1 Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. 2 It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. 4 They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." 5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. 7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech." 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth. GENESIS 11:1-9Tumblr (3.0; @quietbabylon)http://mini.quietbabylon.com/“Probably most frustrating to the FBI is that the top scam for which the agency received cries for help came from the victims of bogus e-mails purporting to originate from the Bureau itself.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/03/losses-from-internet-crime-more-than-doubled-in-2009.ars">Losses from Internet crime more than doubled in 2009</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/JYbuns5jiMY" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/JYbuns5jiMY/451584901http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/451584901Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:54:15 -0400http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/451584901<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzcwe6GU9D1qzyuoqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/03/the-institutional-repository-movement-or-information-wants-to-be-jealously-clung-onto/">The Institutional Repository Movement, or, information wants to be jealously clung onto | Beyond The Beyond</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/I7eXE56I8b8" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/I7eXE56I8b8/451477318http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/451477318Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:58:54 -0400http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/451477318<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz8e5uQAaF1qzyuoqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>via <a href="http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/undergrad/classes/spring2009/Hubbard_206-2/Lectures1/Sun_and_earth.jpg"><a href="http://www.lpl.arizona.edu">www.lpl.arizona.edu</a></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/fFs2TWrLU48" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/fFs2TWrLU48/445720731http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/445720731Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:34:41 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/445720731<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz6zkvtrQi1qzz4b7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Two artists have been playing pretty games with the UK Royal Mail’s automated sorting offices. It seems the machines simply read the colour of stamps to check whether the correct postage has been used, so it doesn’t matter what shape they are. Kim Rugg and John Spurgeon each use proper stamps, only they are cut into tiny pieces to create the art on the envelopes. As long as it’s cancelled, it counts! Rugg creates tentacled monsters (pictured), fireworks and beach scenes, while Spurgeon has a collection of vintage postcards sent with confetti postage called ShakesMyMail.</p> <p><a href="http://www.nettiehorn.com/images/artists/Kim%20Rugg/Html%20Images/01Kim_Rugg10.htm">Link</a> to Kim Rugg’s work. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37402064@N02/sets/72157623084825699/">Link</a> to John Spurgeon’s Flickr set. (via <a href="http://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/09/cancelled-art/">Neatorama</a>, <a href="http://beachjustice.tumblr.com/post/444115090/two-artists-have-been-playing-pretty-games-with">beachjustice</a>)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/3iSVaZgkMyc" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/3iSVaZgkMyc/445646219http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/445646219Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:48:10 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/445646219“It’s quite likely that we don’t know and we’ll never know what are good foods to eat.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://jezebel.com/5491178/well-never-know-what-are-good-foods-to-eat-orthorexia-inventor-on-diet-and-health">Orthorexia Inventor On Diet And Health - orthorexia - Jezebel</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/PwDtsWwiAfQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/PwDtsWwiAfQ/443391300http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/443391300Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:41:13 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/443391300“Walkable urbanism is illegal in most of the county.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/03/centrally-planned-suburbia.php">Matthew Yglesias » Centrally Planned Suburbia</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/KhsHnXKTsl4" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/KhsHnXKTsl4/441909108http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/441909108Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:12:02 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/441909108“If you have a pony tail let it go out the back of your helmet so people can see you’re a woman.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/world/asia/07women.html">Letting Women Reach Women in Afghan War - NYTimes.com</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/4dwsur2Y-Vg" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/4dwsur2Y-Vg/441380655http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/441380655Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:09:59 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/441380655“One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?996">William Gibson</a> (via <a href="http://teradome.com/">teradome</a>)</em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/-dZDNFi3Qso" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/-dZDNFi3Qso/440665058http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/440665058Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:11:25 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/440665058<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz1a7uNPKA1qzyuoqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“In the walls-off state, the presence of the building is only intimated by the internal arrangement of of its contents.” (via <a href="http://diffusive.