February 2010
Bike Win →
Bike Win
Much better than his last tribute
Picture by: Unknown Submitted by: encantadia_fanatic via Fail Uploader
Bike Win →
Bike Win
Much better than his last tribute
Picture by: Unknown Submitted by: encantadia_fanatic via Fail Uploader
Telerobotic searchlight art installation →
Vectorial Elevation is a telerobotic art installation in Vancouver, Canada that enables you to aim 20 searchlights around the English Bay via the Web. Four cameras around the city then…
USA PATRIOT Act renewed, no new civil liberties... →
Kevin Bankston at the EFF blogs,
Yesterday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to renew three expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, after the Senate …
Catching up on health care summit. Watch John Dingell’s great quote. 2nd video from top. http://ow.ly/1bpt7
“…won’t be perfect. But it sure will be better and it’s going to ease a huge amount of pain and suffering at a cost, which we can afford.”
“You never know when you’re walking through the woods — how silent they are today, but how many stories are in there.” http://ow.ly/1boPO
RT @greenbiztweets: Walmart’s Grand Plan to Reduce CO2: Make Someone Else Do It http://bit.ly/9xqOHZ @MarcGunther
Amazing Nature Photos Taken with..iPhone’s 3GS Macro Lens!? (Slideshow) http://bit.ly/9GWXtC
Walmart’s SVP of Sustainability Fills in a Few More Details on Their 20 Million Ton GHG Reduction Plan http://ow.ly/1biHD via @matmcdermott
RT @ztf: Matt Damon will play RFK: http://bit.ly/aSfZAL
Hold on, John Daly is doing underwear ads? →
As if 2010 weren’t off to a rocky enough start, now I have to listen to John Daly talk about his underwear. The formerly mulleted and rotund golfer, who cut his hair and slimmed down, …
Will Texas Execute Another Innocent Man?... →
The Medill Innocence Clinic at Northwestern University, which has been very successful in proving the innocence of people who were wrongly convicted, says that Texas may be about to put another…
Glamping Down on the Farm →
I’m suddenly quite taken with this new term, glamping. A portmanteau of the words glamour and camping, glamping refers to camping in a more than ordinarily luxurious manner.
A New York Times…
Glad to see Van Jones getting some work. Was taken down by a negative press machine, but he’s a great thinker & leader http://ow.ly/1aLp9
RT @DRexplore: NY TIMES does a wicked Plastiki info graphic!! sweet!! get in touch with your inner Plastiki geek! http://nyti.ms/9AAX0Q
RT @waylonlewis: Wow yoga ad http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/12/uh-wow/ @lululemon
RT @drgrist Keep seeing calls for a basic ‘What We Know’ site on climate change. would gently suggest lack of clear explanation is not prob.
Hold on, John Daly is doing underwear ads? →
As if 2010 weren’t off to a rocky enough start, now I have to listen to John Daly talk about his underwear. The formerly mulleted and rotund golfer, who cut his hair and slimmed down, is…
Rolling post-apocalyptic Lego city →
Flickr user DeGobbi’s “Crawler Town” is an insanely detailed and most magnificent rolling cyberpunk city executed in Lego: “Crawler town roams the barren wastes of a post steam-punk world after…
Wannes Goetschalckx's "Nest" →
Bird housing crisis! Dutch artist Wannes Goetschalckx’s “Nest (Home Part 2),” on display here at Amsterdam’s Galerie West, is a mysterious look at our urban overcrowding problems…
Red Hot Catholic Love - At Twelve Years' Old →
Shared by Chris Tackett
12?
The Dish was recently taken aback by a document emailed to us showing that the age of sexual consent in Vatican City was - wait for it - twelve years…
Vintage package design gold mine →
Holy cow—Flickr user Roadsidepictures has amassed an insane amount of old packaging design, as seen in this gallery. What’s nuts is that these aren’t just pictures s/he’s…
Graffiti tagger “yesr” strikes downtown... →
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This guy hit my Uhaul moving truck that same night. Jerk.
Downtown Fayetteville Hit By Graffiti – Most Popular News Story – KHBS NW Arkansas.
