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Otl Aicher, also known as Otto Aicher (May 13, 1922 - September 1, 1991) was one of the leading German graphic designers of the 20th century.

In 1952 he married Inge Scholl,

In 1953, along with Inge Scholl and Max Bill, he founded the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm), which became one of Germany's leading educational centres for design during the 1950s and 1960s.

Aicher may be best known for being the lead designer for the 1972 Munich Olympics. He created a new set of pictograms that paved the way for the ubiquitous stick figures currently used in public signs. He also created the first official Olympic Mascot, a striped dachshund named Waldi.

He created the rotis font family in 1988, naming it after the domicile of Rotis in the city of Leutkirch im Allgäu, where Aicher lived and kept his studio.

Aicher died on September 1, 1991, after being struck in a traffic accident.

a very good video on this subject is available here.

captain crunch, aka john draper, used a toy included in captain crunch cereal to create the phone phreaking community. later jailed for his experimentations, john draper is properly termed as one of the first or most influential "hackers".

in that day in age, the term "hacker" was a term of endearment. it meant to reference someone who would stay up all night hack, hack, hack, hacking away to make something do what the "hacker" wanted to do. it was a term to reference someone who was savvy, brave, and persistent enough to create the computer world we live in.

the homebrew society gathered around the altair 8800, the first commercially available computer kit. the homebrew club featured many luminaries, but among them was steve wozniak.

woz knew how to make hardware, and also software to use that software. his high school friend steve jobs knew nothing, but was good at business. they joined together to create apple computers.

later, the term "hacker" was turned criminal. kevin mittnick, and his story, is a great example of why. He is also known as eric weiss. After national scares of hackers being capable of starting nuclear wars from a pay phone, the federal government cracked down.

ever since, the term "hacker", once used to compliment a person capable of bridging the gap between the present and the future is now used as a term of derision and criminality.

people who don't understand curious minds will never understand that there'll always be a group of younger minds who are little bit technical who wonder.... what if this? what if that?

Port Arthur is a city within the Beaumont--Port Arthur metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Texas. Port Arthur was founded by Arthur Edward Stilwell in the late 19th century, and was once the center of the largest oil refinery network in the world.

Home to a large chunk of United States refining capacity, Port Arthur is now seeing renewed investment in several key installations. Motiva Enterprises is undertaking a major addition to its western Port Arthur refinery, expanding capacity to 600,000 barrels per day. This $3.6 billion project is the largest US refinery expansion to occur in 30 years. Premcor Refining recently completed a $775 million expansion of its petrochemical plant, and BASF/Fina commenced operations of a new $1.75 billion gasification and cogeneration unit on premises of it's current installation, which had just completed its own $1 billion upgrade. Port Arthur also has a significant air pollution problem that some believe has an impact on the health of its residents.

Anthony F. Lucas, an experienced mining engineer drilled the first major oil well at Spindletop, on the morning of January 10, 1901 the little hill south of Beaumont, Texas. The East Texas Oil Field, discovered on October 5, 1930 is located in east central part of the state, and is the largest and most prolific oil reservoir in the contiguous United States. Other oil fields were later discovered in West Texas and under the Gulf of Mexico. The resulting "Oil Boom" permanently transformed the economy of Texas, and led to the first significant economic expansion after the Civil War.

Most of us speed past refineries, with their steel towers and scary flares, never stopping to consider what goes on inside. Daily, refinery employees manage high pressures and volatile chemicals while pumping out millions of gallons of gasoline. Harris County, which includes Houston, reports more toxic releases to the Environmental Protection Agency than any other county in the United States. The region along the Gulf Coast is home to 250 petrochemical plants, and in Houston alone, an estimated 78,000 kids go to school within two miles of a refinery or chemical plant. Between 1995 and 2005, 27 of the 48 Americans who died in accidents at major refineries were from Texas. Oil provides a paycheck for many Texas families, but refineries also pollute their air and water, and cause them to worry about their safety.

With oil prices setting records, years of neglect finally appear to be coming to an end. The Apache Corporation is drilling new wells. Workers are flocking to sparsely populated West Texas, living in motels and trailer parks. Dishwashers and teachers are fleeing their jobs for $60,000 gigs in the fields. But for all the new wealth and activity, the best the industry can hope to accomplish is to slow the decline of American oil production. The big problem: the nation’s oil fields are mostly tapped out. While modern technology is giving workers the ability to squeeze more crude out of wells in North McElroy and other oil patches around the country, overall output is on an intractable slide. In the United States, oil production has fallen in every one of the last six years, according to the government, even as prices quadrupled.

