I was computer simulating some fur as a rendering experiment - and identified it as virtual - and I got a few negative comments when I posted it online.

...and then there was Franz Reichelt...
:(

I see a lot of value in top-down organization where a framework is put in place and the details are fleshed out later. That's a good way to paint, write a screenplay, or build a house. I also see a lot of value in seeing high-level organizational behavior arise as an emergent property through the self-motivated interactions of many small systems. Some things are too chaotic and full of unintended consequences to centrally plan. But I have to wonder about any philosopher or economist who says one way is always good and the other always bad.

When the first was Tra-la-la, I thought the second was going to be Tro-lo-lo

It's Shake & Bake! And weeeee helped!

ugh. I fall for that every time!

A careful reading of Fahrenheit 451 makes clear that only after Bradbury's characters stopped reading novels and non-fiction books, and chose to live from [TV] factoid to factoid, did the government then burn books...
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/06/ray_bradbury_fahrenheit_451.php

the original article...
http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-31/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted/

That looks good. I tried using cake frosting as makeup a couple of times. Here...

Colorado looks just like Spongemap Squarestate!

Now what was the first meal to be prepared in a food processor?

Are you sure this isn't that girlfriend who leads that photographer all over the world - the one you never get to see from the front?
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/01/Girlfriend-Leads-Photographer-around-the-World/
:D