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Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:21:37 -0500

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Behold: A post wherein I go totally gay for the new Suburban Sprawl Holiday comp.

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:15:16 -0500

Behold: A post wherein I go totally gay for the new Suburban Sprawl Holiday comp.

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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:36:39 -0500

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"There are more than 1,700 people in the United States serving sentences of life without parole for..."

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:57:37 -0500

“There are more than 1,700 people in the United States serving sentences of life without parole for crimes committed as juveniles. No other nation has even a single person serving such a sentence.”

- Marc Mauer, via The New York Times (via 5oh7)

"Either we all have the right to choose or none of us has it."

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:56:57 -0500

“Either we all have the right to choose or none of us has it.”

- The Answer to the Stupak? Overturn Hyde Now [via] (via anthropophagous)

Bald.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:33:59 -0500

Bald.:

Unsure if now less or more frightened of encountering.

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:46:28 -0400

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:50:31 -0400

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tonite.

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:21:30 -0400

tonite.

Batshit crazy. Omaha, Nebraska 09/28/2009

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:24:14 -0400

Batshit crazy. Omaha, Nebraska 09/28/2009

thisrecording: eleanormorrow: Everything of which we are conscious has for us a deeper meaning...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:15:26 -0400

thisrecording:

eleanormorrow:

Everything of which we are conscious has for us a deeper meaning still, a final meaning. And the one and only means of rendering this incomprehensible comprehensible must be a kind of metaphysics which regards everything whatsoever as having significance as a symbol.

- Oswald Spengler

Super 8. Geneseo, Iowa. 09/28/2009

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:31:53 -0400

Super 8. Geneseo, Iowa. 09/28/2009

Mary

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:49:00 -0400

Mary

dailymeh: Awesome. Theo Jansen has a great concept: Since...

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:22:33 -0400

dailymeh:

Awesome. Theo Jansen has a great concept:

Since 1990 I have been occupied creating new forms of life.

Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature. I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don’t have to eat.

Over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.

Awkward segue warning: on the science side of things, we’re making some serious progress in creating new forms of life, too:

… In other words, there’s a growing free database of ‘biological parts’ (tastes, smells, reactions, proteins) that you can piece together to ‘re-program’ existing biological systems (typically bacteria); for example, here’s a part for a Banana odour generator… [code omitted]

Exciting times, no? (photo via)

thisrecording: madonna & children

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:56:27 -0400

thisrecording:

madonna & children

mayorywilcox: Ian followed this couple into the TA mesmarized...

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:53:53 -0400

mayorywilcox:

Ian followed this couple into the TA mesmarized by shirtwear. I wouldn’t blame him. He found me digging through CDs. Ended up with digitally remastered Revolver and Best of Loretty.

Best ever. 360 degrees of beer bottles. Indiana. 09/27/2009

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:52:04 -0400

Best ever. 360 degrees of beer bottles. Indiana. 09/27/2009

Horace wanted to come to Omaha. Poor thing. Royal Oak, MI....

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:41:14 -0400

Horace wanted to come to Omaha. Poor thing. Royal Oak, MI. 9/27/09.

artistspaid: olerud: thecurvature: olerud: gunjazzpoetry: Bl...

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:42:31 -0400

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Blackbird

Beatle Paul perfecting the song in the studio.

Note: The girl in the studio is Francie Schwartz…

I’ve been wondering who that woman was for the longest time! How have I never heard of her? And how long were they dating? Of course I don’t doubt that he was seeing her at the same time he was seeing Jane (just how many women did Paul have going, anyway?), but he also got together with Linda not long after Jane broke up with him.

Yeah, some sources list her name, some don’t, but he was with Francie from April ‘68 to about September ‘68. He had already courted Linda when he went to the states several months before he broke it off with “Franny”. Essentially, she was merely a fling, and nothing more. She wrote a book called “Body Count” that goes into detail her experiences with Paul and the other many men she’s been with. Goggle her name and you’ll find a interview here and there and some photos.

also, here’s a funny little girly website called “It’s Only Love: Beatles Girls Site”, most of the Beatles women are listed within. I particularly liked the Thelma Pickles entry, as I didn’t know about her until 2 years ago.

dailymeh: Two bodies shielding each other from ultramundane...

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:41:29 -0400

dailymeh:

Two bodies shielding each other from ultramundane corpuscles, creating a net attraction that we observe as gravity. Illustration by Georges-Louis Le Sage, ca. 1758.

Newton may have described the laws of gravity, but he couldn’t explain them. Le Sage had a mechanical explanation of gravity. He theorized that the universe is permeated by streams of small, unseen particles he calls ultramundane (originating from outside our observable universe) corpuscles. These particles impact on bodies from all directions. When a body stands by itself, the corpuscles impact on it equally from all directions, creating no net movement. But when two bodies, as above, stand close to each other, they both serve to partially shield each other from particles from one direction. This creates an imbalance in the force exerted on the object, more force from the direction not shielded by the other body, which results in a net movement or attraction towards the other body, which we observe as gravity. The apparent gravitational “attraction” between bodies is simply diminished push in the opposite direction.

To account for the proportionality of gravitational pull to mass, not surface area, we must make some further assumptions:

From the premises outlined so far, there arises only a force which is proportional to the surface of the bodies. But gravity is proportional to the masses. To satisfy the need for mass proportionality, the theory posits that a) the basic elements of matter are very small so that gross matter consists mostly of empty space, and b) that the particles are so small, that only a small fraction of them would be intercepted by gross matter. The result is, that the “shadow” of each body is proportional to the surface of every single element of matter. If it is then assumed that the elementary opaque elements of all matter are identical (i.e., having the same ratio of density to area), it will follow that the shadow effect is, at least approximately, proportional to the mass.

This isn’t some crackpot theory. Newton spoke favorably of the work of Nicolas Fatio, whose work Le Sage built on, although he appears to have had mixed feelings. There are many problems with it, but it took several centuries for the last serious attempts to rehabilitate it were abandoned.

I came across this theory after I read Greg Brown’s comment over at Mills’s blog:

I would love to see a book of intellectual dead-ends. We have chronicles of what lasted, but are sorely lacking in tales of what didn’t.

And he is right. This is really interesting. I can’t provide a book, but there are several other interesting scientific dead ends I’d like to explore in the future. (One is phlogiston theory, which has the unique characteristic of having been 1) widely accepted in the scientific community, and 2) almost the precise opposite of the theory that turned out to be correct.)