Brass Goggles:The lighter side of Steampunk - Iceweasel
Posted by proteus on December 23rd,2013 Two things I love in one photo: [via Brian Kesinger’s Tea Girls] Posted by proteus on October 17th,2013 A Steampunk Badminton tournament sounds like a fantastic idea. Posted by proteus on October 11th,2013
Lies of Plutocracy: Exploding Five Myths that Dehumanize the Poor
DeEtte Peck uses her EBT card in Portland, OR, to purchase food. (Photo: Bread for the World / Flickr)If you believe that poverty is the domain of the comfortably poor, black, unemployed, unmotivated and uneducated among us, you have been sadly misled. Prepare to be astonished by numbers that tell a very different story.
The Sterile Eye
Photography and the American Civil War May 28, 2013 § The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York has an ongoing exhibition of more than two hundred photographs from the American Civil War, including a number of medical photographs. In the video above curator Jeff L.
» Blog Archive » Create Product Mockups, 93 templates for artists - Iceweasel
I’m pleased to announce that I have completed my collection of product mockup templates that I have been working on for over 2 years. They are compiled on a CD Create Product Mockups. Two years seems like a long time ago from when I started this, but I had so many interruptions – you know, work with deadlines! So it kept getting pushed back in spite of some people regularly asking about it.
19 firefighters dead in Yarnell wildfire - CBS 5 - KPHO - Iceweasel
Nineteen firefighters were killed in a fast-moving wildfire in the central Arizona town of Yarnell late Sunday afternoon, said the incident command post. Eighteen of the victims were from the Prescott Granite Mountain Hotshots, fire officials said. It's not known where the other victim was based. One surviving Hotshot member was in a truck moving equipment when the other members were overtaken by the fire.
Pioneer Woman Home & Garden
I went to The Building this morning, shortly after I posted here. Peek-a-boo! There’s one of the new windows on the side entrance. I know it’s so hard for you to picture what’s going on here, but basically: The work crew has just pulled off the covering that has been over the new windows on the far left for months.
Gardening Australia - Iceweasel
Deschampsia Hair grasses are undemanding plants that will grow in any good garden soil, but their preference is for moist humus-rich soil. They will do best if planted in a position in sun or light shade. Transplanting Tips Angus shares a number of great tips to help give transplanted plants every chance of survival
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Yay! The Pool Shirt is done. I used the fabulous Munki Munki Pool Party print--so adorable.
KidStyleFile Roundup: Top 20 Best Indoor Playhouses For Kids - KidStyleFile - Iceweasel
June 27th, 2013 When I was a little, my brothers and I would create blanket cubby houses around our home. We would transform the couch, two dining chairs and a large wool blanket into a restaurant where all our stuffed toys would join us for a luncheon. Sometimes it became a tent in the middle of Africa (my brothers were always great at mimicking the animals), on others a busy bus.
Top 10 Emerging Environmental Technologies
by Sara Goudarzi | April 19, 2007 03:25pm ET <div class="countdown_data"><div><h2>Top 10 Emerging Environmental Technologies</h2><p>Wasteful energy policies, overuse of resources, water supply shortages, global climate change, and deforestation are just some of the issues experts say need to be addressed for humans to achieve sustainable living on this planet. By the year 2025, an additional 2.9 billion people will strain tightening water supplies, and the world\'s energy needs will go up 60 percent by 2030, according to the United Nations. LiveScience looks at 10 technologies - some old, some new, some a bit offbeat - that might help make the future a little brighter.
7 Surprising Uses of Oil
Jeremy Hsu, LiveScience Senior Writer | November 13, 2012 03:54pm ET Credit: Dreamstime Petroleum does more than just provide gasoline for cars and jet fuel for airliners. Products and byproducts of petroleum end up in items used daily around the world — billions of pounds of polyethylene plastic alone go toward making plastic bags, food containers, hula hoops and other consumer products. But here are a few petroleum-derived items found in and around the modern-day home that may surprise you.
Earth in the Balance: 7 Crucial Tipping Points
Jeremy Hsu | March 02, 2011 10:00am ET Credit: NASA Humans must stay within certain boundaries if they hope to avoid environmental catastrophe, a leading group of environmental scientists says. Crossing those limits may not rock the Earth itself, but would lead to harsh consequences for human existence on the planet as we know it. There are two kinds of boundaries, the researchers proposed in October 2009.
