realtime logfile visualization

more entertaining than it should be

Coloring with Penina

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:31:24 -0500

Coloring with Penina

FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture: Victoria’s Secret does NOT heart consent. Young customers play prank on lingerie giant.

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:56:47 -0500

FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture: Victoria’s Secret does NOT heart consent. Young customers play prank on lingerie giant.:

upsettingrapeculture:

Yesterday, young facebook users hi-jacked the social media outlets of Victoria’s Secret to promote something very different from panties and push-up bras. Within ten hours, over 50,000 people visited PinkLovesConsent.com, where they saw Victoria’s Secret’s image “promoting consent to fight…

The Reasoned Schemer

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:07:21 -0500

The Reasoned Schemer

Brush N’ Play Someone needs to invent one of these for...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:13:27 -0400

Brush N’ Play

Someone needs to invent one of these for toddlers…

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Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:46:03 -0400

First day of school!

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:55:15 -0400

First day of school!

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Fri, 04 May 2012 11:06:00 -0400

ginandphonics: “Well, okay. I’m just gonna say it. There’s a...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:46:00 -0400

ginandphonics:

“Well, okay. I’m just gonna say it. There’s a scene at the end of the movie when George Clooney’s character, myself, my cousin and the opossum, Kylie, are all on a little motorcycle driving back to our home. And we’ve just rescued my cousin. And we stop and we see a wolf on a distant hill, and it’s a really beautiful, beautiful scene. It’s like so heart-warming because it’s just a beautiful moment between these foxes and little animals and this really like mysterious wolf who we’ve heard about the entire movie and who doesn’t talk in this scene and he’s not wearing clothes. He’s kind of, he represents I guess, the wild. He’s a wild wolf and animal, and it’s a beautiful moment where they have this great connection, and in that moment, it really like to me the point of that scene is let’s keep on being free. Let’s keep on being animals. And it’s such an uplifting moment, and like when I’ve seen it with audiences, a bunch of people break into huge cheers and hooting. It’s such an awesome, awesome scene. It really just blows my mind.

And actually, when we did the movie, you know, we did the movie basically live together as a cast. We didn’t do the scenes, none of us really did it separately in recording booths, which is how typical animated movies are done. This one, Wes Andersen had us literally go and move onto a farm together and we all lived together. And we’d wake up in the morning, have breakfast and then if there was a scene, for instance, that took place underneath a tree, George Clooney and Bill Murray, everyone, would walk over to the tree that we’d find, we’d take our scripts out and we’d just start acting out the scenes. And it was basically like doing a movie just with no cameras. So there were actors, the director, Wes, and a sound man. And we were running around, growling and hooting and hollering, and if we had to eat a bunch of food like in the movie we always are eating like French toast or biscuits, we would literally be eating French toast and biscuits and toast, I mean it was so much fun.

Anyways, one day when we were doing this particular scene with this wolf, we were all about to shoot it and then Wes said, you know we should really get someone to play the wolf so that the guys have someone to act opposite, and we looked around and Bill Murray was standing there with his hands in his pockets. He took his hands out and said, “I can be the wolf.” And Bill Murray just took off running, or I guess trotting. And he ran, ran, ran, ran really far away until he was tiny. And he turned around and actually became the wolf, like he, it’s almost as if he embodied the wolf. And he acted it out for us, and it was so inspiring and so beautiful. And Wes actually took out his camera phone, filmed it, and then sent that footage to the animators to base the wolf off of Bill Murray, so Bill Murray is the uncredited wolf in this movie. And he actually, it was so good, it was as if he practiced it. I mean, it was incredible, his wolf performance. So, I think because of what the scene means, what it represents in the movie and the great warm message that it has in the scene, plus knowing the behind the scenes, what went into that scene, I think that’s my favorite scene in the movie.”

-Jason Schwartzman

How much would you pay for the universe?

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:28:50 -0400

How much would you pay for the universe?

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Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:11:04 -0500

The original paper on Voronoi Treemaps.

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:04:00 -0500

The original paper on Voronoi Treemaps.

Illegal prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:20:37 -0500

Illegal prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

cab1729:

An illegal prime is a prime number that represents information that it is forbidden to possess or distribute. One of the first illegal primes was discovered in 2001. When interpreted in a particular way, it describes a computer program that bypasses the digital rights management scheme used on DVDs. Distribution of such a program in the United States is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.^[1] An illegal prime is a kind of illegal number.

(and don’t even get me started on the binary representation of Pi)

Analysis of Chutes and Ladders

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:30:41 -0500

Analysis of Chutes and Ladders

Dial-up modem sound slowed down 700%… awesome and creepy

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:37:00 -0500

Dial-up modem sound slowed down 700%… awesome and creepy

One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:21:57 -0500

togetherforjacksoncountykids:

“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel

Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.”

She looked up with tears in her eyes and I realized there was something wrong. Her classmates went into the art room and we moved to the art storage area so her classmates wouldn’t hear our conversation. I softened my tone and asked her if she’d like to tell me what was wrong.

“My ponytail,” she cried.

“Can I see?” I asked.

She nodded and pulled down her hood. Allie’s braids had come undone overnight and there hadn’t been time to redo them in the morning, so they had to be put back in a ponytail. It was high up on the back of her head like those of many girls in our class, but I could see that to Allie it just felt wrong. With Allie’s permission, I took the elastic out and re-braided her hair so it could hang down.

“How’s that?” I asked.

She smiled. “Good,” she said and skipped off to join her friends in art.

‘Why Do You Look Like a Boy?’

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(via Metallica Concerts, 1982-2012 [Infographics])

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:00:01 -0500

(via Metallica Concerts, 1982-2012 [Infographics])