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Happy Sysadmin Day!
A very happy Sysadmin Day to Boing Boing's own Ken Snider (@orenwolf on Twitter), and to all the others who toil in the server room coal mines. Without them, you would not be reading this blog post.
The graffiti of Pompeii
Pompeii is the city frozen in time. Which means that nobody ever came through and cleaned up all the (often incredibly dirty) ancient Roman graffiti (or added their own, more modern, stuff).
So, what you find is a really cool time capsule of the way random, average puellae et pueri talked, at least in certain situations. This is colloquial Latin, and that's not something we get many chances to see.
It's also hilarious. I've seen some of these examples of Pompeiian graffiti over the years, but, as far as I'm concerned, it never gets old. (Ba-DUM-ching!) Some good examples:
From the Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio: "Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!"
From the Bar of Prima: The story of Successus, Severus and Iris is played out on the walls of a bar: [Severus]: "Successus, a weaver, loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She, however, does not love him. Still, he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye.". [Answer by Successus]: "Envious one, why do you get in the way. Submit to a handsomer man and one who is being treated very wrongly and good looking." [Answer by Severus]: "I have spoken. I have written all there is to say. You love Iris, but she does not love you."
From the House of Pascius Hermes; left of the door: "To the one defecating here. Beware of the curse. If you look down on this curse, may you have an angry Jupiter for an enemy."
From the basilica: "The man I am having dinner with is a barbarian."
Check out more of these at the Pompeiana website
For more about average Roman life, I really recommend Terry Jones' documentary "The Hidden History of Rome". You can watch it streaming on Netflix. It's a great overview of the little bits that we know about how non-elites lived thousands of years ago.
Via The Nation
Image: Pompeii, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from editor's photostream
The First Knight of Ramadan: A Muslim Nerd's Dilemma (video)
[Video Link] Aman Ali, one of the guys behind "30 Mosques," tells Boing Boing, "Instead of doing a roadtrip this year, we're releasing short films."
I love this one. In it, a Muslim nerd "is excited for the new Dark Knight movie," but it releases on the first night of Ramadan.
The short film stars Aman Ali, is directed by Musa Syeed, and was shot by Omar Mullick. Subscribe to their YouTube channel for more.
Religion, space, and the power of cultural connections
That's a picture of an Orthodox Christian priest, blessing the launch of a Soyuz spacecraft.
It seems like a weird and outdated pairing: Religion and space exploration. But they're actually a lot more intertwined than you might think, writes Rebecca Rosen at the Atlantic. A lot of astronauts are religious. A lot of astronauts that aren't really religious seem to have an urge to carry the cultural traditions of religion into space. And religion returns the favor. For instance, The Book of Common Prayer now includes an astronaut option in its prayer for travelers: "For those who travel on land, on water, or in the air [or through outer space], let us pray to the Lord."
I'm sorry. I'm an atheist and that just kind of gave me the shivvers. Basically, being out in space, so far from your fellow humans and in such an alien environment, makes for a really good example of the way religion (and ritual) can serve as a tie binding us to the rest of humanity. For some people, it's a connection to a bigger sense of history. And when they look the future (and/or the vast emptiness of space) full in the face, they need that connection to humanity. It doesn't work for everybody. But the relationship between religion and space travel is a good place to start when you want to have a conversation about the fact that there really don't have to be conflicts between religion and science. (Really, people. For serious.)
Here's the scene: It's Christmas Eve, 1968. The spaceship with three men on board had hurtled toward the moon for three days, and they have now finally entered the moon's orbit, a move requiring a maneuver so dicey that just a tiny mistake could have sent the men off into an unwieldy elliptical orbit or crashing to the moon's surface. But all went smoothly, and they are orbiting the moon. On their fourth pass (of 10), astronaut William Anders snaps the famous Earthrise shot that will appear in Life magazine. On their ninth orbit, they begin a broadcast down to Earth. Astronaut Frank Borman introduces the men of the mission, and, then, this:
"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters and God said, 'Let there be light," Borman read.
Read the rest of the article at The Atlantic
I can't remember who sent this story to me. If it's you, let me know, and I will credit you here!
Thin Mint Haters: Rise against your cookie oppressors
TIL that Thin Mints are not the most popular Girl Scout cookie. Yesterday, in Cincinnati, President Obama was booed when he mentioned that he preferred Thin Mints to all other Girl Scout cookies.
This surprised me. For several reasons. First, I didn't realized they took cookies that seriously in Cincinnati. Maybe it's time to visit Ohio. Second, as someone who has long preferred Samoas (aka Caramel deLites), I always felt as though I was in a serious minority. Like my family grudgingly ordered one box, mostly for me, out of an order that was primarily made up of Thin Mints.
And, on the one hand, this is a realistic perception. Thin Mints are the Girl Scouts' best selling cookie—accounting for 25% of all cookie sales. And yet.
And yet ... that does not tell the whole story. After all, if we Samoa and Peanut Butter Patty (Tagalongs) fans were to join forces (and we should), we would account for 32% of cookie sales. And if you look at the Girl Scouts' online poll, you find that 33% of respondents preferred Samoas—compared to 28% who preferred Thin Mints.(Not a very scientific poll, but this doesn't seem to be the sort of thing Gallup covers, so the Girl Scouts were my best shot at providing nationally relevant results here.)
