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Shed A Little Light James Taylor and the Lowcountry Voices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsKTzFwv16w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsKTzFwv16w

Riding With The King A Confederate Pride Ride and Rally will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in King, NC, which should surprise no one who knows the place. In 2004, the City of King built a veterans’ memorial on public land in Central Park. The memorial included a Christian flag, and later added a statue of a soldier kneeling before a Cross. Steven Hewitt, a retired SSgt. who served in Afghanistan as part of the National Guard, and a recipient of the Bronze Star, originally complained about the Christian flag in 2010.  A lawsuit was brought against the City in 2012, where the argument was made that the City was promoting Christianity. The case was settled in January 2015: http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2015/01/12/protesters-return-christian-flag-statue-to-veterans-memorial-king-north-carolina-aclu/21639983/ Scott Burdick made a documentary, "In God We Trust?" in 2012. It's a little over two hours long, but worth the watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ucVDpmFz-E ...

These Heathens... Originally shared by lynn paden i love redd foxx here.  his fred sanford reminds me of every naive relative i've ever had... funny unintentionally, and wise in spirit.  the exchange between he and lawanda page goes off the scripted page, and into belly laugh territory.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta92rPzPu9Q

Major Bambi "I have some holes in my body that God didn't put there. I got shot through my left knee. Got an award or two for saving lives over time," he says. "But I think I could have been appointed as the aide-de camp in the White House, it wouldn't make any difference — it's Bambi that's so dear to people." "But I love it now — when people realize, 'This old jerk, he's still alive and was Bambi.' And I wouldn't take anything for it, not a darn thing for it." Originally shared by **** Donnie Dunagan is a hard-nosed Marine, a highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War who served for a quarter-century. First drafted in the '50s and subsequently promoted 13 times in 21 years — a Corps record at the time, he recalls — Dunagan found the Marines a perfect fit. That is, so long as he could keep a secret. http://www.npr.org/2015/07/31/427821763/major-bambi-meet-the-marine-who-was-disney-s-famous-fawn http://www.npr.org/2015/...

Miami Heat Once known as the Snow Capitol of the US, can Miami be far behind for 2026? http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/07/31/beijing-won-the-winter-olympics-because-it-isnt-100-years-ago/

No Deposit, No Return I Pity The Fool that would steal my Identity. Heck, even if they just Borrowed it, it would leave an Indelible Stain on their Soul. If they had one. Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

Blue Moon http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/celestial-objects-to-watch/what-is-a-blue-moon/ The Marcels-Blue Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0fy1HeJv80 via Andrea Monticue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0fy1HeJv80

(Not A) Quiet Professional “A convict is not necessarily a bad person,” he told The Post. “I’ve met many convicts I can trust and very few attorneys. I’ve always spoken on a straight man-to-man basis to suspects I’ve arrested.” Originally shared by Robert Rambusch Watching Louisiana Crimestoppers... ... on an Australian blog ... ... on an English Newspaper site. "If you're the man that committed this felony, look at me son, I'm talkin' to you." http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/the_family_works_hard_and_is_known_to_be_generous/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/06/americas-most-intimidating-cop-may-be-a-la-deputy-known-as-the-cajun-john-wayne/?postshare=1321431008401816 http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/the_family_works_hard_and_is_known_to_be_generous

Good Advice via Jon Pinter Originally shared by Nina Atanasova Do What You Wanna - Ramsey Lewis, Mr. Scruff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek5zJzzyN-c

Jetting Your Joat via G.K. Nelson Originally shared by God Emperor Lionel Lauer No, I am not ever going to give up on this. Via Asbjørn Grandt  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iafa959JvY&feature=share

Terrorist! Interesting stuff about the difference between How People Think Stuff Should Work, and How It Actually Works. Many folks are surprised to find out that Public, Legally Enforced Standards for Construction and Fire Protection are owned by Standards Developing Organizations, and not by the Public.   Those organizations are generally pretty efficient and timely in their work, especially in comparison to government entities like OSHA and the EPA.  But their work is not free (generally supported by subscriptions to professionals in related fields) and is not owned by the public, which is nonetheless often constrained by those rules. Just like with other IP and copyright issues, change is inevitable, but it's a little hard to see which way it will eventually work out. http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/07/28/georgia-accuses-public-records-activist-of-information-terrorism/

