labradorite
22 December 2011 05:37 pmI have been looking at this web page for the past several days and I have to stop myself from licking the screen.
http://www.madagascarminerals.com/cat-l
http://www.madagascarminerals.com/cat-l
A mysterious stranger sent me a cool Totoro i-Thing pouch all the way from Thailand. See!
Thank you mysterious stranger!
Thank you mysterious stranger!
Singing technique
31 July 2010 06:50 pmA classical singer (and voice teacher) analyzes classic male metal singers:
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/201
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onyxlynx
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/201
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onyxlynxKiva microloan charity
30 August 2008 03:22 pmThe Kiva microloan charity organization lets individuals lend money to individuals or small groups in areas like Africa and Asia via the Internet. You don't get interest on the loan, but it is repaid to you, and you can either lend it out again or withdraw it.
Kiva initially repaid lenders at the end of the loan term (typically 10 months to 18 months), but they've just changed their policy so that they repay lenders each time the loan recipient pays an installment (typically once a month). So you can get your money back faster.
I just went online to lend out my accumulated "Kiva credit." A lot of other people were doing the same thing, presumably because of this change in policy. I was refreshing the pages of several loan requests and watching the "amount still needed" drop every minute.
It is cool to watch people trying to help other people.
My lender page: http://www.kiva.org/lender/firecatstef
Kiva initially repaid lenders at the end of the loan term (typically 10 months to 18 months), but they've just changed their policy so that they repay lenders each time the loan recipient pays an installment (typically once a month). So you can get your money back faster.
I just went online to lend out my accumulated "Kiva credit." A lot of other people were doing the same thing, presumably because of this change in policy. I was refreshing the pages of several loan requests and watching the "amount still needed" drop every minute.
It is cool to watch people trying to help other people.
My lender page: http://www.kiva.org/lender/firecatstef
One for the fat activists
23 August 2008 04:21 pmGet yourself a free copy of the new 'zine Big Bums here:
http://obesitytimebomb.blogspot.com/200
Highlights:
Heads drawn back onto headless fatty photos
Positive Fattributes comic
Obesity Epidemic random story generator
Make your own Ticking Time Bomb of Obesity costume
http://obesitytimebomb.blogspot.com/200
Highlights:
Heads drawn back onto headless fatty photos
Positive Fattributes comic
Obesity Epidemic random story generator
Make your own Ticking Time Bomb of Obesity costume
In my review of the Golden Compass movie I mentioned a couple of the cool knitted garments that showed up in the movie.
The OH and I recently watched Jailhouse Rock. Elvis wears an very nice sweater in one scene. I wondered if I could find a pattern for it. A brief search turned up an adapted version (a personal pattern):
http://colorguardblog.blogs.com/knitblo
http://colorguardblog.blogs.com/.sh
It also appears you can buy a reproduction of the sweater.
The OH and I recently watched Jailhouse Rock. Elvis wears an very nice sweater in one scene. I wondered if I could find a pattern for it. A brief search turned up an adapted version (a personal pattern):
http://colorguardblog.blogs.com/knitblo
http://colorguardblog.blogs.com/.sh
It also appears you can buy a reproduction of the sweater.
....go to http://www.bethelstreetgallery.com/inde
Since I like all four, I'm enjoying a lot. Some of my favorites: "Summer Heat," "Cat Fight," "Floating Flower"
(via BBW Art: The Broad Band http://francesca.net/broadband.html![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Since I like all four, I'm enjoying a lot. Some of my favorites: "Summer Heat," "Cat Fight," "Floating Flower"
(via BBW Art: The Broad Band http://francesca.net/broadband.html
liveavatar)plymouth just posted a fascinating metaphor in one of my friends' friends-locked posts. Social groups are hollow spheres - everyone's on the edge and noone is in the middle. That's the theory I came up with a few years back to explain the fact that all my friends seem to think they're on the fringes somehow. I guess you could say there are different shells to the spheres and some people are in the inner shells and some in the outer shells. Kinda like atoms. People are electrons. Nobody is at the nucleus.I think this is a good way of spinning one's thinking about social groups in a way that makes it OK and normal to feel "on the outside" of one. (Although it doesn't explain why everyone thinks social groups have an inside that they are outside of and everyone else is inside of.)
