Alexandra von Feldmann calls it the Birth Clock, an “Electronic Clock that helps you to make up your mind” when you’re stuck at a major decision point in your life. A glass object containing a non-running digital clock — fragile, beautiful, timeless. Break it — amid the shards of your irreversible decision, the clock starts running. …
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Frangible Time
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Plant Indignity
http://www.hornlo.org/isotropic/2008/05/06/plant-indignity/According to Alison Abbott in Swiss ‘dignity’ law is threat to plant biology (Nature News), “The Swiss federal government’s ethics committee on non-human biotechnology has mapped out guidelines to help granting agencies decide which research applications deeply offend the dignity of plants — and hence become unfundable.” Maybe I need to rethink my Grumpy Flowers post. …
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On A Clear Day I Can See … Spam
http://www.hornlo.org/isotropic/2008/05/04/on-a-clear-day-i-can-see-spam/zogger, in Sky Spam, at Technocrat, says Most of us have probably seen skywriting, but a new company has a twist to it, man made clouds in the form of corporate advertising that can look just like the logos. The “flogos” are made from a chemical surfactant and helium and can last for up to a half an hour. …
