25 Great Calvin and Hobbes Strips. Why Bill Watterson is our hero.
We've re-launched Progressive Boink, friends! Our new front page is here. Hope you enjoy. Hundreds of comic strips have been published in newspapers. The majority are terrible, and almost all the rest are mediocre. And it's really a shame that it's so difficult to quantify this strip's greatness. Calvin and Hobbes ran from 1985 to 1995. "Virtue needs some cheaper thrills. " © Universal Press Syndicate Calvin is an unbelievably intelligent six-year-old. It's kind of refreshing to see a strip that doesn't feel the need to have an uplifting message, or feel like it needs to point out that it's mean to whack an innocent person upside the dome with a snowball. - Jon. Famous World Ideologies, as explained by references to Cows.
Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein. FOUND Magazine. Presents: Incredible Stuff I Made. Kurt Vonnegut graphs the plot of every story. Visual Cortexes: Brain-Art Competition Shows Off Neuroscience's Aesthetic Side. The brain is an exceedingly complex machine that harbors about 100 trillion neural connections.
So it comes as no surprise that neuroscientists make great efforts to reduce or represent that complexity in their research with innovative imaging techniques. For all the time and creativity poured into publication-worthy imagery, however, most of it never leaves the pages of academic journals. Daniel Margulies of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and other neuroscientists thought it was time for a change. "We wanted to create a forum where neuroscientists could be credited for their innovations and engage in dialogue about the aesthetic possibilities of our fields," Margulies says. Along with several colleagues from The Neuro Bureau—an "open neuroscience" forum on the Web—he helped found the inaugural Brain-Art Competition this year. The event's aims were not simply focused on bragging rights and artistic merit. » View the Brain Art Slide Show. 21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020.
The HemLoft, A Secret Tree House in the Canadian Woods. FunnyJunk is threatening to file a federal lawsuit against me unless I pay $20,000 in damages. Just Geeking Out: Office Creativity (Funny Pics) "QUANTUM SHOT" #755Link - article by Avi Abrams It's a Geek Thing!
Or, "Haters Gonna Hate" (until they end up in a cubicle and start doing the same thing) All sorts of office life can be enhanced and even jump-started back to "normal" when you use your imagination and come up with strange and marvelous things to do, or weirdly inventive things to use. Today we are having a fun look at some of the options available: Some great ideas for your switch (more hamster treadmill stickers here) - and for ringing a bell: (images via 1, 2) Go all the way! If you do not play piano, then turn the poor thing into a computer workstation (more info): (images via) Here is a truly ergonomic workplace: A bedroom can also be outfitted with a dashboard (here is an airplane cockpit... but, really, you can just use a giant Cessna wall mural - see here): (image credit: J.R.
The wiring job is the most important part of the project. Security and cleanliness are of paramount importance, too: Have some spare time? iPad? Top Five Regrets of The Dying. For many years I worked in palliative care.
My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. 1. This was the most common regret of all. It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way. 2.
This came from every male patient that I nursed. By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do. 3. Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74.