Karl Jo Seilern and Anton Waldburg, managing partners of theblogpaper.co.uk , seem to be swimming against the currents in the ever turbulent waters that are the publishing industry. While most print publications are moving more and more content online in order to reach an increasingly tech-savvy, internet-based and mobile readership, Seilern and Waldburg are taking blog content offline in the blogpaper–the UK’s first completely user-generated, free newspaper
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The Blogpaper, Moving Blogs Into Print
I have a theory about how we ended up here on Mother-Ship Earth . After all, isn’t almost everything about our precarious futures just a tad too ominous, seemingly set into a pattern of continuous lucid movement?
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Would You Jump Onto A Moving Planet?
We have a new Lightweight Champion! Frankie Edgar defeated BJ Penn with a unanimous decision victory over the former 155lb Champion. What
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Underdog Becomes New Champion Frankie Edgar Wins at UFC 112
Movement Lifestyle exhibition at World of Dance 2010 in Pomona. Movement Lifestyle is a full service choreography management company founded by Shaun Evaristo
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Movement Lifestyle [HD] | WOD 2010 (Pomona, CA)
As I sit here in a comfy chair at Starbucks, typing away on my laptop, I think it odd that my thoughts drift to visions of destruction and desolation. Odd because my imaginings entail the loss of pretty much everything I enjoy as I sit here: my iced mocha, the wireless internet I am using, my car outside, even the sense of safety and security that I feel. Odd also because, while I entertain notions of what it would be like, a part of me is sure that I really have no concept of what I contemplate. No frame of reference. I could assume that since I have played numerous games, seen numerous movies, and read numerous books centered on the theme of the post apocalypse that I do indeed have plenty of vicarious experience to draw upon. But how much do I really know about something if what I know is solely based on things fed to me through popular culture . Just because I have watched as many war movies as I possibly could, and read as much as I could about military engagements and what not, does not mean that I have any idea of what it truly means to be in a war. An idea, maybe, but nothing more. Something tells me that if I were really and truly there, I would not be quite so into it. And yet, this idea of the end times fascinates me. Why? What is it about the end of everything that is so alluring? Is it some kind of species awareness that makes us afraid that something may happen to wipe us from history completely? Or, is it because Hollywood just wanted to make another bad disaster movie? There are so many ways we have envisioned the demise of our species. The pole shift that will occur in 2012, that was supposedly foretold by the Mayans is a good example. It sounds really exciting. But when you really research the whole 2012 thing, you get all bogged down in Mesoamerican Long Counts, and previous worlds that have been destroyed, or were they destroyed, some say no, and after a while, you don’t even care anymore. Did you know that the Aztecs believed that there were four “Suns,” or worlds previous to this one, all of which were ultimately destroyed? Then again, the Aztecs themselves were, for the most part, destroyed by European invaders, so maybe they were on to something after all. Let’s not forget the vikings. According to Norse mythology there were a series of events, called Ragnarok , that signaled the end of the world. A great battle between the gods, followed by a bunch of natural disasters , and eventually the submersion of the world under water. Then again, of course a sea-faring people would predict that eventually the oceans would cover there lands. It just makes sense. Even Christianity has its own doomsday predictions. The rise of the Anti-Christ, followed by the return of Jesus Christ , and ultimately, Judgment Day. Or something along those lines. I’m not quite sure about the particulars, but if you are really interested you could read the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye . I think there was even a movie starring Kirk Cameron.
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Reflections On The End Times
Semen is a subject that everyone can relate to or at some point has thought about it. This post is all about semen and the source is a wonderful website called onlineschools.org. Perhaps an alternative name for this terrific site could be, “Things they should have taught you in school but didn’t.” With the subtext being, ”learning in an interesting and exciting way.” What I learned about semen after visiting onlineshools.org: 1.
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A Semen Education
All these thoughts about a Zombie Apocalypse have got me thinking. Of course, the fact that the mini-series The Stand was on the other day might also have something to do with it. Plus I watched a teaser trailer for the up and coming Fallout game New Vegas. Ah, the end of the world. There’s nothing better to dedicate my thoughts to on a lazy day off than the end of the world. After writing my last blog, I have been thinking a lot about the apocalypse. Therefore, to fully purge my mind of all this nonsense I have decided to declare an unofficial Apocalypse week for my blogs. So, as the title implies, I am going to try and figure out the top ten things we would need to survive after the fall of man.
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Top 10 Things You Would Need To Survive The Post Apocalypse
Yes, that’s tongue in cheek headline. For those not ‘in the know’, Koot Hoomi was one of Blavatsky’s Masters . With his friend Morya he wrote a lot of letters that form some of the earliest theosophical literature.
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KH, Koot Hoomi and Katinka Hesselink
Two years ago the Hasbro Company released a pink version of the classic Ouija board, presumably to revitalize Ouija’s appeal and help it remain a slumber party mainstay.
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Beyond black and white – the new pink Ouija board
After high school and before college, I volunteered for an organization called Community Service Volunteers in London, England. For six months I lived with four developmentally delayed young men and assisted them with things like grocery shopping and preparing meals, and accompanied them on social outings. It was a period of immense personal growth on many fronts, and I will always remember those men and my time in England fondly
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The Theology of Service – an Interfaith Perspective