So, basically, people who are only kind of okay with Thin Mints—you can feel justified. People who absolutely hate them—that's cool, too. You aren't alone. There's more of us then there are of them, we just aren't a cohesive voting block.
Washington Post on Obama's Cincinnati visit
An annual shooting spree in North Carolina
In certain parts of the United States (including Birmingham, Alabama) shooting guns into the air is one way that some locals celebrate major holidays, like the 4th of July.
For those of us who didn't grow up with celebratory gunfire, this cultural practice can be difficult to understand—especially given the fact that it is dangerous. Bullets that go up come back down, and they can injure and kill people. It's unclear exactly how risky the practice is. If you're hit by a falling bullet, your chances of death are significantly higher compared to a normal gunshot wound. And a study of celebratory gunfire injuries in Los Angeles turned up 118 victims, including 38 deaths, between 1985 and 1992. But I wasn't able to find a good analysis that put deaths into perspective with shots fired. (So, for instance, for every x shots fired into the air, x number of people are injured. Without that, it's hard to tell whether celebratory gunfire is really, really dangerous or only kind of dangerous sometimes. But either way, when you do it, especially in urban areas, you're taking a risk of killing someone.)
Usually, though, when we talk about celebratory gunfire, we're talking about unorganized huzzahs fired off with impromptu vigor in backyards and at family gatherings. In Cherryville, North Carolina, however, the whole thing is a lot more official ... and safer. Starting at midnight on New Year's Eve, the Cherryville New Year's Shooters go door to door throughout a three-county area singing traditional New Year's shooting songs, and calling residents out to shoot with them. It's a lot like going caroling, but with weaponry. Thankfully, it's all done with blanks these days.
For more than 18 hours, and through three different counties — Gaston, Lincoln, and Cleveland — the shooters follow the route bringing ceremony and good tidings to neighbors. At each stop along the way, a crier recites the "Chant of the New Year's Shooters," and then participants fire their muskets, one by one, each loaded with black powder, no bullets allowed. The noise of the musket is thought to drown out evil spirits and bad luck; while the chant — part poem, part speech, and part song — asks for peace and prosperity in the New Year.
Joyce Green sent this story in to me. While she was raised in one of these communities—Shelby, North Carolina—she would like you to know that, "I never wake up on New Year's day and think, 'I'd better get on down to the nursing home and fire off a couple of shots to bring in the New Year right.'"
Read more about the Cherryville New Year's Shooters
Read more about the dangers of celebratory gunfire that involves real bullets.
Image: Black Powder Shot, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from theknowlesgallery's photostream
More than 1000 shots fired in happiness in Birmingham, AL
A political typo of epic proportions
Why we still fight about music and copyright on the Internet
My latest Locus colum, "Music: The Internet's Original Sin," asks why music copyright is such a hot potato on the Internet, even in the post-DRM age, when most tunes are $0.99 on Amazon in MP3. The short answer: music's ancient compact is not entirely compatible with contemporary commerce, and the industry has tried to "fix" this by just telling us that everything we know about the legitimate way to enjoy, produce and share music is wrong.
Let's start with music's age. Movies are still in their infancy. Books are in their middle age. Stories themselves are ancient. But music is primal. Books may predate commerce, but music predates language. Our relationship with music, and our social contracts around it, are woven into many other parts of our culture, parts that are considered more important than mere laws or businesses. The idea that music is something that you hear and then sing may even be inherent to our biology. I know that when I hear a catchy tune, I find myself humming it or singing it, and it takes a serious effort of will to stop myself. It doesn't really matter what the law says about whether I am ''authorized'' to ''perform'' a song. Once it's in my head, I'm singing it, and often singing it with my friends. If my friends and I sing together by means of video-sharing on YouTube, well, you're going to have a hard time convincing us that this is somehow wrong.
TEDx Meta
The sad, unintentionally funny history of America's vice presidents
Smithsonian has a fun article on America's top second-banana—the vice presidency—a job that John Adams, the first vice-president, described as "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived."
Lest you think Dan Quayle was the first VP mocked in the press, or that The Onion's superb (if fictional) coverage of Joe Biden was some uniquely inventive portrayal of what vice presidents do with their time, Tony Horwitz is here to set you straight. The truth is that the vice presidency has a very long history of mediocrity, wackiness, and lack of purpose.
The Constitution also failed to specify the powers and status of vice presidents who assumed the top office. In fact, the second job was such an afterthought that no provision was made for replacing VPs who died or departed before finishing their terms. As a result, the office has been vacant for almost 38 years in the nation's history.
Until recently, no one much cared. When William R.D. King died in 1853, just 25 days after his swearing-in (last words: "Take the pillow from under my head"), President Pierce gave a speech addressing other matters before concluding "with a brief allusion" to the vice president's death. Other number-twos were alive but absentee, preferring their own homes or pursuits to an inconsequential role in Washington, where most VPs lived in boardinghouses (they had no official residence until the 1970s). Thomas Jefferson regarded his vice presidency as a "tranquil and unoffending station," and spent much of it at Monticello. George Dallas (who called his wife "Mrs. Vice") maintained a lucrative law practice, writing of his official post: "Where is he to go? What has he to do?—no where, nothing." Daniel Tompkins, a drunken embezzler described as a "degraded sot," paid so little heed to his duties that Congress docked his salary.
