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Posted at 09:23 PM in Lesser Includeds | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Well, for an antidote to the megalopoli post below, check out the tinyhouse blog:
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io9 lays out some sweet paper/electronic fusions.
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A steady hand. That's the only way you can describe the Right Honorable Mayor Ray 'Chocolate City' Nagin:
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin called Gustav "the mother of all storms*," saying it could be more destructive than Katrina, which passed to the east of New Orleans.
"You need to be scared," he said. "You need to be concerned, and you need to get your butts moving out of New Orleans right now. This is the storm of the century."
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DRB looks at the scary (for me; I am paranoid) future of extreme arcologies:
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Printing homes, via Futurismic:
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When I tell people that President bush is a flaming Liberal, they look at me like I have a third eye. But he is; as Sovereign, he mainly acts at the international level and out there, he is a Liberal/Utopian.
Posted at 07:08 AM in International Relations Rants | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Way I read it, the sole qualifications to be the President of the United State are being 35 years of age and being a naturally born citizen of this country.
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Excellent geekiness:
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Rachel Papo , on duty with the women of the IDF:
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At least with this toon.
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The original Laws and addendums.
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Sage advice posted below the fold to protect my PG rating from the Blog Advisory Board.
Posted at 07:18 AM in art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Neat article over in the Washington Post on the growth of graphic novels:
What is a graphic novel?
"It's a perfect synthesis of artwork and literature!"
When will graphic novels come into their own?
"We seem to be in a golden age of comics publishing right now!"
Via metafilter
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Drawn reminds me of my inner voyeur. I like seeing where creative folks, well, create. Follow the link through for On My Desktop for more:
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UPDATE: Very appropriate, via Neatorama
Women Arrested Because of Overdue Library books
“I said, what could they possibly do? They can’t arrest me for this… I was wrong,” Dalibor said.
Posted at 09:29 AM in art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
So my wife got in an accident yesterday; sideswiped. She's okay. Sitting in the Hummer, she barely noticed. In the Sentra, she probably would have needed a can opener.
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It's been about a year since I became fascinated with Burning Man; I'll end up missing this one too (TPS Reports).
Posted at 11:00 AM in Lesser Includeds | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Today's FFF story. More stories here.
Sanction was an unremarkable moon.
At least by the Ambassadors’ eyes, which was all she had with which to judge the moon. Sanction was an oblong, chondritic rock. Its black, grainy surface held three manmade structures: two embassies and a tree-of-life. The tree-of-life was someone’s quixotic stab at panspermia; at odd intervals, it shed radiation hardened spores into the solar wind.
There were no Libraries or Arsenals located on Sanction. By design, treaty and agreement, Sanction was an informational blank slate. Sanction registered in no databases, contained no cross references and had no indexes. If you wanted to see Sanction, you had to go to Sanction.
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That is what we all are true too…
We are the John, John Laws…
When putting bad guys in the ground,
You’ll never, ever see us frown…
We are the John, John Laws…
Protecting your deoxribose
From Dr. Hippy’s evil lyses
We are the John, John Laws…
We’ll hang tough through the darkest night,
Prepared to push back all the fright…
We are the John, John Laws…
When things get tough don’t abdicate,
Call us, we’ll eradicate...
Remember, we’re the John, John Laws."
And some dudes:
Posted at 09:18 AM in art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
1. For putting up with my long work hours.
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Got a little better visualizing with my powerpoint 'toons. Granted, powerpoint isn't a high powered graphics tool, but it is everywhere I am. Give me a clean sheet of powerpoint and a mouse over a WACOM tablet (except one) and a graphics suite any day of the week (and yes, these pictures are what inside my mind).
Posted at 10:49 AM in art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
This guy (warning, he's king of avant gard in some of his text) perfectly illustrates the world I've been building in my head (and sketching out in flash fiction).
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So my wife and I digitally exchanged gifts for our third wedding anniversary. I'm not big on giftd, but she is...I got her a jewelry set (ring, necklace, earrings).
Posted at 11:08 AM in Lesser Includeds | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I think this is the future of U.S engagement in this The World™ thing. Call it the Hardened Soft approach.
