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In the 1970′s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. (More images and higher resolutions are available from here). (Via)
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A collision at sea will ruin your entire day.
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“In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies,on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains.”
― Thucydides(Source: gilmoure)
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2001 a space odyssey - music from the Motion Picture Sound Track. Album prepared by Jesse Kaye and the MGM Studio Sound Department.
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Reading The Classics!
- Advanced D&D Players Handbook
- Advanced D&D Dungeonmasters Guide
- Advanced D&D Monster Manual
- Advanced D&D Monster Manual II: Electric Boogaloo!
- Advanced D&D Fiend Folio
This brings back some old school memories - literally. The last time I played AD&D was in high school and I ended up swapping my AD&D books for GURPs, I think.
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Marienplatz Nuisance!Dragon, Munich, Germany, 2004
Dang! I missed this when I was in Munich!
(Then again, it was my honeymoon, so my attention might have been elsewhere.)
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Independents, who will be key to the general election, are especially alarmed by Gingrich.
As they should be. It’s not just Newt’s weirdness. It’s also the stunning hypocrisy. His personal life makes a mockery of his moralistic bromides. He condemns Washington insiders but had a forty-year Washington career that ended with ethic violations. He fulminates against finance yet drew fat checks from Freddie Mac. He poses as a populist but has had a $500,000 revolving charge at Tiffany’s.
And it’s the flagrant irresponsibility of many of his propositions – for example, that presidents are not bound by Supreme Court rulings, that the liberal Ninth Circuit court of appeals should be abolished, that capital gains should not be taxed, that the First Amendment guarantees freedom “of” religion but not “from” religion.
It’s also Gingrich’s eagerness to channel the public’s frustrations into resentments against immigrants, blacks, the poor, Muslims, “liberal elites,” the mainstream media, and any other group that’s an easy target of white middle-class and working-class anger.
These are all the hallmarks of a demagogue.
