Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 | Plog — World news photography, Photos Posted Jul 26, 2010 Share This Gallery inShare324 These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color. Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Connecticut town on the sea. Farm auction. Children gathering potatoes on a large farm. Trucks outside of a starch factory. Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise). Children in the tenement district. Going to town on Saturday afternoon. Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains. Barker at the grounds at the state fair. Backstage at the "girlie" show at the state fair. At the Vermont state fair. Couples at square dance. Orchestra at square dance. House.
Magic Memories Just Shuffling Along: The 21-card trick Once you understand the mechanics you can develop your own twists To get the trick to work you have to follow the instructions exactly. Trouble is with human languages the words sometimes aren't precise enough to be totally clear. Just in case you are having trouble making it work, let's go through the instructions in a bit more detail and with pictures. Deal Number 1 Deal 21 cards face up, left to right, into three equal piles of 7. Your friend is asked to mentally select any one of the 21 cards and tell you only which pile it is in. Deal Number 2 The cards in this pile are now dealt out again left to right into three piles the cards in the first pile are now spread over the other piles by the process of dealing the cards again so their order now looks like this: Once again, your friend is asked to find their chosen card and only tell you which pile it is in. Deal Number 3 Deal the cards into 3 piles again for the third time; this will produce the following layout: Deal Number 4
Throwing Away the Alarm Clock by Charles Bukowski Share my father always said, "early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house and we were up at dawn to the smell of coffee, frying bacon and scrambled eggs. my father followed this general routine for a lifetime and died young, broke, and, I think, not too wise. taking note, I rejected his advice and it became, for me, late to bed and late to rise. now, I'm not saying that I've conquered the world but I've avoided numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some common pitfalls and have met some strange, wonderful people one of whom was myself—someone my father never knew. "Throwing Away the Alarm Clock" by Charles Bukowski, from . © Harper Collins, 2004. It's the birthday of the poet , ( books by this author ) born in Sussex, England (1792). And, "Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets' food is love and fame." There's a new biography of President Obama by editor David Remnick. His nickname was "Satchmo." short for "Satchel Mouth."
Magic flower › [an error occurred while processing this directive] (ABC Science) The Surfing Scientist › Tricks Pop this magic little science trick in your Valentine's Day cards and your special someone is guaranteed to smile. They're great for get well or birthday cards too! ^ to top What's going on? Your Magic Flower is powered by a groovy scientific phenomenon called 'capillary action'. As the name suggests, capillary action happens inside capillaries and it takes a little explaining. Now you might have noticed that the water level inside a straw is slightly higher than the water level outside. This upward creeping makes the water surface curve downwards slightly from the edges of a glass container or straw and this shape is called a negative meniscus (meniscus means 'crescent shapes'). Now here's the interesting thing. So what does all this have to do with your Magic Flower? When paper comes into contact with water, the amazing power of capillary action rapidly draws water into all these tiny spaces. But back to your Magic Flower. Tags: physics
Google Best Quotes of All Time It’s been three years since we shared our original list of some of the best quotes of all time, and we felt it was a good time for an update. We’ve added another 25 quotes for you. But these aren’t just any quotes. These are quotes designed to inspire. They’re motivational quotes that will hopefully get you thinking about your life, your work, or your dreams and how you can make these things better. I know quotes researched online often come in slightly different variations, so if you’ve heard another version of one of these, please share it with us in the comments. Here are our 25 new additions for our list of the best quotes of all time, including some submitted by our readers in response to the original list of best quotes, which you can still find below. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. – Buddha
Remarkable Stop-Motion Walk Across America Here’s a really astonishing stop-motion video of a guy walking across America. Peter Cote, director Sam Griffith, and the Conscious Minds Productions crew approached Levis jeans for sponsorship and products to use during the shoot. The trip began June 17 in New York and ended July 1 in San Francisco. For the actual photography, the crew used a Canon 5D. Included below is a map of their journey (stops and locations included), along with a behind-the-scenes video, which was shot with a backup Canon 7D. View Guy Walks Across America! (via Planet 5D)
List of emoticons A simple smiley This is a list of notable and commonly used emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's mood or facial expression in the form of icons. The Western use of emoticons is quite different from Eastern usage, and Internet forums, such as 2channel, typically show expressions in their own ways. In recent times, graphic representations, both static and animated, have taken the place of traditional emoticons in the form of icons. Emoticons can generally be divided into two groups: Western or Horizontal (mainly from America and Europe), and Eastern or Vertical (mainly from east Asia). Western The emoticon in Western style is written most often from left to right as though the head is rotated counter-clockwise 90 degrees. Eastern Eastern emoticons generally are not rotated, and may include non-Latin characters to allow for additional complexity. Unicode characters References
month: "2010-10" Alone I wanted to cover my ears and block out what sounded like an animal in pain, but it was more important to squish my little sister against me and prevent her from hearing our mother die. tags: fear death alone [add] 2010-10-28 10:02:01 / Rating: 686.75 / Maaike You hid love notes on purple post its all over my room when we were together, and I fear that finding the last one will break my heart all over again. tags: love post it breakup [add] 2010-10-28 10:01:28 / Rating: 559.25 / Dad On the ride home from a colonoscopy and polyp removal, my three year old son asked, "Now am I potty trained?" tags: surgery potty training [add] 2010-10-28 09:57:24 / Rating: 252.25 / He can't harm you anymore Even as you sobbed, we were all silently cheering the night your boyfriend died. tags: abusive relationships car accident death guilt [add] 2010-10-28 09:57:15 / Rating: 498.5 / Madeline There was nothing to do but watch helplessly as the young, drunk Marine stomped the chicken to death in the backyard. Denzel
What every computer science major should know - StumbleUpon Portfolio versus resume Having emerged from engineering and mathematics, computer science programs take a resume-based approach to hiring off their graduates. A resume says nothing of a programmer's ability. Every computer science major should build a portfolio. A portfolio could be as simple as a personal blog, with a post for each project or accomplishment. A better portfolio would include per-project pages, and publicly browsable code (hosted perhaps on github or Google code). Contributions to open source should be linked and documented. A code portfolio allows employers to directly judge ability. GPAs and resumes do not. Professors should design course projects to impress on portfolios, and students, at the conclusion of each course, should take time to update them. Examples Technical communication Lone wolves in computer science are an endangered species. Modern computer scientists must practice persuasively and clearly communicating their ideas to non-programmers. Specific recommendations Java
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 "He's one of the old gods! One of the top classic Calvin strips. - Bill "You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system." Pretty much the voice of Bill Watterson dictating the current state of our school systems. - Nick "We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job." - Jon - Nick