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Hi, I'm Mark
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Wow, the World Community Grid is an awesome project!
When Mike Schropp set out to create a new computer, he just wanted something faster than his previous machine. On further thought, he decided to alter his plans slightly to donate his computer’s off hours to helping cure some of the world’s crappiest diseases. As a self-professed geek, Schropp felt that the best way to give his new machine a unique feel was to turn to the building power of Lego. The result is a thing of beauty that would be a fitting addition to any nerd arsenal. (via This Geek Uses his Lego Computer to Fight Cancer)
My copy of GIRL by Blake Nelson from 1994, with pages all worn & the inside cover signed by every girl in the 8th/9th grade who I forced to read it. Easily the most formative book of my life, and a perfect example of everything I love about coming-of-age fiction (Paranoid Park is another fantastic read by him of this genre).
I’m pretty excited to get my hands on GIRL’s college-age sequel, Dream School, which released just this week. For more on that, check out the interview with Blake Nelson in Rookie.
I like turtles.
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steve jobs & the doyle owl, reed’s (secret/hidden) mascot
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Palms.
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Very proud of Erin for getting her paper “Envisioning the ‘New Woman’: Seito Magazine + Feminist Aesthetics in Modern Japan” published in Modern Art Asia!
“ You are not permitted, the police yelled, to photograph on the sidewalk.
N.Y.P.D. Stops Reporters With Badges and Fists - NYTimes.com
Truth.
Bottle-brick building, upcycling a surplus of plastic bottles to construct buildings:
Steven Shoppman, Plastic Bottles: 20 Times stronger than Bricks
if you don’t have what you need make do with what you already have. A surplus of empty plastic bottles is something that not only affects Africa, but the entire planet.
In a small village in Nigeria, a solution has been applied to not only provide shelter in a poverty stricken country, but find a use for refuse. Packing sand into plastic bottles is a technique that started nine years ago in India, South and Central America. Named “bottle brick” technology, the compacted sand inside the bottles is almost 20 times stronger than bricks. The best part is that in a region that does not have much money to spend on building materials, the houses are estimated to cost 1/3 of a house made of concrete and bricks.
Adding to the appeal of the simple technology, the houses are ideal for the hot Nigerian climate because the bottle bricks buffer the house from the intense heat. Also, in a place known for violence, the houses are completely bullet proof. Bottles are mostly sourced from hotels, restaurants, homes and foreign embassies, so the 500 million bottles that are discarded each year in Nigeria alone are literally finding new homes instead of landfills or the ocean. The circular houses look cool too with the exposed round bottles producing a unique design.
Could be a great use in the US too.