Kundun, a film about the 14th Dalai Lama, directed by Martin Scorsese, certainly is one-sided in its treatment of the history involved (in a way that I am inclined to agree with), and more than a tad emotionally manipulative. But it's so. fucking. beautiful. And besides, how can I resist a score with Philip Glass and the Gyuto Monks?
This week's musical discovery
8 June 2007 12:32 amAlbert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha, Re-Covers
They are from Tuva, and I found out about them viathe_ogre via the movie Genghis Blues about the American blues musician/throat singer Paul Pena, and ultimately via Richard Feynman (one of the first Westerners to popularize Tuva).
On this album they are covering a wide variety of mostly Western rock music, from Led Zeppelin to Joy Division. My favorites are the Zeppelin song (see the "listening to" field), "In A Gadda Da Vida," just because—who does "In A Gadda Da Vida" these days? and "Black Magic Woman," which I like a lot more than Santana's version.
I can't remember where I found out about Tuvan throat-singing originally. I have had a CD of Tuvan throat-singing, Deep in the Heart of Tuva, for a long time. It has a Yat-Kha song on it. It also has a couple of Paul Pena songs on it.
I have other overtone-and throat-singing music—from David Hykes' Harmonic Choir and from the Gyuto Monks Tibetan Tantric Choir (a great CD, but not the best choice to take with you to the oral surgeon when having your wisdom teeth out).
They are from Tuva, and I found out about them via
the_ogre via the movie Genghis Blues about the American blues musician/throat singer Paul Pena, and ultimately via Richard Feynman (one of the first Westerners to popularize Tuva). On this album they are covering a wide variety of mostly Western rock music, from Led Zeppelin to Joy Division. My favorites are the Zeppelin song (see the "listening to" field), "In A Gadda Da Vida," just because—who does "In A Gadda Da Vida" these days? and "Black Magic Woman," which I like a lot more than Santana's version.
I can't remember where I found out about Tuvan throat-singing originally. I have had a CD of Tuvan throat-singing, Deep in the Heart of Tuva, for a long time. It has a Yat-Kha song on it. It also has a couple of Paul Pena songs on it.
I have other overtone-and throat-singing music—from David Hykes' Harmonic Choir and from the Gyuto Monks Tibetan Tantric Choir (a great CD, but not the best choice to take with you to the oral surgeon when having your wisdom teeth out).
Via suzimoses, I learn that scientists have created mouse-human hybrids...well OK, the only hybrid part is a set of genes coding for human-type trichromatic color vision, otherwise they are mice.
Carl Zimmer's blog The Loom (syndicated at![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
carlzimmer) contains an interesting discussion of the result - the mice's brains can actually interpret what they are seeing, even though their brains aren't specifically designed to interpret the extra color information.
http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2007/0
Also it contains an image I couldn't resist iconifying.
suzimoses, I learn that scientists have created mouse-human hybrids...well OK, the only hybrid part is a set of genes coding for human-type trichromatic color vision, otherwise they are mice. Carl Zimmer's blog The Loom (syndicated at
carlzimmer) contains an interesting discussion of the result - the mice's brains can actually interpret what they are seeing, even though their brains aren't specifically designed to interpret the extra color information.http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2007/0
Also it contains an image I couldn't resist iconifying.
Heather MacAllister's notes for her keynote address to the NOLOSE conference in September 2006:
http://nolose.org/06/hm_keynote.php
These are notes so there are parts where the flow breaks into "still-to-do" lists and there's some repetition.
This is relevant beyond the fat dyke community. It talks about history and intergenerational communication and love of community and the meaning and possibility of gatherings and sexuality and appearance and social competitiveness and inclusivity and discrimination and health care and risk taking and identity politics and includes a very interesting act of verbing.
http://nolose.org/06/hm_keynote.php
These are notes so there are parts where the flow breaks into "still-to-do" lists and there's some repetition.
This is relevant beyond the fat dyke community. It talks about history and intergenerational communication and love of community and the meaning and possibility of gatherings and sexuality and appearance and social competitiveness and inclusivity and discrimination and health care and risk taking and identity politics and includes a very interesting act of verbing.
