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odditiesoflife: Abandoned (Haunted) Hotel in Colombia The Hotel del Salto is located near Tequendama Falls on the Bogotá River in Colombia. It was opened in 1924 and shut its doors in the 1990′s. The hotel’s Gothic design is perfectly enhanced by a river and waterfall. Some say the hotel is haunted and no one wanted…
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my older son teaching kids to code and make games in Scratch. @estebanthinks @ScratchEdTeam @ScratchTeam
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Undocumented Immigrant Driver’s Licenses Bill Signed Into Law In Colorado
Undocumented Immigrant Driver’s Licenses Bill Signed Into Law In Colorado DENVER — (Undocumented) Immigrants living illegally in Colorado will be able to get driver’s licenses under a bill signed Wednesday by Gov. John Hickenlooper, adding the state to a handful of others that provide a legal way for immigrants to use the roads. The issue…
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(via Karen Atkinson: Are We Teaching Artists to Fail*?) If galleries eventually go the wayside of other like minded industries, ie. the record industry, etc. then we need to prepare our artists in more ways than the vertical strategy. In 1941, the total number of degrees conferred by US colleges in the fine and applied…
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Clichés crop up for a reason. It has become one to say of William Gibson’s near-future novels that he has a genius for picking out the seeds of future in the present, that he writes about the world we already know as if it were science fiction. I remember reading his Pattern Recognition in 2007,…
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(via Paris Review – White Noir, Jane Yager) A man with a briefcase arrives in a place called City-A looking like a double agent from 1973: mustachioed and trenchcoated, forever ducking into phone booths for cryptic conversations. The man, Mr. Holz, is a geophysicist of unknown origin. He has come here to work for the…
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Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love, love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love…
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iOS 7’s Icons Suck because Jony Ive is Used to Hardware & Factories
dbreunig: Neven Mrgan on the new icons in iOS, and the grid system that led to them: Jony Ive’s new “icon grid” is a guide meant to ensure that different apps’ icons look harmonious on the home screen. That’s a lofty goal. The issue of whether a grid can really accomplish that is complex; most…
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Paperclip Astronaut
penandjacket: His favorite was Bowie’s Space Oddity when Major Tom’s wife already knew he loved her very much. But the first plane he piloted and crashed had his fiancé in the front seat, had her until she fell out. On hot days, he took a sixpack to the field and tied paperclips to balloons, imagining…
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Colorado Public Radio: Why People Keep Moving Into Fire-Prone Areas
Colorado Public Radio: Why People Keep Moving Into Fire-Prone Areas climateadaptation: Images of the Black Forest fire near Colorado Springs show how devastating a wildfire can be. Why are more homes being built in these kinds of areas? What a great exploration of how our communities are built. Click through and press “listen” if you can.…