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Archive for June, 2009

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Iran Photo Study

Dead celebrities come and go, revolution is forever (or for at least 30 years)

If the government of the Great Satan can’t say it, let me do the honors…
Iran: The votes are fine, and the U.S. is behind all this protesting! They’re meddlers! They meddle!
U.S.: (silence)
GOP: Dude, are you gonna take that? You should go right over there and meddle, THAT will teach them for calling you a meddler!
Iran: [...]

Anyone who saw the documentary about Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the lady doctor who discovered breast cancer in herself while stationed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1999, will probably always have that story lodged in their memory.
Nielsen caught the nation’s attention in 1999, when she found a lump in her breast while wintering at [...]

Paddy O’Shuttup

Why can I never get a roommate who is easy to live with? Is that too much to ask? OK maybe it is, but what about one who is Not Difficult To Live With? To cut down on descriptive text I offer you this video…

…yes that is my roommate, Paddy O’Shuttup. The part-time salesman who [...]

Living In a Box, Part 2

My family came to visit this weekend (it was my sister’s birthday) and went to Shelburne Museum, where I took a closer look at the “Kalkin House” exhibit they had on the grounds. The Kalkin House (for lack of better titles I suppose) is a home made from three shipping containers, designed by New Jersey [...]

Acrassicauda is purportedly Iraq’s only metal band, the feature of the surprisingly-moving Heavy Metal in Baghdad documentary. If you’ve not yet seen it you really should, it’s a fantastic movie. In short, the band was treated just as you might expect a western-style heavy metal band to be treated in pre-war Iraq (death threats, branded [...]

Troubled economic times inspire innovation. While it’s by no means a new invention, “pod homes” and homes made from shipping containers are being seen as a viable alternative living structure (Recycled Homes). At a fraction of the cost of traditional wooden or brick homes you too can have a home built from recycled shipping material [...]