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"Community is the new density," AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler said yesterday, just moments before the labor federation's quadrennial convention was gaveled to order in Los Angeles. For those who follow labor-speak, the remark was both an acknowledgement of American labor's crisis, and a guide to the strategy with which it hopes to recover.
As robots move into more and more workplaces in the coming decades—not just high-tech manufacturing but eventually everything from hospitals to supermarkets—one of the big challenges employers will face is making their carbon-based workforce comfortable with the new arrivals. That's the topic of an interesting story in The Economist (h/t Kevin Drum) that focuses not just on the technology but on how the robots make us feel, and what must be done to keep people from freaking out when they find out their new partner is made of metal and plastic. It seems that the psychology of human-robot interaction is going to be a burgeoning field in the next few years:
Almost half of Americans drop out of college and are left with debt. Is it time for a bigger investment in vocational training for young people?
Jesse Bonds graduated from high school in 2002 in Clinton, Arkansas, a town of 2,600 people on the southern edge of the Ozarks. He tried college for half a semester, but found the computer-programming courses he enrolled in too advanced. After that, he worked for the state's power utility for about six months building substations, but his crew was laid off once the work was complete. He was looking for a new career when he was hired as an electrician at a new hospital being built in 2003, and when the work was done he realized he wanted to continue working as an electrician. He decided to enroll in ITT Technical Institute to get a two-year degree in electronics engineering. "I saw all the commercials and stuff," he says. "And I got into the admissions office and they're like, 'Oh you scored the highest of anybody that's come through here on this test in the last couple of years. You'll be perfect for this program.'" In retrospect, Bonds realizes they were doing a hard sell on the program, but at the time he decided it was a chance to go back to college and make it on his own. "That turned out to be a disaster."
Since the Great Recession began in 2007, no one's had more trouble finding work than low-income Asian, black, and Hispanic male teenagers. That's the main idea in two recent articles in The Wall Street Journal (available here and here) that rely on research from Andrew Sum, a professor who produces a remarkable number of papers for Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies (CLMS).
After two major strikes, in 1909 and 1910, and the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911, organizers rode the wave of worker militancy and public outrage to increase union membership of New York's garment factories. With the period of full employment during World War I, unionization in the garment trades peaked at 129,000, despite having little protection from government. But in the 1920s, the industry managed to weaken the unions with a technique identical to the one used by the big fashion brands today. Instead of producing in their own factories, they contracted with "jobbers" and subcontractors, both to disperse the workforce and to diffuse responsibility for the appalling conditions. The economic collapse of the Great Depression reduced union membership even further.
Last Thursday, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)—the 1.3 million-member union of retail workers, chiefly supermarket employees—announced that it was leaving the breakaway mini-labor federation, Change To Win, and rejoining the AFL-CIO. Of the six unions that left the AFL-CIO in 2005 to form Change To Win—the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Teamsters, the UFCW, UNITE HERE, the Laborers and the United Farm Workers (UFW)—only SEIU, the Teamsters and the Farm Workers (the last with probably fewer than 10,000 members) remain. Two-point-zero-something unions do not a federation make, but then, Change To Win, despite all its lofty ambitions, never really amounted to a federation.
The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy: a new model for American liberalism?
Take a left as you exit the Long Beach Airport, and you'll pass three acres of greenery named "Rosie the Riveter Park." The park stands at the southeast corner of what had once been the mammoth Douglas Aircraft factory, where DC-3s, -4s, -5s, all the way up to -10s, were once manufactured, and where, during World War II, 43,000 workers, half of them women, built the B-17 bombers and C-47 transports that flew missions over Europe and the Pacific.
World War II and then the Cold War remade Long Beach. Federal dollars funded the Douglas factory, a new naval shipyard, and numerous defense firms. An entire city—the working-class community of Lakewood, which borders Long Beach on the north—was built to house the sudden influx of defense workers. Long Beach became and remains the second-largest city in Los Angeles County.
The new jobs paid well; powerful unions represented the workers in the factories and on the docks. Military spending, though, began to decline after the Vietnam War, and when the Cold War ended, Long Beach and the broader Los Angeles economy took a hit from which neither has recovered. The naval shipyard closed in 1997. Douglas, Lockheed, and North American Aviation—the aircraft manufacturers that had been the region's largest private-sector employers—downsized and eventually shuttered almost all their Southern California plants.
Fast food workers have been organizing across the country for months now, and last week a series of spectacular coordinated strikes generated a deluge of media coverage. As you'd expect, the right-wing media and pundit class came out swinging against the workers with their usual mix of hateful trashing and concern trolling.
Of the 963,000 jobs created in the past six months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Household Surveys, 936,000 of them are part-time. That doesn't mean that just 27,000 of the people hired on to new jobs got full-time work. The total for part-time jobs includes both newly created jobs and formerly full-time gigs that were cut-back to part-time, and the BLS doesn't pose the questions that would enable it to quantify these two kinds of new part-time jobs. But factoring in both kinds, we do know that the net number of full-time jobs in America has risen by just 27,000 since the end of January.
To underscore a weeklong initiative by President Obama on behalf of rebuilding the middle class, the latest figures on GDP growth, released Thursday, and on job growth, made public Friday, show just how far from a healthy middle class economy we are.
In his campaign to drum up public support for a post-recess budget deal with Congress, President Barack Obama has repeated a call he first made in his 2013 State of the Union speech: an increase in the federal minimum wage. This past January, he called for a $9 minimum wage, up from the $7.25 rate that has remained unchanged the past four years. This week, at an Amazon packaging facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he said: "[B]ecause no one who works full-time in America should have to live in poverty, I will keep making the case that we need to raise a minimum wage that in real terms is lower than it was when Ronald Reagan took office. That means more money in consumers' pockets, and more business for companies like Amazon."
A $9 federal minimum wage is higher than any current state's minimum wage except Washington's.