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective Originally shared by Sean Cowen Encyclopedia Brown Anybody else remember these as kids? Wow, seeing this gave me a flashback to early books I read... Maybe these names will help jar your memory: Charlie Stewart Cicero Sturgess Benny Breslin Pablo Pizarro Tyrone Taylor Pinky Plummer Billy and Jody Turner Herb Stein Mort "Fangs" Liveright Or these Bugs Meany (the perfect name, right?) Duke Kelly Rocky Graham Spike Larsen Ike Cassidy Dutch Kuller Rowdy Quilp Carl Higgensbottom Rusty Malone Monk Walsh Mugsy Moonsooner, Jimbo Dawson, Roscoe Tenn, Jess Rae #encyclopediabrown   #detective   #kidsbooks   #boydetective   #mystery   via/ huffpo.com

Group Participation Originally shared by **** I love this! My favorite Foo Fighters song covered in an unbelievable way. h/t and thanks to Dawn H Jackson (I oopsed and shared this privately the first time.) https://youtu.be/JozAmXo2bDE https://youtu.be/JozAmXo2bDE

Motorcycles Of Death! http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2010/07/cocteau-orpheus-and-motorcycles.html?m=1

Alan Moore In all his majesty... Almost 15,000 words... Originally shared by **** A very interesting Alan Moore interview from Mustard Magazine. #comics #AlanMoore  http://www.mustardweb.org/alanmoore

This Magic Moment Lou Reed. From the Doc Pomus tribute album, "Till The Night Is Gone." The album is well worth the listen. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4eZjwJZF8uE

By Our Lady Originally shared by Karen Conlin Okay, so it's not a SL post, but it's about swearing. Like a Brit. via Nancy Friedman and BabelZine at Twitter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnLA583OqKM

Pull! Mark! The newest clay pigeons... Can't wait for someone to send me some... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/kentucky-man-shoots-down-drone-hovering-over-his-backyard/

At Sixes And Sevens "If freedom means anything, it means the freedom to go about your life without having to worry about all the people who hate you. Because let’s be honest: lots of people hate each other. Yankees fans hate Red Sox fans. Hardhats hate hippies." Originally shared by Will Shetterly "Is it just a coincidence that the rate of incarceration for blacks is six times the rate for whites — and that the rate for whites who didn’t graduate high school is, likewise, six times the rate for whites who did? Is that not due to economic inequality? Is it a coincidence that the white incarceration rate is almost four times greater in poor Idaho than in rich Connecticut? Or that so far just this year, cops in Oklahoma (population: 3.9 million) have killed 29 people, 18 of whom were white — more than the entire English police force (population: 53 million) has killed in the last decade?" https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/07/hillary-clinton-democatic-primary-sanders-netr...

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

Hello Goodbye The Beatles-Hello Goodbye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yq3JuKY2kQ The Mayfly By Douglas Florian A mayfly flies In May or June. Its life is over Far too soon. A day or two To dance, To fly— Hello Hello Good-bye Good-bye. Originally shared by Damn interesting Snowplows called in to clear bridge of bugs during extraordinary mayfly emergence. http://wqad.com/2015/07/22/mayflies-force-shutdown-of-savanna-sabula-bridge/

Better and Better Every Day, In Every Way. Sarcasm. It's Good For Productivity. Who Knew? via Andrea Monticue http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/sarcasm-how-the-lowest-form-of-wit-actually-makes-people-brighter-and-more-creative-10416281.html

Eggs Bar None Originally shared by Alex Scrivener There is some well-founded nutritional logic to the pairing of eggs and booze: cysteine, a key amino acid in helping the liver function, is present in eggs, which is why that bacon, egg and cheese does wonders for your hangover. In fact, we humans are intuitively smarter in terms of our food pairings than we are in other areas of our existence. But food historians like to gangbuster into our instincts and give them a date, time and reason, and in the case of eggs and drinking, we may have copped it from the French. http://punchdrink.com/articles/the-case-of-disappearing-deviled-scotch-and-pickled-eggs-at-the-bar/

31 Flavors of GOP Crazy Talking about The Donald, of course. And The Line. Don't Cross It. http://www.stonekettle.com/2015/07/the-republican-tell-tale-heart.html?m=1

Super Balls One of the very first things I did with my brand new Super Ball was to try to drop it down the center of a stairwell, thirteen stories tall, in the narrow space between handrails... Just to see what would happen... Parkmerced was never the same after that... Originally shared by Andreas Schou Wherein the US government develops a warhead full of rubberized rocket-fuel superballs designed to careen through secure facilities, breaking down doors, superheating the air, and generally making a giant mess of things. http://www.wired.com/2008/11/secret-rocket-b

