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At the Cinco de Mayo festival in Civic Center Park, in Denver CO these cool peeps took the "Cool Dog" pledge! Thanks to Paws & Co volunteer Lisa Frazer, the Denver Animal Shelter and generous print sponsor Schomp Automotive more people know about the dangers of leaving dogs in hot cars - and won't do it!
I don't know what he represents but who cares. It's cool. Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco, 2012.
Japan cools its red wine ... to very cold temperatures. Getting a proper temperatured red wine is not easy.
I spotted this cool pair of sneakers attached to the backpack of a soldier at the airport. She was arriving home after months of deployment overseas. I tried to find her during our greeting to ask her about them, but didn't spot her again, so I can only imagine the story behind them. Cute shoes!
ANSH90 - 5. Shoes
Sea vapours freeze on cold rocks along the shore. The salty sea water melts it whenever it splashes up on them.
Cool Globes debuted in Chicago with a June 1, 2007 grand opening celebration attended by more than 500 people, including artists, sponsors, business and civic leaders, and children. This public event featured a news conference with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, the unveiling of eight globes, refreshments and live entertainment. Cool Globes' educational partner, the Field Museum, also hosted more than 230 CPS students who learned about climate change before attending the event. The globes were displayed along Chicago's lakefront, from the Museum Campus to Navy Pier, from June 1 to September 30, 2007.
Cool Globes was launched in Chicago because of the City's leadership and dedication to promoting environmentally sound policies. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's goal is to make his city the greenest in the nation through the promotion of environmental programs and practices, including a bike initiative, adding hybrid buses to the city's mass transit system, and building "green" libraries, public schools and police stations. Mayor Daley served as honorary co-chair of the Chicago Cool Globes project.
Cool Globes debuted in Chicago with a June 1, 2007 grand opening celebration attended by more than 500 people, including artists, sponsors, business and civic leaders, and children. This public event featured a news conference with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, the unveiling of eight globes, refreshments and live entertainment. Cool Globes' educational partner, the Field Museum, also hosted more than 230 CPS students who learned about climate change before attending the event. The globes were displayed along Chicago's lakefront, from the Museum Campus to Navy Pier, from June 1 to September 30, 2007.
Cool Globes was launched in Chicago because of the City's leadership and dedication to promoting environmentally sound policies. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's goal is to make his city the greenest in the nation through the promotion of environmental programs and practices, including a bike initiative, adding hybrid buses to the city's mass transit system, and building "green" libraries, public schools and police stations. Mayor Daley served as honorary co-chair of the Chicago Cool Globes project.
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I’m a sucker for old encyclopedias. The older, the better. I love looking at how things were perceived years ago, what people thought was vital enough to include in this compendium of important stuff. What merited inclusion, how much space it was granted, and what was the general knowledge around the topic? Not only that, the old photos are always great.
One thing the Digital Age has negatively impacted, especially concerning information gathering, is any sense of perspective, any sense of the history behind what you’re looking up. What did people think about that particular topic 10, 20, 30 years ago? (Actually, at the rate information gets updated, what people thought about it last week often quickly slips away.) The constant and persistent drive to provide the latest and greatest viewpoint often obscures and ignores the long road taken to get where we are today. Something is lost when the relationship between what was and what is gets brushed aside so swiftly. Browsing through old encyclopedias, though by no means comprehensive, does help frame some of that history. While this is not an issue for serious scholars, it is something lost to the rest of us.
This photo is from the article on computers in the Ci-Cz volume of the 1972 World Book encyclopedia. It shows four photographs in support of descriptions of basic computer principles. Although my photo leaves a lot to be desired (ahhh, the challenge of no proper lighting equipment!), the perspective provided on computers throughout the article is fascinating. Since World Book was aimed at younger readers, the description and details are more simplistic than you would find in say, Britannica, but it’s still pretty interesting. One piece I am particularly taken with discusses Computers of the Future. Here’s an excerpt.
Computers of the future will be used more and more to give immediate answers to problems. Persons already can get certain kinds of information from a computer by speaking into a telephone and receiving a spoken reply…Someday, the services of single computers will be shared by businessmen, engineers, and scientists. Each “customer” will communicate directly with the computer by telephone or by means of a keyboard machine similar to a typewriter. The computer will handle many questions at the same time. It will give each questioner a spoken reply, a typed answer, or information projected on a screen similar to that of a television set.
This is cool stuff! It’s so cool it makes me wanna look up other cool stuff. So off I go to grab the “P” volume and see what was happening in the world of 1972 photography!
August 19, 2009
A cooling rain. Prior to entering the rain the temp was 104, it dropped to 76. In a few minutes it was back to 104: Drive from Mobile to Montgomery, Alabama, August 12, 2007
On Saturday, Ben & Jerry's partnered with Flavorpill to bring a little community beautification to Micheltorena Elementary School in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Friends and fans came from far and wide to lend a helping hand as we painted a vibrant, happy mural on the Kindergarten wall. To keep the volunteers going, we rocked out to live music from The One AM Radio and chowed down on cool, yummy scoops of Bonnaroo Buzz and Late Night Snack. It was truly an awesome day and we know the mural will bring plenty of smiles to faces of the kids at Micheltorena.
A very cool dog sitting on one of the numerous but rapidly vanishing hutongs in Beijing. Much of the city's grid layout and laid back living style hasn't changed since the era of Kublai Khan.
Shajing Hutong, Beijing.
沙井胡同, 北京.
a photo of a cool old tractor i stumbled across. added an HDR effect to the picture, thoughts and comments would be appreciated, is it to much HDR or do you like? Cheers
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History Planetarium. Please view full screen, let your eyes adjust, sit back and enjoy the show.
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Cool Globes debuted in Chicago with a June 1, 2007 grand opening celebration attended by more than 500 people, including artists, sponsors, business and civic leaders, and children. This public event featured a news conference with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, the unveiling of eight globes, refreshments and live entertainment. Cool Globes' educational partner, the Field Museum, also hosted more than 230 CPS students who learned about climate change before attending the event. The globes were displayed along Chicago's lakefront, from the Museum Campus to Navy Pier, from June 1 to September 30, 2007.
Cool Globes was launched in Chicago because of the City's leadership and dedication to promoting environmentally sound policies. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's goal is to make his city the greenest in the nation through the promotion of environmental programs and practices, including a bike initiative, adding hybrid buses to the city's mass transit system, and building "green" libraries, public schools and police stations. Mayor Daley served as honorary co-chair of the Chicago Cool Globes project.
I got a wee sideways look as he went by, obviously wondering why his picture was being taken, but he was too cool to look ruffled about it.