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National Holidays

from turkmenistanembassy

* New Year - January 1
* Memory Day - January 12
* Ramadan - January 30
* National Flag Day - February 19
* International Women’s Day - March 8
* Novruz-Bairam (religious) - March 21
* Drop of Water is a Grain of Gold Holiday - April 6
* Horse Day - April 27
* Victory Day - May 9
* Revival and Unity Day - May 18
* Holiday of Poetry of Magtymguli - May 19
* Carpet Day - May 25
* Kurban-Bairam (religious) - one day a year (refer to Muslim calendar)
* Ramadan-Bairam (religious) - one day a year (refer to Muslim calendar)
* Day of election of first President - June 21
* Turkmen Melon Holiday - July 10
* Turkmen Bakhsi Holiday - July 14
* Remembrance Day - October 6
* Independence Day - October 27-28
* Student Youth Day - November 17
* Harvest Holiday/Bread Day - November 30
* Good Neighborliness - December 7
* Day of Neutrality - December 1

Iceberg

Danish ‘artist’ Marco Evaristti spray painted an iceberg red. It’s "art", you see. You don’t? Me, either.

Marco and minions took two icebreakers from Ilullissat, Greenland, looked for 30 minutes to find the perfect iceberg, then sprayed it red using 780 gallons of the type of dye used to color meat.

"We all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it belongs to all us," Marco said. "This is my iceberg; it belongs to me." Yeah, whatever. Some would call it "polluting".

Evaristti, who was born in Chile, sadly got attention for another work of "art", shown in a Danish gallery in 2000. He filled 10 blenders with water and live goldfish, then invited guests to turn them on and chop up the live fish. Of course some idiot did. Don’t see that as "art"? Me, either. The gallery director was tried on charges of animal cruelty, but acquitted. It doesn’t sound like Mr. Evaristti gets tried on any charges, like polluting a pristine ecosystem, or not being a very creative "artist".

info at anomalies-unlimited

Maldivian’s Blogosphere

the Maldives blogosphere visualized at sanbaldo

Does this mean no more K-9 officers?

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found that people can follow a scent surprisingly well, as long as they do not mind abandoning all dignity, putting their nose right to the ground and crawling along with their bottoms in the air.

Humans Can Track Like Dogs via NYTimes

[Ed: How do you think we find the ladies?AA No, not scent,AAmyAAsilly ninja, but yes to the abandoning all dignity part]

I-Doser

"binaural brainwave doses for every imaginable mood"

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info at i-doser

mnp warns not to hit the town with your ipod in hand

Oriental Trading Co.

no longer available at boingboing

City Barge

faq at freedomship

Kool Herc

march 1964

"Float like a butterfly/ Sting like a bee/ Your hands can’t hit/ What your eyes can’t see."

Muhammad Ali’s rhymes, taunts, provocations and exclamations were an endlessly entertaining and insightful facet of his larger-than-life persona. As he once said, "I outwit them and then I outhit them."

A new book, "Ali Rap: Muhammad Ali the First Heavyweight Champion of Rap," proclaims Ali’s verbal barrage was more than self-promotion, but that it sowed the seeds of hip-hop, which was born in the early `70s.

april 1968

article at sports.yahoo

The Library of Radiant Optimism

We started the library as way to gather, look at, and catalog a groundswell of optimistic and visionary activities in the late 1960s and early 1970s. We had discussions about the similarities between a handful of books we knew of, and the culture of Mess Hall, an experimental cultural center in Chicago that we have both been active in for over three years. Mess Hall is organized around an \"economy of generosity,? freely sharing information and materials. The books are important precursors to Mess Hall, embracing the grass roots exchange of information and themes of self and community empowerment. These books are written from the counter-culture. Their authors were interested in communicating their direct experience as it related to their experiments for living in harmony with the natural landscape, building sustainable communities, and so on. We were excited to read about practical applications of optimistic ideas for radical change, and to continue putting our own ideas into this tradition.

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Let?s Re-make is a collaborative art project by Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom.