Planet Harddrive

.For several years I've been fascinated by what might be called the geological nature of harddrives – how certain mineral arrangements of metal and ferromagnetism result in our technological ability to store memories, save information, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 15:49:00

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Feminism and Pop Culture

By Andi ZeislerSeal PressNo matter how sophisticated you believe yourself to be, consuming pop culture is often inevitable in modern life. From reacting to coverage of major news events to understanding how advertising permeates our media landscape, chances are most self-identified feminists have considered how so-called low culture [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 18:04:00

PREFAB FRIDAY: Cottage in a Day

January 23, 2009Olivia Chen With a name like Cottage in a Day, it is easy to imagine relaxing in a serene, forested setting ... finishes both on the interior and exterior, the home’s materials conserve resources while also being ... for a home. All the cottages come with eco-friendly features such as Energy Star windows and bamboo flooring [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 10:00:45

Location, Location, Location

Why New Jersey rocks:New Jersey’s small size has a lot to do with both its much-inflated deficiencies and its virtues. A lot is packed into limited territory. Urban squalor is squeezed up against dairy farms; picturesque villages right out of a New England landscape are a sneeze away from sulfurous factories [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 22:06:24

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps....Palestinians, a FEW, think

Der Spiegel, from an article they do not realize is a testament to this religious war of the peoples: GAZA IN RUINS 'Who Has Won Here? ... when a person is hit by a tank shell. Blood, tissue, bone splinters, splatters on the wall ... : "That is the change that they brought about. We were blasted back 2,000 years." Through the hole in the wall [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 16:31:22

Event Reminders: Happy Saturday!

Due to extraordinary blogger laziness yesterday, this is a "Happy Saturday" edition of Event Reminders, rather than a "TGIF" edition ... of people, have formed the hills, valleys and flat places of Wave Hill. Sculpt your own mini-landscape ... stimulating classes on how to use exotic and unusual plants to add beauty to an interior landscape [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 13:06:00

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps....Palestinians, a FEW, think

Der Spiegel, from an article they do not realize is a testament to this religious war of the peoples:GAZA IN RUINS'Who Has Won Here? ... when a person is hit by a tank shell. Blood, tissue, bone splinters, splatters on the wall ... that they brought about. We were blasted back 2,000 years."Through the hole in the wall of his house, Sadala [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 16:30:00

Music News 012209

Sometimes, I Hate You All Music News / TK OK, so it's been like a million years since we had Music News. Cram it. I'm bringing it back, and we'll be running it every other week from here on out. Now shut your cakehole and get to reading! Taylor Swift's Fearless has been #1 on Billboard's charts for seven consecutive weeks. Seven. Straight [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 21:35:41

BAMBI pan background

Tonight, once again I found nirvana in recreating this gorgeous pan background piece from BAMBI. There is a sublime tranquility in this artwork. No pop art colors. It is a gentle palette... creating a beautiful landscape for Bambi's first walk to the meadow. This artwork is a perfect example of why I revere the art and artists from early [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 06:03:00

4 Pencils and Rubber Bands? Got iPhone Stand!

Roland dropped us a note about this improvised iPhone stand he whipped together with nothing but several pencils, rubber bands, and a needful dream. He put it together so he could enjoy a little landscape video.Check out his site, geeky-gadgets.com, for more pics and instructions.Anyone going to try Macgyver’ing this one up at home [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 23:01:46

Conscious Sexuality

January 23rd, 2009 by Steve Pavlina          Email this article to a friend When I first began writing about polyamory, some people proclaimed that I was just in it for the sex.I explained that my primary interest in polyamory has to do with sharing emotional intimacy, not physical intimacy. That’s the honest truth [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 12:00:09

Slumdog Millionaire

FilmJanuary 24th, 2009 There are many wonderful things about movies. One of them is that every so often one finds a director whose every film becomes a ‘must see’. Danny Boyle is becoming one of those directors. For me it began with 28 Days Later (and no, I haven’t seen his most lauded film, Trainspotting. I know…) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 23:41:45

