Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Strange Laws
Kirkland, Illinois, law forbids bees to fly over the village or through any of its streets.In Zion, Ill., it is illegal for anyone to give lighted cigars to dogs, cats, and other domesticated animals kept as pets.*
Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.
It is against the law for a monster to enter the corporate limits of Urbana, Illinois.
In Normal, IL., it is against the law to make faces at dogs.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Tool Sober Live at Reading Festival 1993
Friday, November 18, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Letters of Note
In October of 1993, a stand-up performance by Bill Hicks was controversially pulled from Late Night with David Letterman a few hours prior to broadcast — Letterman later claimed it was due to a potentially upsetting religious joke; Hicks, on the other hand, blamed it on a pro-life commercial to be screened during an ad break that clashed with some of his routine. Much debate ensued.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Water
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Water | Environment | DISCOVER Magazine
1 Water is everywhere—there are 332,500,000 cubic miles of it on the earth’s surface. But less than 1 percent of it is fresh and accessible, even when you include bottled water.
2 And “fresh” can be a relative term. Before 2009, federal regulators did not require water bottlers to remove E. coli.
3 Actually, E. coli doesn’t sound so bad. In 1999 the Natural Resources Defense Council found that one brand of spring water came from a well in an industrial parking lot near a hazardous waste dump.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Friday, November 04, 2011
Lots of Birds
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.