How 100-million year old geology affects modern presidential elections
The image above shows the outcome of the 2008 presidential elections in the American South. Counties that swung Republican are in red. Counties that swung Democratic are in blue. The result shows more than just the modern political landscape. In fact, the blue counties trace the outline of an ancient coastline, from a time when much of the South and Central-West parts of North America were inundated with shallow, tropical seas.
I love this article by Dr. M at the Deep Sea News blog, which explains the geologic history of these oceans and explains why an ancient sea would affect modern politics.
During the Cretaceous, 139-65 million years ago, shallow seas covered much of the southern United States. These tropical waters were productive–giving rise to tiny marine plankton with carbonate skeletons which overtime accumulated into massive chalk formations. The chalk, both alkaline and porous, lead to fertile and well-drained soils in a band, mirroring that ancient coastline and stretching across the now much drier South. This arc of rich and dark soils in Alabama has long been known as the Black Belt.
...Over time this rich soil produced an amazingly productive agricultural region, especially for cotton. In 1859 alone a harvest of over 4,000 cotton bales was not uncommon within the belt. And yet, just tens of miles north or south this harvest was rare. Of course this level of cotton production required extensive labor.
The history of margarine
Writer Christine Baumgarthuber has a really interesting article in the June issue of Dissent magazine about what working-class Victorians ate, and how their diets (and health) changed with the introduction of relative convenience foods, cheaper sugar, and margarine.
I don't know the cultural history of food—or the medical history of changes in public health—well enough to know whether Baumgarthuber's piece represents a full, nuanced perspective. (Dissent is a well-written and frequently interesting magazine, but it can't really be called an unbiased source.) But I did want to share a short bit from that article about the invention of margarine, which is absolutely fascinating:
Sometime in the 1860s the enterprising French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès made an important discovery. He took a pound of beef tallow soaked beforehand in a solution of 15 percent common salt and 1 percent sulfate of soda, slowly rendered it at 103 degrees Fahrenheit, poured in gastric juices of a pig, and sprinkled it with biphosphate of lime. This curdled mixture he spun in a centrifuge before adding a splash of cream. The resulting opalescent, jelly-like substance tasted much like butter.
This substance not only won Mège-Mouriès a prize offered by Emperor Napoleon III, who desperately sought a cheap, long-lasting, and easy-to-produce substitute for butter to feed the poor and his antsy army; it also secured him a place in history as the father of oleomargarine, which he patented in 1869. Two years later he sold the patent. Not long after a German pharmacist, who adapted the Frenchman's formula, commenced its industrial production by establishing the Benedict Klein Margarinewerke.
I grew up eating mostly margarine, rather than butter. In my memory, that's what all of my friends at as well. In fact, I distinctly remember reading Matilda for the first time in grade school and being confused by the book's portrayal of eating margarine as a sign that someone was truly poor. From my perspective back then, butter was a hard, un-spreadable, depressing thing that you only bought when you couldn't afford a tub of Country Crock.
That personal memory made the article really interesting for me, as it traces the history of why margarine was food-for-the-poor. It also adds some background to that Matilda memory by quoting some contemporary public moralizing from the UK about poor people and their dietary choices. Since growing up, I've been able to put my childhood confusion into context in a number of ways, but this is the first time I've read some real background on the history of margarine in a cultural context. Really neat!
Read the full story at Dissent
Via Alexis Madrigal
Image: CWS Gold Seal Margarine. Co-op magazine advert, 1960, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from sludgeulper's photostream
How to: Use a squat toilet
In 2007, my husband and I were privileged enough to take a month off and travel around Europe. Given that we spent most of our time in Western Europe, there really wasn't a whole lot of cultural confusion, with a few notable exceptions*. Chief among them, the squat toilets we stumbled across at a very inconvenient moment in Italy. "Inconvenient moment" here defined as "actually having to use the bathroom."
My friend Frank Bures is a travel writer and he understands the squat toilet problem all too well. Frank is, after all, somebody who has traveled extensively in places where squat is all you got. In a piece from 2006, he shares some hard-earned advice on squat toilets. How I wish I had read this before my venturing into small towns in coastal Italy.
Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth is probably the world's foremost expert on excretion, a real Buddha of Bowel Movements, and she's not afraid to get into the details. "My technique when I'm teaching volunteers about to go abroad," said the author of How to Shit Around the World from her UK office, "is that when you're learning, you need to take everything off below your waist: socks, shoes, pants, underwear. Then squat over the toilet. Pour water over your bum, and with your left hand, just whittle away with your fingers and try to dislodge any lumpy bits while pouring water. And that's actually not too unaesthetic, because any mess that goes onto your fingers comes off in the water."
What to do: Most important: Cultivate the right mindset. Relax, pretend like you've been doing this for years. Remember, using your hand is (according Wilson-Howarth) actually more hygienic, not less, than using toilet paper. "You get good bacteriological cleaning with just rubbing your hands together with soap under running water four times," she says, and cites a study which says you don't even need soap. "It can be ash or mud, just rubbing your hands together under water with some kind of washing agent. Even dirt from the river bank will give you good bacteriological cleaning."