By the time the North Carolina General Assembly ended its six-month session last Friday, the state's first Republican supermajority had done everything in its power to transform the South's most moderate state into a right-wing dystopia. No state in recent American history has been pushed further to an ideological extreme by a single legislative session. Among many other measures, Republican lawmakers rejected Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. They ended federal unemployment benefits for 170,000 North Carolinians and slashed them for everyone else. They severely cut public-school funding (while making room for a voucher program that will send public dollars to private schools). They drastically decreased access to abortion. They quashed the earned income tax credit for working, low-income families. In the last days of the session, they passed an astonishingly far-reaching bill that makes voting harder in just about every way—from cutting down on early voting to creating a strict voter-ID requirement to ending same-day registration to prohibiting state-sponsored voter registration drives. On every conceivable front, the newly ascendant Republicans rapidly did—to borrow from the outraged New York Times editorial board—"grotesque damage" to the state.
Want to know the problem with enterprise zones? Then check out Sunday's Riverside Press Enterprise, one of the best midsized newspapers in California.
A story in it covers Governor Jerry Brown's successful campaign to have the legislature put enterprise zones out of their misery. (Brown recently signed the bill abolishing the zones.) Conceived by the late Jack Kemp and other unusually well-meaning right-wingers to bring jobs to the inner-city, enterprise zones have provided subsidies to businesses for creating jobs they might have created in any case. Disproportionately, the jobs created were low-paying.
"Average is over," New York Times columnist Tom Friedman likes to proclaim, and in at least one particular, he's right. Friedman no longer writes average columns. With each passing week, his efforts become steadily more moronic.
His latest, in Sunday's paper, is entitled "Welcome to the Sharing Economy," and in it, Friedman mistakes economic marginality and desperation for innovation and opportunity. The subject of this particular essay is Airbnb, a website where travelers go to rent bedrooms in other people's homes.
Detroit has filed for bankruptcy. Most of the spot-news coverage has focused on the immediate fiscal crisis of the city, but the immediate fiscal crisis really isn't what got the city into such deep trouble. Certainly, Detroit's contracts with its employees and its debts to its retirees don't really explain anything about how and why this once-great city has come to such grief. Those contracts and retirement benefits are par for the course for major American cities—certainly, no more generous than those in cities of comparable size.
Any remotely accurate autopsy of the city will find that the cancer that killed Detroit was the decline of the American auto industry.
Republicans voted against his approval as part of a broader anti-civil rights agenda, but the 7 Democrats who joined them ought to be mortified by their own cowardice.
There's no binary opposition between "establishment" candidates and those affiliated with the Tea Party in the state—in other words, no convenient narrative.
In her new book, Dragnet Nation, Julia Angwin shows how badly disadvantaged ordinary people are in the struggle for privacy online.


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Obituary: Mel Stuart
Director Mel Stuart (b.1928) died on August 9. Stuart's sole genre credit was as the director of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Before directing that film, he won an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
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New Timetables In Effect Tuesday, September 2
Highlights Include Completion of Queens Interlocking Project, Additional Service to Some Stations and New Construction Work on Several Branches
New MTA Long Island Rail Road timetables go into effect Tuesday, September 2. The new schedules reflect the return of normal peak train schedules on the Main Line and Hempstead Branch following completion of the summer-long Queens Interlocking Renovation Project. In addition, service has been added at several stations in response to customer requests. New construction work will begin on several branches affecting mid-day service.
Additional Service
St. Albans: Additional westbound service at 7:37 AM and 8:50 AM during the morning peak and new eastbound service at 4:02 PM, 7:02 PM, 7:14 PM and 7:35 PM during the evening peak.
Kew Gardens and Forest Hills: The 5:25 PM train from Penn Station will stop at Forest Hills at 5:38 PM and at Kew Gardens at 5:40 PM.
Hempstead Branch: A new reverse peak train departs Penn Station at 6:47AM stopping at Jamaica, Queens Village, Bellerose, Floral Park, Stewart Manor, Nassau Blvd., Garden City and Hempstead (arriving at 7:33 AM).
Construction Work
Huntington/Port Jefferson Branch, Ronkonkoma Branch & Montauk Branch
Track tie installation work between Mineola and Hicksville will take one track out of service affecting some midday weekday trains. Eastbound Huntington trains will depart between 7 and 14 minutes later, westbound Huntington trains will depart 20 minutes later. Due to the track work, there will be two-hour service intervals east of Huntington midday with one less eastbound train and one less westbound train.
Eastbound Ronkonkoma Branch trains will depart 30 minutes later and westbound Ronkonkoma Branch trains will depart 30 minutes earlier.
The 11:12 AM eastbound train to Montauk will depart 14 minutes earlier and the
11:14 AM westbound train from Montauk will depart 9 minutes earlier.
Port Washington Branch
Drainage and track work between Bayside and Great Neck will affect midday weekday service. Manhasset, Plandome and Port Washington service is reduced from two trains to one train per hour. From September 8 through September 19, service from Great Neck through Flushing-Main St. will be reduced from two trains to one train per hour as switch renewal work is completed at the Great Neck Interlocking.
Oyster Bay Branch
Grade crossing work at Glen Head Road and Elm Street in Glen Head will result in a single track in service between Mineola and Locust Valley. Due to the work, there will be two-hour service intervals midday with one less eastbound train and one less westbound train.
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Department of Computer Science
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Bozeman , MT 59717
Tel: (406) 994-4780
Department Head
John PaxtonGraduate Coordinators
Rafal Angryk (Ph.D.), Rocky Ross (Master's)Professors
• John Paxton; artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer science education.
• Rocky Ross; web-based active learning resources, theoretical computer science.
• Binhai Zhu; applied computational geometry, intelligent web searching, combinatorial optimization.
Associate Professors
• Brendan Mumey; applied algorithms, optimal and wireless networking, computational biology.
• John Sheppard; machine learning, evolutionary computation, fault diagnosis and prognosis.
Assistant Professors
• Rafal Angryk; data mining, database systems, mobile agents, artificial intelligence.• Clem Izurieta; software engineering, software evolution, ecological modeling.
• Hunter Lloyd (adjunct); multimedia and Internet, Internet technologies, computer literacy.
