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“The world of things calls for art, in which intellectual accession to being moves into enjoyment, in which the Infinity of the idea is idolized in the finite, but sufficient, image.” — Emmanuel Levinas
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For the Fourth: Holy American Major League of Nations (Notes on Baseball, Booze, and the Re-De-Nationalization of Americanism)
It welcomed the tests of time/
Like an eternal friend,/
Our country is blessed,/
Our country is such!
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The Honorable 47 Rogues of the Palpatine Era
Rogue One’s fish-eyed admirals running the space battles were far more credible figures than the Fisher’s sex dollish image clone – hallelujah!
Programmers imagine the most ridiculous ways to enter a phone number into a form – Quartz
And this programmer suggested a way to avoid user input all together: @marypcbuk @Ploogle @paulomgaspar @jeffbonhag @stelian @ftrain @sbisson The final solution for this problem. pic.twitter.com/62kZVFCRkM — Ale/xander P. (@_iamale_) April 19, 2016 Eventually, programmers on Reddit started making fully-functioning,…
Death of the smartphone and what comes after – Business Insider
Still, all those decade-plus investments in the future still rely on gadgetry that you have to wear on you, even if it’s only a pair of glasses. Some of the craziest, most forward-looking, most unpredictable advancements go even further — provided…
Posted in Noted & Quoted, Technology
Rethinking our default profile photo – Twitter Blogs
…[P]eople have come to associate the circle head with masculinity, and because of this association, we felt that it was important to explore alternate head shapes. We reviewed many variations of our figure, altering both the head and shoulders to…
@GrantDuffy: “Amazing video of #CycloneDebbie taken from ISS @Space_Station…”
Amazing video of #CycloneDebbie taken from ISS @Space_Station. Beautiful yet ferocious, stay safe QLD @ForceThirteen https://t.co/ysf0EBCYCI pic.twitter.com/EHEzKWnYoy — Grant Duffy (@Grant_Duffy) March 27, 2017 From: Grant Duffy on Twitter: “Amazing video of #CycloneDebbie taken from ISS @Space_Station. Beautiful yet ferocious,…
Nuke test films digitized in the nick of time – CNN.com
Over a period of about 20 years after the end of World War II, the US conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests. Each was captured by multiple cameras, rolling at around 2,400 frames per second.A handful of the estimated 10,000 mesmerizing…
Sharon Weinberger: How nuclear fears helped inspire creation of the internet – Aeon Essays
‘How much money do you need to get off the ground?’ Herzfeld asked. ‘A million dollars or so, just to get it organised,’ Taylor replied. ‘You’ve got it,’ Herzfeld replied. And that was it. The conversation to approve the money…