Heraclitean Fire

Harry Rutherford’s Blog

Year: 2006

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Post author By Harry
Post date 16 December 2006
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The Blasphemy Challenge

“You record a short message damning yourself to Hell, you upload it to YouTube, and then the Rational Response Squad will send you a free The God Who Wasn’t There DVD.”

(tags: atheism religion youtube blasphemy)
Domestic Vacations

a portfolio of photographs.

(tags: photos)
I GREW HEMP: rubberstamped money

‘My collection of rubberstamped money’ – via Metafilter, I think

(tags: money dollars banknotes)
Be A Design Group: The Impotence of Proofing

via Design Observer

(tags: proofreading newspapers funny)

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Post author By Harry
Post date 15 December 2006
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birdPod: A Revolution in Bird Song Identification

(tags: ipod birdsong birding)
Regret the Error: Crunks ’06: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections

(tags: errors corrections media)
Damn Cool Pics: Creative Paper Art

(tags: paper art)
BLDGBLOG: The Century Giant Lamp Tower

According to the building’s own promotional literature, it will be “world’s only architecture shaped like a huge Western classical oil lamp.”

(tags: lamps lighting architecture buildings China)
Giant Nullarbor logo zooms back into focus – web – Technology – theage.com.au

‘Each side of the diamond measures 1.8 kilometres. The letters that spell out “READYMIX” are 240 metres high by 180 metres wide, with each stroke estimated to be about 12 metres wide’

(tags: Australia sign)
ravezooka

‘The Ravezooka is a musical weapon that shoots a wide range of powerful “hardcore” sounds based on your target’s distance from the instrument.’ Via wmmna

(tags: music daft guns)

Culture

Tulear Never Sleeps

Everyone’s favourite fair trade DRM-free world music store, Calabash, has introduced embedded audio players for your blog. So here’s one of the favourite albums I’ve bought from them, Tulear Never Sleeps, an album of the tsapiky music of Madagascar:

Tags Africa, Calabash Music, Madagascar, music

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Post author By Harry
Post date 14 December 2006
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Third Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity

(tags: culture heritage)
World of Napkins

“This personal site serve as presentation of my napkins collection. I am proud to introduce you over 2.000 napkins from the whole world.”

(tags: napkins archive)
Hans van der Meer :: ‘European Fields – the landscape of lower-league football’

local football grounds all over Europe. via Coudal.

(tags: football photography Europe)
A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun

(tags: tsunami sun astronomy)

Me

It’s quiz time

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

via The Little Professor

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Post author By Harry
Post date 13 December 2006
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Figures from balloons. These people give us pleasure. Children simply in delight! (118 photos)

(tags: balloons sculpture archive cool huge)
The New Yorker: The Good Book Business

“The familiar observation that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time obscures a more startling fact: the Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year.” The business of selling Bibles.

(tags: bibles publishing)
unbuilt

“All across Beirut you can find walls covered with bullets holes… This proposal that I called ‘bullet lights’ is reversing the meaning and experience of the ‘bullet hole wallpaper’ at diverse locations in the city.” via BLDGBLOG

(tags: Beirut lights art)
Hangin’ out in Dayton, Nevada in the late ’70s

“There are few clues as to who these people are, other than the fact that many of the photos have “Dayton, Nevada” written on the back in pencil and that they were obviously taken at various times in the late 1970s”

(tags: found photos Nevada vernacularphotography 70s)