Long Bets, interesting way to look into the future. Predictions
One Featured Prediction – “By 2025 at least 50% of all U.S. citizens residing within the United States will have some form of technology embedded in their bodies for the purpose of tracking and identification.” 22 years is a long time… and sakes, I hope not. I don’t mind carrying global tracking ID (Cell phone, wireless palmtop, security key fob) but no, don’t implant anything, thanks. I feel funny about Newt being chipped, but he can’t say who he is if he gets lost.
Random good thing about 
ctober & Halloween – Black Lights.
To get you in the mood for the season – darkvictoria “The Darker Side of the Victorian Era”
See also – Victorian Halloween.com
Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) was a Dutch anatomist and a pioneer in techniques of preserving organs and tissue. In addition to his scientific contributions, he made artistic arrangements of his material. He had his own museum of curiosities, and among the displays were a number of dioramas assembled from body parts and starring melodramatic fetal skeletons. A few of these were captured in meticulous detail “drawn from life” by the engraver Cornelius Huyberts. These engravings were inserted as foldouts in various early 18th century editions of Ruysch’s works.
A second arena of creativity for Ruysch was creating natural history assemblages to decorate the tops of jars of preserved animal specimens. None of these assemblages or the dioramas are known to have survived to the present day. However, Ruysch had a third medium, which was the preservation of decorated babies in jars. The story of these works and haunting photographs by Rosamond Purcell are found in “Finders, Keepers: Treasures and Oddities of Natural History”
For further information, see the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Dream Anatomy exhibit
Type my mom is cool and nice into the Google Translator and translate it from English to Spanish. Now translate the result back to English again. via
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1 year ago – Newt bips me, penis snatcher beaten up, hulk closes for a while, and a nice chat. palm drawing
2 years ago – scary dreams, palm drawings, I’m 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon, moon pies 100 years old, starry night, From Beyond,
3 years ago – Sweetie gives me her egg recipe, dorkgirl sends me treats, recherche / chichi, evil news, me no likey xp, birding talk with hala
4 years ago – doc trip, duck echoes, Rhino crackheads, sea chantey, memes, shel silverstein