*Another notable exception: Andouillette sausage is not the same thing as andouille. You've been warned.
Image: Squat toilet, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from jiahungli's photostream
New York Times: It's okay to like that taco made out of a giant Doritos chip
Good news for those of you who require some kind of public justification for your love of junk food. The Paper of Record has published a positive review of Taco Bell's Doritos Loco taco. Fair warning, though, food critic William Grimes advises against springing for the Supreme version, as the tomatoes are flavorless and the "sour cream is just wrong."
The mother of invention is teamwork
What it's like to be the subject of a conspiracy theory
Michael O'Hare is a public policy researcher. He teaches at UC Berkeley and specializes in the arts and the environment. He does not sound like a very threatening guy. But, since the early 1980s, Michael O'Hare has been the subject of another man's obsessive quest to find the true identity of the Zodiac Killer.
Let's be clear. Michael O'Hare is not the Zodiac Killer. He's got a pretty good alibi—namely the fact that he was nowhere near California when the murders happened. In fact, his name only entered the field because an enthusiast named Gareth Penn analyzed some of the famous Zodiac cryptograms and somehow came up with the name "Michael O". How that led Penn to O'Hare isn't exactly clear, but however it happened, Penn has spent the last 30 years telling anyone who will listen that Michael O'Hare is the Zodiac Killer.
And that has made O'Hare's life rather ... interesting. This weekend, I ran across a 2009 essay, written by O'Hare, describing his experience as the unwitting subject of somebody else's conspiracy theory. This is old, but I wanted to share it because it's such a rare perspective on this kind of thing. In the age of the Internet, it's easy to read up on conspiracy theories covering just about any topic. For most of them, you can also find extensive debunking sources. It's much less common for somebody at the center of the story to talk about what that experience has been like. Totally fascinating.
The decades since Penn fixed his sights on me have not been a living hell, much as that would spice up this story. They have been an ordinary life, punctuated by one or another flurry of fuss from Penn, sometimes involving pages of numbers (for example, the data pages from my PhD thesis) with this or that sequence picked out, circled, and "decoded" into words that fit somehow into Penn's model of the crimes.
My favorite episode was the phone calls. Sometime in the 1980s, I started getting them at two and three in the morning. When my wife or I answered, a male voice would say something vaguely threatening like "I'm coming north, and I'm going to get you soon!" .... The calls were supposed to be transmitting coded messages via numbers—in particular, the time of the call! Apparently, Penn's assumption was that when the average person is aroused by the phone in the middle of the night, the first thing he does, before woozily answering, is to note the time of the first ring on the digital clock he keeps by the bed—which is, of course, synchronized with the clock in the Naval Observatory. If your clock (or his) is off by just a couple of minutes, the call that was supposed to register as "2:14"—code for "Got you dead to rights this time"—will be misinterpreted as "2:16," which I think means "The Sox can't make the playoffs without a closer." (Sadly, I've lost the magic decoder ring I got in exchange for cereal box tops as a child, so I can't be sure.) The story got even better years later, when I discovered that a Penn skeptic had been calling him at home at times that figured into Penn's theory, whereupon Penn assumed the calls came from me and "returned" them to my house, so he thought he was having a conversation with me, all in three-digit numbers.
Fun with trains
For those of us who saw Mark's post on the train simulator game and thought, "Man, I want that," here's a couple more bits of train-related goodness.
First, back in February, I rode Amtrak's Empire Builder from Seattle to Minneapolis and did my best to live-tweet the whole, multi-day adventure. It's an amazing route, full of buttes, mountains, and some truly dramatic prairie landscapes. This video by YouTube user domtak doesn't quite capture how great the view out the window of the Empire Builder truly is, but it does give you a nice overview of how varied the geography of the United States really is. This 6-minute video covers a whole Portland-to-Minneapolis journey on the train. (With thanks to Thanland!)
Second, I didn't realize this until my friend Andrew pointed it out to me, but did you know that Reddit has a Train Porn page? Prepare to lose approximately five days of your life.
Texel, Netherlands: An island where science and culture meet
The Frisian Islands are barrier islands off the coast of the Netherlands. Between these islands and the mainland, there is an area called the Wadden Sea. This sea is only wet in some places, at some times. Instead of being a proper body of water, it's speckled with shallow pools, wetlands, mud flats that flood and dry up depending on storms and changing tides.
That geography makes the Frisian Islands, including the island of Texel, a great place to go beachcombing. During high tides and storms, water from the North Sea flows into the Wadden Sea through inlets. Not all of this water flows back out again, some evaporates. And water isn't the only thing in the North Sea. Wander the mud flats after the tide goes back out and you'll find all manner of random things washed up on Texel's shores—from buckets and signs, to bottles stuffed with anonymous letters.
On a more practical level, current patterns in the North Sea push whatever is in the water towards Texel. That means when a container ship loses something like a box full of luxury coats, the beaches of Texel are a great place to find it again. All that flotsam and jetsam (both the useful and the whimsical) helped create a culture of beachcombing on Texel. For generations, people went down to the shore and finders-keepers was the name of the game.