Ballad Of A Hero More from Kate Tempest. Originally shared by G.K. Nelson As powerful as anything I've heard or read. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/ballad-hero

Hold Your Own! Originally shared by Meg L This. This is how Kate Tempest ends a great set and makes it unforgettable. With a stunning poem called "Hold Your Own" that speaks personally to each individual in a huge festival crowd. (Please skip to 52:34 for the poem.) Let her message speak to you too. To call Kate a rapper is somewhat misleading. She has a divine spark I've not seen anywhere else. When she performed this poem in Antwerp last April, I was in the front row. There wasn't a dry eye in the room. Her set at Glastonbury 2015 stood out as one of the best. I don't know how long this video will be up, so catch it while you can. If you watch from the beginning, it's 57 minutes long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaTuSCSbdSQ&feature=share

There Is Nothing New Under The Sun... But There Are New Suns... Octavia Butler. Originally shared by Chris Munro "All art translates an artist’s inner world into the “real” world. But science fiction is uniquely oriented toward the future, and so, is inherently political: a hope or a warning, or most often, a complicated mix of the two." http://www.playboy.com/articles/monica-byrne-playboy-conversation

What I Did After Dinner Tonight All in the cause of potable water... Finding the groove is easier than digging the ditch. My back says so. Time for Adult Beverages and NSAIDs... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgBMmoE7T4

Type Casting Call Originally shared by Robert Rambusch Type Hunting http://typehunting.com/

End Of The Road Painted in Red, White, and Blue, opened in 1976. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article21935241.html

Wut I Need Moar Of Allen Toussaint and Java. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJGRgzRrqFU

Not Just In Winter Get 'em while they're hot... Making fun of MAMIL since 1989. http://www.voler.com/browse/collections/details/li/MadDogMedia/

The Guy With The Ninas Originally shared by lynn paden looking forward to this book http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/the-hirschfeld-century-portrait-of-an-artist-and-his-age.html?emc=edit_bk_20150724&nl=books&nlid=36043058&_r=0

De Colores People Love Color. I Love Bill Cunningham. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/fashion/bill-cunningham-pop-out-art.html

It's All P.J.'s Fault "...pangs of ancient regret to old duffers who held NatLamp dear in the 1970s and early 1980s." Michael O'Donoghue liked O'Rourke. He said something along the lines of "P.J.'s a hard worker, listens, and I'm pretty sure he's never tried to nail my girlfriend." Originally shared by Robert Rambusch Yuma every suburban schlub is a font of nihilism's dark, ironic genius .> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pj-o-rourke-how-i-809985

Barely Coping

Rogue Dairy Queen And they say that as if it were a bad thing... Originally shared by **** """  The Dairy Queen in downtown Moorhead has been thumbing its nose at corporate HQ pretty much since it opened in 1949, despite some efforts from the home office to have the store mind its Ds and Qs. And it’s a recipe that seems to be working for one of the few DQs in the country still operating under a 66-year-old contract that allows them to dish up throwback treats alongside the standard corporate-approved items, a combination that turns Main Avenue and 8th Street into a hopping, slightly retro summer hangout. """ http://nypost.com/2015/07/23/rogue-dairy-queen-has-been-ignoring-corporate-hq-since-1949/

Either or Both Originally shared by G.K. Nelson ❝ I even think there could be white people who love the flag and their black neighbors, and can’t understand why someone would make them choose between the two. That’s why I can’t get too caught up in the flag thing. It feels like Northerners trying to understand the South. ❞ My only complaint is I wish there had been more interaction between the principles in this conversation, and less interference from the interviewer. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/fashion/jimmy-carter-and-jacqueline-woodson-on-race-religion-and-rights.html

"I'm Going To Blow Them Out Of This Room..." Originally shared by Meg L "Rape. Murder. It's just a shot away." These words pack a bigger chill than ever. How the indomitable Merry Clayton made Gimme Shelter hers. The full song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-JZPmiEOI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChONufP0FEs&feature=youtu.be

The Hooded Man Originally shared by Alvin Stearns That Face And those crazy eyes. Meet Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Augustus, Emperor of Rome in the early 3rd century anno Domini. He was nicknamed Caracalla, which refers to a style of ancient hoodie that he favored.  History remembers him as Caracalla.  But, nobody called him that to his face.  He wouldn't have liked that.  Nobody without a death wish risked upsetting Antoninus Augustus, aka Caracalla. You can learn a lot about leaders by how they choose to have themselves portrayed.  Look at Caracalla, at any of his many surviving busts.  The cropped hair and beard.  The "You tawkin' to me?" turn of the head with furrowed brow and scowling lips.  His styling, bearing and expression are a radical departure from the flowing lines and dreamy expressions of his predecessors, the Antonines, the line exemplified by the philosopher/emperor Richard Harris Marcus Aurelius.  Caracalla set a new fashion.  After him emper...

