Sunday, May 30, 2004
Never see each other again: "TWO schoolboys at the centre of one of the most bizarre murder plots in British legal history were free today - but banned from ever seeing each other again."
United Press International: Drug causing GIs permanent brain damage: "Six U.S. soldiers have been diagnosed by the military with permanent brain damage from an anti-malaria drug used in Iraq and Afghanistan, and health officials must reassess its safety, a U.S. senator said."
NAAFA Information: "Founded in 1969, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is a non-profit human rights organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for fat people. NAAFA works to eliminate discrimination based on body size and provide fat people with the tools for self-empowerment through public education, advocacy, and member support."
The Racial Slur Database: "Helping make the world a better place."
Thursday, May 27, 2004
The New York Times > Arts > Music > The Curse of Beauty for Serious Musicians: "Ms. St. John, 32, is well aware of the power of image. For one thing she is a striking six-foot blonde. And while this week saw the release of 'Re: Bach,' her first album for Sony Classical, the CD she will probably always be best known for is 'Bach Works for Violin Solo' from 1996. That is the one on which she appeared naked on the cover, holding her violin across her breasts."
Painting Classes: DRAWING & DESIGN BASICS
Learn the skills that let you draw what you see by exploring the basics of line, shape, texture, and tone. This class will help you develop your ideas for projects from a working drawing, no matter what your medium is – clay, metals, glass, or paints. For the beginning to intermediate student, this is your opportunity to learn the basics and go from drawing stick figures to working through complex, three dimensional design challenges with perspective and clarity.
Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
650-04 June 8 – July 13
TUITION: $ 135 (6 weeks)
INSTRUCTOR: Barbara Murrell
LEVEL: Beginning & Intermediate
SUPPLIES AND TOOLS: soft stick charcoal, #1 pencil, kneaded eraser, 9”: x 12” spiral sketch pad, 18” x 24” newsprint pad
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Monday, May 24, 2004
Ecumenical "Pro" Gay / Homosexual Christian Quotes: "Ecumenical 'Pro' Gay / Homosexual Christian Quotes"
Sunday, May 23, 2004
Gunkanjima-text-E: "Off the westernmost coast of Japan, is an island called 'Gunkanjima' that is hardly known even to the Japanese. Long ago, the island was nothing more than a small reef. Then in 1810, the chance discovery of coal drastically changed the fate of this reef. As reclamation began, people came to live here, and through coal mining the reef started to expand continuously. Befor long, the reef had grown into an artificial island of one kilometer (three quarters of a mile) in perimeter, with a population of 5300. Looming above the ocean, it appeared a concrete labyrinth of many-storied apartment houses and mining structures built closely together. Seen from the ocean, the silhouette of the island closely resembled a battleship - so, the island came to be called Gunkanjima, or Battleship island."
About GUNKANJIMA: "Gunkanjima-island is formally called as 'Hashima island', which places takashima-cho, Nagasaki prefecture. It was only small reef, but it had developed for mining coal since 1870's. Its population was 5,000 at peak, and they built many high apartment. Thus it looked like a warship, so we call this island 'Gunkanjima'(warship island). However it was closed at 1974, and it changed ruins now."
The Rejection Hotline is a rejection phone number - a fake phone number - to give out when you don't want to give out your real number.: "Located coast-to-coast in over 30 U.S. cities and expanding rapidly,
the Rejection Hotline?2 is the industry leader in rejection services."
Saturday, May 22, 2004
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Why I made that film: "Michael Winterbottom's sexually explicit new film was always going to make headlines. But when its female star said she would rather remain anonymous, Nine Songs had all the ingredients for a media frenzy. Margo Stilley speaks for the first time to Charlotte Higgins "
ShirtsSoGood.com Home of the Best Anti Bush T Shirts & Buttons on the Web.: "Save The World!
This Adorable Penguin Has The Right Idea.
Don't Vote For Bush In 2004. "
Friday, May 21, 2004
Salon.com Books | How free is free will?: "How free is free will?
Lauren Slater's new book about 10 landmark psychological experiments has ignited a firestorm in the psychological establishment. But whatever her shortcomings as a reporter, Slater is asking profound questions about human nature and its limitations."
