MetaFilter posts tagged with Cabinet

Moving at a speed of 100 inventions per year

Shepherd — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:00:08 -0800

Madman or genius? Well... madman. But being confined to an asylum (with one of his symptoms described as "manic invention") didn't keep Karl Hans Janke from developing elaborate theories of atomic energy, flight, space travel and the history of humanity, creating over 4,000 complex drawings and even models over 40 years of incarceration for paranoid schizophrenia. This PDF (found courtesy of things magazine) is the catalogue of a museum exhibition of Janke's work in Peenemünde in 2007, and features English and German articles and loads of scans of Janke drawings. I don't read German, so I suspect I'm missing all the best bits. I discovered Janke through Cabinet Magazine (previously), which I think is the best periodical in North America at the moment. Incidentally, the link to the gallery from the main page of the Janke site doesn't work; the correct link is this one. There's even a shop if you want your own Venusland poster.

A Cabinet for the Curious

stbalbach — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:33:02 -0800

The Queer, the Quaint, the Quizzical (1882). A Cabinet for the Curious.

Drama on the Hill!

loquax — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:53:05 -0800

Newsfilter: Canada's New Cabinet. Featuring thrills (former Liberal David Emerson crosses the floor to serve as International Trade Minister, and affect the balance of power), spills (Michael Fortier, who is not an MP, will be appointed to the Senate to serve as Public Works and Government Services Minister on the condition that he resign to run for Parliament in the next general election, upsetting some) and chills (everybody's favourite whipping boy, Stockwell Day as Minister of Public Safety). (as a bonus - and for those ignoramuses that care not for the intricacies of Canadian politics - pay some mind to the newly redesigned globeandmail.com, especially the prominence of public commentary on every article - it's the embodiment of newsfilter!)

Cabinet is the new Escapist

undule — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:25:59 -0800

The Cabinet National Library. A charming piece of dry, conceptual humor. A little banal, perhaps. There is also a hidden agenda.

rathikd — Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:15:09 -0800

"We're in an age where we don't want to deal with serious issues, we want to deal with little boys pitching baseballs who might be 14 instead of 12." Hart says he just shook his head when he saw a former Clinton administration Cabinet official on TV Tuesday calling for the formation of a commission to study the best way to combat terrorism. "If a former Cabinet officer didn't know, how could the average man on the street? I do hope the American people understand that somebody was paying attention."

skallas — Sun, 11 Feb 2001 12:30:04 -0800

Revealing look at Bush's policy and cabinet. Scary.

owillis — Thu, 04 Jan 2001 16:22:25 -0800

The Age of Embarrassment "Bush’s cabinet choices are an assortment of right-wing ideologues, fat cats, has-beens, wannabees, and plain ol’ opportunists. There’s not a visionary in the bunch." Truth? Or liberal hysteria?

mathowie — Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:20:50 -0800

Colin Powell to become the secretary of state, which seems ok on the surface, but after looking at the functions of the position, wouldn't he make a better secretary of defense instead? I can't say I'm comfortable with the thought of the leading US diplomat and negotiator being someone so closely tied with military force (side question: would a war man negotiate peace treaties or get us into more bombing missions?). I also find it odd that in the acceptance speech, he can speak of the horrors of Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" and in the same breath talk about how the US should build up a missile defense system (our missiles aren't capable of mass destruction?). What do you think about the appointment?