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{ Monthly Archives } March 2008

role playing reversal

Sort of a belated Gygax-tribute post via spacebarcowboy. Points if you can identify ALL the creatures in last panel. Related posts No related posts.

2008 03 31 crushinator Maps
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Wookie Field Recording

Our pal Dr. Special, intergalactic party boy and anthropologist, spent several months living among the Wookies on Kashyyyk. They allowed him to join them in one of their famous late-night stoner jams, and he has been kind enough to share a sample with us. Related posts No related posts.

2008 03 31 squidocto Sound
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Iwase Yoshiyuki photos

“Iwase Yoshiyuki was born in 1904 in Onjuku, a fishing village on the Pacific side of the Chiba peninsula, which encloses Tokyo Bay on the east…. In the late 1920s, young Woshiyuki received an early Kodak camera as a gift. Since the main livelihood of the town came from the sea, he gravitated there.” My [...]

2008 03 28 squidocto art Comments (1)

Burning hole in middle of nowhere

A series of photos of the Darvaza Burning Gas Craters in Turkmenistan. “In the heart of the Karakum desert the Darvaza Gas Craters are old Soviet natural gas mines from the 1950′s that have been set alight. It can be seen at night from miles away.” Sez wikipedia: The Karakum Desert is home to the [...]

2008 03 27 crushinator art
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End Times

from Spacebarcowboy: “There is some apocalyptic sh*t going on…” You get this when you attempt to quit After Effects. The dreamer whose dream you are in is waking up. Related posts No related posts.

2008 03 27 crushinator oy
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Space Shuttle Landing. Pretty.

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2008 03 27 squidocto art
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“Come, Parisians, don’t let them take our prize.”

Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville made audio recordings twenty years before edison. He couldn’t play them back, because they were just oil-smoked-stylus images scrawled onto paper. He died believing he (and the French) were robbed of credit for the audio recording landmark.Now they can be heard, and it sounds like he really did beat Edison to [...]

2008 03 27 squidocto History
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The Singing Ringing Tree

The Singing Ringing Tree is a lovely public sculpture in Burnley England. When the wind blows, it sings. It doesn’t ring, though. The artist obviously couldn’t help naming it that, what with the ultra-creepy cult East German children’s show and all. Related posts No related posts.

2008 03 23 squidocto art Comments (1)

Puerto Rico: Wouldn’t That Be Cool?

Democrats: when it comes to the remaining primaries, everyone’s talking about Pennsylvania. But look at Puerto Rico. Mathematically, it is possible that when it comes to their primary, they could choose the candidate. I think, just for mind-fuck-history’s sake, that would be very cool. Related posts No related posts.

2008 03 19 squidocto Politics Comments (1)

Farmer Suicides in India: 150,000 and rising

Despite the fact that 60% of the population of India is involved in agriculture, “disastrous policies, woeful access to affordable credit, greedy and corrupt middlemen, and indifferent administrations” have created (and are maintaining) such an impossible credit and financial system for farmers that they have been committing suicide in astounding numbers. The official statistic: since [...]

2008 03 15 squidocto Politics Comments (0)

Now That He’s Resigned, Do We Have To Give Him His Telescope Back?

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2008 03 11 squidocto Politics
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Diebold Leaks 2008 Election Results

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2008 03 01 squidocto Politics
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