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Futile fusion research
In this new era of multi-trillion-dollar federal expenditures on “infrastructure” and Covid relief programs, $650 million a year may seem like chump change. But it’s symptomatic of federal government attitudes that view our hard-earned tax money (and growing debt) as...
Chapter 32 Vital’s Humane Trap
I didn’t have any technology except my practical way of doing things. So I told them by pulling on the spring. If it is hard to pull it means that it would hit harder and that’s how I do it.
Things that you just don’t see much anymore…
Christopher Dresser letter rack 1881
Gitanjali 83
The stars have wrought their anklets of light to deck thy feet, but mine will hang upon thy breast.
Wealth and fame come from thee and it is for thee to give or to withhold them. But this my sorrow is absolutely mine own, and when I bring it to thee as my offering thou rewardest me with thy grace.
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Cannon Fodder. Louis Ferdinand Celine.
Cannon-Fodder is an unfinished novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The largely autobiographical narrative is set before World War II, and roughly continues where Céline's 1936 novel Death on Credit ended. Much of the novel disappeared in 1944. Surviving...
Fred from Jupiter
war ein Traum vom einem Mann
Fred vom Jupiter, Fred vom Jupiter
Der Traum aller Fraun
Du machst mich schwach
Fred vom Jupiter, Fred vom Jupiter
Bleib für immer hier
Geh doch nicht fort
Promoting Illusions
The social and political circumstances of the time are certainly of considerable significance, but their importance for the weal or woe of the individual has been boundlessly overestimated in so far as they are taken for the sole...
Fire-Flowers
And only to the heart that knows of grief,
Of desolating fire, of human pain,
There comes some purifying sweet belief,
Some fellow-feeling beautiful, if brief.
And life revives, and blossoms once again.
Cars for Kids. ASTON MARTIN DBR2
half-scale recreation of an Aston Martin DBR2 with aluminium body work
The Unobtainables -Bugatti Type 51
Bonhams Press Release: Influenced by Miller, the Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix car introduced twin-overhead camshafts to Bugatti's brand of thoroughbreds. The example offered is one of the best known and most distinctive of all Grand Prix Bugattis. Bugatti Type 51...
Out of Africa an entrepreneurial society emerges.
So whoever wins the presidential election should recognize that sub-Saharan Africa’s more than one billion people represent markets for American goods, Ichikowitz said. Positive outreach to Africa would also provide opportunities to bring African and African-American entrepreneurs together, given their common history of oppression. That would be true win-win-win.
Surrealist Games – The Exquisite Corpse
A piece of paper folded the number of times there are players, each player draws on their section, with a slight overlap on fold to give the next player a starting point, pass it on without the next player seeing your contribution, or any others. The surrealists...