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PUBLIC MARKS from ramage

09 July 2005

The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire

by 1 other (via)
survey of ethnic minorities living in former USSR

05 July 2005

02 July 2005

THE THOUGHT PROJECT // BY SIMON HOEGSBERG

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what are strangers thinking as you pass them on the street?

26 June 2005

Alias: Flickr + Reblog

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daily dose of street art culled from various sources on flickr

20 June 2005

culiblog: irreverent, arty, fascinating blog about food

by 1 other (via)
I took home some of those organic strawberries from Brabant last Sunday and by Monday morning I had turned eating strawberries into a yoga breathing practice.

19 June 2005

COFF:Fundación Centro Ordóñez Falcón

by 1 other
remarkable collection of photography based in San Sebastian (Donostia), Spain.

La Nature, 1889

images of electric discharges by E-L Trouvelot, from the pages of La Nature

17 June 2005

Ananova - 'Merman' spotted in Caspian

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"At the beginning we thought it was a big fish, but then we spotted hair on the head of the monster and ... the front part of his body was equipped with arms."

16 June 2005

BBC Wordhunt

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phwoar! bogstandard "nit nurse" balti bomber jacket. I mean, come on, what're you trying to say here?

Botero's anger at Abu Ghraib on display in Rome

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Botero told Reuters he hoped his works would be a "permanent witness to a great crime" in much the same way Picasso's "Guernica" has become a permanent reminder of the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War.

15 June 2005

Dangerrrr: cats could alter your personality - Health - Times Online

by 2 others (via)
"half of Britain’s human population carry the parasite in their brains"

Word Scatter

Create amusing concrete poetry from any text (or type your own) with Word Scatter

Space Art in Children's books 1950's to 1970's

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The illustrations in these books show facts (as they were known) mixed in with the fantasy of space flight

14 June 2005

10 June 2005

do.delicio.us - a greasemonkey user script

Add the current page in browser to del.icio.us using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-D. If you have selected text, it will be added to the extended description field.

08 June 2005

The Pharmaceutical Journal: Freud, Sherlock Holmes and Coca Cola — the cocaine connection

"I gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career."

01 June 2005

Science Daily: Australia's Megafauna Coexisted With Humans

Humans and "gigantic three tonne wombat-like creatures", amongst others, co-existed for 15,000 years.

25 May 2005

It's a Tag World !

by 12 others
tag aggregator (taggregator?) for the recently-tagged from technorati/flickr/del.ici.ous/blogmarks: rss feeds available too

22 May 2005

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Earth's species feel the squeeze

"!Biodiversity and human well-being just cannot be separated" (Dr Kaveh Zahedi, World Conservation Monitoring Centre)

The Observer | International | Would you Adam 'n' Eve it ... dinosaurs in Eden

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the first dinosaur museum to take a creationist perspective...but, I fear, not the last

What's Wilderness Worth? | Outside Online

Bruce Barcott: "As a Matter of Fact, Money Does Grow on Trees" - the economic value of wilderness

19 May 2005

The People Own Ideas! by Lawrence Lessig

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Will we be more or less free to remix culture in the 21st century than we were in previous centuries?