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Archives for July, 2008

Bees join hunt for serial killers

Posted by Karl Jones on Thursday, July 31st 2008     

“The way bumblebees search for food could help detectives hunt down serial killers, scientists believe.” Just as bees forage some distance away from their hives, so murderers avoid killing near their homes, says the University of London team. This “geographic profiling” works so well in bees, the scientists say future experiments on the animals could [...]

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Tom Long Interview

Posted by Karl Jones on Thursday, July 31st 2008     

[Title unknown] Tom Long Brooklyn-based artist Tom Long creates “ultra microscopic, insanely beautiful, intricate gouache paintings on paper.” I typically do lots of thumbnail sketches; I’ll find some reference images online. When I settle on a composition, I’ll draw it out on this thick cream-colored paper, and then paint over that with gouache. I’ll tweak [...]

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Chile Relleno Super Burritos…and Speculoos

Posted by Wei Ming Dariotis on Thursday, July 31st 2008     

[lang_en]Do you have a favorite food in your hometown that you just can’t get–or doesn’t taste the same–when you travel? I just got back to San Francisco after 2 months traveling in Europe, mostly living in Brussels, and I indulged myself in a Mission style chile relleno super burrito. The Mission District is a mostly [...]

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How Green am I?

Posted by Bonnee Klein Gilligan on Thursday, July 31st 2008     

This weeks blog is about me and how my green life is going. Been getting progressively greener since March. My organic veggie, earth friendly roommate moved out beginning of July, so I’m living alone again. We won’t be laughing, dancing and singing round the house together anymore. Sniff, sniff. I thank her for getting me [...]

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New Mexico first state to adopt Navajo textbook

Posted by Karl Jones on Thursday, July 31st 2008     

“State officials formally adopted … ‘Dine Bizaad Binahoo’ahh,’ or ‘Rediscovering the Navajo Language,’ this week in Santa Fe.” In the Navajo language, there’s no one word that translates into “go” — it’s more like a sentence. “There are so many ways of ‘going,’” said Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, a Navajo professor at Northern Arizona University in [...]

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Green Maps Around the World

Posted by Karl Jones on Wednesday, July 30th 2008     

Green Map System energizes a diverse global movement of local mapmaking teams charting their community’s natural, cultural and green living resources with our award-winning universal icons and adaptable multi-lingual resources. – greenmap.org Via “Social mapping for green living” @ Yahoo: Link. ~ Karl Jones // Share|

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Pierce Brosnan – portrait of a star

Posted by Bonnee Klein Gilligan on Tuesday, July 29th 2008     

The picture above is a detail of the original 19" x 25" pastel drawing, shown left.  I’ve featured the detail because for some reason the small version always looks angry or sad… a strange phenomena. And it’s easier to see who he is in the detail. The original drawing, hanging in my living room, occasionally [...]

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William Gibson on Canada (1993)

Posted by Karl Jones on Monday, July 28th 2008     

Following up on my previous post about William Gibson’s comments regarding Canada (circa 2008), I’ve located some of his earlier thoughts on topic. In a 1993 interview, Mike Rogers asks: “… Born in South Carolina, grew up in Virginia, living in Canada. Do you think that that dilutes your sense of nationhood? They were keen [...]

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Creation told by Wintley Phipps

Posted by Bonnee Klein Gilligan on Sunday, July 27th 2008     

A beautiful, powerful and masterful telling of  Biblical Creation by Wintley Phipps, ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister and  world-renowned vocal artist. ~Bonnee Klein Gilligan // Share|

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Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Petpetuum Mobile

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Saturday, July 26th 2008     

[lang_en] I had just finished posting a link to Music For A Found Harmonium by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra on my other site when I came across another wonderful ditty in Perpetuum Mobile.  Enjoy! – Rudy Carrera.[/lang_en] // Share|

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