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Saturday, February 06, 2010
Commentary And Rants
"I Read It On Facebook!" February 3rd, 2010. Eric 'Renderking'
Fisk rants about his favorite modern pet-peeve - finding out about
important news via social networking sites!
"School Safety: The Fedora Chronicles Cousineau Report." Becky
Cousineau discusses how public schools aren't what they used to be.
Learning and safety are things of the past in these public
institutions...
"School Versus Casinos: An Exercise In Learning About The Real World," Jason Cousineau discusses his home state giving preferential treatment to casinos while schools remain underfunded.
The
Electric Speakeasy Post Of The Day:
Which decade is the worst in terms of style? by Tiller - February
5th, 2010.
DL
Ferguson reviews
Avatar: "Twenty minutes into AVATAR I completely forgot I was looking
at SFX and CGI characters and digital sets. That’s how immersed into the
story and characters I was. And I attribute that to the genius of James
Cameron. Unlike directors like Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich he knows
how to spend half a billion bucks on a movie that makes me feel like I haven’t
wasted my money or more importantly, my time."
Read More.
Chasing
The Wind with Blacktorn:
"Petra - The First Time." - "Petra is a city literally sculpted out
of cliffs in a deep, winding canyon in Jordan. My wife and I visited this
incredible city in 2006 on a combination tour of Israel and Jordan. I asked
our guide when it was built and he said, “It wasn’t built. It was carved.
Out of the cliffs. In the first century before Christ.”..."
Continue.
World War II - Photographs from an Old Cigar Box -
By AeroDillo: - January 5th, 2005: The cigar box belonged to Len Taylor, a distant uncle of mine. I was never fortunate to meet the man, regrettably; he died before I was born, though I understand he was a class act. He had quite a few extracurricular pursuits for a farmer (photography among them). Given some of them I'm almost certain he'd have been a drop-in fit for the Fedora Chronicles had he been around to see it.
As
near as I can tell he was an intelligence man in the Second World War. He
was assigned first to Hawaii, then on to Christmas Island. From what I gather
he was attached to a unit which developed and interpreted film from photo-recon
flights, and that in his free time he was given the run of the darkroom
- hence the number of personal pictures.
Having spoken to Ren in deciding what to do with all these pictues (some
263 in all) it's been decided to start a thread. I'll be posting them five
at a time (hopefully one post per day) until they run out. Unfortunately,
I have no story behind most of these. I don't know the subjects (though
I can point Uncle Len out in at least one) and I'm a little hazy on some
of the locations.
As ever, comments are welcome.