My parents used to raise chickens; I earned my pin money through school working the farm. By 5,500 hundred chicks? We used to do 90,000 a grow out.
Seeing pictures of ammonia filled Iraqi chicken houses sure brings back memories. A little rubber tubing and some pumps and these guys can be in business. I don’t know how they keep those birds hydrated: it gets too hot and the chickens pretty much just roll over and die.
Also, check out that guys ITOV: says USDA. Awesome
Original Citations:
Picture 1: More
than 5,500 baby chickens thrive on an Iraqi egg farm in Jedidah al-Shat, Iraq
on Aug. 11, 2008, as part of a Provincial Reconstruction Team-led pilot
project. Launched in April 2008, the project involves providing seven local
farmers chicks on a split-cost basis and teaches them how to properly raise,
maintain and manage egg-laying poultry.
(U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class
Mario A. Quiroga/released) 080811-N-0373Q-015
Picture 2: A local Iraqi sheik and Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), Diyala, U.S.D.A. Agricultural Advisor Ryan Brewster, display one of more than 5,500 baby chickens involved in a PRT-led pilot project in Jedidah al-Shat, Iraq on Aug. 11, 2008. Launched in April 2008, the project involves providing more than 5,000 chicks to seven local farmers on a split-cost basis and teaches them how to properly raise, maintain and manage egg-laying poultry.
(U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class
Mario A. Quiroga/Released)
080811-N-0373Q-027
Posted at 08:56 AM in International Relations Rants | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Been awhile, but here's a shortish entry into the flash fiction meme:
The Centurion awoke, relaxed.
Without opening his eyes, he knew his setting. The room would be his cubiculum, set off the atrium. The soft linen drapes would be swaying gently, messaging the cool, salty, breeze as it rose up from the sea below. To his left were his weapons: a sword, the shield and a grenade launcher he’d picked up somewhere and taken into his affections. To his right, a bowl of fruit filled with the plenty of a midsummer’s Mediterranean harvest.
Posted at 10:24 AM in Flash Fiction Fridays | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Since we're rekindling the Cold War with the Russmob, let's finally get those space dreadnoughts up in orbit. Man (ed note:or chick; it the oughts, dude) your battlestations!!
Posted at 11:06 AM in Worldbuilding: Future transportation | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The problem with lensing international relations solely through the State Actor is that you can wind up talking to the wrong people.
The President (Medvedev) is in Moscow; the Sovereign (Putin)
is in North Ossetia. Russia is in a state of internal rules violation; always a
dangerous precedent. Optimum outcome, in my view, is a micro-regime change that
rejoins the Sovereign with the Presidency. Your rule sets can be stupid, but you
have to follow them.
BREAK
I am amazed, though, how high stakes negotiations come down
thoughts written on blank sheets of paper. Paper beats rocks (when it works)
Sarkozy’s “Russian Peacekeeping forces will implement additional security measures” may just go down in history next to General Schwarzkopf’s “sure you can fly your helicopters” response to the Iraqi’s at the end of GW I. (.pdf link for memo junkies)
Posted at 10:23 AM in International Relations Rants | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
One thought to keep in mind: accepting Russia’s irredentist claims on Georgian territory is a flat out dangerous precedent. Russians are in all the formerly oppressed Soviet satellites. What stops Russia from pressing claims on Latvia (currently the Baltic country with the highest level of ethnic Russians)?
I had Russians at my wedding; they’re fun people and can put you under the table with their drinking. That said, Russia got to rampage around the eastern European peninsula for 70 odd years; they need to be chill out for a century or so and grow a bit.
That said, I am beginning to get heartened by the U.S. response. I’m actually ashamed of my earlier doubts: it takes time for Agent oriented States to generate national power. Structure oriented States usually just scream then leap.
It takes time to move Brigades (or other elements of national power)
Of course, if we had the “over the horizon” “Strike Force” based in “Okinawa” ready to respond to regional crisis, then we would have been there like yesterday, right?
Posted at 10:07 AM in International Relations Rants | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)