• Mike Wittie; network design and management, distributed optimization, network economics.
• Qing Yang; wireless networks, mobile computing, vehicular networks, network security and privacy.
Degrees Offered
M.S. in Computer Science
Ph.D. in Computer Science
M.S. Degree Program
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science is recommended. Students with non-computer science degrees at the Bachelor's level or above are also encouraged to apply; such students will generally be required to take appropriate courses while enrolled at MSU to make up computer science and related subject matter deficiencies prior to full acceptance into the computer science Master's program. Factors that the department uses in its admissions process include GRE scores, TOEFL scores (for non-native English speakers), reference letters, GPA and previous coursework. For more information, please refer to http://www.cs.montana.edu/masters-degree.
Details about applying can be found at www.montana.edu/gradstudies/apply.shtml.
Ph.D. Degree Program
It is recommended that applicants for the Ph.D. program have a Master's degree in computer science. Exceptional applicants with a Bachelor's degree in computer science may apply directly to the Ph.D. program.
Admission to the doctoral program follows the requirements of The Graduate School. Factors that the department uses in its admissions process include GRE scores, TOEFL scores (for non-native English speakers), reference letters, GPA and previous coursework. For more information, please refer to http://www.cs.montana.edu/phd-degree.
Details about applying can be found at www.montana.edu/gradstudies/apply.shtml. The Computer Science Department encourages applicants to use the online application procedure.
Program Requirements
M.S. Degree
Students may pursue the Master's degree under a thesis option, a project option or a courses only option. For more information, please refer to http://www.cs.montana.edu/masters-degree.
Master's candidates must take an oral comprehensive exam near the completion of their graduate program. Required courses include:
CSCI 532 | Algorithms | 3 credits |
CSCI 538 | Computability | 3 credits |
CSCI 580 | Master's Project | 4 credits (project option only) |
CSCI 590 | Master's Thesis | 10 credits (thesis option only) |
Ph.D. Degree
A Ph.D. student must complete a minimum of 60 credits of coursework beyond the Bachelor's degree or a minimum of 36 credits of coursework beyond the Master's degree. The degree requirements for the Ph.D. degree are found at http://www.cs.montana.edu/phd-degree. Required courses include:
2 Courses from the following theory courses.
CSCI 532 | Algorithms | 3 credits |
CSCI 538 | Computability | 3 credits |
CSCI 690 | Doctoral Thesis | 18 credits |
At least 4 courses from the following:
CSCI 520 | Parallel & Distributed Computing | 3 credits |
CSCI 540 | Advanced Database Systems | 3 credits |
CSCI 541 | Computer Graphics | 3 credits |
CSCI 547 | Machine Learning | 3 credits |
CSCI 550 | Data Mining | 3 credits |
CSCI 551 | Advanced Computational Biology | 3 credits |
CSCI 556 | Advanced Networking | 3 credits |
CSCI 575 | Computational Research Topics | 3 credits |
Research Experience
Thesis Option Master's degree students gain research experience through their thesis and are expected to submit the results of their thesis work to at least one journal or conference. Project Option Master's degree students gain some research experience in the context of their project. Ph.D. students gain research experience through their doctoral work, journal or conference submissions, and attending conferences.
Research Facilities
Graduate research and coursework can be performed on systems owned and operated by the Computer Science Department. On-campus work is typically performed in laboratories or graduate student offices. A typical machine is a dual boot (Linux / Windows) PC. Intel-based Macs running OSX are also available. Outside the department, the MSU Information Technology Center provides additional computing infrastructure.
Computer Science is completely housed in MSU's high technology Engineering and Physical Sciences building.
Financial Assistance
A number of research and teaching assistantships are available for qualified graduate students. These appointments are normally for half-time assignments (20 hours per week) during the academic year. Some appointments may also be available during the summer. Assistantships will only be offered to formally admitted graduate students. See the appropriate CS M.S. degree or Ph.D. degree website for more information.
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Ok I admit it.. I'm am a coffee addict. I love me some dark strong coffee, the richer the better! Well I live in the perfect city for that! uh.. umm.. or do I?
Starbucks makes a standard 2 shot espresso in the UK instead of one... Here is the story I found on SeattlePI.com website today!
I cry foul... Man up Starbucks... Start serving Seattlites 2 shot standard drinks!
Amy Rolph
The UK must like its coffee strong.
Starbucks is now making drinks served in the UK stronger than elsewhere in the world — two shots of espresso instead of one in lattes and other beverages.
The Telegraph reports the change is due to a 60 percent spike in UK orders that add an extra shot of espresso.
"Customers are becoming more experienced, more sophisticated and many more are looking for a stronger taste," Kris Engskov, Starbucks managing director in the UK and Ireland, told the Telegraph. "This is a big move and a big investment. The UK is the most competitive coffee market, more so even than the States."
The 60 percent spike accounted for 200,000 extra shots every week in the UK.
The new recipe took a reformulating of Starbucks traditional espresso-drink recipes, including a new technique that makes the steamed link more "velvety." The price of Starbucks beverages in the UK are not expected to change.
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2012-2013 Flagler College Highlights
01/23/2012 - iHeartRadio to stream WFCF
Flagler College radio station WFCF 88.5 FM will begin streaming online via iHeartRadio, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment's free, industry-leading digital radio service beginning later this month.
01/18/2012 - Flagler to receive $1 million challenge grant
Dr. William T. Abare, Jr., President of Flagler College, announced that the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust awarded a $1 million grant to Flagler College for endowment, subject to a one-to-one match by other donors.
01/17/2012 - Flagler welcomes poet and spoken word performer Tim Siebels
On Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m., poet Tim Siebels will deliver a performance of poetry and spoken word at Flagler College.
01/17/2012 - Renowned novelist and essayist John Domini to visit Flagler
Novelist, poet and non-fiction writer John Domini will visit Flagler College on Thursday, Feb. 2 as part of the College's "Ideas and Images" series.