Made With 'Mater White Lily, Buttermilk, and Duke's... via Robert Rambusch http://gardenandgun.com/blog/perfect-southern-match-tomatoes-biscuits

Some Days The Bear Will Eat You... Some Days You Eat The Bear... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SX2WBQedLg8

Nowhere Man Please listen... You don't know what you're missin'... The Beatles-Nowhere Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PASYqq4-iD0 Originally shared by Andreas Schou Wherein Universal Pictures insists that Google take down links to 127.0.0.1 for piracy.  https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10969223#

Everyone, or No One. Originally shared by Salisbury Post ~ Newspaper A bill in the N.C. General Assembly that restricts authority to remove monuments from public property may not apply to Salisbury’s “Fame” monument.  http://www.salisburypost.com/2015/07/22/fame-monument-may-be-exempt-from-state-law/#sthash.txjthWZj.dpuf

The Taste of Fat Tasting Much Sweeter Than Wine... Do do do dooo... Whoops, that's not right. More research may be required... http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmcquaid/2015/07/21/scientists-say-theyve-isolated-the-taste-of-fat-and-its-terrible-why/

Status Report Originally shared by David McKeever almost got it ;)

Learning To Be Silent http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/71learningtobesilent.html Originally shared by Robert Rambusch See this one-day old amoeba really school Donald Trump! 1) Using school this way (as a transitive verb) is wrong 2) If you click on headlines like this you are wasting your life in teensy little increments If you want a way to fill up small spaces in your life then here are some suggestions: Zen koans Ogden Nash poetry Rolling a quarter across your knuckles Learn to play a musical instrument Write a Country/Western song about your office job Ask anyone a question about anything and listen intently to the answer Take a deep breath

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

"The lies behind the truth, and the truth behind those lies that are behind that truth." A look into the astonishingly accurate and comprehensive efforts of Cold Ear era Soviet military cartographers. via Matt McIrvin http://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/

When The Tripods Came

Whiter Than White Just a little rassist? Maybe? Originally shared by Ralf Haring #whitespace   http://mashable.com/2015/07/20/twitter-removes-backgrounds

Blasphemy! Originally shared by Tim O'Brien Pie Masher is perhaps the most disturbingly fiendish villain from the Golden Age of comic books. "Hate" and "Pies" should never be used in the same sentence.

Boxes In The Attic Also pertinent, from another discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3do9k0/sourceforge_is_down_due_to_storage_problems_no_eta/ Originally shared by Irina T. 90 terabytes - the size of MoMA's digital collection, 1.2 petabytes - the size expected  by 2025 "After digitization, all those files have to be put somewhere. “The problem with digital preservation is that there’s no permanent form of storage, it just doesn’t exist,” Fino-Radin said. Formats change, companies fail, and data gets corrupted. The best current answer is the resolutely physical LTO Ultrium system, which Fino-Radin is currently transitioning to. The actual tape that holds the encoded data is are stored in cases that look like zip disks, which will then stored in MoMA’s basement." Back it up  and have a great day :-)  #art  #digitalpreservation http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-do-you-back-up-the-museum-of-modern-art

Whoomp! (There It Is) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FPimCmbX8 via Christopher Butler Originally shared by TechCrunch Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down On August 1st http://tcrn.ch/1CM7i16

LEM http://jleslie48.com/guylem_gold45.pdf

Who's Zoomin' Who? Aretha Franklin & the Eurythmics- Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drGx7JkFSp4 Originally shared by G.K. Nelson In selling to Katy Perry, we feel we are being forced to violate our canonical vows to the Catholic Church. Wow. I don't know who to back in this fight. Maybe Katy should have kissed a nun and liked it. I know I did. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/us/nuns-intensify-fight-over-sale-of-convent-to-katy-perry.html

Mega Burbs Low Rise Arcology... Without Property Taxes? Hmmmm. Originally shared by G.K. Nelson Improving the infrastructure, especially high-speed rail, will be critical. According to Zhang Gui, a professor at the Hebei University of Technology, Chinese planners used to follow a rule of thumb they learned from the West: All parts of an urban area should be within 60 miles of each other, or the average amount of highway that can be covered in an hour of driving. Beyond that, people cannot effectively commute. High-speed rail, Professor Zhang said, has changed that equation. Chinese trains now easily hit 150 to 185 miles an hour, allowing the urban area to expand. A new line between Beijing and Tianjin cut travel times from three hours to 37 minutes. That train has become so crowded that a second track is being laid. The next time conservatives complain that China is going to eat our economic lunch in the future, remind them that part of the reason is their investment in infrastructure...

