Archive for September, 2007

New Podcast!

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"what happened to the realness from back in the day?" — the mnp podcast series is back in effect with an hour long hip hop selection, from the bean to the bay, h-town to la…

i hope you folks enjoy this one, a live mix consisting almost entirely of records i picked up for a dollar each from the basement of funky fresh records in roxbury, ma just days before the entire vinyl collection was bought up… they weren’t going out of business, just getting rid of the wax, so if youre in the bean, head over to dudley for all your CD and mixtape needs.

on another note, this was the last mix i laid down before all of my wax went into storage in my mommas basement for the next nine months or so… ahh isnt that sentimental? but no need to worry we still got nuff episodes lined up in the mnp podcast series so subscribe to that shit now peoples!

For those of you who don’t use itunes, the link is available at http://myninjaplease.podbean.com/feed

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Posted: September 27th, 2007
at 8:11am by black octagons


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Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon - Devendra Banhart Review

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Eccentric "freak-folker" Devendra Banhart releases new album.

Devendra Banhart’s 5th full length album may be his best yet. I had the privilege of seeing Devendra and his all-star band this past Sunday and it was nothing short of fantastic. With a little help from his friends Devendra delivers a wild ride. It seems everybody behind the skinny man with long locks brings plenty of talent, creating a very strong live perofrmance. I also get the feeling that this album was more group effort. These guys are tight.

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Posted: September 27th, 2007
at 7:57am by black octagons


Categories: music,celebrity

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Assidi + Pulido - Guthrie House

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Posted: September 27th, 2007
at 7:55am by black octagons


Categories: architecture

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to define sustainibility

Why is it important for designers to think about sustainability and follow through with it after the a€oegreena€A trend has passed?

With adding formal language to ecology I hope to raise awareness a€" but also allow the design discipline to expand its vocabulary with a reason-based output. We can almost repeat Mies van der Rohe’s message of a€oeForm follows functiona€A but the term function has vastly expanded including providing a€oesustainable performancea€A and a a€oegreen marketing messagea€A. In the future I wish that sustainability a€" or even better, regenerative ideas - are part of any architectural project globally
and new progressive spatial configurations, programmatic fusions and formalistic expressions evolve.

interview with Matthias Hollwich

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Posted: September 27th, 2007
at 7:50am by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: green,architecture,design

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Venus, Mars and Titan: Predicting Earth’s Climate Future

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David Grinspoon, a planetary scientist, author, and 2006 recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal has some very interesting insights into the world outside of Earth. In "Ghosts of Climates Past," an article published in SEED Magazine, Grinspoon presents a convincing theory on the ways we might be able to predict the environmental future of Earth by studying the environmental pasts of some of the other planets in our solar system.

Climate is hard to predict because planetary climate systems are full of nonlinear feedback effects that tend to dampen (negative feedback) or amplify (positive feedback) any possible changes. Even though the sun has grown steadily brighter since its birth 4.6 billion years ago, Earth’s climate has stayed within the range of liquid water and "life as we know it" due to a negative feedback loop that sucks carbon out of atmospheric CO2, producing carbonate rock, and volcanoes that pump CO2 back into the air. This process creates a natural thermostat. Regardless of climate, the Earth exhales CO2. But the rate of removal of atmospheric CO2 is highly sensitive to this climate, speeding up exponentially when it is hotter and grinding to a halt when the continents freeze over. A lengthy ice age will always cause a buildup of warming CO2, and a hot period will eventually lower the CO2, cooling our planet again. As the sun slowly brightens over billions of years (by 30 percent so far over its lifetime), this thermostat gradually lowers the overall CO2 content of the atmosphere. Given enough time to respond to any provocation, our climate is stable.

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Posted: September 27th, 2007
at 7:44am by black octagons


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My Ninja Please! 9/26/07: Robot Ninjas

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Well, as further proof of the global conspiracy against ninjas, they’ve started making robots that climb trees. While I’m not at liberty to speculate on the actualy design of these robots… apparently the nasty little buggers can climb all sorts of basically vertical surfaces. Through general cunning and strength of practice, footage was obtained.

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The aim of RiSE (Robots in Scansorial Environments) is to develop a robot capable of walking on land and also crawling up vertical surfaces. And it is funded by DARPA’s Biodynotics Biologically Inspired Multifunctional Dynamic Robotics (BIODYNOTICS) Program.

Obviously such a robots could have plenty of useful applications, in search-and-rescue and space exploration, for example. But presumably it could also help you reach those really hard-to-prune branches. (via)

Hahahahaha, NOT FUNNY… we know exactly what applications DARPA [yaddadamean?] has planned for these little guysm and it’s not a laughing matter. Plus, we resent being referred to as "hard to prune branches." My Ninja, Please!

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Posted: September 26th, 2007
at 8:57am by black octagons


Categories: myninjaplease,robots,weaponry

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A Clothesline or a Housing Restoration Co.?

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A movement designed around sharing the "real" stories of the American Ellis Island generation, is asking for your money. Save Ellis Island wants to restore the present buildings and put them to "beneficial reuse." Is this how we design our history? Through Authentic American Style from Arrow [clothes]?

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Posted: September 26th, 2007
at 8:50am by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: clothes,business,architecture

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Cientouno y poco

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Posted: September 26th, 2007
at 8:37am by Koookiecrumbles


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"New Eco-Friendly Packaging Triggers Boom In Guilt-Free Littering."

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ROCKFORD, ILa€"Nick Sundin used to be neurotic about littering. The 37-year-old pediatrician admits he kept trash bags in his car, and would even pick up and throw away garbage he found on the street. Since boyhood, Sundin said, he was keenly attuned to the environmental degradation littering caused, an attitude triggered by the famous Keep America Beautiful "Crying Indian" public service announcement he saw on television as a young man.

Not anymore.

"These ‘eco’ products are amazinga€"they’ve totally changed my life," Sundin said. "Now, I just toss my used Seventh Generationa€"brand paper plates out the car window, knowing they’ll soon be absorbed into the earth."

The growing "green" trend in product packaging, which emphasizes the use of recycled, biodegradable post-consumer paper-based materials and relies less on petroleum-derived polymers like styrofoam, has unleashed a spontaneous trashing of sidewalks, roadsides, and pristine wilderness by gratified consumers. Though some environmentalists and scientists were caught off guard by the movement, experts say it is here to stay.

"The stigma attached to littering is at long last being put to rest," industry analyst Tom Schneider said. "As long as manufacturers are packaging their goods in unbleached paper and biodegradable, cornstarch-based plastics, more and more consumers will discard their refuse wherever they please, knowing it will safely decompose within 10 to 20 years. Call it the ‘New Compost.'"

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Posted: September 26th, 2007
at 7:46am by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: myninjaplease,green

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