dvdp:
Astronomical is a scale model of our solar system in twelve 500 page volumes printed-on-demand. On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of each page equals one million kilometres. B
(via petervidani)
buzz:
slaughterhouse90210 (via Matt Lehrer):
“Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.”
—William Gibson, Zero History
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.Dr. Suess
Coldplay will use this for the artwork of their next album for sure.
How convenient he did not have to change anything about the Celine Dion logo!
(via accidentallydomesticated)
‘The consensus suggest that investors dabbling shares should be in it for the long-term, yet the average holding is less than a minute thanks to computer driven ‘high frequency’ trading.’
I take comfort in the fact that there are two human moments that seem to be doled out equally and democratically within the human condition—and that there is no satisfying ultimate explanation for either. One is coincidence, the other is déja vu. It doesn’t matter if you’re Queen Elizabeth, one of the thirty-three miners rescued in Chile, a South Korean housewife or a migrant herder in Zimbabwe—in the span of 365 days you will pretty much have two déja vus as well as one coincidence that makes you stop and say, “Wow, that was a coincidence.”
The thing about coincidence is that when you imagine the umpteen trillions of coincidences that can happen at any given moment, the fact is, that in practice, coincidences almost never do occur. Coincidences are actually so rare that when they do occur they are, in fact memorable. This suggests to me that the universe is designed to ward of coincidence whenever possible—the universe hates coincidence—I don’t know why—it just seems to be true. So when a coincidence happens, that coincidence had to work awfully hard to escape the system. There’s a message there. What is it? Look. Look harder. Mathematicians perhaps have a theorem for this, and if they do, it might, by default be a theorem for something larger than what they think it is.
What’s both eerie and interesting to me about déja vus is that they occur almost like metronomes throughout our lives, about one every six months, a poetic timekeeping device that, at the very least, reminds us we are alive. I can safely assume that my thirteen year old niece, Stephen Hawking and someone working in a Beijing luggage-making factory each experience two déja vus a year. Not one. Not three. Two.
The underlying biodynamics of déja vus is probably ascribable to some sort of tingling neurons in a certain part of the brain, yet this doesn’t tell us why they exist. They seem to me to be a signal from larger point of view that wants to remind us that our lives are distinct, that they have meaning, and that they occur throughout a span of time. We are important, and what makes us valuable to the universe is our sentience and our curse and blessing of perpetual self-awareness.
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Actual CSS from a project I did a design for and that I now have to implement, following their CSS-structure / classnames. This is gonna take longer than it had to.
Last week I was waiting for our table to eat dinner, so I took a walk with my friend. We walked by a neighboring restaurant and peered inside to see an overweight kid, eating alone, wearing this shirt. Automatic hero status.
NOTE: I love that a sports company, Nike, makes this T-shirt.
I hate that this is a Nike t-shirt. But want just the same.
A detailed Arabic copy of a Persian treatise on phases of the moon, accurately portraying the phenomena of hemisphere termination. 10th Century. Via tiffanyhoran
Interesting Experiment Using Capitalist Philosophy
- My interpretation of that bullshit post about “Obama’s Socialism”
- “An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Ron Paul’s libertarianism worked and that the free market would create prosperity
- The professor then said, ‘OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Ron Paul’s plan.’ The professor then picked the richest white kid, named Rand, in the class and told him “You don’t have to do any work”. He then said, all of the rest of you must do 8 hours of homework per night. I will be given each of you 70% of the grade you earn on your work, the remaining 30% will be given to Rand(substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
- After the first test, all the students worked hard and got 60-70. Rand got over 9000. The students had to keep working their butts off constantly, or they would fail. So they kept working. One day, Rand felt sick, so he asked the professor what to do? The professor then gave him some extra points, and the professor took these points away from the rest of the class.
- So the students got pissed off. All of them failed except for Rand. The professor told them that libertarianism would also ultimately fail because laborers are the foundation of society and they should own the fruits of their own labor. Owning property does not give you the right to own other people’s labor. It could not be any simpler than that.
- What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
- The capitalists cannot produce a product for anyone else without taking labor from someone else.
- When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
(via jhnbrssndn)
When did you meet [fellow defendant Gottfrid] for the first time IRL?” asked the Prosecutor.
“We do not use the expression IRL,” said Peter, “we use AFK.”
“IRL?” questioned the judge.
“In Real Life,” the Prosecutor explained to the judge.
“We do not use that expression,” Peter noted. “Everything is in real life. We use AFK—Away From Keyboard.”
“Well,” said Roswall. “It seems I am a little bit out of date.”
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