(All photos for this entry are posted here) (The following is information I’ve picked up from various sources, so feel free to set me straight) Dia de los Muertos is one of the more famous and widely practiced Mexican holidays. This ritual remembrance and celebration of the dead is said to be 3,000 years old, …
Yearly Archives: 2005
Discovery
Some folks claim to have found a Bosnian stairs-like pyramid, about 12,000 years old. Photos of the research here. Scientific sleuth cracks code to $54,000 treasure Ants in the Amazon rain forest labor to keep their territory free by using formic acid as a herbicide. The remains of a massive Gold Rush-era sailing ship dating …
Golden Hill Block Party
(All photos for this entry are posted here) Pete, Paul, Mark, Anna and I wandered down to 21st street on Saturday night to check out the Golden Hill Block Party. It featured The Adored, Fifty on their heels, and Jezebel, with a DJ in-between bands. I wasn’t familiar with any of the bands, but the …
The Long Now’s Orrery
I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while, but finally got around to it after reading at Boing Boing that the Long Now project unveiled their prototype, the Orrery clock. Jacob Appelbaum has some great photos of the event. What is all this fuss over a clock? Discover has a lot of good …
NK
The quality at BBC dropped a notch on this story of an American tourist in North Korea: “To be honest, I was surprised with how friendly and warm-hearted they [North Korea assigned tour guides] were… They had their photos taken with us, told stories about their lives, answered our questions – some to more of …