MeFi comment:
"The documentary makes you think about the relative innocence of the world ... back in 1974.
The world wasn't innocent then, now, or ever. We're as contradictory alone as we are together, but a caper like Petit's in the middle of the whole mess..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by duende
8 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"From New Scientist, July 7, 2001, Stench Warfare:On Monday 16 August 1999, a little after 9 am, staff at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington DC were settling down to work. Then someone in the cafeteria smelt something unfamiliar. It..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Bitter soylent
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"There's not much new here, unfortunately. Even in the best war evar, literally millions of Axis prisoners were legally re-designated as 'Disarmed Enemy Forces' and did not fare well under the Americans, British, and French. (The Russians were even..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by etaoin
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"From Reuters, the text of the Legislative Proposal for Treasury Authority to Purchase Mortgage-Related Assets:Sec. 6. Maximum Amount of Authorized Purchases.
The Secretary's authority to purchase mortgage-related assets under this Act shall be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mjolnir
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"From the LA Times, Chevy Volt's unveiling sparks questions about financing:...company executives faced a barrage of questions about whether some of the $25 billion in low-interest loans the industry is urging Congress to fund would be used to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by furtive
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"From Sal Marino's Woodworking Page, Removing Water Marks and Rings:Most white marks or rings on furniture are usually left by water or moisture penetrating through the protective finish (varnish, shellac, lacquer etc.) and then getting trapped below..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by scody, sulaine
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"More about Peter Parker in pp. 31-34 of A History of Yale's School of Medicine — Passing Torches to Others. He was quite the Yalie:...as we see in a letter to his mother in 1831:
"I arise at half-past five in the morning, and attend prayers..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
Last month
MeFi post:
Eject! Eject! Eject!
favorited 10 times, recently by madamjujujive, nightengine, agregoli, garrett, econous, kurmbox, Science!, tonelesscereal, SteelyDuran, TwoWordReview
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"From the Pahrump Valley Times article:Castaneda's disciples tended to be attractive women and the teacher/student relationship was also a sexual one, according to many of the women who studied with him.
One of these was Amy Wallace, daughter of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by damn dirty ape
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A Game for Heroes, ©1970 by Jack Higgins (with 'Fortress Guernsey' on the cover.)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marxchivist
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"...and while you're up there, hope for something decent to eat. "Stewardess, I'll have what they're having" (Braniff International Airways, 1950-71).
More air fare from AirlineMeals.net: according to their Meal of the Week archives,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Cyrano
10 months ago
MeFi post:
Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Paris, 1900
favorited 10 times, recently by nicolin, Bron, hilatron, supercrayon, jrb223, languagehat, hot soup girl, Rumple, amberglow, typewriter
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"...the voluntary nuclear disarmament of South Africa was carried out by the apartheid regime...
Arms Control Wonk has a May 16, 2006 post quoting a Newsweek interview with former South African president F.W. de Klerk:I wasn’t part of the inner..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rzklkng
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Give your local tailor a pattern and some fabric, and you'll be lookin' good. Add a lapel pin, and you're ready for the 21st century.
Don't forget your hat...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Asymptote, RussHy, tehloki, Hal Mumkin
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Quitegal, I'm just a 3D fanboy, but that's a big topic with many variables, all depending on the capabilities of the application(s) used. For general info, browse the galleries, forums, and tutorials at 3D communities like CG Architect, Renderosity,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gubo
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"From the University of Nebraska, the Carrion Beetle Video Gallery [WMV files].
The most amazing video is a time lapse showing a female Nicrophorus* beetle moving a dead mouse from a board into dirt for burial. The most unnerving: symbiotic mites..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mediareport
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Military Zips Lips on Pain Ray Accident
Watching Danger Room's video of the ADS test, let's hope all the bad guys — bare-headed, in shorts and t-shirts — advance neatly through a field of fire laid out in traffic cones...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ageispolis
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"...Taser is an acronym for "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle"...
Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (1911) is also discussed at Technovelgy (the original story describes Tom's rifle about halfway into Chapter II.) It electrically..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by merelyglib
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Bremer images: in Ottawa for Nixon, the Wallace shooting, restrained and arrested, post-arraignment, and Bremer vs. Bickle." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ianaces
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Colorado's male Gunnison Grouse (Centrocercus minimus) may not be as exotic as a SBoP, but he's still pretty impressive — those are inflatable air sacs, btw — and he knows how to throw his weight around in a song and dance...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Photojournalist Eddie Adams' infamous Pulitzer Prize winning image of a captured Viet Cong executed during the 1968 Tet Offensive in Saigon was sheer luck reflex:"Eddie Adams said, 'I just followed the three of them as they walked towards us,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by papafrita
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"French architect and Art Nouveau designer René Binet [scroll down for examples] was a contemporary of Haeckel's, and greatly admired his AFIN illustrations. Binet used the tiny Cyrtoidea radiolaria in AFIN's Plate 31 as the design concept for his..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by trip and a half, homunculus, nickyskye
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Lutrine Prestidigitation (river otter with stone at London Zoo — catch her playful pause about 25 seconds in)." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nickyskye, quin
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Hattiefattener, due to your mention of the nuclear test ban, General Leslie Groves' Memorandum Describing the First Nuclear Test In New Mexico, July 18, 1945, is probably not the description you're referring to, but it's sobering enough. (It also..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rumple
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Complete and utter annihilation moving towards you at several hundred km/hour would be a fascinating thing to see (assuming that you still have eyes, of course.)
Estimated number of France's operational nuclear warheads: 348. France ranks 3rd..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, pyramid termite, zerobyproxy
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Homebrew microswitch keyboard. Awkward, but awe-inspiring.
Barbara Blackburn — World's Fastest Typist. Top speed: 212 wpm.
Monkeys and Typewriters — Monkey Theory Proven Wrong:Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, loquacious, sebastienbailard, Skorgu
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ever wonder who else may have signed your timesharing contract? From National Geographic News, Neandertals, Hyenas Fought for Caves, Food:Neandertals not only fought for their lives against hyenas and other large predators but also battled with them..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Imagine this scene on the streets of London.
Some 25,000 British citizens were under a relatively benign Nazi boot for nearly five years during the occupation of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded since 1066. [More..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spiderwire
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Smedleyman, here's the inscrutable, talented, and award-winning Mimic Octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) playing its many roles: eel, flatfish [QT movie], sea snake [QT movie], starfish, and dead (with eye peeking out).
More about this amazin' ceph..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Jilder, stet, UbuRoivas
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Sir Richard Burton: "An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman."
Here is the introduction to the complete 1963 BBC recording of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood — A Play for Voices, with Burton..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Alvy Ampersand, miss lynnster
Last year
MeFi comment:
"NYT August 6, 1999 — Editors Protest Police Use of Woodstock Photos:Journalism groups and other news organizations joined The Associated Press yesterday in asking Gov. George E. Pataki to order the state police to remove copyrighted news photographs..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by telstar, quintessencesluglord
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Some believe that part of the blame lies under our very fingertips, in the form of cell phones, computers, and video games that use niobium and tantalum obtained from coltan ore (80% of the world's reserves are in the Congo.)
From the October 5,..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by tkchrist, Anything, lord_wolf, poweredbybeard, Dreama, [expletive deleted], twirlypen, lorimer
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Some male cuttlefish suitors camouflage themselves as the fairer sex to sneak in under the guard of rivals and play sucky-face with attractive females.
Can't find a link, but there's also a video showing a male cuttlefish swimming between rivals..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Jacques Cousteau's Conshelf I (1962), Conshelf II (1963), and Conshelf III (1965) experiments set the standard for underwater habitats. How can you beat the Starfish House, picture windows, a waterjet-powered diving saucer named Denise (with domed..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jtron
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Similar to Edward Burtynsky's China > Manufacturing images (including the pink).
More in the Wired article, Endless Assembly Lines and Giant Cafeterias; Inside China's Vast Factories...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agregoli
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Les Gueules Casseés (The Broken Faces) is a graphic French site [Flash — start at the Introduction and use the page navbar at the bottom] that shows surgical and mask-making efforts for disfigured WWI veterans.
War is literally engraved in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agregoli
Last year
MeFi comment:
"For future surgical reference, photographing such an operation might save more lives. Some surgical techniques are mentioned in Military Medicine, March 1999, Removal of Unexploded Ordnance from Patients: A 50-year military experience and current..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by melorama, tehloki, mek, sacre_bleu, kableh
Last year
MeFi comment:
"So that's how the U.S. really measures red and blue states: by the Hot Air Index." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Gungho
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Those impressive chromogenic prints really make an impact, but it may not be what the photographers had in mind:Photographic Processing —
Environmental and safety issues:
Silver sulfide, EDTA, DTPA, NTA, borate (sodium tetraborate, boric acid,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by homunculus
Last year