COMMENT: Fayetteville…
America’s First Wave Power Farm Coming to Oregon... →
America is getting its very first wave power farm! Ocean Power Technologies, a New Jersey-based firm, is currently installing giant buoys off the coast of Reedsport, Oregon. Once all…
If Joe Stack's Daughter Were A Muslim →
Mark Shea does a thought experiment:
Although she said that act was “inappropriate”, she hopes that “now maybe people will listen.” Charles
Krauthammer has instructed us that if you have the…
Lunch break →
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i don’t know what is going on here, but it looks amazing.
There’s no restaurant in America that I want to eat at as much as Alinea.
Lost In The Sound - New Sound Maps Show Ship Noise... →
This animation frame shows in color the loudness of calling right whales off the Cape Cod-Boston area with no ships in the area. Image: Dimitri Ponirakis, via Physorg We know that ocean noise…
Architects Could Learn A Lot From Termites →
Termite Mounds and Colonies If only human architects could build so well. Philip Ball in the New Scientist describes how green and sophisticated it is:…Read the full story on TreeHugger
'Shell Crusher' Shark Swam Cretaceous Kansas →
With 1,000 teeth in its jaw, the 88.7 million-year-old shark could pulverize its prey.
RT @PlanetGreen: STS9 Spreads Electro Activist Message Without Words via @jeffkart http://is.gd/8XrE5
The Beauty of Female Genital Mutilation →
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good spot.
This very beautiful spot about very beautiful women calls attention to the horrific practice of female genital mutilation.
Seymourpowell's Aircruise concept: London to... →
In this day and age travel, and particularly air travel, is all about rushing. How quickly can I get there? Why is my flight delayed? Is it worth it to pay extra to board and de-board the…
Getting to know the neighborhood cats & dogs. So far, I’ve seen Junkyard Cat & Fit Garfield. & a surprisingly high number of Golden Doodles.
Naps Make You Smarter →
I’m a napper. 20, 30 minutes a day — that’s all I need. But it banishes the post-lunch sleepies and makes me feel like someone’s reset the clock inside my brain — and now, thanks to…
Turkish temple older than civilization →
An archeological find in Turkey, believed to be a temple build 11,500 years ago that predates “villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture”, suggests religion created…
RT @PlanetGreen: .@MAKE has a great post of some huge butterfly sculptures made entirely from junk! http://ow.ly/19Xyw
RT @joeldermole: Samantha Bell says her father is a hero. She’s wrong I Cup O’ Joel http://bit.ly/9oEiED
Outer space is cool and all, but let’s put some more effort into exploring these ocean depths. http://ow.ly/19VOA
The bottomless ocean →
A representation of how deep the Mariana Trench is. Turns out it’s really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really deep. (via df) Tags: infoviz
Video: English cops terrorism-harassing... →
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England is going crazy.
Bob Patefield, an English amateur photographer, video-recorded an outrageous Terrorism Act stop-and-search in Accrington town centre last December,…
USB wall socket →
In-wall USB charging is here—well, almost—with the Truepower U-Socket, which is currently awaiting UL Approval and should be available within months. The $19.95 socket can be…
RT @maggiekb1: We don’t know the exact “safe” level of co2. And the message from that fact shouldn’t be “Wait”. #aaas10
RT @JaymiHeimbuch: Be Completely Unreasonable - It’s How We Change the World http://bit.ly/91a9FJ « cool TED talk + video
RIP Martin Bosworth, original Scrogue →
One of our original scrogue colleagues has passed away. Martin Bosworth, who helped us found Scholars & Rogues in April of 2007, was a central member of our community for our first year. He…
And the Gold Medal for worst contextual ad in... →
(click images) …the Chartered Accountants of Canada. These scans are from Tuesday’s edition of the Globe & Mail. The article appeared on the bottom of page O12, the ad…
Fascinated by @Pictory’s “ones that got away.” http://ow.ly/18pl1 I could never share a story like that. & imagine seeing yourself there?
love this. use social pressure for greater good. RT @PlanetGreen: The smart electric bill! #TED http://goo.gl/OJFf via @Michael_GR
RT @jayrosen_nyu: If you’ve ever wondered why Rosen keeps up his “Church of the Savvy” meme, [read this]: http://jr.ly/xhkf
How I believe in God by Roger Ebert http://ow.ly/18q6r I always find it enlightening to read well-written statements of belief.
