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I found the photograph that goes with this post before I read the piece it was with, and I was intrigued. It is a theatre set for a play. It's amazing! I could live here too!! I will just put the details from the original entry of last year that concern the set and its reason for existing. The Great Plotnik  'Few people know the post-war history of Japanese-Americans and African-Americans in San Francisco. The Fillmore had once been Japan Town, but, when the Japanese were removed to detention camps during the war,blacks, mostly from the South, moved in to work in war industries and in the shipyards. Then, after the war, the Japanese-Americans came back but were not welcomed, while the African-Americans lost their jobs to returning white servicemen. Eventually, much of the Fillmore was razed for urban development. This is the historical backdrop to Philip Kan Gotanda's 'After the War' at A.C.T. How is the show? Well, to begin with, the set is amazing -- Donald Eastman's circa-1948 San Francisco rooming house in the Fillmore District revolves 360 degrees on stage, as the house lights land on various characters residing in each room, each of whom has a story to tell. Actors run down stairs and up fire escapes as one scene ends, the house revolves, and another scene begins. The set is a tour de force.' I have to agree! :) | ||||||||||
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 devious I have shamelessly stolen this from my dual Lj/melo friend Ursula (nuclearsnow on melo and blacklight_halo on Lj). Thanks for finding this Ursula. Now I just have to get a certain someone on the messenger when he is totally drunk and not paying attention! haha! ;)Virtual Vow.com "Do you want to get virtually married to your MySpace sweetheart? Do you want to show your affection toward another but aren't ready for the "real" thing? Would you like to let your friends and family know you're in love? Well, this is the place for you! Virtual Vow lets you get married online, in a virtual setting. Although the marriage is not legally binding, and doesn't give you any additional legal rights, it does give you the ability to get "virtually married" when it otherwise isn't "legal" or possible. It demonstrate to everyone how much you care for your partner! And best of all, it's completely FREE! Another benefit of Virtual Marriage is the fact that you can marry anything! There are no limitations or discrimination on VirtualVow.com. • Do you love your dog or cat? Marry it! • Do you love your truck? Marry it! • Do you love your motorcycle? Marry it! • Do you love your website? Marry it! • Do you love a celebrity? Marry them! Once you're married, you get a full Virtual Marriage Certificate suitable for framing and printable at any time. You'll also get a set of customized graphic buttons and images that you can put on your website, blog, or MySpace page. You can get started by sending a proposal or, if you know you're already in love, you can go directly to the online wedding page." Yessss!!!! :D | ||||||||||
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Thanks to my friend at Deadjournal, crimsontwilight, I now know this important fact about myself: 1 minute, 3 seconds | ||||||||||
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Certain architectural structures hold a fascination for me. I find them to be fearsome and awe inspiring - bridges, skyscrapers, huge freeways, and cooling towers. Yes! Cooling towers. Here is something I saw tonight, and I thought you might also like to see it. If the structure inspires awe, so also does its demolition - although they botched this one! In pictures  How do you blow up a tower?  Tinsley Viaduct What is a Cooling Tower? | ||||||||||
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By Russell Jackson Scotsman 11 August 2008 SCIENTISTS have stumbled on a material that could turn science fiction into reality – a material that makes objects invisible. Ever since the author HG Wells' novella of 1897, The Invisible Man, the story of a scientist rendered invisible by a potion, researchers have been intrigued by the notion of invisibility. Now scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have engineered a material that for the first time can bend light around three dimensional objects making them "disappear." The research – funded by the American military – paves the way for stealth tanks, aircraft and even warships that can disappear from enemy soldiers' sight. ( >>Read on ) | ||||||||||
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Yes, but it's a filing cabinet skyscraper! Go look! And then, here are more cool real skyscrapers of the world. :)  | ||||||||||
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By Margaret Neighbour Scotsman 07 August 2008 SCIENTISTS are launching a study into whether the "trash vortex", a plastic soup of waste floating in the Pacific, could harbour new forms of marine life. Environmentalists have campaigned for action to clean up the vast expanse of debris thought to cover an area twice the size of the continental United States since it was discovered in 1997. According to the United Nations, the rubbish kills more than a million seabirds every year, as well as more than 100,000 marine mammals. Syringes, cigarette lighters and toothbrushes have been found inside the stomachs of dead seabirds, which mistake them for food, as well as on Hawaiian beaches. The rubbish vortex is held in place by swirling underwater currents. It drifts about 500 miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan. ( >>Read on ) | ||||||||||
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Long ago I read a book about ghost hunting, The Demonologist, written by a husband and wife team, Ed and Lorraine Warren. They would go round from house to house all over everywhere, checking out and documenting people's stories of being haunted and terrorised by spirits and ghosts and such. The book is a very compelling read. Lorraine Warren has her own website: The New England Society for Psychic Research. This particular tale is one from the book which I found on another site. It is chilling. Annabelle, the Haunted Doll  | ||||||||||
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 calmAllan Brodie The Guardian Tuesday July 29 2008  View of the restored pier in Southwold. Photograph: David Mansell Weston-super-Mare's Grand Pier was not completed until 1904, but it counts as one of the last of Britain's great 19th-century pleasure piers and is a very fine example of the style. Yesterday's fire is a disaster because the pier had just been extensively revamped, but it may not have been completely destroyed: pier buildings burn easily, but their decking is of thick timber and the cast-iron substructure is solid. There's a good chance this one will rise from the ashes again.  See Fire levels Grand Pier pavilion with extra photos In fact, most of Britain's 55 surviving seaside piers have been rebuilt or remodelled more than once since they were first erected, not least in the years after the second world war, when fears that they might be used to land enemy troops in an invasion led to many being partly blown up. That was, of course, the original purpose of building a pier out to sea: to allow ships to moor and passengers and cargo to be embarked and disembarked safely and comfortably. ( >>Read on ) | ||||||||||
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Last night I was looking for a book I had just bought, and lo and behold, there it was being offered in a free download from a site I didna know about called Scribd. So I quickly joined and downloaded it and its sequel. Then I started looking around and saw that Scribd calls itself a document sharing site, so we all know what THAT means, but it's done very tastefully and without having to use complicated methods such as you would find on PirateBay with the huge movies and videos and such. First of all. I canny download those on my connection [at least in this century], and secondly I dun go in for that 'group computer sex' you guys call BitTorrents.  </joke>But at Scribd you can make yourself a wee profile and then as soon as you get your avatar up, you start getting friend requests in your email. 'Tis a bit reminiscent of melo with the number of people coming out of the woodwork and wanting to friend you. ha! So I look to see if what these people have uploaded is decent, and if so, then I friend them. Then I thought, 'Well Oona, you had better upload something to share,' so I put up a few ebooks I had that were not commonly available on sites like Gutenberg. I've been getting those science fiction novels from Tor.com which I dun read but thought someone might, so I am giving those. I gave Future Shock, and Dr Zhivago and The Exorcist. You can put your own work up there and pictures, etc. I like it a lot. Go and check it out. I am 0ona with a zero as the first letter in case you want to be friends! ;) Scribd | ||||||||||
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