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via Penobscot Marine Museum

I want the skills to build, hell, to imagine this beauty:

(via Make)

Compare and contrast, as the exam questions sez:

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…The tribal people of the Omo Valley keep cattle, sheep and goats but their unique pastoral way of life is sadly threatened by the modern world and the march of development.
A hydroelectric dam, known as Gibe III, is planned to be constructed across the Omo River Valley and according to Survival International this will cause the threatened end to the way of life of some 200,000 Ethiopian tribal people.
Survival International’s director, Stephen Corry, is quoted on the organisation’s site as saying: “The Gibe III dam will be a disaster of cataclysmic proportions for the tribes of the Omo valley. Their land and livelihoods will be destroyed, yet few have any idea what lies ahead. The government has violated Ethiopia’s constitution and international law in the procurement process. No respectable outside body should be funding this atrocious project.” (from http://bardofely.hubpages.com/hub/The-amazing-body-art-of-the-Ethiopian-Omo-tribes)

• Manhattan Trade School for Girls: Report cards from the 1920s …
  nice example of rescued data turned into narrative
  (tags: ephemera education nacirema)

• Hands off my Vegemite, Kevin Rudd tells US …
  "…The former prime minister John Howard claims more Australians know the lyrics of a Vegemite advertising jingle written in 1954 than know the Australian national anthem."
  (tags: food nacirema Oz)

• USB Typewriter Interview
  oh I WANT one
  (tags: mechanisms whoa)

• USB Typewriter Interview
  oh I WANT one
  (tags: mechanisms whoa)

• The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (Carlo Cipolla)
  nice to find this again, thanks to Tamara… originally in Whole Earth Review of Spring 1987
  (tags: nacirema anthropology)
• The battle of the rails
  "…Since freight railroads were deregulated in 1980, the number of large, so-called Class I railroads has shrunk from 40 to seven. There are now only four that matter: CSX and Norfolk Southern in the East, Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe in the West. These four now take in more than 90% of the market…"
  (tags: railroads)