Archive for September, 2007

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Anaxazi

a piece of untitled art by Anaxazi from the Artis Gallery located in La Manzanilla, Jal., Mexico

Great Rap Albums (Part 1)

Hello Peoples, this post (and series) is dedicated to the hip hop records that are foundational to myself and the rest of the MNP fam, nothing but that real, quality music. Look out for many entries to come in this series of albums that you really cant afford to live without.

Read the rest at music.mnp

Eternity for Everyone [for 700 Euros]

Thats right people - for a mere 700 Euros you can buy yourself a final resting place fit for a king [or pharaoh] here at what may one day be the world’s largest pyramid, in Dessau, Germany. While the details are in question, some facts seem clear : the pyramid [if constructed] will be made of individual concrete blocks containing the ashes of those who have purchased plots; it will take an incredibly long time to build, as allll of those people have to move on to their next lives first; and finally, some German ninjas are about to be making a TON of money.

Read more at arch.mnpAA

Cell Phone Graffiti

Check around your shogunate for these interactive ads to promote Marc Ecko’s graffiti inspired line of urban apparel. The ads turn your bluetooth enabled cell phone into a spray can, allowing you to leave your mark without needing to ready your grappling hook and smoke bombs for a quick ninja getaway.

Just another innovative way to use cell phones to interact with the physical environment.

::via SCI FI Tech::

Eco Friendly Bags

Plastic is totally fouling up our environment, and we’re all aware of it. There’s simply so much of the damn stuff. Every time you eat anything that’s not bought in bulk or fresh off the farm it’s individually wrapped in a plastic wrapper that invariably ends up in the garbage. Therefore people are finding plastic in some of the most un-plastic places. Our oceans are turning into plastic, are we?

Read more at green.mnp

Robot Ninja in Effect

It’s about time you guys go and learn about your future robot overlords, over at RobotNinja.mnp.

Fear them or love them, they’re here.

Peter Lehman Interview

California prides itself on being on the cutting-edge of new technologies as well as being the historical home of many important environmentally-friendly legislation.

But according to Professor Peter Lehman of Humboldt State University, over the last 20 years California has in fact ceded its position as world leader in the development of alternative and renewable energy to several European nations and Japan.

Prof. Lehman who heads the Schatz Energy Research Center which promotes a€oeclean and renewable energy,a€A notes that the advances abroad have been both technological and cultural:

Ita€™s become such a status symbol in Japan to have solar panels on your roofa€¦ that there is a company in Japan that sells fake solar panels so that you can put them on your roof and pretend to your neighbors that you have solar panels on your roof.

Thata€™s certainly quite a difference from the American marketplace where some might say the newly introduced a€oesuper SUVa€™sa€A by Ford and GM give neighbors a chance to show off their prowess at energy consumption a€" rather that energy production.

In the following interview, Prof. Lehman discusses the history and future of renewable energy research and development in California.

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Ted Nugent And The Wall Street Journal

Occasionally, I make tongue-in-cheek references to the "dirty hippies." I actually picked up the reference from Digby, who uses the phrase, as I do, to refer to the almost pathological obsession rightwingers have for the sixties counterculture. Despite the fact that no one has seen a "dirty hippie" in a good 30 years, the rightwing noise machine is still shocked and horrified that anyone could possibly "drop out" of the capitalist rat race. Make no mistake, whatever else wingnuts mean by "freedom," the freedom to "drop out" is not part of the definition.

So anyway, there I am, perusing the latest offerings on the Wall Street Journal editorial page — which is the best place to monitor what the corporate ruling class is thinking — and what do I see but an article about "dirty, stinky hippies." That’s a direct quote. And of course, the article includes the usual crap about how simply awful those dreadful people were.

Forty years ago hordes of stoned, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," which was the calling card of LSD proponent Timothy Leary. Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco.

But wait, guess who wrote this article? How about this guy.

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