Four parts to transformation

Last week, I wrote about my company's thinking about social media, technology and why it's time to transform.  Here's another idea worth elevating and reblogging to continue the discussion.Dennis Howlett says, "Today, the technology is trivial. Until you put it into the context of business process and then you find that much of it is substandard [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 04:45:21

Working for the Meltdown: Too Late to Lose the Weight You Used to Need to Throw Around?

by Eric Martin For the first installment of the America's Defense Meltdown series, I thought it would be useful to review some of the history applicable to the evolution of America's military institutions as presented in the anthology itself.  That history provides a useful context within which to assess the range of options going forward, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 20:39:53

Working for the Meltdown: Too Late to Lose the Weight You Used to Need to Throw Around?

by Eric Martin For the first installment of the America's Defense Meltdown series, I thought it would be useful to review some of the history applicable to the evolution of America's military institutions as presented in the anthology itself.  That history provides a useful context within which to assess the range of options going forward, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 19:53:27

Ten Questions for Book Designer Stephen Tiano!

Stephen Tiano Question 1 - Thank you so much for agreeing to the interview. When did you first realize that you wanted to work in design? Well, it wasn’t a whole inspirational story or moment. Just that, after I married, I realized that if I was going to indulge my fascination with computers and spend money periodically on [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 22:39:19

A sorry tale of the fall of Australian rugby

Canceled international programs, lacking a strong domestic rugby structure, reports of severe financial troubles: is this the beginning of the end for the Wallabies?In recent years, Australian rugby had made significant ground. As a sporting code, they exist in a landscape of fierce competition (AFL, NRL [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 17:14:02

20 Thinks

1. I think that iPods and iTunes are some of the best things about living in the 21st century. When I was little I used to imagine how very cool it would be if you could only buy the one song that you liked from an album, and then have all your favorite music in place, and then be able to listen to it whenever you wanted and wherever you were [more...]

Date: 2009-01-25 00:57:26

Treeline Advances In Canada’s Arctic

  Fast forward 100 years after the tree first sparked the painter’s imagination and climate change is a global concern. It’s timely to consider how trees are faring on the highest mountain slopes and at the northern treeline. In such extreme environments, oddly contorted forms of pine, spruce, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-25 01:00:56

Annuals Give Landscape Colors of the Rainbow

For an awful long time and for as long as anyone can see into the future, the big three annuals of the garden world have been and will be zinnias, ... marigolds, and petunias. For many landscape color fanatics they are eminently capable of carrying the spring and summer color load. assoted petunias ink and purples If you want variety beyond [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 13:04:11

roughs and drafts 01/24/09

* * Dawn voices peals and clarion mutes whose vocal rays   make climate as it shines. In the arbor of days wine's press reveals it speaks garbled roots and clear vines. * If every valid absence points to one thing that shucked the cornsilk out of my ass's reaches, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 16:29:24

Paid Telephone Surveys | Get Paid + Online Survey

Get Access To Top 7 Paid To Survey Networks, FREE! Get Paid $5 - $295/Survey! Unlimited Surveys Available Name E-Mail USA/Canada/UK Only Multinational Participating Companies: Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Nokia, Sony, Consumer Research, Panasonic, WallMart, Sears, Gucci, Guess, Dell, and thousands more! [more...]

Date: 2009-01-25 03:02:59

Hello world!

Hello world! 23 Jan Uncategorized 1 comment Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post ... Lighting Outdoor Lighting - Brighten up your garden by buying exterior landscape lights and lamps ... Tools & Equipment - Shops selling spades, rakes, trowels and other gardening tools. Water [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 16:47:49

36 Responses to “DEY TURK URR JAMES!”

DEY TURK URR JAMES! Poaching coaches is touchy. Poaching Auburn coaches from Alabama or vice versa takes touchy, douses it in gasoline, hangs a tire around its neck and sets the whole thing on fire before kicking it downhilll to a shoreline cliff where the person believes they are to be extinguished by the merciful waters of the sea, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 18:40:57

