Yet it’s hard not to feel apprehensive in the presence of installations that glow brightly because of the uranium glass beads used in their creation.
”I guess when you turn on the light and it glows and you’ve been handling it all day you go ‘oh’,” Julia says. ”We got the beads tested just to make sure because when people hear ‘uranium’ they automatically think of danger.”
In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque, usually made of granite, with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.
They’re also strange, bizarre, unpleasant or just plain ugly. They have been hovering around our towns and cities for centuries, for so long that it can be forgotten that they have meaning and purpose. Take a tour of the weird world of the gargoyle. VIA: –UNIQUE DAILY–
This is an 1840 butcher shop model. Note the exquisite detail down to the sawdust and blood on the floor. Such items weren’t uncommon and were sold as promotional displays for shops or, yes, as child playlets.
The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency warned its employees and contractors last week to stop using their government computers to surf the Internet for pornographic sites, according to the agency’s executive director. In a one-page memo, Executive Director John James Jr. wrote that in recent months government employees and contractors were detected ‘engaging in inappropriate use of the MDA network… Individuals identified as violating the rules face referral for ‘appropriate’ disciplinary action, he wrote. They put ‘their security clearances in jeopardy, and are subject to suspension and removal from federal service or MDA sponsored contracts.’ Agency spokesman Rick Lehner said in an e-mail that the memo was written in response to ‘a few people downloading material from some websites that were known to have had virus and malware issues.
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This fellow hopes to break a world record throwing playing cards with vegetable-slicing speed and accuracy. If you’d like to learn this useful skill, you might start by reading Ricky Jay’s 1977 classic book “Cards As Weapons.”
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