01/17/2012 - Flagler welcomes Los Angeles Times editor to assess presidential campaign
On Tuesday, Feb. 21, the Flagler College Forum on Government and Public Policy welcomes Doyle McManus, Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
01/10/2012 - Professor's new documentary revisits the civil rights movement in St. Augustine
Mark Huelsbeck, assistant professor of communication at Flagler College, will screen his new documentary, which revisits the landmark events of the civil rights movement in St. Augustine, at the St. Augustine Film Festival on Jan. 19 at 2 p.m.
12/05/2011 - Graduation to be held Dec. 10
Flagler College will hold its fall commencement ceremony Saturday, Dec. 10, for graduating seniors. Approximately 180 students will receive diplomas in the Flagler College Gym.
11/22/2011 - Community lecture examines My Lai Massacre legacy in art
The Flagler College Community Lecture Series will conclude its fall semester offerings on Dec. 13 with a lecture presented by Chris Balaschak, Ph.D., entitled "Guerilla/Gorilla – The My Lai Massacre and Modern Art."
11/17/2011 - Flagler presents Senior Theater Showcase
The Flagler College Theatre Arts department will present "Organized Chaos," four evenings of one-act plays produced and directed by Flagler's senior Theatre Arts majors, from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3.
11/16/2011 - Flagler breaks ground on new welcome center
Flagler College has begun construction on a new 12,000-square-foot, $3.8 million building that will serve as the college's Admissions and Financial Aid center and be the first point of contact for prospective students.
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Prepare yourself for Jan. 20th.
—Dave Bautista apparently doesn't like the fact someone on the roster is getting a push. He did an interview with MMA Junkie where he said he doesn't watch WWE much these days because of "kids who are more concerned with how their hair looks and how much baby oil they have on." He specifically cited guys from Real World,which kind of narrows it down to one.
Batista featured in fight poster promoting his MMA debut: October 6, 2012
Dave "Brassbody" Bautista? Eh, at least it's an original name. Maybe he can use it when he finally returns to WWE.
Evolution Poses - WWE RAW 10/23/2003
Even though I wasn't watching wrestling all that much around this time, but I still tried to follow Goldberg's tear through McMahon-Land as much as I could. During his his World Heavyweight Championship match against Shawn Michaels, Batista made his return to RAW by taking out Goldberg and breaking his ankle with a steel chair. As the match was being called as a DQ due to The Animal's interference, Evolution walked out to the stage to welcome Batista back to their stable and to present him with the $100,000 bounty that Triple H put on Goldberg being taken out.
Also, you'd think that Flair would have eventually found some kneepads that fit during the two hundred years he's been active.
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Batista Wins World Title [April 3, 2005]
After learning from the best, Batista beats the best when he drops Triple H at WrestleMania 21 to win his first World Heavyweight Championship. Batista successfully defends the title throughout the year, even becoming the first Superstar to pin Triple H in a Hell in a Cell Match at Vengeance.


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- Brown Cherry finish
- Locking storage area for safe ammunition storage
- 24''W x 32''H x 5.5''D
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Show off your guns with this easy to assemble, easy to hang four gun wall rack. Made of solid pine, this rack displays most 52'' rifles and shotguns (not included) in style with its Brown Cherry finish. Rack also features a locking storage area, giving you a safe place to store ammunition. Size: 24''W x 32''H x 5.5''D. Weight: 13 lbs. Imported.
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Western Australia 111 and 5 for 240 (Marsh 84, Voges 72, Hopes 2-25) lead Queensland 168 (Hogan 4-43, Coulter-Nile 3-41) by 183 runs
Western Australia's recovery after a wretched first innings against Queensland was sustained on day two of the Sheffield Shield match in Brisbane, resulting in a 183-run lead with five wickets remaining.
Ending the Bulls' first innings swiftly on the second morning, Shaun Marsh and Adam Voges then combined for a reprise of their stand in the domestic limited overs match that preceded this one, guiding WA to a position from which victory is a distinct possibility, albeit on an easing surface.
The Warriors faced a grim scenario when play resumed, the Bulls leading by 33 with James Hopes and Chris Hartley at the crease. However the visitors rounded up the remainder of Queensland's innings for the addition of a mere 24 runs, Michael Hogan and Nathan Coulter-Nile sharing the spoils.
Batting a second time WA lost early wickets, and Michael Hussey's departure for his second low score in as many days left them three wickets down and only five runs in credit. However Marsh and Voges played sturdily to add 162, before Alister McDermott and Hopes struck late in the day.
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Item# 07125012000 | Model# 71-25012Specifications & Dimensions
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Bagger Capacity (bushels): | 25 |
Tire/Wheel Size: | 13 x 4 inch |
Vacuum MPH: | 80 |
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Item Weight (lbs.): | 220 |
Vehicle Type: | Tractors only |
Assembly Required: | Assembly Required |
Wand Attachment Part Number: | 24509 |
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Power Type: | Gasoline |
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Color/Finish: | Black |
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Reduction Ratio: | 5 to 1 |
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Engine Brand: | Briggs & Stratton(r) |
Engine Series: | 550 Series |
Engine Displacement (cc): | 205 |
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Rid Your Lawn Of Debris with This Craftsman Riding Mower Attachment
The Craftsman soft top vac riding mower attachment quickly and easily cleans up lawns. The heavy-duty yard vacuum attaches to the back of a tractor, picking up debris while you mow. The powerful vacuum pulls leaves, grass clippings, pine needles, acorns, pine cones and other debris into the soft top bagger with 80 mph of suction. The vacuum hose connects to the mower's cutting deck and increases collection capacity more than three times a standard 3-bin bagger. Get more done with fewer stops to unload in less time. The unique retractable top creates a wide opening for unloading, making it easier to clear the lawn and dispose of the debris. The retractable top also makes it easy to use the cart as an all-purpose hauling solution too.
This Craftsman riding mower attachment is powered by a Briggs & Stratton® 550 series engine. It includes a universal deck adapter kit with templates that can be custom fit to your mower. And the rugged, single-point tow hitch and pin don't interfere with the tractor's fender.
