The great nations of the world call upon commoners to save them

Alternative name for Black Friday: Citizen Participation Day

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Today is the biggest shopping day of the year in the United States, with the upcoming Cyber Monday making its own run at the title. The roads in and out of the shopping malls are choked with vehicles and pedestrians need to step lively to avoid being run over (I did see a couple ambulances today while on duty as designated non-shopping driver).

 

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By the numbers

Art movement: Abstract Microrepresentationalism

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You just need a good collection of these micrographs, a slide projector, a large canvas, some charcoal to trace the outlines out with, a few cans of acrylic paint, and some time to fill in the regions according to the original.

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The dark side

Alternate movie title: The Moon is New

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The thing that seems to be missing from the advertising blitz for the film coming out this week is a depiction of the celestial body of the title, which as all skywatchers know would be one off of which the sun’s rays fail to reflect. This is the closest I could find.

I am looking forward to analogous images for Eclipse and especially Breaking Dawn.

 

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