For between £200 and £2,000, people can buy a cow that stands no taller than a large German shepherd dog, gives 16 pints of milk a day that can be drunk unpasteurised, keeps the grass “mown” and will be a family pet for years before ending up in the freezer.
Quote from an article in The Times on the Dexter, an Irish breed of mini-cow.
Above is Pieter Aertsen’s Butcher’s Stall with the Flight into Egypt.
Both via Pruned.
An incredible photo of the Large Helical Device in Japan built to test plasma fusion confinement. Translation: This is the beginning of what you need to have your own little star right here on planet earth… Without actually making our little blue marble into a star. –Long Now Blog
An NASA ASTER satellite image of crops in Kansas watered from the Ogallala aquifer. The circle motif is due to the use of center pivot irrigation.
Mr. LaFontaine wrote most of his voice-overs and, sometimes with collaborators, came up with familiar phrases like “a one-man army,” “one man, one destiny,” “from the bedroom to the boardroom,” and “nowhere to run, nowhere to hide and no way out.”
my parents have a few of these.
haints!
that explains a lot.
