Exterminating Zombies with Jean Baudrillard
An obsession with zombies and the “loss of the real.”
I ♥ apod.
(orion nebula, btw)
Our Betta fish has a Labyrinth organ, meaning it can breath air from the surface of the water.
“When they gulp air from the surface it gets forced into the labyrinth organ. In the labyrinth there are lots of small maze-like compartments of thin boney plates called lamellae.
The lamellae are covered with membranes. Blood passes through the membranes and the oxygen is absorbed into the bloodstream.
If a labyrinth fish ends up out of the water it can stay alive for a long time if it stays moist. In fact they can even crawl across land to a different body of water if they have to.” -source
Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969)
More: An interview with Kerouac in French on CBC two years before his death.
freepressonstrike.com
The staff of the Winnipeg Free Press continue to provide local news coverage while on strike.
I, Pencil
The ‘genealogy’ of a pencil written in support of freedom (as a free market) and the Invisible Hand. Hmmmmmm.
Forager bees loaded with pollen line up to enter their hive. Found after reading The Life of the Queen Bee.
The Manitoba Flood of 1950 - This is why we have the floodway.
(Side Note: Canada Packers Plant or Castle?)
Crate Digging - Don’t Do It! (An Explanation…)
Flash-Based Music Creation Studio AudioTool - Slick!
Never Say Die
Why We Can’t Imagine Death
Twelve Virtues of Rationality
curiosity. relinquishment. lightness. evenness. argument. empiricism. simplicity. humility. perfectionism. precision. scholarship. and the void.
Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours
How to Feel Good About Canadian English
Does the free market corrode moral character?
A Templeton Conversation — Leading scientists, scholars, and public figures weigh in on “Big Questions.”
Steal This Movie 2
An exploration of piracy from the printing press to the internet. (44 minute documentary)
Fooooooos: Shannon won us a Foosball table at last night’s social.
Above, a new way to explore Flickr use Rainbow vomiting pandas.
Snowflake on $5 from this Macro Currency Flickr set.
World Food Crisis & Food Security Conference, University of Manitoba
Oct. 8-10, 2008 — Open to all and free of charge.
Corporate Initiatives on Campus
“Water fountains are becoming an endangered species on university campuses across Canada. That’s one of the findings of a national on-line survey, designed to document the commercial and corporate presence on Canadian campuses.”
On Saturday Google and I shared birthdays. Today is NASA’s 50th.
The above photo was taken 8 years before the inception of NASA. It shows the first rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida in July 1950.
If you search via the Google link I’ve provided you’ll be time-warped back 10 years.
Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com
“People become disassociated from one another online. The computer somehow nullifies the social contract,” she says. In other words, people sometimes go nuts amid the anonymity of the Internet.