Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
From the background action and all the easels passing by it looks as though there are at least a couple other painting elephants at the same location. Elephants are probably pretty smart, as non-primates go, but I don’t think this proves much. If dogs had a limb as flexible as a trunk then they could [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Politics, Science on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
That’s the policy of African leaders:
Reason Magazine - Demon Seed
Posted in History, Science, tagged science sound history technology on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Using modern technology to play back a visual representation of sound that was recorded in 1860. Very clever.
Phonautogram - Thomas Edison - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - New York Times
Posted in History, Photography, Science, Uncategorized, tagged history NYC photography on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
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Originally uploaded by CitySkip
From CitySkip. Click the photo to view the whole set of images from New York City Blackout of 1977.
The landline phone system continues working even when the household power is out, of course. Most phones at the time were completely powered by big batteries or generators at the central office. [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Politics, tagged McCain age health on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
The world’s 10 oldest leaders
A 2008 Pew study found that while less than a quarter of younger voters, when told his age, considered McCain too old for the presidency, fully 40 percent of retirement-age voters regarded him as too old.
While some people might find this result counterintuitive, I’m not really surprised that younger voters have [...]
Posted in History, tagged history WWII Australia navy on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
An interesting post about the loss of the HMAS Sydney of the Royal Australian Navy during WWII and recent news about the final fate of the ship.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Video: Pontiac Ad Gives Nod to Classic Spy Hunter - Boing Boing Gadgets
Posted in Current Affairs, Science Fiction & Fantasy, tagged obit sf on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m sorry to hear that Arthur C. Clark has died at age 90. As Bruce Webster notes, he was the last of the “big three” writers who created the foundation for modern science fiction. The other two giants of 20th century SF were Issac Asimov, who died back in 1992, and Robert A. Heinlein, who [...]
Posted in History, Photography, tagged photography B&W streetphotography 1970s on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s some street photography of a different kind. A typical neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana in the bygone years of 1972 and 1973. There are some very nice photos.
McCLELLAN STREET - Digital Journalist
I was born in 1971 in Maryland, quite a ways from Indiana, and grew up in working middle-class neighborhood not far from Baltimore [...]
Posted in History, Video on March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
via AVGeeks
from video.google.com posted with vodpod
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