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awesome

April 5th, 2010 by genelewis | No Comments | Filed in links of the day

Barack Obama Looking at Awesome Things
Call me a whistleblower if you want, but the truth is the truth. President Obama spends most of his time looking at awesome things.

Not to be confused with Obama feigning interest in mundane things.

Zombie Bitches Kickin Peoples Ass

March 29th, 2010 by genelewis | No Comments | Filed in links of the day

Via Oklahoma Rock Newsblog.

What makes a good downtown?

March 26th, 2010 by genelewis | No Comments | Filed in links of the day

Video is full of great advice with real world examples… density, variety, people on display, and NO surface parking lots!

wow

March 24th, 2010 by genelewis | 1 Comment | Filed in links of the day, technoscience

meme’d

March 24th, 2010 by genelewis | No Comments | Filed in links of the day, politics

trains everywhere

March 19th, 2010 by genelewis | No Comments | Filed in links of the day

There’s plenty in the way of this happening, but at least they’re thinking big. The United States used to not be afraid of grand national projects. Let’s hope we rediscover our courage to try.

Passengers will be able to travel by train from King’s Cross to Beijing in just two days on trains that travel almost as fast as aeroplanes under ambitious new plans from the Chinese. The network would eventually carry passengers from London to Beijing and then to Singapore. It would also run to India and Pakistan, according to Wang Mengshu, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a senior consultant on China’s domestic high-speed rail project.

There goes the neighborhood!

March 18th, 2010 by genelewis | No Comments | Filed in links of the day, technoscience

Scientists supersize quantum mechanics : Nature News
A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving.

bureaucracy has ruined revolution

March 3rd, 2010 by genelewis | No Comments | Filed in links of the day, politics

Fee to Overthrow the Government: Five Dollars
South Carolina Lawmaker Seeks to Overthrow 1951 Law Requiring “Subversive Agents” to Register With Government

Download the form here.

how to grow a beard at Brigham Young University (if approved)

February 26th, 2010 by genelewis | No Comments | Filed in links of the day
A student who wishes to obtain a beard exception must visit a BYU Student Health Center doctor by appointment (422.5156). The doctor will fax his recommendation. The student then needs to come to the Honor Code Office to fill out some paperwork and receive the letter allowing the growth of the beard. …

Read this.

February 24th, 2010 by genelewis | No Comments | Filed in links of the day
It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television’s most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.