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The J. W. Westcott II is the only boat contracted by the US Postal service to deliver mail and packages to Great Lakes freighters and others as they navigate the Detroit River. [more inside]
posted by TedW at 6:23 PM PST - 14 comments

Documenting China’s U.S. Capitol-inspired buildings - a time capsule photography series by Hubei native Wú Guóyǒng. Extract: Although “the West” comprises many countries, for people of Wu’s generation, the artist believes the word implied one country above all else: Měiguó 美国 — the Beautiful Country, as the U.S.A. is known in Chinese. “We all thought about the U.S. Everything from the movies to music was feeding our collective imaginations.”
posted by cendawanita at 6:06 PM PST - 2 comments

Low Poly Videogame Foods is a twitter account that aggregates images of low polygon-count food objects in videogames.
posted by cortex at 2:38 PM PST - 14 comments

Jenkem: On behalf of us skaters, we consider you a skateboarder.
Herzog: I accept
posted by Uncle at 1:52 PM PST - 28 comments

September 1990. Judas Priest, the world's biggest heavy metal band, had released some patchy albums since their peak years of 1976-84, with a turn to pop metal and a follow-up anchored by a drum machine. The previous month, they'd been embroiled in a trial claiming that subliminal messages on an old album had driven two youths to suicide. A week after the judge threw out that case, the band released one of their finest albums, and in its title track, arguably their finest song: Painkiller. Now, thirty years later, it's the subject of a delightful YouTube reaction video by vocal coach and opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, who says, "This will be my very first time hearing Judas Priest and Rob Halford, so I'm quite excited." If you haven't heard either yet, why not make it yours? [more inside]
posted by rory at 12:18 PM PST - 54 comments

Jared Cowan is a photographer and cameraman who also writes and podcasts specifically about film locations for a variety of publications. His latest traces how East L.A. became the unheralded star of the classic hip-hop movie Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. Previously Cowan has covered the locations of: Falling Down, The Big Lebowski, Heat, Jackie Brown, L.A. Story, and many more. [more inside]
posted by chaz at 11:27 AM PST - 9 comments

Activist and author Breai Michele Mason-Campbell writes a long (5,000+ word) secular sermon on race, grief, accountability, and change in the inaugural issue of Pipe Wrench Magazine. Content warning for acknowledgment of the abuse and murder of Black people, primarily women. [more inside]
posted by Bella Donna at 9:08 AM PST - 7 comments

The knackerman - an affecting portrait of a man and his job of removing the farm animals who didn't make it. (Trigger warning: animal death)
posted by Stark at 5:57 AM PST - 34 comments

A longer blog post from Microsoft Research announcing the availability of =LAMBDA in Excel. [more inside]
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