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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/01\/09\/performance-anxieteh\/","trash":"","name":"performance-anxieteh","parent":"","title":"Performance Anxieteh","date":"2012-01-09 11:17:44","filepath":"posts\/20001040_performance-anxieteh.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cat.gif\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1041\" title=\"cat performance anxiety\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cat.gif\" alt=\"cat performance anxiety\" width=\"320\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nAlternate title: Goodbye Cruel World - kitteh<\/p>\nfrom <a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\">reddit<\/a>, posted many times. \u00a0This might be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/funny\/comments\/ngwdo\/goodbye_cruel_world\/\">the first<\/a>. \u00a0Here's a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/funny\/comments\/o5i6o\/flying_cat_not_quite_sure_about_that\/\">repost<\/a> with the above gif.<\/em>"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/01\/08\/book-the-atheists-guide-to-christmas\/","trash":"","name":"book-the-atheists-guide-to-christmas","parent":"","title":"Book: The Atheist's Guide to Christmas","date":"2012-01-08 09:24:17","filepath":"posts\/20001034_book-the-atheists-guide-to-christmas.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005DI8DWQ\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=zygmy-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B005DI8DWQ\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img alt=\"The Atheist's Guide to Christmas\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1287511404m\/7832371.jpg\" \/><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zygmy-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B005DI8DWQ\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005DI8DWQ\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=zygmy-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B005DI8DWQ\">The Atheist's Guide to Christmas<\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zygmy-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B005DI8DWQ\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br\/>\nMy rating: 4 of 5 stars \nI'm very happy to have read this book. It has helped me formulate my own opinion on the holiday and it was entertaining enough to have me laughing out loud.<br\/><br\/>It is a very easygoing book that both someone labeled an atheist and someone considered religious (but innocently curious about non-believers) would enjoy.<br\/><br\/>Thank God Borders closed down and only had this book on the shelves when they had a going-out-of-business-sale.\n\nyou can get a copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005DI8DWQ\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=zygmy-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B005DI8DWQ\">for $6<\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zygmy-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B005DI8DWQ\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> at Amazon.<\/em>\n"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/01\/07\/works-by-motohiko-odani\/","trash":"","name":"works-by-motohiko-odani","parent":"","title":"Works by Motohiko Odani","date":"2012-01-07 11:53:16","filepath":"posts\/20001020_works-by-motohiko-odani.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantom-limb.com\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Ruffle - Motohiko Odani\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phantom-limb.com\/gallery\/images\/g_photo_w03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantom-limb.com\">Motohiko Odani's<\/a> sculptures give an impression of anthropology by using repetition in organic patterns, much like biology and anatomy. \u00a0His work has an eerie dark quality that must smell like dry parchment and old floorboards.\n<a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phantom-limb.com \"><img class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Exhibit - Motohiko Odani\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yamamotogendai.org\/images\/artist\/odani\/hollow01.jpg\" alt=\"Exhibit - Motohiko Odani\" width=\"auto\" height=\"130\" \/> <img class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Viper - Motohiko Odani\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phantom-limb.com\/gallery\/images\/g_photo_h05.jpg\" alt=\"Viper - Motohiko Odani\" width=\"auto\" height=\"130\" \/> <img class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Hollow Reversal Cradle - Motohiko Odani\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phantom-limb.com\/gallery\/images\/g_photo_w01.jpg\" alt=\"Hollow Reversal Cradle - Motohiko Odani\" width=\"216\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nmore of his work can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yamamotogendai.org\/english\/artist\/odani.html\">Yamamoto Gendai Gallery<\/a>.<\/em>\n\nfound via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2011\/01\/motohiko-odani\/\">Colossal<\/a>.<\/em>\n\n "}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/01\/06\/chaplin-inspiration\/","trash":"","name":"chaplin-inspiration","parent":"","title":"There are Times when Men Truly Inspire","date":"2012-01-06 11:43:19","filepath":"posts\/20001017_chaplin-inspiration.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Charlie_Chaplin\">Charles Chaplin<\/a> is a man of integrity and should hold the respect for all that strive to improve the world and struggle to be more than themselves.\n\nWe are powerful, humanity. \u00a0We can achieve great feats as long as we keep our sights on the horizon and our minds locked into progressing prosperity and happiness. \u00a0We want<\/strong> more than wealth and assets. \u00a0We want<\/strong> life and the chance to flex our will over our given lot.\n\nChaplin's message is exquisite:\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j34IrtLZrmY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\ntranscript from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004NWPY7A\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=zygmy-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004NWPY7A\">The Great Dictator<\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zygmy-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004NWPY7A\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> included below:<\/em>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor, that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.\nThe way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.\n\nGreed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate;\nhas goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.