Yet more keen links one might want to share

[glatt]

Unusual web site of illustrations from medieval manuscript margins. I don't know if it's legit. It looks like it is. Anyway those medieval illustrators has some weird ideas. Here are a couple.


Daphne being turned into a tree.


The Eggman



I'm not going to embed medieval goatse. You'll have to click the link.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I think it's legit, as there have been articles about the practice from several websites this past winter. One showed a bunch of Hares hunting down a dog, bringing it to court for trial, hanging and burial, then another dog digging up and chewing the first dogs bones. All over the margins of several pages and rather gruesome.

[ZenGum]

The Daphne thing is an old Greek legend. Apollo, the horny fellow, was chasing her with sexual intent. She was about to be caught so she prayed to her father, Zeus, to save her, and he turned her into a tree. Insert "woody" joke here.

Renaissance artist Bernini (who TOTALLY should have had a Ninja Turtle named after him) did a #$%&ing brilliant sculpture of this. See https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=...JaSiiAeO64DgBg
for some sample pics.

Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3RSRrUL1Os


This is my favourite piece of art, evah.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Check the knothole for squirrels.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

This is my favourite piece of art, evah.

Sometimes a painting or sculpture is so perfect it seems real and is therefore less interesting. This sculpture is absolutely perfect. I have a hard time not being bored by it. But it IS absolutely amazing.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Wired has a link to some abandoned websites.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

The Daphne thing is an old Greek legend. Apollo, the horny fellow, was chasing her with sexual intent. She was about to be caught so she prayed to her father, Zeus, to save her, and he turned her into a tree. Insert "woody" joke here.

Renaissance artist Bernini (who TOTALLY should have had a Ninja Turtle named after him) did a #$%&ing brilliant sculpture of this. See https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=...JaSiiAeO64DgBg
for some sample pics.

Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3RSRrUL1Os


This is my favourite piece of art, evah.

That is just a brilliant piece.

[glatt]

Interesting article about an open pit copper mine landslide almost two weeks ago.

This mine near Salt Lake City is the largest in the US and produces 17 percent of all US copper. The landslide closed the mine, resulting in a small jump in copper prices. The interesting thing in the article is that this isn't just going to impact copper prices while they get the mine up and running again. It will increase to cost of copper permanently because the landslide was not predicted using current methods. Insurance will pay for this accident, at least in part. But the insurance companies calculated copper mine risk based on old methods. Those old methods said this mine was safe. So either mining has to change, which will be more expensive, or insurers will have to charge more to account for the increase in risk. Or both. Either way, the price of copper is going to go up around the world. Electronics, wires, pipes, fertilizer are all going to take a little hit.

[Lamplighter]

WOW ! There by the grace of God ...
Had it gone in another direction, Utah might have it's own "Great Salt Lake tsunami".

[ZenGum]

to be fair, Hale-Bopp was correlated with closure for the Heaven's Gate mob.

[Undertoad]

It's an interesting piece, right up to the point where he talks about the prices and the global ripples. At that point the author slipped and fell and hurt his head and will need hospitalization to recover.

Copper prices have been steadily falling, including in the last two weeks despite this event. And despite this event, worldwide production will outstrip demand in 2013. Goldman Sachs said so less than an hour ago. May futures are down.

Originally Posted by wsj

NEW YORK—Prices of copper futures eased as Goldman Sachs GS -0.02% cut its price forecasts for the metal on mounting worries about economic growth in the world's top consumer.

The most-actively traded copper contract, for May delivery, recently traded down 1.75 cents, or 0.6%, to $3.131 a pound on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Futures were on track for their lowest settlement since October 2011, slipping deeper into bear-market territory. A drop of 20% or more typically signifies a bear market, and futures on Friday settled down 21% from their February 2012 high of $3.97 a pound.

Goldman Sachs on Monday lowered its forecasts for copper prices this year, citing rising global stocks of the metal and mounting worries regarding China's growth outlook. The nation accounts for 40% of global copper consumption, and a reading last week on first-quarter economic activity showed growth unexpectedly slowed.

Goldman slashed its forecast for copper prices a year from now by 12%, to $3.17 a pound, from $3.62 a pound previously.

The cut "reflects market concerns about Chinese growth," Goldman analysts wrote. Still, they said economic activity there was stronger than the market was accounting for. Copper prices would likely rebound in the next three to six months, the analysts said, before pointing lower afterward as more mine production comes online.

[glatt]

Well, that's good. The article mentioned that this mine accounted for 1% of world production, so the loss of its production didn't seem like it would be that huge. I wonder about the insurance angle. Goldman Sachs has probably already accounted for that though.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The increased use of plastic for plumbing/piping, and the drop in new housing drove the prices down.
Copper will continue to decline until all the empty houses in Detroit are stripped.

[Lamplighter]

Start saving your pennies... they may go on the endangered species list

[xoxoxoBruce]

Do you have a zinc to that.