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Commented on Pathways of Desire: Detroiters carve their own streets out of the snow
Also, with snow paths, once one person blazes the trail most people are going to stick to the cut path. The straightest path may also not appear so from the air - remember that the ground has hills and depressions,...
Commented on Rethinking NIMBY: Why Wind Power Could Lead To New Ways of Defining (and Dealing With) Public Naysaying
Read that Lynda Barry piece. I don't live next to a wind farm so I can't sympathize, but maybe she could focus more on her goal of moving them 1,000 feet further away (which IS legitimate, IMO) instead of endlessly...
Commented on Rethinking NIMBY: Why Wind Power Could Lead To New Ways of Defining (and Dealing With) Public Naysaying
.. and let's not forget about pig operations permanently contaminating ground water....
Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Visualizing Sound Waves (Now With Fire!)
Very neat! About the only thing I can think of that tops that is a flame that actually make the sound waves: http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/PopularElectronics/May1968/Flame_Amplification.htm...
Commented on Antony Gormley - let's all go barefoot
The first thing I thought about after reading this was a picture I saw in an old Time/Life book (The Mountains) - a picture of a Peruvian porter who was found walking barefoot in the snow, stoned on coca leaves,...
Commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
I always use a vertical line. I don't think it is different here, but then I did not learn it in school....
Commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
ooops... I meant george571, not Antinous...
Commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
Let's remember the main point of the exercise was irony, not actually editing the memo for length, accuracy or style. At the risk of becoming as redundant as those copyeditors though, I will also point out that the inverted pyramid...
Commented on Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music
Here is a British study from 2005 with similar findings: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/07/27/Downloaders_050727.html In the first place, a lot of what I download is stuff I already have on CD or vinyl, or stuff that is so obscure it never made it...
Commented on Trailer for movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road
...actually I just double-checked Liebowitz and realized they were heading for colonies that already existed. Oops. I did note one mention in The Road of a bit of living vegetation, and I wondered what the creature they saw at the...
Commented on Trailer for movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Not to be a stickler; I know the story is allegorical (and I found it quite powerful - enjoy is hardly appropriate), but I did note one big technical flaw. Forget the rickets that the father was worried about when...
Commented on Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation
A researcher recently investigated the many occult symbols build into the Manitoba Legislature: http://www.sric-canada.org/Legislature.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba_Legislative_Building...
Commented on I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World
Here's a pretty common German one: affentitten geil! literally - ape tit horny It is simply an exclamation that something is "really great!"...
Commented on Man who walked into Burning Man fire loses lawsuit
What an idiot, and a shameless one at that! He deserves all the publicity he gets. And he only burned his hands? The lord does indeed look after children, dumb animals and fools. One thing though - I AM surprised...
Commented on Sichuan peppercorns: "There's a war in my mouth."
Anonymous: Thanks! Thermosiphon: Because it comes to the table raw? Maybe, though one can order tartar and sushi. I know we used to have a hot pot soup tureen (like a big bundt pan with a charcoal brazier burning up...
Commented on Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies
I snapped up a fresh spool of linetape (1pt) a few years ago just so I could show it to people in 20 years or so and ask them what they thought it might be for. Haven't seen a non-repro...
Commented on Sichuan peppercorns: "There's a war in my mouth."
Anonymous: They're more like hot pine needles or juniper than cayenne (I believe they're actually from an ash tree). Really, they just numb your mouth right out like cloves. I have also seen it them packaged as "wild pepper". Too...
Commented on Keeping a bald eagle feather could result in a $100,000 fine and a year in prison
An uninvited guest: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/10/02/deer-chalet.html?ref=rss...
Commented on Keeping a bald eagle feather could result in a $100,000 fine and a year in prison
Winnipeg, the city I grew up in, has a deer population of 200 or so. They have access to the centre of town through a huge park and two rivers. One night the cops got called to a break-in at...
Commented on Keeping a bald eagle feather could result in a $100,000 fine and a year in prison
FREETARDZERO: Actually I agree with #1. The law is pretty clear, even if a lot of innocents get caught up in it (and of course a lot of people break it). But the law is there to be used when...
Commented on Keeping a bald eagle feather could result in a $100,000 fine and a year in prison
Takuan, I have a friend who does piano repair. He regularly has to rip vintage ivory keys off of pianos and replace them with plastic - if an instrument is being imported, or sold under conditions that run into Canada's...
