http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21666
The World’s Longest Exposures
by Ransom Riggs
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British photographer Justin Quinnell is making waves with an amazing six month exposure he made in Bristol, England of the sun rising and falling over the city’s famous suspension bridge:
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A very interesting result. With makeshift equipment. Truly stunning. Take a look at the pic. Amazing!
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/schmidt/schmidt12.html
Federal Policy Brings Down Another Airliner in New York
by Thomas Schmidt
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Well, the “Canada” geese are presumably migratory, and are covered by treaties: in other words, they are under the control of the Federal Government, which protects them from any harm. The fact that they do not migrate is immaterial: no state or local government can harm them in parks, and no private landowner of a golf course can shoot, trap or harass them from his property. Once again, uniform Federal rules have usurped local control and private property rights; thankfully, an accountable private airline’s pilot was there to protect us from our protectors.
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Knew it wouldn’t take long to find the gooferment in the “Miracle on the Hudson”. What should me call non-migrating Canadian geese? Dinner!
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090102/D95F79I00.html
Historians battle Wal-Mart over key Civil War site
Jan 2, 3:06 PM (ET)
By STEVE SZKOTAK
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LOCUST GROVE, Va. (AP) – Wal-Mart wants to build a Supercenter within a cannonshot of where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first fought, a proposal that has preservationists rallying to protect the key Civil War site.
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Can’t preserve everything? Can’t deny WalMart and the benefits of Chinese plastics?
And, the local politicians need the money!
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http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2008/12/making-of-holiday-classic.html
Thursday, December 25, 2008
The Making of a Holiday Classic
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By any standard, It’s a Wonderful Life qualifies as a holiday classic. Frank Capra’s 1946 film has earned its place in the pop culture pantheon, becoming a Christmas tradition for millions of viewers around the world.
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You may have noticed that, in recent years, It’s a Wonderful Life comes on only once or twice per Christmas season, and only on a major network (NBC). [That’s because] The original copyright holders managed to reassert their rights, something that is virtually unheard of. But the rights associated with the background music, as well as the copyright protection stemming from the short story on which the movie was based, had not yet expired. That gave Republic Pictures the hook in needed to reassert its control of the film.
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Wasn’t “copyright” and “patent” law supposed to speed up innovation?
Intellectual Property, or as most libertarians call it, “imaginary property”, has apparently done the opposite.
Never ending succession of small changes allow the Big Media to retain a choke hold on “stuff”.
Time to revisit that “law”.
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Secret of the Lusitania: Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a passenger ship
By Sam Greenhill
Last updated at 1:16 AM on 20th December 2008
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Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War.
But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915.
Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.
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Wilson moves up on the list of “worst president”.
Either a fool or a fraud?
He campaigned on a “keep us out of war” platform and then rushed us into it.
Once again, it appears that the public was lied to and manipulated.
When do we wise up?
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http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/womens-basketball/recap?gid=200812180232&prov=ap
What do you think when you see a big powerhouse team “beating up on little kids”?
I’m a mix of conflicting emotions. Having graduated from a small Catholic college with a proud basketball tradition, I’ve seen “the team” get thrashed. It has convinced me that NCAA basketball isn’t about basketball, school pride, student athletes, or even achievement.
It’s about the money honey!
And, the self-delusion that that there is any affinity between a bunch of ringers and the student body.
We over-look the damage done when big time basketball or football schools “graduate” functional illiterates. Basket weaving 101? And, all the tutoring, accommodations, and sometimes fraud that goes into the “game”.
Nope, it’s time to learn some very hard lessons:
(1) It’s all about semi-government organizations (i.e., schools that are fund largely by involuntary taxation) that have “feathered their own nests” by fooling students and alumni.
(2) It’s the football and basketball version of Major League Baseball’s minor league. WIthout the honesty of paying the players, and without puncturing the illusion that the “team” is anything more than it is.
(3) It does NOTHING to improve ourselves, our families, or our societies. People some how feel that if the “home town” team wins it reflects well upon them. This nonsense distracts us from other performance issues that do reflect upon us.
(4) I often refer to “millionaires playing for billionaires” in my posts on taxpayer funded stadiums. Nothing seems more ABSURD than when someone refers to a PRO team as “theirs”. I fall back to the old joke: “if it’s mine, can I sell it?”. (This also applies to “my government”, “my schools”, “my town”, “my state”, “my country”, or “my world”. In life, there is very very little that is truly “mine”. (See rants on full and partial slavery by “your government”!)
(5) We need a shift in memes and paradigms. One thing that blogging on the internet does is to cause those shifts.
IMHO!
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“Especially in the wake of Twilight, Harry Potter, or even the His Dark Materials series, I was wondering if you could tell me why concepts, like being an orphan or the existence of vampires or monsters, which should be frightening to children actually prove to be so appealing?”
With all the real problems in the world, why do folks have to go out and “invent” new ones?
Vampires and magic seem to be popular with the “yutes” of America. Are they brain dead? Have they been under served by what purports to be the “education system” here? Are they just mindless consumers of the “one eyed vast wasteland” (i.e., TV) in every room of our homes?
I really don’t understand.
When I was young, I dreamed of doing great things. Epic books were my “vast waste land”. With heros that overcome adversity and their own flaws.
Now, the kids adore what doesn’t exist.
Strange to my way of thinging.
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Just curious. One day they were there; the next day NOT!
Pen heaven? A third world country? Landfill?
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http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20692
Miss Cellania
Messing with Mother Nature: 5 Cautionary Tales
by Miss Cellania – December 4, 2008 – 10:09 AM
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A case in Borneo illustrates the delicate balance of nature and the unintended consequences of human intervention. An early 50s outbreak of malaria led the World Health Organization (WHO) to bring in massive amounts of DDT to kill mosquitoes. They killed the mosquitoes, but also virtually wiped out a particular species of parasitic wasp. The wasp fed on thatch-eating caterpillars. With the wasps gone, the caterpillars ate the villager’s roofs! An even worse consequence was that geckos ate the poisoned insects and were in turn eaten by native cats. The native cats died from DDT poisoning, and therefore the rat population flourished. This lead to an outbreak of typhus and plague among humans. To assuage the damage, WHO arranged for a supply drop that included a couple dozen healthy cats! This supply drop (which included other supplies) was dubbed Operation Cat Drop. The cats were able to reduce the rodent population to controllable levels, and DDT was eventually outlawed.
As we continue to “improve” the environment and serve a growing human population, there will be more such stories to come.
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Humans really can screw stuff up!
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Change your Brain, Change Your Life 1/7 20080420
I watched this last night. Pretty interesting stuff.
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