You can watch a new 14-minute documentary on Texel beachcombers and the goodies they've found. It's called Flotsam & Jetsam and it's available on Vimeo and it's really interesting—a great example of how the realities of nature and science can shape the way culture develops.
Watch the documentary Flotsam & Jetsam
Read a geosciences master's thesis that explains in more detail how the tidal mud flats at Texel work.
Cod hat
Check out this cod piece. Author William Gibson found it in Masset, BC, Canada. The head of a 145-pound cod, meant to be worn as a great helm. Nothing intimidates your enemies quite like wearing the head of a fish on your head.
EDIT: Mr. Gibson emailed to say that the photo comes from a local bed and breakfast ... "That thing is in the very excellent Copper Beech House bed & breakfast in Masset, BC, run by the Canadian poet Susan Musgrave. We're here because Doug Coupland recommended it, and it's awesome."
Saving dying languages with the help of math
Languages come and go and blend. It's likely been that way forever and the process only accelerates under the influence of mega-languages (like English) that represent a sort of global means of communication. But, increasingly, people who are at risk of losing their native language entirely are fighting back—trying to encourage more people to be bilingual and save the native language from extinction.
At Discover Magazine, Veronique Greenwood has a really interesting story about a mathematician who is helping to preserve Scottish Gaelic. How? The researcher, Anne Kandler, has put together some equations that can help native language supporters target their programs and plan their goals.
Some of the numbers are obvious—you must know how many people in the population you're working with speak just Gaelic, how many speak just English, and how many are bilingual, as well as the rate of loss of Gaelic speakers. But also in the model are numbers that stand for the prestige of each language—the cultural value people place on speaking it—and numbers that describe a language's economic value.
Put them all together into a system of equations that describe the growth of the three different groups—English speakers, Gaelic speakers, and bilinguals—and you can calculate what inputs are required for a stable bilingual population to emerge. In 2010, Kandler found that using the most current numbers, a total of 860 English speakers will have to learn Gaelic each year for the number of speakers to stay the same. To her, this sounded like a lot, but the national Gaelic Development Agency was pleased: it's about the number of bilingual speakers they were already aiming to produce through classes and programs.
Read the rest at Discover Magazine
Image: Gaelic Signs, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from cradlehall's photostream
The science of gaydar
Railfest week in the UK
British people! Did you know that it is Railfest Week at your National Railway Museum? And did you know that that means you can get up close and personal with (and even go for a ride on) an amazing variety of vintage and modern trains, plus special talks, music, and theater shows? Among the attractions: Giant, rail-based snow plows, a sail-powered rail car, and beautiful historic engines that have gone through extensive restoration.
This, for instance, is Sir Nigel Gresley (of course he is), a steam train from 1937.
If you go, submitterate some photos!
Letting someone die for their faith: Moving essay by photojournalist who documented snake handler's death
Randy Wolford made the news this week. A pastor in a Christian sect that promotes holding and carrying venomous snakes as a way of expressing faith in God, Wolford died from a snake bite. Just like his father had.
Lauren Pond, a photojournalist with the Washington Post, was at the church service when Wolford was bitten and she stayed with him and his family, taking photos, during the long hours before Wolford's death. In the wake of the experience, Pond has written a thoughtful essay about both journalistic and personal ethics. When a journalist documents someone's death like this, what should be done with the photos? If someone refuses medical help that you know they need, are you under obligation to help them anyway ... or to respect their decisions?
Some of the people who attended last Sunday's service have struggled with Mack's death, as I have. "Sometimes, I feel like we're all guilty of negligent homicide," one man wrote to me in a Facebook message following Mack's death. "I went down there a 'believer.' That faith has seriously been called into question. I was face-to-face with him and watched him die a gruesome death. . . . Is this really what God wants?"
That's a good question.
I know many photojournalists have been in situations similar to mine. Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Carter photographed an emaciated Sudanese child struggling to reach a food center during a famine — as a vulture waited nearby. He was roundly criticized for not helping the child, which, along with the disturbing memories of the events he had covered and other factors, may have contributed to his suicide. As photojournalists, we have a unique responsibility to record history and share stories in as unbiased and unobtrusive a way as possible. But when someone is hurt and suffering, we have to balance our instincts as professionals with basic human decency and care.
Read the rest at the Washington Post
Revellers attend the Wave and Goth festival in Leipzig, on May 25, 2012. The annual festival, known in Germany as Wave-Gotik Treffen, features up to 150 bands and musicians playing Gothic rock and other styles of the "dark wave" music subculture attracting a regular audience of up to 20000, according to organizers. The festival runs through May 28.
Poland's future of copyright
A bit of classic Feynman
I'm not sure how, but I'd never seen any clips of young Richard Feynman speaking until physicist Walid Younes posted this video to Google+.
The talk itself is great and covers some important stuff. (Of course, it's Feynman!) The key thing here is the connection between theoretical understandings of how the universe works and practical observations. Theories are used to make predictions. When the predictions turn out to be correct, we get some more evidence that the theory is on the right track. Here, Feynman talks about how the theory of gravity led to the discovery of the speed of light, and how knowledge of the effect of gravity on planetary orbits led to the discovery of the planet Neptune. Very cool stuff.
