July 2010
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Job openings in Haiti.
Scientists have for some years been able to ‘teleport’ quantum states from one place to another. Now Seth Lloyd and his MIT team say that, using the same principles and a further strange quantum effect known as ‘postselection’, it should be possible to do the same backwards in time. Lloyd told the Technology Review: “It is possible for particles (and,...
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New Ansel Adams photos found at a garage sale.
The electric car!
“The bill takes a few shuffling steps in that direction. It calls on the Energy Department to create a national plan for deploying electric vehicles. It allows electricity to count as an alternative vehicle fuel. It provides grants to local communities that set up their own plug-in networks. It also calls for a whole flurry of studies on things like identifying the raw materials needed...
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Two more links regarding the Film Council: 1/2.
#ukcuts
The idea of cutting the Film Council irked me a bit today, so I scribbled down some alternative ideas of what the cut-hungry government across the pond is also considering:
Harry Pearce has to ride to work on a unicycle.
All accents north of Manchester now require a licensing fee.
Inspector Morse only allowed to use dots. Dashes are currently pending.
Liverpool can only play...
Here’s a petition to save the Film Council and here’s a facebook group.
UK Film Council axed without notice or consultation. The council helped fund In The Loop, Man on Wire, Bright Star, Red Road, Happy-Go-Lucky, and did much more.
Some people are turning old nuclear silos/missile bases into places to live. Here’s a set of property listings.
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Brian Beutler —
In a meeting with several reporters this afternoon, House Minority Leader John Boehner outlined the top three measures he’d pursue if he becomes Speaker of the House next Congress to create new jobs. But, those who thought he’d outline specific programs and how they would create jobs were disappointed with a familiar litany of wish-list items: repeal health...
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via Wikileaks — The War Logs: NYTimes/The Guardian/Der Spiegel.
Watchevankaufman:
Creative Writing, Episode 1 - “Scraps”. Written and directed by Jeremy Brothers.
I remember this scene from my undergraduate degree.
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Mr. Plovák is a Landlord With No Address.
After the Czech Republic decided upon, built, and launched a Floating City (named Ovanmolnen but colloquially called, “The Floating City”), residents had noticed that birds kept poking their heads up above the edges (air-gophers, was the nickname they were given) — as if the creatures had climbed a book ladder and stumbled upon a missing shelf. Clev and Alexandr had noticed this...
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Crowd: (Goes wild.) Thom Yorke: Thank you very much, everyone. This is a song called “True Love Waits.” Crowd: (Goes wild.) Thom Yorke: Do you mind if I sing along?
Bob Lawless has two thoughts on a potential Warren nomination.
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The Pulp Sonnets and Other Poems:
1. Michiko Kakutani is Right Behind You. 2. Pun Poem. 3. A Sonnet for Simon. 4. Write a Poem. 5. What Do I Do With You? 6. The Pulp Sonnets.
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GQ Interviews Bill Murray.
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The Spy Story.
“A spy should have a face that a waiter would forget.” — William Colby. Chickens walk across the stage, twitching like records filled with scuffs and chicken scratches of their own, a tidy little mobius strip of a metaphor. A boy fishes in the water. A man in a suit looks outside a small hut with a cigarette perched near the top of his knuckles, squints at the air, the air...
By the way — did you know that some of your TV static comes from the Big Bang? (So if you’re going to fix your TV, you’re going to have to fix the Big Bang. Sorry.)
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The skyscraper with wind-turbines built-in.
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As if on cue:
#waystoimpressbooksellers
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How To Start A Bookstore: What About the Money?
What about the money?
Well — outside of revenue stream models, what it costs to start a bookstore, and marketing surveys determining your overall strategy (which isn’t everything), here are two things that turned up while poking around the web.
1. via — “Interestingly, I interviewed a friend who worked for an independent bookstore a few years ago, and he insisted...
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Some news:
50 companies in Massachusetts doing top-secret security work / Massachusetts may join effort to bypass the electoral college.
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Soccer in Somerville:
It’s looking like the property debate is slowly shifting in the direction of Kraft and co. building a new soccer stadium for the New England Revolution in a portion of Somerville known as the Innerbelt.
From other blog posts concerning the matter —
… the study calls for a $500 million development that includes a stadium which would be built on the air rights above a...
Help yourself to some Faulkner audio.
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La senda imperecedera.
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FYI:
“Doctors Without Borders urgently needs orthopedic surgeons to work a minimum of one month — http://bit.ly/adD4r1”
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“He once stopped our train in the middle of the Sudanese desert on one occasion...”
– Inspector Walter Thompson, Assignment: Churchill.
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Whoa whoa whoa!
Slow down a second, guys. My guess regarding these numbers is — what an institution pledges and what it’s delivered. I mean, it’s a great thing that people were able to mobilize and donate 1.3 billion. That’s just tremendous, and those of you who donated did a great thing.
But: funds for that country are lagging. Housing is inadequate. Some women...
List of Shame:
United States pledged $1.15 billion for Haiti. Given: $0.
Venezuela pledged $1.32 billion for Haiti. Given: $0.
Canada pledged $378.8 million for Haiti. Given: $0.
France pledged $170.9 million for Haiti. Given: $0
Australia pledged $8.6 million for Haiti. Given: $8.6 million.
Brazil pledged $163.5 million for Haiti. Given: $45 million.
Norway pledged $107 million for Haiti. Given: ...