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Jewish lost tribe found in Africa
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
funny. you don’t look Jewish
The Lemba people of Zimbabwe and South Africa may look like their compatriots, but they follow a very different set of customs and traditions.
They do not eat pork, they practise male circumcision, they ritually slaughter their animals, some of their men wear skull caps and they put the Star of David on their gravestones. [article in full]
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Neil Power: 1913
April 1913. Rome, Georgia. Neil Power, 10 years old. Said “turns stockings in Rome Hosiery Mil”; A shy, pathetic figure. “Hain’t been to school much” Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
The Great War, Sir Mike, and Me
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Mike discovers and blogs about the war to end all wars.
The Great War, Sir Mike, and Me | mikegerber.com.
…and he supplies this link to somne videos (BBc), a documentary (black and white) abuot WWI, for which
CLICK HERE TO SEE VIDEOS
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Photographer Jason Hawkes, a frequent contributor to the Big Picture blog, returns today, sharing with us some of his latest images of American cities seen from above at night – New York City and Las Vegas, both cities that undergo significant transformations after the sun goes down.
some goodshit
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
[in college? have a kid or two in college? just interested because you have been there and have an interest? then try these links]
Education: K-12, College & Graduate School News .
Men’s top sex secrets revealed!
Chile, nine days later – The Big Picture – Boston.com.
Pictures of Farming in North Dakota in the early 1900’s.
How to preserve brain function .
Chile, nine days later – The Big Picture – Boston.com.
Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession .
Harness Your Subconscious Wisdom by Asking The Right Questions .
The Psychology of the Taboo Tradeoff.
Bringing Down High Blood Pressure .
Stomach-churning details of CIA waterboarding crimes .
” What are Anticancer Genes? .
Unselfish molecules may have helped give birth to the genetic material of life.
How Common is Low-Back Pain? | .
How to Tell if a Guy Is Trustworthy .
Science, Technology, Health & Environmental News.
Happy People Talk More Seriously.
‘Archaeology’: Priestesses tombs unearthed on Crete – Science Fair: Science and Space News – .
Books
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Will the King of Pot go up in smoke?
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The King of Pot is shorter than you'd imagine. When you meet a famous drug dealer, one expects scars and a distrustful sneer and some flashy clothes. But Bruce Perlowin, found waiting for an elevator at the Los Angeles Convention Center dressed in jeans and a polo shirt, is more Patch Adams than Tony Montana. Standing about 5 feet 6 inches tall, he has Robin Williams' twinkling eyes as well as his manic energy.
What he lacks in stature, though, he more than makes up for in reputation among pot smokers and those who bust them. Perlowin is the biggest West Coast dope smuggler in U.S. history, a fact he offers like a verbal handshake to every new person he meets.
This is bullshit
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
This is bullshit.
Why should you be sitting there listening to me? To paraphrase Dan Gillmor, you know more than I do. Will Richardson should be up here instead of me. And to paraphrase Jay Rosen, you should be the people formerly known as the audience.
But right now, you’re the audience and I’m lecturing.
What Darwin’s Doubters Get Wrong
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Last year was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. The anniversary was marked by conferences the world over. I will not tell you how many I attended; ecologically sensitive readers of The Chronicle might start whining about carbon footprints and that sort of thing. Let me just say that I found myself going no fewer than three times through the Quad City International Airport, in Moline, Ill. Moline!
I mention this as background to the publication of a new book by Jerry A. Fodor, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, a professor of cognitive science at the University of Arizona. The title of the book, What Darwin Got Wrong (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), tells you their opinion of the old English naturalist and of his theory of evolution through natural selection. If Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini were an isolated case, one could dismiss their book with a grimace (if you were a biologist), or welcome them with a cheer (if you were a creationist). But in the philosophical community, there is an increasingly vocal cadre of eminent philosophers harboring doubts about Darwin. To understand their critique, we must first put the clock back a year, to the beginning of the celebrations.
viaDoubters-Get/64457/’>in full here
Charles Bukowski – Bukowski and the Barfly Life
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
On this day in 1994 Charles Bukowski died. He published over fifty books of poetry and prose in a career spanning a half-century, becoming the Grand Old Man of the fringe presses. He came by his skid-row, blue-collar themes honestly, enduring decades of bosses
…with bad breath and big feet, men
who look like frogs, hyenas, men who walk
as if melody had never been invented….
and the inevitable landlady,
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Capels, West Virginia (Marion Post Walcott, FSA).
