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The Grand Tour...in York

djgh — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:05:22 -0800

The Grand Tour is back, and this time it's in York. [Previously]

Back to the Future

hadjiboy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:54:12 -0800

How experts think we'll live in the year 2000 [via Paleo-Future]

WOMEN: For President!
The woman of the year 2000 will be an outsize Diana, anthropologists and beauty experts predict. She will be more than six feet tall, wear a size 11 shoe, have shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck driver. Chances are she will be doing a man’s job, and for this reason will dress to fit her role. Her hair will be cropped short, so as not to get in the way. She probably will wear the most functional clothes in the daytime, go frilly only after dark. Slacks probably will be her usual workaday costume. These will be of synthetic fiber, treated to keep her warm in winter and cool in summer, admit the beneficial ultra-violet rays and keep out the burning ones. They will be light weight and equipped with pockets for food capsules, which she will eat instead of meat and potatoes. Her proportions will be perfect, though Amazonian, because science will have perfected a balanced ration of vitamins, proteins and minerals that will produce the maximum bodily efficiency, the minimum of fat. She will go in for all kinds of sports – probably will compete with men athletes in football, baseball, prizefighting and wrestling. She’ll be in on all the high-level groups of finance, business and government. She may even be president. POLITICS: Freedom Will Survive
How will this land of ours be governed in 50 years? Much as today, perhaps – with two parties contending against each other and within themselves, with the people free to choose between them, with the winner pressured from all sides yet curbed and guided by a constitution little changed since George Washington’s day. And yet it is easy to scare ourselves with other possibilities. Some see us drifting toward the all-powerful state, lulled by the sweet sound of “security.” Some see a need to curb our freedom lest it be used to shield those who plot against us. And some fear our freedom will be hard to save if a general war should come. What then? A military dictatorship to restore the nation’s body, if not its soul from the ravages of atomic attack? Some sort of Fascism? Or, in the name of Socialism, some mild or strong control of what we do; directive here, big red “Thou-Shall-Not’s” there? Some fear the worst. And yet: We’ve feared the worst, while hoping for the best, ever since we have been a nation. We’ve come through wars and depression. And we’ve come through – free. Today, almost alone among men, we have the strength – as we may need to prove – to hold the course we choose.

Art to Go

djgh — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:15:13 -0800

The Grand Tour. Until August 31st, the National Gallery in England is putting reproductions of famous paintings on the streets of London, with MP3 audio guides and maps available for download. The reaction has been good.

Walpi Village, Hopi Lands, Northern Arizona

BrodieShadeTree — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:37:31 -0800

Visiting Northern Arizona? Well, of course you should see the canyon. However, you might want to skip that sky walk nonsense. Instead you might want to visit Walpi village on the Hopi Lands. The Hopi have lived out there on three mesas (an island inside another reservation) since the first century A.D. They were never moved to other areas or reservations, and spent a lot of time defending their land in many important ways over the ages. These days you can have a very intimate visit to the oldest, most continually occupied place in North America, if you don't mind a little drive. Don't bring your camera.

Make all your phones ring at once

Pater Aletheias — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:53:25 -0800

GrandCentral: Have a cell phone, a work phone and a business phone? This free service gives you one number that will ring all of them at once. Reviews: Slate, NYT, CNET

What kind of smart-ass comment is that?

airguitar — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:02:48 -0800

Steel Belted Romeos is based on a true story. (NSFW)

Think...about the bad things

Ogre Lawless — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 03:11:14 -0800

Perhaps you'll recall DARPA's Grand Challenge where autonomous vehicles competed in a off-road race for $1,000,000 but most barely made it off the starting blocks? Yeah, well, they are doing it again this year for $2 million this time. Just one thing: Don't bet on Princeton. [last two links .MOV]

Grand Farce

tomcosgrave — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:14:16 -0800

U.S. GP starts and ends in farce
In what could very well be the last Formula One race in the USA, the United States Grand Prix turned to farce yesterday when the vast majority of the grid (14 cars), shod with Michelin tyres, aborted their race after the formation lap and pulled into their garages, leaving the six cars shod with Bridgestone tyres to start and finish the race.

Salford is coming to take over the world!

triv — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:52:10 -0800

"I was lost, proper lost, but thanks to Cris Formage and the fine folks at The Epsilon Program, I've found a better way to live. No more cocaine, no more heroin, no more ceaselss, boundless self pleasure. henceforth, ladies and mental patients, I am following the words of the tract!" - Maccer

Viral marketing nicely done in advance of the new Rockstar games production of Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (some slightly NSFW words and images)

Slithy_Tove — Sat, 04 May 2002 04:24:34 -0800

The Grand Canyon, up close and personal. Start with the series of photos titled 'Royal Arch Trip'. [more inside]