October 7, 2018
Tsukiji Market (1935-2018)
The bells ringing out at 6 AM signal the final tuna auction at Tokyo's famed Tsukiji market. Many merchants are in mourning. Some have decided to retire. Others are migrating at dawn [video] to new facilities in Toyosu, still skeptical that tourists and old customers will follow. [more inside]
The worst may yet be to come
Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy
Redditor elfsoamah discovered that "Party Rock Anthem" has the same BPM as "Hungry Like the Wolf". Redditor actuallydavide found that it also has the same BPM as "Uptown Girl" (and works in either direction). Now there's a SharedBPM subreddit.
FOR HEAVENS SAKE STOP IT.
100 years ago today the Lost Battalion was rescued. It may have been the most famous American story of the Great War: more than 500 soldiers in the Argonne forest totally surrounded by the German Imperial Army, cut off, starving, under nearly continuous attack by artillery, gas, snipers, flamethrowers, and infantry assaults, not to mention subjected to friendly artillery fire. Commander Charles White Whittlesey refused multiple German entreaties, and six days later reunited 194 survivors with their army. [more inside]
::desirable difficulty for your brain::
Sans Forgetica! The Font That Helps You Remember? Brought to you by Australia's Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the idea behind the new font was to create a slightly more difficult reading experience, forcing the reader to absorb each word as they stare at it. Wait until you see it. [more inside]
Just a few recent comic book (etc.) recommendation threads
Gail Simone (Twitter, 10/07/2018): "So today, I ask, what was the most recent comic you read that you really enjoyed?" Zen Cho (Twitter, 05/29/2018): "What's your favourite cheerful book by a PoC author? Graphic novels, comics & manga count. Extra points for female creators!" Sara Saab (Twitter, 06/15/2018): "Tell me about one book you read one time that gave you a feeling that life was big and meaningful and transcendent?" Goblin Barbarian (AskMe, 08/11/2018), "Manga for Adult Women." Abraham Riesman (Vulture, 06/07/2018): "The Best Comics of 2018 (So Far)." Brandi Bailey (Book Riot, 05/04/2018): "Feminist Graphic Nonfiction."
Klahowya, nika tillcum
100,000 people from the California / Oregon border to the Inside Passage spoke this language, and it was used in legal courts and newspapers from 1800 to 1905. So what happened to Chinook Jargon, also known as Chinook wawa? [more inside]
The map just might be the territory
Counter Mapping: “To assume that people would look at the earth only from a vantage point that is above and looking straight down doesn’t consider the humanity of living on the landscape." ... The Zuni maps have a memory, a particular truth. They convey a relationship to place grounded in ancestral knowledge and sustained presence on the land.Modern maps don’t have a memory: ‘More lands have been lost to Native peoples probably through mapping than through physical conflict.’
Mathematics couldn't fill the void of Richard's heart
The Museum of English Rural Life shares an 18th century teenager's homework . Spoiler: Teenagers don't need social media to goof off when they're supposed to be studying. Also, a good dog and amazing handwriting.
More about the MERL here.
Haunted Hollywood, ghosts and graves and frights, oh my!
Oh, Hollywood! Sure, it’s the land of sunshine, stars and swirling, sweeping spotlights, but there’s a darker side to the entertainment mecca—an underside teeming with wandering, unrooted spirits and wild tales of paranormal activity. With Halloween just around the corner, Parade takes a spook-tastic tour of some of the most hair-raising places and eerie events of Haunted Hollywood. And L.A. Tourist has more resources and stories if you're interested in the spirits wandering around Tinseltown and surroundings.
video games skies
🍂❄️🍃🌻
Video games and the change of autumn by Rob Dwiar [Eurogamer] “Some games have wondrous, gorgeous autumn landscape that present supreme autumnal palettes, narrative-mirroring landscape conditions and encapsulate the mysterious change that hangs in the air. Autumn's transitional nature enables it to offer different aesthetics and atmospheres - perfectly encapsulating our often-mixed feelings about the season. This flux occurs in games, too: storyline changes; mysterious plotlines, character and atmosphere intricacies; constant environmental transformations; and a powerful sense of mystery, story-foretelling and landscape-opening are all harnessed to be used as game-changing devices.” [more inside]
Movie Nerds Unite
10 Best Uses of Color in Cinema of All Time by Youtuber Cinefix.
Many other lists & geeky compilations from Cineflix below [more inside]
Relax, Ladies. Don’t Be So Uptight. You Know You Want It
"Look, I get it. I was 20 years old in 1990. After my boyfriend punched me in the eye, he cried too. I held him until he felt better. I told friends I’d stupidly walked into the corner of an open cabinet. Because, like the Washington Post in 1990, I understood it was my job to help men feel better about themselves. It was my job to understand that their gross, abusive language was just locker room talk. Most men don’t mean to hit us or rape us or verbally abuse us. They don’t really want gay people strung up and hung. It’s just a macho act, you know? Like the Diceman. Besides, if women don’t like that sort of thing, why do they go for guys like that? Or vote them into office? Or make them Supreme Court justices?" Anastasia Basil in Medium
My Great-Grandfather the Bundist
Molly Crabapple explores the history and ultimate tragedy of the Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund (General Jewish Workers' Union), an early-twentieth-century political movement devoted to a radical, secular, diasporic Jewish identity. Bundists celebrated Doykeyt or Hereness, the belief that Jews should stay in Eastern Europe and fight to build a society in which they could thrive. [more inside]
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