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WRIR is yours, whether you call RVA home or not.

If you value independent media and voices, anywhere, then this is your chance to not only be counted, but to make your voice count by adding it the many that already rightfully see WRIR as a Richmond institution and leader in community radio. Musicheads, if you’ve tuned into one show and been turned on by one song, then you know full well the value of that that…and where it can lead. They don’t let you go down the rabbit hole alone; they’re right there with you. But WRIR can’t do it alone…and they certainly don’t want to.

There are various levels to choose from when making your donation—your statement—but ‘pay what you want’ works just as well. It works for many of the insanely talented artists that K has had the pleasure to spin, get to know and call friends, and the pay-off as well as the return is just as gratifying.

And crucial.

Please, make a donation and make a statement. If you don’t, who will? You are who matters most, you are who makes the difference.

WRIR 97.3 FM ’12 Fund Drive

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Our favorite junior designer jumps into info-graphic action with your easy-to-read handy guide to facial hair…from psychopaths to Robert Downey, Jr.

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What is the color of honey, and “faces pale with fear”? If you’re Homer–one of the most influential poets in human history–that color is green. And the sea is “wine-dark,” just like oxen…though sheep are violet. Which all sounds…well, really off. Producer Tim Howard introduces us to linguist Guy Deutscher, and the story of William Gladstone (a British Prime Minister back in the 1800s, and a huge Homer-ophile). Gladstone conducted an exhaustive study of every color reference in The Odyssey and The Iliad. And he found something startling: No blue! Tim pays a visit to the New York Public Library, where a book of German philosophy from the late 19th Century helps reveal a pattern: across all cultures, words for colors appear in stages. And blue always comes last. Jules Davidoff, professor of neuropsychology at the University of London, helps us make sense of the way different people see different colors in the same place. Then Guy Deutscher tells us how he experimented on his daughter Alma when she was just starting to learn the colors of the world around, and above, her.

via Why Isn’t the Sky Blue? – Radiolab.

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Dawn has been working with American Staffing Association (ASA) and handling their flagship publication, Staffing Success Magazine for many years. Fan Works has had the opportunity to collaborate with ASA on many, many projects—their Staffing World materials, Year in Review, various in-house logo designs, assists on web projects and much more. Staffing Success Magazine is one example of how we help ASA position themselves where they want to be, as well as need to be. With the election ramping, and heating up, the Decision 2012 is as informative as it is timely.

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Kevin recently finished up Small Business Indicators of Macro-economic Performance: An Update for the NFIB Research Foundation, headquartered in DC. Kevin has a long history with the Foundation, helping produce a long line of publications and series on subjects that pertain to small business in the U.S. The cover art for their pubs has gradually been taking on a more illustrative approach, with some new books in the works that will take that push even further. This new approach not only takes into account the change in climate, economic and otherwise, but is also a reminder that is it real people—owners and employees on Main Street—behind the Foundation’s wealth of research and information.

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Satirical Maps of the First World War

Hark! hark! the dogs do bark!

The beggars are coming to town
Some in rags and some in jags
And one in a velvet gown [Trad.]1,2,3

See and read more at BibilOddyssey

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K wrapped up another piece for Research Magazine on the rush for fracking…

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K’s other job bleeds over once again…Russia’s Vespero has put out a new record, Subkraut: U-Boats Willkommen Hier, which is not only a stellar record (according to K), but boasts a sweet package. The record is available in the usual ways, but the Russian Association of Independent Genres have a Seebar Edition that is a knock-out.

“This edition is strictly limited to 50 units only. Each set is packaged in an oversized foil stamped, hard cover case. In addition to the disc and navigation map of a basic edition, it contains a full color oversized booklet and postcards, special set of vintage photographs, hand-crafted replicas of U-Boat pennant, crew member dog-tag and cuff-title. The “Seebar” box-sets are individually numbered…”

You can find out more at R.A.I.G.

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When you listen to “We Love You” by The Rolling Stones, it opens with the sound of a jail door slamming shut. When you look at the cover of Sgt. Pepper, the Beatles—guided by art director Richard Hamilton—included, at the suggestion of his art dealer, Robert Fraser, a sweater with “welcome” for the “good guys” the beleaguered Stones, knitted across the chest of a Shirley Temple doll.In that jail sat Fraser, who would be sentenced to six months in the summer of 1967 for cannabis possession. Keith Richards faced the same term; neither he nor Mick Jagger, also charged with Fraser, would serve time as they appealed. Meanwhile, Jagger’s looming three-month sentence reduced to a “conditional discharge” earned more attention, sympathy, and opprobrium.William Rees-Mogg’s famous editorial on Jagger in the London Times ran with the leader “Who Breaks a Butterfly on the Wheel?” Fraser merited, Judge Black reasoned, a stiffer penalty as the Eton-educated, King’s African Rifles veteran came from a good family, and the court sought to make him an example of “swingeing” London. The pun, obscure to non-British eyes and ears, depends on “swinge”: to beat or scourge. The media martyrdom of Fraser, and by extension the flamboyant Jagger, compelled their “friend and collaborator” Hamilton to make the pair’s gesture—hands flung before faces as the camera intrudes on their mobile incarceration, uneasy speed shuddering to a flashbulb’s halt—into Pop Art.

via Who Breaks a Butterfly on the Wheel? Richard Hamilton: Swingeing London 67f < PopMatters.

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