Specialization is for Insects.
This week’s Links of the Week theme is… pictures.
One Man’s Weekly Links – October 5, 2007
Here are this week’s links… otherwise known as things that I would have blogged about, if I had time to do so…
Beleaguered bear in bridge rescue (in Pictures)
UK can now demand data decryption on penalty of jail time
Burmese monks ‘to be sent away’
20 Most Amazing Coincidences
10 Reasons To Eat More Chocolate
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One Man’s Weekly Links – September 21, 2007
I come across so many good articles online, but simply don’t have the time to share them all as regular posts. So I’m trying an experiment here.
I’m going to post a few links at the end of the week to other interesting articles. I may make it a fairly regular thing,...
One Man’s Weekly Links – October 12, 2007
This weeks theme… Art!
Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor
Adam Burn: Burn Comics (Contains nudes. You have been warned.)
Matt Bilfield (make sure and look around the site, not just at this one piece)
Bob Staake Illustrations
The Beauty of MS Paint
Peter Callesen Paper Art
Paintalicious
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Excellent photos of twin towers.
The Bush popularity graph is interesting, the things that made him most popular are the things that make him unpopular now. Fickle people.
On the poverty map, where SD has the 90-100%, I grew up there. It’s just always hard for me to see that, I know it is true but my family didn’t experience it so it never feels true.
Thanks for posting these JP. The very first picture in the Twin Towers set looks like one of the “Amex” buildings, which housed the SVVS offices at the time. Not sure if you ever spoke to any of the folks up there about “that day”, but they definitely had some wild stories. BTW-I joined SVVS 3 weeks later.
Yeah Frank, I heard stories about it later from a few folks, but I never visited it when I was up there or anything. Of course on that day I was over at the CW building in Reston only a few miles from the Pentagon. You were probably over in Tyson’s that day.
Do you remember the traffic that day? You know my 60 mile commute back to Columbia took me nearly 4 hours because the beltway was such a mess.
John
Yes, it’s interesting isn’t it Tom. Of course I’m not sure if it can entirely be attributed to being fickle. It seems like people’s impressions changed pretty radically over time after hearing so many “Bush-isms”, and then really took a turn as he got hammered for never finding the WMDs that we were assured were there…
John
Tsoniki,
It’s it interesting that we are sometimes quite oblivious to what is right before our eyes? When you are exposed to something long enough, such as growing up in an impoverished area, you don’t really notice it. It’s just “normal”, and that doesn’t stand out.
John
Oh, I meant to say… that is a totally awesome name. I really love it. “Tsoniki”… it sounds kind of Greek or maybe Japanese.
Is that your real name, or just your handle – and if not your real name, how did you come up with it?
John
I was actually sick at home. Worst case of the flu I’ve ever had.
Well, on the bright side… it kept you out of the traffic!