- Craftsman soft top vac riding mower attachment clears debris and gives you a clean, great-looking lawn
- Picks up leaves, grass clippings, pine needles, acorns, pine cones and other debris
- Powerful vacuum with 80 mph of suction
- Powered by a 205cc Briggs & Stratton 900 series engine
- Telescoping top folds to upright position for easy unloading
- 29 cubic foot capacity, 25 bushels or 190 gallons
- Universal deck adapter kit included with templates for cutting to fit
- Easily fits any right hand discharge tractor cutting deck up to 54 inch wide
- Rugged single point tow hitch and heavy-duty pin don't interfere with tractor fender
- Elongated axle for stability and durability
- Impeller safety shut-off on the hose plate, engine shuts off to remove debris
- Remote hose kit also available (model #71-24509, sold separately)
- Additional hose extension required for use with zero-turn tractors (sold separately, Sears Parts Direct item #65640)
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I purchased this item because I have several rental properties that I have to rake every fall. Raking by hand is alot of work and takes alot of time. I thought by purchasing this it could save some work and time. I am definitely excited about the purchase, it works awesome!
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I bought this vac in the fall of 2012 as my large yard with a lot of leaves was getting a bit much. I thought it was great. That was the only use it had. Now, it is Saturday evening, and I have spent the day trying to start the vac. I tried fresh gas, and tried to get a new plug. This new Briggs takes a new plug that you can only get from them. Sears does not carry it. It can be ordered from Sears on line, but not in the store. It does not cross to other plug types. I think that for a thousand dollars, one use and one year, I should be able to pull this vac out of my lawn shed and use it. Thus the rating!
Caldwell, NJ
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It works very well as a lawn vacuum attachment, easily digests leaves, small twigs, pine cones, etc. but for the money being paid for it, I'd add a bit more and buy the one that can also be used as a light duty wood chipper. It would have come in handy for Superstorm cleanup.
Spring Hill, FL
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I was totally amazed at how well this works, great suction and was able to do my entire property in less than half the time it normally took. Also the fact that I could then dump it in the compost pile with little effort saved me additional time and labor... very happy with purchase
Harrisburg, PA
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After attaching the device the motor started on teh first pull. the vacuum works well. Assembly is a nightmare. the instructions were difficult but I muddled through pretty well until I got to the plastic adapter for attaching to the tractor. I used a key hole saw and cut out the adapter exactly according to plan and pattern for my tractor. Unfortunately when I went to connect the adapter it was totally wrong including cutting 2 additional holes for castor wheels my cutting deck did not have. After duct taping the holes and making my own connection for the adapter with parts supplied and some found in my workbench I adapted the adapter. My advice is to ignore the directions for the adapter and cut your own guide by putting a piece of newspaper over the tractor deck after you remove the deflector shield. Drill holes after you get the adapter near where it has to attach and then bolt, screw, attach what you need to get it to stay in place. Remember it needs some flexibility. good luck
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Bought this in Fall 2010 to do the leaves. A month later the engine shaft snapped off, between the impeller and the engine, for no apparent reason other than maybe the shaft was too narrow for the weight of the impeller. Had it on extended warranty so Sears repairmen replaced the engine and impeller for free, even upgraded it from a 5.5HP Briggs 5/8" shaft to a 9HP Briggs with a 3/4" shaft. I'm happy with that. Notes: 1. The soft top lowers the price to what I call affordable, but there are issues. The top does an accordian foldback when you want to empty leaves, and the wire ribs tend to collect a helluva lot of grass & leaves that don't fall out when you tip it back. You have to get in there with your hands and pick it all out - a pain. 2. I can see that the fabric top is going to be my next maintenance project as it tends to wear out over time, even when stored indoors as mine is. My warranty lapses in Dec 2012 so I'm planning to replace it with a DIY plywood box.
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I am a cripple and it took me 2 days top assemble but once it was together and I tried it, it was great, picked up the leaves and grass as it should starts with 1/2 a pull and that is good as I said I am a cripple bad neck and back. I just wish the wagon was bigger as I have 2 acres and I have to empty it often but i does a great job. Also this product even though it is sold by Sears it is an Agra Fab product.
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This is my second season with this attachment, and I couldn't be happier. Each hour replaces a day
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LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The investment banks working on the privatisation of Britain's Royal Mail postal service stand to share a maximum fee pot of just under 24 million pounds ($38.4 million), around a third below the typical amount for a similar sized listing.
The government kicked off its disposal of a majority stake in Royal Mail on Friday, seeking to value the company at as much as 3.3 billion pounds ($5.3 billion) in one of Britain's most significant selloffs since the 1990s.
It will pay the banks a maximum possible overall fee of 1.2 percent of the amount raised by the sale.
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Companies bringing large deals to market have greater power to squeeze fee percentages, as the absolute sum is higher and banks are keen to gain credit on league tables which rank the performance of firms and are fiercely competitive.
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The seven banks will share a fee of 0.8 percent of the final offer size, and could also receive a discretionary fee of 0.3 percent on top of this.
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mpouraryan - Yes, we direly need some checks and balances on the proces of drone assassination. Right now, there is a strong danger that a sitting President could use the tools to assasinate political enemies.
I agree...and I fear that we're already there..This is especially as the recent stories have come out about the President and the Adminstration on "Kill Lists".....
Yes, Kim... my fingerprints kept "expiring" so I needed to get them redone -- always with a price, of course.
A recent public poll in Florida found that the majority of people did not want pot legalized, even for medical use, despite all the benefits it has for everything from glaucoma to cancer to neurological diseases, PTSD, and a ton of other things we're only starting to discover. Yet when my FL friend's mother was dying of cancer and fading away, the doctors prescribed THC in tablet form... go figure.
Don't get me started on Ellis Island and immigration policy, and...
Do you know, US immigration stills requires full medicals for people "arriving" in the country, to ensure they're not harboring certain diseases? All well and good, but "arriving" includes people being awarded permanent residency. I had to have a full medical -- then a second one, because the INS lost the first one -- even though I had been living here a full ten years at the time.
Ludicrous. You also have to fill in forms telling them what "vessel" you arrived on. I am not kidding.
