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humanclock.org

Humanclock.com shows a photograph of the current time, with the photo changing every minute of the day (all 1,440 occuring minutes on Earth!) Thus you end up with a rotating picture clock sorta deal.

How the time is actually displayed is a whole different matter.  A lot of photos have the time written on a crummy cardboard sign, while other photos might have the current time in a more edible format, such as olives.  There are photos below sea level and ones over two miles above sea level.  There are even clock pictures with people who played at Woodstock.

> Check out the human clock HERE

> Send in you photos HERE

" I am trying to get a decent cross section of Earth inhabitants on this website. So I want photos of minivan-driving soccer moms, trustafarian hippies, punkers, football players, pimps, players, private eyes, Commodore 64 programmers, Who's the Boss? fan fiction writers, bible-belt preachers, politicians, actors, musicians, auto mechanics, doctors, catergorically defined people who don't feel they belong in a category, tree-huggers, rednecks, snooty rich people, snooty poor people, pictures from famous places, pictures of famous people, people who can solve a Rubick's cube, jocks, nerds, cheerleaders, plumbers, D & D players, etc."

street musical

omg - from earfarm

"For three weeks this fall, midtown Manhattan will be the stage for Musical, a series of spontaneous actions orchestrated by artist and filmmaker Dara Friedman. From dawn to dusk, and occasionally even in the middle of the night, office workers, mothers, schoolchildren, taxi drivers, doormen, tourists, divas, and grandparents will break into song, creating unexpected musical events and serendipitous urban moments for all who encounter them. Throughout the course of the project, nearly one hundred individual actions will take place throughout the day and night, weekdays only, in the blocks between Grand Central Station and Central Park South, and between Broadway and Park Avenue.

Musical will take place from September 17 to October 5 throughout midtown Manhattan, in locations between Grand Central Station and Central Park South, and Broadway and Park Avenue. Performances are unannounced and will take place throughout the day and night. For up to date information please check publicartfund.org. "

More information on Musical HERE.

check out the media blog for the simpsons theme song covered by one man playing two guitars simultaneously and inspector gadget theme song covered by one man playing one flute and his human beatbox - featuring a break into axle f (the only song i can still play on the piano from memory) - from earfarm

larry craig image campaign

so - i confess, i get the Larry Craig Newsletter . . . and i regularly vote in his polls.

 

last month, this is what the header looked like - the same as many months before.

and now, one month later, Larry Craig has had quite a time between August 23rd and the latest issue of his newsletter, dated September 28th. (see nutritional plastic post archives in August 2007-September 2007 for the juicy details if you don't know the story)

that's right -  a new photo with the wifey!

if i, a loyal reader, got to choose - i would have picked this one with his cute lap dog.

plasm

PLAZM, the Northwest’s premier magazine of art, design, and culture, is putting out its largest issue ever.

> see a video of every page of plasm mag

> read their interview with emigre

> listen to "make the logo bigger" (mp3 from under consideration)

Republican PBS Tavis Smiley Debate

for the PBS Republican Debate, hosted by Tavis Smiley, only Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter & Alan Keyes showed up. Guillian, McCain, Romney, Thompson did not show for the american people-of-color focused discussion.

WATCH HERE

The great American hypocrisy tour

Ah, but we're just getting warmed up. Because from Denver it's just a quick flight over to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport -- the same spot, by the way, where thousands of quivery GOP faithful will be flying next year for the wildly depressing Republican National Convention -- where we'll check out the exact bathroom stall where "I am not gay" totally gay Idaho Sen. Larry "Wide Stance" Craig toe-tapped his way into political -- and hypocritical -- history!

Learn the difference between simply tapping your foot and urgently asking your neighbor for a blow job because you're a duplicitous Republican cretin! Wave your hand under the stall and see if an undercover cop is on duty! Take a photo of your kid sitting on the toilet where Craig's own tortured homophobia met his repressed gay sexual fantasies in an epic, but still totally creepy example of pathological denial! Feel the history! Or better yet, don't.
- from Mark Morford, SF Gate

 

 

- link to more European political fashion pics

new dividers!!

The Minneapolis airport has more than 80 restrooms, but only two are being targeted for the new dividers, including the one now known for Craig's arrest.

"These two have been the most problematic in terms of complaints from people and indications on Web sites that sexual activities are occurring in them," said airport spokesman Patrick Hogan. He said the dividers would be installed within the next two months.    

"Both restrooms, in the busy Northstar Crossing shopping area, had a reputation on some Web sites as good places for bathroom liaisons. Hogan said airport officials had been checking the Web sites and found the activity had dropped off since Craig's arrest.

One person arrested over the summer told police he had four sexual encounters in three hours, and it was only on his fifth approach that someone objected, Hogan said.    

The new stall dividers will fall to just 2 to 3 inches above the floor, instead of leaving as much as a foot of open space as they do now. The airport expects to spend $25,000; installing them in every restroom there would cost about $1 million, Hogan said.

"It is unfortunate to look at having to spend $1 million on something that wouldn't be necessary if people simply behaved themselves," he said."