Commented on Keeping a bald eagle feather could result in a $100,000 fine and a year in prison
A friend of mine explained to me why owls are associated with death in some native cultures (in chinese too, they are apparently terrifying). Much of it is because they hunt mostly at night, and because they fly silently (their...
Commented on Keeping a bald eagle feather could result in a $100,000 fine and a year in prison
Antionus: A friend of mine in NW Ontario told me about eagles picking up small beavers and taking them away. Actually when I lived in Vancouver there were stories of some kind of giant frog from the southern states which...
Commented on Keeping a bald eagle feather could result in a $100,000 fine and a year in prison
Speaking of sharp pitchforks... owls are exactly the same. One place I used to live had tons of great horned owls (the most common roadkill in the area). I remember getting up one morning and heading through a line of...
Commented on Keeping a bald eagle feather could result in a $100,000 fine and a year in prison
Antinous: Not trying to hassle you, but I didn't see where any Canadian said anything insulting about the states. We're just explaining that there are a lot of eagles here. And it was buddy from Alaska that called the eagles...
Commented on Pirate Party takes two EuroParl seats!
Thanks for the info Ranryu, I appreciate it. ...and anonymous, settle down. I was asking a fair question, not making accusations. And this matter is serious enough that I think these questions SHOULD be asked so it can be clarified....
Commented on Pirate Party takes two EuroParl seats!
Also wondering if neonazis in Sweden had anything to do with their election results (I sure hope not)....
Commented on Pirate Party takes two EuroParl seats!
Not to put a damper on this story, but I wonder if the Pirate Party reps might not be that fat removed from the fascists. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/pirate_bay_neo_nazi/ When I read this story I started searching Pirate Bay for information to do...
Commented on Panpsychism and Hylozoism
Thanks! Actually I found Fechner's collected works (German) at project Gutenberg: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/index.php?id=19&autorid=161&autor_vorname=+Gustav+Theodor&autor_nachname=Fechner&cHash=b31bbae2c6...
Commented on Inuit throat singing video
Forgot to mention - notice that it is an application for the Arctic Winter Games - a sport and traditional skills competition - not a music festival. But as I said, it's still music, IMHO - but it is primarily...

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ROSSINDETROIT commented on Pathways of Desire: Detroiters carve their own streets out of the snow
I work at an elementary school near Detroit. Today we had a meeting about snow removal. Our walkways will be clear but once again Detroiters will have to pick their way through the drifts and along unplowed streets. And people wonder why we Midwesterners like 4WD SUVs. I'm trying to get the grounds department to fix several muddy areas around the school where kids walk off the pavement, make mud holes and track the crap all over the building. Obviously the muddy areas should be paved because that's where they want to walk. But that would be a construction project...
Pteryxx commented on Pathways of Desire: Detroiters carve their own streets out of the snow
"Bulky snorkel parkas." You win turn of phrase forever....
entropyred commented on Pathways of Desire: Detroiters carve their own streets out of the snow
This definitely happens on our campus as well. Especially considering even the paved pathways tend to get covered in potholes and develop puddles many feet wide and long, while the "illegal" pathways are merely muddy. They keep putting up these rock garden things in the way to keep us from following the paths, so it's even funnier to see how people have worked the paths around them. I've only got a certain amount of time to get from A to B, so just pave the damn things and rip up the unused ones!...
treacle commented on Pathways of Desire: Detroiters carve their own streets out of the snow
Michigan State University (then Michigan Agricultural College) also waited a year before laying their sidewalks. Obviously worked well, and makes for pleasant stolls on a beautiful campus. The organic,--or as Rudy Rucker might put it: the gnarly--, wins out in the end!...
pjcamp commented on Pathways of Desire: Detroiters carve their own streets out of the snow
Georgia Tech tried this strategy when they remodeled their campus back in the 60's. I was a student there in the mid 70's and got to observe the results first hand. Didn't work out quite so well as other places. The dorms were concentrated in particular parts of campus, on the west edge and along I-75. People would set out along a common path and then scatter to the four winds as they set out for their individual buildings. This led to several paths that went out into the middle of a field and stopped. The construction crews dutifully poured...

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