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/drawing-in-good-faith/">Drawing in Good Faith « Diffusive Architectures</a>)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/PZrembQWmW8" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/PZrembQWmW8/437462700http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/437462700Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:26:17 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/437462700<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz0ywwUfjM1qzyuoqo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/gallery/2010-02/best-toy-fair-2010">Gallery: Best of Toy Fair 2010 | Popular Science</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/DAgBaJZvUjc" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/DAgBaJZvUjc/437113301http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/437113301Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:22:00 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/437113301<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyzdfohRaB1qzyuoqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>It’s a personal privacy setting for the physical world. (via <a href="http://ahprojects.com/exhibitions/anti-paparazzi">AH Projects » Anti-Paparazzi Clutch</a>)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/F6jGxbXiDoc" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/F6jGxbXiDoc/435203152http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/435203152Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:40:36 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/435203152“Where do all these cars park? How many pairs of pants does everybody own? The numbers add up meaninglessly high.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.eyeweekly.com/blog/post/83943--islands-in-the-stream-of-consciousness">Islands in the stream of consciousness - EYE WEEKLY</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/bd-kFW0xU5A" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/bd-kFW0xU5A/434813180http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/434813180Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:51:14 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/434813180<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyudcg1L7H1qzyuoqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>((The most terrifying library.)) Vista de la Biblioteca Vasconcelos (via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/eneas">Eneas</a>)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/nbYfI6mPhfM" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/nbYfI6mPhfM/429484221http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/429484221Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:50:40 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/429484221<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyts2iulSM1qz8365o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>For the disaster archaeology toolbox <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/03/laser-mapped_subterranean_passages.html">Laser-mapped subterranean passages</a> /via <a href="http://braincraft.com/post/428757690/laser-mapped-subterranean-passages">braincraft</a>, <a href="http://spime.org/post/428767444/laser-mapped-subterranean-passages-via-braincraft">spime</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/RwTvUfVGn9U" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/RwTvUfVGn9U/428860320http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/428860320Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:25:34 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/428860320“If a person doesn’t do anything wrong, they won’t be human-flesh-searched.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.html?pagewanted=4&hp">Human-flesh Search Engines in China - NYTimes.com</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/reezBYEdt-s" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/reezBYEdt-s/428816459http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/428816459Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:55:11 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/428816459“The device empowers plants to control the fate of others using sensors and mechanised shears in a Darwinian race for survival.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.timsimpson.com/naturaldeselection">Natural Deselection | Tim Simpson</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/v64TeMoFSJo" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/v64TeMoFSJo/428661442http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/428661442Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:54:52 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/428661442“I’m cool about Canadians, teachers and even unions, but thinking they can resolve the difficulties this gentleman denotes here is like imagining that “progressives” could hold their breath and make Haitian earthquakes go away.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/03/stunned-and-hurt-baffler-guy-figures-out-that-swedish-pirates-arent-canadian-marxists/">Stunned and hurt Baffler guy figures out that Swedish pirates aren’t Canadian Marxists | Beyond The Beyond</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/5o51RGRmvec" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/5o51RGRmvec/426665239http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/426665239Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:34:38 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/426665239<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyoh6bvKO21qzyuoqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.truthaboutit.net/2010/02/michael-jordan-a-prototype-for-new-understanding.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TruthAboutIt+%28Truth+About+It+-+Washington+Wizards+Blog%29">Truth About It » Michael Jordan: A Prototype For New Understanding</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/eIHPS8vjfaw" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/eIHPS8vjfaw/422858040http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/422858040Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:27:46 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/422858040<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyo12wM0t41qzyuoqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://photo.mmosite.com/content/2008-01-13/20080113232345259,1.shtml">WoW: First Impressions of Sunwell - MMORPG Photo News - MMosite.com</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/9ScMa4ugQks" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/9ScMa4ugQks/422321260http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/422321260Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:40:07 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/422321260“WoW doesn’t resemble a film. It resembles, rather, a medieval cathedral.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/29/world-of-warcraft-sam-leith">The World of Warcraft video game is every bit as glorious as Chartres cathedral | Sam Leith | Technology | The Guardian</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~4/ldTGpnE1m8g" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miniQuietBabylon/~3/ldTGpnE1m8g/422319550http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/422319550Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:38:48 -0500http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/422319550