Mushroom building

" Hy-Fi is a reference to a kind of technical term called hypha, which is the type of living organism that we use to manufacture the building blocks of our project.

In this project, we're using a living organism as a factory. So the living organism of mycellium, or hyphae, which is basically a mushroom root, basically makes our bricks for us. It grows our bricks in about five days with no energy required, almost no carbon emissions, and it's using basically waste— agricultural byproducts, chopped up cornstalks. This mushroom root fuses together this biomass and makes solid bricks which we can kind of tune to be different properties."

Very interesting stuff. Read more on it here.

New record

Hitrecord on TV

I recently started watching this show and it is fantastic. If you've never seen it, take the time to check out episode one. Enjoy!

Propaganda Incorporated...

Apparently if you have some propaganda you want to push upon your citizens all you have to do is ring up CNN.

This story is absolutely disgusting and while it features the Obama administration as the ones doing this, I have little doubt the Bush administration had a decent amount of influence on coverage selection. While the media may play favorites with the left, they will certainly play ball with the right. Corruption is corruption and it is pervasive on each side of the political spectrum.

The worst thing about it in my opinion...tough to pick. I am divided between the facts that the media is even more so a fascistic branch of the statist/corportatist apparatus than even I suspected and that the government is using our own money to funnel bullshit down our ears.

Check out this article and the included videos to see what I mean.

Recycling is good

Needing/Getting

Excellent article explaining the value of the right to keep and bear arms

This great article is making the rounds again and if you have never read it, you should. If you've read it before, read it again. It's still great.

"Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some."

Read more here.

Marko is an excellent writer. If you are a sci-fi fan, you would love his books.

Flake

Cut glass ocean waves

This stuff is very cool. Be sure to watch the short film at the link. Really neat to see a bit about how he does this.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/06/sheets-of-glass-cut-into-layered-ocean-waves-by-ben-young/

Great post over at WRSA

Worth your time and consideration.

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/synth-isis/

Reverend

Tactical flashlights as striking tools

Short but very good video on using a tactical light (or any similar object) as a striking tool.

Google's street art project

For an overview visit This is Colossal.

For more see Google Cultural Institute.

Well, I'm screwed

"
About a month ago we showed photos of the Chinese police engaged in a drill designed to crush a "working class insurrection", in which the police did precisely what would be required to end a middle class rebellion. It made us wonder: what does China know that the US doesn't. As it turns out, nothing.
Because long before China was practicing counter-riot ops using rubber bullets, all the way back in 2008 the US Department of Defense was conducting studies on the dynamics of civil unrest, and how the US military might best respond. The name of the project: "Minerva Research Initiative" and its role is to " “improve DoD’s basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the U.S."
The Guardian which first revealed the details, reports that, "The multi-million dollar programme is designed to develop immediate and long-term "warfighter-relevant insights" for senior officials and decision makers in "the defense policy community," and to inform policy implemented by "combatant commands."
The premise behind Minerva is simple: study how violent political overthrow, aka mass civil breakdown, happens in the day and age of social networks, and be prepared to counteract it - by "targeting peaceful activities and protest movements" - when it finally reaches US shores."

Read more on the Minerva Initiative at Zero Hedge.

Bird in a house

EFF's TOR challenge

https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/

Dots and dashes

Scary, but funny

At least the author wraps that bad news up in some hilarious writing. Informative and entertaining.

https://medium.com/message/81e5f33a24e1

H/T Borepatch

Really?

"Passenger pigeons traveled in massive assemblies, billions strong, that rained excrement to force people indoors. As a boy Muir saw a mob of birds sweep "thousands of acres perfectly clean of acorns in a few minutes." Pigeons destroyed farm fields so often that bishop of Quebec formally excommunicated the species in 1703."

From 1491 by Charles C. Mann.

I read this last night. When I finished wiping tears of laughter from my eyes, I read on to find that the bishop successfully solved this pestilence with his chanting and waving of hands.

Not.

Seriously though, that didn't really do anything.

I wonder if the good bishop was aware of his own stupidity.

All Hail the Triforce!

Hit the link below and check out this video of dude shredding some classic video game theme music.

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/metal-games-tribute

Something to consider

http://www.becomingminimalist.com/thanks-for-gratitude/

Awesome Mud Mural

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/a-sprawling-mud-mural-by-yusuke-asai-brings-art-into-classrooms-in-india/