As a pioneer in meat packing, Chicago prodded innovation in related areas like transportation and cold storage. Why not use “data, knowledge and ideas” as transformative agents. The two coasts need not be the only pacesetters in this regard.
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Velvet Underground April 1966 Scepter Studios
Velvet Underground April 1966 Scepter Studios (Norman Dolph Acetate). Get nine MP3s from the acetate (slightly scratchy, but still worth listening to if you know the Velvet Underground’s first album fairly well) directly from WFMU.
New pavilion for the Chicago zoo
Played hooky this afternoon, and walked over in Lincoln Park to see the new Urban Oasis, as the redesign of the south of the Lincoln Park Zoo is being called. So pretty, even though a lot of the plants haven’t filled in yet.
Best Songs for The Rapture
I’m sure I’m missing a few songs since this playlist took about ten minutes to compile, but here’s a good start for an End of the World Party soundtrack.
Russ Feingold Loss is a Loss for All of Us
More on why Russ Feingold losing his seat to a Tea Party Know Nothing is a travesty…
6000 years ago
Well, really, this plastic will probably last longer than that. Lightbox version Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone Lens: John S Flash: Off Film: Pistil shot using Photojojo macro lens
Sharp Wizard OZ-7000
It featured a connection port to attach to a Windows PC or Macintosh, an optional thermal printer and cassette tape backup, 32 kilobytes of memory, a 8 by 16 character black and white LCD, and an expansion slot for accessory cards. … The model numbers start with either OZ (for the USA, a prefix that’s meant to be a pun on The Wizard of Oz) or ZQ (rest of the world) followed by a number, for instance ZQ-770 is a non-US organizer with 3 MB memory.
The Web Means Everything Is On Your Permanent Record
; there was the 66-year-old Canadian psychotherapist who tried to enter the United States but was turned away at the border — and barred permanently from visiting the country — after a border guard’s Internet search found that the therapist had written an article in a philosophy journal describing his experiments 30 years ago with L.S.D. According to a recent survey by Microsoft, 75 percent of U.S. recruiters and human-resource professionals report that their companies require them to do online research about candidates, and many use a range of sites when scrutinizing applicants — including search engines, social-networking sites, photo- and video-sharing sites, personal Web sites and blogs, Twitter and online-gaming sites.
Reading Around on March 17th through March 31st
Five Cent Bag Tax Successful At Reducing Plastic Bag Use – photo by swanksalot Why You Should Never See a 3D Movie « McKenzie Lawton – I sat through the next hour and 48 minutes with a headache and feeling a bit dizzy, and it definitely wasn’t due to a massive sugar overload. … If I kept them on, the entire movie looked like it was in a foggy haze and the 3D wasn’t even that spectacular.
Yemen chews itself to death over thirst for narcotic qat
But the irrigation needed to grow qat, coupled with an exploding population, means Sana’a’s water basin is emptying out at a staggering rate: four times as much water is taken out of the basin as falls into it each year.
… Wikipedia has this to say about khat since I’ve never tried it either: The khat plant is known by a variety of names, such as qat and gat in Yemen, qaat and jaad in Somalia, and chat in Ethiopia.
Mushroom Bricks Rock
The 500 bricks he grew at Far West Fungi were so sturdy that he destroyed many a metal file and saw blade in shaping the ’shrooms into an archway 6 feet high and 6 feet wide.
… Time Magazine adds more detail: After the husks are cooked, sprayed with water and myco-vitamins and seeded with mushroom spores, the mixture is poured into a mold of the desired shape and left to grow in a dark warehouse.
Bagel Related Injuries
In 2008, according to an analysis of fingers cut by knives as reported in the government’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, 1,979 people appeared in ERs with a BRI. … As Maria Balinska tells it in her book, “The Bagel,” fear of bagel-injury litigation led Lender’s to sell its frozen bagels pre-sliced, even before they hit the Midwest in the 1970s.
Friday Randomizer Fun
I’m too mentally drained at the moment to bloviate about each track, so just imagine me telling you amusing anecdotes as to why these particular songs ended up in my library.
… Lennon, John – Born in a Prison Some Time In New York City
The Great Hipstamatic
I never owned my own Hipstamatic, but the iPhone app seems like a pretty good simulacrum, even going so far as to force you to use a tiny little viewfinder to frame your shot. the camera takes a second to warm up (well, at least it pretends to be warming up the transistors), also ‘turning on the flash’ takes a few moments. … And since there is no flash on an iPhone, I’m guessing turning on the flash just adds a bit of randomly controlled coloration to the image. changing lens, film, flash is as easy as a swipe of the finger… My other complaint about the application is that the cost doesn’t include some extras like this film, for instance.
Cancer From the Kitchen
The “precautionary principle” – adopted by the European Union in 1992 as the basis for regulation of toxic chemicals –- holds that in the face of scientific uncertainty, government should err on the side of protecting public health and safety. … It has used its wealth to win favorable treatment from politicians, sponsored surrogates to promote the industry point of view with the media, and now is quietly pushing legislation through state legislatures that will overturn many of the gains citizens believe they have made in their right to information about toxic chemicals.