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One time

William — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:54:59 +0000

One time Rembrandt lost his inspiring poster of some white guys rowing a boat and couldn’t paint for two years. True story.

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Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City KS. Needs Help

Heath — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:05:40 +0000

You can change the world when you educate through connections. Cat Canyon at Lee Richardson Zoo will allow us to educate our more than 200,000 visitors annually about each of the unique cats native to the Americas. Bobcat, puma and jaguar will be represented in this exhibit that will give visitors a chance to view these illusive animals in a natural setting. You might never see an individual in their wild habitat but in Cat Canyon visitors will have a chance to connect to these beautiful cats. When we connect to a species through eduction, we can then support the conservation efforts to save their place in this world. Cat Canyon will help change the world.

Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo has a firm policy of not building until full funds have
been received. $300,000 remains to be raised by November 1, 2011
through donations, events and grants. You can make a difference and
Pepsi is willing to help!

How to help

Zoo Home

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Gone to seed

William — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:00:10 +0000

Tokyo Times : Waterslide Ruins

One of a great set of photos taken at a resort gone to seed.

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Stunning time-lapse video of Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland, in action

William — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:10:06 +0000

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

Sean Stiegemeier, who created the video embedded above, writes,

So I saw all of these mediocre pictures of that volcano in Iceland nobody can pronounce the name of, so I figured I should go and do better. But the flights to get over took forever as expected (somewhat). Four days after leaving I finally made it, but the weather was terrible for another four. Just before leaving it got pretty good for about a day and a half and this is what I managed to get

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 (vimeo)

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I’d like

William — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:36:50 +0000

“I’d like to make a great film provided it doesn’t conflict with my dinner reservation.”

Woody Allen

These talking machines

William — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:44:58 +0000

“These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country….The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.”
John Philip Sousa

Sunrise

William — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:00:59 +0000

F.W. Murnau – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Trailer, 1927)

Wow.

Roger Ebert, on Sunrise:

Murnau, raised in the dark shadows of expressionism, pushed his images as far as he could, forced them upon us, haunted us with them. The more you consider “Sunrise” the deeper it becomes — not because the story grows any more subtle, but because you realize the real subject is the horror beneath the surface.

Funny how people only cite karma when bad things happen to people they don’t like.

William — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:00:31 +0000

Reminds me of Anne Lamott:

“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

We Love xkcd, Real Live Version of Animated Version of xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel

William — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:52 +0000

Featuring an a cast of internet luminaries, Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyle have created “We Love xkcd”, a real life version of “I Love xkcd”, which itself was an animated version of the comic xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel.

FEATURING THE AWESOMENESS OF: Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, Bruce Schneier, Jason Kottke, Google Zurich, Hank Green, MC Frontalot, Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Mr. Toast, Miss Cellania, Team Genius, Phil Plait, Allan Amato, Maddy Gaiman, Charissa Gilreath, Belinda Casas, Chuck Martinez, Jeremy James, Joanna Gaunder, Lee Israel & Octavio Coleman Esq. of The Jejune Institute.

via Boing Boing

I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo.

It always takes longer than you expect;

William — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:12:52 +0000

even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

[Douglas] Hofstadter’s Law. Which law governs my life on levels so recursive, fractal, and self-referential that it could only have been described this profoundly by the Gödel, Escher, Bach guy.