In and Out Apparently, even Hummingbirds can be caught daydreaming, sometimes...

Chargé d'affaires The Indigo Girls-Burn All The Letters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8f_GZCY970 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/20/ashley-madison-hacked-cheating-site-total-shutdown

No One Rides For Free Don't they teach these kids to read bumper stickers, anymore? http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/07/tour-de-france/sepulveda-pulled-from-tour-for-100m-car-ride_378676

Protection Racket Because Readers Become Revolutionaries... Originally shared by Marian Copeland The management of a Raleigh apartment complex has banned an elementary school bookmobile from coming to the property, citing “company policy.”

Campsis, not Rhus Radicans, that is. Also known as Hummingbird Vine. We have Hummingbirds this season, four or more at last count, but they are too swift and shy to be captured by iPhones.

You're In The Army, Now... http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/07/thank-you-for-calling-tech-support-now-please-die/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+arstechnica/index+(Ars+Technica+-+All+content)

Progressive “Texas-bred, Spirit-let, Bible-teaching, revival-preaching, recovering Southern Baptist.” There are Progressive Southern Baptists.  Sadly, they are in the minority.  James Dunn was one of kind, in that minority. Bill Moyers speaks with James Dunn at Riverside, about the intersection of religious and political power: https://vimeo.com/132978962 https://baptistnews.com/opinion/columns/item/30276-dunn-deals

Carry That Weight http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2015/07/18

Crime Pays, Sex Sells Curation, we're not so sure about, these days. "No one has figured out the best place to draw the line between bad and ugly — or whether that line can support a viable business model." http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-cannot-let-the-internet-trolls-win/2015/07/16/91b1a2d2-2b17-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html

Garbage Collection The Internets are (not surprisingly) bad at Adulting. It's harder than it looks, and hardly ever fun or profitable in the short term. http://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahjeong/2015/07/15/apres-moi-le-deluge-what-went-wrong-on-reddit//

Magnum P.I. The Case of the Water Wrustler has been settled... http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-water-district-settlement-selleck-20150715-story.html

Pick One Doing the math on polygamy... Originally shared by Caroline Dow It's all about breeding rights.  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/polygamy-national-security-putin-120234.html

Yes Originally shared by Jessica Pierce One of my riders with speech problems and a language barrier will blow kisses as a way of saying Yes. She does this a lot, in nearly every interaction. The other day, oddly, she didn't do it at all with people, but had a million kisses for the invisible birds chirping in the trees around the arena. Blowing kisses from horseback like royalty. Occasionally something will happen that I can't let myself fully process in the moment, because I can't afford to totally lose it in front of a rider who might not understand. And I need clear eyes to do the job. So I observe and remember, at a bit of an emotional remove, then think about it later, in private. It's necessary. This girl always rides Snap, who she adores and is so sweet to. At every pause, she leans forward to rub her neck or stroke her mane. If we stand still for more than a moment, she really gets into it, stretching to reach as much of Snap as she can while still in the saddl...

She Had A Coupon http://writerthereseoneill.com/2015/07/15/the-part-of-the-nightmare-juussst-before-the-clown-eats-you/

S Is For... http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/books/review/sue-grafton-by-the-book.html?referrer&_r=0

nuqneH Take Me To Your Ladder (I'll See Your Leader Later) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qONZjAIptss via Andrea Monticue  http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-33479808

Mixing It Up Originally shared by M Sinclair Stevens When the Segregated Team Up: Black Baseball Teams in Japan   In the mid-twentieth century my dad ran track in college. He was a vision of the midwestern American farm boy: pale freckled skin set off by flaming red hair. The college where my parents met, Knox College in Galesburg Illinois, had been founded in 1837 one of the first in the US not to discriminate on the basis of race. My mother still remembers being deeply impressed to learn that if a restaurant refused to serve a black runner on the team, that the entire track team, black and white, would stand up and walk out together. Yes. There were color lines in Illinois, a "northern" state. How easy it is for so many of us from the comfort of the present to forget the bigotry of the past. While there remain some vocal white supremacists who want to return to the past, we must confront the reality that bigotry was not limited to a few unenlightened hicks in a few backwar...

