where do the lost memories go?

The Free And Independent Republic Of Washington Square
January 1917
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
“United Studios of Eldert”
June 2007

“And the effect works both ways. Just as physical exercise can boost the brain, mental exercise can boost the body. In 2001, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio asked volunteers to spend just 15 minutes a day thinking about exercising their biceps. After 12 weeks, their arms were 13 percent stronger.”
wtf?
 
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=1978

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/expeditions/treasure_fossil/Treasures/Dodo/dodo.html?dinos
 
These birds were extinct less than a century after humans discovered them in Mauritius.

there is a cool quiz on evolution here:
http://anthro.palomar.edu/hominid/quizzes/ho1quiz1.htm
 
Also I’ve been listening to this audiobook “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson repeatedly for weeks now.
Most of the information here is so digestible yet still I tend to forget what I listen most of the time, which is mostly because the audiobook is 15 audio […]

“real history only begins when technology has solved the problem of scarcity
what follows from that is history proper.
the unfolding of the free and unfettered human consciosness.”

the earliest record of truly bipedal gait. And romantism.
 

 
 
 
I recognized this piece as soon as I saw it. I cannot confirm the relationship from the description on the burning man site. But I still say it’s a beautiful art piece inspired from an archeological find. Although my hope is that Laetoli footprints are made by […]

Rapist is free to enjoy £7m lottery win By Jane Mulkerrins(Filed: 01/04/2005)
A convicted rapist who won £7 million on a Lotto draw while serving his sentence was released from jail last night as the Home Office admitted it could do nothing to prevent him from collecting his windfall.
Iorworth Hoare, who was jailed for life in […]

“Obscurum per obscurius, ignotum per ignotius”

they are so unknown you wonder how they exist.

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. […]

(even though you’re not hungry.)
From  C. S. Forester’s description of British Army Headquarters in The General:
“It was like the debate of a group of savages. As to how to extract a screw from a piece of wood. Accustomed only to nails, they had made one effort to pull out the screw by main force, […]

Creative Time has done good again, with another project. Running throughNovember 13, 2004 they have this installation up at a few blocks from myhouse. Freedom of Expression.
So we went there with friends one night and screamed a bunch of non-sense:“Give me a green card! Please.” (since it was close enough to the INS office)and “Allah-u-akbar..” […]

 
In the Economist I had read about these virtual worlds being popular in Asia. However I imagined them as Final Fantasy worlds where you have a goal which you have to accomplish. I guess it’s not exactly that. I heard this online game Second Life through Boing boing. It’s just like Sims -which I never […]

Ok. I’m over it. A 4 year old can paint. She can sell her paintings. She can sell them in a gallery in Soho, with 200 people attenting her opening night. She can make $40,000 from it. She can price her new paintings from $6,000 to people on her “waiting list”
But don’t tell me she […]

I have concerns about the utility of anti-war protests.
Meaning, why do you fight against something so hard, when you have never seen any outcome? This many years after Vietnam, you make a war protest, one of the biggest earth has seen. The first ever war protest -before- the war even starts. yet the war […]

http://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com/

 
Went out with friends to Bar 515. After we had agreed to go there, I had seen this girl on 34th and Madison handing out “Complimentary drink” flyers. I took 2, and then 13 more for the rest of the crew. I realized “free alcohol” is appreciated like nothing else.
Last night I drank
1 margarita2 jack […]

this is a video I downloaded from the internet about 2 years ago. It’s a video recorded from inside an AC130 bomber plane. I think it’s promotional material showing that US Army did not bomb the Mosque’s during operations in Afganistan or elsewhere.
What drew my attention was this mans effort in the video; trying to […]

Of all the months in the year (there are 12
of them) August is the one I like most. August is one fine month.

The photo is from the famous Cleopatra beach of Turkey. Topless sunbathing is allowed in beaches in Turkey. Thats what these and many tourists are doing here, further in the picture is a tent setup by an older Turkish couple… creating their own isolation to -outside environment-. peaceful.
http://www.hurriyetim.com.tr/haber/0,,sid~1@w~1@nvid~453673,00.asp