In a big yellow bird outfit. For 35 years. Caroll Spinney, 70, the man behind Sesame Street’s Big Bird (and Oscar the Grouch).Feeling overworked? Burned out? Try holding the attention of 8 million toddlers every week. In a big yellow bird outfit. For 35 years. Caroll Spinney, 70, the man behind Sesame Street’s Big Bird (and Oscar the Grouch), told Fast Company how he keeps soaring.
How much of yourself have you been able to bring to the character? Continue reading
The tongue of the Malaspina Glacier, the largest glacier in Alaska, fills most of this image. The Malaspina lies west of Yakutat Bay and covers 1,500 square miles (3,880 square kilometers).
This is a false-color composite image made using infrared, near infrared, and green wavelengths. The image has also been sharpened using the sensor’s panchromatic band. The image was acquired by Landsat 7′s Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM ) sensor on August 31, 2000.
Image Credit: NASA/USGS
[ SOURCE: NASA - Alaska's Malaspina Glacier ]
Entitled: The Boy Who Came From America
Author: Chainedhart
Keywords: anime prince of tennis
Added: April 21, 2006
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The Internet is only starting – far from the time to start predicting it’s death. Althought ISPs may be able to leverage their dominant position within the broadband provision space, it’s going to become more difficult to explain to an Earthlink subscriber why their email wasn’t delivered – and be told the sender didn’t pay. We pay for those inboxes and they are ours to control.
AOL would find itself on the fast end of a legal drama if I found one, even one email was blocked due to “non-payment” of any fee, tax surcharge or levy. I pay for that freaking box – LEMME HAVE MY SHIT! Continue reading
Bush is a nutcase. Him and all his cronies. Just listen to this ass:
Reporter: What do you say to the critics who believe that you are ignoring the advice of retired generals and military commanders who say there needs to be a change?Bush: I say I listen to all voices but mine’s the final decision and Don Rumsfeld is doing a fine job. He’s not only transforming the military, he’s fighting a war on terror – He’s helping us fight a war on terror.
I have strong confidence in Don Rumsfeld. I hear the voices and I read the front page and I know the speculation but I’m the decider and I decide what is best and what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of defense.
Patents in the US are, well, in many cases, official stance that someone went through the process and paid the fees.ÂÂ We’ve seen things like Amazon’s “One-Click Shopping” being thrown out when challenging Office Depot or someother website.ÂÂ I mean, there isn’t any logical reason for such grand sweeping things.ÂÂ Should have the first person to walk have patented the process so we could all pay royalties?
Techblog pointed out today that Philips has patented a system for inserting flags into television broadcasts that would prevent you from changing the channels during commercials or prevent you from fast forwarding if watched on a DVR. Yes, this is a “feature” that not a single person in this world would want — except perhaps folks like former TV exec Jamie Kellner, who once said that people who went to the bathroom during commercial breaks were “stealing” TV. To deal with the fact that this is a feature no one wants, Philips has the positively lovely suggestion that when such “forced” advertisements were playing, a note can pop up on the screen giving you the opportunity to pay extra to change a channel or fast forward. Continue reading
NASA continues to produce images which amaze me – this one is not any falter, it’s incredible when you look at the immense amount of detail that the supercomputers have been able to calculate based on our theories.
Einstein’s Vision comes to life in this image it’s Einstein’s vision simulated. Through calculations based on the genius’s theory of general relativity, NASA has managed to create a 3D simulation of two black holes merging. The colliding bodies emit gravitational waves that can travel through space for years.
When peering through space looking at different features of our fine planet, it’s amazing how beautiful some places are – and this shot is nothing short of breathtaking…
In 1991, the governments of Denmark and Sweden agreed to build a bridge to connect the two countries across the Oresund Strait. The 16-kilometer-long Oresund Link between Malmo, Sweden (right), and Copenhagen, Denmark (left), was completed and opened to traffic in 2000. Denmark and Sweden were linked once more �7,000 years after rising sea levels accompanying the end of the Ice Age severed the dry-land connection between the two. Continue reading
