February 2012
49 posts
Video: Using plastic bottles to light developing... →
“How often, even before we began, have we declared a task ‘impossible’? And how...”
– Piero Ferruci
Rasmusson's lawsuit, which will be filed in the... →
Pitchfork: I know you’re interested in visions and dreams, and that you sometimes record other people’s visions and dreams for your montage pieces. Do you remember many of your own?
Jeff Mangum from Neutral Milk Hotel: I did have a vision about a year ago that had an impact on me.
Pitchfork: What was it?
Jeff: Well, I was lying in bed slowly coming out of sleeping, and this voice in my...
“We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love...”
– Marianne Williamson (via nirvikalpa)
“Loopholes, poor regulations, and off-shore havens allow corporations and the...”
– Eric Garland in The Weakening of Nations: How Tax Work-Arounds Undermine Our Society
Former Air Force Officer and engineer can now see... →
The thoughts and beliefs that we want to re-arouse are those that were often predominant in childhood… They are spiritual, mental, emotional and biological beliefs that are innately present in the birth of each creature. Children believe not only that there will be a tomorrow, and many tomorrows, but they also believe that each tomorrow will be rewarding and filled with discovery. They feel...
The forgotten history of the forge press commodity →
So of necessity, German engineers developed a new technique for shaping the temperamental metal: press forging. Components made by German forges, using both magnesium and aluminum, helped build the Third Reich’s war machine. But at the end of that conflict, the Soviets took the most powerful forge home with them.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., Rosie the Riveter was still piecing together components...
While Americans fret over modern parenthood, the... →
“You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise.”
– Dennis Ruane (via lucifelle)
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Elfstedentocht, an 200km 11 city speedskating... →
“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”
– A. Maslow
Massage Doesn’t Just Feel Good—It Changes Gene... →
“Everything’s under control. Situation normal. Uh, we had a slight weapons...”
– Han Solo
“Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed...”
– From Top five regrets of the dying
Gripping account of Douglas Mawson's 1912-13... →
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of...”
– Plato
Letter from a Freed Slave to his Old Master (1865) →
January 2012
48 posts
“The implications of the rational disciplinarian society are not hidden, but...”
– Derrick Jensen and George Draffan in Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control