| 1. | | Tell me of your homeworld, Usul | Chris Foss concept art for Dune, with bonus Nostromo. The images were produced for Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1974 attempt at filming the story, with other artists involved including Moebius and HR Giger. Though the project failed Jodorowsky collaborated further with Moebius to lay the groundwork for his ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:03:00 GMT - http://www.metafilter.com/86868/Tell-me-of-your-h ... cached version - Other News - add to ClipBox |
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| 2. | | One powerful man's nothing is a hundred men's lives. | Lexington's Mayor, Jim Newberry, bristled at critical questions about The Dame block, "Nothing of consequence ever happened on that block." Richie Wireman begs to differ. Wireman spent 4 months documenting the final stages of the long and controversial demise of one city block full of established local ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:51:00 GMT - http://www.metafilter.com/86866/One-powerful-mans ... cached version - Other News - add to ClipBox |
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| 3. | | Madam | Today would have been Indira Gandhi's 92nd birthday, had she not been assassinated by members of her own guard in her own backyard on October 31st, 1984 (I was there in New Delhi in a cab when the driver suggested it might be safer if he turned around and took me straight home). Often confused as a ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:35:00 GMT - http://www.metafilter.com/86809/Madam cached version - Other News - add to ClipBox |
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| 4. | | Synth Britannia | Synth Britannia "Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage. In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:27:00 GMT - http://www.metafilter.com/86808/Synth-Britannia cached version - Other News - add to ClipBox |
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| 5. | | Bullwinkle Turns 50 -or- The Old Grey Moose Is Still What He Used To Be | Hokey Smoke! Today is the 50th Anniversary of the television debut of Rocky and Bullwinkle! (...and Boris & Natasha & Peabody & Sherman & Fractured Fairy Tales... Dudley DoRight debuted later in the 1st season) The entire first episode is online at both Hulu and Joost (with some minor ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:25:00 GMT - http://www.metafilter.com/86800/Bullwinkle-Turns- ... cached version - Other News - add to ClipBox |
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| 6. | | Get Your Ass To Mars | NASA invites you to Be A Martian Faced with the mountain of data gathered by Mars missions over the last 30 years, NASA has decided to go down the crowdsourcing route in their attempt to construct a complete map of the planet's surface, presenting it as an online game in which players earn points for ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:50:00 GMT - http://www.metafilter.com/86798/Get-Your-Ass-To-M ... cached version - Other News - add to ClipBox |
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| 7. | | 3 Million Tons of Extraterrestrial Ice Fishing | At least three million tons of fishlike creatures could theoretically live and breathe on Europa, according to Professor Richard Greenberg of the University of Arizona in Tucson. Greenberg recently presented his findings to the Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society (PDF, Google ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:01:00 GMT - http://www.metafilter.com/86797/3-Million-Tons-of ... cached version - Other News - add to ClipBox |
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| 8. | | HET | The History of Economic Thought Website contains a wealth of information on the many schools of thought in the history of economics and the issues they grappled with. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:34:00 GMT - http://www.metafilter.com/86796/HET cached version - Other News - add to ClipBox |
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| 9. | | WY couldn't get any more square here. | Senators' STATEments: As part of Geography Awareness Week, National Geographic asked United States Senators to draw and label their home states with at least three important places. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:25:00 GMT - http://www.metafilter.com/86790/WY-couldnt-get-an ... cached version - Other News - add to ClipBox |
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| 10. | | Google won't search for Chuck Norris because it knows: You don't find Chuck Norris; he finds you. |