A coal miner smokes a cigarette and waits for a lift home.
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Old Picture of the Day
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
photographer Dorothea Lange. The picture was taken in 1936. Dorothea was one of the Resettlement Administration photographers who went across the country in the 1930's photographing the effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Dorothea is best remembered for her photograph of the Migrant Mother, which has become a defining icon of the Great Depression.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
November 12, 1906. “the Accident at Michigan Central R.R. depot, Detroit”. 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Ladies: need a great gift for your guy? This will cheer him up, cost little, and be practical. View and order. NOW.
SNUGGIE DELUX
Vintage
Monday, March 8, 2010
How do you choose a partner?
Monday, March 8, 2010
[read the comments. That is what makes this a nice site]
Monday, March 8, 2010
I am as some of you know by now partial to the Rollling Stones. Here is one tune not often played, but
in a time when factories are closing down and stuff being outsourced, this one has a nostalgia to it
delete your cookie after this one?
Monday, March 8, 2010
fun and games and serious too
http://www.airforce.com/interactive/uav/index.html
Monday, March 8, 2010
Introduction to Accreditation
When students search for schools, many of them want to be sure the school is accredited. Employers are becoming more diligent in their background checks of potential and current employees. Attending and graduating from an accredited institution can make the difference between getting hired or not. Each year the U. S. Secretary of Education publishes a list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies. Most schools will strive for accreditation from one of the agencies on the list.
When writer Robin Romm’s mother was dying of cancer, she started keeping a journal–writing from the trenches. At the time she had no idea it would become a book. The Mercy Papers (excerpt) is a gut-wrenching, painfully honest, and deeply moving account of her mother's last three weeks.
via “The accidental memorist” | MetaFilter.
In 1979, The Auschwitz Museum Archive reproduced selected pieces of art and sent them to writer/photographer Alan Jacobs.
After years of related work and many more trips, Jacobs, and his son Jesse, returned to the camps in 1996 to find and photograph the identical scenes depicted in the art. Krysia Jacobs then devised a way to present them as you see here. They are the result of work over a 24 year period.
This exhibit contrasts contemporary photographs of these two camps, with images of what they were like 1940-45 as remembered by artist-survivors. Much of the art was created soon after their liberation. Their art is the only visual record of day-to-day existence in Auschwitz/Birkenau.
NOTE: Click directly on each image to move from art to photo, and back again. Click on right arrow to move to next set.
via Then and Now.
Photographer Jason Hawkes, a frequent contributor to the Big Picture blog, returns today, sharing with us some of his latest images of American cities seen from above at night – New York City and Las Vegas, both cities that undergo significant transformations after the sun goes down.
goodshit (with assist from Anthony)
Monday, March 8, 2010
Levin urges Pentagon to rethink plans for $1 billion in new Blackwater contracts – .
Gates concerned about Blackwater’s conduct: Pentagon.
1930s Fashion History – Fashion Design Images April 1930.
1930 Morgan Aero Super Sport Images, Information and History .
Bugs are changing – and we have a fight on our hands .
AP News: France’s crumbling sea walls no match for ocean.
Fashion is still a feminist issue .
Human behavior is 93 percent predictable, research shows.
Apples, nuts, oats boost immune system .
AP News: Scientists catalog zoo of bacteria inside our guts.
Younger wife is key to happy marriage – Man-Woman – Relationships – Life – .
Egyptian tomb discovered with ’spells helping travel to afterlife’ .
‘Painless’ vaccine needle invented in Japan .
IEEE Spectrum: Hydrocarbon Superconductor Discovered.
