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Den Vaffel Bike

Waffle Bike is a fully weaponized waffle-making machine. (SLYT)
posted to MetaFilter by photoslob at 10:08 AM on August 27, 2008 (49 comments)

Butte, Montana's least favorite son: Evel Knievel

What does it feel like to crash? "What the hell do you think it feels like? Christ almighty. It hurts." Evel Knievel was the original Jackass and now he's living out his days like most elderly retirees in Florida: tired, cranky and on oxygen.
posted to MetaFilter by photoslob at 8:47 PM on August 3, 2007 (62 comments)

The Conceptual Scoop AKA the way they used to do it back in the day....

"A smart story often does contain new facts," Bennett explains. "But just as often it takes facts that are lying in plain sight and synthesizes them, or arranges them in a way — sometimes in a narrative — that really exposes some new meaning on an important subject. And I think that's a conceptual scoop." (via ATC)
posted to MetaFilter by photoslob at 8:29 AM on June 20, 2007 (14 comments)

The younger the bride, the higher the price

Child brides of Afghanistan. A child bride is very often just that: a child, even a preteen, her innocence betrothed to someone older, even much, much older. Images by Stephanie Sinclair who's work on women's issues in Afghanistan is always eye opening.
posted to MetaFilter by photoslob at 8:09 AM on July 9, 2006 (76 comments)

His weapon was a camera....

A true pioneer has left us. Gordon Parks dead at 93. His ground-breaking work as a still photographer of color during the civil rights movement was enough to garner him a place in history but he strove for excellence throughout his life. His first movie, the Learning Tree is a classic and of course he also gave us Shaft. He was a bonafide renaissance man excelling in music and painting and even wrote a ballet based on Martin Luther King. He was truly one-of-a-kind.
posted to MetaFilter by photoslob at 5:57 PM on March 7, 2006 (26 comments)