prosthetic knowledge
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![Twefax
Online web app presents your Twitter feed in the style of the old BBC CEEFAX information system, put together by @JonathanEx.
Discovered by the lovely harri80 - Try it here
Related - the old BBC service has been turned off in most of the UK, with only Northern Ireland left to go fully digital this week. So, to commemorate the end of a very British institution, the BBC have put together some items of interest.
Pages from Ceefax: Into the archives - a slideshow with accompanying cheesy library music [link]
Ceefax: The early days - An interview with one of the earliest workers with the system. [link]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcd028Hnh51qav3uso1_1280.png)
Twefax
Online web app presents your Twitter feed in the style of the old BBC CEEFAX information system, put together by @JonathanEx.
Discovered by the lovely harri80 - Try it here
Related - the old BBC service has been turned off in most of the UK, with only Northern Ireland left to go fully digital this week. So, to commemorate the end of a very British institution, the BBC have put together some items of interest.
Pages from Ceefax: Into the archives - a slideshow with accompanying cheesy library music [link]
Ceefax: The early days - An interview with one of the earliest workers with the system. [link]
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![R.I.P Neil Armstrong
[reblogged from yimmyayo]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9bsnxhI0n1qz7lxdo1_1280.jpg)
[reblogged from yimmyayo]
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Seoul Landslide Photo Collection in The Big Picture
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It's Official - Cell Phones are Killing Bees (via mfs / theoriginaljoefisher / theantidote)
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“Fukushima No1 nuclear power plant MAY have radiation leakage. Japan govt issues FIRST EVER nuclear state of emergency.” —Although I heard earlier the PM denies this.
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Captain Beefheart Dead At Age 69 via Rolling Stone
Experimental rock legend, born Don Van Vliet, died today from complications from multiple sclerosis.
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Fun Fact
What do many states use as reliable predictive data for determining the right amount of prison cells in coming years?
That’s right, you guessed it: 3rd grade reading assessment scores.
Which means it’s in someone’s best interest to lower the quality of education delivered to children…
Jobs depend on it.
via thenewephemera / unburyingthelead / notational
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Scientists Warn Gulf Of Mexico Sea Floor, Fractured Beyond Repair - Video confirms it via CNN iReport
A dire report circulating in the Kremlin today that was prepared for Prime Minister Putin by Anatoly Sagalevich of Russia’s Shirshov Institute of Oceanology warns that the Gulf of Mexico sea floor has been fractured “beyond all repair” and our World should begin preparing for an ecological disaster “beyond comprehension” unless “extraordinary measures” are undertaken to stop the massive flow of oil into our Planet’s eleventh largest body of water.
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According to Sagalevich’s report, the oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico is not just coming from the 22 inch well bore site being shown on American television, but from at least 18 other sites on the “fractured seafloor” with the largest being nearly 11 kilometers (7 miles) from where the Deepwater Horizon sank and is spewing into these precious waters an estimated 2 million gallons of oil a day.
Interesting to note in this report is Sagalevich stating that he and the other Russian scientists were required by the United States to sign documents forbidding them to report their findings to either the American public or media, and which they had to do in order to legally operate in US territorial waters.
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“I’m going to commit suicide. To all of you, even those who shared the slightest friendship with me, I love you” — Lee Kye-Hwa, first South Korean man to leave a suicide note on Twitter (more about this here) -
Truly heartbreaking pictures of wildlife caught in the oilspill :(
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R.I.P. GURU - via SWINDLE MAG (via thediamondmind: / 0024h)
As one half of Gang Starr, Guru repeatedly changed the direction of hip-hop, creating an island in the midst of the mainstream that celebrated the form by continually destroying it. For over 10 years, Guru and DJ Premier changed the recipe of hip-hop by insisting that it could do more and be more. The duo paid homage to the improvisational personality that hip-hop had inherited from jazz by adding riffs and musicality that had been previously lacking. Guru went on to expand the vernacular of the fledgling form with the three Jazzmatazz recordings, which added ingredients from jazz, world, and pop music. The landmark series introduced many hip-hop fans to jazz legends like Donald Byrd, Roy Ayers, Freddie Hubbard, and the reclusive Lonnie Liston Smith, and exposed listeners to a new side of pop stars like Erykah Badu, Isaac Hayes, and Jamiroquai.
Gang Starr showed the world that this fad called hip-hop was a new expression, powerful enough to be twisted and improvised, creating something unaffected by the passage of time. Guru, however, is not interested in reminiscing. After an acrimonious split with DJ Premier, a break with his record company, his handlers and his personal demons, Guru has emerged with a new record (Version 7.0: The Street Scriptures), a new partnership (with MC/ producer Solar), and a new perspective.
