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Fold Till You Drop

Posted by michael on from the no-spindling-or-mutilating-allowed dept.

There's an origami convention convention underway in Japan this weekend, with some truly impressive pieces on display. There's an AP story, but words don't do it justice. See the personal site of one of the professional paper-folders, or photos taken at a previous convention, or just discover the essence of origami.

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  1. Re:Warning by MikeXpop · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yahoo News slideshow does this a lot. Basically they have a blurb they want to cover, but no picture. So they take a semi-related picture, post a caption, and then mention the blurb right after it. Think about it, is Kerry riding a bike newsworthy in the first place?

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  2. Re:Amazing folding by jcr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh. My. God.

    That video could have saved me hours of my life. It's one of those things that's so freaking simple once you see and try it, but I would NEVER have stumbled across that trick in a million years.

    -jcr

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  3. Re:So much folding... by airbie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    don't you mean protein folding? seti is for ET.

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  4. Re:the profession by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    FEWER women, not less.

  5. Got disenchanted w/origami as a kid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Once I learned that most "advanced" pieces involved cutting, combining and reshaping paper, I became totally unimpressed.

    I still think the origami you can make from one piece of tissue paper and no cutting are cool, but no "pro" origami seem to qualify.

  6. Re:Warning by smooth+wombat · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Stop it. Just stop it. There has never been one documented case where praying, and praying alone, has ever done anything for anyone. Never. If praying actually worked then at least one of those people who refuse to get medical attention for themselves or their children would have had a success. It's never happened. In every case the child has died when a medical condition exists (at least those that were life threatening).

    In every circumstance where someone thought praying helped it was found that the person who was helped was already undergoing medical treatment. Just like in your case.

    As a poster earlier said, it helped you, not your son. Praying only gives peace of mind to those doing the praying.

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