A movement spreading across the United States hopes people can lose their hang-up about hanging their laundry out-of-doors. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A series of photographs taken from flickr all illustrating movement.
The photographer has made the choice to set the camera to capture the movement as blur, rather than freezing it. picked by kamaloo 1 year ago

Zimbabwe's main opposition party (The Movement For Democratic Change or MDC) are claiming they have all but wiped out Ronert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party in yesterday's election.

Mugabe's spokesman, George Charamba, made barely disguised threats in response. picked by pocksucket 5 months ago

I was looking for a video for Ode to Joy on YouTube to post for FAF*. I was hoping for a Clockwork Orange tie in too, but what I found was this video. And it is so much more. As brief as I can be, when printers print they whine. That whining is, after a fashion, a series of notes. Print the right thing and you can play music. So someone down at HP did. This is supposedly a self test Easter... read full post picked by pocksucket 4 months ago

Warner Bros. Pictures is joining the environmental movement with the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced documentary "The 11th Hour," which will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this month. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Here are two sculptures: "Sensory Homunculus" and "Motor Homunculus." The first shows what a man's body would look like if each part grew in proportion to the area of the cortex of the brain concerned with its sensory perception. The second one shows the area of cortex with regard to movement. picked by ogri2003 1 year ago

Two groups of researchers independently find genetic link to restless legs during sleep. Only about 3% - 10% of the population has this in some form. I am one of them. picked by hypnotode 1 year ago

Zimbabwe's opposition party, MDC, are claiming victory over Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party in last week's election.

While ZANU-PF are unlikely to slink off quietly, this would appear to be the final nail in the coffin of their regime.

Follow up to this post picked by pocksucket 5 months ago

In a special tribute, stars of "Dynasty" and "Charlie's Angels" recalled the mastermind of those and other hit shows as a star-maker with a sense for what audiences wanted. picked by Jaxomlotus 2 years ago

Scientists have captured on video the intracellular version of a postal delivery service. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The “quiverfull” movement is a small but growing conservative Protestant group that eschews all forms of birth control and believes that family planning is exclusively God’s domain. picked by NoKidding 2 years ago

This is just a single image along with some background info, but I felt it is powerful enough and news worthy enough to warrant it's own posting. picked by 2manyusernames 6 months ago

Oktar, born in 1956, is the driving force behind a richly funded movement based in Turkey that champions creationism, the belief that God literally created the world in six days as told in the Bible and the Koran. Istanbul-based Oktar, who writes under the pen name Harun Yahya, has created waves in the past few years by sending out thousands of unsolicited texts advocating Islamic creationism to ... read full post picked by Jetka 4 months ago

This time the images are from WD-50 from New York. This is more of a new American cuisine sort of spin on this new food movement.



For anyone who didn't relate with the food at Alinea in this entry, maybe this could inspire you to go out and try something new. picked by cameron0 10 months ago

Whether the aquarist owns a salt water fish only or reef aquarium, water movement is of very great importance.

Seawater quality is measured by test kits, such as Ph, alkalinity, nitrate etc. It could be argued that another part of seawater quality is its movement. picked by pbcunningham 1 year ago

Knut was the perfect mascot for the Green movement, splashed on the cover of Vanity Fair. Now? He's a quivering, angry mess. A cautionary tale of animal celebrity.
Anyone else find this photo profoundly disturbing? picked by mitzuzake 1 month ago

The immigration movement doesn't need marches it needs leadership. Who will be the MLK of immigration? picked by 2longdogs 4 months ago

Former dictator Suharto, an army general who crushed Indonesia's communist movement and pushed aside the country's founding father to usher in 32 years of tough rule that saw up to a million political opponents killed, died Sunday. He was 86. picked by bevissimo 7 months ago

There is a big movement to develop mobile phone operating systems using Linux. picked by agent014 12 months ago

The Freecycle Network is made up of 4,521 groups with 5,324,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. picked by doggylives 3 months ago