Black garlic: all the taste, with none of the bad breath .
Is there such a thing as internet addiction? .
AP News: Most sea lions gone from Ore. coast.
Monday, March 8, 2010
The kings of presidential comedy were reunited last weekend — with a little nudge from the Congressional Oversight Panel.
Five former presidential impersonators from “Saturday Night Live” joined Jim Carrey and the show’s current mock president, Fred Armisen, in a White House bedroom set for a sketch that immediately achieved viral video fame. The experience, Mr. Armisen said, felt like “walking into my television set.”
The first-of-its-kind reunion happened not on the show, but on Funny or Die, the popular comedy Web site (funnyordie.com). It was meant to promote financial reforms, and was partly the product of a conversation between the director Ron Howard and Elizabeth Warren, the chairwoman of the oversight panel. She had said to Mr. Howard that the government must do more to curb troublesome banking and lending practices.
“I said I would try to get together with a few people who might be able to get the word out,” Mr. Howard said in a telephone interview Friday.
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Ron Howard Directs a Comedy Video With ‘SNL’ Presidents – NYTimes.com.
HERE IS THE VIDEO
Inside the heads of ‘Hurt Locker’ bomb defusers .
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During an international poker tournament in Berlin, some armed robbers burst into the room, and panic erupted.
Armed with Kalashnikovs and hand grenades, six masked robbers stormed the Grand Hyatt hotel in the central Potsdamer Platz, aiming the weapons players, judges, hostesses and security personnel and have taken the full amount of bets from the tables, running away with 800,000 euros.
all about books
The Book Bench : The New Yorker.
funny stuff said at link
Overheard in New York | The Voice of the City.
an Irish friend sends this and says he plays it just to rile up his Irish wife
http://pcdon.com/-InkSpots-MyWildIrishRose.wav
Discovered by Ahounta Djimdoumalbaye in 2001 in Chad, in the southern Sahara desert (Brunet et al. 2002, Wood 2002). Based on faunal studies, it is estimated to be between 6 and 7 million years old, and more likely in the older part of that range. This is a mostly complete cranium with a small brain (between 320 and 380 cc) comparable in size to that of chimpanzees.
film review. Get knockout reviews and deals with globalization, greed, homelessness, pilots and prostitutes…and yes, more things too.
[review in full here]DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE by Hubert Sauper.
Today’s featured entry
As you know, Greece has huge economic mess on its hands. Here is a gallery of photos of confrontations by the people in the streets and the police.
March of the Penguin Suits
Monday, March 8, 2010
IF YOU REALLY MUST…I DON’T CARE BUT YOUR GIRL OR WIFE OR DAUGHTER MIGHT..THUMBS OF OUTFITS WORN BY BABES AT OSCAR AWARDS
The most important day in the gay calendar, Oscar Sunday is important not only for the glorious shining awards handed out to a lucky few. There's also the dresses! Here are some red carpet low/highlights.
via March of the Penguin Suits: Red Carpet Oscar Fashion – Oscars – Gawker.
Valuable Books
Monday, March 8, 2010
If you thought buying textbooks for your college classes cost too much, then take a look at the prices attached to these books, some of the most valuable in the world. From the first book ever printed to the most valuable comic book to the children’s picture book worth the most money, check out these ten books that will bring a pretty penny to anyone lucky enough to have one in their collection.
Hey Jude Times Square Subway Station on Vimeo
Monday, March 8, 2010
Thomas Wolfe – Wolfe, Perkins, Time and the River
Monday, March 8, 2010
On this day in 1935 Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River was published. Wolfe would die three-and-a-half years later, at the age of thirty-seven; however incomplete or over-cut Wolfe regarded it, this was the last novel that would be published in his lifetime. The legendary story of how the "Leviathan" manuscript was wrestled into publication shape is funny, poignant and full justification for editor Maxwell Perkins' initial feeling "that Wolfe was a turbulent spirit, and that we were in for turbulence."
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Dr. X
Monday, March 8, 2010
Capels, West Virginia (by Marion Post Walcott).
