This, on the other hand, is amazing.

The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.

Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.

"We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the Greek historian Herodotus," Dario Del Bufalo, a member of the expedition from the University of Lecce, told Discovery News…

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Matt Jones on his generation of the GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS graphic: the point of it, its brief history, and its new Creative Commons license. All of which just gives me an excuse to post it again:

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Ariana Osborne, designer of this place, SHIVERING SANDS, etc., talking about POD and the book, because:

…apparently, there’s a bunch of folks paying close attention to how Shivering Sands does so they can figure out if POD is “worth their time.”

And I have absolutely no fucking clue what that means, so I’ve just got to talk about it…

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1. Entrance to the Hotel Rivington, 2. prejuice, 3. New Hair, 4. New print: Honeydrip, 5. FA choker, 6. On final approach

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THE SPOILS by Zola Jesus is one of my favourite albums of this year.  But it’s kind of hard to find on CD.  (The mp3 download is easy to find, I’ve even seen it on Amazon, and got mine at eMusic.)  But now there’s a store open at zolajesus.com, where you can buy it, her other records, and a t-shirt that I’m going to pick up for Lili.

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Nick Barrucci from Dynamite Comics asked me to do him the favour of posting this. This seems like an entirely worthy charity, well deserving of your investigation:

Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization, Inc. announced today that world renowned painter Alex Ross has donated an original piece of classic Catwoman art to Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization, Inc. (S.W.R.O.). The piece was created exclusively for Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization to raise money to help rescue animals. The piece will be auctioned through Ebay at the following URL: eBayISAPI.dll-ViewItem&item=250524615645 . The piece is signed by Alex Ross and measures 10.75 inches wide by 23 inches tall and has never been seen anywhere…

Full press release at the link.

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TOTW is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull each week in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I’ve said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt. Ariana set up a Cafe Press store (because this is a joke and engaging with a serious maker of t-shirts would be less funny to us), and… well, once a week, here we are.

Through this website and this Cafe Press store, we’re going to release one t-shirt a week. It’ll go live on Monday… and it’ll die Sunday night — midnight UK time, more often than not. Each one lives for a week, and then it’s replaced by the next week’s shirt. Until I either run out of dumb ideas or Ariana’s brain explodes.

So, every Monday, I’ll post the new shirt here, and you can peer at it more at http://www.cafepress.com/electrophonic.

Anyway. I present to you T-Shirt Of The Week #003: FUCKABLE ZOMBIE:

We also offer a couple of perennial items. Mostly because I wanted one of these for myself:

(And also a MAN COOK MEAT WITH FIRE "splatter-shield", because Ariana’s crazy)

Thank you for your kind attention.

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And here's to Kyle's sharp and logical mind! During supper yesterday:

"Daddy, it's not true that Reindeers can fly."

"Of course they can. They have magical antlers that let them fly."

"No, they can't fly!"

"Why do you say that?"

"Because! They don't have wings!"

(pondering a reply)

"Superman doesn't have wings and he can fly!" say I.

"Yeah, but HE has a CAPE!"

(blink) (blink) (mouth agape)

That's my boy. Knows all the angles. :)

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A couple of sentences that have come up in a recent evaluation:

INTEREST IN JOB CONTENT:

Mike is conscious of existence, meaning, purpose, potential and destiny of humankind, people, and self.

Mike prefers to associate with others socially, organizationally, and recreationally.

Mike is motivated to manage people and their activities.

Mike has natural preferences that engender curiosity about the nature of things and about "what makes things tick".

Mike has a preference for physically working with things and objects, but that activity is probably secondary...

Deadlines do not motivate Mike as they only increase the pressure.

Mike prefers and may even require change and variety. Sameness and routine cause loss of interest, drive, and energy.

Mike prefers to be with people and will most likely avoid activities that are done apart from others.

Mike has little need for or is not motivated by recognition, status, or competitive gain.


TEMPERAMENT FOR THE JOB:

Mike is most likely benevolent, voluntarily giving of self to help others, especially regarding current pain, hurts...

Mike prefers and needs change and variety. Change is motivating, stimulating, and energizing.

Mike subjectively exercises responsibility for social, vocational, or recreational perceptions, thinking, options...

Mike has a strong preference to work under the management or supervision of others who are competent and knowledgeable

Mike is strongly motivated to be organizationally active with others.

Mike sees self as talented, self-sufficient, and goal-oriented.

Mike is motivated to influence and convince others as part of social, organizational, vocational, or recreational activities.

Mike does not generally see, retain, and/or recall verbatim detail and, instead, shows an awareness of concepts, patterns...

Mike does not prefer being tied to or tied down by timed, repetitious sensory/physical activity.


APTITUDE FOR THE JOB:

Mike's preferences fully support holistic, conceptual perception, and thinking relative to the basic nature, utility...

Mike's preferences and motivations are derived from understanding the deeper or 'real' meaning of ideas and words

Mike's mind is naturally motivated to put physical abilities and natural talents, whatever they may be, into immediate use

Mike is moderately motivated for Manual 'workbench' activities regardless of actually developed skills or abilities.

Mike's preferences and motivations most likely revolve around an adequate ability to see, retain, and recall detail.

Math may be about the same as a foreign language for Mike. At least, it is foreign to Mike's mental preferences

PEOPLE:

Mike feels both privilege and responsibility to use communication (including persuasion) to voluntarily provide beneficial information to people

Philosophical, literary, scientific, managerial and/or persuasive traits may be involved in Mike's motivation and drive

Mike is empathetically and sympathetically aware of the hurts, needs, problems, and wishes of others and is motivated to help them

I told you. I told you all. The Dog is the Enemy of the Human. But you wouldn’t believe me. Now look.

…dogs have a greater eco-footprint than gas-guzzling SUVs.

See? SEE?

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