A movement spreading across the United States hopes people can lose their hang-up about hanging their laundry out-of-doors. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months 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 11 months 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 4 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 3 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

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 4 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 4 months 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

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 1 month ago

Followup of Pock's F word video:
I have learned, that it originally meant the hand movement as a farmer diddles the cutting into the ground. (pls correct my terminology if you are an YFA or TYF member) Reality turns out to be much more colorful than classroom material. picked by spamtrap 7 months ago

He worked with many of the greatest jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins and Clifford Brown. Roach also led his own groups, and made numerous musical statements relating to the civil rights movement of African-Americans. picked by Turtle 11 months ago

enjoy! don't not listen to it just because it's classical. if you like it, find/get the rest of the 9th, and maybe the 8th and 7th. Plus, this video has the one and only Herbert von Karajan! picked by aoeu 1 year ago

For those who don't know... AKA pop surrealism

Also, a google image search brought this up: picked by donteatpoop 2 years ago

People love a good conspiracy theory. The JFK assassination plot, aliens crash landing at Roswell, the 9/11 truth movement and charges of government surveillance are all an indelible part of our pop culture.

But truth is sometimes stranger than fiction picked by doggylives 5 months ago

It's not fair, says Gonzalo Otalora. The beautiful people get all the breaks. Beauty is a natural advantage and he wants the good-lookers to be taxed to finance compensation for the ugly people. picked by mitzuzake 8 months ago

A progressive movement aimed at joining the US and Canada. Interesting idea. picked by kyot 1 year ago