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Category Archives: Civilization
Soviet Jazz from the 60′sFrom the box of “things you never thought existed”, comes this videoclip of Soviet jazz group “Orera“. Attention to detail in those times was clearly focused on what matters (musical quality) and not where it doesn’t (actual video/sound syncing). [Via Dark Roasted Blend] |
Tourism in Antartica growing exponentially
It really must be getting comfortably warm down there Number of tourists in Antartica: No wonder they are building a highway across the continent. Antartica [wiki] |
The definitive investigation on UFO’s (so far, if anything)
And I add “so far” because evidently we are waaay far from reaching anything that could be labelled as “definitive” regarding UFO’s”. THIS is the link to the “Out of the Blue” documentary on Stage6, although there is a slight disconnect from this file and the documentary’s Wikipedia and Official page, where the movie’s publication year is shown to be 2002 (the website doesn’t say this textually but they are selling a “5 year anniversary edition”) and its running time 90 minutes. The documentary available on Stage 6 runs for 113 minutes and shows and narrates documents and events happened in the last few years up to 2007 (that, or I am mixing memories of documentaries). Perhaps this is the 5 year anniversary edition, I don’t know, but in any case, best for us; more material, more proof… more hope? One of the “additions”, I guess, is the mention and extensive summary of The Disclosure Project (non-profit organization with the intention of de-classifying and disclosing all information on UFO’s) [wiki] National Press Conference that “hosted over 20 witnesses, most of them ex-military, who provided testimonies, some of them about the cover-up of the UFO issue. You can actually watch the full conference in Google Video (2 hours). I would however recommend watching Out of the Blue first. Another document addressed in the movie and worth commenting on outside is The Cometa Report, roughly a French version of The Disclosure Project [wiki] [more at Ufoevidence.org with links to the complete translated report in PDF]. |
Funny Physiology
[Exctract from Damn Interesting's article about the scientific study on laughter] |
A cup is useful for being emptyTranslated excerpt from José Luis Trechera’s “La Sabiduría de la Tortuga” (The wisdom of the tortoise, only in Spanish).
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Una taza es útil por estar vacíaExtracto del libro “La Sabiduría de la Tortuga” de José Luis Trechera.
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Tell secretsPeople send postcards with their secrets to the website, secrets are shared with the world. I believe this and Facebook’s honestly-named Honesty Box application, which allows the sending of annonymous private messages, are solid steps forward for open public sincerity. How can you possibly not find that exciting! [Via Legal Alien] |
Money and marriage: a Craigslist adTHIS IS AN ACTUAL CRAIGSLIST POST
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Blogactionday.org: All blogs, same issue, same dayWhat would happen if every blog published posts discussing the same issue, on the same day? One issue. One day. Thousands of voices. I’m so joining this. And if you happen to have a blog, so should you. [Via Zen habits] |