Maintenance Part of Exterior Home Design

by Chad Dethelo When considering exterior improvements, there are many basic areas that deserve a great deal of attention ... of a home’s foundation. Landscaping is also a very important component to the structural condition ... to landscaping, with many of components adding [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 21:16:43

The Power of Blogging

Apart from the chat rooms, instant messengers and emails created for communication and dialogue beyond turf are the emerging innovations that help man build opportunities for interaction. The need for a personalized and human face aspect of building online communities is slowly changing the technological landscape of the Internet. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 18:37:09

Exterior Home Design Includes Important Maintenance Projects

by Chad DetheloWhen considering exterior improvements, there are many basic areas that deserve a great deal of attention ... s foundation. Landscaping is also a very important component to the structural condition as well ... to landscaping, with many of components adding to what is typically [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 21:14:35

Laid Off, Last Day of Work, and A Rainy Day

The rain beat down on the BART Train as it sped from the Dublin Pleasanton station on route back to the Lake Merritt Station. The sky was heavy with clouds pregnant with moisture and colored with various shades of grey that used that same palette over the whole landscape. It was a fitting picture. This was my final day [more...]

Date: 2009-01-25 00:14:01

Climate Proofing the Netherlands (and Saving Architecture)

In the last years it seems to be an agreed upon fact that sea levels are certainly on the rise due to global climate change. Over the past 100 years, the seas have been climbing approximately 1.8mm per annum. Scientists have more recently been recording a rise of approximately 3 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 16:58:05

Cannibal Corpse Biography

From Buffalo, New York comes a death metal monster that has yet to be tamed: Cannibal Corpse. Comprised of George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher, Alex Webster, Paul Mazurkiewicz, Jack Owen, and Pat O’Brien, the quintet has been ravaging the landscape with picturesque stories of death and many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-25 01:41:44

Using Native Plants in Your Garden

Using native plants in landscaping in an urban setting exudes a certain character and at the same time requires fewer resources; such as water, ... of landscaping and gardening. Native plants are fascinating Due to their diversity, native ... native plants? Using native plants for landscaping is a way of celebrating natural heritage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-25 03:01:07

Grim News In Housing, Autos, EBay, Capital One, Lockheed, Auctions, Chipmakers, Jobs

It was another rough day for companies reporting earnings. In addition, there was bad news in jobs, autos, unemployment claims, housing, defense contractors, and chipmakers. Here is a recap of news headlines from the past two days.Capital One reports net loss of $1.4 billionCapital One Reports 2008 Net Loss of $.21 Per Common Share (Diluted) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 06:07:00

Steven Weinberg on condensed matter physics culture

We have written a lot stuff on the emergent phenomena and various cultures in physics, including the difference between the relativistic and particle-physics cultures.But when I looked at Clifford Johnson's blog an hour ago or so, I saw his comments about an interesting article by Steven Weinberg in the CERN Courier: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 18:53:00

Bad Girls Club helps Oxygen help NBCU

Bill already posted about Bravo’s Real Housewives performance on Tuesday (as well as Top Chef’s performance on Wednesday), but Oxygen sent me a press release about Bad Girls Club on Tuesday. Up against all the inaugural coverage on Tuesday night, Bad Girls Club still was the third highest rated show on cable among women 18-34 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 02:08:12

Where Influence Lives

Where Influence Lives January 22, 2009 9:55 PM Posted by Mitch Joel "TV still has the most influence on purchasing decisions in five major markets — even among Internet users — according to a study conducted in September and October 2008 by Deloitte." That is how the eMarketer news item, And the Most Influential Media Is.. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 02:55:31

A fantastic opportunity to own great art

I received an intriguing email yesterday from an interesting company in China: Dear Sir/Madam I LIKE THE PERSONAL TOUCH. How are you? ... in impressional landscape, impressinal figure, Pino, Van Gogh, Monet... PLEASE SEND ME MORE INFORMATION [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 16:22:26

