Saturday 31 December 2016
eine guten rutsch ins neue jahr!
shooting-gallery or swords into ploughshares
The always engrossing BLDGBlog informs that the US Department of Defence, who’ve committed to dozens of projects to protect the environment and encourage sustainable practises, is entertaining a proposal by the Small Business Administration that would have the armed forces at least train with ammunition whose bullet shells are biodegradable.
They would contain a small amount of seeds to be released as the casing is broken down, in order to sow the tactile grounds and ranges with native brush and wild flowers. The DoD is seeking out companies with the material expertise to make this a reality and urges people to come forward. Geoff Manaugh goes on to ponder how this initiative—which sounds potentially quite the opposite to the notion of salting the fields of one’s enemies, reminds him of a tree bombing-raid campaign he blogged about over a decade ago that might result in mass-reforestation after wildfires or allow woodlands to reclaim fallow pastures.
catagories: ๐บ๐ธ, ๐ก️, environment
Friday 30 December 2016
nineteen-wonderful
Father Time conjectures, rightly, that Happy, bashful, has hid somewhere on the archipelago of years past, where superannuated, old Babies-New-Year step down to rule an era similar to their calendar year. Having enlisted extra help, they locate the baby only to see him abducted by a vulture called Eon the Terrible, who is predestined to expire at the passing of the year and is determined to stop the procession of time to avoid dissolution into ice and snow. The vulture is a bit endeared to Happy and by being persuaded to release the baby back into Rudolf’s custody, is spared his fate and Happy is flown back to Father Time’s castle to herald in the year ‘Nineteen-Wonderful,’ Rudolph adding that he wishes it a shiny one.
catagories: ๐บ๐ธ, ๐บ, holidays and observances
7x7
watch the birdie: delightful feeder and photo-booth for our feathered friends
cozyduke, miniduke: operation Grizzly Steppe publishes the alternate aliases for the Russian spear-fishing campaign that hacked Democratic Party emails
for the benefit of mister kite: the artist behind the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover tribute to those we lost in 2016 had to be updated far too often
matinee at the bijou: documenting threatened cinemas around the world
rue du brexit: on French town plans to honour the sovereign stand of half of the British people, via Marginal Revolution
cargo cults: online emporia plan for floating, aerial warehouses for seamless drone delivery
catagories: ๐ท๐บ, ๐, ๐, ๐ฌ, ๐ญ, environment, transportation