January 26, 2017
...nice place to visit but i wouldn't want to have lived there...
Take a Google Streetview tour of 2027 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, aka ESP, the former Eastern State Penitentiary. Courtesy of MapCrunch.
Motherhood. Yay.
US DOT Transportation Toolkit for Public Engagement
Always was, always will be: Aboriginal land
The 26th of January is celebrated by many as Australia Day- by others as Invasion day or Survival day. Aboriginal people living at Lake Tyers reflect on the day (autoplaying video- which is worth watching.) [more inside]
Meow.....Meow....Meow....Meow....
Did you know that France once launched a cat into space? Meet Félicette.
Half in the bag? Hack into this bag.
[T]he Tostitos Party Bag is outfitted with sensors to detect alcohol on a person’s breath. If you’re in the clear, the bag turns green and you’re free to go about your night. If alcohol is detected, the bag turns red with the message, “Don’t drink and drive,” and offers a $10 Uber credit for a discounted ride home. It’s even got near-field communication technology that lets you tap your phone to the bag to hail the ride, if you’re that blasted. [more inside]
Spoiler: There’s a lot of Warp
The dispute is over! Pitchfork has done it! They’ve assembled the positively, most-definitive, entirely indisputable list of the 50 Best IDM Albums of all time! (50-41, 40-31, 30-21, 20-11, 10-1.) Surely no one will have contrasting opinions.
There’s a Spotify playlist! There’s an Apple Music playlist! And there’s an explanatory video if you don’t want to read things. All fifty entries inside, with some links to reviews from Pitchfork at the time (note humorous contrasts and hagiographic rewrites!), Wikipedia articles, and streaming audio. [more inside]
There’s a Spotify playlist! There’s an Apple Music playlist! And there’s an explanatory video if you don’t want to read things. All fifty entries inside, with some links to reviews from Pitchfork at the time (note humorous contrasts and hagiographic rewrites!), Wikipedia articles, and streaming audio. [more inside]
The Red-billed Quelea is the most numerous, and most distructive bird.
The Red-billed Quelea has been called Africa's most hated bird. Their giant, devouring flocks put murmuration of starlings to shame.
‘You think we’re gay, don’t you?’
‘Back to Hull,’ he said. ‘I’ve had enough. I can’t go on stage wearing clothes like that. I have friends who’ll see me. It’s all too much, I just wanna play guitar.’ -- The difficulties of being a northern lad when it's 1972 and you're part of the Spiders of Mars having to adjust to slightly more fashionable clothes than jeans and t-shirt.
If you were an elephant...
Lawyer/veterinarian/philosopher/author/IgNobel laureate Charles Foster takes a second-person look at the mighty elephant and just how human and inhuman (in all the best ways) it is.
Rendered
To: Leaders and citizens of the world
An unsettling reindexing of depth and dimension
Weronika Gęsicka is a Polish photographer and artist who creates surreal, fractured variations on mid-century Americana imagery.
The Golden Sahara, a remote control custom luxury car of the 1960s
The Golden Sahara turned a wrecked 1953 Lincoln Capri into an ultimate luxury custom car in the late 1950s, with "a TV set mounted in the dash, a hi-fi radio mounted below the TV, a tape recorder installed between the driver and passenger in the front seat, and a complete cocktail bar with its own refrigerator unit installed in the back seat. Golden frieze material and white Naugahyde covered the seats, dash, and side panels. A shag rug with two-inch padding made the floor of the car luxuriously soft to the feet. All interior trim were gold-plated." If that wasn't enough, it was reworked as the Golden Sahara II, as seen in the 1960 movie Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis, and on June 25, 1962 it was on the TV-show I've Got a Secret (via Presurfer). [more inside]
Known man dies for unknown reason
The mystery behind the identity of a man found dead on Saddleworth Moor more than a year ago has been solved. 'Coroner says man found at Dovestone reservoir, Greater Manchester, in 2015 was 67-year-old David Lytton... In a short hearing at Heywood coroner’s court, it was confirmed that officers had checked passenger records from a flight from Lahore in Pakistan, which tallied with Lytton’s details.'
Also being covered by the Manchester Evening News. Previously.
"Thus, gentle Reader, myselfe am the groundworke of my booke"
"Que sais-je?" "What do I know?" was Montaigne's beloved motto, meaning: What do I really know? And what do we really know about him now? We may vaguely know that he was the first essayist, that he retreated from the world into a tower on the family estate to think and reflect, and that he wrote about cannibals (for them) and about cruelty (against it).–Montaigne on Trial by Adam Gopnik, an essay on a recent biography of the 16th Century philosopher who was first translated into English in 1603 by John Florio.
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