nourishing obscurity

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With the appointment of the whippersnapper Ben Whishaw to Q Branch in Skyfall, a look at the origins of Q Branch is in order: [H/T Chuckles]

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This was to have been about the Manpower crisis but that’s been put back to December 2nd.  Instead, at OoL at 15:00 will be Say No to the Big Three, about how to get people not to vote for any of these bstds.

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There is an issue with the main site nourishingobscurity.com. Reports indicate that people are able to view it but I’m cut out of the dash and can’t view the page either, from both my browsers. From memory, there might have been one or two posts scheduled for a couple of days and they’ll pop up [...]

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Richard Rhodes puts it this way: At the height of her Hollywood career, actress Hedy Lamarr was known as “the most beautiful woman in the world.” For most of her life, her legacy was her looks. But in the 1940s — in an attempt to help the war effort — she quietly invented what would [...]

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Filed under: Biography & Obituary, Technology & ideas

As you’ve gathered, your humble blogger hasn’t really got into the global warming thingy due to not being up to speed on the thrust and counter-thrust, let alone the science.  However, this below seemed a wa that thing a male does to accompany viewing naughty images on his computer: Greenpeace’s executive director has called on [...]

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Filed under: Earth and cosmos, Politics & economics

Rossa points us to two articles, both at Zero Hedge and as the name implies, Tyler has certain views on hedging. Blog readers tend to fall into three categories when it comes to economics: 1.  Those who know what they’re talking about when using all those big economic words; 2.  Those who don’t know what [...]

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Longrider has a post up about Organized Fun or the office party and I couldn’t agree more. It made me feel much better to read: Organised social arrangements are something I tend to avoid. It’s why, probably, I decided to stop doing Christmas some years back. Yes, yes and yes.  The whole compulsion aspect, the [...]

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Nice one from Gary Jones, putting it into perspective [see EBM] and though it is written about the States, it applies worldwide: The current food system that is dominated by a few national and international organizations is a direct result of federal dominance of the system. Small, local, and state level producers are strangled and [...]

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From last evening: 1.  Which of almonds, peanuts, Brazil nuts and walnuts are nuts? If nuts are defined as “a simple dry fruit with one seed – very occasionally two – in which the seed case wall becomes hard at maturity”, then we can look at the “nuts” above and decide. Brazils are not nuts [...]

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Documented as the oldest human being [1875-1997], at 122 she’s going to take some catching. Wiki: At age 85, she took up fencing, and continued to ride her bicycle up until her 100th birthday. She was reportedly neither athletic, nor fanatical about her health. Calment lived on her own until shortly before her 110th birthday, [...]

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Dearieme recommends we join this at 2:11: Here’s some speakeasyness:

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John Wigglesworth and I have moved onto motorcycles and he says, about the above: As an add-on to what I said about the diversity of design in the 50s 60s this a supreme example. The rider is Tarquinio Provini, one of the great lightweight riders of all time, the machine is a 250cc Moto Morini.

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[In the light of the earlier post on copyright, this image's source is unknown. If the author has an issue with it being here, please advise - JH]

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