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Cappuccino as a Work of Art

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:36:48 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead

Wouldn't it be nice if all our coffee was served with the same care and attention as this barman has shown?

Sammy Lin, a New York barman, creates amazing faces and patterns for his customers' cappuccinos.

He has made quite a name for himself with his steady hand and creative eye for a frothy picture. Take a look at our selection:

Waiter, there's a hare in my coffee. Animal faces like this and the polar bear on the right take Sammy 20 seconds to do. He doesn't want to keep the customer waiting...

Tags: coffee, food, funny, humor, humour

Top 10 physically modified people

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:17:21 GMT

clipped by: monstersmom

Clip Source: www.deputy-dog.com

top 10 physically modified people

10. leopard man

9. etienne dumont

8. rick genest

7. the illustrated lady

6. elaine davidson

5. kala kaiwi

4. pauly unstoppable (bme page)

3. the lizardman (website)

2. lucky diamond rich (website)

1. stalking cat (website)

Tags: body modification, tattoos, piercings, unusual people, top 10

FISK: "Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11"

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:41:50 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: ....– whose melting point is supposed to be about 1,480C – would snap through at the same time? (They collapsed in 8.1 and 10 seconds.) What about the third tower – the so-called World Trade Centre Building 7 (or the Salmon Brothers Building) – which collapsed in 6.6 seconds in its own footprint at 5.20pm on 11 September? Why did it so neatly fall to the ground when no aircraft had hit it? The American National Institute of Standards and Technology was instructed to analyse the cause of the destruction of all three buildings. They have not yet reported on WTC 7. Two prominent American professors of mechanical engineering – very definitely not in the "raver" bracket – are now legally challenging the terms of reference of this final report on the grounds that it could be "fraudulent or deceptive".

Journalistically, there were many odd things about 9/11. Initial reports of reporters that they heard "explosions" in the towers – which could well have been the beams cracking – are easy to

Clip Source: news.independent.co.uk

Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11

Published: 25 August 2007

It reminds me of Vietnam, the war which George Bush watched from the skies over Texas – which may account for why he this week mixed up the end of the Vietnam war with the genocide in a different country called Cambodia, whose population was eventually rescued by the same Vietnamese whom Mr Bush's more courageous colleagues had been fighting all along.

I am increasingly troubled at the inconsistencies in the official narrative of 9/11.

It's not just the obvious non sequiturs: where are the aircraft parts (engines, etc) from the attack on the Pentagon? Why have the officials involved in the United 93 flight (which crashed in Pennsylvania) been muzzled?

Why did flight 93's debris spread over miles when it was supposed to have crashed in one piece in a field?

I am talking about scientific issues.

If it is true

that kerosene burns at 820C under optimum conditions, how come the steel beams of the twin towers –

Tags: 911, usa, fisk

Daniel Dennett: Can We Know Our Own Minds?

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:40:13 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: Another outstanding TED talk and Dennett's best, in my opinion. Dennett demonstrates convincingly that if you think you know what's going on with your own perception and consciousness, you're mistaken.

Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us. As he puts it, our bodies are made up of 100 trillion little robots, none of them with an individual consciousness. So what makes us feel we have one? Or that we're in control of it? Dennett's hope is to show his audience that "Your consciousness is not quite as marvelous as you may have thought it is." He uses thought experiments and optical illusions to demonstrate to the TED audience that even very big brains are capable of playing tricks on their owners.

(I was lucky enough to see him give an earlier version in person when he visited my college and got to meet the man afterwards for a bit.)

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: dennett, philosophy, mind, brain, psychology, perception, consciousness, vision, ted, science

Praying For Opponents Misfortune

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:50:10 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: Prayer is a place where pride is abandoned, hope is lifted, and humility is adopted. This is not prayer.

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Until last week, "imprecatory prayer" was not in many people's vocabularies.

But then the Rev. Wiley S. Drake, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, urged his supporters to use Psalm 109 to focus prayers directed at the "enemies of God" -- including the leaders of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Drake was urging the use of imprecatory prayer -- prayers for another's misfortune or for vengeance against God's enemies. Now such prayer is the talk of blogs and letters to the editor.

The controversy flared Aug. 14, the day the Washington-based group asked the Internal Revenue Service to probe the tax-exempt status of Drake's congregation.

Under the heading, "HOW TO PRAY," he listed all 31 verses of Psalm 109, in which King David appeals to divine justice. Drake provided his congregation the King James Version of the psalm, including Verse 9, which says: Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Tags: this, is, not, prayer