Peter's Brisbane randome

"I am a crisis."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juLcLxVoOac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=juLcLxVoOac

Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell

Listen, read, learn. 1933.

Text Down and Out in London and Paris

http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/Down-and-Out-in-Paris-and-London.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_and_Out_in_Paris_and_London

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14372195

And listen to this!

"He'd know her (today, poverty) straight away." "Utter misery"

Audio 

BBC "Has anything changed?"

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20111007-1242a.mp3

Earth Dashboard

If the equator were a tape measure you would find that the earth is 1,584,000,000 inches (4,023,360,000 cm) around. The earth also weighs 5,972,190,000 trillion tons.  By the way if you have ever wanted to try to dig a hole to China make sure you have a canteen of icewater with you. The temperature at the earth's core is 7232° Fahrenheit (4000° C).  On a more serious note, at the time of this post:  Of the 7,041,428,197 people on earth today 854,508,895 are living in slums and 863,903,009 have no access to clean water.

Buckminster Fuller referred to our planet as the "The Spaceship Earth" and considered we humans its crew members. The interactive Earth Dashbord gives us the information we need to monitor and control the course of our vessel. See all kinds of interesting statistics in the areas of  population, education, food, communication, conservation and much more.  You will find it at:

http://earthdash.org/DraftDash/earthdashboard3/index.php

Beware! Buckyballs are NOT for Little Children

Three-year-old Peyton Bushnell was so intrigued with the Buckyballs her dad brought home from the office she ate them! Read the article here.

Help SETI Find Intelligent Life in Outer Space

If you have an extra computer lying around your house or even if you want to volunteer your computer when you aren't using it you can help in a project being conducted at Berkley University to search for evidence of life on other planets. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project collects enourmous amounts of radio wave data.  Its computers are able to capture and analyze stronger signals but the radio waves from an extraterrestrial source will most likely be the weaker ones that the SETI equipment misses.  This is where you come in! Another way to support the project is by joining SETI's Planetary Society. This is the the world's largest space-interest group and you will get news and updates about cool space stuff. Whether you are 6 or 106 you will think it is "out of this world."

Leaving Lincoln Park, Portland, Maine

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/06/10333107-longest-running-occupation-rolls-up-its-dome-and-goes-home

Lincoln Park, Portland, Maine

Yahoo Photo of the Day

Credit Joel Page AP News

Photo of the Day Photos | Photo of the Day Pictures - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/photos/photo-of-the-day-slideshow-1309242001-slideshow/dick-fischbeck-ties-down-randome-preparation-move-saturday-photo-205332202.html via @YahooNews

A Water Wheel to Help the World

In some parts of the world people don't have a bathroom or kitchen sink. They must travel miles each day on foot to bring water to their household in order to survive. Here is one very useful solution.

Video Build a RanDome

See the Video Tutorial How to Build a RanDome Geodesic Shelter

A Landscape from Waste

The tessellation of cds is draped over an inflatable structure.

CDs are less and less popular lately.  Two Parisian artists from the art studio Le Centquatre decided there was no reason to let them go to waste. They sewed together over 60,000 of them. Since the CDs are flat the sheets were draped over inflatable structuresto create the dunes.