Taking Back The Streets G.K. Nelson 's new look?  Chicks dig it, man... Originally shared by David McKeever

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

Do Your Homework Originally shared by Peter Smalley #bastilleday   #vivalarevolution

Tree Huggers Unite! http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/biz/scientists-have-discovered-that-living-near-trees-is-good-for-your-health/2015/07/09/cb67a97adf8b564f8c41bdcb975d2287_story.html?tid=kindle-app

Money Talks [But] Schäuble was consistent throughout. His view was “I’m not discussing the programme – this was accepted by the previous government and we can’t possibly allow an election to change anything. Because we have elections all the time, there are 19 of us, if every time there was an election and something changed, the contracts between us wouldn’t mean anything.” So at that point I had to get up and say “Well perhaps we should simply not hold elections anymore for indebted countries”, and there was no answer. The only interpretation I can give [of their view] is “Yes, that would be a good idea, but it would be difficult to do. So you either sign on the dotted line or you are out.” Originally shared by Meg L The complete lack of any democratic scruples, on behalf of the supposed defenders of Europe’s democracy. The quite clear understanding on the other side that we are on the same page analytically – of course it will never come out at present. [And yet] To have very powerfu...

There's A New Marshaller In Town Putting the Zoom in the Blue Zoomies... I'm guessing Red Flag at Eielson AFB. http://i.imgur.com/3E4znLe.gifv

Never Bet Against The House Bankers Win! http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-greece-bailout-commitments-20150713-story.html

Look What They've Done To My Trix, Ma... http://skepchick.org/2015/07/askachemist-putting-the-fix-in-on-trix/

In The Bubble "Websites designers live in a bubble, they’re increasingly disconnected from users." http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/07/13/news-sites-are-fatter-and-slower-than-ever/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+monday-note+(Monday+Note)

Thinking Inside The Box

Two Kinds Those that have laid down their bikes... And those that will... Originally shared by David McKeever

Winner Takes All First in class, Only in class = Extra Swag.

Survivor We had large and unexpected emissions of Magic Smoke yesterday, as we left the dock. Ye Olde Volvo Penta has a combined starter/generator, originally controlled by a Dynastarter gizmo, long since dead and replaced by a starter solenoid and voltage regulator from a '57 Ford. Some part of all that failed spectacularly, AKA Caught Fire. Hilarity AKA Damage Control ensued. Reenacting dialog from Danger UXB about the merits of cutting the Blue or Red wire first, we eventually effected a repair. In the meantime, we had a small but active infestation of Fire Ants. A small advantage of comfort was imparted to the cockpit crew with neuropathy. The racing was almost anti-climatic, especially considering we had no competition. Managed to get back to dock with all sails stowed, just before the afternoon T-storms. Out to do it again, this time with more wind.

Marine Life It's that time of year again...

The Power of Punditry "...the psychic energy of thousands of fakirs, gathered in an isolated monastery..." Sounds kind of like the Internet... http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Prisoner-of-the-Vampires-of-Mars,676264.aspx Originally shared by Henry Ian Darvel, Robert. Robert Darvel was created by Gustave Le Rouge (Charley Colmes, Doctor Cornelius Kramm, Todd Marvel) and Gustave Guitton and appeared in Le Prisonnier de la Planète Mars (1908) and La Guerre des Vampires (1909). Robert Darvel is a Planetary Romance Hero. Darvel is an American engineer who is approached by a Hindu prince for a special project. The prince uses the psychic energy of thousands of fakirs, gathered in an isolated monastery, to send Darvel to Mars, which Darvel discovers is inhabited by a number of strange and inimical races, from flying octopi to man-sized crustaceans with antennae and claws to the Erloor, a hostile race of bat-winged vampires who rule over a small race of human slaves. Darvel o...

The Kitchen [Nicolas Freeling] said he preferred the kitchen because you did not have to be nice to the customer. He also claimed that all fiction (with the possible exception of Jane Austen's) is propelled by crime or misdemeanour. Readers of a certain age and sensibility will recall the careers of Piet Van der Valk (and his wife Arlette), and Henri Castang (and his wife Vera).  Before he was a writer, Freeling was a cook.  And his two non-fiction books, The Kitchen, and The Cook, are well worth the read. Brought to mind because I've just now gotten a copy of Jacques Pépins "The Apprentice", to read.