\n\nWe have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in:\nmachinery that gives abundance has left us in want.\nOur knowledge has made us cynical,\nour cleverness hard and unkind.\nWe think too much and feel too little:\nMore than machinery we need humanity;\nMore than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.\n\nWithout these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.\n\nThe aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say \"Do not despair\".\n\nThe misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish. . .\n\nSoldiers: don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.\n\nDon't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.\n\nIn the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written:\n\"The kingdom of God is within man\"\nNot one man, nor a group of men, but in all men; in you, the people.\n\nYou the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.\n\nSoldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!\n\n. . .\n\nLook up! Look up! The clouds are lifting, the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.\n\nThe soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up.<\/blockquote>\n\nfrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004NWPY7A\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=zygmy-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004NWPY7A\">The Great Dictator<\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zygmy-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004NWPY7A\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/em>\n\n"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/01\/05\/launch-day\/","trash":"","name":"launch-day","parent":"","title":"Launch Day","date":"2012-01-05 11:14:58","filepath":"posts\/20001013_launch-day.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bagtaggar.com\/\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1014\" title=\"Launchday - stanley von medvey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Launchday_web_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Launchday - stanley von medvey\" width=\"400\" height=\"574\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nsee more excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bagtaggar.com\/\">science fiction paintings<\/a> by Stanley von Medvey at his BagTaggar gallery.<\/em><\/p>"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/01\/04\/strap-a-plane-to-it\/","trash":"","name":"strap-a-plane-to-it","parent":"","title":"Strap a Plane to it","date":"2012-01-04 09:57:56","filepath":"posts\/20001002_strap-a-plane-to-it.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/01\/gau-81.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1007 aligncenter\" title=\"gau-8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/01\/gau-81.jpg\" alt=\"gau-8: Strap a plane on it\" width=\"504\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>\n\nfrom\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/shoulderdestruction\">shoulderdestruction<\/a> on reddit (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/funny\/comments\/nzgy0\/this_shit_needs_to_fly\/\">context<\/a>)<\/em>\n\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GAU-8_Avenger\">GAU-8<\/a> had a few planes built for it, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II\">A-10<\/a> (Warthog) is the best known for being honored to carry it."}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/01\/03\/sidewalk-astronomers\/","trash":"","name":"sidewalk-astronomers","parent":"","title":"Sidewalk Astronomers","date":"2012-01-03 11:28:11","filepath":"posts\/2000998_sidewalk-astronomers.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsidewalkastronomers.org\/\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfsidewalkastronomers.org\/uploads\/images\/logos\/sfsa_logo.png\" alt=\"San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers\" width=\"483\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a>\n\nBeing a Sidewalk Astronomer isn't really about \"joining\" anything - it's about embracing a philosophy and acting on it.\n\nAsk John Dobson, founder of the Sidewalk Astronomers, how he became interested in astronomy and he'll answer, \"I was born!\" People have a natural fascination with the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars, but to most it's something they read about in a magazine or see on television.\n\nWe stop people on sidewalks and let them see the craters of the Moon, the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, or the spots on the Sun. For just a moment, they have a personal connection with the universe around them, and sometimes life seems a little better after that.\nWe call it \"urban guerilla astronomy.\"<\/p>\nmore at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsidewalkastronomers.org\/\">SF Sidewalk Astronomers<\/a>.<\/em>\n\n "}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/01\/01\/under-the-spell-of-polaris\/","trash":"","name":"under-the-spell-of-polaris","parent":"","title":"Under the Spell of Polaris","date":"2012-01-01 19:15:22","filepath":"posts\/2000994_under-the-spell-of-polaris.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nunoserrao\/5722048475\/\" title=\"Under The Spell of Polaris by Nuno Serr\u00e3o, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2196\/5722048475_c521e4cbc1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Under The Spell of Polaris\"><\/a>\n\nmore from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nunoserrao\/5722048475\/in\/photostream\">Nuno Serr\u00e3o<\/a> on Flickr<\/em>"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/12\/31\/commentary-on-spontaneous-magic-trick\/","trash":"","name":"commentary-on-spontaneous-magic-trick","parent":"","title":"Commentary on spontaneous magic trick","date":"2011-12-31 11:38:54","filepath":"posts\/2000992_commentary-on-spontaneous-magic-trick.xml.json","type":"post","content":"This is well worth watching.\n<iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R24fyrs6ofo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/12\/30\/guy-on-a-buffalo-episode-3\/","trash":"","name":"guy-on-a-buffalo-episode-3","parent":"","title":"Guy on a Buffalo - Episode 3","date":"2011-12-30 11:20:33","filepath":"posts\/2000925_guy-on-a-buffalo-episode-3.xml.json","type":"post","content":"\"Guy on a buffalo, sneak up on you like a ghost. \u00a0Yeah it's me. \u00a0You hunting buffalo?\"\n<iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L55dKrjxcCY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\nwatch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/2011\/10\/07\/guy-on-a-buffalo\/\">Episode 1<\/a><\/em>\n\nwatch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/2011\/12\/10\/guy-on-a-buffalo-episode-2\/\">Episode 2<\/a><\/em>"}}