Thursday, May 20, 2004
Janae (Hildreth ?) of Austin,Texas :: bitch hit my truck: "Her name: Janae Hildreth (not sure about last name)
Last seen: 4:30 AM April 25, 2004 - Smashing into my truck and leaving the scene after crashing an apartment complex party in South Austin.
Her car: White '94 Isuzu Rodeo
Former place of work: Bahama Breeze in Austin, Texas 9505 Stonelake Blvd. (she is currently applying to be a Red Bull driver)
Area where she lives: Mesa Hills in North Austin (information from Bahama Breeze)
Information need: Her licence plate number, insurance company and address."
Ananova - Childless couple told to try sex: "A clinic spokesman said: 'When we asked them how often they had had sex, they looked blank, and said: 'What do you mean?'."
Anatomical Models,Spine,Skeleton,Torso,Heart,Brain,Skull,Liver,Cervical,Lumbar,Simulator,Manikin,Eye,Ear,Uterus,Colon,Dental Model,Fetus,Complete Selection.: "Anatomical Models"
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Please disregard the first set of Bunko Rules. Some characters lost format as I cut and pasted them.
Getting Started
a.. 4 people to a table, with 2 teams (the person opposite you is your team member).
b.. Place three dice, scratch paper, and pencils on each table to keep tallies.
c.. A bell is placed on the HEAD Table (a.k.a.: Table #1).
d.. Designate one player as scorekeeper at each table. This is not difficult. Just need make a tally every time you roll the bunco number.
e.. Each player gets one Bunco Score Card.
f.. At the end of each round, the individual player's score is recorded on the score sheet.
Summary
a.. There are six rounds in each set of Bunco. The bell signals the beginning and the end of each round.
b.. Players earn points by rolling the three dice. In each round, players are trying to roll the same number as the number of the round (for example, rolling " " in Round 3). In this example, one point is awarded for each three rolled. A player continues rolling until he does not get a point. Then it's the next person's turn. The dice then pass to the player on the left.
You just keep going around and around until a team at the head table gets a bunco or to 21 points, then the bell is rung and that round is over.
c.. Players change partners at the end of each round. The losers leave the table and the winners stay but switch partners.
d.. Every person keeps track of their wins and losses and buncos on the scorecard which will be provided.
Rolling a Bunco
In each round, players score points when the number shown on any die is the same number as that round. For instance, in Round 1, the object is to roll " ", in Round 2, the object is to roll " " and so forth. If a player rolls three of the number of the round being played (example: rolling " " in round 4), that is a BUNCO. A BUNCO is worth 21 points for the temporary team score on the Table Tally. If any player rolls three of another number (example: rolling " " in round 4), the team receives 5 points for a "baby bunco".
fabprefab - modernist prefab dwellings: "Predominant mass-market housing programs such as project homes or tract housing largely fail to meet the desires of people who appreciate a modernist design aesthetic. Custom-designed modernist architecture is beyond the financial reach of many people and so prefab is viewed as a design and production ideology that has the potential to deliver affordable modernism. While kit or prefab homes have been available in a range of either 'traditional' or 'alternative' forms for many years, surprisingly few prefab homes exist that truly embrace modernist ideals."
Sony Clie PEG-TH55: "Dynamism has the only PEG-TH55 CLIE handheld with integrated Bluetooth."
Monday, May 17, 2004
BlogStreet : FAQ: "What is Blog Neighborhood?
It is a tool for discovering other blogs which are similar to a blog.
For Blog Authors, their Neighborhood is a pool of blogs to track. Treat it as a list of blogs you *should* be knowing about.
For Readers, it helps them to find more blogs similar to a blog they have liked.
The Blog Neighbourhood groups together blogs of a similar nature, allowing you to find other bloggers writing about the same kind of things."
Sunday, May 16, 2004
make.out.club.: "Makeoutclub is an online community for people like you --people into indie, hardcore, and pop music that are interested in meeting others with similar tastes. You can browse MOC members by clicking the boys and girls links, or join yourself!"
