Posts by David Hood
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Hebe,
Amazing. is that gorse in flower?
Yes. The sun was on the gorse, lighting it up. That is taken in the former Palmer's quarry in North East Valley, Dunedin.
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From August 2010
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From August 2009
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Here is one from a July a couple of years ago (our spring plants will be coming in late August)
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Hard News: Future shock for the media, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
CLICK HERE NOW!!
This link isn’t working…Au Contraire, you can click on the text all day. It never promised to actually do anything. A fine example of truth in advertising.
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to andin,
Tho scientists working on the Higgs Boson say its properties are godlike.
The "God Particle" name came because the editor of a journal was not happy with the author referring to it the "God-damned particle" (a fair reflection on the difficulty of observing it).
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Re: Judging- I see the men's teams gymnastic's medals were reassigned after the Japanese team requested a video review of the live judges decisions, so placing went from China, Britain, Ukraine to China, Japan, Britain.
There have be some complaints from sports watchers who feel that you shouldn't revisit the ref's (or in this case judge's) decisions after the fact. -
From the first few days of competition, I think one good story is that of Im Dong-hyun who has set the first World Record of this games (in archery) and is legally blind.
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Google, in conjunction with the Tate Gallery in London, are running a crowdsourced animation project where some of the results are displayed in the Tate Gallery. The website only works with Google Chrome, and is at:
exquisiteforest.com
Anyway, as someone who has been contributing some frames of animation, I thought it would be cool for the Tate Gallery to be displaying a Lion in a Meadow at the moment
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I always liked reading "Bubble Trouble" aloud to my daughter when she was little.
I vaguely recall my mother getting ready for a literary dress up party, and her saying Owen Marshall should come as "the man whose mother was a pirate" (which just really shows the reach of the book).
