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still life with seven hearts; leather/velvet/metal/glass/ceramic/wood/pixels

So, I’m planning to go Big Bear tomorrow, which means I will likely be offline for two days, probably the longest I’ve gone without checking email since the 1980’s.
But, of course, being obsessed, I plan to bring electronics. Just the small stuff. Here’s the list:
Camcorder
Still camera
Gameboy
CD player
Cell phone
All reasonable things to bring. [...]

I guess they’re stripping off old ads, and here you see like three different ads at one time, for different liquors.

I got started on this subject by another funny Craig’s List post… I wonder if this is for real? Naaah.
Girls who fart a lot need love, too - w4m - 27
Date: 2004-03-25, 12:47PM PST
Let’s start with the positive: I’m tall, blond, in very good shape (classic California surf girl). I’m fun to hang [...]

concept:
John Cage was noted for his compositions for “prepared piano,” meaning a piano which has been modified by putting objects between or on the strings - stuff like plastic forks, nuts and bolts, or tin pie plates.
I would like to make a piece for prepared dancers, meaning that each dancer would be “modified,” typically in [...]

Interesting article in this month’s Scientific American (dead tree edition),
The Tyranny of Choice
Common sense suggests that having abundant options frees people to find the best route to their own happiness. But in fact, studies show that too much choice often makes for misery.
Summarizing the whole article is a pain, but there are two cool [...]

The parts for a DNA synthesizer can now be purchased for approximately $10,000. By 2010 a single person will be able to sequence or synthesize 10^10 bases a day. Within a decade a single person could sequence or synthesize all the DNA describing all the people on the planet many times over in an eight-hour [...]

I swear, I don’t think Roger Ebert has given anything a bad review in weeks.
I feel like he was so moved by The Passion (judging from his ranting review) that he can’t bear to condemn a movie.
It’s like whatever he sees he thinks
How would Jesus rate it? Would Jesus give this a thumbs down? [...]