englishman at-large in hollywood. engineer, grammarian, gentleman, urban adventurer, vintage car-lover, seinfeldian logician, ex-naughty boarding-school boy. lives in hollywood. nothing to do with filmbiz.
the raw exposed bank vault door of the new Wells Fargo bank in Hollywood
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map showing the physical & chronological travels of 4 of the world's greatest literary stories - brilliant
The greats covered:
- Pygmalion
- Oedipus
- Faust
- Leviathan
Original post/URL here: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/451-a-map-of-four-well-travelled-...
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woken by what sounded like a riot outside. guess I know why vine st is closed today.
I'm all for equal rights - really - but being so loud about it before midday on a Sunday? And that bloody plane looping DIRECTLY OVER MY BED with the crap tailmessage. Why that's positively *evil*. I need a drink.
Posted from Los Angeles, CA
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ethics, evolution and how keeping chickens came to define the entire human condition [*coff*]
Pecking order
4 February 2010
Peter Lennox keeps chickens, and they have taught him a great deal about behaviour, ethics, evolution and the psychopathic nature of modern 'efficiency'
All chickens are not born equal. If a few more philosophers had had a little more empirical interaction with chickens, John Locke may have reconsidered his notion of tabula rasa, the idea of the incipient individual as a blank slate embarking on a course of self-authorship. Chickens are born with certain personality traits, and these endure in a remarkably stable fashion throughout their lifespans (which can be as long as 15 years).
Of course, chickens are not born fully mentally formed - you can watch them learn by discovery, doing, copying and sometimes even adapting and improving. Eventually, older ones end up teaching younger ones. You don't see that in the battery farm, but put some in the garden and you soon do.
Watching chickens is a very old human pastime, and the forerunner of psychology, sociology and management theory. Sometimes understanding yourself can be made easier by projection on to others. Watching chickens helps us understand human motivations and interactions, which is doubtless why so many words and phrases in common parlance are redolent of the hen yard: "pecking order", "cockiness", "ruffling somebody's feathers", "taking somebody under your wing", "fussing like a mother hen", "strutting", a "bantamweight fighter", "clipping someone's wings", "beady eyes", "chicks", "to crow", "to flock", "get in a flap", "coming home to roost", "don't count your chickens before they're hatched", "nest eggs" and "preening".
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somali pirates open fire against a VERY large US frigate. hilarity ensues.
would YOU open fire against this bloody great warship? it goes without saying that the pirates were detained, and their shite wee ship was scuttled. aww, nice try fellas.
original story: http://burnafterreading.nationaljournal.com/2010/04/theyre-baaaack-somali-pir...
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