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On The Market: SoMa Dwelling at 175 Bluxome Street

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Looking to settle down somewhere entrenched between the ever-burgeoning SoMa and Mission Bay? Loft #133 at 175 Bluxome Street is on the market n... See more on... What: condos · real estate

Tree dwelling snake

Hi, I'm John, your guest blogger for the day. I've known Jim for many a year and we worked closely together in the distant past on various mostly forgotten software projects. It has been great to reconnect with Jim in...

Mister Jalopy digs the "shackitecture"

Over on Dinosaurs and Robots, Mister Jalopy has been enthusiastically blogging about nifty small buildings, backyard offices, rural getaways, i.e. "shackitecture." Definitely worth checking out if Lilliputian dwelling is your idea of fun. Shackitecture Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Made On Earth | Digg this!

Afghan Kuchi or nomad women carry grass which they have harvested for the cattle, near their makeshift dwelling in Kabul...

AP - Afghan Kuchi or nomad women carry grass which they have harvested for the cattle, near their makeshift dwelling in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 28, 2008.

TOC & Tribune: Deep Fried, Long-Gone, All You Can Eat

• We're thinking deep-fried [anything] is the new bacon. Case in point: the deep-fried sandwich available at newbie lounge The Velvet Hour: it's fatty, it's rich, it's awesome. Chris Borelli believes in "this culinary three-mile island" so much that he's given future generations of gastro-anthropologists three salient reasons why it is totally acceptable that he put an $8 brioche sandwich containing peanut butter, banana, bacon, and wildflower honey, all thrown into the fryer, into his actual...

REFLECTION ABOUT FRIENDSHIP AND RECIPROCITY

I believe that friendship is like flowers, both needs much caress and fondness to grow well. When its bloomed and open, it produces a lovely flower. "Friendship is mutual reciprocity of affection and purpose". "Friendship is mutual reciprocity of affection and purpose". -- Aristotle. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom". -- Marcel Proust. "Friendship of goodness depends on love, on likeness, on recognition, on reciprocity, o...

Modifying my Triumph Tiger All-Rounder Bike

It's hard to fault the Triumph Tiger. In over 4200 kilometers it has absorbed everything from multi-lane highways to the narrow, bumpy, rural roads of Northeast Thailand around my dwelling with a delicious balance of handling, ride quality, comfort, pa...

Clinton Doesn't Support Any Effort that would Hurt Obama

BY TAYLOR MARSH Will you hear her now? A spokesperson for Sen. Clinton implicitly distanced the candidate from Lieberman’s effort, telling the Huffington Post: "Senator Clinton fully supports Senator Obama. She continues to urge all of her supporters to get behind him. ... She continues to do everything she can to rally folks behind him. We don’t support any effort that doesn’t." Clinton Distances Herself From Anti-Obama Hillraiser But regardless of what Senator Clinton wants the Hillary h...

To be a mother

The Most Important Person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral - a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby's body… The angels have not been blessed with such a grace. They cannot share in God's creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven. Only a human mother can. Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature; God joins forces wit...

Lost in translation

When verbal communication of a thought, idea or command is not received or understood, the exasperated speaker might use the expression, "Do I have to draw you a picture?" God drew the ancient Israelites pictures so they would not miss what He was speaking to them through the Torah. He introduced a 22-letter alphabet in pictographic script, using letter symbols or word pictures that a Semitic, tent-dwelling society would understand. Over time the Hebrew alphabet evolved and the pictographs becam...