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I really am a beautiful Snowy Owl..

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WASHINGTON—Following Sunday’s not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, an exasperated and speechless nation could reportedly do nothing other than wish black teenagers good luck out there, saying that they’re definitely going to...

Start one of your many days at the Outside the Box Festival in the Boston Common with the Boston Opera Collaborative. The show promises a multitude of excellent singing voices,

all of which will make you feel inadequate about your own in the best way possible.

[Wed 7.17.13. Boston Common. 12pm/all ages/FREE. @BostonOperaColl. outsidetheboxboston.org]

THIS IS MY BLOG FOR SHARING OLD PATTERN BOOKS AND PATTERN MAKER (HOBBYWARE) CHARTS. I HAVE BEEN CHARTING FOR YEARS HISTORIC PATTERNS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. IF I CAN FIND THEM AND AFFORD THEM, I PURCHASE OLD SAJOU, ALEXANDRE, AND DESSINS DE BRODERIE - STICKMUSTER-BUCH BOOKLETS. DOCUMENTS ANCIENS BRODERIE. 無料SAJOUフランスのパターン集（クロスステッチ）. УЗОРЫ ВЫШИВАНИЯ В РОССИИ. PUNTO CRUZ.

enfires:

KNAPP The Post-War Collection 2012/2013

So you know, how to make a Polaroid emulsion lift. Via Heather.

"Look out for my new book - 'Shit Hack : all the secrets of writing sensationalist drivel that readers should know.'" — UK writer Tim Hayward on the Telegraph's nonsense listicle "The 20 shocking secrets every diner should know" (based on the book Restaurant Babylon). It includes gems like #5: "Sometimes the 'specials' are only 'special' because restaurants are desperate to get rid of them." And #18: "Drugs use is rife amongst workers, mainly cocaine." The list was so bad even the Daily Mail picked it up. [Twitter]

The audio drama Of Mice And Men starring David Tennant will be repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra at 10.00am BST and 3:00pm BST on Friday 19th July, and again on Saturday 20th July at 3.00am.

David Tennant and Liam Brennan star in Donna Franceschild's dramatisation of John Steinbeck's seminal novel about migrant workers in Thirties California, whose dream of one day owning a place of their own is tragically destroyed.
Of Mice And Men explores the friendship between George Milton and Lennie Small via the last three days in Lennie's life.
On the run from a town where Lennie has been accused of rape, they pick up new jobs on a ranch further north – a place where the boss has recently married a flirtatious young woman.
She's trouble, however, and George knows it, so he warns Lennie about the woman. They dream about a better life – a life they think is just around the corner. The boss's wife then finds Lennie alone in the barn and their dream is ripped apart.
David Tennant stars as George Milton and Liam Brennan as Lennie Small. The cast also features Jude Akuwudike as Carlson/Crooks; Christopher Fairbank as Candy; Melody Grove as Curley's wife; Neil McKinven as Slim; and Richard Madden as Curley. 

Listen in worldwide via this link

The Justice Department just announced that federal prosecutors are looking into the Trayvon Martin shooting to see if criminal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman are appropriate. Although the DOJ opened an investigation into Martin's death last year, the agency stepped aside to allow the state prosecution to proceed.

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You cannot like yourself

Gun.Smoke (Capcom - arcade - 1985)

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Good riddance

catafalques:

Bottle of blood purifying mixture, United Kingdom, 1880-1930: Diluted with water, a tablespoon of this mixture of iodised sarsaparilla was recommended to be drunk by adults three times a day after meals. Sarsaparilla is a vine-like plant native to North America and the West Indies and has a long history as a component of medicinal tonics, especially blood purifiers. The mixture promised to clear the skin and purify the blood and claimed to be an “excellent Spring and Autumn medicine”. This product is typical of a huge range of treatments that were available ‘over the counter’ at pharmacists for many years.

Do you like to read old handwritten manuscripts? Do you like to contribute to the collective knowledge of the world? Well then, Smithsonian has something for you. Their new transciption project lets volunteers signup to transcribe and review some old texts like "Observations on the Indians of the Colorado River" or the diary of Mary Henry, 1858-1863.

This seems like a really compelling project. I'm anxious to see how successful it is without some kind of gamification. Feels like if they made this work part of an Elder Scrolls quest, it would be done in a weekend.

Back in May, I met Liberty of London designer Kate Brindley when she was in town promoting the Levi's X Liberty collab. When I asked her about future collaborations she mentioned that she was super excited about working with Vans for a Fall 2013 collection. Being such a fan of both brands, I turned into a weird internet version of Paul Revere checking the Vans site weekly, saying to myself "The British are coming, The British are coming!" And finally, they're here. Six archival prints were pulled from the Liberty archives, three were used for Authentics ($60) and three for Era styles ($60). I've always been partial to Authentics and am all over that navy/birds print. Get 'em while they're hot.

WEEKEND EXTRAS:

The Patagonia Legacy Collection. It's all men's, but there's plenty for the picking including a pretty sweet backpack (more on Patagonia's legacy next week).

Is this song in everyone's head? Or just mine?

A beach towel with a zip pocket for keys, sunscreen, et al. Genius.

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TPM Reader DD writes in from Wisconsin. Going on the below, I'd be curious to hear from lawyers in other jurisdictions how distinct Florida law seems from how a case with a similar set of facts would have been adjudicated in their jurisdictions ...

