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Friday, November 08, 2013
Thursday, November 07, 2013
Keira Rathbone's amazing typewriter drawings
By Jack Brummet, Analog Arts Ed.
Keira Rathbone makes cool drawings with a 1960s typewriter. She mainly employs dashes, slashes, and brackets, while using the letters mostly for shading. This is her website.
Keira Rathbone makes cool drawings with a 1960s typewriter. She mainly employs dashes, slashes, and brackets, while using the letters mostly for shading. This is her website.
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Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Jesus & St. Peter - a shaggy dog story
By Mona Goldwater, Folk tales Ed.
[quarried from several Internet sites; author/originator unknown]
Jesus and Saint Peter are golfing.
St. Peter steps up to the tee on a par three and hits one long and straight. It reaches the green.
Jesus is up next. He slices it. The ball heads over the fence into traffic on an adjacent street. Bounces off a truck, onto the roof of a nearby shack and into the rain gutter, down the drain spout and onto a lily pad at the edge of a lake. A frog jumps up and snatches the ball in his mouth. An eagle swoops down and grabs the frog. As the eagle flies over the green, the frog croaks and drops the ball. It’s in the hole.
Saint Peter looks at Jesus, exasperated. “Are you gonna play golf?” he asks “or are you just gonna f*** around?”
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013
The best motivational poster ever?
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.
The best motivational poster ever? Well, maybe not, but it's way up there. . .
The best motivational poster ever? Well, maybe not, but it's way up there. . .
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Monday, November 04, 2013
Sunday, November 03, 2013
Amazing images of Robert F. Kennedy on the campaign trail
Images quarried and selected By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.
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Saturday, November 02, 2013
Project 1794/WS 606A, a/k/a The Avrocar: the U.S.-made UFO
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore/UFO Ed.
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The Avrocar in storage at the Smithsonian Institution in 1984.
Project Project 1794/WS 606A, a/k/a The Avrocar, never really went anywhere or got past its early test phases. In the end, it ended up being a hovercar proptotype.
The test models suffered from dangerous oil leaks that resulted in three fires, and eventually the staff were afraid of the machine, even when they were safely nestled in an observation booth of bullet-proof glass and quarter-inch-thick steel. A final, and disastrous engine test in 1956 involved a Viper jet engine "running wild" and convinced the agencies involved that a less dangerous test vehicle was necessary.
A second Avrocar logged about 75 flight hours, but was also a failure; it couldn't lift itself safely more than a few feet off the ground, and its bulbous design caused unbearable heat and screaming exhaust noise, which made it impractical for the military. One person pointed out that, although it was a technical failure, its design was a rubber water skirt shy of being the world's first hovercraft,
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Project Project 1794/WS 606A, a/k/a The Avrocar, never really went anywhere or got past its early test phases. In the end, it ended up being a hovercar proptotype.
The test models suffered from dangerous oil leaks that resulted in three fires, and eventually the staff were afraid of the machine, even when they were safely nestled in an observation booth of bullet-proof glass and quarter-inch-thick steel. A final, and disastrous engine test in 1956 involved a Viper jet engine "running wild" and convinced the agencies involved that a less dangerous test vehicle was necessary.
A second Avrocar logged about 75 flight hours, but was also a failure; it couldn't lift itself safely more than a few feet off the ground, and its bulbous design caused unbearable heat and screaming exhaust noise, which made it impractical for the military. One person pointed out that, although it was a technical failure, its design was a rubber water skirt shy of being the world's first hovercraft,
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