Texas freeways have been heavily traveled since the 1948 opening of the Gulf Freeway in Houston, and they are often under construction to meet the demands of continuing growth. As of 2005, there were 79,535 miles (127,999 km) of public highway in Texas (up from 71,000 in 1984). Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) planners have sought ways to reduce rush hour congestion, primarily through high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes for vans and carpools. The "Texas T"--an innovation originally introduced in Houston--is a ramp design that allows vehicles in the HOV lane, which is usually the center lane, to exit directly to transit centers or to enter the freeway directly into the HOV lane without crossing multiple lanes of traffic. Timed freeway entrances, which regulate the addition of cars to the freeway, are also common. Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and El Paso have extensive networks of freeway cameras linked to transit control centers to monitor and study traffic.

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that was a video

that was a song. in the near future there shall be support for multiple songs and also pop-out-able playlists/streams

that was 5 images from the video.

this is some poetry from it :

thank you for disregarding this communique.

this is just a nightmare
but soon i'm going to wake up
someone's gonna bring me around

running from the bombers
hiding in the forest
running through the fields;
laying flat on the grass

just like everybody
stepping over heads
running from the underground

this is your warning
four minute warning

i don't wanna hear it
i don't wanna know
i just wanna run and hide

this is just a nightmare
soon I'm gonna wake up
someones gonna bring me rest

this is our warning
four minute warning

south on I-35, east on US-18, southeast on US-218, south on US-61:

in mid america there are many questions.

gateway to the west. a bridge to somewhere.

by the rail yards, illustrative walls.

the arch in st. louis.

i'm not sure who mr swanky anderson is, but he made this.

paulo franco has a website

Mikhail Tkachev takes fotographs, and some of them are here.

naoto hattori makes surreal things. his collection of surreality

christian lohfink takes fotographs for commercial use. his website does not seem to work for me as well as his photos do.

The main religion in Russia is called Russian Orthodox. The Russian people believe in Jesus Christ and Mary, his mother. The Russian Orthodox Church is more than one thousandyears old. According to tradition, St. Andrew the First Called, while preaching the gospel, stopped at the Kievan hills to bless the future city of Kiev. The fact that Russia had among her neighbors a powerful Christian state, the Byzantine Empire, very much contributed to the spread of Christianity in it.

Before 1917, Christmas was celebrated in Russia in much the same way as it was in the rest of the world: on December 25, with Christmas trees and Christmas gifts, Saint Nicholas and the like. During the years of Communism after 1917, all formerly Christmas traditions were transferred to New Year's Eve, which became the traditional winter holiday. New Year's Eve is now to Russians what Christmas is to most people in the rest of the world, with one exception: there is no remnant of Christianity in the holiday. New Year's Eve is simply a chance to celebrate, to bring in the new year and get rid of the old. It is a chance to exchange gifts, have a day off and enjoy oneself.

Christmas is once again celebrated in Russia, but not near to the extent it once was. All the traditions have been firmly settled in New Year's, and very few people take advantage of the new freedom to celebrate Christmas as they wish. The Russian Orthodox Church has made Christmas an official holiday, but it is celebrated on January 7th. A few Russians have begun to celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December.

Decorations:
This depends on the wealth of the families they have the same sort of decorations as us but some people make their own.

Presents:
The presents depend on the wealth of the families.

Past time:
Similar as today but it depends on the wealth of the people

The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

In 1923, Hemingway saw his first bullfight in Spain. He was so taken with this ancient blood sport that he soon returned to witness one of the bullfights that highlighted the annual fiesta of San Fermin in Pamplona. By the time the festival was over, bullfighting was one of the passions of his life, and his third visit to the Pamplona festival in 1925 became the inspiration for his first novel, The Sun Also Rises.

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

The novel has heavy undercurrents of suppressed emotions and buried values. Its weary and aimless expatriates serve as metaphors for society's lost optimism and innocence after the war. The topic of war is rarely discussed explicitly by any of the characters, but its effects are alluded to through tthe behaviour of the characters, whom are best described as "floundering in an emulsion of

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.