August 2011
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Police investigate case of woman's body found... →
HAYWARD, Calif. — Hayward police are investigating the death of a female who was found engulfed in flames Friday night, police said.
Emergency officials received initial calls of a structure fire in the 31000 block of Industrial Parkway Southwest shortly before 10 p.m. The report was quickly changed from a structure on fire to a person engulfed in flames.
Hayward firefighters and...
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July 2011
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“Wonder in the face of being, in the very fact that there is being, this...”
– — Dominique Janicaud
See Simon Critchley’s “The Book of Dead Philosophers”.
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Papercraft Self Portrait - Art Portfolio for Eric... →
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Doctor Who?
I see Doctor Who. An entertaining power-lawyer watches. A 17-year old soccer-playing girl watches.
I don’t know.
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Books: Hard Rain Falling
Recently I finished reading Don Carpenter’s 1966 debut novel, Hard Rain Falling. I quite liked it. The synopsis from the New York Review Books Classics, which lately brought Carpenter’s book from its out of print languish:
Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the...
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Extreme Heat Takes Arctic Sea Ice To Record Lows →
Extreme warmth at the North Pole is bringing Arctic sea ice extent to record low levels, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reports, threatening Arctic fauna and global weather. Sea ice extent has been plummeting through the first two weeks of July, at a rate averaging nearly 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) per day. That’s the size of Pennsylvania each day, the size of Iran over...
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Best friend →
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A stunning new book of nuclear propaganda... →
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“You can make rice on the side by putting 2 scoops of rice in rice maker, rinsing...”
– Email from my wife
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“On December 13, my diary entry was: “The city government decided to kill...”
– Yexin, Sha. “The Chinese Sparrows of 1958.”
EastSouthWestNorth. http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20061130_1.htm
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Owl Print
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Photo: Sally Arnold/ZUMA Press
An imprint of an owl is seen on a window where a bird apparently crashed in Kendal, England, on July 12. The homeowner found no sign of the owl and assumed the bird flew off — startled but unharmed. Experts say the white mark left on the glass are from the bird’s powder down, a part of a bird’s feathery coat composed of fine dust particles of keratin. via...
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“Witnesses who watched a Northern California man get sucked into a Maui blow hole...”
– Kelleher, Jennifer Sinco. “Tourists saw Calif. man fall into Maui blow hole.” Yahoo News. Web. 14 July 2011.
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