Kim, I think it will take elected politicians--or even non-elected politiciant--a VERY long time to catch up! But I do think it's a logical approach.
Chuck, I think the logic of how we work, travel, and communicate supports your position. It will take elected politicians some time to catch up.
The obvious way to remove the power of the heavily armed drug cartels is to legalize the drugs. Then they wouldn't be making a lot of money by pushing the drugs, so they would have to find some other source of revenue. If they didn't have their product to push, why would they want to come in? And if they did, what difference would it make?
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I have problems to start using the msp430bt5190 ads1298, I could help find my mistake. This is the code.mcu: 3.3volt. This is the code.ads1298: 1.5/-1.5, 1.8 volt
tengo problemas para iniciar el ads1298 utilizando el msp430bt5190, me podrian ayudar a encontrar mi error.mcu: 3.3volt. Este es el codigo.ads1298: 1.5/-1.5, 1.8 volt
What exactly is the problem you're having?
The problem is that so far I could not do any shows with ads1298, not that I'm failing. I do not get any data in the buffer.
El problema es que hasta el momento no he podido realizar ninguna muestra con el ads1298, no se en que estoy fallando. No obtengo ningun dato en el buffer.
Is this with an ADS1298 evaluation module or your own design? Is the MSP430 on an evaluation board? If this is a pair of EVMs please share how the EVMs are connected, if it's your own hardware please share a schematic. Have you verified the functionality of your serial communication lines with an oscilloscope?
It is my own design, and now I am not in position to use an oscilloscope, you could say I'm working with nails.
Es mi propio diseño, y actualmente no me encuentro en posicion de poder utilizar un osciloscopio, se podria decir que estoy trabajando con las uñas.
Your schematic did not post, if you can post it as a PDF I think we'll have better success.
In reviewing your C code I noticed a few things...
#include "msp430bt5190.h"#define PWDN BIT2#define RESET_ADS BIT3#define START BIT5#define CS BIT6#define CLKSEL BIT0char RESA[26];unsigned int i;void main(void){ WDTCTL = WDTPW+WDTHOLD; // Stop watchdog timer P4DIR = RESET_ADS + START + PWDN + CLKSEL; // P for RESET_ADS, START, PWDN, CLKSEL P3DIR = CS; // P for CS P4SEL = 0X80; //DRDY P3SEL |= 0x31; // P3.5,4,0 option select spi P3OUT |= ~CS; // Disable CS UCA0CTL1 |= UCSWRST; // **Put state machine in reset** UCA0CTL0 |= UCMST+UCSYNC+UCCKPL+UCMSB; // 3-pin, 8-bit SPI master // Clock polarity high, MSB UCA0CTL1 |= UCSSEL_2; // SMCLK UCA0BR0 = 0x02; // /2 UCA0BR1 = 0; // UCA0MCTL = 0; // No modulation UCA0CTL1 &= ~UCSWRST; // **Initialize USCI state machine** UCA0IE |= UCRXIE; // Enable USCI_A0 RX interrupt P4OUT &= ~START; //__delay_cycles(100); // Wait for slave to initialize P4OUT |= ~PWDN; //__delay_cycles(100); // Wait for slave to initialize P4OUT |= ~RESET_ADS; __delay_cycles(100); // Wait for slave to initialize P4OUT &= CLKSEL; // Set CLKSEL Pin = 1 P3OUT &= CS; // Enable CS
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You've defined the symbol CS as BIT6 from the msp430 header, which is usually defined as 0x0040. In the code above you...
On port 4 you do something similar...
These type of assignments make me skeptical of the entire initialization sequence. You should really try to get access to an oscilloscope or logic port or SOMETHING to see what is actually happening on the MSP430 serial lines.
Check out this code on our design notes page. This might help you get things ironed out and set-up.
Usually, I document a little more, but as I do to raise the spi clock to 2 MHz ?
Listo, ya me documente un poco mas, pero como le hago para subir el spi clock a 2Mhz?
This is my schematic
yellow = spi clock
blue = drdy
Juan Gilberto Usually, I document a little more, but as I do to raise the spi clock to 2 MHz ? Listo, ya me documente un poco mas, pero como le hago para subir el spi clock a 2Mhz?
You'll have to pardon me, but I'm not sure what you're asking. Are you asking if a 2MHz SPI clock is allowable for the ADS1298? Are you asking if your MSP430 can implement a 2MHz SPI clock? Are you asking how to do it?
From your scope shot it doesn't seem like you're achieving any output on the SCLK line...
Hello again. I think and misconstrued my question, I could make the spi clock operated at 2 MHz and ads like the picture shows drdy starts but stops spiclock.
Hola nuevamente.Creo que e planteado mal mi pregunta, ya pude hacer que el spi clock funcionara a 2 Mhz y el ads como en la imagen muestra inicia el drdy pero spiclock se detiene.
The DRDY pulse stops your SCLK? Your MSP430 should be providing the clock to the ADS1298 - the ADS1298 cannot operate as a SPI master and provide the clock. Do you have an ICDI available to step through and debug your code to see what is causing the SCLK to stop?
Sorry for my ignorance........ ICDI?
I'm working with: -MSP-EXP430F5438 -MSP-FET430UIF
ICDI is an In Circuit Debugger Interface. The MSP-FET should be the ICDI for your device. You might set a break point in the ISR servicing the DRDY interrupt and see what is happening to your SCLK line.


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The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday released details obtained from British Petroleum on the possible causes of the Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill, centered on the explosion of the oil rig.
This is the memo that was prepared for members of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, after a briefing on the progress of BP's own internal investigation.
Here is what was sent to lawmakers:
"The interim report the Committee received from BP is preliminary and based only on incomplete evidence that BP knows at this time. It confirms many of the issues raised by the Committee at its hearing. The interim report also raises significant new questions.
"The information from BP identifies several new warning signs of problems. According to BP there were three flow indicators from the well before the explosion. One was 51 minutes before the explosion when more fluid began flowing out of the well than was being pumped in. Another flow indicator was 41 minutes before the explosion when the pump was shut down for a "sheen" test, yet the well continued to flow instead of stopping and drill pipe pressure also unexpectedly increased.
