Zola, an eight-year-old Western lowland gorilla, "Zola loves to play in water" the zoo says.
The music was added afterwards.
via http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/06/21/zola-breakdancing-gorilla-calgary-zoo.html#
June 21, 2011
June 20, 2011
Anonymous War Declaration
You thought Bin Laden was hard to catch:
Salutations Lulz Lizards,
As we're aware, the government and whitehat security terrorists across the world continue to dominate and control our Internet ocean. Sitting pretty on cargo bays full of corrupt booty, they think it's acceptable to condition and enslave all vessels in sight. Our Lulz Lizard battle fleet is now declaring immediate and unremitting war on the freedom-snatching moderators of 2011.
Welcome to Operation Anti-Security (#AntiSec) - we encourage any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or agency that crosses their path. We fully endorse the flaunting of the word "AntiSec" on any government website defacement or physical graffiti art. We encourage you to spread the word of AntiSec far and wide, for it will be remembered. To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships.
Whether you're sailing with us or against us, whether you hold past grudges or a burning desire to sink our lone ship, we invite you to join the rebellion. Together we can defend ourselves so that our privacy is not overrun by profiteering gluttons. Your hat can be white, gray or black, your skin and race are not important. If you're aware of the corruption, expose it now, in the name of Anti-Security.
Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments. If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood.
It's now or never. Come aboard, we're expecting you...
History begins today.
Lulz Security
$308,000,000 to kill a convict
Taxpayers have spent more than $4 billion on capital punishment in California since it was reinstated in
1978, or about $308 million for each of the 13 executions carried out since then.
umm....??
via http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/Execution_Costs/
via http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-adv-death-penalty-costs-20110620,0,3505671.story
1978, or about $308 million for each of the 13 executions carried out since then.
umm....??
via http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/Execution_Costs/
via http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-adv-death-penalty-costs-20110620,0,3505671.story
June 19, 2011
Code of Ur-Nammu
Oldest known extant legal text, 3100 years ago:
Violent times:
- - a man knocks out the eye of another man, he shall weigh out ½ a mina of silver.
- - If a man has cut off another man’s foot, he is to pay ten shekels.
- - If a man, in the course of a scuffle, smashed the limb of another man with a club, he shall pay one mina of silver.
- - If someone severed the nose of another man with a copper knife, he must pay two-thirds of a mina of silver.
- - If a man knocks out a tooth of another man, he shall pay two shekels of silver.
How often did it come to pass that a man severed another man's nose off? Or cut another man's foot off? Why was it necessary that there should be a code of law which addresses such particular crimes?
The Pointing Finger in History
- Code of Hammurabi (3700 years ago), inscribed upon a 2.4 m tall index finer of black rock. London Museum. Origin of the Golden Rule: "If a man knocks the teeth out of another man, his own teeth will be knocked out."
- Sistine Chapel: God and Man touching. Vatican
- Colossus of Constantine, 12m statue, right hand pointing.
- Sistine Chapel: God and Man touching. Vatican
- Colossus of Constantine, 12m statue, right hand pointing.
June 15, 2011
prof·li·gate
adjective /ˈpräfligət/ /-ləˌgāt/
noun /ˈpräfligət/ /-ləˌgāt/ profligates, plural
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June 13, 2011
June 9, 2011
Letter E at Delphi
In the Temple of Apollo at Delphi was carved the following:
- "Know Thyself"
- "Nothing too Much"
- "Make a pledge and mischief is nigh"
and finally the letter "E" was carved.
According to Plutarch:
"They say that the famous Wise Men, also called by some "Sophists", were properly only five, Chilon, Thales, Solon, Bias, and Pittacus. But Cleobulus, tyrant of Lindos, and, later on, Periander of Corinth, men with no wisdom or virtue in them, but forcing public opinion by influence, friends, and favours, thrust themselves into the list of the wise, and disseminated through Greece maxims and sayings resembling the utterances of the five. Then the five were vexed, but did not choose to expose the imposture, or to have an open quarrel on the matter of title, and to fight it out with such powerful persons. They met here by themselves; and after discussing the matter, dedicated the letter E, which is fifth in the alphabet, and also as a number signifies five, thus making their own protest before the God, that they were five, discarding and rejecting the seventh and the sixth, as having no part or lot with themselves."
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/misctracts/plutarchE.html
June 8, 2011
June 7, 2011
Radiolarian
Radiolarians (also radiolaria) are amoeboid protozoa that produce intricate mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule dividing the cell into inner and outer portions, called endoplasm and ectoplasm. They are found as zooplankton throughout the ocean, and their skeletal remains cover large portions of the ocean bottom as radiolarian ooze. Due to their rapid turn-over of species, they represent an important diagnostic fossil found from the Cambrian onwards. Some common radiolarian fossils include Actinomma, Heliosphaera and Hexadoridium.
Kunstformen der Natur
(German for Art Forms of Nature) is a book of lithographic and autotype prints by German biologist Ernst Haeckel. Originally published in sets of ten between 1899 and 1904 and as a complete volume in 1904, it consists of 100 prints of various organisms, many of which were first described by Haeckel himself.
June 5, 2011
Martin Jet Pack *Update
Update on my other post about the Martin Jet Pack.
High altiude flight 5,000ft... and test of parachute. This is looking really close to being "real"!
Randy Halverson
Time-lapse video of stars/milkyway.
Plains Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.
" Halverson used a robotic camera rig to snap hundreds of still photos in about 20 three- to four-hour shoots. Back at his computer, he stitched together images from the best shoots. Each second of the video spans about 14 minutes of actual time."
Plains Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.
" Halverson used a robotic camera rig to snap hundreds of still photos in about 20 three- to four-hour shoots. Back at his computer, he stitched together images from the best shoots. Each second of the video spans about 14 minutes of actual time."
June 2, 2011
Blue Lobster
from CBC:
"A fisherman hauled an extremely rare blue lobster out of the waters off P.E.I.'s North Shore Wednesday.
Blair Doucette landed the lobster in North Rustico. Only about one in four million lobsters is blue. The colour is caused by a genetic mutation.
Wendy Doucette, Blair's wife, told CBC News in 30 years of fishing he has never seen a blue lobster. They are considering donating the lobster to a local aquarium.
The last blue lobster reported caught off P.E.I. was in 2009."
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