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Nov
7th

Sat

Sent my re-blog with commentary, so re-bloggin’ again. REEEEEE-BLLLOOOOGGGGG!

Great post by Mike H here.. and if you’re into this stuff, I 100% recommend Kim Stanley Robinson’s trilogy about colonizing Mars (I know, I know total nerd science-fiction but there’s some really great science-fact in there too). Super super mind blowing. Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars

hifiny:

dpstyles:

mikehudack:

evangotlib:

thegongshow:

Surface of Mars (Via U or Arizona)

I just changed the background image of my blog to a picture of the surface of Mars. More at The Big Picture.

These are amazing images. Click through to see them all. Going into space would be so awesome.

We need to retire the Space Shuttle and, potentially, shut down ISS. We need to quickly finish work on the Shuttle replacement program, probably the Ares. And, I believe, we need to establish a base on the Moon.

Why a base on the Moon? Because it will provide excellent practice for Mars. Both because it will give astronauts and NASA experience in colonization and because it will prepare the public for a proper Mars mission. Nothing in the space program can possibly be more exciting than a permanent human presence on a celestial body. A Moon colony will galvanize the American public and the world. And then we can proceed to Mars.

This is our calling as human beings. This is our calling as Homo Sapiens. We must spread our genome among the stars to prevent an extinction event. We must explore. We must colonize. It is our destiny. Just as Europeans once conquered the Americas we — all humans this time — must conquer the stars.

Just as I thought … outer space is tiiiiiiight.

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Great post by Mike H here.. and if you’re into this stuff, I 100% recommend Kim Stanley Robinson’s series about colonizing Mars (I know, I know total nerd science-fiction but there’s some really great science-fact in there too). Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553560735/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257639507&sr=8-1

mikehudack:

evangotlib:

thegongshow:

Surface of Mars (Via U or Arizona)

I just changed the background image of my blog to a picture of the surface of Mars. More at The Big Picture.

These are amazing images. Click through to see them all. Going into space would be so awesome.

We need to retire the Space Shuttle and, potentially, shut down ISS. We need to quickly finish work on the Shuttle replacement program, probably the Ares. And, I believe, we need to establish a base on the Moon.

Why a base on the Moon? Because it will provide excellent practice for Mars. Both because it will give astronauts and NASA experience in colonization and because it will prepare the public for a proper Mars mission. Nothing in the space program can possibly be more exciting than a permanent human presence on a celestial body. A Moon colony will galvanize the American public and the world. And then we can proceed to Mars.

This is our calling as human beings. This is our calling as Homo Sapiens. We must spread our genome among the stars to prevent an extinction event. We must explore. We must colonize. It is our destiny. Just as Europeans once conquered the Americas we — all humans this time — must conquer the stars.

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Nov
2nd

Mon

Smell ya later, Piglett.

johncarney:

evangotlib:

icodeforlove:

This is absolutely hilarious!

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tedr:

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juliasegal:

Princess Leia and her stunt double waiting (and tanning) on set.

More like “sleeping off a bender” for Carrie.

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Want.

mattlehrer:

Recycled Bowling Lane Furniture which Inhabitat says is “right up our alley.”

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Little Sister Katie™ was a bowl of mac and cheese for Halloween - ha!

(via kcrowley)

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Nov
1st

Sun

Broadway @ 8th Street. I walked under this 2x yesterday. Yikes!

Pic by Jesse Chan Norrie [more]

hifiny:

Well, that’s reassuring. I walk under this scaffolding twice every weekday. [At Broadway & 8th Street … Via]

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Halloween 2009 = two dance parties, two pinatas, a lil’ piggie and Cru Jones:

Halloween 2009 = two dance parties, two pinatas, a lil’ piggie and Cru Jones

Started pre-bar’in at my apt, hit up Seth’s @ Porch, then to Grellan’s @ Mary’ Os, then to Becca’s @ Summit and then sleepytown. JJ& Jac rocking the pinatas (complete with candy tossin’ action), Chelsa went as a Piggy Bank, McSimmons as some SNL character (sorry!), Xtian as a bat made from busted umbrella parts (brilliant).

I threw together some last minute Cru Jones action: www.imdb.com/title/tt0091817/ You have no idea how hard it was to find a pair of red warmup pants (I ended up finding a pair of Kids XL in the basement of Paragon)

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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter - the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last—the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.

And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.

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Here is New York, E. B. White, 1949 (via cdixon + fred-wilson)

Slightly related, but is there a better NYC anthem than Jay Z’s “Empire State of Mind?”

[Chorus: Alicia Keys]
New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There’s nothin’ you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Let’s hear it for New York, New York,
New York

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Oct
31st

Sat

Ever notice this sound installation in the 34th St subway station (N/R track?) Put your hands over the black dots (IR sensor) and sounds play. There’s one each side of the track too so you can make music with your uptown friends too!:

“REACH New York”- An Urban Musical Instrument
by Christopher Janney (January 1996)

More here: www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/4061238252/

And here: www.nycsubway.org/perl/artwork_show?121

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