Time has without a doubt become elegant using latest tools to go along our life style today and they are quite affordable too. Contemporary machinery has advanced to the spot where the abode of the expectations has become a practical option for today’s home owners and businessmen. Elegant creations …
… and the heroic dog-sleds of the polar explorers. The timid, sedentary inhabitant of any provincial town can indulge in the intoxication of danger by going to the movies and watching a great hunt in the Congo. He can admire Japanese athletes, Negro boxers, tireless American eccentrics, the most elegant …
… with the reader’s preconceptions, prejudices and the nascent ideas that he forms about the nature of the interchange. The heart of the story is the transformation of the Pakistani from a well-oiled wheel in the machinery of American capitalism to an enemy of American imperialism and military …
… to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact. The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths, of exquisite inter-relationships, of the awesome machinery of nature. The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore we’ve learned most of what we …
… with a strong element of social commentary. During World War II, Smith worked in a locomotive factory, acquiring a lifelong interest in machinery and in large-scale constructions. Many of his sculptures of the 1940s, such as Royal Bird (1948, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota), are grim metaphors …
I, Pencil is a simple but elegant essay written by Leonard Read and first published in 1958 that anyone can grasp. I mean anyone. An introduction and postscript to I, Pencil can be found here that provides more background and how it has been used since it was written. (While there, drop off a check …
If you are a regular visitor at the Kanye West blog, you would have noticed that the dude likes yachts. A LOT. I myself is a yacht fan. Having spent a whole day inside one, it is kind of a beautiful piece of machinery and absolutely no reason for one to NOT fall in love with one. But i thought …
… an engineer as the central character! A real engineer, one who reminds me a great deal of D in the scientific characterization (though very little in the non-scientific sense). It’s got elegant descriptions of machinery and convoluted conspiracies and people wrecking their lives out of the best intentions …
Well, here it is! A “best of” list for 2008. This list will probably change when I start finding all the albums that came out in ‘08 that I missed or neglected. Oh well! Here it goes, folks. The Top 10 (in “order”) 1) The Gaslight Anthem - The ‘59 Sound Easily my record of the year. Coming off their …
… petroleum), farm machinery, modern food processing and packaging and transportation have together transformed a system that in 1940 produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy it used into one that now takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce a single calorie …
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