I have to admit I find Google Chrome’s sad plugin puzzle piece pretty amusing.
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“Gong Station Chimes”
from S/T by The Conet Project (1997)
from S/T by The Conet Project (1997)
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The Conet Project 4CD collection of mysterious shortwave radio recordings thought to be coded transmissions from government agencies was originally released by Irdial. It has out of print for several years, but the label has now made it available as a free download, according to their free music philosophy.
More about spy numbers stations and info about the Spooks mailing list here.
(↝via aquarius)
View Source Links
Control-U takes me to the source of the page in a separate tab, with all of the lengthy lines line wrapped and line numbered. Best of all, all of the links are active. I simply find what I’m looking for, and click on it, and I see that page in another tab.
I’ve been wanting this for years.
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
(↝via make via jwz)
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.
(↝via wikipedia)
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.”