I'm a criminal defense lawyer in Wisconsin, but I'll tell you my reaction to the Zimmerman verdict today. I've had friends in Florida asking for my take. I haven't watched the trial very closely (it seems like an ordinary criminal case to me in many respects). But I was astounded that the defense would put on a "self-defense" argument without the defendant testifying. In most civilized jurisdictions, the burden is on the defense to prove, at least more likely than not, that the law breaking was done for reasons of self-defense. I couldn't figure out how they could do this without the defendant's testimony.

I got curious and read the jury instructions Friday night and, I was wrong. In Florida, if self-defense is even suggested, it's the states obligation to prove it's absence beyond a reasonable doubt(!). That's crazy. But 'not guilty' was certainly a reasonable result in this case. As I told in friend in Tampa today though, if you're ever in a heated argument with anyone, and you're pretty sure there aren't any witnesses, it's always best to kill the other person. They can't testify, you don't have to testify, no one else has any idea what happened; how can the state ever prove beyond a doubt is wasn't self-defense? Holy crap! What kind of system is that?

Following up on the conversation, Eugene Volokh suggests that the law of self-defense is actually the same in Florida as it is throughout the country, with the single exception of Ohio.

Long Before Reservoir Dogs.

Bad-ass Canadian pols in strollers, sunnies, and hanks in their pockets—featuring Pierre Trudeau and the forestry minister smoking a pipe—1968.

Cheng Fangyi sent in the following photograph of a sign in China:

What this actually says is:

Néng chī shì fú, jiéyuē shì dé 能吃是福，節約是德。
("To eat is a blessing, economizing is a virtue.")

The structure of the two parallel clauses is identical; it is both simple and straightforward: SUBJECT (consisting of a verbal nominative) + COPULATIVE + PREDICATE NOMINATIVE. Since the translator got the first clause right, both in terms of grammatical analysis and semantic content, they should have been able to apply similar operations to the second clause. Their inability to do so indicates that they didn't really understand English on their own, but were relying entirely on translation software, without even checking the result at all.

There's no way that a fluent speaker of Chinese could interpret the dé 德 of the jiéyuē shì dé 節約是德 clause as the dé 德 of Déguó 德國 ("Germany", lit. "Dé-country", the country whose name begins with the sound dé, i.e.,

Another strange aspect of the translation is that, although the two clauses are considerately separated by a space in the Chinese, all of the words of the English run on without a break (the boundary between the two clauses should be marked by a comma or semi-colon or a conspicuous space), making it seem as though "to save Germany" is somehow a consequence of "to eat is a blessing" — a truly bizarre prospect.

Bottom line: no one with even a minimal understanding of English bothered to check the result of the machine translation.

breakingnews:

Hubble telescope spots blue planet where it rains glass

BBC News: The world, known as HD189733b, has a deep azure hue - probably the result of silicate (glass) rain in the atmosphere, which scatters blue light.

The temperature of the planet’s atmosphere is a scorching 1,000C, and it rains glass, sideways, in howling 7,000km-per-hour winds.

Its atmosphere has been found to be dramatically changeable and exotic, with hazes and violent bursts of evaporation.

Details of the discovery, made with the Hubble Space Telescope, are to appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Photo: HD189733b, artist’s impression (NASA/ESA/M Kornmesser)

weirdvintage: Former NFL player Rosey Grier liked needlepoint.  He wrote a book about it in 1973. (via Dangerous Minds)

Basic idea

• Now would be a great time to get a group of people from tech and news together for a discussion about RSS.

What would be discussed?

• The history of RSS, how open formats work in the market, ideas for cooperation, both betw tech entities and tech and the media.

Why post this on Saturday afternoon?

• I figure anyone who's really interested in RSS is busy working on something, since it's July 2013 and you know what happened on the 1st. ;-)

Physical or virtual? Probably both.

• All good conferences have an online component that transitions smoothly from pre-conference to at-the-conference and then to post-conference.

Where to host? A neutral place. A university would be ideal.

• Either NY or Calif.
• I would obviously prefer NY.
• The publishing industry is here.
• Columbia or NYU would be ideal.
• Neutral means not tech and not news and most definitely not corporate.
• Although of course many of the participants would be corporate.

How big a deal?

• Not big. I would like to see 20 people for at most a single day.
• It's not about representation of people, rather lots of ideas, information, all openly shared. A conversation that begets more discussion and most important, progress.

Stargazy pie (sometimes called starrey gazey pie or other variants) is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards, along with eggs and potatoes, covered with a pastry crust. Although there are a few variations with different fish being used, the unique feature of stargazy pie is fish heads (and sometimes tails) protruding through the crust, so that they appear to be gazing skyward. This allows the oils released during cooking to flow back into the pie.

	Courtney shared this story from Tom & Lorenzo:
	you're going to look at this and be going "uh huh, uh huh, this is all perfectly fine" and then YOU GET TO THE SHOES AND YOU ALMOST THROW UP A RAINBOW OUT OF RESPECT AND ADMIRATION.

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The Senior Class rocked the SHIT out of this red carpet [...]

Fuck Pat Robertson, and everyone who takes him seriously, forever.

geekyjessica:

yousayperfect-isaystreep:

for-southendgirls:

Helen Mirren: Not dealing with your misogynistic bullshit since 1975.

her face, lol….  

I JUST LOVE HER SO MUCH.

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