great being

today i rigged up this rly accurate scale (balancing delicately...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:32:51 -0500

today i rigged up this rly accurate scale (balancing delicately on a cylindrical cat toy) to measure out 1 pound of dal.

"Disinformation about poppies has been spread far and wide. Some of it is subtle, like when the New..."

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:56:20 -0500

“Disinformation about poppies has been spread far and wide. Some of it is subtle, like when the New York Times talks about people growing “heroin poppies.” Some misinformation is so bald-faced as to stun the listener into silence, as when a DEA agent tells a reporter that the process of getting opium from opium poppies is so complex and dangerous that “I don’t even think a person with a Ph.D. could do it.””

- How the DEA Scrubbed Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Poppy Garden from Public Memory

"All is truth. All is beauty. All is wisdom. All is love. And the Everlasting is available to those..."

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:14:00 -0500

“All is truth. All is beauty. All is wisdom. All is love.

And the Everlasting is available to those who make still the presence of the Great Being within, so that this sleeping giant may again emerge from the cacophony of distrust that marks the function of the rational, conscious mind, and walk freely amongst the flowers and fields of the Infinite.”

- via oceanofmind, <3 obligatory great being reblog

be receptive

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:37:33 -0500

There are degrees of receptivity. Very little of it in a science lesson, for example. Science starts with observation; but the observation is always selective. You have to look at the world through a lattice of projected concepts. Then you take the moksha-medicine, and suddenly there are hardly any concepts. You don’t select and immediately classify what you experience; you just take it in. It’s like that poem of Wordsworth’s, ‘Bring with you a heart that watches and receives.’

- from Island, by Aldous Huxley

spoiler alert

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:59:00 -0500

spoiler alert

Photo

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:20:15 -0500

Look, to me it was white, beautiful white, and then the white...

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:44:31 -0500

Look, to me it was white, beautiful white, and then the white was shrieking for the green, and the little triangle created a force field. People see very sexy things — dirty minds! — but to me sex is sex, and triangles are triangles.

- carmen herrera

"I wanted to _do_ something, not be something. I don’t know if it was any clearer for a long time..."

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:56:14 -0500

“I wanted to _do_ something, not be something. I don’t know if it was any clearer for a long time than that.”

- Nancy Meyers - Can Anybody Make a Movie for Women?

a chaos magic ritual involving videoconferencing

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:21:00 -0500

a chaos magic ritual involving videoconferencing

The Beauty of Roots is a remarkable look into patterns that...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:02:31 -0500

The Beauty of Roots is a remarkable look into patterns that emerge from mathematics. The page has several amazing high-resolution plots of the roots of polynomials whose coefficients are all 1 or -1. I wish I understood more about this sort of stuff, because some of these images are profoundly interesting.

Above - the hole that appears around i (the √ of -1).

time tree - “the timescale of life” - shows...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:47:00 -0500

time tree - “the timescale of life” - shows approximately how long ago two species diverged. it was maybe about 100 million years ago that the last ancestor i shared with my cat lived and produced offspring that would eventually become us.

previously

DOT Sandblasts 14 Blocks of Bike Lane Off Bedford Avenue in...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:54:00 -0500

DOT Sandblasts 14 Blocks of Bike Lane Off Bedford Avenue in Hasidic Williamsburg

Outrageous!!! I propose “scantily clad” protests EVERY FUCKING SATURDAY until they put these bikelanes back. Or complaining nicely on this page or by calling the Brooklyn Borough Commissioner at (718) 222-7259.

An anonymous commenter on Vos Iz Neias? says

This is great news…for some reason, the bikers on Bedford Avenue typically dress in the most revealing clothing and raise really serious tzinius issues….moving them away to Kent will be a real gift to those of us who really don’t want to see this trashy dress, especially when walking to and from shul on shabbos…

I’ve never been more motivated to ride topless down bedford ave…

currently designing some sick software to aid next...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:54:22 -0500

currently designing some sick software to aid next wednesday’s experiment…

today, the golden gate bridge from a convertable

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:32:38 -0500

today, the golden gate bridge from a convertable

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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:21:00 -0500

feathered edge, ball-nogues studio, 2009.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500

feathered edge, ball-nogues studio, 2009.

being here, mark garry, 2008.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500

being here, mark garry, 2008.

Sauna, 1802. First published in the 1st edition of the Nordisk...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:39:12 -0500

Sauna, 1802. First published in the 1st edition of the Nordisk familjebok.

We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far,...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:30:55 -0400

We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far, remotely done power and glory—as via government, big business, formal education, church—has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG.

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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:56:11 -0400