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This gorgeous Blade Runner poster created by Kako for the Wear It With Pride “Now Showing” exhibit. His site has lots more Illustrator masterpieces. More reimangined posters at the Flickr set
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We’ll have to touch off base on this one and drilldown on the granularity before we open the kimono. 50 office-speak phrases you love to hate via Neatorama
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Apollo 14 launched in the late afternoon of January 31, 1971 on what was to be our third trip to the lunar surface. Five days later Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell walked on the Moon while Stuart Roosa, a former U.S. Forest Service smoke jumper, orbited above in the command module. Packed in small containers in Roosa’s personal kit were hundreds of tree seeds, part of a joint NASA/USFS project. Upon return to Earth, the seeds were germinated by the Forest Service. Known as the “Moon Trees”, the resulting seedlings were planted throughout the United States (often as part of the nation’s bicentennial in 1976) and the world. They stand as a tribute to astronaut Roosa and the Apollo program.
I’d like to visit a couple, do some serious tree-hugging. There’s one close by in Loudon County, but I think I’d have to do some trespassing.
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TankOnEmpty.com answers the age old question: How far can you go after the gas light in your car comes on? The Mazda 3 averages 44 miles.
May 28
From Design Observer: Julie Lasky’s commencement address at the Cranbrook Academy of Art on May 9, 2008. An enlightening and empowering and entertaining speech regarding our motivation in the 21st century.
In the 1990s, there was a three-word mantra that ruled many of our lives. It was Nike’s slogan, “Just do it.” …In this decade, we have a three-word mantra, too. It’s what Tim Gunn of “Project Runway” tells fashion designers who have less than an hour to assemble a dress out of bread dough or mismatched pieces of upholstery fabric. He says: “Make it work.” At a time when all hell is breaking loose geopolitically, we acknowledge that obstructive forces may be external to us. We recognize and even celebrate challenges before we hurl ourselves at them. This being America, however, we’re still expected to draw on our inner resources to overcome those challenges, and there are no excuses. Make it work.
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A first grade teacher collected well known proverbs. She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. Their insight may surprise you. It’s always darkest before…………… Daylight Savings Time
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Ask MetaFilter — Whats the difference between a geek, a nerd and a dork? Lots of good answers. I particularly enjoyed the Venn Diagram answer. Also reminds me of the SNL skit Geek, Dweeb or Spaz!
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DC Smartbike program to begin in June Take a look at that bike! Who would want to steal that?
Status Anxiety is an hour long video to accompany’s Alain de Botton book of the same name. He discusses the growing the odd correlation of modern day society: we have so much more wealth than our ancestors, yet most people are not any happier. Worth the watch over 6 YouTube clips.
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Aerial image of JMU from 1937 — The surrounding area looks completely barren. Compare that to today, the only strip of grass you’ll see is the quad.
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Falls Church Elects Virginia’s First Openly Gay Black Official. Voters in the city of Falls Church made history this week as Lawrence Webb became the first openly gay black man elected to public office in Virginia.
On April 29, 2008 Rex Vanderwoodsen set the Planet Douche World Record for the most popped collars worn at the same time by an individual. The record stands at 23.
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April 23
A bunch of presentations have been posted from Web Directions North conference which took place back in January.
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This Is a Pylon — A new typographical term, for those gaps that appear in stencil fonts. This page is also good for a quick reference on the other terms ascender, bowl, counter, etc. via Chris Glass
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Aerial image of Sark. — one of the tiny islands in the English Channel. I was amazed that this is an actual island, not a computer generated fantasy
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This American Life Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence — This American Life host and producer Ira Glass began work on the project in 1995 in Chicago, where he found himself inspired by and catering to an audience of professionals who dine out frequently and have a hard time getting angry.
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Gorilla Suit Workshop — Genius idea, and it’s really real! The website alone is priceless. In West Chester PA no less.
Hilarious examples of non-American people trying to fake American language in this Ask MeFi thread. Much like we Americans fake Sweedish by saying something like “Fluurgie buurgie hoogen haagen.”
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It only took 14 months, but the scissorkick podcast #3 is finally up . My favorite site for down-tempo/instrumental/bip-boopy music.
March 30
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