Nsyght - Last Bookmarks tagged with "posttumblr"

American Sign Museum website: historic signs and lettering

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:32 GMT

The museum is in Cincinnati, Ohio (800-925-1110), if you want to visit. I love this kind of stuff.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

How to wreck $100,000,000 worth of cars

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:32 GMT

Mazda Corp. decides to destroy almost 5000 new vehicles after an almost-sinking freighter exposes them to unknown environmental stresses. Turns out wrecking a lot of new cars isn't as easy as it sounds: they created a "disassembly line."
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

American Sign Museum website: historic signs and lettering

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:32 GMT

The museum is in Cincinnati, Ohio (800-925-1110), if you want to visit. I love this kind of stuff.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

"Where Boys Grow Up to Be Jihadis," by Andrea Elliott - New York Times, 11/25/2007

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:40:49 GMT

Important piece of journalism about a Moroccan town which has seen a number of young men vanish into the world of jihad.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

A blog about coffee and the environment [4]

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:49:43 GMT

I've been wondering lately about the environmental impact of my fairly serious coffee habit, since I know coffee farming and trade has a pretty hefty ecological footprint. I came across this blog. Voila.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

A blog about coffee and the environment

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:49:43 GMT

Thomas Merton on "sanity" and Christianity in the modern world

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:49:42 GMT

Merton's thoughts on the finding that Eichmann was legally "sane": "sanity" is overrated in a world where mass destruction is considered an acceptable way of waging war. Given the modern situation, no Christian should aspire to sanity or realism.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

"Fogcatchers": a new source for potable water

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:49:47 GMT

In remote Chilean villages where fresh water is often scarce and contaminated, a simple new technology -- mesh sheets strung between posts -- captures condensation from coastal fog, providing an abundant and reliable source of cheap drinking water.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

A Deadly U.S.-Iran Firefight | TIME

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:44 GMT

US and Iranian troops exchanged small-arms and RPG fire last September on the Iran-Iraq border. This has been kept very quiet until recently.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Radar: Instant Picture Conversations

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:43 GMT

Sort of like a cross between Flickr, Twitter, and Zemble. Send MMS photos to the site and they are shared instantaneously and privately with your contacts.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

The Riot Act (1714)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:41 GMT

Full text of the Riot Act of 1714 (took effect August 1715), transcribed by Jonathan Walther.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Thich Chon Thien - Personality - 1-2

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:40 GMT

Contains excerpts from the narrative describing the events of the night of Siddhartha Gautama's enlightenment. -- "Thus with mind composed, quite purified, quiteclarified, without blemish, without defilement, grown soft and workable, fixed, immova
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Interactive Tour of the Buddhist Wheel of Life (flash movie)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:41 GMT

An interactive explanatory graphic of the Wheel of Becoming, created around a spectacular modern Bhutanese painting.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Birth of the Christian Soldier: How Evangelicals Infiltrated the American Military

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:39 GMT

Excerpt from "Mikey" Weinstein's new book on the rising power of hard-right Christian evangelicalism within the U.S. military today.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

LearnOutLoud.com Free Audio & Video - Free Audio Books, Lectures, & Speeches on MP3 Download and Streaming Video

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:40 GMT

Free audio for education -- books, lectures, historical sources, etc. Worth looking into.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Let them sing it for you

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:39 GMT

Enter a short message, and it will be translated to speech -- but not ordinary speech, little clips from songs. Very weird. You can then email the audio to anyone.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

PowerSnap :: A Singular Experience For Photos

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:39 GMT

Slick-looking program to allow you to automate photosharing using tags, also supports syncing with Flickr. I am just installing it now. The main page is all Flash.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Radiant City :: A Documentary About Urban Sprawl

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:37 GMT

A documentary in which a two-man team consisting of a journalist and "Canada's king of surreal comedy", heavily influenced by James Howard Kunstler, heads off to document life in the mass-produced strip-mall world of 21st-century suburbia.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Audio resources on church history from Monergism.com

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:36 GMT

From willhelm's clips (http://snurl.com/1jzu0 ). Looks to be worth checking out, though I have no idea what the "Monergism" site is about.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

The Mod Squad TV Show Unofficial Home Page w/ Pictures & Episode Guide

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:37 GMT

Via Kore7's links page (http://snurl.com/1jqg9).
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

The world's subway maps, presented at the same scale

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:19:32 GMT

I'm not sure why I like this, but somehow it seems very cool. A bunch of subway maps from around the world, shown as simple line drawings and presented at equal scale so you can compare them.
Submited by nbr 22, January 2008

Army news release on "uppercasing 'Families'"

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:34 GMT

The official press release announcing the new Army policy of capitalizing the phrase "Army Families" in all official documents. Explains that [quote]this rule applies to all documents in various medium, not just correspondence.... Examples include: brie
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

AlterNet: Christian Reconstructionists Are Trying to Take Dominion in America -- and They Have Powerful Friends

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:29 GMT

Another alarmist (?) article on Christian Reconstructionists and how they are taking over everything, from Alternet. Probably ought to read it.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

'Tolkien was not a writer' - A.N. Wilson, Telegraph

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:28 GMT

The most reliable-looking source I've found thus far for the Hugo Dyson line, "Oh no, not another fucking elf!"
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Polygamous sect ousts boys for worldly vices - International Herald Tribune

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:19 GMT

Odd story about the fate of young boys expelled from "fundamentalist" (usually polygamous) Mormon communities for offending against the very strict moral standards. Kind of depressing.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Main Page - Project VRM (Vendor Relationship Management)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:16 GMT