Maybe I don't need to eat the view, but I would like more options

<a style="display: inline;" href="http://www.gardenrant.com/.a/6a00d83451bd5e69e2010536ead9af970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this ... for basement winemaking. Maybe I wound up with the gardening genes from the other side of the family ... to dominate American gardening to change, and if that change would be kick-started with the displacement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 02:50:33

‘RiP: A remix manifesto’ - An Open Source Film focusing on Copy Right

D’Arcy Norman draws attention to an upcoming open source film focusing on copy right entitled “RiP: A remix manifesto“ ... explores copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 21st century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 10:55:27

Nature Photography: Five Tips for Great Wildlife Photos

Author: Andrew Goodall Wildlife photography can be one of the most challenging and rewarding fields of nature photography. With digital cameras creating such widespread interest in all types of photography, new photographers all over the world are taking an interest in wildlife photography [more...]

Date: 2009-01-25 04:00:12

Meandering looking at gold mining history and more New Zealand high country

The weather has been so unsettled this summer break, and with this and my son's part time job, ... to get the river crossing out of the way and camp on the saddle above Garston. This was the landscape ... about exploring the unique New Zealand High Country landscape photography potential before the rain came in again [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 23:34:51

Opening Up Education - Free collection of excellent articles

Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge is a timely and relevant collection of articles about the need to, and ways to, integrate formal and informal learning. The book has been released on the web, in its entirety, under a Creative Commons license [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 21:36:00

Political Aristocracy

Sat 24 Jan 2009 Posted by David under Mark Udall '72 Posted at 6:07 am Is Senator Mark Udall ‘72 just another politician? The Senate today voted to give Wall Street another $350 billion today. The vote tells us a lot ... Is it at all possible that the economic landscape has changed between those votes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 11:07:58

Emeralds - What Happened

I figured I would take a break from catching up on missed 2008 releases to write about this fine gem of an album that happened upon my mailbox this past Friday. The latest hotly anticipated album from Ohio’s ambient/drone prodigies Emeralds is an early stunner for 2009 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 15:45:00

Announcing Atlantic Business....

Announcing Atlantic Business.... Today,we launched Atlantic's new business page, with new content, new bloggers, and Megan McArdle's curation ... at the intersection of economics, commerce, and regulation. As power shifts from Wall Street ... landscape. Edited by Megan McArdle, who has been lauded by The New York Times' David Brooks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 20:15:25

Mercury News: Spore Galactic Adventures preview

Set to be released this spring, Galactic Adventure gives players the opportunity to get their hands on the creatures they’ve made in Spore ... it fiery or snowy via templates. Players can even modify its landscape and add a wide range of structures [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 11:21:52

Burning for Encaustics

Thanks for dropping in! While you're here, you can subscribe for a convenient way to stay updated on all the latest green goodness ... and corporeal landscape through both color and texture. Translated literally as “to burn”, this method [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 12:00:11

Stop Talking About "Technology"

The Rebuild the Party plan has often been characterized as a way to remake the party through technology. Though we've sometimes slipped in using that word to describe certain elements of the plan -- I generally feel uncomfortable with it being pigeonholed as a "technology" plan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 03:04:01

Running A Lawsuit Up The Flagpole

Via Tom Humphrey: The state Court of Appeals has ruled that the Tennessee Republican Party is not liable for injuries suffered by a man hit by a ... and flagpole that actually fell on Elmer Paul Allen was covering a landscape painting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 15:01:22

All Biking Enthusiasts Love Bike Tours In France

By Alison AddyWhenever you go along your own, you are able to trip in a minor group from friends or family, or only a couple on your own ... out by the astonishing cultural landscape painting that divine big artists like Henri Matisse, Marc [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 19:10:00

No Obama job for him, DNC's Dean brags, then leaves

Having been rejected by President Barack Obama for a coveted Cabinet post, ex-Gov. Howard Dean is now ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee. No vote necessary. A day after Tuesday's inauguration ceremony, Dean was replaced by a real Obama favorite, Gov. T[ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 18:39:51

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