moon phases

Started this before change to "New Blogger", as backup in case of trouble with digiphoto blog "In a Small Dark Room", or rants & links blog "Hello Cruel World" . Useful - at one stage Dark Room was there, but like the astrophysical Dark Matter, we could't see it ... better now, but kept Just In Case.

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There is nothing. There is no God and no universe, there is only empty space, and in it a lost and homeless and wandering and companionless and indestructible Thought. And I am that thought. And God, and the Universe, and Time, and Life, and Death, and Joy and Sorrow and Pain only a grotesque and brutal dream, evolved from the frantic imagination of that same Thought.
Mark Twain (letter to Joseph Twichell after his wife's death)
[me, on a bad day]

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WRITER'S LINKS
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Writer's Net

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(and my Wish List)

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Most of these links are via "Making Light" by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

pandasthumb.org/
"The Panda's Thumb" is many things...
First, it is an example of jury-rigged evolutionary adaptation made famous by the late Stephen Jay Gould in an essay of the same name. Second, it is the legendary virtual bar serving the community of the legendary virtual University of Ediacara ( http://www.ediacara.org/ ) somewhere in the Ediacaran hills of southern Australia, growing out of the lore of the Usenet talk.origins newsgroup. And now it is a weblog giving another voice for the defenders of the integrity of science, the patrons of "The Panda's Thumb".

darwin.ediacara.org/cri.html
Richard Harter's Evolution Quiz - from the University of Ediacara site

www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=8&did=478
Post-Furman Botched Executions
(from the Death Penalty Information Centre)
Not nice reading.

www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/03/26/index.html
Wonderful, spooky image of Mars

www.molokosynthemesc.com/risks.exe?cmd=main
Body Modifiers Alert!
Risks. This section of BME is designed to allow practioners, clients, and enthusiasts to exchange information about risks, complications, and their treatment in a non-judgemental forum with the purpose of fostering a self-regulating safe and responsible body modification community. Please be aware that this section is always growing and should not be treated as a complete archive

www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter02/PATTfuzzyfeet.html
fuzzyfeet
These slippers are made by knitting a pair of gigantic [and I mean GIGANTIC!] socks at a very loose gauge, then slowly felting them either in the washing machine or by hand to a custom fit.

If you've never knitted socks before, these slippers are ideal. They knit up quickly with worsted weight yarn and large needles and the felting process is very forgiving of errors. In the end, it's nearly impossible to tell they were knitted at all

sights.seindal.dk/sight/768_Engraving_by_Tempesta.html Old Views of Rome
[permalink] posted by Mez at 1:35 am