Archive for the 'Life' Category
Music: Bob Marley – Natural Mystic
One of Bob Marley’s greatest songs “Natural Mystic” with images from the funeral of Hon. Robert Nesta Marley 1981, Kingston Jamaica.
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Video: Chocolate Love
One for the night or Saturday morning depending wherever you are on this planet.
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Data Visualization: U.S. States as N.Y.C. Boroughs
The boroughs of New York City as U.S. states based on their closest population analogues.
Manhattan becomes Idaho, the Bronx becomes Maine, Queens has as many people as New Mexico, Brooklyn as Nevada and Staten Island as many as Wyoming.
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Gadget: TeddyTaurus
If you liked to play with Teddies when you were younger and believe been seen with one at your age might not be such a great idea – here a two options:
A fried of us a while ago – always in the evening – was having a small white teddy bear looking out from one of the pockets of his jacket. Believe it or not – great success with the girls. Maybe it was the type of the bear.
The other option is more for home use: The TeddyTaurus.
Made by the great German toy company Steiff, the TeddyTaurus is most likely the first…
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Quote of the day: Life
The following lines were found at Derzhavin’s table after his death:
The current of Time’s river
Will carry off all human deeds
And sink into oblivion
All peoples, kingdoms and their kings.
And if there’s something that remains
Through sounds of horn and lyre,
It too will disappear into the maw of time
And not avoid the common pyre… (lines broken)
Gavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin, 1743 – 1816, Russian poet
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Weekend Activity: Origami
Here’s a great time lapsed video of how to create an origami version of Evangelion Unit 01
Might be a bit tough to start with that art but still interesting to watch.
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