It’s true. I love them. I wish I could have had the means to go see them perform live while they were still together. But, we can make do with the magic of youtube. Filed under: Music Tagged: Simon and Garfunkel, Sound of Silence, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
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Dead Wild Roses: “Hidden” Design – 25 Logos
Just ask Mystro about designing logos. A great deal of time and effort is involved in making a clean, presentable logo. The next step, making the *right* logo for the task at hand… it could be the definition of time-sink. Some of the logos hidden designs are not particularly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Postive Feed Back Loops – The Arctic
We are on course to have a ice-free arctic during the summer months. This is yet another indicator of traumatic warming of our world due in part to our activities and policies. The climate is changing rapidly and a new dynamic equilibrium is being established. “Waves rearing as
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Making Music Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Creating a sonic landscape on a highway using grooves and ridges that cause your tires to resonate at a certain pitch; who would have thought to do that? Recognizable? Yes. In tune? Sadly, no, but other than enforcing a strict “play speed” there is no way to get around this
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Musing on the Afterlife
Cool Hard Logic takes a tour of the afterlife and distressingly enough postulates that they must have queues there as well. Bloody hell. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Cool Hard Logic, The Afterlife, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: All You Need To Know About World Politics in One Picture.
Compare and contrast with recent events. “A civilian jet airliner shot down by US Navy surface to air missiles on 3 July 1988 as it flew over the Strait of Hormuz at the end of the Iran–Iraq War. The aircraft, an Airbus A300B2-203 operated by Iran Air, was
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Music Trivia Interlude – Album Covers
Never noticed those before. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Album Covers, CBC Music, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: GM – John Oliver – What Media *should* Be Doing.
Corporate ‘responsibility’ is put on display in this fine segment from John Oliver. Filed under: Media Tagged: Black Humour, GM, John Oliver, State of the Media
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: So, You Wanted To Learn Another Language…
Funny things found on tumblr. 🙂 spanish and italian: So THESE words are feminine and THESE words are masculine, and you ALWAYS put an adjective AFTER the noun. french: haha i dont fuckin know man just do whatever german: LET’S ADD A NEUTRAL NOUN HAHA english: *shooting up in the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: World Wide Use of Contraceptives – Guttmacher Institute
A trouble situation for women around the world. No thanks to religion. 😛 Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Contraception, Infographics, Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religous Disservice – Superstition
A fine video by QualiaSoup. Filed under: Education Tagged: Qualia Soup, Superstition, The DWR Sunday Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Sonata No. 7 in D Major Op. 10
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10, No. 3, was dedicated to the Countess Anne Margarete von Browne, and written in 1798. This makes it contemporary with his three string trios of opus 9, the violin sonatas of opus 12 and the violin romance that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Femininity – Susan Brownmiller – Quote of the Day
Susan Brownmiller has a remarkable talent for framing slippery sociological concepts. This quote is from the introduction to her book “Femininity” and it lucidly describes the nature of the viscous catch-22 women experience for the crime of being born female. “Femininity always demands more. It must constantly reassures its
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Smarter in 60 Seconds? – Schrödinger’s Cat
Never say we don’t care about your intellectual development here at DWR: See, you’re more knowledgeable already. You’re welcome. 🙂 Filed under: Science Tagged: Quantum Mechanics, Schrödinger’s Cat, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Rapetastic Catholic Misogyny
Christianity and its various sects harm women. In the early 1960′s, in response to the call of many millions of Catholic women, especially in the US, who wanted to limit the size of their families through the use of contraception, a papal commission was set up to look at
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gun Problem?
Filed under: Humour Tagged: Getting things done, gun control
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – “Word Crimes”
Wow, talk about turning something bad into something good. 🙂 I love this song. Thank you Weird AL. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Parody better than Original, Weird Al, Word Crimes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: John Pilger on Ukraine Situation
The US is doing it again. “In February, the US mounted one of its “colour” coups against the elected government in Ukraine, exploiting genuine protests against corruption in Kiev. Obama’s national security adviser Victoria Nuland personally selected the leader of an “interim government”. She nicknamed him “Yats”. Vice President Joe
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Edmonton School Board Boots Christian Misogynists and their Abstinence Only Platform
Because Magic, taught as fact, in the curriculum is AWESOME! Further breaking news: The Edmonton Public School Board will also remove Soylent Green Recipe Book from the Foods curriculum. How does feculence like this happen in my school system? “An Edmonton teen and her mother have filed a complaint with the Human
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Who Owns the Bodies of Women?
A little push-back at the more toxic prescriptions of our society. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Female Autonomy, Feminism
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