Mr.Kafka

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flymelissafly: Is this…. Appropriate? #moab #utah (Taken with instagram) see, its funny cuz there arent any niggers in utah

flymelissafly:

Is this…. Appropriate? #moab #utah (Taken with instagram)

see, its funny cuz there arent any niggers in utah

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Möbius Ship: An Un-Ending Sculptural Tribute: With a title and form that wittily plays on the puzzling and unending surface of a Möbius strip, artist Tim Hawkinson has created a bizarrely continuous model in the likeness of ship-in-bottle hobbyists. His hanging sculpture takes it’s inspiration from the story of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, interpreting Captain Ahab’s consuming passion of chasing the illusive white whale by creating a ship that chases itself in an impossible loop.

You can find more works by Tim Hawkinson, including his must see ship like Aerial Mobile at the US spanning Ace Gallery.

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lucifelle: Sokushinbutsu - Buddhist ritualistic self-mummification For 1,000 days (a little less than three years) the priests would eat a special diet consisting only of nuts and seeds, while taking part in a regimen of rigorous physical activity that stripped them of their body fat. They then ate only bark and roots for another thousand days and began drinking a poisonous tea made from the sap of the Urushi tree, normally used to lacquer bowls. This caused vomiting and a rapid loss of bodily fluids, and most importantly, it made the body too poisonous to be eaten by maggots. Finally, a self-mummifying monk would lock himself in a stone tomb barely larger than his body, where he would not move from the lotus position. His only connection to the outside world was an air tube and a bell. Each day he rang a bell to let those outside know that he was still alive.

lucifelle:

Sokushinbutsu - Buddhist ritualistic self-mummification

For 1,000 days (a little less than three years) the priests would eat a special diet consisting only of nuts and seeds, while taking part in a regimen of rigorous physical activity that stripped them of their body fat. They then ate only bark and roots for another thousand days and began drinking a poisonous tea made from the sap of the Urushi tree, normally used to lacquer bowls. This caused vomiting and a rapid loss of bodily fluids, and most importantly, it made the body too poisonous to be eaten by maggots. Finally, a self-mummifying monk would lock himself in a stone tomb barely larger than his body, where he would not move from the lotus position. His only connection to the outside world was an air tube and a bell. Each day he rang a bell to let those outside know that he was still alive.

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Dear Mr. President,

As an official representative of the Concept of Terror, I am extending an offer to negotiate a peace in the “War on Terror”.  Of course, your surrender will have to be unconditional.  As you may have noticed, the “War on Terror” only creates more fear and uncertainty abroad and domestically. We can only express our gratitude for the terror you have brought to your citizens on our behalf.  As the War stands, we are willing to accept your unconditional surrender as soon as it is offered.  We are also willing to propose the suspension of our most heinous weapons of fear in exchange for the suspension of your most heinous weapons of destruction.  Namely we will end FOX News and the use of “wiretapping” in the United States in exchange for the termination of air strikes by unmanned drones on American citizens abroad. 

As terms of your unconditional surrender, we propose:

  • The deescalation of weapons of “defense”
  • Extreme cuts in the budget for “defense” (Savings to be used in educating your young people)
  • The immediate withdraw of occupying troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
  • The banning of the term “war on terror” from political rhetoric
  • A constitutional amendment forbidding declaring war on a concept
  • The trial of top officials for war crimes, for the authorization of torture
  • Amendments codifying the illegality of wiretapping and spying on citizens
  • A limit on military spending to 10% of GDP
  • Abide by the Geneva Convention.
  • Try prisoners in civilian courts
  • Close all overseas prisons
  • resume negotiations with “terrorists”
  • Join the ICC
  • Habeas corpus

Thank you Mr. President, we look forward to your surrender.

M.R. Kafka

Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Concept of Terror

matthen: You (yellow), need to pass the red ball to your friend (blue), as you both sit on a merry-go-round.  I posted a similar animation of this problem before- and this one shows quite an extreme of the solution.  You can only throw the ball very slowly, so you throw the ball to where your friend will be when it gets to them.  From above, the ball travels in a straight line, but in the world of the spinning merry-go-round that you occupy- the ball seems to be warped on a curve by some invisible forces.  These invisible forces are called the Coriolis and Centrifugal effects. [code] [more] For such a technical explanation, it is worth noting that the Coriolis and Centrifugal effects are not forces at all. Also, if you animate it properly, you should be able to show the ball as in linear motion in any frame of reference.

matthen:

You (yellow), need to pass the red ball to your friend (blue), as you both sit on a merry-go-round.  I posted a similar animation of this problem before- and this one shows quite an extreme of the solution.  You can only throw the ball very slowly, so you throw the ball to where your friend will be when it gets to them.  From above, the ball travels in a straight line, but in the world of the spinning merry-go-round that you occupy- the ball seems to be warped on a curve by some invisible forces.  These invisible forces are called the Coriolis and Centrifugal effects. [code] [more]

For such a technical explanation, it is worth noting that the Coriolis and Centrifugal effects are not forces at all.

Also, if you animate it properly, you should be able to show the ball as in linear motion in any frame of reference.

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They’re talking of things, in any case, which they don’t understand. Plain stupidity is the only thing that can give them such confidence.

—Franz Kafka, The Trial (via en-attendant-tes-etreintes)