A coal miner waiting for a ride home. Each miner pays twenty-five cents a week to the owner of the car.
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Old Picture of the Day
Monday, March 8, 2010
…a group of professional photographers at a baseball game in the 1910s. I wonder what type of film these cameras used . . . was it roll film, or did they have to load individual sheets for each photo taken? I find this to be a very exciting picture.
via via
Monday, March 8, 2010
So another Oscar night has come and gone. I watched part of the ceremonies: Neil Patrick Harris rocked the opening; Steven Martin and Alec Baldwin were not as good as they usually were on SNL; best actor/actress tributes were touching; Farrah Fawcett was notably absent from In Memoriam and Tom Hank’s Best Picture announcement was very abrupt. The night lacked any memorable moment, but Katherine Bigelow’s Oscar moment is definitely long overdue one for women in the industry.
The world would be a boring place without freaks (29 photos) : theCHIVE
Monday, March 8, 2010
Calendar 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
TOSS OUT THAT CRAP CALENDAR YOU GOT AS AN AD FOR SOME JUNK YOU DONT USE AND REPLACE IT WITH THIS ONE
awesome
Friday, March 5, 2010
THIS BABE is so big and close up that
I cannot supply the photo at the site. But click on the link and relish, savor, drool.
Historic
Friday, March 5, 2010
September 1937. “Lumberjacks at dinner. Camp near Effie, Minnesota” Nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration.
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Friday, March 5, 2010
One-night-stands, STDs and clinches in college libraries: the full story of student sex at Oxford University has been laid bare this week.
Historians get the most action, only 15% of students are still to lose their virginity and you are much more likely to achieve a First Class degree if you are homosexual.
the rosewood massacre
Friday, March 5, 2010
The Rosewood massacre was a violent, racially motivated conflict that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six blacks and two whites were killed, and the town of Rosewood was abandoned and destroyed during what was characterized as a race riot. Racial disturbances were common during the early 20th century in the United States, reflecting the nation’s rapid social changes. Florida had an especially high number of lynchings in the years before the massacre, including a well-publicized incident in December 1922.
On the morning of January 1, 1923 Fannie Coleman from Sumner Florida, a town 3 miles from Rosewood, claimed she was assaulted by a black man. Although she was not seriously injured and was able to describe what happened she did remain unconscious for several hours allegedly due to the shock of the incident. No one disputed her account and no questions were asked. It was assumed she was reporting the incident honestly and correctly.
Sarah Carrier a black woman from Rosewood who did the laundry for Fannie Coleman and was present on the morning of the incident, claimed the man that assaulted Fannie Coleman was her white lover. It was believed the two lovers quarreled and he abused Fannie and left. However, in 1923 no one questioned Fannie Coleman’s account and no one asked Sarah Carrier about the incident. The black community claimed Fannie Coleman was only protecting herself from scandal.
A posse was formed under the direction of Sheriff Walker of Levy County. The white community in the county became aroused at the abuse of a white woman by a black man and four to five hundred began to comb the woods behind the Coleman home.
Rosewood is located nine miles east of Cedar Key in western Levy County which was established March 10, 1845. What became the village of Rosewood – section 29, township 14 south: range 24 east – was first surveyed in 1847. By 1855 seven homesteads were strung out along a dirt trail leading to Cedar Key and the Gulf of Mexico. The Florida Railroad connecting Cedar Key with Fernandina opened in 1861. Rosewood took its name from the abundant red cedar that grew in the area. By 1870 the market value of cedar and the commercial production of oranges, as well as vegetable farming and limited cotton cultivation, justified a railroad station and small depot at Rosewood. The cedar was cut in the Rosewood vicinity, shipped by rail to Cedar Key on the Seaboard Airline Railway, which had replaced the Florida Railroad, and processed there at two large international pencil mills. The finished timber was then sent by boats to New York factories and fashioned into lead pencils.
via THE ROSEWOOD MASSACRE REPORT.
Rosewood massacre haunts memory after nearly 85 years.
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