- from AP via talking points memo

also - the bold info corroborates Princess Sparkle Ponys' brave investigative work in the cruising chatrooms!  - from np archives

bush worried about zombies

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larry stalls

"Today was a major step in the legal effort to clear my name. The court has not issued a ruling on my motion to withdraw my guilty plea. For now, I will continue my work in the United States Senate for Idaho."

During his first presidential campaign, Bush -- who promised to be the "education president" -- once asked: "Is our children learning?"

On Wednesday, Bush seemed to answer his own question with the same kind of grammatical twist.

"As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured," he said. - from reuters

ROAD TO THE WHITEHOUSE

> Watch Presidential Candidates Speak @ Iowa 30th Annual Harkin Steak Fry

"The speeches were OK, but no news was committed. They all, as Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut so delicately put it, "pandered" to Harkin and then did their stump shtick with several references to the Kevin Costner movie, "Field of Dreams."

Obama went the longest. Dodd was the loudest. Joe Biden of Delaware was the most serious. David Yepsen, the Des Moines Register's eminence grise on politics said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was the best."  - from CNN

 

 

Watch Richardson's Speech Here (excuse the bad camera)

H3LLRACER

"Stay tuned to this page for H3LLRACER info.

We will post the start time and location when we get it figured out.

Saturday, October 27 is for sure.

If you have a question please feel free ask it in the form of a comment on this page

or you can email the Warlocks Bicycle Club directly at: [email protected]

We also have a myspace page that nobody looks at,

you too can ignore it at: www.myspace.com/warlocksbc

This race will be hot. Get stoked."

-from Warlocks Bike Club


H3LLRACER 2006 Team Nutritional Plastic Photos

a photo with larry craig

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solar max

 

 

SOLAR PROMINENCE: This morning in the Philippines, John Nassr looked for the first time through his new Personal Solar Telescope and, he says, "I was welcomed by a large prominence!" Here it is:      

            

The fiery archway is big enough to hold the entire planet Earth with room to space. "It's a big one," agrees Greg Piepol of Rockville, Maryland, who snapped this follow-up photo hours later.

            

The face of the sun may be blank and dull--see below--but the edge is definitely worth watching. If you have a solar telescope, take a look.

            

BLANK SUNS: The sun has been blank--no sunspots--for 14 consecutive days. It's a sign of solar minimum. If forecasters are correct, the absolute rock bottom of the solar cycle will come in March 2008. Is this exciting? In a sense it is. The blank days we see now herald a sea change to come in March when the sun transitions from a quieting star to an increasingly active one.

            

Meanwhile in Texas, Sam Cole was eager to photograph some kind of sunspot, so last week he angled the sun behind a construction project near the shore of Austin's Lady Bird Lake:

-from spaceweather.com

windshield cowboy

President Bush may like to be seen as a swaggering tough guy with a penchant for manly outdoor pursuits, but in a new book one of his closest allies has said he is afraid of horses.

Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, derided his political friend as a "windshield cowboy" – a cowboy who prefers to drive – and "the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life".

He recalled a meeting in Mexico shortly after both men had been elected when Mr Fox offered Mr Bush a ride on a "big palomino" horse.

Mr Fox, who left office in December, recalled Mr Bush "backing away" from the animal.

''A horse lover can always tell when others don't share our passion," he said, according to the Washington Post.

Mr Bush has spoken of his fondness for shooting doves and cutting brush on his Crawford ranch in Texas, which he bought in 1999.

The property reportedly has no horses and only five cattle. - from The Telegraph

 

 

 

Laura Bush @ the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, April 30, 2005

I saw my in-laws down at the ranch over Easter. We like it down there. George didn't know much about ranches when we bought the place. Andover and Yale don't have a real strong ranching program. But I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse.  - from USA Today

 

A Giant Trilobite on the Sun

"We've never seen anything quite like it," says solar physicist Lika Guhathakurta from NASA headquarters.

Last week she sat in an audience of nearly two hundred colleagues at the "Living with a Star" workshop in Boulder, Colorado, and watched in amazement as Saku Tsuneta of Japan played a movie of sunspot 10926 breaking through the turbulent surface of the sun. Before their very eyes an object as big as a planet materialized, and no one was prepared for the form it took.

"It looks like a prehistoric trilobite," said Marc De Rosa, a scientist from Lockheed Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif. "To me it seemed more like cellular mitosis in which duplicated chromosomes self-assemble into two daughter cells," countered Guhathakurta.

Click here and decide for yourself. (From beginning to end, the movie spans 6 days. The "trilobite" centered above is about the size of Earth.)

"This movie is a magnetogram—a dynamic map tracing the sunspot's intense magnetism," Guhathakurta explains. "Black represents negative (S) polarity, and white represents positive (N)."

The data were gathered by the Japanese Space Agency's Hinode spacecraft, launched in Sept. 2006 on a mission to study sunspots and solar storms. "This is the highest resolution magnetogram ever taken from space," says Tsuneta, Hinode's chief scientist at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Tokyo. "It's showing us things we've never seen before." - from Corpus Mmothra