Science, Mad. And some movies.
something cool I found on the internets
Scroungers’
Center
For
Reusable
Art Parts
SCRAP is a creative reuse center, store and workshop space founded in 1976 in San Francisco, California. Donations of re-usable materials such as textiles, paper, jewelry findings, wood, buttons and plastics are collected from businesses, institutions and individuals and distributed to art and educational groups.
Web link of note: SCRAP
(At http://scrap-sf.org/)
You may have voted blue, but were you aware that every day, you unknowingly help dump millions of dollars into the conservative warchest? Simply by buying products and services from companies which heavily donate to conservatives, we have been defeating our own interests as liberals and progressives on a daily basis.
Buy Blue is a concerted effort to educate the public on making informed buying decisions as a consumer. We identify businesses which support our ideals and spotlight their dedication to progressive politics. In turn, we shine that spotlight on unsupportive businesses in the form of massive boycotts and action alerts.
Web link of note: Buy Blue
(At http://buyblue.org/)
The partitioning of a plane with n points into n convex polygons such that each polygon contains exactly one point and every point in a given polygon is closer to its central point than to any other.
SHAC: i think when i ordered your xmas present i checked on the “please send it to china first” box
SHAC: i think it will be here by easter
BRAIN: good work
BRAIN: is it a dead hooker?
SHAC: dammit
SHAC: now i hafta return it and order something so it will be a suprise
Lots of wacky content here.
Web link of note: World of Wonder
(At http://worldofwonder.net/)
I saw a news clip about this guy in 2001- he’s an electric shamisen player!
I’ve heard it called the “ele-shami” but I don’t see that phrase on his site.
Web link of note: Agatsuma Hiromitsu
(At http://www.agatsuma.tv/)
KIRBY: I just saw a forum topic titled “real anthro artists get a bad rap”
KIRBY: yeeeeeeesh…….
BRAIN: what does that even mean
KIRBY: they’re perves and weirdos and everyone knows it
KIRBY: but I guess this guy thinks that a few bad eggs are ruining anthro art….
KIRBY: or something
BRAIN oh that kind of “anthro”
BRAIN yeeeah
KIRBY: as if there was a classy way to make an anthro toaster rape a furry cat
Every holiday season, I have about a two month “don’t buy anything” period, in order to avoid buying things for myself which my family might buy me…
Over the years this personal tradition has grown into a new habit- in January I buy something crazy for myself as a reward for not buying anything. So this year I’m thinking about getting an overdose of anime. Like every Robotech episode. Or even every Gundam episode. I’m not even finished with the 3rd season of Yamato yet! They say the first step to recovery is to admit you have a problem.Very very pretty.
I’ll need one once I get a desk that doesn’t come from IKEA.Made of the finest hardwoods, iDockCovers are carefully and skillfully hand-finished. Available in a variety of models that cover the spectrum from traditional wood finishes to brightly-colored, high-gloss “electric guitar” finishes. Our products accomodate both the Apple and HP (Hewlett Packard) iPod with the Dock accessory.
Web link of note: iDockCovers
(At http://www.westshorecraftworks.com/)
Today’s word is:
尊皇攘夷
そんのうじょうい
“Son-no joh ee”Support the Emperor, Expel the Foreigners!
[prince support expel barbarian]
This was a slogan in the Meiji Era, when power was restored to the Emperor (previously the Shogun was in charge). Meiji’s supporters used this slogan to play on the feelings of xenophobia in Japan at the time.
A little ironically, Japan under Emperor Meiji became more westernized than it had been ever before. The sudden change would be one of the most radical trends in Japanese culture until General MacArthur’s invasion at the end of WWII. This same logic was used in Japanese East-Asian propaganda during Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in the 1931: let us help you expel whitey once and for all! Unfortunately for the Empire, this time it worked about as well as our description of “defending Freedom” in Iraq. Ignorance is Strength.