"Then, 18 minutes before the explosion, abnormal pressures and mud returns were observed and the pump was abruptly shut down. The data suggests that the crew may have attempted mechanical interventions at that point to control the pressure, but soon after, the flow out and pressure increased dramatically and the explosion took place.
"Further, BP's preliminary findings indicate that there were other events in the 24 hours before the explosion that require further inquiry. As early as 5:05 p.m., almost 5 hours before the explosion, an unexpected loss of fluid was observed in the riser pipe, suggesting that there were leaks in the annular preventer in the BOP.
"Two hours before the explosion, during efforts to begin negative pressure testing, the system gained 15 barrels of liquid instead of the 5 barrels that were expected, leading to the possibility that there was an "influx from the well." A cementer witness stated that the "well continued to flow and spurted."
"Having received an unacceptable result from conducting the negative pressure test through the drill pipe, the pressure test was then moved to the kill line where a volume of fluid came out when the line was opened. The kill line was then closed and the procedure was discussed; during this time, pressure began to build in the system to 1400 psi. At this point, the line was opened and pressure on the kill line was bled to 0 psi, while pressure on the drill pipe remained at 1400 psi. BP's investigator indicated that a "fundamental mistake" may have been made here because this was an "indicator of a very large abnormality."
The kill line then was monitored and by 7:55 p.m. the rig team was "satisfied that [the] test [was] successful." At that time, the rig started displacing the remaining fluids with seawater, leading to the three flow indicators described above.
Several concerns identified by BP relate to the cementing process. Cement work that was supposed to hold back hydrocarbons failed, allowing the hydrocarbons into the well bore.
"The float collar used in the cementing process did not initially operate as intended and required 9 attempts with higher than usual pressures to function properly. Moreover, the float test performed after cementing may not have been definitive, leading to concern that there may have been contamination of the cement due to density differences between the cement and the drilling mud.
"In addition, key questions exist about whether proper procedures were followed for critical activities throughout the day. Negative pressure testing was initially done on the drill pipe rather than the kill line, even though the drill plan specified that it would be done on the kill line.
"After anomalous results, the negative pressure testing was conducted on the kill line and ultimately accepted. Evidence suggests that spacer fluid used during the displacement of drilling fluid with seawater did not rise above the BOP to the level required by the drilling plan; this increased pressure in the drill pipe and may have interfered with later pressure testing.
"In addition, the method of displacing the drilling mud with seawater may have interfered with the monitoring of the flow levels from the well because the mud was transferred to another boat instead of measured in the mud pits. Moreover, mudloggers were not informed when the offloading of drilling mud to the other boat was stopped.
"Several concerns about the blowout preventer were identified by BP including the failure of its emergency disconnect system (EDS), the failure of its automated mode function or deadman switch, the failure of the BOP's shearing functions, and the failure of the remote operated vehicle interventions. The BP investigation has also raised concerns about the maintenance history, modification, inspection, and testing of the BOP."
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Hotel was beautiful and in a perfect location. Staff was friendly and went above and beyond to give guests the perfect stay. Every employee greeted us with warm smiles. Rooms are clean, comfortable and large enough to spread out. Food was excellent in every restaurant and outlet at the resort. During out stay we enjoyed meals in every restaurant and everything was delicious. The chocolate croissants in the coffee shop are the best I have ever had! The beach at the resort is beautiful and even had cabanas and lounge chairs. There is also a golf course, casino and spa for guests who don't want to spend time on the beach. ...
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I have stayed at many Marriotts throughout the world, both hotels and vacation club villas and the St Kitts Marriott was one of the worse. The staff was extremely nice, but this did not help with the negatives of the place. First, I have never stayed at any hotel where they charge guests for internet. This made it necessary to walk a few blocks to a cafe for free wi-fi. The cleaning staff was wonderful as our room was cleaned each day. This did not carryover to the pool area as it was not very clean. Also, they need to invest in security for all areas. There is no supervision for kids in the pool area. They took over one pool, with their splashing, and spitting in the pool as well as being in the whirlpool with no adults. The St.Kitts staff needs to spend a few days in Aruba and see how those Marriotts are run. Also they need to replace the chairs around the pool. As far as resturants, they were okay, but pricey. ...
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"In December 1944, American soldiers were fighting desperately against the last great German offensive of World War II, the Battle of the Bulge. Men were dying in large numbers. The counterattack had bogged down in mud and rain. Planes could not fly because of low clouds. General George Patton, commander of the Third Army, called his chaplain into his headquarters and said:
Chaplain, I want you to publish a prayer for good weather. I'm tired of these soldiers having to fight mud and floods as well as Germans. See if we can't get God to work on our side...
Chaplain James O'Neill: May I say, General, that it usually isn't a customary thing among men of my profession to pray for clear weather to kill fellow men.
Patton: Chaplain, are you teaching me theology or are you the Chaplain of the Third Army? I want a prayer.
O'Neill: Yes, sir.
The prayer was printed on a card and distributed to every soldier of the Third Army. It read:
Almighty and most merciful God, we humbly beseech thee, of thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon thee that, armed with thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies, and establish thy justice among men and nations. Amen.
An editor's footnote in Patton's memoirs tells what happened next: 'The day after the prayer was issued, the weather cleared and remained perfect for about six days. Enough to allow the Allies to break the backbone of the German offensive and turn a temporary setback for the Allies into a crushing defeat for the enemy.'"
The foregoing is from Professor Thomas West's "Religious Liberty: A View from the Founding." It explains that according to America's Founding Fathers God is not neutral in wars between liberty and oppression, justice and evil. They thought it right and proper to ask God's favor in their war, as Patton did in his. We invite you to read the entire essay.
And in this time of Passover and the Christian Holy Week we also invite you to join us in asking God's blessing on America's soldiers, sailors and airmen now fighting overseas. Grant them courage, strength and wisdom, that "armed with thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies, and establish thy justice among men and nations."
