“Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you’re being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth of July brouhaha, don’t forget what you’re celebrating, and that’s the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn’t want to pay their taxes.”
To the programmer at HBO who stuck Dazed and Confused in the first open slot on the morning of the 4th of July — I see what you did there. Well played, sir.
Via Too Much NickMy wife works for DC’s Center of Military History in a huge underground warehouse (think the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark). She spends her days sifting through old guns, ammo and uniforms. In the last couple of week’s she’s played with Robert E. Lee’s cap and Hermann Goering’s jewel-encrusted wedding sword (I know).
Today she came home looking like she’d been hit by a truck. She told me that because her building is moving, her department has to go through every single box and re-catalog every single item in the army’s collection.
Today she heard muffled crying coming from a far corner. She followed the noise and found several coworkers kneeling over a wooden box, crying openly. This is especially strange because my wife works almost exclusively with hardened Vietnam veterans. One guy, who was high-ranking Special Forces (basically a real-life Rambo), had tears streaming down his cheeks, soaking his handlebar mustache.
As she approached, my wife found the box full of baby clothes. A torn pair of frilly socks. A bloodstained onesies reading “Tuesday” to help a mother manage the week’s laundry. A charred sling patterned with princesses.
She eventually found the box’s tag. It read:
“Infant Clothing | Flight 93 | 091101”
wells&more book flips two ways. via swissmiss:
their latest book which utilises the mechanic of cutting every other page by 5mm so that when flipped in different directions the pages viewed are either graphic content or photography. The photography is by Satoshi Minakawa. (source)
Genius
Via Rgr.jnr
Now we’re entering a new era when the village seems about to return. With our senses and memories enhanced prodigiously by new prostheses, suddenly we can “know” the reputations of millions, soon to be billions, of fellow Earth citizens. A tap of your VR eyeglasses will identify any person, along with profiles and alerts, almost as if you had been gossiping about him and her for years. It’s seriously scary prospect and one that is utterly unavoidable. The cities we grew up in were semi-anonymous only because they were primitive. The village is returning. And with it serious, lifelong worry about that state of our reputations. Kids who do not know this are playing with fire. They had better hope that the village will be a nice one. A village that shrugs a lot, and forgives.
–David Brin (via azspot)
I am taking the approach that I should be as fortright with everything as I can. I don’t trust that my secrets will be kept for long. Time will tell whether that is a good idea or not. Probably the best way to cope with this coming world is simply to not do things that you are ashamed of, or that wouldn’t gel with your public persona.
Via AZspot
Noah Kalina remix by Toko Design
For the third issue of KALINA Magazine I asked a handful of my favorite artists, illustrators and designers to take one or more of my photographs and do whatever they like to them.
This photograph was remixed by Toko Design.
KALINA Magazine #3 (REMIX) coming….soon!Wow! So Awesome!
New Theme. Again
Thanks to Andrew for creating the beautiful Fluid theme. This’ll hold me over until I get around to making something more unique, and almost certainly inferior.What The Hell Is This?
This blog is for people like Nicholas Molnar - whatever that means. It features technology, economics, music, humour, and whatever else tickles his fancy on a given day. Nicholas reblogs his own posts occasionally, in a sort of one-man ponzi scheme to game Tumblarity.
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