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Used Tire Art by Yong Ho Ji

Sat, 26 May 2012 23:49:24 -0400

Long-Term Fishery Investments Paying Off

Sat, 26 May 2012 11:10:00 -0400

Long-Term Fishery Investments Paying Off:

Americans should not feel guilty about eating domestically produced seafood, as long as we keep strict regulations in place that reflect the best available science and that continue working toward the rebuilding goal achieved in 2011 by six different fish stocks.

The Magnuson-Stevens Act—the law that regulates our nation’s fisheries—will be up for reauthorization again in 2013, and some commercial and recreational fishing groups have already begun their call to arms, insisting legislators roll back the stringent requirement that all catch limits be based on the best available science. While there is no question that our understanding of fish populations must improve, lawmakers should think long and hard about weakening safeguards against overfishing just as they are starting to pay positive dividends.

See also: Seafood Watch for iOS and Android

Source found for missing water in sea-level rise

Fri, 25 May 2012 22:20:00 -0400

Source found for missing water in sea-level rise:

During the latter half of the twentieth century, global sea level rose by about 1.8 millimetres per year, according to data from tide gauges. The combined contribution from heating of the oceans, which makes the water expand, along with melting of ice caps and glaciers, is estimated to be 1.1 millimetres per year, which leaves some 0.7 millimetres per year unaccounted for. This gap has been considered an important missing piece of the puzzle in estimates for past and current sea-level changes and for projections of future rises.

It now seems that the effects of human water use on land could fill that gap. A team of researchers reports in Nature Geoscience that land-based water storage could account for 0.77 millimetres per year, or 42%, of the observed sea-level rise between 1961 and 2003. Of that amount, the extraction of groundwater for irrigation and home and industrial use, with subsequent run-off to rivers and eventually to the oceans, represents the bulk of the contribution.

luciddreamss: struggling to understand why no one has ever...

Fri, 25 May 2012 22:13:00 -0400

luciddreamss:

struggling to understand why no one has ever looked at the radiohead cover like this except me.

prostheticknowledge: InstaCRT - Real World Camera Filter iOS...

Fri, 25 May 2012 19:10:00 -0400

prostheticknowledge:

InstaCRT - Real World Camera Filter

iOS app can take photos which are then ‘filtered’ by appearing on old black & white CRT display screen, which is then snapped by another camera and sent back to the user. Here is a video embedded below that better illustrates the process:

You can read about the development of the idea here, and, in the course of testing the app, the results were posted on a Tumblr blog here.

Annie Vought “I meticulously recreate notes and letters...

Thu, 24 May 2012 01:03:00 -0400

Annie Vought

“I meticulously recreate notes and letters that I have found, written, or received by enlarging the documents onto a new piece of paper and intricately dissecting the negative spaces with an Exact-o knife. The handwriting and the lines support the structure of the cut paper, keeping it strong and sculptural, despite its apparent fragility.”

Wall Street Nation

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:59:28 -0400

Wall Street Nation

Laser Dresses by Hussein Chalayan

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:22:59 -0400

Laser Dresses by Hussein Chalayan

Robert De Niro + Sideshow Bob

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:06:00 -0400

Robert De Niro + Sideshow Bob

Think you’ve read enough about the Beastie Boys...

Wed, 23 May 2012 15:51:00 -0400

Think you’ve read enough about the Beastie Boys lately? You haven’t.

Read the story behind this photo.

Jimmy Page + William Burroughs “Does the Loch Ness...

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:37:00 -0400

Jimmy Page + William Burroughs

“Does the Loch Ness monster exist? Page said he thought it did. Skeptical, Burroughs wondered how the monster could get enough to eat.”

jemayer: Skull I Typewriter...

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:01:03 -0400

jemayer:

Skull I

Typewriter parts

9”x12”x15”

23cmx30cmx38cm

Jeremy Mayer

2012

"The simple fact remains here: that a grown man with a gun, safe in his locked car, against the..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:21:17 -0400

“The simple fact remains here: that a grown man with a gun, safe in his locked car, against the implicit instruction of a 911 police operator, left that car to pursue, confront and kill a child (yes, racists, under the age of eighteen one is legally considered a child) who was holding nothing more than a bag of Skittles and an iced tea.”

- The Most Outrageous Aspect of the Trayvon Martin Case (via azspot)

LucasFilm Retreats In Battle With Wealthy Neighbors

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:17:00 -0400

LucasFilm Retreats In Battle With Wealthy Neighbors:

Whatever Mr. Lucas’s intentions, his announcement has unsettled a county whose famously liberal politics often sits uncomfortably with the issue of low-cost housing and where battles have been fought over such construction before. His proposal has pitted neighbor against neighbor, who, after failed peacemaking efforts over local artisanal cheese and wine, traded accusations in the local newspaper.

The staunchest opponents of Lucasfilm’s expansion are now being accused of driving away the filmmaker and opening the door to a low-income housing development. That has created an atmosphere that one opponent, who asked not to be identified, saying she feared for her safety, described as “sheer terror” and likened to “Syria.”

barackobama: Mitt Romney being Mitt Romney.

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:40:38 -0400

barackobama:

Mitt Romney being Mitt Romney.

NYC Resistor Interactive Party

Sun, 20 May 2012 21:04:04 -0400

NYC Resistor Interactive Party

Sun, 20 May 2012 21:04:01 -0400

NYC Resistor Interactive Party

Sun, 20 May 2012 21:00:16 -0400

NYC Resistor Interactive Party

Sun, 20 May 2012 21:00:11 -0400

NYC Resistor Interactive Party

cartoonretro: Very appealing simplicity in Brad Anderson’s...

Sun, 20 May 2012 20:48:07 -0400

cartoonretro:

Very appealing simplicity in Brad Anderson’s early Marmaduke strips.