September 5, 2011
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“All that serves labor serves the nation. All that harms is treason. If a man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.”
— Abraham Lincoln
September 3, 2011 by deCadmus | 0 comments
The Unseen Sea from Simon Christen on Vimeo.
September 2, 2011
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It’s Friday and there’s a long, holiday weekend ahead. To see you through, here’s some leftovers bits and pieces from all over… From Phil Plait’s awesome Bad Astronomy blog, Bill Nye (The Science Guy) contrives a sundial at Cornell University that glows when … Continue reading
September 2, 2011
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“If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.”
— Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951
September 1, 2011
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The eminently serene Maya Angelou, former U.S. Poet Laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Horatio Alger Award, says the decision to paraphrase one of the quotes that appears on the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington, D.C. … Continue reading
August 31, 2011
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Today’s favorite thing is the SlickDrip, a spiffy, silicone, collapsable coffee dripper from Cuissential.1 This dripper does what your typical plastic or ceramic pour-over cone should do — namely, hold a #2 cone paper filter while you brew coffee with it — … Continue reading
August 31, 2011
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“With the release of his memoir, In My Time, the former vice president very clearly aims to have history reflect he is — at the least — a Dick to be reckoned with. In this matter he will no doubt succeed.”
August 30, 2011
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So it turns out that Irene wasn’t the “Storm of the Century” for folks on the Atlantic Seaboard — beach town and megapolis alike were spared the brunt of Irene’s wrath — but rural Vermont wasn’t so lucky. Torrential rains … Continue reading