Logjam "Dear Google, would you please do what Apple says. Thanks." http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/187150/how-to-resolve-mail-smtp-errors-in-os-x-10-10-4-and-ios-8-4

Letting In The Jungle I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines— I will call in the Jungle to stamp out your lines! The roofs shall fade before it, The house-beams shall fall; And the Karela, the bitter Karela, Shall cover it all! In the gates of these your councils my people shall sing. In the doors of these your garners the Bat-folk shall cling; And the snake shall be your watchman, By a hearthstone unswept; For the Karela, the bitter Karela, Shall fruit where ye slept! Ye shall not see my strikers; ye shall hear them and guess. By night, before the moon-rise, I will send for my cess, And the wolf shall be your herdsman By a landmark removed; For the Karela, the bitter Karela, Shall seed where ye loved! I will reap your fields before you at the hands of a host. Ye shall glean behind my reapers for the bread that is lost; And the deer shall be your oxen On a headland untilled; For the Karela, the bitter Karela, Shall leaf where ye build! I have untied against you th...

Countdown Only 38 days, or 54,720 hours, or 2,104 LP sides, or 12,160 45s until... Take Your Record Player To The Beach Day! Originally shared by Bjarne Witthoff Fra Ello

To The Moon! Kids of a Certain Age will remember this one... Originally shared by Rusted Rail Images When kids still dreamed of going to the moon. #Americana   for Americana Photo with Patrice Christian and Gene Bowker

Playing With Blocks http://daringfireball.net/2015/07/safari_content_blocker_imore

Chasing The Good Ol' Boys... in the "Moonshine Capital of the World." “More than once I heard them say ‘He’s not like Charlie Felts. Charlie won’t swear on your back,’’ Gregory said. What the moonshiners meant by that was simple: Felts wouldn’t lie on the stand and swear that he recognized an accused man if he couldn’t make them out clearly or if they were running away when he came upon a still. “He did his job, told the truth and people respected him for it,” Gregory said. “Even people he sent to jail.” "Chasing The Good Ol' Boys And Girls Of Wilkes County" by A.E. Lancaster 2013 http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/asu/f/Lancaster,%20Aaron_2013_Thesis.pdf http://m.journalnow.com/news/columnists/scott_sexton/sexton-revenuer-makes-stretch-of-road-more-interesting/article_6b5d307e-2063-11e5-a42e-d3a0bf111dd0.html?mode=jqm

Value Added Originally shared by **** Spectral Eigen Culture(s) : Walking and falling at the same time. "This sentence has eight syllables" "is an Eigen Value: a self-referencing, self-defining concept.  The thing itself - and each of its outputs - is its own definition." cf. tautology.  "A couch is a couch" "is a subjective sentence and is not an Eigen Value.  It isn't self-defining and frankly lacks meaning to anyone but its author.  This is an important distinction, because the casual reader of this sentence frankly doesn't care one way or another about the message or the messenger." "The idea of Eigen Values comes from the vast body of work attributed to cybernetician Heinz von Foerster. His work, and the work of others in this field, has influenced the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, architecture, mathematics, cryptography, and art." "Why is this concept important to your idea, your brand, or your movement?  Bec...

There Can Be Only One The hands of a magician, the matter of fact sensibility of a Zen master. I often wince at the superficiality and artifice of cooking shows. It's always a joy to me to watch Jacques Pépin at work... Originally shared by Alex Scrivener We talked about the state of modern chefdom. He was clear-eyed but uncranky. The undercooking of everything, especially vegetables, drove him crazy. So did excessive culinary piety: "I've been in restaurants where they bring over a carrot and say ‘This carrot was born the ninth of September. His name is Jean-Marie…' Just give me the goddamned carrot!'" Young chefs, he said, had become overly concerned with self-expression. Nouvelle cuisine had been about many things: fresher ingredients, new techniques, a sensitivity to place and season, healthier preparations, creativity, innovation. Out of all those mandates, chefs sometimes seemed to have only heard the final two. "That's how you wind up with a s...

