March 29, 2021
“It’s insulting because it’s not meeting the standard.”
Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission
For What It's Worth - photographer Dillon Marsh takes photographs of South African mines and superimposes computer visualisations of how much of each resource has been extracted. [more inside]
This is not my beautiful house
And you don't seem to understand...
Q: I'm confused about the gameSerial Experiments Lain was a mind blowing, confusing anime. The Playstation game based on it was even moreso. If you want to experience this confusion first hand, it is now available in a browser emulator. (Best played in a Chromium browser).
A: Amazing! That means the game is working properly.
Redefining "American Gothic"
From the Unusual Properties file, we have a 1500 square foot home in Maryland with a style that is...particularly monochromatic and and morbid. (SLRedfin) [more inside]
"There is no doubt wool dogs underpinned a robust weaving industry"
The Dogs That Grew Wool and the People Who Love Them: Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest bred little, fluffy white dogs that provided for them, both materially and spiritually (Hakai Magazine) - The first Europeans to visit the region seemed intrigued by the numerous little white dogs. In May 1792, Captain George Vancouver noticed the dogs and weavings—he’d not encountered such an industry elsewhere in North America. He wrote about the animals, struck by these dogs that resembled large Pomeranians. “They were all shorn as close to the skin as sheep are in England; and so compact were their fleeces, that large portions could be lifted up by a corner without causing any separation.” Indeed, he noted the dogs’ “very fine long hair [was] capable of being spun into yarn.” And the captain quickly put two and two together. “This gave me reason to believe their woolen clothing might in part be composed of this [dog] material mixed with a finer kind of wool from some other animal …” [more inside]
Bartending 101, or breakfast with style.
Every Given Every Ywhere
And his bio sounds like the worst dog in the world!
Maybe my love for Reacher is as simple as thrilling to vengeance
Brandy Jensen on her year with Jack Reacher: Around this time last year, as it became clear I would have to spend some significant time staying in my apartment, I told myself there could be an upside: I could finally get around to reading all the books I had been putting off for one reason or another. Some neglected American classics, the Victorian doorstoppers I skipped over in school in favor of different Victorian doorstoppers, the less famous Russians. I have not read any of those. What I have read is 24 books about an enormous drifter with comically large hands who is good at dispatching bad people. Related: How Jack Reacher author Lee Child improvises his way through writing.
It's like 1984 but worse — maybe 1985 or even 4000.
Danny Lavery at it again. I’m waiting for my interview subject with a certain degree of trepidation. We’re both early, and neither of us are here yet, but Sarah Hagi (a former chess reporter who studied interpretational technique at Zaytuna College and used to date the Duolingo owl) is used to being on my side of the table, asking hard-hitting questions and describing other people’s lunches (today: Irish beef salad, hold the soup, turnip milk). You might have listened to her podcast, Recant and Deliver, which she runs out of her boyfriend’s mother in Brooklyn.
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