Friday, May 14, 2004
Wired News: How Does Fat Kill Thee? Many Ways: "A series of recent discoveries suggests that all fat-storage cells churn out a stew of hormones and other chemical messengers that fine-tune the body's energy balance. But when spewed in vast amounts by cells swollen to capacity with fat, they assault many organs in ways that are bad for health. "
Thursday, May 13, 2004
The New York Times > New York Region > Hello, Pay Phone Information? Enthusiast Provides the Answer: "Word of his project spread, and Cindy in Hawaii reported having had the strangest conversation about beaches with a man answering a pay phone in Brazil. Kim from Sydney, Australia, said she called a phone on the corner of 57th and Broadway in Manhattan, where a guy answered, 'Wassup' and said he had never heard of Australia. Most surreal of all was the conversation Mr. Thomas had when he picked up a pay phone in Queens, at the 36th Avenue stop of the N line, and the person on the other end explained that he had found the number on Mr. Thomas's Web site."
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Monday, May 10, 2004
Sunday, May 09, 2004
CNN.com - Judge orders couple not to have children - May 8, 2004: "ROCHESTER, New York (AP) -- A couple has been ordered not to conceive any more children until the ones they already have are no longer in foster care."
deviantART: Smile by ~maladjust: "Smile
A deviation by ~maladjust, May 1, 2004"
Friday, May 07, 2004
Gay Torturers?: "Could it be, as Rush Limbaugh mentioned in passing on a recent broadcast, that the perpetrators of the alleged crime are homosexuals? If that's the case, maybe the motivation for their activities was far different than from what has been discussed in the media's wall to wall coverage of this incident. If these individuals are homosexuals, maybe they were getting stimulated by looking at naked Iraqis in sexually provocative positions."
Thursday, May 06, 2004
CBC News: Disclosure - PROGRAM ARCHIVES - 2003: There’s only one war on our television screens now – that other war, the one from just a year ago, has been forgotten – but not by everyone. In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.
The Daily Telegraph | Good ol' girl who enjoyed cruelty: "POINTING crudely at the genitals of a naked, hooded Iraqi, the petite brunette with a cigarette hanging from her lips epitomised America's shame over revelations US soldiers routinely tortured inmates at Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad."
True hero athlete / Day's theme: Challenge yourself: "'Pat isn't with God,'' he said. 'He's f -- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he's f -- ing dead.''"
Boing Boing: Brains turn gorilla suits invisible: "Brains turn gorilla suits invisible
Interesting piece on experiments in 'change-blindness' -- the brain's refusal to take note of changes in our visual field.
Working with Christopher Chabris at Harvard University, Simons came up with another demonstration that has now become a classic, based on a videotape of a handful of people playing basketball. They played the tape to subjects and asked them to count the passes made by one of the teams.
Around half failed to spot a woman dressed in a gorilla suit who walked slowly across the scene for nine seconds, even though this hairy interloper had passed between the players and stopped to face the camera and thump her chest.
However, if people were simply asked to view the tape, they noticed the gorilla easily. The effect is so striking that some of them refused to accept they were looking at the same tape and thought that it was a different version of the video, one edited to include the ape."
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Help: "Design Detector was established by Chris Hester in November 2001. It showcases some of the best-designed sites on the web, while offering tips and useful information for designing your own pages. It has been linked to by Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer, Mark Pilgrim, Tantek Çelik and many more top names and sites."
PhotoMann Travel Photgraphy - Images of Japanese Vending Machines: "PhotoMann recently decided to 'collect' images of unique vending machines found in Japan. They are everywhere. Estimates suggest there are 5.6 million vending machines which works out to be one for every 20 people in Japan. Sales from vending machines in 2000 totaled $56 billion! The most common are drink and cigarette machines followed by machines with pornography. All of the images in this section are taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5000. Below is a sampling of the machines to be found."
Boing Boing: Crap Scrabble hand gallery: "Talk about owning your issues: HeyBro.com collects unmanipulated snapshots of reallly crappy Scrabble hands and posts them online. "
Sunday, May 02, 2004
Gold and Economic Freedom: "An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense-perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire-that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire and that each implies and requires the other."
Saturday, May 01, 2004