Holy fucking shit.

daynews.ru - Tokyo purse snatcher gets nailed

] The small town of Galena, Alaska, is tired to pay 28
] cents/kwh for its electricity, three times the national
] average. Today, Galena "is powered by generators burning
] diesel that is barged in during the Yukon River's
] ice-free months," according to Reuters. But Toshiba,
] which designs a small nuclear reactor named 4S (for
] "Super Safe, Small, & Simple"), is offering a free
] reactor to the 700-person village, reports the New York
] Times (no reg. needed).

[ I've posted about this before... I think it looks very promising. -k]

Alaska Village Moves from Diesel to 'Micro-Nuke'

A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer...

[...]

He said: "I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it. It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I'm glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there."

-J A true hero for Slavic peoples everywhere!

Man peed way out of avalanche

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] SWT FAQ

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] Nearly 400 images can be accessed through the links
] below. Each page contains 50 fast-loading thumbnails
] which link to larger images. For the sake of completeness
] (and to perhaps inspire young artists to persevere) I've
] included very early work dating from the late 1960's.
] Early work was created primarily in oils, intermediate
] work in acrylics and gouache, and later work using
] digital tools.The execution of the early works is
] sometimes primitive, the ideas are occasionally outdated,
] and the scans may be uncorrected. Nonetheless, the
] pictures may be amusing or instructive. Generally, the
] lower the serial number of an image, the older it is. The
] date ranges are approximate, however, and in some cases
] older images may have been catalogued with higher serial
] numbers when they were digitally remastered. Many of the
] images are being restored and may have been updated in
] the web edition of this site. High resolution images on
] the CD edition may be viewed with a graphics program.

Holy badass space-artist.

Don Dixon Space Art Portfolio

] Artists produce visual art, writers produce words to tell
] stories, musicians produce songs. All of these things
] require at least four things the way I see it.
]
] 1) Perseverance - These people must be able to keep
] trying, even if they do not like how something they are
] working on is turning out. They don't just decide
] they can't do it and quit because it's too
] hard.
]
] 2) Creativity - These people have to obviously have
] something in their heads that they want and know how to
] get out onto a media that they can share with the rest of
] the world.
]
] 3) Balls - They also aren't afraid to put their work
] out there for the world to see. They aren't afraid
] of being laughed at because they know that its the best
] they could have done, and what does it mean if someone
] else makes fun of them?
]
] 4) Drive - They continue to work, learn, and grow at
] their skill by never being satisfied. By always pushing
] the limits of their abilities.

[ Kobi's a smart kid... i've already tossed some of my thoughts into his comment thread there, but since i saw that Tom memed it, i figured i'd bump. -k]

baudburn.com: Geeking in Style.: Comment on On Creation and Perseverance.

] Increasingly, though, Russia and the West seem to be
] talking past each other. "I think there could be a new
] cold war," Mr. Markov said, "not a result of competition
] of interests, but because of miscommunication."

We have a President that respects and likes a fascist dictator, and a press that has the balls to refer to the differences between foriegn policies of American and Russian "democracy" as being the result of "miscommunication." Talking past each other!?

A Tug of War Over Ukraine