Why do small differentials in air temperature warp visible light?  Index of refraction.   

An earlier post on Realneo wondered whether an invisibility cloak could be made from wire - the air temperature differential around the wires on the corn crib causes a visual moire effect.

Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich is being singled out to change his vote on President Barack Obama’s health reform measure. President Obama himself pitched to Kucinich, telling him a form of single-payer option – Kucinich’s desire – is in the reform bill.

"I will help Mr Gilio any way I can, truth is for ten years (Sr Corita, Department of Aging, Mental Health Services, Adult Protective Services) I tried. I will do what I can to help." - "legislated that for the emergency shelter grant agencies, they must have either homeless, or formerly homeless people on their boards. Wow. You would have thought I cussed in Church.

No cell phone app will put buttons back on your shirt, or darn your socks.  

Have you ever created a shirt from a McCalls pattern? 

Have you sewn with a treadle machine and finished the details with needle and thread?

It used to be that thimbles were an indispensible tool in every household - necessary for digital protection. 

While you are having that Martini at dinner - and all through the night, the slopes are being groomed.

The history of this town astounds me...where are we going with this crowd of "leadership"??

The Plain Dealer reported Sunday about the troubled downtown commercial properties. Empty and emptying buildings. It's a shame.

it should be noted:The U.S. Government has had its military;  its best experts;  scientists from America's best Universities;  as well as experts from the Chevron Oil Company, examine what you are about to read, and not one of them has been able to disprove any part of it.  .They all know it's true, but there's NO solution, so they don't dare tell you !!

 Vegetables frozen right after they are picked may retain more nutrients than fresh veggies that have aged, a new study says.

Has anyone had STONE SOUP lately? 

Perhaps we can all enjoy some this year....ridding our community of the Lucifer Effects.... and enjoying the prosperity of working together towards nourishing ourselves within the community....

 The incidence of natural disaster has risen dramatically over the past 20

Pablo Picasso

Still Life with Death's Head,

Paris, autumn 1907
Oil on canvas
115 x 88 cm
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

One scholar has suggested that this painting was inspired by the death of Alfred Jarry on November 1, 1907.Alfred Jarry was the author of the play Ubu Roi (1896) considered an important work of literature as the forerunner of Surrealist writing.

The quarter percent sales tax for the medical mart has now cost County taxpayers $87 million. MMPI, Tim Hagan and his Kennedy friends thank you all. Keep it coming, says Tim.

The Cleveland Corporate Corrupters had a big meeting yesterday. They’re already deciding how to spend tens of millions of dollars we don’t have.

Feelin' a bit sluggish? Here's one of my favorite dances that will prepare you to get off your ass and take a brisk walk to Pennsylvania or clean your house top to bottom. Jesus! These guys (no drugs invloved) have more energy in this one perfomance than I have shelled out in weeks!

Bone Thugs N Harmony - Rebirth - Official VIdeo

Bone Thugs N Harmony | MySpace Music Videos

I Like it - I like it a lot - worth buying for the part after 4:21 (they don't give the whole song away).

If there is a song beautiful and powerful and haunting enough to steal, this is it. But buy it instead...

I love our home boys BTNH and this song - but are we stealing from bone by putting their content places like here, vie YouTube?

Shortly after I first got online, like 15 years ago, I searched for anything from Northeast Ohio of interest to me, and Pere Ubu immediately stood-out at the forefront of the new economy - not just for Northeast Ohio but for the world of music - with what was at that time already the near-perfect website, by my assessment: Ubu Projex - the art and business affairs directorate of Pere Ubu and related projex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRkOfpaPSwI

I attended a workshop on compost tea last weekend, and it has had me thinking about fungal hyphae ever since. I wrote up my observations from the workshop on Localfood Cleveland.

But here it is again - the way decay works to bring forth creativity.

Did you hear the joke about how many (insert your favorite-to-ridicule ethnicity here) it takes to change a light bulb?  

In this case two City workers, and two to turn the truck!  

Just kidding, this is an unfair use of the image.  

The  recent snows in the North East Ohio area have stimulated children (and perhaps adults, in the case of the very cleanly expressed example in the image above) to creative play involving no commercial components.