Help, Help, I'm Oppressed! And troubled by the concept of Food Justice... I'm not sure if I want my biscuits deciding my fate... More than they already do, by my consumption of them... Hat tip to Assia Alexandrova for the concept of fry bread being "oppression food." http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1198&context=californialawreview

Oh, Lord... via Kevin Clarke Originally shared by Randy Culler The Story Behind Janis Joplin’s ‘Mercedes Benz’ Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” was an accident. The song’s lyrics were written at a Port Chester, N.Y., bar in August 1970 during an impromptu poetry jam between Joplin and songwriter-friend Bob Neuwirth. The lyrics—a sardonic prayer for a sports car, a color TV and a night on the town—were inspired by the first line of a song written by San Francisco beat poet Michael McClure. http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-story-behind-janis-joplins-mercedes-benz-1436282817

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

Minister of Fabulousness Every church needs at least one... Originally shared by Meg L "I don't think clergy should pretend to be people they're not. Which is not to say I think all clergy should swear, because frankly most of them are not very good at it." Nadia Bolz Weber, founding pastor of the House for All Sinners and Saints, and her version of church. To hear her:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s257z http://www.bbc.com/news/33377925

Recommended Reader "The ideal reader ... should have the mentality of a Southern stock-car racer, be a Baptist with a sense of detachment, have a well-developed sense of the absurd, and be fascinated with the quirks and accomplishments of the human animal." Cover art by Peter Cross

Clean Up Your Room In Space, it isn't the Furniture that will kill you. It's the Dust Bunnies. With Nasty Big Pointy Teeth. via Vicky Veritas Originally shared by Colin Sullender This website is a real-time, 3D-visualized map of all tracked objects orbiting around the Earth. Using data pulled daily from the U.S. Department of Defense's Space Track service, Stuff in Space depicts locations of over 150,000 objects larger than a softball. While there are no top-secret spy satellites, there are plenty of debris and commercial satellites to be followed. #Space   #Debris   #NASA   #DoD   #StuffInSpace   #SpaceTrack   #Satellite   #Orbit   #Atmosphere   http://stuffin.space

Eat and Run Hop to it!

Bartkira Originally shared by Chris Galardi There is a fully animated trailer. It is more glorious than you had imagined. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=128&v=0SWt6OQ4Nl4

What's It All About? Say it with song... Originally shared by G.K. Nelson Well said. Constantly searching sentimental literature for unsentimental or “subversive” instances seems a perverse occupation, like scanning a nursery for ugly babies. The interesting question about babies is what makes them so cute, and the interesting question about love songs is why so many of them have such an unreasonable hold on our imagination. “Yesterday” is the most covered song ever written, and would not have been better if it were more realistically disabused about why she had to go. He doesn’t know; she wouldn’t say. That’s the love song. Sentiment, after all, is just the grumpy guy’s word for love. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/06/june-moon-tune

Koyaanisqatsi The American Federal model is not ideal, no system or model is... At the least, this analysis demonstrates that the scope of the problem is not so immense as to be a deal breaker. The common sense answer to most financial meltdowns is restructuring of some kind. Unfortunately, we live in an age where Return on Investment is valued above all else. via Andreas Schou Originally shared by Jean-Baptiste “JBQ” Quéru Irresponsible or unavoidable borrowing? Growing up in Europe, I didn't pay much attention to the construction of the Euro, and whatever little I remember has nothing to do with the economics of it. Now, older, having lived in the US for a while, with a Greek wife, I'm looking at the way the Euro is unraveling and I've been using the opportunity to try to figure out how it works (or, rather, why it doesn't). The core mechanism that allows multiple states to share the same currency is pretty simple: since the weaker states can't devalue their cur...

Rising Interest "The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice." Originally shared by Irreverent Monk https://medium.com/@gavinschalliol/thomas-piketty-germany-has-never-repaid-7b5e7add6fff?source=tw-529c0a6980e4-1436132868338

Oxi-Clean Originally shared by Meg L "And I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride." It's almost as if European ministers said to Greece, "Okay, you won. But get rid of Varoufakis, he scares us."  http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/07/06/minister-no-more/

Life on Htrae Originally shared by Raymond Arotin Holiday cookout with my parents... IT'S A CRAZY MIXED UP WORLD!

ISDS and ISIS Correlation or Causation? http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=570

Still Happening Straight Man Standing... http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/04/lawrence-ferlinghetti-interview-poets

Demobbed http://terminallance.com/2015/07/03/terminal-lance-independence-day/

Hexacontagon Plus Two Originally shared by Breaking News Matt Stonie beats Joey Chestnut to win Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest ESPN: Matt "Megatoad" Stonie upset 8-time champion Joey "Jaws'' Chestnut at the 99th annual hot dog eating contest at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island. Stonie downed 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes while Chestnut came in second with 60 hot dogs. Follow updates on Breaking News: https://www.breakingnews.com/topic/nathans-famous/ http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/13197879/matt-stonie-upsets-joey-chestnut-wins-nathan-hot-dog-eating-contest

Please Stand For... ...A lot of questions... written during a fire... via David Archer https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9cE6Pg2q3lI