But what stood out to me—and what makes this different from all the old!Feynman videos I've seen—is the persona his younger self projects. Born and raised in Queens, the young Feynman comes across, at least in accent and physical mannerisms, like some big mafia palooka straight out of central casting. Most likely, my startled reaction to this is due to Midwestern bias and being raised in an era where American regional differences in accent and culture have been largely flattened out. But it's still fascinating ... and amusing as hell to hear a guy who looks and sounds like he should be guarding hostages or threatening shop owners instead talking about gravitational theory.
Videos of Japanese trains and train toilets
This playlist from YouTube user hideyasann features more than 100 short clips of trains and train restrooms in Japan. Most of the train videos are of trains pulling into a station, or changing tracks. Most of the toilet videos emphasize the flushing mechanisms—of which there are a surprising variety.
As a rail fan, it's interesting to see what so many different Japanese stations and trains look like. And there's no narration, so it's also interesting to watch these very matter-of-fact clips and think about the visual context they trigger in your head. Men in suits waiting on a platform for a train to change tracks—that's a scene from a serious drama about the inner psychology of a businessman. A shakey clip where the videographer walks towards an arriving train, and a station agent, while breathing heavily—that's totally a scene from a horror movie. I'm honestly not sure what to make of all the toilets.
It's also kind of awesome to just think about the level of obsession that went into this playlist. I'm not really sure what hideyasann is trying to document—Train variety? Train cleanliness? Is he or she just collecting the same footage from as many trains as possible? Whatever the goal, you can clearly see the love and fascination here. There's totally a Happy Mutant at work.
Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys, by photographer Glen E. Friedman: "why A you see H"
Photographer Glen E. Friedman, widely known for his work chronicling the intersection between punk rock and hiphop in the 1980s, has posted some beautiful shots of MCA, Ad-Rock, and Mike D from that era: "why A you see H".


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Ok so I'm fairly new to the home brew scene. I've made about a half dozen batches in all but am currently carbonating my second batch from my own set up.
I use extract kits and I started my brew by steeping my specialty grains. No problem in the beginning until I finished steeping and started heating up for the boil. When I got to about 200F I realized my propane tank was about dry so I had to run to the store and swap out tanks. Then as I thought brewing on a "warm" day in December was a good idea I ended up having quite a bit of evaporation due to the cool temps and rather annoying wind. So towards the end of the boil I ended up adding close to a gallon of water. It temporarily killed the boil of course but only for a couple minutes.
The brew was a honey wheat which I have made in the past and it seems to me that this batch is substantially darker than the last and in my tastings appears to have good flavor but I think it has a caramel taste that I don't recall in the first try.
My question is would the issues I had during the brew process cause this color and flavor I'm experiencing? I don't think any of this is a bad thing as far as the final product is concerned. Just mostly curious if it's a difference in extract kits or my process.
This could 1 of 3 things more than likely. It could be old extract as it can gain color over time from oxidation. It could also be the sugars from the extract fell against the bottom of the kettle during rest and caramelized on the bottle during reheat. It could also be the honey caramelizing against the bottom if you didn't stir.
Also you have to remember that you had more boil off so it could be the color is condensed the a smaller volume causing the color to be darker.
I hope this helps. One of the most overlooked aspects of consistency is a consistent boil from batch to batch. I is hard to gauge how you are boiling, and how environmental aspects play on each subsequent batch.
Of the three you listed I'm inclined to say older extract. When I completely killed the flame I had only steeped specialty grains and I really doubt there was enough sugar pulled out to settle and caramelize upon reheat and I stirred the honey quite a lot when I added so it shouldn't have settled to the bottom. And as I added water back in to get to 5 gallons I don't think the color was condensed. I ended 4 bottles shy of 5 gallons and it was darker than expected during bottle.
But since a lot of variables changed with the environment and my slipups during the brew process who really knows. I'll just have to be sure I don't repeat my mistakes on my next batch of honey wheat and see how it comes out.
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Just out of curiosity, what specialty grains are you using? In my experience, specialty grains should be kept at an almost min in a honey wheat, not that there really a standard for honey wheat. Viva la difference! Almost anything added will take away from the delicate flavors of the wheat and honey. It has been a long time since I had done extract.


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I have heard that when pitching onto a cake you want to pitch onto a cake that came from a lower gravty beer is this a good general rule?
I currently have 2 beers going. One is a Bee Cave IPA and another in an American Wheat (Both with S-05). I plan on brewing a Old Rasputin Clone this weekend which calls for an American Ale yeast. Which cake would be better to pitch onto? I know the American Wheat has much more trub and hop bits from the BK cause I didn't use a bag for them and I dumped everything into the fermenter. However the IPA should have less since I used a bag and kept most trub in the BK.
Which cake should I pour my Old Rasputin onto?
Plan to pour wort on top of a yeast cake. I am using the same kind of dark ale. Should be fine since it is the same recipe? Right?
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|Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho in 2008
| August 24, 1947
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
|Novelist, lyricist, musician
|Drama, Self-improvement, Psychology
|Notable works
|The Alchemist , Brida
|Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho in 2008
| August 24, 1947
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
|Novelist, lyricist, musician
|Drama, Self-improvement, Psychology
|Notable works
|The Alchemist , Brida
Paulo Coelho (Portuguese: [ˈpawlu kuˈeʎu]; born August 24, 1947), is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. The Alchemist, his most famous novel, has been translated into 80 languages.[1] The author has sold 165 million copies worldwide and is the all-time bestselling Portuguese language author.
Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil[2] and attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?"[2] After researching, which was common for him since he was a policy debater when he was in high school, Coelho concluded that a writer "always wears glasses and never combs his hair" and has a "duty and an obligation never to be understood by his own generation," amongst other things.[2] At 17, Coelho's introversion and opposition to following a traditional path led to his parents committing him to a mental institution from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20.[3][4] Coelho later remarked that "It wasn't that they wanted to hurt me, but they didn't know what to do... They did not do that to destroy me, they did that to save me."[5] At his parents' wishes, Coelho enrolled in law school and abandoned his dream of becoming a writer. One year later, he dropped out and lived life as a hippie, traveling through South America, North Africa, Mexico, and Europe and started using drugs in the 1960s.[6][7] Upon his return to Brazil, Coelho worked as a songwriter, composing lyrics for Elis Regina, Rita Lee, and Brazilian icon Raul Seixas. Composing with Raul led to Paulo being associated with magic and occultism, due to the content of some songs.[8] In 1974, Coelho was arrested for "subversive" activities by the ruling military government, who had taken power ten years earlier and viewed his lyrics as left-wing and dangerous.[5] Coelho also worked as an actor, journalist, and theatre director before pursuing his writing career.[8]
In 1986, Coelho walked the 500-plus mile Road of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, a turning point in his life.[6][9] On the path, Coelho had a spiritual awakening, which he described autobiographically in The Pilgrimage.[10] In an interview, Coelho stated "[In 1986], I was very happy in the things I was doing. I was doing something that gave me food and water – to use the metaphor in "The Alchemist", I was working, I had a person whom I loved, I had money, but I was not fulfilling my dream. My dream was, and still is, to be a writer."[11] Coelho would leave his lucrative career as a songwriter and pursue writing full-time.
In 1982 Coelho published his first book, Hell Archives, which failed to make a substantial impact.[8] In 1986 he contributed to the Practical Manual of Vampirism, although he later tried to take it off the shelves since he considered it "of bad quality."[8] After making the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1986, Coelho wrote The Pilgrimage. The following year, Coelho wrote The Alchemist and published it through a small Brazilian publishing house who made an initial print run of 900 copies and decided not to reprint.[12] He subsequently found a bigger publishing house, and with the publication of his next book Brida, The Alchemist took off. Harper Collins, the biggest publishing House in the United States, decided to publish the book in 1994. Then, it became first a Brazilian bestseller, later a world-wide phenomenon.[12][clarification needed] The Alchemist has gone on to sell more than 65 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling books in history, and has been translated into 80 different languages, winning the Guinness World Record for most translated book by a living author.[8][13]
The Alchemist, easily known as his most successful story, is a story about a young shepherd who follows his spiritual journey to the Egyptian pyramids in search of a treasure.
Since the publication of The Alchemist, Coelho has generally written one novel every two years including By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, The Fifth Mountain, Veronika Decides to Die, The Devil and Miss Prym, Eleven Minutes, Like the Flowing River, The Valkyries, The Winner Stands Alone, The Witch of Portobello, Aleph (novel) and Adultery. While trying to overcome his procrastination of launching his writing career, Coelho said, "If I see a white feather today, that is a sign that God is giving me that I have to write a new book." Coelho found a white feather in the window of a shop, and began writing that day.[10]
In total, Coelho has published 30 books. Three of them – The Pilgrimage,The Valkyries and Aleph – are autobiographical, while the majority of the rest are fictional, although rooted in his life experiences.[6] Others, like Maktub and The Manual of the Warrior of Light, are collections of essays, newspaper columns, or selected teachings. In total, Coelho has sold more than 150 million books in over 150 countries worldwide (224 territories), and his works have been translated into 80 languages.[7][8] He is the all-time bestselling Portuguese language author.[citation needed]
Coelho also writes up to three blog posts a week at his blog.[14]
The Alchemist (novel) has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasure found within.
