Author Archives: Niall Murphy
The iLog
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The iLog (£35): an iPad stand and purpose-built charging station crafted from ‘carefully chosen re-claimed London wood’.
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May Failers
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All over the Russian internets lately, and now translated into English thanks to AFP, writer Sergei Kalenik’s hilarious Super Putin, Man like Any Other is surely a film waiting to happen.
Set in Moscow in spring 2011, “one year before the world ends,” the comic casts Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as a gi-wearing action hero who, assisted by bear suit-wearing sidekick President Dmitry Medvedev, saves a busload of people from a bomb in a storyline that’s equal parts Speed, Night Watch and The Walking Dead. There’s also a little bit of political commentary sprinkled in. “We wanted to stir Russia’s depressing political scene and create some dialogue,” Kalenik tells AFP.
Not much.
Jump to the link below and drag the slider across the image to see the area around Joplin High School before – and two days after – last Sunday’s devastating tornado.
LINK: Before And After: A Bird’s Eye View Of Joplin (npr)
ALSO: 2011 now deadliest year for tornadoes since 1950: Joplin death toll reaches 139 (Salon)
Gil Scott-Heron died Friday afternoon in New York, his book publisher reported. He was 62. The influential poet and musician is often credited with being one of the progenitors of hip-hop, and is best known for the spoken-word piece “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.”
Damn.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8
Gil Scott-Heron, Poet And Musician, Has Died (npr)
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12paEIC7BkU
The tongue presses the water against the roof of the mouth, and keeps it there even as the tip of the tongue sticks out for another lap. As the tip draws up another column, the trapped water from the previous cycle is shoved backwards, and eventually swallowed. By filming cats, Crompton and Musinsky showed that they do the same thing. The tongues of both species do several things at the same time – they draw up a fresh lot of water, while pushing back older ones up into their throat.
