Elephant Paints Self Portrait

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 [...]

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Better Dead Than Fed

That’s the policy of African leaders:
Reason Magazine – Demon Seed

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Audio before Edison

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

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Switchboard by candlelight

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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. [...]

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Age and the Presidency

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 [...]

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The mystery of the HMAS Sydney

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.

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But does it have an oil slick button?

Video: Pontiac Ad Gives Nod to Classic Spy Hunter – Boing Boing Gadgets

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Arthur C. Clarke makes his final rendezvous

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 [...]

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Life on McClellan Street

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 [...]

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English Children – Living In The City (1949)

via AVGeeks
from video.google.com posted with vodpod

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