Many celebrities have declared The Alchemist is their favorite novel. Bill Clinton was spotted with a copy of the book, and Will Smith, Madonna or Malala, among many others, have declared it is their favorite novel. In 2014, Oprah Winfrey interviewed pop star Pharrell Williams, who explained that The Alchemist changed his life.[12]
|Portuguese Title
|English Title
|O Manifesto de Krig-há
|The Manifest of Krig-há
|Teatro da Educação
|Theater For Education
|Arquivos do Inferno
|Hell Archives
|O Manual Prático do Vampirismo
|Practical Manual of Vampirism
|O Diário de Um Mago
|The Pilgrimage
|O Alquimista
|The Alchemist
|O Dom Supremo
|The Greatest Gift
|As Valkírias
|The Valkyries
|Na margem do rio Piedra eu sentei e chorei
|By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
|O Monte Cinco
|The Fifth Mountain
|Letras do amor de um profeta
|Love Letters from a Prophet
|Manual do guerreiro da luz
|Manual of the Warrior of Light
|Veronika decide morrer
|Veronika Decides to Die
|Palavras essenciais
|Essential Words
|O Demônio e a srta Prym
|The Devil and Miss Prym
|Histórias para pais, filhos e netos
|Fathers, Sons and Grandsons
|Onze Minutos
|Eleven Minutes
|E no sétimo dia
|And on the Seventh Day (collection of the novels By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Veronika Decides to Die and The Devil and Miss Prym)
|O Gênio e as Rosas
|The Genie and the Roses
|O Zahir
|The Zahir
|Caminhos Recolhidos
|Revived Paths
|Ser como um rio que flui
|Like the Flowing River
|A bruxa de Portobello
|The Witch of Portobello
|Vida: Citações selecionadas
|Life: Selected Quotations
|O Vencedor está Só
|The Winner Stands Alone
|O Aleph
|Manuscrito Encontrado em Accra
|Manuscript Found in Accra
The Pilgrim — the Best Story of Paulo Coelho is the international title for the film Não Pare na Pista, a movie about Coelho's life Official Trailer. A co-production between Brazil's Dama Filmes, led by Carolina Kotscho and Iôna de Macedo, and Angélica Huete's Babel Films in Spain, the movie has been directed by Daniel Augusto. Ravel and Júlio Andrade play the young and old Coelho, and other cast members include international names such as Fabiana Gugli, Nancho Novo and Paz Vega. Those working on the film include Pedro Almodovar's regular art director Antxón Gómez and Oscar-winning make-up artists Montse Ribé and David Marti.
De Macedo told Screen: "The film tells the story of a man who has a dream. It's a little like Alice in Wonderland - he's someone who is too big for his house." The film, shot in Portuguese, had its premiere in Brazilian Theaters on 2014, and will be internationally distributed by Picture Tree on 2015, according to Variety.[15]
Paulo Coelho is the writer with the largest community online. The author has more than 25 million fans only on his Facebook main page and more than 10 million followers on Twitter. He also has accounts on Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr, among others. He manages his own social communities and has a strong interaction with his readers. Paulo Coelho explains to The Wall Street Journal his relationship with readers through social media platforms
This 2014, the author decided to launch a free app, where readers can find his daily quotes and updates. The exclusive Paulo Coelho official app is available in Portuguese, Spanish and English (the languages in which the author express himself online) and is inspired by the beautiful words of wisdom readers share with the author every day through social media. A way to gather all his online content in one app. The app, developed by Notegraphy, includes daily quotes, access to his page on Facebook, Twitter and blog, and also a direct access to Coelho's channel on YouTube.[16]
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Learning through play is one of the basic tenets of the Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM), a concept that reaches its fullest expression at the new permanent exhibit, PlayWorks. Five learning areas, for infants through 4-year-olds, focus on: language; math and physics; arts and science; imagination; and physical and emotional strength.
In the imagination area, kids can climb board a fire truck, dress in a firefighter's uniform, and even use hoses to extinguish faux fires. Best of all, there is a small set of stairs, with a fire pole, so kids can practice sliding down. There is also an MTA bus, with multiple steering wheels so more than one kid at a time can 'drive' the bus. The bus, fire truck and a deli are part of "The Little Apple". At the deli, there is lots of fake food and kids get started on math skills, counting and sorting. There is also a delivery trike; kids can pedal and see a changing streetscape. In the Baby Steps area, for the youngest visitors, there is an air machine, where air forces foam balls or colorful foam peanuts in the air. But instead of being activated by a button, which a baby might not understand, there is a handprint. Since babies slap their hands at things that excite them, it is easy for them to connect smacking the handprint with seeing the balls fly. The air hoses are repeated in an area for bigger kids; both introduce the concept of physics. The air tubes are part of "Movers and Shakers", which has blocks, cranks and a big climbing area, where kids can slide and crawl. The art and science lab features a sand table (with two different textures of sand), and a shaving cream wall, where kids can clean up. There are tables to create art, and miniatures of eight famous artworks, where kids can look at Degas' Dancer and touch the fabric of her dress, or examine Mona Lisa and then feel what her hair might be like. For babies, back in 'their' space, there is a touch screen where kids can 'draw' right on screen. A fun activity youngsters can do with their parents is compose and send a video email about their museum experience. You can mail this to yourself, or your parents; at home, you get the video clip. Toddlers love the letter garden, where they can feed letters to an alligator (who also sneezes and asks for a tissue), or put three letters in a spelling toaster and hear them sounded out. There is plenty of information for parents and caregivers. Dr. Kathy Hirsch-Pasek, psychology professor and advisor for the exhibit, explains that PlayWorks allows the museum to "translate research into 3-D experience." And have fun. The exhibit takes over the entire third floor of the museum, 4,000 square feet, and by incorporating windows and only a few partitions, PlayWorks feels spacious. On weekends, of course, the museum is almost always extremely crowded. Anticipating demand, the museum has increased its hours, opening regularly now on Tuesdays.Info:Where: 212 West 83rd Street, between Broadway and AmsterdamWhen: Tuesday–Saturday, 10am–5pmHow much: $8, adults and children over age one; $5, seniors; free, infantsFor more info: (212) 721-1234; www.cmom.org
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Genealogy (from Greek: γενεά genea, "generation"; and λόγος logos, "knowledge"), also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members. The results are often displayed in charts or written as narratives. ~ Wikipedia
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