Remember Me
Remember Me.
A multimedia documentary about one family’s struggle to deal with the
loss of a parent. This series is the 2008 Pulitzer winner for feature
photography.
It’s kind of intense.
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Jules Verne Illustrations
The Smithsonian’s Jules Verne Centennial site has a collection of a large number of high quality scans of original, engraved illustrations from Verne’s works. From the fantastic (interior of space vehicle, flying ship, spacewalking) and mundane (two dogs, a nice meal, elephant trying to break free from a hot-air balloon). And don’t forget to check out the portrait of Jules Verne and his many technological prophecies. For information about the publishing history of Jules Verne read this scholarly article by Terry Harpold about illustrations of Jules Verne stories, focusing on Le Superbe Orénoque. It also includes a wealth of illustrations. Finally, as a bonus, here’s a picture of the National Air and Space Museum’s scale model of the spacecraft Verne came up with for his De la Terre à la Lune.
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A Whiz Kid in Kenya
Tevis Howard, a 2007 Brown University graduate and recent recipient of the Draper Richards Fellowship and the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship, is the 2005 Founder and Executive Director of
KOMAZA, a non-profit community-based
organization in Kenya. KOMAZA’s mission is to “end chronic poverty in
Kenya by promoting health, economic growth, education, and
infrastructure development” through a tree farming social enterprise. Partnering with the Tree Biotechnology Project, KOMAZA plants fast-growning, drought-tolerant Eucalyptus trees as a cash crop for rural, substinance farming communities.
In 2002, then 17-year-old Tevis Howard was recognized by Forbes ASAP magazine (which ceased publication in October 2002) as an ASAP Teenage All Star and won third place in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his research developing a novel treatment for multiple sclerosis. Declared to be a “prodigy” and a “whiz kid” early on, Tevis helped publish a report in 2002 on immunology and Malaria in Kenya. In 2006, Tevis won a Rhode Island competition for his KOMAZA business plan.
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YouTube Sucks
Youtube.com is being really really slow tonight, which is making my website appear to be slow, its not my fault, I swear.
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Hello Kitty Tombstone
Death can be cute when it’s commemorated with a Hello Kitty gravestone. (The
video offers a glimpse of an Easter Island style tiki gravestone, too!)
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Repaired inner mechanism 1875 automaton lady
Dug North, who runs a great blog “for makers and collectors of mechanical
automata and mechanized toys” says:
This is the repaired inner mechanism of a Vichy automaton made in
France in 1875. The complete automaton depicts a lady who breathes, closes her
eyes, turns her head, fans herself, and lifts her glasses to her eyes.
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Popecam
A Webcam of the Tomb of Pope John Paul II. Just in case he decides to go zombie on us.
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You have 20 seconds to comply
Putting
up a sentry! Commercially available paintball sentry guns. Optional extras
include a VR heads up display. If $1399 is too much you could build your own. Watch out
for spies!
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Most outrageous cheats in sports
Bombs, hitchhiking at the Tour de France, and rigging the Paralympics…
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Richie Sambora busted for DUI, with his kid in the car.
Richie Sambora was arrested on a DUI
charge in Laguna Beach, Calif., Tuesday night after he was pulled over with his
girlfriend and 10-year-old daughter in the car.
The Bon Jovi guitarist was stopped around 10:52 p.m. after
police said they spotted him weaving on the road, according Laguna Beach Police
Sgt. Jason Kravetz tells PEOPLE. Sambora was driving a Hummer and was with his
girlfriend, daughter Ava (whose mother is ex-wife Heather Locklear) and another
unidentified juvenile girl.
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Steampunked!
Today on the Worth1000 photoshopping contest: everyday objects underpinned with clockwork.
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Nelly Furtado insists
Earth Hour For one hour tonight, turn
off the lights and help conserve energy. Supporters of the plan say it is the
equivalent of taking nearly 50,000 cars off the road for an hour. Critics say
it’s equivalent to taking 6 cars off the road for a year, and claim that
media coverage of the effects is greatly
exaggerated.
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Notstalgia vs Hindsight?
With revolutionary
graphics, a classic score, and creative platforming gameplay, the Donkey
Kong Country series was one of the most
popular games for the SNES, outsold
only by the packaged Super Mario World. After another decade, however, the
games are considered among the most
overrated of all
time.
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Books of art
ABC3D is an elegant pop-up book featuring the letters of the alphabet. Plus: a flip book that generates a rainbow.
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Pig bladder powder regrows human finger
A man cut off his finger tip while working on a model plane. His
brother, a medical research scientist, sent him a vial containing
powdered pig bladder and told him to sprinkle on the severed finger
tip. It grew back — “flesh, blood, vessels and nail” — in four weeks. Mmm Pigs, is there anything they cant do?
Sorry about the ad on the start of the video, damn cbs.
That powder is a substance made from pig bladders called extracellular matrix. It is a mix of protein and connective tissue surgeons often use to repair tendons and it holds some of the secrets behind the emerging new science of regenerative medicine.
“It tells the body, start that process of tissue regrowth,” said Badylak.
Badlayk is one of the many scientists who now believe every tissue in the body has cells which are capable of regeneration. All scientists have to do is find enough of those cells and “direct” them to grow.
“Somehow the matrix summons the cells and tell them what to do,” Badylak explained. “It helps instruct them in terms of where they need to go, how they need to differentiate – should I become a blood vessel, a nerve, a muscle cell or whatever.”
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William. Wegman. Weimaraner. Watch. Wag. Word.
Dressing a dog up as a person is I think not a very good thing. But when I do it, it’s fine. illiam Wegman’s Early Videos. Short Films. Trio/Metropolis/Guitar. Clips from his feature, The Hardly Boys.
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Bad Questions to Ask a Transsexual + “Stunning”: Calpernia Addams.
Calpernia Addams is the star of the subversive new competitive dating show “Transamerican Love Story“, this seems like an apropos moment to point to her hilarious how-not-to video about rude questions transgendered people are often asked. The video’s a little long, but it’s full of great material, and highly edumacational. Thumbs up.
When you’re done with that — brace yourself, whore, you’re about to get a stunning
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Jesus Shaves
“He nice, the Jesus. He make the good things, and on the Easter we be sad because somebody makes him dead today.” Enjoy a little short story about cultural differences and Easter from David Sedaris.
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Summer Wine star Brian Wilde dies
Last of the Summer Wine and Porridge actor Brian Wilde has died aged
80.
Wilde played Foggy in the long-running comedy series Last of The Summer
Wine and Barraclough in prison sitcom Porridge, alongside Ronnie Barker.
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Lindsay Lohan in sex tape?
Lindsay Lohan has made it onto the small screen, the small screen allegedly being that of a naked Calum Best’s mobile phone.
Reports claim that footage has been ‘circling the internet’ which
shows someone who resembles Lohan performing oral sex on a man that is
allegedly George Best’s lothario son, Calum.
One website claims that Ms. Lohan is now ‘freaking out because she can’t remember it being filmed.’
I’d just like to say that I find this disgusting and horrible… if anybody has the clip please, let me know.. i’d like it for.. uh.. archive purposes…
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