A project to equip web users and other consumers with the tools needed to manage their relationship with vendors, primarily (I think) in terms of privacy.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Doc Searls Weblog · Go from hell

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:16 GMT

Doc Searls lets loose: whatever you might say, the whole business of marketing is fucking evil. It's the Matrix. It's all about controlling what you do by controlling what you think. Anyone who tells you different is an Agent.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Docufarm - Online document viewer (pdf, ppt, doc, rtf, ps, xls)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:13 GMT

Handy tool. Give it the URL of a document on the web (non-HTML -- handles .doc, .pdf, .rtf, .ps, .ppt and .xls) and it will give it back to you as a series of clickable thumbnails. Fast, high quality imaging. Nice work. Also includes search.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Typotheque: Cult of the Ugly by Steven Heller

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:12 GMT

Overview of various perspectives on "ugly" graphic design.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus - ConcealedCampus.com

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:11 GMT

An advocacy organization fighting for the rights of students to carry concealed firearms on college campuses. There are various state initiatives to ban concealed weapons from campuses in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Mini-diaper-changing kit for $50

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:05 GMT

A miniature version of a diaper bag, including changing pad and various compartments and pockets. I hate huge, unwieldy diaper bags, especially when I'm on foot. Now I guess I'll have to clip something about football or guitars to prove my masculini
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Intense Debate

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:40:50 GMT

Comment-management system. Comparable to Disqus and maybe to Tangler.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

"No Reservations" | Salon Arts & Entertainment

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:40:49 GMT

I was subjected to this twice last week, without audio - once on the plane from Houston to San Diego and once on the plane from Las Vegas to Philadelphia. It really irritated me and this review sums up why.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Václav Havel's 1994 speech on transcendence

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:49:50 GMT

Inspiring, but also provocative and fascinating. Havel basically insists that some kind of religiousness is all that can "save" us now, though he doesn't really say how or what.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Map Gallery of Religion in the United States

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:48:10 GMT

American Ethnic Geography A Cultural Geography of the United States and Canada
Submited by Kleverson 22, November 2008

Slavoj Žižek on the Matrix

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:49:51 GMT

This is Žižek's famous 1999 essay, "The Two Sides of Perversion." I'm clipping it because I intend to read it; the bits I've looked at are very good.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

BBC religion podcast: "Beyond Belief"

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:49:53 GMT

Something I'm going to have to investigate. It sounds like a great program.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Flickr: The Commons

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:06:43 GMT

"The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer."
Submited by BaldTechnologist 22, November 2008

Museo del Templo Mayor: Tenochtitlan temple musem, Mexico City

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:44 GMT

A thorough, well-designed (Flash-based) site for a Mexican museum devoted to Aztec religion and culture. All in Spanish. Includes many photos of artifacts, architectural diagrams, timelines, etc.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Pope Urban II's speech at Clermont (1095): five versions | Medieval Sourcebook

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:44 GMT

From the indispensible Medieval Sourcebook at Fordham: the five versions (all put in writing long after the fact, and thus reflecting later theological developments) of Pope Urban II's call to crusade at the council of Clermont.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

DNA evidence suggests ancient Mexican sacrifices involved victims from other cultures | MSNBC.com

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:42 GMT

At Teotihuacan, Mexico's oldest archeological site (the civilization there flourished around 1500 years ago), archaelogical and DNA evidence reveals the existence of a large-scale human sacrifical cultus involving victims transported several hundred miles
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

"Alive in Baghdad": a documentary series on Iraq at Blip.tv

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:41 GMT

Interviews with ordinary Iraqis in various walks of life. Probably about as close as most of us will come to seeing what it's "really" like in Baghdad today.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Tezcatlipoca as an Aztec "trickster figure"

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:41 GMT

An interesting, unusual perspective on Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec deity variously called "Lord of the Here and Now," "He Whose Slaves We Are," "Enemy on Both Sides," "Obsidian Blade," and "The Mirror's Smoke." Some good quotations from Sahag
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Aztec Calendar: Today in the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec Calendar of Mexico.

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:41 GMT

Jonathan Riley-Smith's 1995 editorial in The Economist on the contemporary lessons of the Crusades. Thanks, Ian.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Jonathan Riley Smith: Religious warriors. Reinterpreting the crusades (Economist, Dec. 23, 1995)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:41 GMT

Jonathan Riley-Smith's 1995 editorial in The Economist on the contemporary lessons of the Crusades. Thanks, Ian.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

ABC's Nightline looks at BattleCry, an evangelical youth group

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:41 GMT

An eight-minute profile of Ron Luce's (of Teen Mania Ministries) evangelical youth group BattleCry. Powerful.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Jeff Sharlet on BattleCry

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:41 GMT

Also check out the related YouTube videos.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

"Sacred Destinations": religious tourism travel guide

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:42 GMT

An extensive collection of travel-related information, maps, links, and photos focusing on "sacred places" of all religious traditions around the world. Provides some interesting food for thought. I wonder how these places were chosen.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

Clipmarks + Tumblr.com mashup with Yahoo Pipes

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:39 GMT

I made my second Yahoo Pipes hack. It takes a Clipmarks username and tag, loads the feed, and then strips it down to title, link, clipper's remarks and clip source and outputs the result as RSS. This can then be posted in a linkblog like any other link.
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008

"Ear-Ripping-Off Battles" against the devil

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:40 GMT

Fascinating interview, prob. 2005, with Bob Welch, author of "You, the Warrior Leader." Welch, an evangelical Southern Baptist pastor and former Green Beret and wounded Vietnam vet, discusses the application of military thinking to "spiritual war."
Submited by nbr 22, November 2008