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Data Visualization and Infographics
The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data, communicating information clearly and effectivelty. It doesn't mean that data visualization needs to look boring to be functional or extremely sophisticated to look beautiful. To convey ideas effectively, both aesthetic form and functionality need to go hand in hand, providing insights into a rather sparse and complex data set by communicating its key-aspects in a more intuitive way. Yet designers often tend to discard the balance between design and function, creating gorgeous data visualizations which fail to serve its main purpose — communicate information.
In both print and web design infographics — visual representations of information, data or knowledge — are often used to support information, strengthen it and present it within a provoking and sensitive context, depending on designer's creativity.
This article presents some spectacular data visualizations and infographics which manage to combine a strong visual appeal with the effective presentation of information.
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Data Visualization and Infographics
Country Codes of the World
Country Codes of the World maps 245 top-level domain country codes encompassing all United Nations countries as well as numerous islands and territories. Each two-digit code is aligned over the country it represents and is color coded with the legend below for quick and easy reference.
Flags as Infographics
These posters have been designed for the political magazine Grande "Reportagem". The main idea behind visualization is to turn flags of various countries into infographics by adding a legend to them. For instance: United States. Red: In favor of the war in Iraq. White: Against the war in Iraq. Blue: Don't know where Iraq is.
Independent: Infographic
Middle-East: who backs immediate cease-fire? The infographic below was published on the front page of the "Independent" magazine during the Middle-East crisis in July 2007.
Virtual countries
This stand present the largest virtual countries according to the gross domestic product of the countries and world's largest companies.
Net Neutrality
This infographic is supposed to emphasize the importance of net neutrality; it isn't really a data visualization, but it instantly delivers the message: this is how our future might look like.
Corporate connections:
An extremely compact and useful source of information.
DIZZIA, Gregory M.
This is the documentation of every intimate relationship Gregory Dizzia has ever had. The data spans 23 years.
Amadana Infographics
Amadana is a Japanese company, which explains why they might not have realized that a scapegoat isn't the same as an "acuarium." The first row is for that toaster oven, the second and third rows are for an air purifier, while the last is for a hot plate.
The Japanese Wii Safety Manual
This Japanese Wii safety manual is pretty much indicative of Japanese people's general insanity. [via Gizmodo]
Virtual Water
Simple, clean, elegant and effective. A double-sided poster visualizing the water footprint of products and nations.
Apple's Tipping Point: Macs For The Masses
Very calm, soft and appealing colors within a clearly presented context. Design by Paul Nixon.
AT&T/Bell System Pre- & Post-Divestiture Chart
Peter Ross. 1985.
Flickr User Model
A slightly more complex data infographics, however still clear and well-presented.
Journey into the Universe (1985)
Information design, 1985.
Megan Jaegerman
A review of Megan Jaegerman's work by Edward Tufte. Notice how clean and legible the infographics are.
Good Magazine Infographics
In each of its issues Good magazine offers good, even excellent, infographics related to aspects of our life. Some excellent examples below.
Who Participates and what people are doing online
A slightly different presentation of usual charts gives it some uniqueness and appeal. [via Kottke.org]
The Cost of Living on the Bleeding Edge of Gadgetry
Price and market penetration of consumer electronics over the past 50 years. By Arno Ghelfi. Infographics from a quite different perspective.
A year in Iraq
An unusual data visualization which gives information on the type and location of each attack responsible for the 2,592 recorded deaths.
Cubism and Abstract Art
Clean, informative and elegant. Alfred Barr's work, found in Edward Tufte's book.
A data visualization application capable of rendering the relationships between the user and individuals in the address book by examining the TO:, FROM:, and CC: fields of every email in the 60,000-large email archive.the intensity of the relationship is determined by the color intensity of the line. "My Map" allows to explore different relational groupings and periods of time, revealing the temporal ebbs and flows in various relationships. My Map thus becomes a veritable self-portrait, a visual reflection of personal associations and relationships.
When Bots Attack
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Mapping the Blogosphere
This is what the blogosphere looks like…
…what about globalization?
George W. Bush Speech Infographics
An interactive infographic, compares the number of times certain words appear in the address. Both are a nice example of how information design can give readers more ways to evaluate and contextualize a given text or set of data. So simple, but extremely intuitive and clear.
yHaus: BookScape, Query Bursts. Experimental projects by Yahoo! Design Innovation Team. These query bursts depict individual IP numbers that start very popular bursts of search queries. each particle shows a query from a unique location worldwide. bookscape represents about 250,000 illustrations taken from children books, originally collected by the Open Library Project. The experimental interface uses dynamic resampling of image data to place all the images in a single zoomable space, arranged alphabetically by title.


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OMG -- He's Not A Real Dino!: Yoshi Mech
Didn't see that one coming. And to think I used to have a crush on the little guy! Just goes to show, you never know what a potential lover is hiding on the inside. Granted it's usually a penis taped between her buttcheeks, but in this case it's a bunch of gears and an even tinier mechanical Yoshi. Gaaaaah, I can't decide which is worse but I'm leaning towards not the penis thing!
Kodakoala's Flickr (with a bunch more angles and closeups)
Custom Yoshi Mech by Donald "KodyKoala" Kennedy [tinycartridge]
Thanks to raficus and Blaqk Panda, who would rather ride on the short bus.
You ever wonder what Mario and the gang do when they get drunk at night? Well now we have some insight into their night lives thanks to these texts. And as you'll read, they do the same things we do! Except for the sex with dinosaurs thing. *wink* Because nobody around her... / Continue →
This is allegedly a picture of Yoshi appearing in an ash cloud from the volcano Sakura-jima in Japan. Personally, I don't see it. What I DO see is a cartoon looking t-rex. "That's basically what Yoshi is." TRUE -- I guess I never thought of that. Anybody else think that va... / Continue →
Note: Jump is NSFW on account of disturbing imagery (read: pastied children's show characters). Who knew Sesame Street was in the red light district? I did not. I'm kind of wishing I still didn't. But on account of my unbiased journalistic integrity, this is a series of pho... / Continue →