Keith “Maggie” Brown
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the Texas sting
Originally posted on Randall Dean Scott: three years in the pacific northwest is long enough to have the heat in Texas be too much upon returning I haven’t acclimated and all I can seem to do is lie around all… Continue reading
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▶ #TRUTHINJOURNALISM – YouTube
A different take on Venom: “I don’t subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn’t dabble in television, web content, or even comic books … that thinking perpetuates the consumerist mosh pit we are… Continue reading
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“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.”
A wonderful graduation speech from George Saunders to the Syracuse University Class of 2013. Down through the ages, a traditional form has evolved for this type of speech, which is: Some old fart, his best years behind him, who, over… Continue reading
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Mysterious Dancing Lights In Afghanistan
This isn’t a painting. It’s not from a movie. It’s not a strange astronomical event. This is real — what you can see when certain helicopters in Afghanistan touch down on sandy ground, raising dust, causing mysterious arcs of light… Continue reading
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Everything Looks Cool Photographed Under An Electron Microscope | DIYPhotography.net
The folks at FEI are making electron microscopes. If you thought that the D800 was pricy and/or bulky try a Scanning Electron Microscopes. Even a small one weighs over 850 kilos and has a p[referred door width on its installation… Continue reading
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The Book Industry’s Ironic Relationship With Barnes & Noble — New York Magazine
The industry that looked on Barnes & Noble as a virus now treats Amazon like a pandemic. Just last week, in advance of Obama’s visit to an Amazon warehouse, a letter from the ABA (now down to roughly 1,500 members)… Continue reading
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Purple potatoes pack serious antioxidants compared to their white-fleshed counterparts
You may or may not have noticed a new potato in town at your local grocer or more likely at your local health food store. It is native to South America and is called the purple potato, named for its… Continue reading
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Rasputina – The New Zero feat. Karloff and Lugosi – YouTube
I did not put this video together. The quote below is from the person who went to the trouble. Love Rasputina, have ever since my good brother Eric F. gave me a copy of their album way back when. Pretty… Continue reading
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Searching for Integrity: The Politics of Mindfulness in the Digital Economy – Nomos Journal
Fascinating article by a friend of my dear brother, Carl S. With the proliferation of training courses espousing the benefits of yoga and meditation, critics have coined the term “McMindfulness” to describe a cottage industry whose profit motives appear to… Continue reading
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Whatever You Do, You MUST Mask the Suffering of the White Poor
Poverty has become a suburban phenomenon. That should not be a great surprise if you have been paying attention over the last forty years. But there is the rub: most are not paying attention. Even as professionals become poorer and… Continue reading
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Sunday Night Feeling Good
Had this song in my head since we took our trip to Colorado. Please forgive the poor recording. Continue reading
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Daodejing 9
#9.* Holding and filling it up, no comparison to stopping it in time; Honing and sharpening it cannot remain for a long time. Gold and jade fill the hall, Yet cannot be guarded. Wealthy and honored Yet arrogant, Brings disaster… Continue reading
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Hunter Wild
Astride the Whisper of Chaos, a statement. Drawing upon a Platonic sense of the Erotic as a striving toward the Infinite, this series connects the development of the human form to a relentless desire to explore and traverse the unfolding Universe.… Continue reading
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5 Insane Lost Verses That Change the Meaning of Famous Songs | Cracked.com
Another great list from our dear sisters and brothers at the Cracked.com Department for Telling Taxonomies and Queer Catalogs, wherein we learn that many famous songs have rather strange verses that have gone missing over time. Like the homosexual undertones… Continue reading
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NASA – Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission. NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact… Continue reading
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Let Us Now Sing About the Warmed Earth
On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the “Economic time bomb” that is slowly being detonated by Arctic warming. Gail Whiteman of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and Chris Hope and Peter Wadhams of the University of Cambridge suggest—based on… Continue reading
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