Strange Maps has a guide for all those far-flung areas of the galaxy - if you're tuning in to Earth TV broadcasts, what's on tonight?The first tv images of World War II are about to hit Aldebaran star system, 65 light years [ly] away. If there’s anybody out there alive and with eyes to see it, the barrage of actual and dramatised footage of WW2 will keep them shocked and/or entertained for decades to come. Which is just as well, for they’ll have to wait quite a few years to catch the first episodes of such seminal series as The Twilight Zone and Bonanza (both 1959), just about now hitting the (putative) extraterrestrial biological entities of the Mu Arae area (appr. 50 ly). The Cosby Show, Miami Vice and Night Court (all 1984) should be all the rage on Fomalhaut (25 ly). Meanwhile, the sentient, tv-watching creatures near Alpha Centauri (4.4 ly), our closest extrasolar star, are just recovering from the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s halftime show during the 2004 Superbowl.
This has apparently been sitting in my feed reader for some time, and I've never noticed it before.'What is the city but the people?' aims to generate a more positive atmosphere during peak times. It also encourages the many voices of the Tube’s staff to re-enter the environment of the network, bringing some of the personalities which have made it famous to the forefront once more. Coming from a wide range of philosophical, political and historical sources, the quotes provoke thought on life in the city, especially as heard on the London Underground.
In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue. Thus, to show the closing scene from the first film as the opening of the second, it was necessary to completely reshoot it.
Now, someone has made a side-by-side comparison of the sequence so you can now needlessly critique how well Robert Zemeckis and crew recreated the scene. The audio is layered together as well - wait til the end to hear a duet of Docs saying, in unison, "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need... roads." It's totally awesome.
I think Lefa has already said it well, but yes, we are to become parents.
So I washed my dogs the other day. Normally this is a painful experience, with them fighting and madly wiggling to get away. Usually this takes place in the shower (we don't have a bath in the house), but since I've finally fixed the laundry sink, I thought I'd give it a try there.
This picture came from The Picture Is Unrelated, but it so deserves a place of pride at Awkward Family Photos.
Would you allow a secretive US arms company to mine uranium in your backyard? Neither would we! So help us tell our politicians that Australia doesn't need more uranium mines.
It's easy to approve a new uranium mine when it is out of sight and out of mind - but just because we don't see a place every day doesn't mean that we should risk ruining it forever.
That's how the Environment Minister Peter Garrett and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson are able to approve environmentally destructive projects like General Atomics new Beverley 4 Mile mine, 500 kilometres north of Adelaide.
We need your help to send a backyard message to Minister Ferguson, in his home electorate of Batman.
If this acid leaching mine opens, Australia will have five uranium mines either working or approved, with more in the pipeline. Along with the expansion of other mines it adds up to a potential trebling in Australia's uranium exports - three times the waste, three times the worry, three times the risk.
The Australian Government allows our uranium to be sold to nuclear weapon states such as China. Uranium sold for nuclear power frees up uranium for nuclear weapons so our exports directly or indirectly fuel growing nuclear instability and intensify threats across our region and around the world.
That's why it's important to let our politicians know, in their own backyards, that this massive expansion of uranium mining must stop.
With your help, we are proposing to send a postcard outlining this decision to every voter in Batman, the backyard of the Resources Minister Martin Ferguson.
All you have to do is sign on to our Backyard Message to Batman campaign to get the message out.
For every signature that we receive one postcard will be sent to a voter in Batman asking them to bring their local member under control.
It's as simple as that.
First published on GreensBlog
I love this! Cardon Copy take normal, boring notices stuck up on poles around the city, re-design and replace.
I've just come across this and thought some of you might be interested in it - Good Magazine's Harmony interface. It's a great example of people using different interfaces and interactive measures to portray a message. The graphics are simple yet powerful, and each individual line in the story can be treated as its own timeline. In this example, I was slightly disheartened to see the whole thing is largely sponsored by Toyota, and therefore has a large greenwash element to it, but nonetheless, it is a powerful way to tell a simple story, chain or other message.
Is this the sort of thing GreensBlog readers would like to see us develop? Are there other examples you'd like to point us to?
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Ok, so I've blogged before about some awesomely horrible tattoos, but these Twilight themed ones totally take the cake. The scary, pathetic, adolescent wanna-be goth cake.
Fucking awesome idea! I am so using this (with very little tact) in future meetings.
Newly discovered - Awful Library Books - for all your hideously politically incorrect reading needs.
"With all due respect for the liberation of women, someone has to clean the house and do all kinds of boring chores. Actually those jobs don't take too long, and this photo shows Judith with the vacuum cleaner. Look at her closely and see the excellent posture she maintains as she walks around the room, pushing the machine on the carpet. Her shoulders are relaxed, her head is high, and in doing this rather boring but occasionally necessary job, she is aware of watching her posture and supporting her baby well with her abdominal muscles."
A 29-year old worker died today when he fell into a giant vat of hot chocolate at a New Jersey factory.
“experimental set-up[s]” in which “the viewer is forced to reconsider traditional modes of animal presentation and simultaneously to question the authenticity of concepts which are restaging 'natural' environments while they are increasingly endangered.”
“Present-day conceptions of zoological gardens aim at the presentation of animals in an idyllic and apparently natural environment, untouched by civilization. But this is a contemporary conception, since courtly menageries and kennels were adapted to the exposure of animals as decorative objects. Until the early years of the 20th century, animals were part of a preferably spectacular and exotic staging, to the entertainment and amazement of the public. The artificial and the sensational were foregrounded, without creating a realistic setting of the natural environment of the animals.”
